MPQ Sneak Peek: December 2017 Edition *Updated (12/22/17)

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  • DarthDeVo
    DarthDeVo Posts: 2,178 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited December 2017
    Placement Rewards:
    4-Star: Nightcrawler - Purple, Blue
    3-Star: ???
    2-Star: Steve Rogers (Captain America) - Blue, Red, Yellow

    Soooooo... a new 5* and 3* release, huh? Also, props to whoever said that Vulture would get bumped on progression rewards in favor of a boss event. 

    EDIT: 
    Considering the clue, along with the boss event, I'm REEEAAAALLLLYYYY hoping for 5* Archangel (Death) and 3* Angel (Warren Worthington III). Or something along those lines. 
  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 5,848 Chairperson of the Boards
    Anyone who hit certain places (this forum, Reddit) at certain times knows the answer.  Probably one of the most spoiled characters so far.

    But!  I am glad the alliance event is not taking place over the holidays.  Now I just need to pull 3 more 5DDs over the next 3 weeks.
  • jamesh
    jamesh Posts: 1,600 Chairperson of the Boards
    DarthDeVo said:
    EDIT: Considering the clue, along with the boss event, I'm REEEAAAALLLLYYYY hoping for 5* Archangel (Death) and 3* Angel (Warren Worthington III). Or something along those lines. 
    Magick is another character that could fit the clue they gave, but Angel does seem more likely since it would complete the original X-Men.
  • granne
    granne Posts: 852 Critical Contributor
    Vaguely Christmas appropriate too, if you're into that sort of thing. (I'm not.)
  • BoyWonder1914
    BoyWonder1914 Posts: 884 Critical Contributor
    bluewolf said:
    Anyone who hit certain places (this forum, Reddit) at certain times knows the answer.  Probably one of the most spoiled characters so far.

    But!  I am glad the alliance event is not taking place over the holidays.  Now I just need to pull 3 more 5DDs over the next 3 weeks.
    I feel the opposite, Alliance Events usually mean less overall time given to the game for me. 

    Less MPQ time = More family time. Which is precisely what I'd want for the holidays. I wanna say last year we had Galactus around this time, and the special crash of titans. 
  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 5,848 Chairperson of the Boards
    bluewolf said:
    Anyone who hit certain places (this forum, Reddit) at certain times knows the answer.  Probably one of the most spoiled characters so far.

    But!  I am glad the alliance event is not taking place over the holidays.  Now I just need to pull 3 more 5DDs over the next 3 weeks.
    I feel the opposite, Alliance Events usually mean less overall time given to the game for me. 

    Less MPQ time = More family time. Which is precisely what I'd want for the holidays. I wanna say last year we had Galactus around this time, and the special crash of titans. 
    I agree, but in normal PVE I can hit progression and play any time I want if I choose.  Alliance events require clears every 8 hours to fully contribute. So I have more flexibility, normally.  Just my take.
  • BoyWonder1914
    BoyWonder1914 Posts: 884 Critical Contributor
    bluewolf said:
    bluewolf said:
    Anyone who hit certain places (this forum, Reddit) at certain times knows the answer.  Probably one of the most spoiled characters so far.

    But!  I am glad the alliance event is not taking place over the holidays.  Now I just need to pull 3 more 5DDs over the next 3 weeks.
    I feel the opposite, Alliance Events usually mean less overall time given to the game for me. 

    Less MPQ time = More family time. Which is precisely what I'd want for the holidays. I wanna say last year we had Galactus around this time, and the special crash of titans. 
    I agree, but in normal PVE I can hit progression and play any time I want if I choose.  Alliance events require clears every 8 hours to fully contribute. So I have more flexibility, normally.  Just my take.
    Good point, wasn't thinking of casual PVE players. The every 8 hour thing does get a little tedious, but it's nice knowing that you're not suffering ranking wise in any kind of way if you take your sweet time to do it. But the game still forces you to do it all early as possible, or deal with 300+ scaled side nodes.  :s
  • charmbots
    charmbots Posts: 87 Match Maker
    Is the purple Nick Fury progression reward for Cover Squirrel pvp correct? It says Earth’s Mightiest gives blue/purple as placement which would normally put yellow as progression. I need the purple though so if you take requests... please leave it how it is. 
  • Brigby
    Brigby ADMINISTRATORS Posts: 7,757 Site Admin
    *(12/12/17) Brigby - Updated X-Men Vs. Apocalypse event, and added Marvel's article on Angel and Archangel
  • DarthDeVo
    DarthDeVo Posts: 2,178 Chairperson of the Boards
    My champ De4dpool will take the rewards, but I was hoping for some Professor X covers for my worst-covered Vintage 4*. Oh well. 

    And is it just me, or is that individual reward table looking more barren than usual? Could have sworn we got some ISO and HP rewards sprinkled throughout. 
  • zodiac339
    zodiac339 Posts: 1,948 Chairperson of the Boards
    DarthDeVo said:
    My champ De4dpool will take the rewards, but I was hoping for some Professor X covers for my worst-covered Vintage 4*. Oh well. 

    And is it just me, or is that individual reward table looking more barren than usual? Could have sworn we got some ISO and HP rewards sprinkled throughout. 
    Hopefully just means he was focusing on the other rewards rather than bulking out the post with a bunch of 500 ISO rewards.
  • DarthDeVo
    DarthDeVo Posts: 2,178 Chairperson of the Boards
    zodiac339 said:
    DarthDeVo said:
    My champ De4dpool will take the rewards, but I was hoping for some Professor X covers for my worst-covered Vintage 4*. Oh well. 

    And is it just me, or is that individual reward table looking more barren than usual? Could have sworn we got some ISO and HP rewards sprinkled throughout. 
    Hopefully just means he was focusing on the other rewards rather than bulking out the post with a bunch of 500 ISO rewards.
     Yep, that's what I'm hoping for too. 
  • TheHungryPet
    TheHungryPet Posts: 229 Tile Toppler
    Say goodbye to that Vulture progression cover that would be up for the next PVE event :neutral:
  • Brigby
    Brigby ADMINISTRATORS Posts: 7,757 Site Admin
    Added another bug fix to the X-Men Vs. Apocalypse event details
  • Rick_OShay
    Rick_OShay Posts: 765 Critical Contributor
    Is this the first time that X-23 is not in the same boost list as Red Hulk? Yay! 
    I just cannot ever use her boosted since Rulk overshadows her abilities when given the choice. Now, having Iceman in the same week as Rulk is different right? 
    And, Miles is the only Yellow user? Weird.
  • justsing
    justsing Posts: 512 Critical Contributor
    edited December 2017
    Guess I’ll be champing my XPool, who I just fully covered last week.  :)
  • ABaker84
    ABaker84 Posts: 90 Match Maker
    Yes. 2 covers away from champing XPool at the moment. Key component to my anti Medusa Grocket Gamora team (XPool, Carol, Grocket) requires health packs, but quick wins. Awesome news
  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,470 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited December 2017
    Kind of a minor thing, but I noticed that Coulson, the character that hit the mainstream by assembling the MCU avengers, isn't buffed in the Earth's Mightiest but Nick Fury, the 4* I've been sitting at 1/14/2 for months and months on is lol. Kind of a bummer since coulson is one of 7 4* champions I have, but I'll survive.