The Guardians Have Taken Over

Tier 1 - hated only being able to match one colour at a time
Tier 2 - can't remember, blitzed through this quickly
Tier 3 - its like puzzle quest, which I thoroughly enjoy. Actually thinking about team choice in order to generate the appropriate AP to fire the required powers

Still got tier 4 to do, and there has been a lot of PVE grinding which if I was a competitive placement player then I could see that would be an issue.

I hope we get more fire X power Y times as general milestones. Gives a reason to use different characters and they can be completely optional for those players who don't want to join in

Hopefully there will be more to come, with a few bits corrected to make the experience better - mainly quests running simultaneously

I'm into tier 3 now with 5 days to go and no grinding.

I expect to get into tier 4 before time runs out and then I might push 1 or 2 quests that are easily attainable for the rewards.

A lot of the 'fire power X times' are can be really racked up in the wave nodes of the PvP if you aren't trying for placement and don't mind doing them a couple of times with IM40 as your 3rd character to generate lots of AP. I got Gamora's Red and Grockets Green fired 5 times each in just 2 clears. If I grind a couple extra clears I should be able to get a long way into a bunch of those later today.

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Anyone know what the last tier 4 quest is? I'm just waiting on TU cooldown to give more. Thanks.

Honestly I didn’t find the ‘use power X amount of times’ to be that difficult. Did it during puzzle gauntlet and brought the Guardian I needed to use plus Valkyrie and then the highest level character I had that tanks the color I needed to use. And if that high level character got downed before completing then just retreat and bring the next highest leveled character and rinse and repeat.

Yes it was very tedious but nothing overwhelmingly difficult.

You don’t have to win the PVP ones, you can join and retreat to advance the counter.

I have some fun finding new teams to grind down the milestones. For 4* R&G, I actually used 4* ChoHulk, 5* Mighty Thor to complete it. 4* ChoHulk generate green and black charge tiles, which feeds into Thor board shake. The green charge tiles feed R&G green. Once you fire R&G green, Thor board shake will destroy it next turn and you can fire R&G again! Don’t need to wait for so long.

Having said that, it is indeed a drag. It adds up to a lot of time and I won’t have done it if not for the huge iso.

I really, really hope they reduce the grind when they do something like this again. Because this absolutely does require grinding and it's tedious and takes a LOT of time.

HOWEVER. However, other than that, I love it. I'm currently in tier 4. And constructing teams to do these and finding the best node to do them in is a lot of fun and has honestly given me a huge motivation boost. It's a sorely needed break from just "complete everything as fast as possible". If they get changed to be a little less grindy, I'd be very happy if something like this comes around again for other sets of characters.

As an aside, I was running lvl 255 3-cover 5* Starlord/ lvl 209 Deathlok/2* Mags to do the blue matches one with. (Strongest 2 colors being yellow/purple due to Starlord being boosted, which makes Deathlok generate 2 purple/turn for Mags to make blue matches with.) They accidentally got through 3 repeats of a SCL 10 goon node (lvl 300-500 enemies!) and I just think that's funny. I wasn't trying to win the node and the only champed character in that team is 2* Mags lol.

btw, someone told me that Blackbolt works to do the "firing skill" ones with for characters whose skill you're missing. My Warlock is only 0/0/1 and is missing purple, but with Blackbolt's yellow, I can fire it which is nice. Am 9/50 so far thanks to my trial run, but I'm going to wait until the purple matches quest comes back to do them. Made that mistake with 5* Gamora already, where I finished her and then realised there's going to be a quest for black matches. Duh, should have waited for that one.

I can't say I particularly enjoyed this event. But I was hoping at least that we could clean the vault. Why the hell are we limited to 4 tokens?

Considering the time needed to gather them, I wouldn't consider these tokens as "free".

I just noticed the vault will be around for more than 12 days, but the milestones event will end in about 5 days. And since we can't use hp to clear the vault I don't understand the purpose of having it around unless they're planning to give some last minute tokens.