MPQ Sneak Peek: April 2019 Edition *Updated (4/26/19)

Waddles_Pines said:

Umm, Bags to Riches is up in game... I really hope the progression rewards are an April Fool's prank... 900pts/40wins for a 2* Bagman?!?!

is it a 2* in levels 8 & 9? at any rate, even in level 7 which is always a 4* at 900, this is a bunch of nonsense.

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The least they can do is to make it:

• 28 wins: 2 covers of Bagman
• 40 wins: 4 covers of Bagman

to make it more worth our while in terms of ISO-8.

Smart80 said:

Quebbster said:

Waddles_Pines said:

Umm, Bags to Riches is up in game... I really hope the progression rewards are an April Fool's prank... 900pts/40wins for a 2* Bagman?!?!

They could at least have put some Spider-Ham covers in there.

Its not? That is really dissapointing.. Especially as we were kinda promissed he would not be as rare as Dino and this was the perfect opportunity.

A single progression cover in an event run once a year would be massively more rare than Devil Dino though...

What’s up with more Vintage 4 rewards?  This is weird now. Trying to make them more relevant instead of essentials once every two years, maybe?

I suppose an answer far too much to expect from this group. 

It is nice to see C&D pvp being run for the Season 2 premiere.  Mine is 352 now, so that should be fun. 

It's also kind of surprising that a new 5* release has come and gone, and the previous 5* is still yet to be featured as an essential in an event.  Sure, the Hulk and Galactus events might have added a bit of a delay, but it is still highlights the shortened cycle.

jamesh said:

It's also kind of surprising that a new 5* release has come and gone, and the previous 5* is still yet to be featured as an essential in an event.  Sure, the Hulk and Galactus events might have added a bit of a delay, but it is still highlights the shortened cycle.

Right, Hela is early after Carol's release with just a month between them.  The last run of Latests/Classics was:
3/11 Doom
3/14 Cable
(3/18 CM dropped into Latest)
3/18 Kingpin
3/21 Banner
3/31 JJ

Now we have:
4/4  Doom
4/8 Carol
4/11 (presumably we won't get another 7 day) Kingpin
4/15  Classic, probably Strange
(4/15  Hela drops into Latest)
4/18 Classic, probably Phoenix

Then the mix of Doom, Carol, Hela begins with Hela's  spot being a bit up in the air, but hopefully she takes Kingpin's slot and remains last in the rotation to give players more chances to pull her before the end of April-ish.

St_Bernadus said:

Also, we have been having a pattern of the 3 "Latest 4s" then 2 classic 4s, interrupted by new releases. But since Namor went as essential we have had (or are coming up): Talos (just released) Mordo Cyclops Elektra Punisher Max The Thing Any comments, @Brigby? This is the sort of thing we would like to know, that is happening now, so it is not like it is something planned that the dev team can't talk about in case it doesn't happen.

I'm hoping this means that they're about to implement their latest method to combat dilution.  I'm thinking they'll wind up with the same system they use for supports now; where each season they vault some of the characters.  

@Brigby, just a fair warning, if the next SHIELD Training has Magik, expect to see a helluva lot rage posts and quitting posts... Ever since she's entered token there's been no event that offered her as a prize.  Not too late to switch her out if that's what y'all were planning...

The 4's have been rewarded with many more "Latest" 4's than Vintage since that concept began on about March 1, 2017 when they vaulted all but the Latest 12 in tokens.  The pattern has shifted a little in those two years but this is the first time since then that we are seeing this many Vintage 4's in a row.

When Latest 12 started there were about 46 4's in the game, so you had 12 you got a lot of and 34 you couldn't pull or get from PVE (much).  (Except for the ones you bonused, and PVP still had the same rewards as now, moving through everyone alphabetically.)

Now we have 77 (with Talos)  and 3 have been heavily featured, leaving 74 you will only get rarely in PVE (about every 2 1/3 years).  At least up to now.

the most recent incarnation of "latest 3" and classic started ~ September last year when it was Wiccan, Ghost and Emma, then it was Emma, Nebula and Dazzler.

St_Bernadus said:

the most recent incarnation of "latest 3" and classic started ~ September last year when it was Wiccan, Ghost and Emma, then it was Emma, Nebula and Dazzler.

Yeah, i was just going to say, i remember Emma being a sort of turning point, where she was offered so much, a lot of people got angry. Then the cycle became "common knowledge" and for a while people didnt complain  as much.
I guess the wind is changing again. Im a bit sad, i really liked the way Magik looked, and was looking forward to her events. If we have to go back to trying to pull them only from tokens i honestly dont know if i'll be able to cover her in this lifetime....