4 star cover rewards in PvP - The upcoming schedule

Marvel Puzzle Quest MPQ Events, Tournaments, and Missions
1

vudu3 asked me about this one and I realized it would probably be good to share this with anyone else who might be curious.

A pattern has been established of how star.png
star.png
star.png
star.png
covers are awarded based on how they’ve been given out for the last month or so. Counting the finish tomorrow, here is what I expect the schedule to be for the next 6 weeks, assuming everything stays the same and the 1300 and 1st place prizes don’t change due to the anniversary events or other unforeseen modifications.

PvP tournaments run 1. Monday-Wednesday, 2. Wednesday-Friday, 3. Friday-Sunday with end times a touch past that due to the 1 hour time shift. I am using end times of 1. Wednesday @ 1PM EST, 2. Saturday @ 1AM EST, 3. Monday @ 1AM EST for those three tournaments.

By character:

icon_nickfury.png

  • Covers are awarded in the following order: yellowflag.png
    purpleflag.png
    blueflag.png


Cover @ 1300
Awarded Wednesdays at 1PM EST
yellowflag.png
Oct 8, Oct 29
purpleflag.png
Oct 15, Nov 5
blueflag.png
Oct 22, Nov 12

Cover for 1st
Awarded Mondays at 1AM EST
yellowflag.png
Oct 27, Nov 17
purpleflag.png
Oct 13, Nov 3
blueflag.png
Oct 20, Nov 10

icon_wolverine.png

  • Covers are awarded in the following order greenflag.png
    yellowflag.png
    blackflag.png

Cover @ 1300
Awarded Saturdays 1AM EST
greenflag.png
Oct 18, Nov 8
yellowflag.png
Oct 25, Nov 15
blackflag.png
Oct 11, Nov 1

Cover for 1st

Awarded Wednesdays at 1PM EST
greenflag.png
Oct 8, Oct 29
yellowflag.png
Oct 15, Nov 5
blackflag.png
Oct 22, Nov 12

icon_invisiblewoman.png

  • Covers are awarded in the following order blueflag.png
    yellowflag.png
    greenflag.png

Cover @ 1300
Awarded Mondays 1AM EST
blueflag.png
Oct 20, Nov 10
yellowflag.png
Oct 27, Nov 17
greenflag.png
Oct 13, Nov 3

Cover for 1st
Awarded Saturdays 1AM EST
blueflag.png
Oct 11, Nov 1
yellowflag.png
Oct 18, Nov 8
greenflag.png
Oct 25, Nov 15

In terms of pairings:

Wednesday 1PM finishes feature
1300 - icon_nickfury.png

  • 1st - icon_wolverine.png

Saturday 1AM finishes feature
1300 - icon_wolverine.png

  • 1st icon_invisiblewoman.png

Monday 1AM finishes feature
1300 - icon_invisiblewoman.png

  • 1st icon_nickfury.png

Once star.png
star.png
star.png
star.png
icon_thor.png
-ess comes out fully, I expect there to still be a predictable pattern, but one that rotates asynchronously with the schedule of three per week that pvp currently uses. This would have the nice side benefit of certain covers not being locked into specific pvp blocks (my current bane being icon_nickfury.png
@ 1300, (which should be a lot more predictable and achievable than icon_nickfury.png
for 1st), is always Wednesdays at 1PM for me… a finish I can’t really work with so well).

2

I appreciate all the work you do in figuring things like this and keeping the organized. I do hope it wont be long before a dinosaur crashes the party as well and ruins the rotation.

3

At least according to the blog announcement, Dino is only available for a week (and only from anniversary packs). (Plus one more for 365 days daily reward.) Not sure what that’s supposed to mean re: getting covers, but that’s what’s on the blog.

4

I suspect that’s just temporary, and at some point he’ll have an “official” launch and get put into regular packs.

5

Right, I am Hoping that the dino wont be left out in the cold forever is all.

6

You are a very optimistic person. icon_e_smile.gif

7

Put it this way: it gives them a PVE off from having to develop a character.

8

This is great information. This allows me to plan out my 4* cover acquisitions. Should have a cover maxed XF by the 18th and my first IW green during the next PvP.

9

That doesnt look right. You have purpleflag.png
blueflag.png
NF being given out in consecutive events. purpleflag.png
Oct. 13, Oct 15? There should be a rotation there.

10

1300 vs 1st place finish rewards.

11

I get that, but it would be a different color. They don’t give out a purpleflag.png
NF for a 1st, then next event give out a purpleflag.png
NF for 1300. It should be purpleflag.png
1st, then yellowflag.png
1300 during the next event. At least that’s what was just given out these last two pvp’s.

This should read: icon_nickfury.png

  • Covers are awarded in the following order: purpleflag.png
    yellowflag.png
    blueflag.png

Also, this should read: icon_invisiblewoman.png

  • Covers are awarded in the following order greenflag.png
    yellowflag.png
    blueflag.png

Your dates for icon_invisiblewoman.png
are in the correct order, but looking back at the reward orders, that statement is backwards.

12

So any chance of getting this updated J?

13

Probably hard to do with the monthly influx of new 4* characters

14

As JM points out, it might be tough to get this thing updated with what the current rotation would be given that we’ll start seeing a rotation of 5 of them through the 1k and 1st place prizes.

I haven’t even been paying attention enough lately to figure out what the rotation was when it was just icon_nickfury.png
icon_wolverine.png
icon_invisiblewoman.png
and icon_elektra.png
. That pattern was around for roughly a season.
Now that we’ll likely throw icon_starlord.png
into the mix as well, it should work out that each of them is offered a little more than once a week on average. That takes into account 1st place rewards in PVP, but PVE would not be included in that.

However, with 10 events a season, it should at least be achievable to get a 1/1/1 of any 4* covered from the 1000 point progression rewards each season. Downside is that if you’re relying solely on the 1k reward, you can’t bang out a 5/5/3 build of something in less than 5 months now.

15

5 covers in right now, 10 events, I’d expect to see no one character more than twice at 1000 points. That makes it impossible to get 1/1/1 in a single season from 0 covers.

You can bet at the end of the current season another 4* is coming. The release schedule is faster than the rewards schedule so a pattern of rotation is going to be pretty hard to determine. I’m sure the basics will remain the same, with TGT redflag.png
then yellowflag.png
then blueflag.png
for example.