What awaits you when you hit Round 8 is a throwback event to the first run.
The essentials are Quicksilver, OBW, Hulk and Thor.
Why? Because why not. And no they aren’t buffed.
Oh and bombs now do 16414 damage.
D3 said they would adjust round 8,
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED KAPPA?
OBW is selected automatically, but you can use GSBW. It is “any” Black Widow.
Not sure if you paid attention.
Quicksilver being the key essential is still an obvious error, though.
its not an error, it’s in memoriam to his role in the ultron movie 
What, you didn’t see that coming?
If someone has finished Round 8 - can you let us know if Ultron shuts down of if it’s still open for other Alliance members to gain progression points?
Because you care for next time or because you are really interested in Vision covers?
probably wants to know for alliance reasons and general curiousity.
And honestly, everyone knows vision is bad so collect his covers now before his buff. Then again, he could end up like Ragnarok 3.0… 
I actually find Vision quite useful, especially when he is tanking his colors. Density heavy is a downright great skill. Density Light keeps boosted juggs in check.
He has his uses.
My Round 8 essentials are Quicksilver, Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk
undercovered and super boosted, hes a great big meat shield for my mags in the essential sentry node. mags tanks nothing and takes no damage, allowing me to use him again without concern. mags/loki all the way on those.
i don’t buy it, but more power to ya. Have lots more characters who need covers iso before him
arktos, you are so calm these days! sure, and thor can be swapped out for gthor too. but that’s not the point, they should be part of the boosted pool with vision as the essentials. this is the pool from the 1st run!
the outer ring is supposed to rotate through the essentials that are in the event. each refresh it changes, this is further proof that someone messed up on a pointer somewhere, or did a copy paste on the event from the first run and forgot to modify round 8.