Balance of Power - July 16-18

Marvel Puzzle Quest MPQ Events, Tournaments, and Missions
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Here we go!

Every maxed 1*, 2*, and 3* character is buffed to 270.

Rewards:

**Single Player Rewards**

1. All rewards from the previous rank + Baglady Blue
2-5. 5000 ISO, 100 HP, Betsy B/U/R
6-10. 2000 ISO, 100 HP, U/R
11-25. 1000 ISO, 50 HP, U/R
26-50. 1000 ISO, 50 HP, R
51-100. 500 ISO, 25 HP, R
101-200. 500 ISO, Wolvie G
201-300. 250 ISO, G
301-400. 2x Standard Token, 140 ISO
401-500. 70 ISO

**Progression Rewards:**

25. Standard Token
50. 100 ISO
100. +3 All Boosts
200. 250 ISO
300. Recruit Token - Bag-lance of Power
400. 25 HP
500. 2* Cap Blue
600. 25 HP
700. 1000 ISO
800. 50 HP
900. Recruit Token - Bag to the Future
1000. 1000 ISO
1100. Lil Punny Foo Foo - Black
1200. 1000 ISO
1300. X-Force Green

**Alliance rewards:**

1-2. 5000 ISO, 250 HP,  Betsy Black
3-10. 5000 ISO, 100 HP, B
11-25. 3000 ISO, 100 HP, B
25-50. 2000 ISO, 100 HP, B
51-100. 1000 ISO, 50 HP, B
101-250. 1000 ISO, 50 HP
251-500. 500 ISO, 25 HP
501-1000. 500 ISO
1001-10000. 250 ISO
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3* Scarlet Witch?

Could be trying out a new gameplay variation or something - was implied as such on another thread. Which would be cool. Hard to tell from title alone but at least seems to be some form of PvP.

Open until Season 4 starts on Friday, I would guess.

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As long as I don’t have to pay to enter I’ll give a shot.

4

Actually… that could be pretty cool. Have they ever given out a new character through a pvp? You get a loaner that maybe has all three powers, get to try it out for a couple days, top prizes are the new character.

5

They said experimental PVPs, so hopefully this is one of those. I hope the prizes are kind of mid-tier, so I’ve got an incentive to try it, but don’t feel like I need to be top five or anything. Hulk, Psylocke, and Hood are the three I only need one cover for, so those would be ideal for me.

6

Unlikely, but it’d be cool if it was limited to your team’s total level could not exceed opponents total level… leaves a lot of options for strategy and team construction…

7

That’s probably a bit too fiddly and server intense to set up. Capping the number of stars you could use would be much easier.

8

Capping total levels would also have weird counter pressures on leveling characters, as opposed to encouraging new roster builds and diversity.

9

I dunno… feels a little too ambitious. I reckon it will be something a bit different but not so… unwieldly. Something more themed around probability - Balance. Team types. Colours. “Roster Diversity”. I dunno. Maybe you are on the right track. Guess we’ll all see in a few hours.

10

It’s the wargamer in me coming through icon_e_biggrin.gif

7s seems like it would give you plenty of variety - do you play it safe and go 3/2/2 or do you risk a 1 so you can field two heavy hitters or even Fury…

11

This looks interesting.

Since it is new, I will at least give it a try.

It’s been quite a while since we’ve had anything but the “loaner and 2 characters” tournament. Since well before season 1 IIRC.

12

finally something new.. hey.. it seems they have listened to us, little whiny forumites.. firstly a week long hiatus between 2 seasons.. secondly, pve is way less tedious.. thirdly, new pvps on their way.. these are cool times to plug again in this game..

13

Not a bad guess, but considering how often people just use a low-level/loaner featured character, I don’t think 3/3/1 would hamper most people’s style that much.

14

if that is, it will be a letdown.. sentry/daken everywhere.. hope its not something like that… icon_eek.gif

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I’m erring on the easy to implement side - less chance of screw ups that way.

16

And if there’s a desert, winter, or forest node I (and probably everyone else) would happily run Daken/Sentry/Mstorm

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Here’s a thought…

What if the “balance” is to massively boost 1s, slightly boost 2s, and no boost for 3s or 4s?

1s and 2s scale much more powerfully than 3*s, so getting a level 94 Thor buffed by 47 levels will be about as powerful as a Lazythor.

Doing something like this could actually make Juggernaut useful, as Headbutt would be a bitch at level 80 or so. Especially if you run him with OBW or Hood to keep feeding him.

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This is the first theory someone has posited that doesn’t sound like it would require a client update. Of course, they could have already quietly patched support for an unannounced PvP mode into R56.

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Suppose it’s a 36 hour event to run before the start of Season 4, which has been semi-officially announced as starting midnight ET Thursday night?

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Im saying it now, 1st ever bagman event! icon_cool.gif