Difficulty Levels Based on S.H.I.E.L.D. Clearance Levels - Update (8/4/17) *Updated

Marvel Puzzle Quest MPQ Events, Tournaments, and Missions
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Hi Everyone,

Near the end of May, we ran our first test of enemy difficulty levels that were based on a player’s S.H.I.E.L.D. Clearance Level. As a result, we have received a lot of feedback from the community, and we want to thank everyone for sharing all of their thoughts.

A few things have changed since the last time we ran this update to Event Difficulty (Scaling Tied to S.H.I.E.L.D. Clearance Levels), and we’d like to outline those changes below:

Starting with Unstable Iso-8 on Sunday, August 6th at 7:00 am EDT, all Story Events going forward will have difficulty based on S.H.I.E.L.D. Clearance Levels.

  • Enemy levels will now start at the same base level. In the table below, the starting level and the maximum level after 4 clears can be seen.
  • Placement rewards have been updated for SCL 7 and 8
  • We reduced the difficulty of Hard, Final, and 4-Star Required missions in SCL 8 by as much as 20% in some instances
    Update: Corrected table data for placement Rank 1 of SCL 8; it awards 3 4-Star covers, not 4. Apologies for the confusion.

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This. This pleases me.

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Me too. Is it too early to complain that easy missions are too easy? They could just give us the points for the easy missions automatically and save everyone some time :stuck_out_tongue: By which I mean like 5 minutes, tops.

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Oh wow, me likey!

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Looks like a very positive change. Any idea what changes are going to happen for new release events for 7/8?

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Can’t wait

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Looks like the reward updates are just small iso bumps, not complaining, but am I missing anything else?

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Nice! I guess @Brigby’s “Soon™” was actually pretty soon!

So, uh, when’s CL9 coming? :smiley:

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extra 4* cover for 1st of cl8

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No complaints. I think this really opens the door for SCL9. Looking forward to actually doing SCL8 now, I dropped to SCL7 in the past just because the juice wasn’t worth the squeeze but this is less than my current scaling.

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So very very happy about this

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If I’m reading that right compared to the current 3 day pve event, it’s a REDUCTION to scl 7 prizes.
I see 4500 for first in scl7 webbed wonder. 4000 in chart.
And 1000 more to scl8

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This is awesome.

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@Brigby
Will the change in pve address the overgrinding nodes problem that was noticed on the test?

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@Brigby do you know if they did away with the 1-3 point nodes that keep points after you clear them? Multi-tapping is going to be a very real thing if they didn’t.

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Fixed scaling. Nice

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@Brigby what are the SCL entry points? In the test rank 47 was the entry point for SCL8, those ranks have no way to compete with a rank 100+player

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I’m on the minority, not a big fan of this change. I believe 5* will dominate most SCL7 brackets for even faster clears/grinds and 4* will have no place to go but 6 (and there’s still going to be 5* there). It’s going to slow down progress for most 4* roster.

Maybe locke SCL? Can’t go below your SCL level. This is just too easy. Might as well remove placement if it’s basically whoever has the biggest Thanos wins..

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Will anything be implemented to discourage players from abusing SCLs lower than the one they are intended to play in? Minor reduction in rewards (mentioned above) won’t do it. I think I’ll bump the discussion in Suggestions about scaling characters down to intended level in SCL7 and lower (or SCL8 and lower if SCL9 is introduced).

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Sounds like a first world problem to me. My 4* roster progress is fine, and I think I’ve gotten a 4* from placement all of once.