I think my scaling earlier for thor was higher, so it may be separate for each essential hero. I have a maxed version of every essential except quicksilver who is still level 40 (8 covers), but I go for those refreshes first for the hp and token chance.
Edit: just made it to round 6 - the non
nodes difficulty went up without any play by me.
: 147-216
: 218-219
: 212-219
Ultron Prime nodes:
155, 178, 165, 182 for the completed ones. Yes, the third one was lower level than the second one.
Remaining show as 216, 216, 245, 248.
As someone who typically grinds PvE pretty hard, I started to wonder why this event was starting to feel too grindy to me, and yet no one else in my alliance was complaining about it yet. Even more confusing when you realize how much we love to complain. Then I discovered that my side nodes were all lv212, and their’s were all lv155.
Sorry, but this is indefensible. I shouldn’t be getting penalized for having a lv270 XForce that is completely useless in this event. I totally get that this event is targeted towards new and/or casual players as a movie tie-in. I have no problem if you want to give them lv20 opponents all day and night. But within my alliance, we’re generally similar players with similar rosters, and we’re playing these Ultron nodes with EXACTLY THE SAME CHARACTERS. I am not a match-3 savant. I have no special abilities that justify seeing opponents that are 60 levels higher than my alliance-mates.
In this or any PVE. The scaling is based so the newer players can compete in these, but it is driving the vets away. I stopped playing PVE for this reason, and this is just a PVE in special makeup. Eventually your new players will be vets. No one should be punished for their accomplishments later in the game, or having good levels on the characters you deem “essential”.
This event just highlights scaling more because Ultron Sentries are extremely sensitive to a level advantage or disadvantage. I was reading people who say it’s easy with soandso and I tried it and was like ‘how can this possibly work?’ and then I check the levels. For example all the Ultron Sentries can punch through Patch’s regen just fine. Doesn’t mean I can’t win with Patch but when your health is consistently going down each turn then waiting for the Berserker Rage + Trickery suddenly seems pretty scary. I guess they must have figured that since Ultron is at a static level that makes everything fine but Ultron is way easier than his Sentries.
T4 average: 173
Round: 7 Ultron: 350
QS1: 93-140
QS2: 136-137
Prime 1: 96 cleared
Prime 2: 109 cleared
Prime 3: 106 cleared
Prime 4: 112
Prime 5: 136
Prime 6: 136
Prime 7: 151 locked
Prime 8: 181 locked
Just noticed something and this was the thread with the closest topic:
yesterday I noticed that the HP from sentries was bumped from 3.3k to 5.5 from ultron 5 to ultron 6; today’s essentials has a similar lv, around 110~120, but their HP is back to ~3.3k on ultron 7.
6 unlocked. 250/6x 166 including Thor/Hulk (both buffed). Most 3*'s at 140 or 127 (so tons of total levels, if that matters). Almost at first QS progression.
I’m actually surprised to know there’s any variety, I thought they were all the same level.
My Ultron Prime finale is 248. First round is 132. These have also been basically the same so far (actually the last one at 186 was the easiest, but good boards will do that)
Your levels are exactly the same as mine (though I’m on round 5). I don’t even think the levels on the Ultron Sentries ever go up as a function of round number because I think they’ve been at those levels since round 1. Sucks to be the guy with higher than those numbers, because it’s already pretty brutal at these numbers.
It seems to me the enjoyment of this event is entirely dependent on how much scaling likes you. I can manage at those numbers, but if they go up to 200-220 it’d be pretty painful. I’m sure I can still beat it, but I’d no longer be looking forward to playing any of those nodes. Seems like there are maybe 4 different distinct settings for this event? It sure isn’t like a normal event where you’d have a hard time finding two guys with the same enemy level on any particular node.
