PVE Heroic: Dark Avengers (2016-07-14 to 2016-07-17)

[rainkingucd]

New Powered Up Levels starts this event.

Event Info

[spoiler]Heroic Dark Avengers
Length of Event: 3 days
Sub-Events? Yes; Alliance Rewards in Sub-Events? Yes
Number of Sub-Events: 3 Length of Sub-Events: 24 hours
Main Bracket Size: 1000 Sub Bracket Size: 1000
Unique Reward(s): None
Other Notes:

• There are Main nodes to open up the sub-events. These nodes are one time only nodes.
• One node in Main (a team-up node) is repeatable and playable for points throughout the event.
• Enemy Types (Main): Daken (2*), Ragnarok, Venom, Yelena Belova, Hammer Goons
• Sub-Event 1: Diversion
  • Number of Main Nodes to Open Sub-Event: 4
  • Sub-Event Nodes: 9 Total. 6 Regular (repeatable); 3 Essential (repeatable)
  • Enemy Types: Ares, Bullseye (2*), Daken (2*), Juggernaut, Moonstone, Venom, Yelena Belova, Hammer Goons
• Sub-Event 2: Facilities
  • Number of Main Nodes to Open Sub-Event: 5
  • Sub-Event Nodes: 9 Total. 6 Regular (repeatable); 3 Essential (repeatable)
  • Enemy Types: Ares, Bullseye (2*), Daken (2*), Moonstone, Sentry, Yelena Belova, Maggia Goons
• Sub-Event 3: Rooftops
  • Number of Main Nodes to Open Sub-Event: 5
  • Sub-Event Nodes: 9 Total. 6 Regular (repeatable); 3 Essential (repeatable); 1 One-Time Only
  • Enemy Types: Bullseye (2*), Juggernaut, Moonstone, Sentry, Venom, Yelena Belova, Hammer Goons, Maggia Goons

Link to mags1587 PVE Format Guide[/spoiler]

Powered Up

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(Essential)

(new)

(Essential)

(Essential)

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Progression awards:

[spoiler]100:

500: 100
1000: rainbow damage boost
1500:

2200: rainbow AP stockpile
3200: 140
4400:

5500: 140
7000:

9000: 140
10500:

12500: 250
14500: 25
16500: 250
18500:

21000: 500
25000: 25

29500:

34000: 1000

39000: 25
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Placement rewards:

[spoiler]1-2:

• rewards for 2-5
  2-5:
  
• rewards for 6-10
  6-10:
  
• rewards for 11-20
  11-20:
  
  
  
  , 1500
  , 50

21-50:



, 1000
, 50
51-100:


, 1000
, 25
101-200:

, 500
, 25
201-300:

, 500
301-400:

, 250
401-500:
x 3, 250
501-600:
x 2, 250
601-800:
, 250
801-1000: 250

Alliance rewards:
1-2:

, 2500
, 100
3-10:

, 2500
, 50
11-25:

, 1500
, 50
26-50:

, 1000
, 50
51-100:

, 500
, 25
101-250: 500
, 25
251-500: 250
, 25
501-1000: 250
1001-10000: 140
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Sub-Event Placement Rewards

[spoiler]1-2:
x2, 1000
, 100
, 2

3-10:
, 1000
, 100
, 1

11-50:
, 1000
, 50
51-100:
, 1000
101-200:
, 500
201-300:
, 250
301-400:
, 250
401-500:
x3, 250
5ß1-600:
x2, 250
601-800:
, 250
801-900: 140
901-1000: 70

Alliance
1-10:
, 250
11-50:
, 100
51-100:
, 100
101-250:
,70
251-1000:
x3, 70
1001-2000:
x2, 70
2001-5000:
, 70
5001-10000:
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Reinforcements (will update as known)

[spoiler]Sub 1: Diversion

Sub 2: Facilities

Sub 3: Rooftops

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Previous runs
PVE Heroic: Dark Avengers (2016-03-28 to 2016-03-31)
PVE Heroic: Dark Avengers (2016-01-04 to 2016-01-07)
Heroic Dark Avengers (Nov.02nd-Nov.05th, 2015) Bracket Size_(No event info found; substituting with Bracket Size
PVE: Dark Avengers - Heroic (July 20-24)
Dark Avengers: Heroic (May 11 - May 14)
Dark Avengers: Heroic (March 16-March 22)
Dark Avengers: Heroic - Sept. 25 - Oct 1
Dark Avengers Heroic: June 27 - July 3

[DTStump]

Earlier this month we had Heroic: Juggernaut, which is also a 3 day heroic event with 3 24h subs. The max progression threshold was set at 43k points and it was pretty hard to get there. To get there, it took me:

Sub 1: 5 suboptimal clears, 2 essentials: 12308
Sub 2: 5 suboptimal clears, 2 essentials: 14767
Sub 3: 4 suboptimal clears plus a few nodes, 2 essentials: 16004. Total = 43079.

This time, Heroic: DA requires 39k points for full progression. I’m planning on doing 4 or 5 clears in each sub, to hopefully score:
Sub 1: 11k - EDIT: sub 1 results: 9943 points, 4 suboptimal clears, 3 essentials.
Sub 2: 13.5k - EDIT: sub 2 results: 14965 points, 4 suboptimal clears, 3 essentials. Total: 24908
Sub 3: 14.5k - EDIT: sub 3 results: 14508 points, 2 full point clears + 4 nodes, 3 essentials. Total: 39416

Taking a brief look at the initial list of characters, a few observations:

• When at the same level as other 3*s, Vision never tanks
  
  and
  . Spiderman, Black Panther, Falcon and KK hit harder with
  , Thor with
  and
  . This should make Vision even less useful than he normally is. Here I’m really wishing the Vision bug wasn’t fixed. Still, a Vision + KK + BP team could be decent, but probably not as good as KK + Thor + BP

• Black Panther, Kate Bishop, 4* Venom are the only non-1* characters using

• All powered-up 3s are
  characters. In the 4 tier, 5/6 are yellow users and 2/3 in the 2* tier

Now let’s see which reinforcements we get…

[seekie]

2000 points increase from last run to get the 25cp. Wahwahwah…

[rainkingucd]

@seekie

2000 points increase from last run to get the 25cp. Wahwahwah…

and yet a 2500 points decrease to get the


cover. Weird point adjustment here.

[DTStump]

Sub 1 reinforcements:

[tph_james]

Damn.. It’s so fcking hard with the limited roster.. I kept on cursing when I saw 4 silent pistol with each countdowning 1,2,3 and 4…all the 3heroes need a lot of AP to trigger their powers. U are in hell grinder when the board is unkind to u… And this is only the first day.

[TxMoose]

at least you have options here for cds. between peg and falcon and some board control with cyke this sure has better options than the last heroic. of course I have 2 champs here so scaling will be worse, but at least i’ll have some tools.

[braddos]

I’m looking to merc for a t100 alliance for this event IGN braddos… I’m new to this game but scoring high and could help a team!!

[BlackSheep101]

There’s a merc thread in the alliances sub forum.

[loslupus77]

If the devs keep on churning out Heroics, could they at least spare some thought on designing them. Although this time the available heroes are good as whole, there’s only viable black user (Black Panther). One could say that this a way for devs to sell health packs, but for me it just stinks of laziness and negligence. If the devs don’t care about their product, why should I spend my money on this game.

Sure, the weekly buffed are the only available characters (in addition to essentials), so there are some limits but this could be worked out with a wise choice of reinforcements… two days in and no sign of black users. Apparently the wisdow is in short supply in dev’s office.

[inadreves1]

Sub 2 reinforcements:

[LuciferianX]

Please.

Devs.

PLEASE.

Stop the Juggernaut. It’s… it feels SO insanely cheap that I can’t use words to describe it without feeling like I’m ranting. The hard 1 CP sub node grinds through health packs. I lost Logan to a cheap cascade followed by – say it with me – Headbutt.

20,000 HP and you’ve given me two stunners, who are the exact same color spectrum. One black striker, mind you, he’s best of the best at his level, but he’s still the only one, so I have to build my entire team around him, and additionally, he shares two colors with the required four star.

Fighting cheap 1 star OP nodes is not fun. Watching the AI go ‘win-finite’ is not fun. I’m not discounting the need for a hard node to be challenging, I’m saying that a bunch of cheap powered, rainbow spectrum one stars is infuriating.

K.

That’s… that’s my .

[CT1888]

In sub 2 ftw. Arcane Incantation → Polarity Shift → Demolition →

[mckauhu]

@CT1888

:nickfury:

In sub 2 ftw. Arcane Incantation → Polarity Shift → Demolition →

If I just had better Magneto, that could work… Gonna try anyway, thanks. I cleared most nodes with Falcon, Thor and Black Panther but haven’t tried last node yet.

[TxMoose]

sub 1 goons were pretty easy. falcon/peggy (min 1 yellow)/damage dealer (I used 4cyke, but several options would work) slows them down, overwrites their tiles, you can match some away and eventually you get some ap to do stuff with. its pretty slow, but I went through without a healthpack first clear. loving peggy for pve even with just 1 yellow - just reinforcing my decisions to skip her in pvp.

[Crowl]

@LuciferianX

Please.

Devs.

PLEASE.

Stop the Juggernaut. It’s… it feels SO insanely cheap that I can’t use words to describe it without feeling like I’m ranting. The hard 1 CP sub node grinds through health packs. I lost Logan to a cheap cascade followed by – say it with me – Headbutt.

20,000 HP and you’ve given me two stunners, who are the exact same color spectrum. One black striker, mind you, he’s best of the best at his level, but he’s still the only one, so I have to build my entire team around him, and additionally, he shares two colors with the required four star.

Fighting cheap 1 star OP nodes is not fun. Watching the AI go ‘win-finite’ is not fun. I’m not discounting the need for a hard node to be challenging, I’m saying that a bunch of cheap powered, rainbow spectrum one stars is infuriating.

Given that he is going to be heavily over-leveled in pve and suffers no dmg reduction with less covers, they should just overscale a 1/1 Juggernaut rather than a more highly covered version so at least his ludicrous attacks are more expensive.

[inadreves1]

Sub 3 reinforcements:

[an1979]

Garbage characters.

Garbage Hood being feed yellow and black by 2 Dons…

Garbage TINYKITTY Jugernought being feed green coupled with Venom throwing stuns left end right… cascade, cascade, stun, headbutt, repeat

GARBAGE.

[bbf2]

Isn’t it time we get a four star added to the “reinforcements?” Why is there a useless one-star in there but no four star?

[mckauhu]

My gosh how difficult this event is. Managed to beat all the nodes ONCE and then all characters were pretty much annihilated