PVE Heroic: Dark Avengers (2016-10-03 to 2016-10-06)

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 (and only usable characters)

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Progression awards:

Placement rewards:

Reinforcements (will update as known)

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Sub 2: Facilities
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Sub 3: Rooftops
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Previous runs

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

Sub 1 Reinforcements:
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Good gravy, what a shitpile of usable characters. Way to build enthusiasm for the anniversary, D3. icon_rolleyes.gif

Sub 2 Reinforcements:

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I think I’m going to miss Squirrel Girl in sub 2. I finally champed Psylocke today with her progression reward, and hoo boy did I find a fun team…

Squirrel Girl, Psylocke, and Scarlet Witch. I did the 3* required node last, and those three shredded Daken, Moonie, and Yelena. Some of the powers are meh, but it’s full rainbow, and it’s actually a fast team. SG adds the fun of a dual purple option to nuke targets since the DAs generate so many special tiles, and her green double taps on Psylocke’s red strikes.

It took less than 10 minutes to clear that node 4 times, and I didn’t use a single health pack. The other hard nodes started eating a health pack on at least one character every time I played them. That synergy is pretty surprising, but it was fun!

Iron Fist is more than adequate as a replacement for Squirrel Girl IMO… I wonder if they’ll do Kamala Khan in the last sub?

This may be a bit much to ask, but if there’s a Heroic event going on, where our rosters are already dramatically limited, can we please not have nodes using one of our required characters? Either Sentry or Daken are in nearly half of the nodes in this fight, and they’re two of the only characters we can use in the event.

Well, this is Dark Avengers heroic, but yes, i see the point. What interests me more - if there will be time when we will be unable to use essential on his/her node because he/she is enemy in that node. icon_e_biggrin.gif

4* Captain Falcon, 3* Deadpool and Scarlet Witch are really blitzing the goon nodes for me. Typically the mafia ones in particular are much harder than normal on heroics due to the random character availability. Also, aswas said earlier, I do miss Squirrel Girl, surprisingly…

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Using this team too, as well as Daken/Switch.

Abosolutely evil on the second sub is Flaptain/Daken/Fist (when daken isn’t tagged out).Shreds through everything.

Smudge’s team of the day for sub 2: Iron Fist, 3* Daken, Psylocke.

Strikes abound! Attack tiles! Flying Fist! Many heals!

CMags/SWitch/Star-Lord was pretty fun too.

Sub 3 Reinforcements:
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I swear to god if unstoppable crash worked for me the way it works for the game controlled opponents, I wouldn’t need any other characters besides juggernaut.

Tinykitty cascades into multiple match 5’s that do more damage than his stupid headbutt on a regular basis are really beginning to get irritating…