PVE: Prodigal Sun (2016-01-21 to 2016-01-28)

[rainkingucd]

Event Info

[spoiler]Episode 4.5: Prodigal Sun
Length of Event: 7 days
Sub-Events? Yes; Alliance Rewards in Sub-Events? Yes
Number of Sub-Events: 7 Length of Sub-Events: 24 hours
Main Bracket Size: 1000 Sub Bracket Size: 1000
Unique Reward(s): Sentry Red Cover - One node in the final sub-event (Thunderbolts Mountain) gives a red Sentry cover as a reward. This node is unlocked as soon as the player completes all other non-essential nodes in the sub-event.
Other Notes:

• Sub-Event 1: Maggia Assault: Manhattan
  • Sub-Event Nodes: 11 Total. 7 Regular (repeatable); 3 Essential (repeatable); 1 One-Time Only (Team-Up with Sentry node)
  • Enemy Types: Bullseye (2*), Sentry, The Punisher, Hammer Goons, Maggia Goons
• Sub-Event 2: ISO-8 Lab Assault: China
  • Sub-Event Nodes: 10 Total. 6 Regular (repeatable); 3 Essential (repeatable); 1 One-Time Only (Team-Up with Sentry node)
  • Enemy Types: Psylocke, Magneto (2*), Storm (2*), Venom, Yelena, ISO-8 Goons, Hammer Goons
• Sub-Event 3: SHIELD Base: Los Angeles
  • Sub-Event Nodes: 10 Total. 6 Regular (repeatable); 3 Essential (repeatable); 1 One-Time Only (Team-Up with Sentry node)
  • Enemy Types: Hawkeye (2*), Captain America (2* & 3*), Thor (3*), Hammer Goons
• Sub-Event 4: SHIELD Base: Wakanda
  • Sub-Event Nodes: 10 Total. 6 Regular (repeatable); 3 Essential (repeatable); 1 One-Time Only (Team-Up with Sentry node)
  • Enemy Types: Black Panther, Iron Man (3*), Hammer Goons
• Sub-Event 5: SHIELD Base: Washington, D.C.
  • Sub-Event Nodes: 10 Total. 6 Regular (repeatable); 3 Essential (repeatable); 1 One-Time Only (Team-Up with Sentry node)
  • Enemy Types: Black Widow (3*), Falcon, Captain America (3*), Hammer Goons
• Sub-Event 6: SHIELD Base: Hell’s Kitchen
  • Sub-Event Nodes: 10 Total. 6 Regular (repeatable); 3 Essential (repeatable); 1 One-Time Only (Team-Up with Sentry node)
  • Enemy Types: Daredevil, Human Torch (3*), Spider-Man (3*), Hammer Goons
• Sub-Event 7: Thunderbolts Mountain
  • Sub-Event Nodes: 15 Total. 6 Regular (repeatable); 3 Essential (repeatable); 6 One-Time Only (one of which is a Team-Up with Sentry node)
  • There are 3 paths after beating the opening node. From left to right, these paths have easy nodes, normal nodes, and hard nodes; the nodes in the normal path are one time only nodes; the nodes in the easy and hard paths are repeatable.
  • Enemy Types: Hawkeye (2*), Black Widow (3*), Black Panther, Captain America (3*), Falcon, Hulk, Iron Man (3*), Thor (3*), Wolverine (2*), Hammer Goons

Link to mags1587 PVE Format Guide[/spoiler]

Powered Up

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(Essential)

(Editorial note: no “New” boosted characters in I don’t know how long)

(Essential)

(Essential)

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Progression awards:

[spoiler]100:

500: 100
1000: rainbow damage boost
1900:

3400: rainbow AP stockpile
5400: 250
7800:

10500: 250
13500:

17000: 250
20500:

24000: 500
28000: 50
32000: 500
36500:

43000: 1000
52000: 25

62500:

74000: 2000

86000:
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Placement rewards:

[spoiler]1-2:

• rewards for 2-5
  3-5:
  
• rewards for 6-10
  6-10:
  
• rewards for 11-20
  11-20:
  
  
  
  , 3000
  , 100

21-50:



, 2500
, 100
51-100:


, 2000
, 50
101-200:

, 1500
, 50
201-300:

, 1000
, 25
301-400:

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

Alliance rewards:
1-2:

, 5000
, 250
3-10:

, 5000
, 100
11-25:

, 3000
, 100
26-50:

, 2000
, 100
51-100:

, 1000
, 50
101-250: 1000
, 50
251-500: 500
, 25
501-1000: 500
1001-10000: 250
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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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Previous runs
PvE Prodigal Sun: November 5th - November 12th, 2015
PvE Prodigal Sun - August 27 - September 4th
PVE Prodigal Sun - June 11-19
Prodigal Sun Apr 8 - Apr 14
Prodigal Sun - Feb 24 - March 3
Prodigal Sun: Dec. 15 - Dec. 22
Prodigal Sun: Oct. 2 - Oct. 9
Don’t have dates for previous time it was ran

[rainkingucd]

Fun Fact: LT Progression points are identical to last time it was run.

[pabasa130]

Jean Gray top 10 rewards. This will be a bloodbath.

[system]

Reminder that if you have the token vault for this one (I do), waiting until after the event for the stockpile vault will let you refresh it for free and pull for 3*/4* covers of choice. 100 HP for a 2.5% shot at needed 4* covers, plus a shot at an LT and 3* covers, is better than playing Invisible Woman roulette.

(That is how it works, right? What you see in the stockpile vault is what you pull for, randomized every time? Last time I just pulled a fistful of Thors so I couldn’t test it out.)

[BlackSheep101]

Excited I can finally use the guaranteed cover in the last sub again!

[fmftint]

@Pokeytax

Reminder that if you have the token vault for this one (I do), waiting until after the event for the stockpile vault will let you refresh it for free and pull for 3*/4* covers of choice. 100 HP for a 2.5% shot at needed 4* covers, plus a shot at an LT and 3* covers, is better than playing Invisible Woman roulette.

(That is how it works, right? What you see in the stockpile vault is what you pull for, randomized every time? Last time I just pulled a fistful of Thors so I couldn’t test it out.)

As someone who had the Unstable Iso vault, the vault disappeared and the final token rolled into a standard expired token

[BlackSheep101]

That happened to me too with the token placement reward for the last sub.

[lukewin]

@fmftint

As someone who had the Unstable Iso vault, the vault disappeared and the final token rolled into a standard expired token

Strange, I had the Unstable vault too, and the token I got from sub rewards after the event was over was put into a Vault. It was after my taco token vault, so I just decided to pull it. Of course, I got a 2*.

[system]

I had the Unstable vault (iOS) and my tokens rolled over to a Post-Event vault, just like the Deadpool off-week vault. Very weird that people are seeing different behavior here! Maybe go easy on buying tokens then.

[system]

for the placement rewards you wrote 1-2 and 2-5, thats double rewards for 2nd place.
and for the boosted 4 stars you only typed 3 star icons.

[rainkingucd]

@Frasaria

for the placement rewards you wrote 1-2 and 2-5, thats double rewards for 2nd place.
and for the boosted 4 stars you only typed 3 star icons.

Good catch! Corrected.

I’ve been doing that since the reward structure changed and never caught it. Thanks!

[Quebbster]

Carnage essentials were a lot more fun when I didn’t have any black covers…

[Bren86]

The nodes “Enter the Dark Avengers”, “Rooftop Brawl” and “Flex Your Muscles” in the main story node.

Are they repeatable till the story ends or they are only repeatable till sub 1 ends?

[Cousin_Simpson]

@Quebbster

Carnage essentials were a lot more fun when I didn’t have any black covers…

Yeah, I was considering sitting out this whole PVE because I didn’t want to deal with Carnage killing me, but he’s not so bad when you pair him with true healers! (I guess kinda obvious but I’d never used him much before.)

[SirLanik]

I think this is the first time I’ve seen the essential characters scaling less than the weekly buffs. My classic Storm is boosted from 108 to 173, and my Ares is boosted from 101 to 157. Uh, what?

And the 3* boost feels weird too. My Mystique is boosted from 120 to 214, and my Blade is boosted from 120 to 169.

I don’t remember there normally being such a huge difference.

Anyone else notice weird boosting?

[BlackSheep101]

Just saw a post about this…

rummages around

Here we go!
https://forums.505go.com/discussion/38403

[Inarius]

Used a combo of 3* Cyclops/Iron Fist/Scarlet Witch to down the Punnisher nodes. He went down really fast

what chars did you guys used?

[madok]

@Inarius

Used a combo of 3* Cyclops/Iron Fist/Scarlet Witch to down the Punnisher nodes. He went down really fast

what chars did you guys used?

That is my go to group for most of the hard nodes. They just kill everything.

[TxMoose]

anyone else having issues with the loaner node ‘rooftop brawl’ with carnage/mystique/ares? I’ve wiped several times over the last couple of days - maybe 20-30% of the time. I think carnage needs better (more synergy) teammates than ares and mystique. haven’t really had major issues with any of the other nodes - only other wipe was a higher scaled node and a ridiculous cascade, but that happens. these wipes are usually dry boards that give you a little bit of a lot of different colors. if you don’t get enough yellow, black, or blue, the attack tiles whittle away at your health and if im gets an ability off or if a pyro cd goes off, that’s basically all it takes. and there’s no cd management or good management in the team other than a 1 turn stun from mystique. really frustrating.

[madok]

Yeah, I’ve wiped on that node more than once this go around.