PVE: Prodigal Sun (2016-07-07 to 2016-07-14)

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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]

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Progression awards:

[spoiler]100:

500: 100
1000: Rainbow Power Boost
1900:

3400: Rainbow Stockpile
5500: 250
7900:

10500: 250
13500:

17000: 250
20500:

24500: 500
28500: 50
32500: 500
37000:

43500: 1000
52500: 25

63000:

74000: 2000

86000: 25
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Placement rewards:

[spoiler]1:

• rewards for 2-5
  2-5:
  
• 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 (2016-04-14 to 2016-04-21)
PVE: Prodigal Sun (2016-01-21 to 2016-01-28)
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

[DTStump]

7 day PvE event with
and
covers as placement rewards… can’t imagine this one will be very popular. And personally I hate having to use Rags…

I’m not drawing up a plan with the number of points I’ll need to get every day to get to 86k, but I think it should be very feasible with 4 suboptimal clears in the first 3 or 4 days, and maybe 5 clears in the rest of the event. (EDIT: after a few subs it became clear that 4 suboptimal full clears a day are more than enough for max progression).

EDIT: sub 1 results: 10587 points, 4 suboptimal clears (3 essentials)
EDIT: sub 2 results: 12536 points, 4 suboptimal clears (3 essentials). Total 23123
EDIT: sub 3 results: 13737 points, 4 suboptimal clears (3 essentials). Total 36860
EDIT: sub 4 results: 15174 points, 4 suboptimal clears (3 essentials). Total 52034
EDIT: sub 5 results: 14598 points, 4 suboptimal clears (3 essentials). Total 66632
EDIT: sub 6 results: 10456 points, 2 clears (full points, 3 essentials). Total 77088
EDIT: sub 7 results: 9308 points, 1 clear (3 essentials) + 4 nodes. Total 86396. Mission accomplished!

A little quote from a past event:

@Rojas66

Just completed first clear on the last day, Thunderbolts Mountain, and got 7460 points. Six of the nodes are not repeatable but still there are plenty of points to get on the last day. Sitting at 83K overall so will get the Legend token after the next clear.

Keep calm and grind for CP.

[Quebbster]

Boosted Rulk fortunately means most nodes should be a breeze. Last time this ran he had IMHB and Nova to keep him Company, but I guess Kingpin works pretty well too.

[Deriziel]

Rewards are meh for this 7-days event

[MightyBP]

Any event with Bullseye (Classic) boosted is a fun event IMO. Contract Killer is one of the better “shift the game in your direction” things to have.

I can see myself trying out a C-Bullseye/Kingpin/StarLord combination for the lulz.

[amusingfoo1]

@Deriziel

Rewards are meh for this 7-days event

Meh? You’re much more charitable than I.

[ruinedcause]

Well, here’s another insta-skip event. A 7 day slog for bad covers, come on man…

I’ll be PvP focused this week.

[Sluggo]

Yeah, I think I’ll join this one late. I’ve found you can skip the first 1-2 days of 7-day events and still comfortably hit max progression with all the points available in later subs. I need a small break after that awful H Jugg event.

I suspect my curve for this event will go something like: join midway on day 2, pick up 6k, then go 12/14/16/18/20 for an even 86k and max prog.

[mckauhu]

Oh my how bad rewards… I’ll be playing this for just iso8, HP and CP

[ThatOneGuyjp189512]

crappy rewards just means i’m only clearing once on the last sub for that free Sentry cover.

[PeeOne]

This non popular event must be the answer to a question I was about to pose… I hate it when freak things happen in this game…

I don’t have Ares so missing an essential node… And I don’t think I cleared day 1’s nodes once… Definitely didn’t do more than 1 …

Just completed 2nd clear day 2 and I’m sitting overall at number 10… WTF?? Looked at the rosters of my fellow top 10ers -
1st place highest cover… Level 75
2nd place highest cover… Level 128 etc etc
What bracket did I fall into!!! Very strange…
Bonus is about to get the Ares cover so will be able do do all essentials

[We_are_Venom]

@PeeOne

This non popular event must be the answer to a question I was about to pose… I hate it when freak things happen in this game…

I don’t have Ares so missing an essential node… And I don’t think I cleared day 1’s nodes once… Definitely didn’t do more than 1 …

Just completed 2nd clear day 2 and I’m sitting overall at number 10… WTF?? Looked at the rosters of my fellow top 10ers -
1st place highest cover… Level 75
2nd place highest cover… Level 128 etc etc
What bracket did I fall into!!! Very strange…
Bonus is about to get the Ares cover so will be able do do all essentials

I’m in a slice where places 8-50+ have the exact same score, so totally opposite of you unfortunately.

[optimus2861]

What a bore this event is. Any old 7-day event being rerun for the umpteenth time should at least give double ISO to keep us interested.

I actually lost the Ares essential in one of the previous subs. The one against 2* Magneto. Think I took Blade and .. forget now. The board was freaking stubborn, wouldn’t pony up anything good for me, a couple of goon CDs resolved, and then Magneto hit Magnetic Flux. Blammo. Two down, only Ares left, facing a significant health & AP shortage. I retreated. I hate having to spend health packs on essential nodes.

[ScrubJay]

I am bored so I am taking Ragnarok out for a spin.

Not bad synergy with Jean Grey or Red Hulk. His only purpose is to give you green charged tiles. Hood is the go to third member. The main bad thing about this setup is why you wouldn’t run someone like IM40 or 3* Cap instead.

[Quebbster]

@ScrubJay

I am bored so I am taking Ragnarok out for a spin.

Not bad synergy with Jean Grey or Red Hulk. His only purpose is to give you green charged tiles. Hood is the go to third member. The main bad thing about this setup is why you wouldn’t run someone like IM40 or 3* Cap instead.

I quite like Ragnarok paired with Kamala Khan. His cheap red keeps her healing a lot, and she can help get those charged green tiles more easily.

[ZootSax]

@ScrubJay

I am bored so I am taking Ragnarok out for a spin.

While I’m not that bored, yet, I have been screwing around on the trivials even more than normal. This time around it’s a Lv 145 (boosted) Peggy (1/0/0), Lv 132 Cap Falcon (1/4/3) and Lv 102 2* Steve (3/5/5). They’re pretty hapless on red/blue starved boards, but if those three are going to bring matching shields and outfits to battle, I might as well take them off the bench from time to time…