The Simulator
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 Nodes after Sub-Events End? No
Main Bracket Size: 1000 Sub Bracket Size: 1000
Unique Reward(s): 2000 ISO Reward - In each sub-event, the final node on the left branch has a 2000 ISO reward.
Other Notes:
Total number of sub-events and overall length of the event has varied.
Sub-Event Nodes: 10 Total. 7 Regular (repeatable); 3 Essential (repeatable) Link to mags1587 PVE Format Guide
I would love to get more Nova covers, but I cannot be bothered to grind Carnage Essentials to get them. This looks like Another PvE where top 50 will be more than enough for me.
Can’t quite decide if I should softcap P-Max at 229 or use the ISO to champion Ghost Rider instead…
28k in 3 days for full progression: average of 9.3k points per day
My objectives:
Sub 1: 7.5k
Sub 2: 9.5k
Sub 3: 11k
EDIT: sub 1: 4 suboptimal clears with 2 essentials, 8620
EDIT: sub 2: 4 suboptimal clears with 2 essentials, 22748 total (+14128)
EDIT: sub 3: 1 clear without the hardest node, plus hitting the three easy nodes and one essential node a second time got me to 28040 (+5292)
EVERY TIME I open up Simulator, the scaling on this PVE shocks me. You think I’d learn after awhile.
305 essentials starting out.
325 as first non-trivial side node (Simulation 04).
The nodes go from trivial straight to that, rated as “Normal”. Yeah, I have one character on my roster past level 300…those look like REAL NORMAL DIFFICULTY, right.
Is Simulator always run right after Heroics just so the Heroics didn’t seem so bad in afterthought? Yeesh, my goal will be get the iso out of the trivial nodes and quit; won’t even be running for the CP in this crazy scaled event.
I’ve always thought Heroics get a bad rap compared to Simulator. At least with Heroics, you might find some new team you hadn’t considered or discover an overlooked character’s usefulness that you not have. Even better you can just phone it in or skip Heroics all together and not feel like you are missing much ( a popular choice!)
That’s not the case with Simulators, where you can’t afford to pass up that 2000 iso node each day or the low 3 Day top progression reward. I haven’t joined yet, but I hope they switched up the team this time, with so many new 4* characters this year there’s a lot of fresh matches they could do in the hard nodes.
I look at simulator events as mini gauntlets. A bunch of lol-hard fights in a row for a bit of ISO. Progression is pretty low if you feel like grinding. Otherwise just do your thing. They can’t all be your favorite event.
Sim 4: 2* Storm/2* Bullseye/Ares
Sim 5: R&Groot/4* Cyke/3* Punisher
Sim 6: Drax/ S.Witch/3* Totally More Useful Version of Hulk
Sim 7: Moon Knight/Luke Cage/3* Daken
Essential 2* Bullseye: Psylocke/ 2* Torch/2* Cap “Hail Hydra!” America
Essential Hood: Starlord/R&Groot/Gamora
Essential Carnage: S.Witch/Iceman/3* Storm
Some of those essential teams are familiar, but I appreciate the new combos in the hard sims. (and that IM40 is boosted this event, at least until Hulkbuster shows up).
so, if my info is right, 3 clears a day of the 9 main nodes plus hitting sim7 once/day is enough to get you to the cp. someone care to check me? i’ll hit sim7 once/day and see how they go. since I’m not starting with bullseye, if it goes smooth I may hit a second time, but not going to kill myself.
It hasn’t even been a month since we had the last one (three weeks, actually) and this is easily one of my least favorite events. I wonder why they decided to run it again so soon, but whatever the case, at least I can take a break while this runs its course.
Oh shush, level 300 AOE effects are never fun. Not much good to have one great character when your other two are always dead. But more to the point on scaling - the other PVE’s seem to cap out much lower than Sim, and it always surprises me that Sim is so brutal.
I still wish they’d scale based on your top 3/5/10 average rather than just looking at your top and dumping you there. It’s why we get all the “should I sell my 5*?” threads.
