"• The last mission of each sub-chapter (Simulation 07) can only be played once. Progression rewards have been adjusted accordingly.
• The reward from Simulation 07 is 3,500 Iso-8 (up from 2,000 Iso-8)."
Event Info
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): 3500 ISO Reward - In each sub-event, the final node on the left branch has a 3500 ISO reward.
Other Notes:
Total number of sub-events and overall length of the event has varied.
Sub-Event Nodes: 10 Total. 6 Regular (repeatable); 3 Essential (repeatable); 1 One-Time Only Link to mags1587 PVE Format Guide
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(Essential)
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(Essential)
(Essential)
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Progression awards:
[spoiler]100:
500: 100
1000: rainbow damage boost
1500:
2500: rainbow AP stockpile
3800: 140
5200:
7000: 140
9000:
11000: 140
13000:
15500: 250
17500: 25
20500: 250
23000:
25500: 500
28500: 25
32000:
36000: 1000
40000: 25
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Placement rewards:
[spoiler]1-2:
rewards for 2-5
3-10:
,1500
, 50
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
This is also the first time the progression target is relatively high compared to previous runs since the new system was permanently implemented, if I am not mistaken. 3 clears per sub are not gonna cut it.
Still, I believe Simulator was the event chosen for the release of Kate Bishop with a progression target of 32k. I think 40k is a lot for such a challenging event, especially with the new scaling rules. That said, I hope I’m wrong.
Yeah, on first glance it looks like they forgot to account for Simulation 7 not being repeatable. We shall see, I guess.
If it makes you feel any better, when you get to the 3-4 star transition, you’ll have a higher level Drax one-shotting your characters for 8 red, so you have that to look forward to…
Just don’t let him get it off. If you bring a stunner (which you should be doing anyway on a Hulk node) the rest of that team isn’t particularly hard and if you get unlucky and fail to deny red you can still usually retreat before he actually uses it.
I know it seems like a crazy ridiculous ability, but it’s basically all he does (his purple does almost nothing if you wait out the countdown and his black is expensive enough that it should probably not be happening under normal circumstances), and it isn’t super hard to counter.
Even if your only stunner is a minimum level MBW you got covers for out of your last few recruit tokens, that fight should still be manageable at that level.
It’s always interesting seeing the new characters in these events. With all the events that repeat, you generally don’t see high level new characters often, so it makes me question who to target first sometimes. Drax in the first sub, Kate in the second, I just don’t know how dangerous they are at this point. I know simulator is hated, but it is at least interesting at times.
I’ve been seeing success with a lot of 3* Daken-centric teams, since when he’s championed and buffed he’s just super hard to kill, and he hardly shows up at all as an opponent in Simulator. Kind of the 3* version of OML.
Stunners tend to be very good since there are no goons in Sim.
I’ve been messing around with Patch/Doom/Spider-Man (filling up purple tiles with specials to nullify Patch’s drawback) and it works decently well. Either you can’t match purples and Doom fills the board or you can and Spidey does. It’s a rainbow team, buffed Doom offers a pretty ridiculous nuke, and protect tiles plus regen is potent staying power.
I quite like the simulator, but since they are calling it that and designing the whole event around that idea, they should remove the characters being locked out mechanism for this pve event.
