PVE: Unstable ISO-8 (2016-01-14 to 2016-01-18)

[rainkingucd]

Event Info

[spoiler]Episode 1: Unstable ISO-8
Length of Event: 4 days
Sub-Events? Yes; Alliance Rewards in Sub-Events? Yes
Number of Sub-Events: 3 Length of Sub-Events: 24 or 48 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.
• Enemy Types (Main): Bullseye (2*), Daken (2*), Juggernaut, Moonstone, Venom, Yelena Belova, Hammer Goons, Maggia Goons
• Sub-Event 1: Arctic Circle
  • Number of Main Nodes to Open Sub-Event: 2
  • Length: 24 hours
  • Sub-Event Nodes: 9 Total. 6 Regular (repeatable); 3 Essential (repeatable)
  • Enemy Types: Bullseye (2*), Sentry, The Punisher, Hammer Goons, Maggia Goons
• Sub-Event 2: Mediterranean
  • Number of Main Nodes to Open Sub-Event: 2
  • Length: 48 hours
  • Sub-Event Nodes: 12 Total. 6 Regular (repeatable); 3 Essential (repeatable); 3 One-Time Only
  • The 3 one-time only nodes must be won before the other 6 regular (repeatable) nodes are available.
  • Enemy Types: Bullseye (2*), Ragnarok, Venom, Yelena Belova, Hammer Goons, Maggia Goons
• Sub-Event 3: The Americas
  • Number of Main Nodes to Open Sub-Event: 3
  • Length: 24 hours
  • Sub-Event Nodes: 10 Total. 6 Regular (repeatable); 3 Essential (repeatable); 1 One-Time Only
  • Enemy Types: Bullseye (2*), Daken (2*), Moonstone, Ragnarok, Hammer Goons, Maggia Goons

Link to mags1587 PVE Format Guide[/spoiler]

Powered Up

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(Essential)

(new)

(Essential)

(Essential)

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Progression awards:

[spoiler]100:

500: 100
1000: rainbow damage boost
1500:

2000: rainbow AP stockpile
2900: 140
3900:

5000: 140
6500:

7500: 140
9000:

10500: 250
12500: 25
14000: 250
16000:

18500: 500
22500: 25

26500:

31000: 1000

36000:
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Placement rewards:

[spoiler]1-2:

• rewards for 2-5
  2-5:
  
• rewards for 6-10
  6-10:
  
• rewards for 11-20
  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

Alliance rewards:
1-2:

, 2500
, 100
3-10:

, 2500
, 50
11-25:

, 1500
, 50
26-50:

, 1000
, 50
51-100:

, 500
, 25
101-250: 500
, 25
251-500: 250
, 25
501-1000: 250
1001-10000: 140
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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
Unstable ISO-8 (Oct.29th-Nov.02nd, 2015) Bracket Size_______(No event info found; substituting with Bracket Size)
PVE Unstable ISO-8 (Aug 20-25)
PVE Unstable ISO-8
Unstable ISO-8 - Oct 17 - 24
Unstable ISO-8 - July 18-24

[Quebbster]

I expected this would be a new character release and prepared myself mentally for some grinding.
Then I saw the new character was in fact a five-star and realized placement wouldn’t matter.
Then I see the Cyclops covers I need as top 10 and top 5 rewards…
Might grind this after all. Not quite decided yet.

[Punisher5784]

I am happy the Legendary is at a low 36k for a 4 day event

[Helen_keller]

Why do some people have a token vault for the event and some do not?

[Jam_Adams]

Freeze Buddy is just stupid. I’m 1 for 5, with the four losses being very quick and very painful. the sole victory was by the skin of my teeth.

what are you using?

[Lukoil]

@Jam_Adams

Freeze Buddy is just stupid. I’m 1 for 5, with the four losses being very quick and very painful. the sole victory was by the skin of my teeth.

what are you using?

got mine with luke+if+steve (241 lvl node). Killed bullseye first and then tried to deny all countdowns (1 blue has been triggered though but no one diedj
Luckily I got CP on first try=)

[Monged4life]

I’ve had good luck with Steve, Falcon and IF. Falcon slows down countdowns and improves IF’s fist, Steve saves his shield attacks for when a countdown is about to finish.

Good spot on the Legendary token requirement! Definitely glad I decided to grind this.

[Quebbster]

@Jam_Adams

Freeze Buddy is just stupid. I’m 1 for 5, with the four losses being very quick and very painful. the sole victory was by the skin of my teeth.

what are you using?

I had problems with this too… but then I realized Elektra loves stealing Muscle strike tiles. First go was with Beast and Star-Lord, may try other teammates later. Steve Rogers and Quicksilver gives interesting board control options.

[Jam_Adams]

thanks all. lots of interesting options. I definitely tried the counters for the strike tiles (Loki steal/DD destroy/Falcon overwrite/Rogers overwrite), but i just can’t get anyone going quickly enough to make them work. I didn’t think about Elektra. she is boosted up to the top 6 of my roster for this event, but she still is way undercovered (3.1.1). Nonetheless, I will try her.

at this point, I am 2 for 12, or thereabouts. I did emerge victorious after wiping the first 3 or 4 pages of my roster (including burning through 9 HP on the stronger characters, like thor, rogers, cyc, IF). ended up using stormneto, who are half the level (112) of BE/Muscles (224-225). used switch, hoping her Blue would spawn near Tommy Guns. which it maybe did once or twice.

[bbillrich]

I went black panther hulk and lazy cap with a radar sense team up. Blew up CDs as soon as they appeared and tried to block every purple possible. Saved up some blacks and reds while killing bullseye. Then unloaded. As long as I could keep the strike tiles from appearing I could survive three tommy guns. Used hulk to blow up the board if CDs were about to pop and caps red if it missed. Had success with my low level winfinite as well but that was completely dependent upon where scarlet witchs blue landed.

[Ralph-Wiggum]

Capt. America, SW, and OBW have worked well for me. Just make sure to match blue as much as possible and take down Bullseye first. Not surprisingly, the node isn’t that hard if you can prevent the countdown tiles from going off.

[Jam_Adams]

yeah I tried OBW as well just to extend CDs and if you miss a couple of TGs, she goes down

[madok]

Switch helps power up her pink though to steal the blue the muscles generate. That has been the team I’ve been running so far on that node with zero issues. A really bad board might make things interesting though I guess but that is always the case.

[RoboDuck]

@Jam_Adams

Freeze Buddy is just stupid. I’m 1 for 5, with the four losses being very quick and very painful. the sole victory was by the skin of my teeth.

what are you using?

Was having issues with that one too. Beat it pretty easy with Cap, She Hulk, & Loki.

[Sambuca]

I agree, Cap & Loki are a viable solution. I threw in my 3* HT to tank Loki’s colors while Bullseye is still up, but Loki’s Trickery to steal the shields/strike tiles and Cap’s shield to overwrite any Tommy Guns I couldn’t match work really well for me.

[Blykmyk]

With a powered up Capt America only dealing 900 more damage with his red what is the point of even using powered up characters?

[thanos8587]

@Blykmyk

With a powered up Capt America only dealing 900 more damage with his red what is the point of even using powered up characters?

a. 900 is not insignificant.
b. higher health
c. higher match damage

thats about it.

[Blykmyk]

The match damage is like 4 per tile so it is insignificant. And with the opponents hp and powers staying the same I’d say that 900 is pretty insignificant. This will really impact then characters that are decent not great…there will be no reason to use them when powered up

[madok]

I’ve pretty much stopped using Cap. The boosted bug really sucks. I would rather just run 3* clops. I can pretty much run the entire clear with Switch, OBW and clops with one or two HPs.

[rowdster]

I’ve been pretty successful with patch Loki lcap usually all colors boosted.

Going to try some of the other interesting combos suggested here.