A lot of people worry about having Archangel for his PVE run. My estimate is that the soonest he will be essential is Jan 21 or 22.
If we assume Gambit is being skipped as 5E for XvA, then Thor comes Sunday. Then two Classics. Assuming all 3-4 day events then the Latest cycle starts Dec 28 with DD (AA should enter Latest 1/1). 5 Events of 3-4 days (L,L,L,C,C) goes to 1/14 or 1/15. They run Latest in release order, so Gambit starts the next cycle, then Thor, then finally Archangel on Jan 21 or 22. These dates would be pushed by a 7 day by 3-4 days (so 1/25, a Thursday).
Just something to think about as you decide where to use CP. Good luck to all!
The one thing to note is that the latest have run in order since Doc Ock rotated out. Ock should have been “first” in his group of three latest if they did them in order, and he was second, then third.
It’s worth pointing out because we had two Latest groupings with Ock (not in release order), two without (in release order), and are in the middle of a fifth overall. Meaning there’s a chance they pull a fast one on us and don’t do them in release order, which could put Angel a tiny bit sooner. But I don’t think we’ll know for sure until it happens.
Just updating since Thick as Thieves is using Thor.Gambit was skipped. They have been going in release order for the past 3 cycles, including this one (assuming Gambit doesn’t get used in the next PVE).
It is most fair to players to run in release order…gives more time to pull the essential.
Just wanted to update this since they ran a 7 day. Barring a second 7 day Event - which would be unusual since they only run them every other month or so - I think we can expect Archangel’s first 5E on 1/25/17.
Gambit was boosted for X-Men vs Apocalypse, just not as much as he would be when he was required. I’m guessing boss events are going to follow a different formula there - which is good, because to require a 5* to do a side node would suck in general. Anyway, I’m going to agree with the people above - Gambit should be the next required 5*, then Thor. After that, it will be 2 Classic. After that it will be Gambit, Thor, Archangel, so I’m guessing 1/26 unless they decide to run another 7 day PVE, in which case it may be later.
Anyway, Archangel should enter the tokens at the data push today, so about 11am EST…
There was no data push today, at least so far. They may do it this evening, or else I’d expect it tomorrow.
Edit to add - they can’t make updates to the tokens without a data push, and as far as I can tell the data push does not happen on days where there’s no one in the office. Possibly they haven’t reopened from the holidays as yet, possibly they’re playing catch up and haven’t done the data push.
My other thought was maybe they don’t want to push DD out of the latests until he is no longer the 5* essential, which would mean a couple more days on archangel.
Huh. Interesting thought. It’s definitely not impossible, though I suspect the real reason is they didn’t do the data push yet, possibly because they’re still out of the office.
We’ll see when they do a data push tomorrow - they almost certainly will. Btw, if people don’t know what I mean by this - it’s when the game goes back to the loading screen, shows the loading (from less than 63%, for some reason at least my version always loads from 63% when it decides to reload,) then lets you in. It’s usually between 11am and 11:30 am EST, but they used to do it between 5pm and 5:30pm EST. They do it every weekday save for holidays - it updates the tokens and such.
Ha ha! I was wrong. Apparently we aren’t supposed to be able to predict something like when a 5* will be essential. I must have made the devs mad with this thread or something. Sorry.
He’s essential starting 1/8, about 2 1/2 weeks ahead of my guess. My karmic comeuppance is I am 0/52 on Archangel.