There are 180 hours in the event, which only seems to make sense to break it up into 3X60 hour (2D 12H) blocks. I guess it’s possible to have something weird like 2D 12H, 2D, 2D, 1D but that’d indeed be very weird.
Alternating 6AM and 6PM.
And yes it’s 2 and a half hour refreshes.
This is going to be miserable.
if i understand it right i picked 6pm end time
so it will be
stage 1 starts 6am tues ends 6pm thursday
stage 2 starts 6pm thur ends 6am sun
stage 3 starts am sun ends pm tues
so just 3 stages
hopefully those are right i can grind at the end on all 3 end times
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
I want Luke Cage but 2.5H refresh times and Simulator Hard don’t mix.
Any advice on Simulator Hard? I normally just rubberband it at last hour so I don’t have to deal with personal scaling. Of course this reflects my overall rank badly but Sim hard always drains so much Health Packs…
After Enemy of the State, this event just feels like a major step backward
A full rotation of both subs = less points than one node in Enemy of the state
Simulator Hard usually has scaling that gets out of control so quickly that you don’t have to worry about the 2H 24M refresh because nobody is beating them every 2H 24M to begin with, and since a full clear of the hard bracket is usually impossible don’t expect any help from the rubberband either. You should take the easiest missions you can beat safely and just keep on do them plus the essentials. Of course, sometimes there are no missions you can beat safely, including the essentials, so then it becomes a matter of finding the 3 missions that you’re most likely to beat at all and keep doing them, which will usually be the 3 essentials but sometimes the game does throw you a bone.
Full clears only become difficult on hard on Sim 3, and if we’re gonna have patch as essential for all 3, expect people to be doing full clears until the last second.
One step forward, two steps backward.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08i9kvCJvJ0
I hope not T-T
Also side note: WHERE IS THE STAT SCREEN D3?!?!?!?!?!??! ITS VERY IMPORTANT TO RECORD OUR PROGRESS AS A GUILD 
Certain irony that the 3 characters advertising this thing (3* Magneto, Human Torch and Black Widow) are all out of token rotation at the moment.
They rotate the essential character.
Demiurge: “Our research has shown that the shorter refreshes lead to higher engagement in PVE events with people playing more often. Our next PVE will have 2 hour refreshes to try to increase engagement further. Please look forward to it.”
At least they have Sentry, Patch, Mystique on the cover packs…
Set and forget over the holiday period.
And no matter how much we complain, enough people are going to play for the new character that it wouldn’t matter if they set the refreshes at an hour or 5 minutes or a whole week.
Same cycle over and over, repeat and repeat; not sure why anyone is surprised. Lower your expectations and they will be met.
Can I borrow Patch from someone in my alliance to participate in the essentials?
Seems scaling is broken in the 2nd time slice…Simulator hard = level 40 
Do they really think we have no lives? They could have made the Luke Cage PVE a 4 day PVE rather than a week long one and maybe do a tiny PVE between now and New Years Eve.
Either way, why aren’t we using the 24h subs that clearly everyone loved during Enemy of the State?
Plenty of people don’t. Just look at the PVE leaderboards.
I’m exclusively playing this for ISO while the scaling is bugged. If I end up T150, fine, if not, I’ll get my Cage covers in PVP.