Ms. Marvel’s worst power is the top 10 reward, her best power is doubled, and we get Cap’s best cover for progression. Unstable ISO-8 sucks, but at least the rewards are decent.
Yep. The existing nodes disappear and new nodes will appear. There are also one or two nodes that are offset from the main switch by 12 hours. (they switch at noon EST, everything else switches at midnight EST). It’s quite the grind and hopefully scaling won’t be as bad as it has been in the past.
Seems like the main nodes will be switching at noon EST this time, since that is when it started?
Thanks a bunch for the clarification! So you think the current nodes will disappear tomorrow at noon EST? And also some new nodes will show up tonight around midnight EST?
I’m not an expert on rubberbanding, but from what I remember, for the first run of the event where rubberbanding was implemented it was ridiculous; all you basically had to do was play in the last hour and you’d score top 10. They toned it down and I expect it to be tweaked further in this run.
The main set of nodes should switch around noon, and then the one/two nodes should switch at midnight, but off the top of my head I’m not 100% sure of that. Something to add to my notes, I suppose.
IIRC this was the first post-prologue story event, and D3 was still feeling out how they wanted to structure PvE events. But they’ve run it unaltered at least twice now since working out the whole system of sub-events attached to a main bracket.
The only thing changed about this event is the rubberbanding and it is a horror show of everything that can possibly go wrong with a PvE event when you’re new to making them. As players we really don’t need to be reminded of how bad things used to be. The only saving grace is that the enemy lineup rarely has Daken so it’s one of the weakest DA lineup you’ll see.
In regards to scaling, despite doing lacklustre recently, I’m seeing some…quite high nodes. Venzuela Showdown (goons) 210/211/211… Relationship Issues 202/203… Well, I’ll do my best.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that part. The scaling on this event seems to be pretty high too, perhaps to compensate the relative lack of Daken. I have a level 270 goon only node, and sure I won’t say that is hard, but it still doesn’t take much to die when half of the goon’s move can one shot a character from full health when they’re at that level.