Weird 5* ISO champing costs

Marvel Puzzle Quest MPQ General Discussion
1

I recently joined the 5* tier and now that I’m leveling multiple 5*s, I’ve noticed a couple oddities:

  1. I was looking at leveling up Black Bolt in advance on him being an essential in the upcoming PvE. He currently sits at 255. The cost to level him to 256 is 1474 ISO. Every other 5* I have at 255 (some classic, some newer) the ISO cost is 1074.

  2. I recently leveled my Professor X from 300 to 315. The ISO costs by level bounced all around:

From To Cost
300 301 2050
301 302 3075
302 303 2050
303 304 2654
304 305 2556
305 306 1704
306 307 2556
307 308 1704
308 309 2806
309 310 2808
310 311 2818
311 312 1904
312 313 2858
313 314 2859
314 315 2868
315 316 2907

I don’t remember exactly but thought every other tier the ISO costs were either the same or more for each additional level. Was there ever any explanation as to why the costs here are inconsistent and non-linear?

2

I think they vary by character and/or cover distribution. I’ve seen a few 5’s at the same level with iso-8 requirements. But I found that the iso-8 requirement for the 15 block is pretty much the same, +/- about 5 iso-8

3

You’ve been around the game long enough to have entered the 5-star tier, and you’re still expecting explanations about how things like that work? :stuck_out_tongue:

I asked that question a few years ago when I noticed similar discrepancies in ISO leveling costs with Silver Surfer… The other four tiers are all a relatively nice straight line in ISO costs per level. 5-stars, as you noticed, jump all over the place. I’ll let you know when I hear an answer.

4

Yeah, I remember for me, OML cost like 10 ISO-8 to get to level 361 from 360. Weird.

5

I personally view it in 5 level chunks, starting at level 300, 15k iso is usually enough to go up 5 levels.

When you get to the top, its up to about 17k iso for 5 levels.
But overall its not a huge fluctuation per 5 levels as the other tiers.

6

This has been around a long time… not sure who owns it, but it may help…

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19WTGnjZWctTwzHeF44XAR7ULkfKcHQOfufmG4z_OHR8/edit

list of iso required for each level…