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Hear me out I think the October hint could be referring to Black Tarantula. Bullseye - Black and white color palette and skill/combat champion. White Tiger - Color then animal naming scheme and superhuman powers. Similarly to White Tiger and Bullseye, Black Tarantula lost his summoners choice. Oh and he’s a villain which we know the October champs will be villains. I believe he’s also a Daredevil villain on some occasions (don’t quote me I just googled it). Think he probably fits the hint the best for the month of October?

Edit: He certainly does have ties to Daredevil and Bullseye in the comics. Could see him and Dracula being our October champs!! Now for November…

They said in the live stream he is getting the cyclops treatment. So it should be new animations, etc.

@SirGamesBond I could be totally off my rocker, but I think I recalled them saying in the livestream that it’s when you enter the quest. I could be super off, but that’s what I recall

Now it makes sense. The last Essence is called "invade", which most likely means that the last Eidol is an invader. And then it is very likely to be a cosmic champion (Isophyne defends Battlerealm, Lumatrix does the dirty work, he is used as an assassin and a spy, Solvarch destroys entire galaxies (yes i know he is conqueror in his biography but from his interactions in august's dialogues it seems like he is more willing to destroy everything along with the universe than conquer)... and now it seems we have come to the one who is CAPTURED these territories). As I mentioned, the Alliance War tags for the next saga are related to the military troop positions (Defilade & Enfilade), which makes it even more meaningful. Now I'm pretty sure that the last saga of this year will be the end of the Eidols saga and will have something to do with the war with them. I've seen players speculate that the next saga will be related to the spider-vers, but it's just the theme of the Alliance Super Season (last year it was Deadpool, the year before Captain America, so I would say these are just separate themes).

So I'm more confident in the cosmic class now than I was before (invader has to be really strong, I don't think it would make sense in a science/mutant role).

We'll see how things really are in just a few weeks, but my theory is this...

I'm 80% sure you guys will hit top 5%, (top 200 alliance 100%)

I'm 80% sure my ally will hit top 10% with 58k.

The resoaning is that every alliance that puts even 1 point qualifies.

Just like we have in BGs, three are more than 500 alliances (I don't know the actual number, I assume there are way more than 500 alliances) in top 10%, it should be same for this one.

All we can do is to play the guessing game.

Outside of top 100 alliance. I don't think there will be any higher scores.

People mocked me, for putting 15k in poker, while they went crazy putting 100k scores dumping refills. There was me, sitting with 15k hoping to get 1 point by qualifying for 50%, To eveyones surprise I hit 20% and got all three points needed for the event.

This is a unit heavy event, people don't value relics. There would be a steep drop in points after whale alliances.

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The prestige for EQ:

It gets locked at the start of the month?

It gets locked as soon as we enter?

The second option will give us some time to upgrade our prestige. Nothing can be done for a month, if it's the first option.

The relic rank rewards looks like they'll arrive after the month starts.

The standard actually rose up quite a bit throughout the years, most recent ones all have over 6k rating in that stat. Your average champion has around 69-72% block proficiency nowadays, those below 67% are mostly older champions. But the main problem is the playstyle of the champion, Medusa and Gladiator can pretty much play the whole fight without a single parry and are not as reliant as someone like Cull is.

For Hyperion, I actually wish I could put block proficiency stat focus on but his whole rotation is to do 2-3 heavies and go ham so its more optimal if I increase the chances of that happening with higher crit chance. If Hyperion can't nuke in 30 seconds chances are that he won't nuke in 40 either. He also has really low crit rating and actually needs to crit a lot more than Cull does. Pure RNG champion with no competitive purpose, only reason I run him in deck is for my gambling addiction. He desperately needs the crit rating stat focus and its not that his block proficiency is good enough, hope I made that clear.

Also, here are some calculations out of nowhere. Parry reduces damage taken by 25%, now let's combine that with the block proficiency for a clearer result. Onslaught has around 78% block proficiency so his parries are perfect blocks in most cases. Spidy99 has around 71% so he takes 4% of the hit damage with parry. Cull has 67% which means he takes 8% of the damage, double the amount of what Spidy99 would take. It becomes clearer once you add in the flat value of 25% from the parry and calculate the net damage taken, you could imagine how much worse it would be without the stat focus for Cull.

I lost track of my flow of thought as I was typing so I'll abruptly end it here without a conclusion. I'd rather wait for a nicer meta to finalize my thoughts but keep in mind that I have no arguments against some of his matchups. His block proficiency actually doesn't matter at all against Red Skull and Zola, my doubts are more so about his versatility and performance regarding certain matchups that are claimed to be decent for him. Questions, questions…

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QNtgMyepYJwJT9vYtyytf1pGB7OcnMHP8tcDIl8wkrA/edit?usp=sharing

Follow this sheet for multiple suggestions (including mine)…..I did Crucible in 3 revives (Glykhan’s last phase AI was so dumb, didn’t cooperate). You can definitely clear it with 6*R4s and maybe a few fights with R3s, just boost heavily for the whole run. Keep around 20–30 revives in your stash for the worst-case scenario. Many thanks to @Simula67 for this spreadsheet. Good luck!