Back Issues #3: Polar Opposites

Once upon a time, a mutant of incredible power sought to shatter the Battlerealm and free his kin through any means necessary. Surprisingly, the one who opposed him most greatly was himself!

Introducing, Back Issues #3: Polar Opposites!

Available 10am PT, Wednesday August 14th!

As the Contest has grown and evolved we’ve introduced many Event Quests, each with their own unique stories, and many that have expanded on the mythos of The Battlerealm and The Contest of Champions. We want to give Veteran Summoners a way to relive those moments, and newer ones that weren’t with us at the time a chance to experience the stories of the Contest that they had missed out on!

This Event Quest is available in TWO difficulties:

CLASSIC difficulty is a recreation of the original quest. While not completely 1:1, the layouts, difficulty, and dialogue are all the same as you remember. Take a stroll down memory lane and see how far you've come, or experience a quest you never got the chance to play!

VARIANT difficulty is a new spin on the quest, available for Summoners level 45 and up. This version features more of a challenge, new opponents, updated map layouts, and new combat effects for the boss fights. This quest will test even the mightiest of Summoners, so be prepared! You can find out more about the challenges you will face in Variant Difficulty in our latest Dev Diary post here: https://playcontestofchampions.com/dev-diary-added-difficulty/

The Variant Challenges!

Variant Difficulty will test not only your skills, but your knowledge of Champion abilities, immunities, resistances, and counters! Those who rely on only a few Champions will find the need to diversify.

Like Back Issues #2, we’re going to be encouraging the use of certain Champions. This time, you’ll want to take advantage of the Composite Construction (All Tech Champions in this fight are immune to Ability Accuracy Modification) and Stack Overflow (Each Tech Champion on the Attacker's Team increase the Attacker's Debuffs Duration by X%.) Global Nodes to boost the power of your Tech Champions!

For even more of a power up, use the Mutant hunting Sentinel to take advantage of the brand new “Apex Manufacture” Global Node geared specifically to the Mutant hunting Sentinel! Apex Manufacture allows Sentinel to gain Analysis Charges even faster, and to deal bonus True Damage per Analysis Charge!

Take a look at the new Buffs you’ll be combating or benefiting from:

These are in addition to other nodes that you have already experienced.

Rewards:

This Back Issue Quest features 6 Individual Quests over 3 Chapters, unlike Back Issues #1 and #2, which featured 9. Quest Rewards reflect this.

For completing and exploring all of the Classic quests, you earn:
Tier 2 Generic ISO x3
Tier 3 Generic ISO x16
Tier 4 Generic ISO x9
Gold x9575
Units x150
Premium Hero Crystal Shards x8000
3-Star Hero Crystal Shards x2000
Stony Core x1

For completing and exploring all of the Variant quests, you earn:
5-Star Rank 2 → 3 Gem Crystal x3
5-Star Rank 3 → 4 Gem Crystal (2015/2016 Champs Only) x3
5-Star Rank 3 → 4 Gem Crystal x1
5-Star Rank 4 → 5 Gem Crystal x1
5-Star Awakening Gem Crystal x1
5-Star Crystal x2
Tier 5 Basic Catalyst Fragments x27000
6-Star Crystal Shards x2250
5-Star Signature Stone Crystal x42
Gold x2,100,000
Units x270

NOTE: Colossus is a Final Boss and Old Man Logan is a Mini-Boss encounter in this Variant Difficulty. We have tuned the difficulty of this Content to compensate for where we believe their rework will land them in terms of difficulty. They will be updated when their rework is complete. Summoners that complete this before the rework will have the chance to fight their current kit.

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H345C

@V1PER1987 that’s what I’m hoping for. An actually difficult Variant lol.

V1PER1987

So after reading this again this caught my eye:

“This time, you’ll want to take advantage of the Composite Construction (All Tech Champions in this fight are immune to Ability Accuracy Mofification)”

First of all “Modification” is spelled wrong.
But secondly, does this mean that if we fight Domino with a tech champ we should NEVER see a critical failure?

H345C

Should have mentioned that Tech is by far my weakest class, for context.

Werewrym

This does put a smile on my face...

Kabam Miike

So after reading this again this caught my eye:

“This time, you’ll want to take advantage of the Composite Construction (All Tech Champions in this fight are immune to Ability Accuracy Mofification)”

First of all “Modification” is spelled wrong.
But secondly, does this mean that if we fight Domino with a tech champ we should NEVER see a critical failure?

I'll fix the spelling. And no, Critical Failure doesn't only activate from Ability Accuracy Reduction.

Kabam Miike

Would like confirmation of the 2015-2016 tech rank up gems, can OG Ultron AKA LOL Reward Ultron be ranked with it?

Ultron did not have a conventional release, so it won't.

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Kabam Miike

How about my question mike

Global and local nodes?

You'll have to wait to find out! Can't give everything away!

V1PER1987

So after reading this again this caught my eye:

“This time, you’ll want to take advantage of the Composite Construction (All Tech Champions in this fight are immune to Ability Accuracy Mofification)”

First of all “Modification” is spelled wrong.
But secondly, does this mean that if we fight Domino with a tech champ we should NEVER see a critical failure?
I'll fix the spelling. And no, Critical Failure doesn't only activate from Ability Accuracy Reduction.

Ok well I mean from basic things like dex and parry which sucks you get critical failure from that anyway.

Bendy

How isnt classic Ultron a 2016 champ as that's when he was as a reward in lab or am I missing other things????

Kabam Miike

How isnt classic Ultron a 2016 champ as that's when he was as a reward in lab or am I missing other things????

He did not have a regular release, and as such is not considered for any of the Year Specific Rank Up Gems. This also applies to Kang and Thanos.

Cat_Murdock

Why don't Variant quests come with Titles?

Lvernon15

Legends run details? Is there one?

There aren’t legend runs for variant

LibertyPrimeV1

Am I missing something or are most of those Nodes Buffing the Defenders, what happen to the Buff Nodes for Specific Champions on the Attacker's Side? That was the best part of Varient 2, absolutely destroying enemies or just being able to play normally with Weaker/Lesser Used Champions, this one looks like Sentinel is the only one to receive a Special Node and he's already a Great/Much Used Champion especially against Mutants... Not trying to sound negative but this just feels off or a step backwards, hope this isn't all Varient 3 will be...

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LibertyPrimeV1

Am I missing something or are most of those Nodes Buffing the Defenders, what happen to the Buff Nodes for Specific Champions on the Attacker's Side? That was the best part of Varient 2, absolutely destroying enemies or just being able to play normally with Weaker/Lesser Used Champions, this one looks like Sentinel is the only one to receive a Special Node and he's already a Great/Much Used Champion especially against Mutants... Not trying to sound negative but this just feels off or a step backwards, hope this isn't all Varient 3 will be...
This time all tech Champs are buffed that's even better in my opinion and Sentinel will be MVP I guess for most mutant defenders

Yeah but all XL Champions were Buffed last time too, Then you also had the Buff Nodes for Specific Champions.

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LibertyPrimeV1

Am I missing something or are most of those Nodes Buffing the Defenders, what happen to the Buff Nodes for Specific Champions on the Attacker's Side? That was the best part of Varient 2, absolutely destroying enemies or just being able to play normally with Weaker/Lesser Used Champions, this one looks like Sentinel is the only one to receive a Special Node and he's already a Great/Much Used Champion especially against Mutants... Not trying to sound negative but this just feels off or a step backwards, hope this isn't all Varient 3 will be...
This time all tech Champs are buffed that's even better in my opinion and Sentinel will be MVP I guess for most mutant defenders
Yeah but all XL Champions were Buffed last time too, Then you also had the Buff Nodes for Specific Champions.

(All XL Champions got Increased Buff Duration from one Global Node and every 10th Interval Hit, 10, 20, 30, 40, and so on, was Unblockable from a second Global Node)

Eb0ny-O-M4w

So...ultron sis wrong here?

No ... He was released on 2016. He just isn't one of the champions for the rank up gem.
So basically the gems work for champions released on that year, but not for everyone of them

belli300

I really discounted to hear about ultron he was the only silver lining should I pull another 3-4 tech gem smh

Bendy

Just so before we get further into say rank up gems on specfic year can we maybe get a announcement saying any champ released not in arena/ eq but in special occation sint considered in gem as that's pretty confusing even if they are special as I was hoping I could r4 my classic Ultron so much with a 2015-16 tech gem as hes the one I would do out of all the techs I have

Summoner8516

This is exciting!

Can you clarify: will the Composite and Stack nodes be global nodes for all maps? (Like the Reflect and Size Matters nodes in Variant 2.)

Thanks! Looking forward to this!

Reverend_Ruckus

“Incredible power”

bdawg923

How many paths per level though?

Duke_Silver

SENTINEL GANG PULL UP

Rougeknight87

My sparky has been on the bench a bit lately, will be good to dust him off for this! Sounds like mysterio might be good here also. Wish I had a high level sentinel though!

Bossdog55555

SENTINEL GANG PULL UP

Just took my sentinel from r1 to r3 in preparation for this variant quest. I’m 5 quests away from cavalier so I’m gonna have to decide which to spend my time on. I think I may r4 sentinel to use in this variant to get a rank up gem for my r3 voodoo (who I just duped) and hopefully an ag for my omega. Haven’t attempted a variant before, hopefully I can explore this one.

bryndenrivers

wow this suck i only have ghost, sparky, darkhawk, vision in 5* at r5 its gonna be a tough one lol