Lose Yourself to the Abyss!

Summoner!

Since The Contest began, an extreme danger has lurked around every corner, ready to prey on those seeking a true challenge…

First, The Realm of Legends was created by the Collector, with the intention that no Summoner would pass through it. The days grew into months before the first Legend of The Contest was able to claim victory over the Realm. Now, this relic of the early days of The Contest plays its role as a test of strength against the one-armed Assassin.

Then, seeking to trivialize his brother’s accomplishment, The Grandmaster created the Labyrinth of Legends to test the skill of the Summoners of The Battlerealm. His determination to break the Summoner’s spirit was met by our Summoners determination to best the Grandmaster’s game.

Now, a dark presence, formerly unknown to all, has opened up their corner of the Battlerealm. Dare to delve into this pocket of despair and dread, where hope goes to die.

Welcome to The Abyss of Legends!

The Abyss of Legends is the hardest content ever seen in The Contest.

This is the new Everest of content in the game. With each addition such as Realm, Labyrinth, and now the Abyss, the intention is to create content that Summoners will grow into in the coming months and years, and not content that can be fully explored in an afternoon.

When Realm of Legends was introduced, it was several months before all of the secrets and tools were uncovered to beat it. This is our goal for The Abyss.

Doesn’t sound so bad? I like your optimism. Shame it won’t do any good here.

Firstly, to enter the Abyss, you must have earned the Cavalier designation. If you have not yet been able to complete Act 6, Chapter 1, The Abyss is being locked away for your own safety.

Like the Labyrinth, The Abyss has an extensive, twisting map, with multiple paths and a locked camera, preventing you from scouting ahead. Unlike Labyrinth’s 2 Global Buffs, Abyss has 7.

Bear in mind, Summoner, the “Mark of the Labyrinth” buff contained multiple smaller effects encapsulated in one single buff. The Abyss breaks all of these effects into different buffs to allow the space to better describe them.

Additionally, many of your encounters will introduce new abilities to Champions that you are not familiar with. Be sure to read up on these every time you come across an encounter.
Rewards

Besides the standard Completion and Mastery rewards, the Abyss has 5 Abyssal Chests scattered throughout. Once claimed the chest will not respawn. Though these are rare, each one contains great treasures.

Legends of the Abyss

The first 20 to 100% explore the Abyss will receive a duped 6* Thanos (2x 6-Star Thanos).
The first 300 to 100% explore the Abyss will earn a Legends title.
The first 300 to 100% explore the Abyss will also receive a 5* Kang & a 6-Star Awakening Gem Crystal.
The first 300 will also get Legends points, as detailed in the Legends Leaderboard section below.

Yes, you read that correctly - first to Explore. Unlike our event quest Legends Runs, where the best times in a given window receive Legends titles and rewards, Abyss Legends are first-come, first-served.

We will be periodically (after the first few weeks, about once a month) checking to see who completed Abyss, review their play, and award Legends.

Abyss of Legends - Legends Points
#1 -300 Points
Top 20 - 250 Points
Top 100 - 100 Points
Top 200 - 75 Points
Top 300 - 50 Points

Our Vow

Let it be known, Summoner, that using any nefarious exploits, cheats, or other manners of manipulation will not be tolerated in The Abyss, and will be dealt with swiftly.

All those that make their way through the Abyss will be reviewed to ensure their legitimacy before any Legends prizes are awarded.

The Abyss does not deal in second chances, and will banish forever those who would attempt to break its rules.
The wait is almost over…
The long awaited, and fabled follow up, to the Labyrinth of Legends will be here on January 22nd at 10AM PST.

Heed these words, Summoner! The Abyss is not a challenge to be trifled with. We do not expect anyone to conquer the challenge any time soon. You will fail multiple times, but you can use those first attempts to acquaint yourself with the challenge ahead before you commit to taking on the darkness of The Abyss of Legends!

Comments

rwhack

Let’s summarize what the abyss means:

-Lcoked camera: its a gotcha money grab. Developers need to remember games are supposed to be fun/challenging. This is just a money grab. Endless ways to make it stupid hard.

-Rewards for degree of difficulty and expense-no thanks

-Heroes that do high damage or need ramp up...nerfs them. Makes a 6 star proxima dupe more useless than ever. Gilly 2099....good luck. No ramp up and 240 hits and you’re dead. Real loser here: acquiring specialized champs. Abyss nerfs them all.

Honestly this is a fail on several levels. Champs acquired to do difficult content and long fights are nerfed to the ground. The rewards seem pretty poor. If these are perceived as good by kabam expect ridiculously expensive “deals” and slow progress in game. Locked camera takes all strategy away. You don’t get to plan. You get the joy of spending!

Really disappointing on several levels.

RagamugginGunner

If Guillotine 2099 starts the fight with a 100 hit combo meter, how will this interact with the number of Skirmish charges on the opponent? If this were to instantly remove 100 Skirmish charges from the opponent, Guillotine 2099 would be pretty much unusable.

Can someone clear this up please?

im sure that she'll start with the normal charges. getting them down to 5% to get those 100 charges is gonna be really expensive

Greywarden

all this talk about listening to the community and you still lock the camera on a map lol.....

So out of touch in those regards, locking the camera doesn’t “set the mood” for a labyrinth type experience. This just makes people rely on 3rd parties to keep track of things in this ridiculous game. I had a 3rd party map on my phone for labyrinth exploration for YEARS, making content for a MOBILE game where those kinds of lengths need to be taken is a bit much.

EMKAY75

Damage Cap, Evade, locked Maps, big Health Pools... everyone calls out for hard content and THE ABYSS should not be done in 1 Weekend. The rewards are awesome, so it‘s all fine for me. LABYRINTH was hard content too and I want something like that to be done in Months, not Days for exploration.

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DTMelodicMetal

You know, with all the damage caps, I have to wonder why Proxima existed in the first place. Seriously, we’re obviously never going to be allowed to do her full damage potential at this point, so why bother🤷🏻‍♂️

I’m having similar thoughts. Even among the merc/pilot community, Proxima is almost never used. She’s not an easy ramp up/button mash champion like Aegon. She forces you to take calculated risks that pay off with the biggest damage in the game or get her KO. Her terrible block proficiency further adds to her high risk high reward style of playing. If not the abyss, when will we get content where Proxima completing all of her missions makes her even a top 3 option for endgame content?

That being said, the far more important topic that others have brought up is the abyss being piloted the same way 80%+ of Act 6 legends runs have been. If the warning about permanent bans are legitimate and unique device identifier or some other detection means are used to monitor abyss runs, then screw my complaints about the damage cap. For once it would be nice to see the hall of legends for endgame content not contain so many accounts that have been sold or are owned by players that can’t finish map 5 playing the game theirselves.

RagamugginGunner

This looks like the initial clear may be worth it just to get the t5cc (random of course) but cost to 100% for two more random t5cc doesn't make much sense to push for.

Jaina97

Looking at the hit cap I’m kinda interested to see how the best of the best quake players do
Quaking a 4m health pool?
I'm excited but dont see the viability
Ponders kiryu video incoming to prove me wrong

It's a massive pain in the ass. I quaked labyrinth Magik for lack of better options and my head was throbbing for an hour after. Do not try this at home.

Onmix

I might go for initial as well. Just to get the R3. And I’ll stop for a long time after that.

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LeNoirFaineant

This is the worst content released in the game. Rewards the big spenders in the game, as always. Disgusted by this

That's a little much. Being disgusted by this just means you think they should never release a new "hardest content in the game" quest. No one but spenders got through LOL right away. No one could do ROL right away and the first clears were very expensive. It's one thing to object to aspects of the quest but if anything that most players would have to spend to get through is disgusting then they can never make an ultimate quest that stays relevant for a long time.

Raiser

Good content for the future... can't wait to see the whole map. cheers

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Alrulz

After 240 hits, would you be able to heavy chain in the corner, like variant DPX? Or would they have time to throw an L3 between hits?

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LeNoirFaineant

After 240 hits, would you be able to heavy chain in the corner, like variant DPX? Or would they have time to throw an L3 between hits?
they go unstoppable/unblockable and it may not be 240 hits. Most likely 360 hits

Why would it be 360?

Alrulz

A. I know they go unblockable/unstoppable. So does DPX (unblockable + mighty charge)

B. Most people in this thread agree 240 is the right number

C. Regardless of the actual number, the question I had was would you be able to lock them in the corner, or would the opponent be able to throw an L3 between hits? Since DPX doesn’t use specials

RoninMan

A. I know they go unblockable/unstoppable. So does DPX (unblockable + mighty charge)

B. Most people in this thread agree 240 is the right number

C. Regardless of the actual number, the question I had was would you be able to lock them in the corner, or would the opponent be able to throw an L3 between hits? Since DPX doesn’t use specials

Do you not understand unstoppable? If they’re unstoppable, you can’t trap them because they would just pummel you to death without flinching.

Alrulz

Obviously you haven’t seen any of the videos showing how to heavy chain variant DPX in the corner

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Onmix

It’s not like that bro. It’s based on challenge rating and for R5/R2 it’s 120 and it clearly states it’s the same number for the second charges as it is for the first. It has nothing to do with LOL

RoninMan

A. I know they go unblockable/unstoppable. So does DPX (unblockable + mighty charge)

B. Most people in this thread agree 240 is the right number

C. Regardless of the actual number, the question I had was would you be able to lock them in the corner, or would the opponent be able to throw an L3 between hits? Since DPX doesn’t use specials
B. I dont agree because the logic doesnt fit. 2nd enrage timer in LOL has twice the duration than 1st. Kabam is technically replacing time with hits so it should go 120->240 = 360 hits in total

Your logic doesn’t fit. Read the nodes again. The defender has as many skirmisher charges as the attacker’s challenger rating. Once those are gone the defender gains warfare charges equal to the number of skirmish charges.

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LeNoirFaineant

Obviously you haven’t seen any of the videos showing how to heavy chain variant DPX in the corner

Obviously you didn't understand those videos. DPX is unblockable but not unstoppable except for the medium dash which isn't a factor in that situation. Also, he can't throw specials, whereas the Abyss champs can.

Alrulz

Anyways, you’re missing the point. My comment was

Once the charges are used up(regardless of the number), and the opponent goes unblockable/unstoppable, could you heavy chain in the corner(similar to variant DPX) or would they have time to use their L3

LeNoirFaineant

Anyways, you’re missing the point. My comment was

Once the charges are used up(regardless of the number), and the opponent goes unblockable/unstoppable, could you heavy chain in the corner(similar to variant DPX) or would they have time to use their L3

They could use SP1, SP2 or SP3, or they could just wreck you with unstoppable.

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ECOMA

Obviously you haven’t seen any of the videos showing how to heavy chain variant DPX in the corner

Hes only unstoppable on charges if trappe

Anyways, you’re missing the point. My comment was

Once the charges are used up(regardless of the number), and the opponent goes unblockable/unstoppable, could you heavy chain in the corner(similar to variant DPX) or would they have time to use their L3

No they would unstoppable and sp3 bash you in a second flat. Dpx is a very different thing