April Side Quest - Infographic for Legendary Difficulty

Cat_Murdock

Notes:

- This is for UC/Cav/TB players
- Uncollected players cannot access the highlighted Solo Objectives
- Total Objective rewards listed assumes you are ONLY running Legendary difficulty
- You can technically continue to earn path rewards without killing the boss, as they rewards will respawn on entry without refreshing (though they will refresh after a day regardless), but not doing so will prevent you from earning Solo Objectives
- Follow the subreddit/forums, Trucos’ social media or MCOCDroidDoes on YT for Daily Objective Duel Targets
- Detailed node information is available on the Forum Post: https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/256581/ain-t-no-party-like-a-plat-pool-party/p1

- FrontlineMCOC wrote a detailed guide here: https://frontlinemcoc.home.blog/2021/04/06/how-the-april-2021-side-quest-works-contest-of-realms/

TheBair123

Cat coming in clutch yet again with the infograph.

Kabam Boo

Nice looking chart, Cat! 👍

Cat_Murdock

Thanks!

Raichu626

Kabam Boo said:

Nice looking chart, Cat! 👍

You could just hire her next month to make the announcement. No words can make side quests clearer than cat's graphics do

TheBair123

Raichu626 said:

Kabam Boo said:

Nice looking chart, Cat! 👍

You could just hire her next month to make the announcement. No words can make side quests clearer than cat's graphics do

they should really just hire her for everything. i would love to see one of her mashup concepts actually get into the game as a trophy champ or something

Squirrelguy

Thanks Cat!

So, if you do not complete the boss fight and quit out, assuming you come back in on the same day, the rewards would be the same?

I guess if you receive for instance 300 6* shards for all 7 drops, it might be worth considering just quitting out and going back in to continuously farm those resources, assuming you have keys saved up. This would be forfeiting a chance at some of the T5CC, if you did this for more than 3 times.

High IQ play: save up 3 keys because there is only 25 completions required for the max T5CC rewards, then when you find what you consider to be optimal rewards, quit out before the boss and go back through 3 times, killing the boss on your final time to max your chosen rewards and still be in the running for the full completion rewards (assuming you can collect all 28 keys and are not worried about not being able to complete the quest at any point).

FadedDragon999

Looks awesome!

SummonerNR

Cat_Murdock said:

- You can technically continue to earn path rewards without killing the boss, as they rewards will respawn on entry without refreshing (though they will refresh after a day regardless), but not doing so will prevent you from earning Solo Objectives

Nice Chart.

To clarify, are you saying that quitting early (before Boss) will have all the Reward locations repopulated again same-day (even locations you already collected the first time) ? (and if so, would they be random again too ?)

Or will the locations you’ve already claimed remain vacant the next time in again if still on “same day”, and that only those rewards you didn’t capture before would be the only ones still present again on a subsequent (quit, run again same day) entry ?


Otherwise someone might think that if a top (rare) reward happened to exist, they could claim in (travel thru it) and then quit the quest, and re-enter the quest again (same day) and think that exact same (top/rare) reward will definitely be at that same spot again that next time as well (over and over, provided they had saved up multiple entry Keys). And that they could thus guarantee capture of that repeated top prize multiple times on same day. Which I DON'T think would be the case.

Squirrelguy

SummonerNR said:

Cat_Murdock said:

- You can technically continue to earn path rewards without killing the boss, as they rewards will respawn on entry without refreshing (though they will refresh after a day regardless), but not doing so will prevent you from earning Solo Objectives

Nice Chart.

To clarify, are you saying that quitting early (before Boss) will have all the Reward locations repopulated again same-day (even locations you already collected the first time) ? (and if so, would they be random again too ?)

Or will the locations you’ve already claimed remain vacant the next time in again if still on “same day”, and that only those rewards you didn’t capture before would be the only ones still present again on a subsequent (quit, run again same day) entry ?


Otherwise someone might think that if a top (rare) reward happened to exist, they could claim in (travel thru it) and then quit the quest, and re-enter the quest again (same day) and think that exact same (top/rare) reward will definitely be at that same spot again that next time as well (over and over, provided they had saved up multiple entry Keys). And that they could thus guarantee capture of that repeated top prize multiple times on same day. Which I DON'T think would be the case.

I was going off Basics #4 on the chart that said that completing the quest would refresh the reward and champion pool, although I’m kinda just hoping that’s the case, because maybe that would provide an option for all those people complaining about not having any choice on what rewards they get. This way, there would be some choice to max what rewards you wish, with still a lot of random and, to me, exciting possibilities for rewards.

Cat_Murdock

SummonerNR said:

Cat_Murdock said:

- You can technically continue to earn path rewards without killing the boss, as they rewards will respawn on entry without refreshing (though they will refresh after a day regardless), but not doing so will prevent you from earning Solo Objectives

Nice Chart.

To clarify, are you saying that quitting early (before Boss) will have all the Reward locations repopulated again same-day (even locations you already collected the first time) ? (and if so, would they be random again too ?)

Or will the locations you’ve already claimed remain vacant the next time in again if still on “same day”, and that only those rewards you didn’t capture before would be the only ones still present again on a subsequent (quit, run again same day) entry ?


Otherwise someone might think that if a top (rare) reward happened to exist, they could claim in (travel thru it) and then quit the quest, and re-enter the quest again (same day) and think that exact same (top/rare) reward will definitely be at that same spot again that next time as well (over and over, provided they had saved up multiple entry Keys). And that they could thus guarantee capture of that repeated top prize multiple times on same day. Which I DON'T think would be the case.

Yup, this is what was clarified to me yesterday. The rewards will repopulate in the same location, even if you’ve picked them up, as long as 1) the boss wasn’t killed 2) the day doesn’t restart. So if you see a couple 6* shards on your path, you could pick them up, quit out early, and go in to pick them up again provided you have enough keys within the time frame. Doing this sacrifices your ability to earn the completion Solo objectives if you do it too many times.

Hendross

Can Kabam please commission @Cat_Murdock monthly for these infographics. They are infinitely more clear and better explained than any amount of News/Announcement write-up by staffers.

SummonerNR

Cat_Murdock said:

Yup, this is what was clarified to me yesterday. The rewards will repopulate in the same location, even if you’ve picked them up, as long as 1) the boss wasn’t killed 2) the day doesn’t restart. So if you see a couple 6* shards on your path, you could pick them up, quit out early, and go in to pick them up again provided you have enough keys within the time frame. Doing this sacrifices your ability to earn the completion Solo objectives if you do it too many times.

@Cat_Murdock ,
This seems to be contradicted by a more recent Post by @Josh2507 (and Reply/Confirmation by Kabam Boo) regarding the ability to do this.

So, did Kabam maybe realize this could be a potential exploit (or else just something unintended) and maybe go in and change that original possibility (even if Kabam had initially mentioned to you that you should be able to do that) ?

In that post by Josh today, they did NOT see the items again after picking them up originally, quitting, and then re-entering within same day.

Kabam Boo

Please allow me to clarify that if you quit the Quest half way through and used another Key to access it in the same day, you will see the exact same rewards in the exact same spots as the first time. However, the reward items will only renew (new set) if you defeat the Boss or if you enter on a different day. Hope this makes more sense now. Sorry about any initial confusion.

SummonerNR

Thanks Boo, but actually still leaves the question, since Josh in his post did NOT see them there again after re-entering, as to whether he SHOULD HAVE seen them again ? (and why he didn’t ?)

Kabam Boo

I see. We'll look into that. @Josh2507 could you please let us know what rewards were on the path before? What did you collect before?

Kabam Boo

Update to above:
We have identified the issue and will get this fixed as soon as possible. Hang in there! Thanks for your patience.

Cat_Murdock

Update: https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/259290/correction-regarding-contest-of-realms-side-quest#latest

"Earlier this week, we informed you that if you do not complete the Contest of Realms Side Quest and quit the Quest without beating the Boss, entering the quest again would result in you being able to collect the same rewards again.

Due to a bug, this is not the case. If you have collected the rewards once, you will not be able to collect them again. This means that the only way to refresh rewards in this quest is to complete the quest (by beating the boss), or wait for it to refresh at 10 am PT.

We apologize for this inconvenience and are currently assessing how this may have affected players."

Pulyaman

I thought it sounded too good to be true. People could essentially give up the t5cc and go for good amounts of T5cc, T2a or 6 star shards depending on what you wanted. That said, I wish Kabam would fix the bug and make is work as earlier because it actually it would mean a decision on the rewards instead of pure rng.

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SummonerNR

Final Half of a Day to go.

Cat's Infographic, for those procrastinators out there.

(other issue regarding empty reward drop paths has been since explained more numerous times after this. Have to beat the Boss from now on, last day, in order for any previous run claimed reward spots to refresh and become available (random drops) again next time run).