M.O.D.O.K.’S Lab Grand Re-Opening!

M.O.D.O.K. is re-opening his Laboratory for Summoners to test the limits of his new device, the Randomizers, once again!

Roll the dice and test yourself against a number of completely random Opponents with their own set of random Buffs! Beware, strategist M.O.D.O.K., satisfied with your previous performance in his Lab, has levelled up the Challenge for you! Remember to use M.O.D.O.K.’s remarkable Randomizer to spin the wheel again if you are not content with your set of Buffs.

If you need a refresher on how M.O.D.O.K.’s Lab Works, take a look at our forum post from the first time they ran, but read on to find out the differences!

The Lab will remain open for experiments between February 28th at 2 PM PST until March 26th at 3 AM PDT.

M.O.D.O.K.’s Lab will feature a few changes in this round:

Duration/Frequency
- 12 hours cycles instead of 8
- 1 entry limit per difficulty (exactly the same as before)

Auto Fight will be turned ON.

1 more General Pool Buff was added on the nodes of Medium Difficulty.

ALL the Champions will be randomized from every Class on every node instead of 1 Class per node.

Final fight in each quest is tuned to be a Boss fight.
- The Final Boss fight in Expert difficulty is a 6-Star Champion.

How hard are the fights in this round of craziness?

Easy - Mini Bosses
- 2-Star Champions
- Rank 1
- Level 10
- Signature 0

Easy - Final Boss
- 3-Star Champion
- Rank 1
- Level 5
- Signature 10

Medium - Mini Bosses
- 3-Star Champions
- Rank 3
- Level 30
- Signature 10

Medium - Final Boss
- 4-Star Champion
- Rank 2
- Level 20
- Signature 50

Hard - Mini Bosses
- 4-Star Champions
- Rank 4
- Level 40
- Signature 50

Hard - Final Boss
- 5-Star Champion
- Rank 3
- Level 45
- Signature 100

Expert - Mini Bosses
- 5-Star Champions
- Rank 4
- Level 55
- Signature 200

Expert - Final Boss
- 6-Star Champion
- Rank 3
- Level 35
- Signature 200

Were the Random Buffs victim to the twisted mind of MODOK, and adjusted as well?

Not really! A lot of the Buffs are what they were used to be. An exception to this is the new Final Boss Boosts:

Medium Final Boss HP and Attack Boost Pool
- Has Champion Boosts from 25%-50%

Hard Final Boss HP and Attack Boost Pool
- Has Champion Boosts from 75%-100%

Expert Final Boss HP and Attack Boost Pool
- Has Champion Boosts from 150%-200%

General Buff Pool

Consists of most Buffs available in the game, with some exceptions such as:

- Buffs that only work on one specific Character and Class specific Buffs (such as War Machine’s “Second Line” Buff or “Mystic Wrath”)
- Incredibly high HP or Attack Buffs (nothing above 200%)
- Degeneration (3.3% per second and 1.67% per second)

Buffs on a per-difficulty basis, on each fight:

Easy
- 1 General Pool Buff

Medium
- 1 Medium HP/Attack Pool Buff
- 2 General Pool Buffs

Hard
- 1 Hard HP/Attack Pool Buff
- 3 General Pool Buffs

Expert
- 1 Special 3 Activated (Permanent)
- 1 Expert HP/Attack Pool Buff
- 4 General Pool Buffs

Here’s where you can get more of M.O.D.O.K.’s precious Randomizers:

- 8x in a welcome message on February 28th, when M.O.D.O.K.’s Lab goes live.
- 8x per day in the Game Store for 2500 Gold each.
- 1x in each Final Boss fight of each difficulty of M.O.D.O.K.'s Lab (8x per 24 hours, maximum)

No energy cost but LIMITED ENTRY!

It still costs 0 energy per step to play M.O.D.O.K.’s Lab, however, you will only be able to enter each difficulty once every 12 hours.

IF YOU ENTER A QUEST AND QUIT OUT, YOU WILL LOSE ALL WITHHELD ITEMS AND YOUR ENTRY WILL NOT BE REFUNDED. This means if you enter, decide you want to play something else, and quit, you’ll have to wait until your entries reset (every 12 hours) to enter again.

REWARDS - M.O.D.O.K’s GENEROSITY

Below is a list of what you can expect as a rewards for each completion of M.O.D.O.K.’s Lab. Keep in mind that since this is 1 path, completion will also equal exploration. Also keep in mind this is per instance, meaning the below rewards can be earned a maximum of 2 times a day for the duration of the event.

Summoners must update to the latest version of the game to be able to partake in MODOK's Lab.

Enjoy the madness!

Comments

Speeds80

You guys maybe underrating the t2a shards, those things are in high demand

Imran

If u don't like it, simple don't do it. I love these event. If u can auto fight hard difficulty then ur roster ready for expert difficulty. If u can't auto fight hard then patience needed, level up.

weavile

a positive node: at least this time I didn't face those 5.3 node that make everything but one class worthless and make every fight last for eternity

LordBaldyBald

weavile wrote: »

a positive node: at least this time I didn't face those 5.3 node that make everything but one class worthless and make every fight last for eternity

Safeguard node is still possible

LordBaldyBald

Why can we only buy 8 randomizers with gold throughout the ENTIRETY of the event but they expire within a day? Why not have them refresh each week or every 12 hours but have it so you can only buy 4?

Gwendoline

LordNegrotron wrote: »

Why can we only buy 8 randomizers with gold throughout the ENTIRETY of the event but they expire within a day? Why not have them refresh each week or every 12 hours but have it so you can only buy 4?

They look to be refreshed every 24 hours. So you can buy 8 every 24 hours, just like last time we could buy 12 every 24 hours.

DarkestDestroyer

GroundedWisdom wrote: »

DarkestDestroyer wrote: »

GroundedWisdom wrote: »

The Nodes are part of the difficulty. If it was straight Fights, I think there would be less people taking issue. The problem with these things is when it's amped up too much, a Daily Event becomes a daily source of frustration and the Rewards themselves aren't worth the effort to accumulate. I think it needs to be more accessible.

But the key is, it’s an event.

It isn’t staying forever, just 30 days of something new (well not so new as it was here a couple month back)

You can get easy nodes too, even ones that just malfunction and do nothing.

People beg and plea to have a mode where they can face up against champs with specific nodes too, well this is that in some form too, plus the nodes can be changed at any time if too hard.

I don’t like the idea that the rewards should be more accessible just because you find it tricky, or anyone. If it’s too hard, play the other 3 difficulties.

Not forced to play it either.

You missed the point of what I was saying entirely.

I didn’t, your complaining about the difficulty aren’t you?

CptXXBEaNFLicK5

Waste of time for sure. Super bad rewards for the difficulty

DaywalkerUK

If you have the roster and/or skills you can clear expert in 15 mins without using any resources and at zero energy cost. If you don't you can decide whether the effort/cost is worth the reward. If you decide it's not that's fine, It's called choice and it appears that some people are so wrapped up in the game they have forgotten what that is.

Scopeotoe987

We need dimensional rifts asap.

bmbmbm2334

Increase difficulty for same rewards than last time is a waste of time and resources. You need to call this uncollected difficulty and not expert.

Ultimatheory

To me while this challenge is about skill and roster first, the major underlying factor is also consistency. You beat Act 5 100%? Beat LOL? Congrats but you could have ample time to save items and units to get through those one time without having to go back to them ever again. This event tests you every 12 hours though. Those who have to use items every once in a while most certainly will run out of items before long. However, those who prove they can consistently use their skill and rosters to make it through are the ones who will be rewarded without resource constraint.

In the end this is probably the biggest challenge so far in the game for players not just because of the difficulty but because of the frequency. Those complaining about it taking too long are just making excuses; it takes less than 20 minutes to run both Expert difficulties per day and certainly takes less time than a boss rush per run. If you decide not to do it and get the rewards that's fine, but others with skill, roster, and consistency will be rewarded while you aren't. And yes the cumulative rewards are worth it.

LordBaldyBald

Gwendoline wrote: »

LordNegrotron wrote: »

Why can we only buy 8 randomizers with gold throughout the ENTIRETY of the event but they expire within a day? Why not have them refresh each week or every 12 hours but have it so you can only buy 4?

They look to be refreshed every 24 hours. So you can buy 8 every 24 hours, just like last time we could buy 12 every 24 hours.

Lol i swear mine didn’t reset for about 3 days. But they’re refreshed now so I can’t really argue with you. Thank you for the info!

Gwendoline

LordNegrotron wrote: »

Gwendoline wrote: »

LordNegrotron wrote: »

Why can we only buy 8 randomizers with gold throughout the ENTIRETY of the event but they expire within a day? Why not have them refresh each week or every 12 hours but have it so you can only buy 4?

They look to be refreshed every 24 hours. So you can buy 8 every 24 hours, just like last time we could buy 12 every 24 hours.

Lol i swear mine didn’t reset for about 3 days. But they’re refreshed now so I can’t really argue with you. Thank you for the info!

I don’t buy them myself so I wouldn’t know, but it doesn’t surprise me to hear something went wrong. Glad it’s fixed for you.

Rahuljain

I am happy with 360 tier 2 alpha shards.

Sylwek94

Jest super

HawkFanDanTheMan

Why was the difficulty increase necessary? Mid tier players who were once able to get 5* shards in past events are now excluded from doing so.

They took an interesting and potentially fun concept in randomizers and ran it to the ground for a lot of players.

You won’t find a lot of players below 200k who can take out 30k medusas and spideys... It’s gonna be a long month

Ebbtide

Special 1 lock was not working correctly just now. Not only could I not get 1 full bar of power, it would show the Lock symbol, but not trigger regeneration for me from Willpower. The only other buff/debuffs being applied in the fight were Limber, Aggression: Regeneration (which was very lame since I could not use Specials with this error), and Stupefy [along with the standard Champion Boost and Special 3 option].

Mr_Otter

ITS NOT THE NODES! You can change those

It’s tbe champions you don’t like fighting…

Zeke_the_Xbot

Really do not understand who is running the show over there but how does content get released with such disruptive bugs and a hot fix not released. Just experienced the nodes reset glitch against a 6* Crazy buffed Dormammu seriously?!?!!? just tell me why. You couldn't at least remove the BS champs from the pool. This is an example of the rewards not matching the difficulty.

Zeke_the_Xbot

And another one tried to get a last minute run in expert I know there is 12 hours to do it how did I try last minute whatever. How did I get stuck with a 6* Super Charged Mephisto with 168K Health and armor buffed so high that I was tickling him. Again Difficulty does not match the rewards.

Zeke_the_Xbot

Zeke_the_Xbot wrote: »

And another one tried to get a last minute run in expert I know there is 12 hours to do it how did I try last minute whatever. How did I get stuck with a 6* Super Charged Mephisto with 168K Health and armor buffed so high that I was tickling him. Again Difficulty does not match the rewards.

Didn’t manage to finish the fight before reset by the way

Gwendoline

Zeke_the_Xbot wrote: »

Zeke_the_Xbot wrote: »

And another one tried to get a last minute run in expert I know there is 12 hours to do it how did I try last minute whatever. How did I get stuck with a 6* Super Charged Mephisto with 168K Health and armor buffed so high that I was tickling him. Again Difficulty does not match the rewards.

Didn’t manage to finish the fight before reset by the way

If you leave stuff until the last minute that's on you. That the lab can take some time shouldn't come as a surprise by now.

Zeke_the_Xbot

Gwendoline wrote: »

Zeke_the_Xbot wrote: »

Zeke_the_Xbot wrote: »

And another one tried to get a last minute run in expert I know there is 12 hours to do it how did I try last minute whatever. How did I get stuck with a 6* Super Charged Mephisto with 168K Health and armor buffed so high that I was tickling him. Again Difficulty does not match the rewards.

Didn’t manage to finish the fight before reset by the way

If you leave stuff until the last minute that's on you. That the lab can take some time shouldn't come as a surprise by now.

Sorry I’m not glued to the game. 12 hours is long time for some and not long enough for others. Stop being an apologist this is such a lazy and blundered bonus quest that wasn’t thought out thouroughly. I mean honestly how can reward quality differ so much between these special events yet they operate so differently. Plus the Labs is regarded as the worst of all the bonus quests we have had to date and for them to rehash it is a disconnect between developer and community.

HawkFanDanTheMan

The difficulty would be fine in the expert event if the rewards were scaled up with it. Unfortunately it doesn’t which leads me to think the only reason the difficulty was increased is to weed out mid tier players. These folks were able to gain rewards from past expert events, but either can’t anymore, or they have to use up their inventory.

Modoks lab needs to chill. Hope this doesn’t become a normal thing for the sake of future players. It would slow down their progression, unless of course that’s what you’re aiming for

Gwendoline

Zeke_the_Xbot wrote: »

Gwendoline wrote: »

Zeke_the_Xbot wrote: »

Zeke_the_Xbot wrote: »

And another one tried to get a last minute run in expert I know there is 12 hours to do it how did I try last minute whatever. How did I get stuck with a 6* Super Charged Mephisto with 168K Health and armor buffed so high that I was tickling him. Again Difficulty does not match the rewards.

Didn’t manage to finish the fight before reset by the way

If you leave stuff until the last minute that's on you. That the lab can take some time shouldn't come as a surprise by now.

Sorry I’m not glued to the game. 12 hours is long time for some and not long enough for others. Stop being an apologist this is such a lazy and blundered bonus quest that wasn’t thought out thouroughly. I mean honestly how can reward quality differ so much between these special events yet they operate so differently. Plus the Labs is regarded as the worst of all the bonus quests we have had to date and for them to rehash it is a disconnect between developer and community.

I’m not talking about rewards or difficulty, I’m talking about not being able to finish in time. I am not able to do all of them because of the 12 hour window. Every sunday night I go to bed before the reset, since I have to get up freackisly early for work. In the middle of the night I have to get up to feed my baby, same as in the early morning. I then have to leave and by the time I can play, it either just reset or is about to. I choose not to stay up until the reset time, I choose not to do it in the night when I feed the baby and I choose not to get up for it earlier.

When the lab was on an 8 hour schedual I did do them in the middle of the night, because they didn’t take to long then and I could do them without fully waking up. Now I can’t so I don’t. I do those I have time for and leave the others alone (here and there I have a busy day and I dislike having full energy so sometimes the lab gets ignored if favor of event quests).

If you choose to leave it up to the last minute, you can’t blame Kabam for that. In no way am I an apologist, but if you go into a quest so late you might not have enough time to finish it, that’s completely on you and there isn’t anyone else to blame. Stop blaming Kabam for your problems. You choose not to be clued to the game, great. Seriously good for you. You don’t have to do them all. Pick those you have the time for and leave them alone when you don’t hve the time. Or sacrifice a different part of the game to spend the little time you do hve in the labs if you find the rewards worth it. Don’t get mad at me or Kabam because of how you manage your own time. The statement I made “if you leave stuff until the last minute, that’s on you” is true. Not just for ingame stuff, but for life in genral.

Bosley

Why isn't there a "Play Next" button in Modoks lab when you finish a path? Our only choices are back to quests or open crystals. This adds time and inputs needed to get back into the next path. Please consider streamlining this in the future KABAM.

FPC3

I found a very annoying bug in MODOK's Lab. I was doing a fight, used a lot of randomizers because I was getting crappy luck, and switched to my stash to collect extras I had there. Upon going back into the Lab to try and get a new set, the node had reverted back to the very first set that it had when I first got to it. Since I was going to re-roll it anyway, I didn't care.

But today, it happened again. I re-rolled a set 4 times and got one I thought I could handle. It turned out that I couldn't, so after I died, I re-rolled a couple more times and got one I felt good about. I switched to my stash to collect more, and when I came back to the lab, the node was reset to the very first random set (which included 2 different Degens and Buffet).

So basically, this thing is wasting my randomizers.

gohard123

Zeke_the_Xbot wrote: »

Plus the Labs is regarded as the worst of all the bonus quests we have had to date and for them to rehash it is a disconnect between developer and community.

dont know what community you are talking about but i enjoyed MODOKs lab the last time, so did a lot of people in the previous MODOKs lab discussion thread.

gohard123

Zeke_the_Xbot wrote: »

Sorry I’m not glued to the game. 12 hours is long time for some and not long enough for others. Stop being an apologist this is such a lazy and blundered bonus quest that wasn’t thought out thouroughly.

Now this is just a lazy argument. "sorry i'm not glued to the game". That is exactly like crying that you missed the arena cutoff because other people spent time grinding while you "aren't glued to the game". Get off your self righteous horse and argue with common sense.