Introducing Alliance Quest Modifiers

Greetings Summoner,

The challenges of our Alliance Quests continue to evolve and change! Starting November 15th a new feature will be coming to Alliance Quests!

Alliance Quest Modifiers

Alliance Quest Modifiers are optional Buffs that Alliance Leaders and Officers can add to Alliance Quest Maps to increase their difficulty, and earn bonus rewards for completing the Map.

Alliance Quest modifiers are meant to act as a stepping stone for mid-tier Alliances to graduate to higher difficulties, and give higher-tier Alliances new content to engage with.

How do they work?

When an Alliance Quest Event is running, Alliance Leaders and/or Officers will have the option to select a Global Buff that will affect all encounters on the Map. They can choose a Buff for each Battlegroup that is participating.

An Alliance will always have the option to not choose a Global Buff, however they will surrender any bonus Points they would have gained from participating in this feature.

There are three tiers of Buffs: Normal, Heroic, or Master. Normal Buffs are best suited for Maps 1-3, Heroic and Master for Maps 4-7.
Each tier contains 5 Buffs, enough for one Buff per day of an Alliance Quest series. You can look forward to more Buffs being added in the future.

These Alliance Quest Modifier Buffs increase the difficulty of the Alliance Quest Map, but Alliances are rewarded with ”Honor” and earn bonus Points when completing Maps with these Buffs selected.

Honor and Bonus Points?

Honor Points are Points that Alliances gain from completing Maps in Alliance Quest Events when they have chosen an Alliance Quest Modifier. Using a Modifier that you haven't used this week will earn your Alliance more points each Quest. Additionally, the higher difficulty Map you run, the more points the Modifiers will earn.

The greater variety of Modifiers you use throughout the series, the more Honor Points you will earn. To reach the highest Honor Milestones, you’ll need to use all 5 Alliance Quest Modifiers throughout the series on Map 7.

Bonus Points are additional Points an Alliance earns for choosing Alliance Quest Modifiers that go towards Rank Rewards.

The Buffs
Normal:

+45% Armor: The Defender gains +45% Armor Rating from the start of the fight
Sadist - 1: This Defender gains +10% Attack for each Debuff on them.
Opportunist - 1: This Defender gains +10% Attack for each Buff on them.
Physical Resistance 40%:The Defender gains +40% Physical Resistance Rating from the start of the fight
Plagued Mind -1: Attacker's Power is drained every 30 seconds.

Heroic:

Soft Guard - 1: Each Blocked attack reduces Block Proficiency by 2%, up to a maximum of 80% reduction.
Feats of Power: When the Defender is above 1 Bar of Power, gain a Fury Buff. When the Defender is above 2 Bars of Power, gain a Precision Buff. When the Defender is at 3 Bars of Power, gain a Cruelty Buff.
Role Reversal: The Class Relationships on this Node are reversed.
Optimist: Gains Fury, Armor Up, and Health Steal as long as they remain below 25% HP.
Pessimist: Gains Fury, Armor Up, and Health Steal as long as they remain above 75% HP.

Master:

Brute Force: If the Attacker hasn't landed a hit in 6 seconds they begin to Degenerate, losing 100% of their total Health over 30 seconds. Landing a hit removes the Degeneration and resets the timer. The strength of this Degeneration is affected by Class Relationships. (150% over 30 seconds with Class Dis. and 50% over 30 seconds with Class Adv.).
Dismay: Whenever the Attacker loses their highest achieved Combo in a fight, they gain a Degeneration Debuff that deals damage every second equal to 10 times the lost Combo.
Hurt Locker: Using the same type of Special Attack twice in a row gives the Attacker a Delayed Blast charge for {2} seconds which may be removed by landing a Heavy Attack. If the Blast expires, the Attacker takes {1}% of their Health as direct damage.
Bane: Whichever Champion lands the first hit will place a Curse on the opposing Champion which deals {1}% of their current Health as Direct Damage per second. Whenever a Champion with the Curse strikes the other Champion or if the Curse has been on the same Champion for {2} seconds, it passes to the other Champion.
Special Delivery: The Attacker begins the fight with {0} Combo charges which are lost with each landed basic attack. Launching a special attack resets the charges & if all charges run out, the Attacker suffers Degen equal to {1}% of the Defender's attack rating over {2} seconds and then the charges are reset.

Honor Milestones
The Top Honor Milestone can only be earned by using all 5 Master Alliance Quest modifiers in a single series on 5x Map 7.

Alliance Quest Modifiers are a completely optional addition to Alliance Quests, and will be available on November 15th, as well as an update to the Glory Store and Rank Rewards, and an update to many Alliance Quest Mini-Bosses! More information on those are coming soon.

Comments

Lt_Magnum_1

Are the honor milestones peak milestones?

TyEdge

@Kabam Miike can we get some explanation of how these points are accumulated so that map 5/6 alliances can see what this really means and plan for launch?

Can you also confirm that the buffs don’t affect your AQ score, only how much honor you receive?

SummonerNR

Yes, looks like Milestones are Peak Milestones. No way you would be getting each of them as you go along.

And thought the buffs “would” affect AQ Points for each fight (but that the strength PI of the nodes would be the same).

Raganator

Just another example of Kabam running out of ideas and lacking in creativity. "I know! Let's just add more nodes onto content that already exists and further suck resources from players."

Zzuccizz

Will this be in addition to buffs already in place on maps we’re accustomed to? I.E.,poison, bleed etc. meaning running map 5, these buffs will be in addition to buffs already in used on these maps, not in place of

xNig

Will this be in addition to buffs already in place on maps we’re accustomed to? I.E.,poison, bleed etc. meaning running map 5, these buffs will be in addition to buffs already in used on these maps, not in place of

Yes. They’re global buffs to be added, meaning on top of the current nodes.

Tbh, almost all of them aren’t a big deal except maybe Bane and Dismay, which could punish players quite badly especially towards the later days.

Well, it’s slightly more difficult fights for better rewards. Good for those who find AQ pretty stale and boring (which is what I think they were trying to address).

DNA3000

Just another example of Kabam running out of ideas and lacking in creativity. "I know! Let's just add more nodes onto content that already exists and further suck resources from players."

Until we see the implementation I will reserve final judgment, but adding the ability for the players to customize AQ difficulty is actually a huge win for the players overall. I would say it is very likely that most alliances are "in between" maps, which is to say the map they are currently doing is relatively easy for them, but the next higher map is too hard for them. If you can't make the jump upward to the next map you're just trapped between maps. With this kind of system, players can choose to ratchet upward the difficulty of the map they are currently doing to get more points and more rewards without having to jump to the next map, if they aren't ready or simply don't want to.

The people that are saying this is bad for "the players" are basically saying that giving "the players" options is bad, if some players use the option and others don't, and the ones that do get some advantage out of using them. That's ludicrous. Letting alliances adjust their own AQ difficulty AND get more rewards for that effort is the very definition of a player-centric game feature.

It is very possible that my alliance, that is currently running way more casual than in the past, will actually fall in ranking when this feature is added. But I'm still going to try to see how I can use it to our advantage, I still think we'll end up getting more milestone rewards overall, and even if we don't directly benefit from the feature I would still support it on principle, because giving players options is in general a net improvement, even if it doesn't directly benefit me personally.

The choice to add the nodes is ultimately your officers. If they add nodes that "suck resources" from you, that's their fault not the game's fault.

NinjaTuc

@Kabam Miike

Can we get some more info on this please how will it affect map 6x5?

Will you the addition be fixed amount of points added to aq scores or will it change with prestige?

Over all I think this is a good move Kabam I like that we can make the maps harder for more points etc abit more info on said things would be appreciated

MrTicTac19992008

This is very vague and on further thought my initial calculations, I left out items for consideration.

What happens if you run map 7 but decide to use a Normal global node for the week? Do you still get top honors because you are doing map 7? My guess is not but just giving us the milestone rewards without a scoring system is just lazy. Why not wait to announce it with all the required information instead of confusing everyone.

I would think that each map is worth (x) amount, increasing the higher the map while the nodes from normal are worth (B) amount, Heroic worth (C) amount and Master Global Nodes worth (D )amount.

xNig

It’s likely a multiplier system.

Where maybe it’s Map Multiplier x Global Node Multiplier = Honor Score.

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CELEZE

AQ Modifiers will provide Additional points to your Overall Alliance Quest Score, but do not affect the PI of Champions on the Quest Board. The Bonus points are not 1 to 1 with Honor Points, but I will see if I can find out how much the bonus would be.

@Kabam Miike any news on these? How much bonus points we get to add to the final score?

Greywarden

Forgot one more buff - server explosion

_Reef

still says coming soon in my alliance, this is our 2nd day

SummonerNR

still says coming soon in my alliance, this is our 2nd day

Read opening sentence of initial announcement, says will be available November 15, so NOT this current AQ series (which is just as well, considering server problem this past day).

MrTicTac19992008

Why can't we view previous days scores in AQ anymore?

SummonerNR

Why can't we view previous days scores in AQ anymore?

@MrTicTac19992008 , See here...

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/167716/aq-history-gone-in-new-layout#latest

MrTicTac19992008

Why can't we view previous days scores in AQ anymore?
@MrTicTac19992008 , See here...

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/167716/aq-history-gone-in-new-layout#latest

Thanks.

TyEdge

So @Kabam Miike I know things have been nuts, but it’d be helpful to the users if someone could explain how points are earned for honor (besides just saying that 777x5 gets top rewards), how it affects your AQ point score, and what the changes to the glory store are.

RagamugginGunner

We're almost to the next AQ, any news on the new map 7 mini-boss?

RogerRabs

@Kabam Miike Given everything that's happened are these still scheduled to be introduced next AQ cycle?

Judge_Pain

Bane: Whichever Champion lands the first hit will place a Curse on the opposing Champion which deals {1}% of their current Health as Direct Damage per second. Whenever a Champion with the Curse strikes the other Champion or if the Curse has been on the same Champion for {2} seconds, it passes to the other Champion.

Are these values correct? Bane switching every 2 seconds?

xNig

Anything in the bracket is a variable.

Judge_Pain

Anything in the bracket is a variable.

Ah, thanks.

xNig

Just to clarify, it’s most likely a variable based on which level that node is at.

Eg Limited Immunity has 3 levels iirc, 8 seconds, 18 seconds, 30 seconds. So the variable time is reflected as { x } when the node description is out.

Negritis

Bane: Whichever Champion lands the first hit will place a Curse on the opposing Champion which deals {1}% of their current Health as Direct Damage per second. Whenever a Champion with the Curse strikes the other Champion or if the Curse has been on the same Champion for {2} seconds, it passes to the other Champion.

Are these values correct? Bane switching every 2 seconds?

{2} doesnt mean 2 here, its the second parameter here
if you know python programming its a bit similar to how .format() works, and i guess its the same in word press

jdyke23

It’s just means it could last a certain ammount of time but it’s not specified yet

SummonerNR

New announcement link with Points Breakdown...

http://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/168810/alliance-quest-modifiers-honor-and-bonus-points-breakdown

Hoger45

So question cause I’m still confused, can you get honor rewards doing map 6 and all different modifiers on according days?

Gamer

I’m said earlier it was smail I’m stil Hav to point out fier5b is really a good change