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

FlintTheSavage

Couldn't select a modifier it said coming soon

SprossTheBoss

Map modifier said "Coming Soon" for me. I couldn't see them or set them. Not sure if I was supposed to restart game client or not; another officer started while I was trying to figure it out.

I had the same issue at first. I force-closed the app and when it loaded back up the modifiers were there to select from.

AzKicker316

I restarted and they still said coming soon. So I just started the map anyway.

Crazy_scott22

Why doesnt surprise me that this isn’t working kabam

Kabam Zibiit

Map modifier said "Coming Soon" for me. I couldn't see them or set them. Not sure if I was supposed to restart game client or not; another officer started while I was trying to figure it out.

We've passed these reports on to the team to take a look at. If anyone is seeing this but hasn't restarted your app, could you try restarting your game before checking it again?

LibertyPrimeV1

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/169252/umm-the-aq-modifiers-still-say-coming-soon#latest Umm they are still "Coming Soon" Locked for a lot of people...

LibertyPrimeV1

Map modifier said "Coming Soon" for me. I couldn't see them or set them. Not sure if I was supposed to restart game client or not; another officer started while I was trying to figure it out.
We've passed these reports on to the team to take a look at. If anyone is seeing this but hasn't restarted your app, could you try restarting your game before checking it again?

Me and several others did restart the game, it worked for some but didn't work for others. (Didn't work for me and now one of the other Officers started AQ because they didn't notice, so now our First AQ won't give any Bonus Points.) 😖

SparkAlot

Yeah, so now, some alliances can get the Honor & bonus points, and other alliances can't.

Yet another unfair advantage is given to people that couldn't make the modifiers work, and to top it all off, we are back to 1 hour AQ timers.

Would have been nice to have 30 min AQ for the rest of the year because of all these issues.

hurricant

Map modifier said "Coming Soon" for me. I couldn't see them or set them. Not sure if I was supposed to restart game client or not; another officer started while I was trying to figure it out.
We've passed these reports on to the team to take a look at. If anyone is seeing this but hasn't restarted your app, could you try restarting your game before checking it again?

Kind of late for that. we have people who are international who have to move early. we don't have hours to wait for kabam to figure it out

RogerRabs

Map modifier said "Coming Soon" for me. I couldn't see them or set them. Not sure if I was supposed to restart game client or not; another officer started while I was trying to figure it out.
We've passed these reports on to the team to take a look at. If anyone is seeing this but hasn't restarted your app, could you try restarting your game before checking it again?
Kind of late for that. we have people who are international who have to move early. we don't have hours to wait for kabam to figure it out

We had to start without them as well. These mistakes are becoming more and more frustrating.

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Jack0312

It's now embarrassing and frustrating. After having to prepared all 30 members for Buff. IT's broken. Kabam your so broken. I'm answerable to 30 members and you have managed to create inequality in competitive play again.

Sorry but it's not broken !
Before complaining, just try to restart your game !

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DNA3000

Map modifier said "Coming Soon" for me. I couldn't see them or set them. Not sure if I was supposed to restart game client or not; another officer started while I was trying to figure it out.
We've passed these reports on to the team to take a look at. If anyone is seeing this but hasn't restarted your app, could you try restarting your game before checking it again?

Although my AQ is running now, I did force close and restart to see what would happen. The modifier section still says "Coming Soon" when I try to look at the modifiers. I don't know if that is affected by the fact that AQ is already started, but I don't think it should: shouldn't we be able to see and review the modifiers even if AQ is running?

Which brings me to a big problem in my opinion that I asked about when modifiers were first announced (and got no answer for). The way modifiers appears to be implemented is completely broken for how AQ is typically run. We can't see them or set them until AQ for the week starts, and when AQ starts there is huge pressure to start immediately because we have to keep restarting AQ every day, and any delay means your last day of AQ is going to get shorter and shorter. What was supposed to happen today if it launched correctly? Everyone was supposed to stop, look at the modifiers (especially if they don't read the forums, which 99% of your players don't), think about them and discuss them with other battlegroup leaders, and THEN start AQ? That's ridiculous.

I think modifiers exacerbates a problem with AQ to the point where Kabam has to change the way AQ starts. I think we need the ability to "enlist" in AQ, just like we enlist in AW. Any time during day 1 we should be able to set up what day 2 will look like, so that day 2 just starts automatically with the settings we want. That way, battlegroup officers have all day to set what they want their own modifier to be, so that they get what they want when the next day happens. And no one has to be sitting there just waiting for AQ rewards to go out so they can quickly push the start button again. And of course there should be a day "zero" where we can set up day 1.

The way we start AQ has always been problematic. But modifiers has made it just plain ridiculous. If Kabam had thought about user interface design from the start, we would all have been fixing the modifier problem yesterday when we couldn't set it up properly for the start of AQ today. Instead of having to literally troubleshoot a problem the literal instant the week started, with virtually no time to wait for a solution.

SummonerNR

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Does anyone else find that they lose at least 5 minutes if not more every day waiting to be able to start the next round of AQ?
It’s not much but over the course of the week we tend to be short about 30 minutes on the last day because of it.

Agree, and other alliances that don’t have officers who can always be around on-time to start next day’s AQ's lose even more time. Can extend into many hours time lost for final day for more casual ally's.

See below for suggestions for (and continued discussion about) an AUTO-START system of AQ, or at least an AW-Style ENLISTMENT ahead of time each day for the next day's AQ. So officers can discuss before current one ends which modifier they want to use for next day (or even which maps, etc), then Enlist for that next day, and it would automatically start once the prior day AQ ends...

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/168027/automatic-start-of-aq#latest

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dot_ditto

restarted here, didn't work ... but too late now .. since we had to start the aq anyway ...
*shrug*

MrTicTac19992008

It's all gone Pete Thong

RogerRabs

Map modifier said "Coming Soon" for me. I couldn't see them or set them. Not sure if I was supposed to restart game client or not; another officer started while I was trying to figure it out.
We've passed these reports on to the team to take a look at. If anyone is seeing this but hasn't restarted your app, could you try restarting your game before checking it again?
Although my AQ is running now, I did force close and restart to see what would happen. The modifier section still says "Coming Soon" when I try to look at the modifiers. I don't know if that is affected by the fact that AQ is already started, but I don't think it should: shouldn't we be able to see and review the modifiers even if AQ is running?

Which brings me to a big problem in my opinion that I asked about when modifiers were first announced (and got no answer for). The way modifiers appears to be implemented is completely broken for how AQ is typically run. We can't see them or set them until AQ for the week starts, and when AQ starts there is huge pressure to start immediately because we have to keep restarting AQ every day, and any delay means your last day of AQ is going to get shorter and shorter. What was supposed to happen today if it launched correctly? Everyone was supposed to stop, look at the modifiers (especially if they don't read the forums, which 99% of your players don't), think about them and discuss them with other battlegroup leaders, and THEN start AQ? That's ridiculous.

I think modifiers exacerbates a problem with AQ to the point where Kabam has to change the way AQ starts. I think we need the ability to "enlist" in AQ, just like we enlist in AW. Any time during day 1 we should be able to set up what day 2 will look like, so that day 2 just starts automatically with the settings we want. That way, battlegroup officers have all day to set what they want their own modifier to be, so that they get what they want when the next day happens. And no one has to be sitting there just waiting for AQ rewards to go out so they can quickly push the start button again. And of course there should be a day "zero" where we can set up day 1.

The way we start AQ has always been problematic. But modifiers has made it just plain ridiculous. If Kabam had thought about user interface design from the start, we would all have been fixing the modifier problem yesterday when we couldn't set it up properly for the start of AQ today. Instead of having to literally troubleshoot a problem the literal instant the week started, with virtually no time to wait for a solution.

I feel like they’ve never had a strong grasp on the fact that small hiccups in AQ have huge ripple effects.

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_Reef

i wasnt' able to select modifiers either, actually led players to join map 2 so their champs wont be locked in with no benefit

SummonerNR

i wasnt' able to select modifiers either, actually led players to join map 2 so their champs wont be locked in with no benefit

The Modifier Bonus Points are actually fairly small compared to the normal points you get for each map. Just at first glance it looks very loosely like in the ballpark of about 1/5th extra would be gotten from Bonus Points.
So why would you basically throw away a huge amount of regular AQ points for the day by running only Map-2 instead of the much higher point maps 4 or 5 (or whatever you normally run for AQ) especially on day-1 starting Prestige Level being the easiest of the days so can probably use secondary teams and still finish. Especially since Wars are NOT taking place “in season” right now anyways.

SummonerNR

KABAM, Can you tell us, when we go to selecting next day's setup, whether it will be “easy” to see what Modifiers we have already used (and I assume “Won” with, which sounds like that is what matters). So that it will be clear in picking the Modifier to use for the next AQ. ???

Undecidednoob

Bug with Modifier Bonus, for one BG it didn't increase although unique global debuff was selected on day2

@Kabam Miike @Kabam Vydious @Kabam Zibiit @Kabam Lyra @Kabam Porthos

Frosty

Bug with Modifier Bonus, for one BG it didn't increase although unique global debuff was selected on day2
@Kabam Miike @Kabam Vydious @Kabam Zibiit @Kabam Lyra @Kabam Porthos

Same thing with my group

Worknprogress

Bug with Modifier Bonus, for one BG it didn't increase although unique global debuff was selected on day2
@Kabam Miike @Kabam Vydious @Kabam Zibiit @Kabam Lyra @Kabam Porthos

We have the same issue as well. Only 2 of 3 groups increased even though all groups ran the same modifier day one and then changed to the next one day 2

SummonerNR

For those ppl above... @Undecidednoob , @Frosty , @Worknprogress

Did your BG3 actually defeat Thanos 1st day ??

It looks like MAYBE the entire spreadsheet of Bonus Points is entirely on an individual BG basis ?
For BG1 (assuming they cleared), the next day's potential Bonus Points (if doing a different Modifier for day-2) will move to the 2nd column.
But for BG3 (assuming that group failed to complete Thanos), might be that BG3 is still stuck on the 1st Column Points List, because they had yet to have a Completion.

And so might also mean that each BG is totally independent of any other BG as far as what is considered a “different” Modifier each day.

Frosty

For those ppl above... @Undecidednoob , @Frosty , @Worknprogress

Did your BG3 actually defeat Thanos 1st day ??

It looks like MAYBE the entire spreadsheet of Bonus Points is entirely on an individual BG basis ?
For BG1 (assuming they cleared), the next day's potential Bonus Points (if doing a different Modifier for day-2) will move to the 2nd column.
But for BG3 (assuming that group failed to complete Thanos), might be that BG3 is still stuck on the 1st Column Points List, because they had yet to have a Completion.

And so might also mean that each BG is totally independent of any other BG as far as what is considered a “different” Modifier each day.

All bgs cleared Thanos
All bgs had different modifiers day 1
All bgs have completely unused modifiers day 2

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