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

ubiquitousWind

We didn’t get the bonus points for the last day of AQ, as of my typing this message. We finished with 149.6 million points and would have had about 156-157 million points with the bonus points. Not sure if that is part of the issues mentioned throughout this thread. All three of our BGs finished the map, so that’s clearly not why we didn’t get the bonus.

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RoninMan

I can’t believe there hasn’t been any communication on how to fix this week’s AQ. Not even a real acknowledgement that there was a mess up and you’re looking into making things right. I mean I guess I can believe it. Typical Kabam MO.

Worknprogress

I can’t believe there hasn’t been any communication on how to fix this week’s AQ. Not even a real acknowledgement that there was a mess up and you’re looking into making things right. I mean I guess I can believe it. Typical Kabam MO.

They said they're aware and it's being looked into in the thread in the bug forum

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RoninMan

I can’t believe there hasn’t been any communication on how to fix this week’s AQ. Not even a real acknowledgement that there was a mess up and you’re looking into making things right. I mean I guess I can believe it. Typical Kabam MO.
They said they're aware and it's being looked into in the thread in the bug forum

They’re aware of what? They never officially acknowledged anything about the modifiers not working on day 1. Only about points not calculated correctly on day 5 and delayed rewards

Worknprogress

I can’t believe there hasn’t been any communication on how to fix this week’s AQ. Not even a real acknowledgement that there was a mess up and you’re looking into making things right. I mean I guess I can believe it. Typical Kabam MO.
They said they're aware and it's being looked into in the thread in the bug forum
They’re aware of what? They never officially acknowledged anything about the modifiers not working on day 1. Only about points not calculated correctly on day 5 and delayed rewards

They were working though. Completion rewards for day 5 just went out. The correct bonus rank and honor points are showing even though they displayed to not be so

Worknprogress

We're showing the top honor milestone achieved now which is only possible if the correct honor points were being issued all week. They'll just end up having to resend honor milestone rewards

SummonerNR

Only problem for Kabam is gonna be if the initial Mail Eewards for Honor was of a DIFFERENT TYPE from what your Final Milestone Reward Type is.

If it is just a matter of sending you out some additional fragments of the same type as in the earlier reward msg, that should be simple enough for them to do.

Worknprogress

Only problem for Kabam is gonna be if the initial Mail Eewards for Honor was of a DIFFERENT TYPE from what your Final Milestone Reward Type is.

If it is just a matter of sending you out some additional fragments of the same type as in the earlier reward msg, that should be simple enough for them to do.

No I think they'll just end up sending honor rewards again at what your actual milestone ended up so you'll end up having received two different milestones as opposed to the one

RoninMan

I can’t believe there hasn’t been any communication on how to fix this week’s AQ. Not even a real acknowledgement that there was a mess up and you’re looking into making things right. I mean I guess I can believe it. Typical Kabam MO.
They said they're aware and it's being looked into in the thread in the bug forum
They’re aware of what? They never officially acknowledged anything about the modifiers not working on day 1. Only about points not calculated correctly on day 5 and delayed rewards
They were working though. Completion rewards for day 5 just went out. The correct bonus rank and honor points are showing even though they displayed to not be so

No they weren’t. Haven’t you read the comments? People were unable to start AQ with modifiers on the first day. I just saw our rank in game and we dropped 100 ranks because of this. We dropped a bracket because of Kabam’s screwup. That’s what I want them to acknowledge and send compensation for.

Icejr

We should Take Top 20 Position ,
Not 33 With Broken A/Q.

Our prestige with Map 7 x 5Days We should Take more than 505M but we Got 499M only Which Is Broken I can say.

Here is My Calculation and here Is That we got ,

So A/Q Is Broken !!!

Please Fix This @Kabam Miike

Worknprogress

I can’t believe there hasn’t been any communication on how to fix this week’s AQ. Not even a real acknowledgement that there was a mess up and you’re looking into making things right. I mean I guess I can believe it. Typical Kabam MO.
They said they're aware and it's being looked into in the thread in the bug forum
They’re aware of what? They never officially acknowledged anything about the modifiers not working on day 1. Only about points not calculated correctly on day 5 and delayed rewards
They were working though. Completion rewards for day 5 just went out. The correct bonus rank and honor points are showing even though they displayed to not be so
No they weren’t. Haven’t you read the comments? People were unable to start AQ with modifiers on the first day. I just saw our rank in game and we dropped 100 ranks because of this. We dropped a bracket because of Kabam’s screwup. That’s what I want them to acknowledge and send compensation for.

Oh I thought you were talking about the visual bug I'm sorry. Yes I'm aware some alliances were not able to use modifiers at the start and hope they address it but based off the daylight savings day 6 situation and the downtime last week I wouldn't get your hopes up too high

SummonerNR

@Worknprogress , Final HONOR Milestone Rewards are now out. Looks like they did NOT send out a 2nd Mail msg (with either additional or full corrected amount), instead my original mail msg (which I did NOT claim yet) had been revised in my in-box to reflect the full/correct amount of Milestone Reward that it should have been all along.

Guessing if ppl did already claim the original amount, then maybe Kabam will “adjust” your inventory instead (so don’t think those ppl will see a 2nd Mail msg either) ??

Worknprogress

@Worknprogress , Final HONOR Milestone Rewards are now out. Looks like they did NOT send out a 2nd Mail msg (with either additional or full corrected amount), instead my original mail msg (which I did NOT claim yet) had been revised in my in-box to reflect the full/correct amount of Milestone Reward that it should have been all along.

Guessing if ppl did already claim the original amount, then maybe Kabam will “adjust” your inventory instead (so don’t think those ppl will see a 2nd Mail msg either) ??

I claimed the initial and then got the final. I dont keep track of t2a enough to know if it was removed

Worknprogress

Also just got rank rewarda

Markjv81

These modifiers are a stupid system if you choose not to do them you now get less rewards than you did before they were introduced.

Worknprogress

These modifiers are a stupid system if you choose not to do them you now get less rewards than you did before they were introduced.

So you like getting more points from running a more difficult map than another alliance, but dont like when another alliance gets more points from running a more difficult version of the map than you?

Markjv81

These modifiers are a stupid system if you choose not to do them you now get less rewards than you did before they were introduced.
So you like getting more points from running a more difficult map than another alliance, but dont like when another alliance gets more points from running a more difficult version of the map than you?

Completely irrelevant to my post, the fact is you now get less rewards for doing the exact same content as a week ago.

Worknprogress

These modifiers are a stupid system if you choose not to do them you now get less rewards than you did before they were introduced.
So you like getting more points from running a more difficult map than another alliance, but dont like when another alliance gets more points from running a more difficult version of the map than you?
Completely irrelevant to my post, the fact is you now get less rewards for doing the exact same content as a week ago.

No you dont. You get the same exact amount of points as you did before. The difference is there's a way for others to earn more points now. You're not receiving less for what you're doing, others are doing more to receive additional points.

Worknprogress

Your rank was never guaranteed beforehand. Other alliances could pass you in prestige and you'd drop rank and potentially earn less rewards. Now there is another way besides prestige for an alliance to outrank you. What you have to decide is, are the additional points worth the additional effort and to what extent? You can always increase prestige or map difficulty (if you arent running map 7 already) to increase point totals as well

Markjv81

These modifiers are a stupid system if you choose not to do them you now get less rewards than you did before they were introduced.
So you like getting more points from running a more difficult map than another alliance, but dont like when another alliance gets more points from running a more difficult version of the map than you?
Completely irrelevant to my post, the fact is you now get less rewards for doing the exact same content as a week ago.

No you dont. You get the same exact amount of points as you did before. The difference is there's a way for others to earn more points now. You're not receiving less for what you're doing, others are doing more to receive additional points.

So less rewards for the same content, good I’m glad we are on the same page.

Worknprogress

The only guaranteed rewards you got beforehand were milestones and completion and exploration rewards each day. Those have not changed at all

DNA3000

These modifiers are a stupid system if you choose not to do them you now get less rewards than you did before they were introduced.

You mean like when they added Map 6 and again when they added Map 7? If you didn't do them and others did, you would then be getting lower rank rewards.

The game has no obligation to give you the same rank in a competition if other players choose to do more than you.

For the vast majority of players, the system is fairly easy to use, and fairly easy to get more rewards out of for virtually zero extra effort. My alliance is fairly chill, doesn't do Map 6, only used Normal and Heroic modifiers, was locked out of the system on the first day, and we got enough bonus points to move up one tier on peak milestones AND moved up a bit in rank. And except for the officers that had to remember to turn them on, this cost the players in the alliance virtually nothing. I didn't see any evidence of a significant hardship being experienced.

Falling behind on rank rewards if you choose to ignore the system isn't stupid, it is what's supposed to happen. That's how competition works. But what's important is that across all players, we're getting more rewards. And it is only costing people more to get those rewards if they try to apply more modifiers than they can handle, which is entirely their choice.

Worknprogress

These modifiers are a stupid system if you choose not to do them you now get less rewards than you did before they were introduced.
So you like getting more points from running a more difficult map than another alliance, but dont like when another alliance gets more points from running a more difficult version of the map than you?
Completely irrelevant to my post, the fact is you now get less rewards for doing the exact same content as a week ago.

No you dont. You get the same exact amount of points as you did before. The difference is there's a way for others to earn more points now. You're not receiving less for what you're doing, others are doing more to receive additional points.

So less rewards for the same content, good I’m glad we are on the same page.

You don't seem to understand this at all. Your rank is never guaranteed. My alliance was #1 in AQ for a while. Another alliance passed us in prestige. We no longer got the rewards for being #1 but were still running the same map everyday.

Another alliance utilized an option to score higher than us just like other did with you apparently. I already gave you the options you have to try to get your rank back. If you and your alliance can't or are unwilling to do that, the alliances that are willing to do more will be rewarded for doing so. It's not rocket science

Worknprogress

These modifiers are a stupid system if you choose not to do them you now get less rewards than you did before they were introduced.
You mean like when they added Map 6 and again when they added Map 7?
Yes exactly like that.
You're pretty special aren't ya?
As special as a person who tries to insult over the internet.

Look man, I'm not trying to get into more of a back and forth than has already happened. People who are willing to do more will get more that's just common sense. If you're not willing to do more then you will fall behind. You're not getting less for what you did people are just doing more to get more than what you're already getting. It's pretty simple

KwAmOn

These modifiers are a stupid system if you choose not to do them you now get less rewards than you did before they were introduced.
You mean like when they added Map 6 and again when they added Map 7?
Yes exactly like that.
You're pretty special aren't ya?
As special as a person who tries to insult over the internet.
Look man, I'm not trying to get into more of a back and forth than has already happened. People who are willing to do more will get more that's just common sense. If you're not willing to do more then you will fall behind. You're not getting less for what you did people are just doing more to get more than what you're already getting. It's pretty simple
Don’t want to do back and forth, continually replies to my posts. My point still stands, a week ago 6x5 gave X rewards, now for doing the exact same content it gives less than X.

@Markjv81 numbers and proof to support this, would make the point not only valid but valuable to the community and too Kabam.

My alliance didn't see less rewards; we analyzed not going for multipliers as an OK option to sustain rewards. We eventually decided to go for it, and we actually did better in AQ with modifiers as it seems other alliances couldn't keep the pace. This is good from a complexity standpoint and to differentiate alliances in more appropriate ranks due to their strategies and capabilities to overcome the increased difficulty.

Markjv81

These modifiers are a stupid system if you choose not to do them you now get less rewards than you did before they were introduced.
You mean like when they added Map 6 and again when they added Map 7?
Yes exactly like that.
You're pretty special aren't ya?
As special as a person who tries to insult over the internet.
Look man, I'm not trying to get into more of a back and forth than has already happened. People who are willing to do more will get more that's just common sense. If you're not willing to do more then you will fall behind. You're not getting less for what you did people are just doing more to get more than what you're already getting. It's pretty simple
Don’t want to do back and forth, continually replies to my posts. My point still stands, a week ago 6x5 gave X rewards, now for doing the exact same content it gives less than X.
@Markjv81 numbers and proof to support this, would make the point not only valid but valuable to the community and too Kabam.

My alliance didn't see less rewards; we analyzed not going for multipliers as an OK option to sustain rewards. We eventually decided to go for it, and we actually did better in AQ with modifiers as it seems other alliances couldn't keep the pace. This is good from a complexity standpoint and to differentiate alliances in more appropriate ranks due to their strategies and capabilities to overcome the increased difficulty.

The second paragraph of your post pretty much proves the first, the fact that you went up in rank with modifiers means that others who usually rank higher than you went down because they didn’t do it.

But to fill your curiosity, this was our situation,
Usually we score about 330 mil and rank top 250 map 6 all 5 days, this AQ we ran modifiers on days 2-5 (no option to choose on day 1), we scored 362 mil and ranked 241. Therefore its reasonable to assume that doing standard map 6 5 times would have had us rank outside the top 250, thus the less rewards for same content.

SummonerNR

But to fill your curiosity, this was our situation,
Usually we score about 330 mil and rank top 250 map 6 all 5 days, this AQ we ran modifiers on days 2-5 (no option to choose on day 1), we scored 362 mil and ranked 241. Therefore its reasonable to assume that doing standard map 6 5 times would have had us rank outside the top 250, thus the less rewards for same content.

So you DID do Modifiers, and got a higher score, and a better Rank, (and would have been even better if Day-1 had not been broken for your ally), and got more overall rewards because of it. Doesn’t look like the Modifiers prevented you from finishing your maps this week (?)

Think of it this way, in comparing it to recent AW enhancements (in higher tier wars)...
AW recently added ability to set additional buffs on nodes.
You are NOT REQUIRED to do so.
But if you don’t, then your opponents would have an easier time than your ally, and would probably cost your ally valuable points and/or wins, and thus Season ranking too.
Were you just as outraged in being forced to do extra AW difficulty just to keep up with others ?

Guess they could have just forcibly decided to add a bunch of these new Modifier Buffs onto different day's AQ maps, without any ability to choose for yourselves which ones you want to do.
Guess that would have made it an even playing field.
But they decided to give more flexibility and let ally's choose their own buffs.

KwAmOn

These modifiers are a stupid system if you choose not to do them you now get less rewards than you did before they were introduced.
You mean like when they added Map 6 and again when they added Map 7?
Yes exactly like that.
You're pretty special aren't ya?
As special as a person who tries to insult over the internet.
Look man, I'm not trying to get into more of a back and forth than has already happened. People who are willing to do more will get more that's just common sense. If you're not willing to do more then you will fall behind. You're not getting less for what you did people are just doing more to get more than what you're already getting. It's pretty simple
Don’t want to do back and forth, continually replies to my posts. My point still stands, a week ago 6x5 gave X rewards, now for doing the exact same content it gives less than X.
@Markjv81 numbers and proof to support this, would make the point not only valid but valuable to the community and too Kabam.

My alliance didn't see less rewards; we analyzed not going for multipliers as an OK option to sustain rewards. We eventually decided to go for it, and we actually did better in AQ with modifiers as it seems other alliances couldn't keep the pace. This is good from a complexity standpoint and to differentiate alliances in more appropriate ranks due to their strategies and capabilities to overcome the increased difficulty.
The second paragraph of your post pretty much proves the first, the fact that you went up in rank with modifiers means that others who usually rank higher than you went down because they didn’t do it.

But to fill your curiosity, this was our situation,
Usually we score about 330 mil and rank top 250 map 6 all 5 days, this AQ we ran modifiers on days 2-5 (no option to choose on day 1), we scored 362 mil and ranked 241. Therefore its reasonable to assume that doing standard map 6 5 times would have had us rank outside the top 250, thus the less rewards for same content.

@Markjv81 well it's the same map, but not same content. The modifiers are in it's definition, modifying the content. In summary, I guess this is just a matter of perspective. My alliance scored 226 with mods in maps 2-5 too; and we had fun with the added difficulty. It was a refresh and helps to move our from a comfort zone, without spendin more Gold, Battle Chips & Loyalty to try Map7.

Also you have to include the fact that your alliance got better or more rewards based on Honor Points, and you probably scored higher rank this time because some alliances tried the increased dificulty, but couldn't complete as our alliances did. Finally, I guess it's just a matter of looking at those T5B fragments that cna be earned for honor and determine if it's worth it for your alliance based on the difficulty.