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

KwAmOn

@Kabam Miike @Kabam Lyra team, I as an example, have not yet claimed the 22,000 honor milestone and 11,000 honor milestone. Will it be fixed to ensure we get the 33,000 milestone reward (2700 T5B frags) as it should have been? Or what will proceed?

SummonerNR

@Kabam Miike @Kabam Lyra team, I as an example, have not yet claimed the 22,000 honor milestone and 11,000 honor milestone. Will it be fixed to ensure we get the 33,000 milestone reward (2700 T5B frags) as it should have been? Or what will proceed?

Corrected Honor Rewards should have already been sent out. Other people (including myself) got them by at least yesterday. May have been in either 1 or 2 mail msgs overall.

And actually it looks like you received the additional higher Peak Milestone. Was the 12,000 Level the original reward, and they sent you the 21,000 corrected reward later ? Doesn’t appear like you actually hit 33,000. Or if you did, you’d have to send a Support Ticket to Kabam.

Note, my (at that time) unclaimed original (Lesser) Honor Reward had mysteriously changed to the higher amount without actually receiving a 2nd Mail msg When I claimed that revised higher amount then and later went to check Stash Reards for other things, there was still the original lower amount still in Stash as well (even though it no longer had the Mail msg attached to it because I claimed the only mail msg reward (the revised higher one)). So not sure why the original Lesser amount was still around (?), so I was able to claim that one as well. Just a little odd, but no big deal.

KwAmOn

@Kabam Miike @Kabam Lyra team, I as an example, have not yet claimed the 22,000 honor milestone and 11,000 honor milestone. Will it be fixed to ensure we get the 33,000 milestone reward (2700 T5B frags) as it should have been? Or what will proceed?

Corrected Honor Rewards should have already been sent out. Other people (including myself) got them by at least yesterday. May have been in either 1 or 2 mail msgs overall.

And actually it looks like you received the additional higher Peak Milestone. Was the 12,000 Level the original reward, and they sent you the 21,000 corrected reward later ? Doesn’t appear like you actually hit 33,000. Or if you did, you’d have to send a Support Ticket to Kabam.

Note, my (at that time) unclaimed original (Lesser) Honor Reward had mysteriously changed to the higher amount without actually receiving a 2nd Mail msg When I claimed that revised higher amount then and later went to check Stash Reards for other things, there was still the original lower amount still in Stash as well (even though it no longer had the Mail msg attached to it because I claimed the only mail msg reward (the revised higher one)). So not sure why the original Lesser amount was still around (?), so I was able to claim that one as well. Just a little odd, but no big deal.

Well technically, what I'm getting is 2 peak milestone awards. One for 21,000 points, and then another for 12,000 points. But there should only be one Peak Milestone award, so it should be (based on the accumulated points) the 33,000 peak milestone reward.

I understand that due to this bug selecting modifiers, that was even addressed by ingame message today, potentially opens a scenario in which they can't "validate" how many real points we should have scored on day 1, and hence why 2 peak milestones were sent out. But in reality we would have completed the total of 33,000 for a map6 for 5 days and 5 unique modifiers each day.

For the moment, I will let this one go just because Kabam has actually communicated they are aware of the impact these issues made, and that they are working on avoiding them next time (whoich should be tomorrow). We can verify there, the system works and we start getting those T5 Basic Fragments

SummonerNR

Where did Kabam say they can’t validate how many points ppl earned on day-1 ??
And I disagree with the assertion that your 33,000 Honor was divided up into 2 different rewards of 12,000 and 21,000 instead of the sum total of 33,000.
Others who got their corrected amounts did indeed get their grand total highest Peak Milestone (regardless of whether they also may have been able to keep the preliminary incorrect lower Peak as well).

Now if you are instead saying that your's was one of the alliances who were not able to use Modifiers on some days (the Coming Soon problem), then that is basically what was included in overall Compensation to everyone. They weren’t gonna go and individually just give out extra high Honor/Bonus Points for each day to every alliance who didn’t even run the Modifiers.
And so in that case, you probably did only reach the 21,000 Milestone with what days you were able to actually do the Modifiers. And then received general Compensation because of the various problems too.

BigEd_45

Still can’t activate the modifiers in Alliance Quests

KwAmOn

Where did Kabam say they can’t validate how many points ppl earned on day-1 ??
And I disagree with the assertion that your 33,000 Honor was divided up into 2 different rewards of 12,000 and 21,000 instead of the sum total of 33,000.
Others who got their corrected amounts did indeed get their grand total highest Peak Milestone (regardless of whether they also may have been able to keep the preliminary incorrect lower Peak as well).

Now if you are instead saying that your's was one of the alliances who were not able to use Modifiers on some days (the Coming Soon problem), then that is basically what was included in overall Compensation to everyone. They weren’t gonna go and individually just give out extra high Honor/Bonus Points for each day to every alliance who didn’t even run the Modifiers.
And so in that case, you probably did only reach the 21,000 Milestone with what days you were able to actually do the Modifiers. And then received general Compensation because of the various problems too.

Sorry I took off some days without replying. Yes basically what you explored on the second paragraph is the situation. And because I am aware the effort it would take, it doesn't make sense to go down the road.

Onb this week, it seemed there were some calculation errors on day 2 and 3, but after AQ closed the numbers were updated and we got what we achieved. So we can fairly call this solved unless we see these calculation errors mid AQ appearing again; I will be on the look out just in case.

BrightfireHD

When Kabam introduced AQ Modifiers and Honor Milestones, they didn't say it would be Peak Milestones.

So, I was under assumption that if my alliance achieved 33000 scores, we should have T5B fragments and all the T2A, T4C, T4B fragments from previous milestones.

But we only got 2700 T5B fragments, nothing else.

If this is intended, I must say it's a bad design.

Because Master buffs are much more difficult than Heroic buffs. And the difference of Honor Rewards is only 2700 vs 1800 T5B fragments?!

The bonus points difference from Master and Heroic buffs are also insignificant, unless you are in Top 50 alliances.

Can any of Moderators please clarify if it's intended as Peak Milestones, or the system is bugged at the moment?

SummonerNR

@BrightfireHD .. clip from page-3 of this thread. Confirmed it is Peak Milestones for Honor.

Phantoms_Domain

Anyone else having issues with their honor points not being calculated correctly? I run 655 AQ. Based on Kabams graphs running 5 heroic modifiers for each group should have giving us 26k points. We ran 4x heroic and master on day 5 and received only 24k. Does changing difficulty of modifier not carry over the multiplayer?

SummonerNR

Anyone else having issues with their honor points not being calculated correctly? I run 655 AQ. Based on Kabams graphs running 5 heroic modifiers for each group should have giving us 26k points. We ran 4x heroic and master on day 5 and received only 24k. Does changing difficulty of modifier not carry over the multiplayer?

@Phantoms_Domain , actually 655 every day, using different Heroic modifier each day (same across all 3 BG's each day), is only supposed to give 24k. So switching to Master on day-5 (still 655) should have bumped it up 900 more, to 24,900. (also, assuming you Completed, ie defeated Thanos, whether or not 100%, in each BG each day).

But as to what it shows you in your “CLAIM PEAK MILESTONE” picture, that is showing you the Peak Milestone Level (not your actual points). You reached the 24k Milestone, but not the next higher one which would be at 27k. See earlier reply by @SiriusBreak in you other thread regarding that point,

And even if you miscalculated the Heroic-only to come out to 26k, doing Master last day would only have been 26,900, still short of 27k. Hope that helps.

SummonerNR

Has anyone who has already Updated to Dec. game version looked yet to see if Modifier Points are projecting correctly now (during today's AQ) for BG3 as well as other groups ?

Will probably have to wait another month before the “History” button comes back (unless maybe they were able to squeeze that into this version ??) But would be nice to at least have Points displaying correctly, and hopefully no more “Coming Soon” issues for anyone also.

Worknprogress

Has anyone who has already Updated to Dec. game version looked yet to see if Modifier Points are projecting correctly now (during today's AQ) for BG3 as well as other groups ?

Will probably have to wait another month before the “History” button comes back (unless maybe they were able to squeeze that into this version ??) But would be nice to at least have Points displaying correctly, and hopefully no more “Coming Soon” issues for anyone also.

Yes they are

phil56201

So looking through this thread, not sure if anybody has a definitive answer, but say we run day 1-4 with unique heroic modifiers each day. On day 5, we decide to run a master modifier. Do we get the bonus points from the 1st master unique modifier or the bonus points from the 5th master unique modifier?

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