Back Issues #4: Waning Moon

Once upon a time, a rogue hero took matters into his own hands, seeking to dispel evil by any means. The Collector sought to return him to The Contest... via some unlikely allies.

Introducing Back Issues #4: Waning Moon

Available 10am PT, Wednesday December 11th!

As the Contest has grown and evolved we’ve introduced many Event Quests, each with their own unique stories, and many that have expanded on the mythos of The Battlerealm and The Contest of Champions. We want to give Veteran Summoners a way to relive those moments, and newer ones that weren’t with us at the time a chance to experience the stories of the Contest that they had missed out on!

This Event Quest is available in TWO difficulties:

CLASSIC difficulty is a recreation of the original quest. While not completely 1:1, the layouts, difficulty, and dialogue are all the same as you remember. Take a stroll down memory lane and see how far you've come, or experience a quest you never got the chance to play!

VARIANT difficulty is a new spin on the quest, available for Summoners level 45 and up. This version features extreme challenge, new opponents, some minor map layout updates, and Champion Requirements that will ask you to reach deep into your roster and pick up some old favorites. This quest will test even the mightiest of Summoners, so be prepared!

The Variant Challenges!

With each Back Issue Variant Difficulty, we aim to shake up the Summoners Roster, either through implicit, or explicit Champion Requirements. This time, we’re making Summoners dig deep into their Rosters, and reviving some of your old favourites through the use of Rarity Restrictions!

Each Quest will require you to bring only certain Rarity Champions. Remember, this is permanent Content, so if you’ve lost your lower Rarity Champions over time, you’ll have time to rebuild that Roster. To assist in this, Summoners over level 45 will regain access to the “Hero Crystal” in the Misc. tab of the store, which contains 1 and 2-Star Champions.

Quest 1: 5 and 6-Star Champions Only
Quest 2: 5-Star Champions Only
Quest 3: 4-Star Champions Only
Quest 4: 3-Star Champions Only
Quest 5: 2-Star Champions Only
Quest 6: 1-Star Champions Only

New Buffs
In addition to some challenging Buffs that you’ve probably already seen around the Contest, this Variant Difficulty will introduce 4 new Buffs:

Crackling Energy:
Striking the Defender with a Contact attack puts a Passive Energy Damage over time effect on the Attacker dealing 0.5% of their max health every second for 10 seconds, stacking up to 10 times. Striking the Defender with a Non-Contact attack Removes all stacks.

Fundamentals:
The Defender has a -100% chance to use Special Attacks, instead they gain a bonus based on their Current Power:

Less than 1 Bar: Reduce all incoming Damage by 95%
1 Bar: Gain +2100 Block Penetration
2 Bars: All Attacks are Unblockable
3 Bars: All Attacks are Unblockable and Charging a Heavy Attack deals 50% of the Defender's Attack as Direct Physical Damage.

Will of Konshu:
All of Moon Knight’s passive abilities are activated, regardless of the current lunar phase.

Echo Barrier:
Defender gains an energy barrier with 15 charges. Striking the Defender, applying a Bleed effect, or applying an Armour Break effect removes a charge. The Defender is immune to all damage while the barrier has charges remaining. Charges are restored to 15 every 20 seconds.

Rewards:

Like Back Issue #3, this Quest features 6 Individual Quests over 3 Chapters, unlike Back Issues #1 and #2, which featured 9. Quest Rewards reflect this.

For completing and exploring all of the Classic quests, you earn:
Tier 2 Generic ISO x3
Tier 3 Generic ISO x16
Tier 4 Generic ISO x9
Gold x9575
Units x150
Premium Hero Crystal Shards x8000
3-Star Hero Crystal Shards x2000
Stony Core x1

For completing and exploring all of the Variant quests, you earn:
5-Star Rank 2 → 3 Gem Crystal x3
5-Star Rank 3 → 4 Gem Crystal (2015/2016 Champs Only) x3
5-Star Rank 3 → 4 Gem Crystal x1
5-Star Rank 4 → 5 Gem Crystal x1
5-Star Awakening Gem Crystal x1
5-Star Crystal x2
Tier 5 Basic Catalyst Fragments x27000
6-Star Crystal Shards x2250
5-Star Signature Stone Crystal x42
Gold x2,100,000
Units x270

EDIT: Clarified the Collector Crystal is only available to Summoners: Level 45+

EDIT: There is a typo on the Fundamentals node that is displaying the wrong damage value for when the defender charges a Heavy Attack at 3 bars of Power. The actual damage value is 50% of the Defender's Attack. We have corrected that in this announcement and are working on getting this visual error corrected within the game as well.

Comments

Jbwilde

What does armour and favourite mean I don’t speak Canadian? @Kabam Miike

Bonzodavid

I was kinda hoping for the star requirements to be the other way round because my 5* roster is quite bad. While you can still do xl variant with 4* thing and tech with 4* god tier champions (especially sentinel), for this I'll need to wait a long time to build up my 5 and 6* roster ☹️

Bigbowlr

Are the enemies in chapters 2 and 3 gonna scale down with the champion requirements, cause taking a 1* against a 450k hp opponent with 10k attack similar to the YJ in V2 seems very much not possible without Atromix level intercepts

Austin555555

What crystals give you 1*’s. ????

The collector crystals which I assume it will release for the anniversary

Austin555555

@Kabam Miike will the quests be scaled too the restricted rarity?

Kabam Miike

Is the Attacker Buff for this Variant really only going to be for Moon Knight? ...nothing for Deadpool X-Force or a certain Variety of Champions? I loved how V2 focused on Several XL Champions Good and Bad for each Quest instead of just one single Champion for the whole thing, but with V3 and now what seems like V4 all the focus is going on one single champion that will have the same Buff/Buffs going for the Whole Event instead switching it up with different Buffs for Multiple Champions dotted around to promote Variety...

That's not an Attacker Buff, that's for the Moon Knight that you'll be facing off against.

Kenny292

does
Will of Konshu:
All of Moon Knight’s passive abilities are activated, regardless of the current lunar phase.
applies to attackers MK or only for the defender?

I was curious about this as well, whether it’ll be a local node on Moon Knight defenders or a global node similar to the one for Sentinel in V3.

Broken

can someone tell me how many 1 stars kabam introduce? i have 4 only that i got when i start game

RiderofHell

Is there any counters against that fundamentals node? I didn’t see any loopholes.
Don’t think so, looks like you have to get them over 1 bar of power and intercept like a god after that

Not unless there is hyperion or supreme on that path which i will bet you they will be there 😂😂😂

MPKala

It’s already been asked but thought I’d add. Will there be a 1* crystal and if not, is there anyway to make Quest 6 like Quest 1 by making it a 1* AND 2* quest?

Liss_Bliss_

I really hope they don’t release a crystal with 1-2*’s. Will teach people a lesson. Don’t sell champs, even if they “aren’t viable”

9 1* champs
88 2* champs 47 of them max level high sig
142 3* champs 41 of them max level high sig

Not our fault you sold them.

RiderofHell

I really hope they don’t release a crystal with 1-2*’s. Will teach people a lesson. Don’t sell champs, even if they “aren’t viable”

9 1* champs
88 2* champs 47 of them max level high sig
142 3* champs 41 of them max level high sig

Not our fault you sold them.

Gold is a huge issue and we all need gold to feed our kids lol

Lufaso

I really hope they don’t release a crystal with 1-2*’s. Will teach people a lesson. Don’t sell champs, even if they “aren’t viable”

9 1* champs
88 2* champs 47 of them max level high sig
142 3* champs 41 of them max level high sig

Not our fault you sold them.

I have 10 1* 😅

Panchulon21

So how we getting those 1 stars. I don’t have any lol

Laffpaff

Sounds really fun! Is the content going to be toned down in the last chapters or are our 1*/2*/3* champs getting a boost or something?

Liss_Bliss_

I really hope they don’t release a crystal with 1-2*’s. Will teach people a lesson. Don’t sell champs, even if they “aren’t viable”

9 1* champs
88 2* champs 47 of them max level high sig
142 3* champs 41 of them max level high sig

Not our fault you sold them.
I have 10 1* 😅

I hate you.

Who do you have that I don’t?
Gamora
Spider-Man
Vision
Hulk
Scarlet Witch
Juggernaut
Ironman
Black Panther
Colossus

DalBot

So you want end game players to waste T4B to rank up 4* just for this variant....

Seriously?

Liss_Bliss_

Sounds really fun! Is the content going to be toned down in the last chapters or are our 1*/2*/3* champs getting a boost or something?

I’d wager more powerful enemies, but buffs to our champs.

Markjv81

I really hope they don’t release a crystal with 1-2*’s. Will teach people a lesson. Don’t sell champs, even if they “aren’t viable”

9 1* champs
88 2* champs 47 of them max level high sig
142 3* champs 41 of them max level high sig

Not our fault you sold them.
I have 10 1* 😅
I hate you.

Who do you have that I don’t?
Gamora
Spider-Man
Vision
Hulk
Scarlet Witch
Juggernaut
Ironman
Black Panther
Colossus

2 visions

Austin555555

So you want end game players to waste T4B to rank up 4* just for this variant....

Seriously?

End game players should have enough maxed out 4*s to get through it.

DalBot

So you want end game players to waste T4B to rank up 4* just for this variant....

Seriously?
End game players should have enough maxed out 4*s to get through it.

I haven’t gone above R3 on a 4* in years. Why waste T4B that are useful to 5/6*?

Char

Quick question though... why the 1* version of Colossus didn’t get the updated abilities?!

Rotelly

I really hope they don’t release a crystal with 1-2*’s. Will teach people a lesson. Don’t sell champs, even if they “aren’t viable”

9 1* champs
88 2* champs 47 of them max level high sig
142 3* champs 41 of them max level high sig

Not our fault you sold them.
I have 10 1* 😅
I hate you.

Who do you have that I don’t?
Gamora
Spider-Man
Vision
Hulk
Scarlet Witch
Juggernaut
Ironman
Black Panther
Colossus
2 visions

Wolverine

Austin555555

So you want end game players to waste T4B to rank up 4* just for this variant....

Seriously?
End game players should have enough maxed out 4*s to get through it.
I haven’t gone above R3 on a 4* in years. Why waste T4B that are useful to 5/6*?

That’s your problem, not the team’s problem. You chose not to do that and now your complaining that you have to use the catalysts to rank up champs.

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Lufaso

I really hope they don’t release a crystal with 1-2*’s. Will teach people a lesson. Don’t sell champs, even if they “aren’t viable”

9 1* champs
88 2* champs 47 of them max level high sig
142 3* champs 41 of them max level high sig

Not our fault you sold them.
I have 10 1* 😅
I hate you.

Who do you have that I don’t?
Gamora
Spider-Man
Vision
Hulk
Scarlet Witch
Juggernaut
Ironman
Black Panther
Colossus

I have wolverine and the 2 visions that you don't have, but I don't have iron-man.

LeNoirFaineant

I really hope they don’t release a crystal with 1-2*’s. Will teach people a lesson. Don’t sell champs, even if they “aren’t viable”

9 1* champs
88 2* champs 47 of them max level high sig
142 3* champs 41 of them max level high sig

Not our fault you sold them.
I have 10 1* 😅
I hate you.

Who do you have that I don’t?
Gamora
Spider-Man
Vision
Hulk
Scarlet Witch
Juggernaut
Ironman
Black Panther
Colossus

I sold all my 1*s early in the game as the dupe doesn't do anything and we got them back easily. Didn't realize some weren't in the crystal. I got them all back except for 1* Spider-Man, but I also have 9. Looks like you don't have 1* Wolverine.

DalBot

That’s your problem, not the team’s problem. You chose not to do that and now your complaining that you have to use the catalysts to rank up champs.

So it's my problem and not the teams that I chose to not waste resources on champs that have been mostly outdated for 2-3 years compared to my better champs, and now would need them for a single event, taking resources from more worthy champs?

That literally makes zero sense. I don't see why they couldn't do 5/6, 4/5, 3/4, 2/3, 1/2 and then just 1*.

I'm sure the inevitable solution though will be deals on T4B to SELL YOU what you would need 🤦🏻‍♂️

Eb0ny-O-M4w

We need a 1-star cyclops for the armor break effectiveness against the node.

It's his time. It's like he was made for this.

Kabam Miike

So you want end game players to waste T4B to rank up 4* just for this variant....

Seriously?

If you don't want to use those T4B, you can use ones that you've already ranked up, or if you're really skilled, not Rank them Past Rank 3 or 4. Of course it will be easier with Rank 5 Champions, but that's not necessary.

But if you really don't want to use resources on 4-Star Champions, you don't have to do this Variant. There will be others, and every single one of them will be about using Different Champions in your Roster. I'm really excited about this one, because I've been asking for one where we can use 1 and 2-Star Champions since we started making Variant Difficulty quests!