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M.O.D.O.K store, is it really that bad?
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So at the start of the month we were shown the details of the M.O.D.O.K store. Now when it was released it looked kind of promising but there were complaints about a lack of certain items. Kabam responded and added 5* shards and signature stones, good move. However the event released and the difficulty/potential bs of the event meant the rewards and store seemed to be pretty bad. Would you like to come up against masochism Darkhawk or a biohazard BWCV? And then get rewarded by 500 5* shards? Not fun. Especially for a newly UC player or a player that doesn’t have a massive roster of 5/65 utility champions.
However the store was almost forgotten about. People focused on the difficulty and the small rewards from each quest and almost forgot about the store. Just assumed it was decent. Which it was. Or is it. Upon doing a deep dive of the event I’ve come to the conclusion that it is actually very good.
Over the whole event there is a total of 3000 coins available, bear that in mind. Now the Epic side event gives 60 coins. The daily rotating solo objective makes that 96. Now if we factor in the duel targets we can take that to around 105. This is important so try to remember it. (If, like me, the epic difficulty is too hard lower that to 75, still a good number)
5* AG
A 5* AG costs 1000 coins. That’s 10 days. In previous offers a 5* AG has been up to £70. Let that sink in. 10 days of not even a very large grind can get you £70 worth of items. Great right? The AG is not even hard to get, unlike previous events you can get the AG on top of some of the other good rewards.
Catalysts
A T2A costs 380 coins or 400 if you are not cavalier. In glory that costs 1500 Glory. 380 coins is about 4 days of work. The average alliance gets maybe 2-3k glory (depending on your AQ) every 4 day AQ run. An AQ run comes around every week or so. It means that instead of having to take a week to get a T2A it’s 4 days. Pretty good.
A full T5B would cost 2040 coins. I’m well aware that you can’t buy a full one but hear me out. In the glory store a full one would cost 9 to 10k glory. That could take nearly a full month to get. In this event it would take under 20 days. Very nice value there. (For UC players the value isn’t really there which sucks but whatever.)
A T4B is 48 coins. That’s up to just over 2 a day. In glory the same thing costs 280. Now with glory you can only really focus on one thing. It’s either T5B, T2A or other catalysts. M.O.D.O.K store means you can buy all.
A T4CC selector is literally 120 coins. A T4CC crystal costs you 350. If you are hunting for a certain class (let’s say tech) you theoretically have to spend 2100 glory. Massive value there, even 6*s need T4CC to take up.
Finally a T1A costs 12 coins. 12 COINS! In glory that’s 220. Let that one sink in.
Health potions
Just going to blitz through these so here we go
L2 single revive: 11C, 40 units
Single:
L2: 2C, 7 units
L3: 4C, 14 units
L4: 6C, 21 units
Team
L2: 5C, 17 units
L3: 7C, 10k gold or 26 units (gold from black ISO market)
L4: 10C, 35 units
Crystals
4* crystal. 160 coins, 2 days of grind. 7.5k Incursions artefacts (short-ish grind time)
5* crystal. 200 coins under 2 days for God’s sake!. 22k Incursions artefacts (a pretty long grinding time)
Overall
I think the store has tons of values for newly Cavalier players but then for UC players a lot of the rewards are locked up. However a lot of the catalysts are available for the average UC player. There is some hidden value here. The 5* AG really increases the stores value by a lot but there is one problem. Purchase limits. They do kind of suck. If you’re going to give out 3 times the value of a 5* AG at least let people buy 2. Some of the limits seem silly. If you want to buy a T5B and T2A at the cost of all other rewards then why not? Overall overlooked and kind of good.
However the store was almost forgotten about. People focused on the difficulty and the small rewards from each quest and almost forgot about the store. Just assumed it was decent. Which it was. Or is it. Upon doing a deep dive of the event I’ve come to the conclusion that it is actually very good.
Over the whole event there is a total of 3000 coins available, bear that in mind. Now the Epic side event gives 60 coins. The daily rotating solo objective makes that 96. Now if we factor in the duel targets we can take that to around 105. This is important so try to remember it. (If, like me, the epic difficulty is too hard lower that to 75, still a good number)
5* AG
A 5* AG costs 1000 coins. That’s 10 days. In previous offers a 5* AG has been up to £70. Let that sink in. 10 days of not even a very large grind can get you £70 worth of items. Great right? The AG is not even hard to get, unlike previous events you can get the AG on top of some of the other good rewards.
Catalysts
A T2A costs 380 coins or 400 if you are not cavalier. In glory that costs 1500 Glory. 380 coins is about 4 days of work. The average alliance gets maybe 2-3k glory (depending on your AQ) every 4 day AQ run. An AQ run comes around every week or so. It means that instead of having to take a week to get a T2A it’s 4 days. Pretty good.
A full T5B would cost 2040 coins. I’m well aware that you can’t buy a full one but hear me out. In the glory store a full one would cost 9 to 10k glory. That could take nearly a full month to get. In this event it would take under 20 days. Very nice value there. (For UC players the value isn’t really there which sucks but whatever.)
A T4B is 48 coins. That’s up to just over 2 a day. In glory the same thing costs 280. Now with glory you can only really focus on one thing. It’s either T5B, T2A or other catalysts. M.O.D.O.K store means you can buy all.
A T4CC selector is literally 120 coins. A T4CC crystal costs you 350. If you are hunting for a certain class (let’s say tech) you theoretically have to spend 2100 glory. Massive value there, even 6*s need T4CC to take up.
Finally a T1A costs 12 coins. 12 COINS! In glory that’s 220. Let that one sink in.
Health potions
Just going to blitz through these so here we go
L2 single revive: 11C, 40 units
Single:
L2: 2C, 7 units
L3: 4C, 14 units
L4: 6C, 21 units
Team
L2: 5C, 17 units
L3: 7C, 10k gold or 26 units (gold from black ISO market)
L4: 10C, 35 units
Crystals
4* crystal. 160 coins, 2 days of grind. 7.5k Incursions artefacts (short-ish grind time)
5* crystal. 200 coins under 2 days for God’s sake!. 22k Incursions artefacts (a pretty long grinding time)
Overall
I think the store has tons of values for newly Cavalier players but then for UC players a lot of the rewards are locked up. However a lot of the catalysts are available for the average UC player. There is some hidden value here. The 5* AG really increases the stores value by a lot but there is one problem. Purchase limits. They do kind of suck. If you’re going to give out 3 times the value of a 5* AG at least let people buy 2. Some of the limits seem silly. If you want to buy a T5B and T2A at the cost of all other rewards then why not? Overall overlooked and kind of good.
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It's not superb but it's not bad. I appreciate that I've been able to get my 5* awakening gem pretty early (still not that science I'm looking for though!) And the rest of stuff I'll buy up like the sig stones and some level up things, but nothing I get too excited about.
I would say in general, an average month. The Modok daily quest is pretty easy even at epic, can play at your own pace, and those too are giving I'd say average rewards (could use an uptick in 6* shards in those though).
I like it in the sense you don't have to grind to get the top stuff, but am not excited in it in the sense I'm not dying to do the grind to get something really cool.
Difficulty of the side events is pretty easy for the majority of the months, but every once in a while you get ones which challenge you skill and roster.
This is actually the easiest iteration of these labs so be grateful the difficulty has come down somewhat. We had to do harder versions for half the 5* shards and 20 6* shards.
Also you forgot kabam has allowed you to accumulate coins outside the hardest difficulty. So even players who can't do the hardest difficulty can get the AG with relative ease with making so many coins available via daily quests and the special objectives.
Compare that to the squirrel Event where you basically had to do the hardest map up to like a certain node and grind every day and do every Quest difficulty of the Monthly EQ to get the AG.
Even better, I wish this was like one of my other game I play. You can buy guaranteed tier boxes with character fragments using game currency or real money. Buy enough tiers and you can form that champ. More tiers for upgrades of that champ. It's pricy but you get the champ you want, and it can be done without spending if you grind. Slowly, but it can be done.
None of this stuff like the Seatin vid I just watched where he opened $1,500 worth of crystals and didn't get the featured. Bleh.