Back Issues #8: Deadpoolooza!

Once upon a time, I made the best quest ever!

That's right, you thought some stuffy old designer was going to write this message, but it was ME!

It’s time for Back Issues #8, smacking you in the face on Wednesday, November 10th!

Just like those other dusty old Back Issues we dig out of the closest, THE EXCEPTIONAL DEADPOOLOOZA will let all of my lovely little Summoners relive a classic quest from the good 'ol days, available in TWO TASTY FLAVOURS:

The 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. Look back with smug impunity at how easy the game used to be and flex those muscles!

The variant difficulty is a new spin on the quest, available for Summoners level 45 and up. This version features difficult challenges, new opponents, some map layout updates, and buffs that will empower your #Mercenary Champions... and ME!

... as well as those other slackers who're biting the Deadpool brand.

That means all your #Mercenary and Deadpool-family buddies are going to be juiced up and ready to fight, but all other Champions can't do much more than show up! That's right, it's MY quest, so I made it exclusively for those with excellent taste, dubious morals, or both!

The Variant Challenge

Like I literally just said, this Quest is all about me and all the wannabes. So here’s the sitch, we’ve got Global buffs for me and my homies, and we’ve got new Cross Fight buffs for all the other Mercs. Check em out!

Global Buffs

Mercs for Money: The Defender reduces all incoming damage by {95}%, unless the Attacker is #Mercenary, Deadpool, Deadpool (X-Force), Goldpool, Platinumpool, Gwenpool, Venompool, or Masacre.

Star of the Show: Obviously I should get a huge buff in these quests, I'm the original! Let's pump up all my stats, and finally put something on my SP1. (This buff supplies Deadpool (and ONLY Deadpool) bonus attack, bonus armor, bonus crit rate, increased regeneration potency, and applies a Degen effect to the Defender on a successful SP1)

We Should All Have This Power Anyways: This doesn't make sense. Why don't all my copies have the same abilities as me!? Grant Attacking Deadpool (X-Force), Goldpool, Platinumpool, Gwenpool, Venompool, or Masacre permanent Passive Regeneration of [120]% of their Max Health per minute, scaling with their Power.

Cross Fight Ability Buffs

“But Mr Thrillson!”, you might say, and I would say “Yes my sweet little cherub?”, “These don’t benefit the other #Mercenaries at all!”. And you’d be right! I did things differently this time since this is my quest and will be better than all of the other Back Issues, periodt.

Defeating Deadpooloids throughout the Quest will grant you special abilities that you can carry forward into the rest of the quest, making your Mercs stronger and stronger!

Here’s what you’ve got:

Strapped Up (Skill Deadpooloid): Defeating this Defender grants the Attacker a permanent "Strapped Up" Cross-Fight ability. "Strapped Up" causes the Attacker's Special Attacks to randomly inflict additional Debuffs for the remainder of the quest.

Starlight Acrobatics (Cosmic Deadpooloid): Defeating this Defender grants the Attacker a permanent "Starlight Acrobatics" Cross-Fight ability. "Starlight Acrobatics" grants the Attacker a Phase Passive when they dash back and hold block, causing incoming Attacks to Miss.

Bad Breath (Science Deadpooloid): Defeating this Defender grants the Attacker a permanent "Bad Breath" Cross-Fight ability. "Bad Breath" causes the Attacker to inflict Poison Debuffs on Opponents who are near them.

Sucker Punch (Mutant Deadpooloid): Defeating this Defender grants the Attacker a permanent "Sucker Punch" Cross-Fight ability. "Sucker Punch" makes the Attacker permanently Unblockable while the Opponent is above a certain HP threshold.

You Shall Not Cast (Mystic Deadpooloid): Defeating this Defender grants the Attacker a permanent "You Shall Not Cast" Cross-Fight ability. "You Shall Not Cast" grants Power Steal to the Attacker's Heavy and Special Attacks.

Cyber Hive (Tech Deadpooloid): Defeating this Defender grants the Attacker a permanent "Cyber Hive" Cross-Fight ability. "Cyber Hive" grants all of the Attacker's attacks a chance to Poison and Shock the Opponent.
Rewards
For Total Completion and Mastery of Classic Difficulty, I’ll give you...

Tier 3 Basic ISO x5
Tier 4 Basic ISO x7
Tier 2 Skill ISO x5
Tier 2 Science ISO x5
Tier 2 Tech ISO x5
Tier 2 Cosmic ISO x5
Tier 2 Mystic ISO x5
Tier 2 Mutant ISO x5
Tier 2 Basic Catalyst x3
Tier 1 Alpha Catalyst x1
Tier 4 Basic Catalyst Fragments x2700
3-Star Venom x1
Gold x9575
Units x150
Premium Hero Crystal Shards x4600
3-Star Hero Crystal Shards x2000

For Total Completion and Mastery of Variant Difficulty, you’ll score…

5-Star Rank 2 → 3 Gem x3
5-Star Rank 3 → 4 Gem (<2017 Champions) x3
5-Star Rank 4 → 5 Gem Crystal x1
5-Star Awakening Gem Crystal x1
5-Star Crystal Shards x25000
Tier 5 Basic Catalysts x3
Tier 5 Class Catalyst Fragment Crystal (25%) x1
6-Star Crystal Shards x5000
5-Star Signature Stone Crystal x48
Gold x4,000,000
Units x360

See you soon,

XOXO Thrillhouse

Comments

bazingamp

I just did completion as rewards are ok for completion. I won't go for exploration as exploration rewards are not good enough for amount of time I need to put. This is the only variant after variant 1, I am not planning to explore. I got 2 revives and 4 health portion too

although I lost more fighting venom pool

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Chrisco66

Unless you’re a you tuber or end game player with nothing else to use your energy on you should NEVER rush into new content. V8 just demonstrates this clearly.

SuperAmirhamza07

Anybody having issues with Lifecycle on the first boss.? Really frustrating. Cant kill him with sp3 when shield is clearly down…. Happens a few times now.

I haven’t had issues with the lifecycle at all and I’ve took the very first quest boss fight down 3 times with no problems besides the usual parry and dex making everything worse

StevieManWonder

I'm playing through exploration right now and man this content freaking sucks. Why are there no real boosts for the #Mercenary champions? This whole thing just feels lazy

Panchulon21

I'm playing through exploration right now and man this content freaking sucks. Why are there no real boosts for the #Mercenary champions? This whole thing just feels lazy

Yeah the quest is trash. So much power gain nodes. Such high block damage. Kabam took a step forward with act 7.1 and 7.2, a step back with 7.3 and a leap over the Grand Canyon with this trash of a variant lol

StevieManWonder

I'm playing through exploration right now and man this content freaking sucks. Why are there no real boosts for the #Mercenary champions? This whole thing just feels lazy
Yeah the quest is trash. So much power gain nodes. Such high block damage. Kabam took a step forward with act 7.1 and 7.2, a step back with 7.3 and a leap over the Grand Canyon with this trash of a variant lol

Bruh, don't even get me started on the damn block damage. It's such a pain, especially since I'm primarily using a 6r1 Domino and a 4/55 Masacre for a lot of fights. It's not so bad when I'm using my 6r2 Platpool or Nebs or 6r3 WeaponX, but so many of the fights are such BS that it's easier to just Domino it.
On a positive note, this Variant made me realize how much I love playing Masacre. I'm dying to get and rank up a six star one.

Kilohm

Is anyone having issues with Venompool Boss in the last quest?? He is getting a crazy power gain buff when he is not meant to and sometimes gets debuffs and sometimes doesn't and doesn't trigger Snack charge either. Very Bizzarre

gahrling

Is anyone having issues with Venompool Boss in the last quest?? He is getting a crazy power gain buff when he is not meant to and sometimes gets debuffs and sometimes doesn't and doesn't trigger Snack charge either. Very Bizzarre

If you read his abilities it states he gets a power gain buff if you interrupt his SP2.

ccrider474

Is anyone having issues with Venompool Boss in the last quest?? He is getting a crazy power gain buff when he is not meant to and sometimes gets debuffs and sometimes doesn't and doesn't trigger Snack charge either. Very Bizzarre

As said before sp2 don't interrupt it or his power gain starts getting out of control. Bait sp1 or let him do his full moonwalk before attacking again.

Ability reduction can override the node. I had Domino successfully parry stun and sp2 bleed applied as well throughout the fight. Mascre while in assassin range was placing incenerate on vp as well. Cool and not as can't feed snack charges like that.

RookM1

Rewards are weak for state of game
This isn't endgame content anymore either. If you're looking for T6B and T3A, ask Carina for a new Challenge!
I’d very much like to understand what passes for “end game content” now… I personally find Abyss easier than this variant.

Totally agree, when I first saw that post from Kabam I was pretty excited for V8…engaging content, not overly difficult, some fun cheese nodes and lanes, and materials for some fun 5star rank ups…instead this feels like Act6 garbage:(

ccrider474

I didn't mind this variant but it was in no way cav difficulty.

I didn't mind it because I have domino and mascre as r3 6 same as rhulk but he was just syn. If you have multiple r3 6 odds are you aren’t cav.

I tried using other champs ie my Gwenpool and bwdo, but they just weren't getting the job done.

It all came down to me as a mascre show (who by the way is broken in this with that regen) with domino parry heavy for the stupid power gain stuff like that punisher lane in 2.1.

For people in my situation it was a win but for the target audience it is a failure.

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_Reef

Bwdo breeze through the entire event, add nf and Quake to make her even better, venompool boss included

GymRatMarco

The rewards were absolutely terrible for all the effort I put in to fully explore it. Just awful.

radarz99NFFC

These rewards are awful, this is 2018 rewards lol... It's not about being end game content, it's about pushing rewards that fit the present. 5* champs are falling behind, start handing out more 6* shards to expand rosters.
It's this, 100% this. Rewards should continue to scale with each new release, especially for permanent content.

i want to agree but then players will expect more and more rewards and then 6 star value will go down. The rewards need a buff badly but handing out more 6 star shards is not the way to go.