Announcing Special Quests: Trials of the King

FIT FOR A KING

How did the Black Panther become the Black Panther? Like those who came before him, he proved himself in a set of rites meant to test all aspects of his body and mind; The Trials of the King. Thanos’ growing power casts a dark shadow across the Battlerealm, and King T’Challa finds himself reflecting on the lessons of the Trials now more than ever. After communion with the Panther God Bast, T’Challa knows what he must do. All leaders are only as good as their weakest ally. T’Challa must know that you are capable of doing what must be done. You must prove yourself in the Trials of the King.

WE ON NOW

Trials of the King is the collective name of 7 different Daily Quests. Starting on January 31st at 10AM PST, the first Trial of the King - called the Trial of Heart - will become available for 24 hours.

Like M.O.D.O.K.’s Lab, Trials of the King will have ENTRY LIMITS. Unlike M.O.D.O.K.’s Lab however, ONLY ONE DIFFICULTY of Trials of the King can be played every day. This means if you enter Easy difficulty, and either complete or quit that quest, you will have used your entries for all difficulties for that day. In the event that you QUIT the quest, you will also be forfeiting all rewards for that day as well.

For the first 6 days, you’ll be playing through 3 fights in every difficulty, with all those fights having a set of Buffs applied to them that fit the theme of that day. More details on enemies and Buffs are below, but the theme of each day is as follows:

Day 1: Trial of Heart - Fights that focus on Regeneration and Degeneration (mostly regen).
Day 2: Trial of Time - Fights that focus on time limits and time-based effects.
Day 3: Trial of Resilience - Fights that focus on defensive abilities.
Day 4: Trial of Spirit - Fights that focus on Power Gain and Power Drain.
Day 5: Trial of Wisdom - Fights that focus on changing the normal flow of battle.
Day 6: Trial of Strength - Fights that focus on high damage.

Whichever difficulty you complete will always award you with an ESSENCE. Essences are mode specific Boosts that will grant you powerful effects on the seventh day: The Trial of the Infinite. The Trial of the Infinite is a collection of 6 fights - one from each of the previous 6 days, and will allow you to play EACH DIFFICULTY ONCE. It also has increased rewards when compared to the previous 6 days (details on that below). After the 7th day, the cycle resets. This will occur 4 times, with the final Trial of the Infinite concluding on February 28th at 10:00 AM PST. Here’s a handy diagram to plot this out:

WALKTHROUGH

That’s a lot of stuff, so let’s go through what a week might look like, step by step.

Day 1 - Trial of Heart appears and you decide to play Expert difficulty:

You complete the map, and receive the reward, including that day’s Essence - the Essence of
Heart:

Day 1 has now been completed. If you quit out of the quest you entered, however, you will lose the opportunity to obtain the Essence for that day (as well as any other rewards).

Repeat this Process on days 2 through 6:

When Day 7 appears, you will be able to enter each difficulty once:

These fights WILL be harder, but rewards will also increase. In these quests, you will be able to activate your Essences from Days 1-6 to give you an edge. Essences only last 30 minutes however, so make sure to use them when it counts!

And that’s it! Once the Trial of the Infinite is complete, the Trial of Heart will return and a new 7-day cycle will begin!

Comments

Spurgeon14

DNA3000 wrote: »

Spurgeo14 wrote: »

Its interesting how misleading this is:

That purple Crystal is a Wakandan Ultimate Crystal! In each difficulty of any Trial, there will be a chance for you to win either a Wakandan Ultimate Crystal or a chunk of Premium Hero Crystal Shards. The amount of Premium Hero Crystal Shards and your chance of getting an Ultimate Crystal differs depending on the difficulty you play. If you play Expert, you are more likely to get an Ultimate Crystal than if you play Heroic, etc.

When I read this initially I thought it would be fairly common to get these purple crystals. After day 1 I pulled one and that made me think even more so playing Expert would have a large drop rate for these. However, apparently not as many never got one and I haven't received one since. Its fine, because its just 3* champs, but it is interesting how they make it sound like the drop rate is high for Expert when it obviously isnt. Its "higher" or "more likely". This language is becoming very annoying because we dont know how much "higher" or "more likely" it is. Apparently not enough to make an measurable difference. This is why drop rates being transparent would be nice. Like the 50% chance to pull a 5* gem or ISO. Wish they would apply that sort of language in other crystals.

It sounds like your argument is with the English language. In English, "higher" does not imply "high." If the odds of the Wakandan crystal drop were, say, 1% in heroic and 2% in expert, the proper way to describe that in English is to say the odds are "higher" in expert.

And since the drop rate is a random reward from gameplay activity, it is unlikely Kabam or any other game company is going to feel compelled to disclose those odds universally. There is no significant movement of players to force game companies to disclose all of their random gameplay factors, just the ones involving monetary microtransactions. To force game companies to disclose the odds of *everything* that happens in the game is a burden I would not place on game developers. That seems unreasonable to me.

Nah, I speak English real good. Nice try though.

Chork4

Do the AI boosts count as buffs?such that they can they be nullified or stolen? trial of hearts particularly, can the arc overload it be reversed with gil or stolen by loki? I know Loki couldn't steal in MBJ challenge

DNA3000

Spurgeo14 wrote: »

DNA3000 wrote: »

Spurgeo14 wrote: »

Its interesting how misleading this is:

That purple Crystal is a Wakandan Ultimate Crystal! In each difficulty of any Trial, there will be a chance for you to win either a Wakandan Ultimate Crystal or a chunk of Premium Hero Crystal Shards. The amount of Premium Hero Crystal Shards and your chance of getting an Ultimate Crystal differs depending on the difficulty you play. If you play Expert, you are more likely to get an Ultimate Crystal than if you play Heroic, etc.

When I read this initially I thought it would be fairly common to get these purple crystals. After day 1 I pulled one and that made me think even more so playing Expert would have a large drop rate for these. However, apparently not as many never got one and I haven't received one since. Its fine, because its just 3* champs, but it is interesting how they make it sound like the drop rate is high for Expert when it obviously isnt. Its "higher" or "more likely". This language is becoming very annoying because we dont know how much "higher" or "more likely" it is. Apparently not enough to make an measurable difference. This is why drop rates being transparent would be nice. Like the 50% chance to pull a 5* gem or ISO. Wish they would apply that sort of language in other crystals.

It sounds like your argument is with the English language. In English, "higher" does not imply "high." If the odds of the Wakandan crystal drop were, say, 1% in heroic and 2% in expert, the proper way to describe that in English is to say the odds are "higher" in expert.

And since the drop rate is a random reward from gameplay activity, it is unlikely Kabam or any other game company is going to feel compelled to disclose those odds universally. There is no significant movement of players to force game companies to disclose all of their random gameplay factors, just the ones involving monetary microtransactions. To force game companies to disclose the odds of *everything* that happens in the game is a burden I would not place on game developers. That seems unreasonable to me.

Nah, I speak English real good. Nice try though.

I don't know how to "try" to explain the meaning of a simple word like "higher." That seems to be a pass/fail sort of thing.

Chork4

trial of hearts SW seems to be the go too, the others(ultron gil majik BW) just palm to face plant. next week ill try loki as well.

phillgreen

Easy one today, DV, X23 and DP.

Dan99

Credit where credit is due: Kabam, i think you outdid yourselves this time. This is by far the most enjoyable "special quest" in my opinion. I guess it's because it only happens once a day, and the build-up towards day 7 is exciting. Plus the possible enemies are listed so we're able to prepare. It rewards planning and strategy. In contrast, Modok's Lab seemed so totally random and it was soul-crushing to not be able to finish certain maps. Keep up the good work!

LordBaldyBald

@Kabam Miike what are the odds of getting the Wakandan crystals for doing the quest on the highest difficulty. I’ve been doing them every day and every difficulty on trial of the infinite and I haven’t gotten a single one yet. I know I’m unlucky with this game, but I try to stay hopeful lol

Magrailothos

As @DNA3000 says, why would Kabam choose to give us this information? What gives us the right to even ask? We aren't buying completion of these quests (at least some of us aren't)

It's higher on Expert than on Hard. That's all we get.

DNA3000

Magrailothos wrote: »

As @DNA3000 says, why would Kabam choose to give us this information? What gives us the right to even ask? We aren't buying completion of these quests (at least some of us aren't)

It's higher on Expert than on Hard. That's all we get.

There are lots of potentially good reasons to give players that information, and what gives you the right to ask is the fact the forums allow polite requests for gameplay information. However, the odds of the crystal itself dropping during gameplay is unlikely to be *required* to be disclosed by Apple's new requirements, which is the only thing I said about that.

NeverBD911

Mantap jiwa

LordBaldyBald

Will there be any compensation for people who went through the entirety of the trials on expert and every difficulty on trial of the infinite days and received no Wakandan crystals? Even if it’s just 1 Wakandan crystal for participating, I at least want to be able to say I got one...

Thawnim

LordNegrotron wrote: »

Will there be any compensation for people who went through the entirety of the trials on expert and every difficulty on trial of the infinite days and received no Wakandan crystals? Even if it’s just 1 Wakandan crystal for participating, I at least want to be able to say I got one...

It's not a bad idea. One free Wakandan crystal as a wrap up for anyone that completed at least 1 trial of the infinite.

Nameless787

When is this trial of the King thing over??

Magrailothos

Nameless787 wrote: »

When is this trial of the King thing over??

Today.

THRobinson

How do i get rid of the essences? Event's been over a while and still in inventory... Can't seem to use or sell them.

Magrailothos

THRobinson wrote: »

How do i get rid of the essences? Event's been over a while and still in inventory... Can't seem to use or sell them.

Don't let them bother you. If they're really of no further use, Kabam will make them disappear. Let's see if the event repeats when the dvd comes out.

THRobinson

Thanks... wasn't sure if during updates they get flagged for removal, or if a year from now I'll still have them in inventory.