M.O.D.O.K.’S Lab Grand Re-Opening!

M.O.D.O.K. is re-opening his Laboratory for Summoners to test the limits of his new device, the Randomizers, once again!

Roll the dice and test yourself against a number of completely random Opponents with their own set of random Buffs! Beware, strategist M.O.D.O.K., satisfied with your previous performance in his Lab, has levelled up the Challenge for you! Remember to use M.O.D.O.K.’s remarkable Randomizer to spin the wheel again if you are not content with your set of Buffs.

If you need a refresher on how M.O.D.O.K.’s Lab Works, take a look at our forum post from the first time they ran, but read on to find out the differences!

The Lab will remain open for experiments between February 28th at 2 PM PST until March 26th at 3 AM PDT.

M.O.D.O.K.’s Lab will feature a few changes in this round:

Duration/Frequency
- 12 hours cycles instead of 8
- 1 entry limit per difficulty (exactly the same as before)

Auto Fight will be turned ON.

1 more General Pool Buff was added on the nodes of Medium Difficulty.

ALL the Champions will be randomized from every Class on every node instead of 1 Class per node.

Final fight in each quest is tuned to be a Boss fight.
- The Final Boss fight in Expert difficulty is a 6-Star Champion.

How hard are the fights in this round of craziness?

Easy - Mini Bosses
- 2-Star Champions
- Rank 1
- Level 10
- Signature 0

Easy - Final Boss
- 3-Star Champion
- Rank 1
- Level 5
- Signature 10

Medium - Mini Bosses
- 3-Star Champions
- Rank 3
- Level 30
- Signature 10

Medium - Final Boss
- 4-Star Champion
- Rank 2
- Level 20
- Signature 50

Hard - Mini Bosses
- 4-Star Champions
- Rank 4
- Level 40
- Signature 50

Hard - Final Boss
- 5-Star Champion
- Rank 3
- Level 45
- Signature 100

Expert - Mini Bosses
- 5-Star Champions
- Rank 4
- Level 55
- Signature 200

Expert - Final Boss
- 6-Star Champion
- Rank 3
- Level 35
- Signature 200

Were the Random Buffs victim to the twisted mind of MODOK, and adjusted as well?

Not really! A lot of the Buffs are what they were used to be. An exception to this is the new Final Boss Boosts:

Medium Final Boss HP and Attack Boost Pool
- Has Champion Boosts from 25%-50%

Hard Final Boss HP and Attack Boost Pool
- Has Champion Boosts from 75%-100%

Expert Final Boss HP and Attack Boost Pool
- Has Champion Boosts from 150%-200%

General Buff Pool

Consists of most Buffs available in the game, with some exceptions such as:

- Buffs that only work on one specific Character and Class specific Buffs (such as War Machine’s “Second Line” Buff or “Mystic Wrath”)
- Incredibly high HP or Attack Buffs (nothing above 200%)
- Degeneration (3.3% per second and 1.67% per second)

Buffs on a per-difficulty basis, on each fight:

Easy
- 1 General Pool Buff

Medium
- 1 Medium HP/Attack Pool Buff
- 2 General Pool Buffs

Hard
- 1 Hard HP/Attack Pool Buff
- 3 General Pool Buffs

Expert
- 1 Special 3 Activated (Permanent)
- 1 Expert HP/Attack Pool Buff
- 4 General Pool Buffs

Here’s where you can get more of M.O.D.O.K.’s precious Randomizers:

- 8x in a welcome message on February 28th, when M.O.D.O.K.’s Lab goes live.
- 8x per day in the Game Store for 2500 Gold each.
- 1x in each Final Boss fight of each difficulty of M.O.D.O.K.'s Lab (8x per 24 hours, maximum)

No energy cost but LIMITED ENTRY!

It still costs 0 energy per step to play M.O.D.O.K.’s Lab, however, you will only be able to enter each difficulty once every 12 hours.

IF YOU ENTER A QUEST AND QUIT OUT, YOU WILL LOSE ALL WITHHELD ITEMS AND YOUR ENTRY WILL NOT BE REFUNDED. This means if you enter, decide you want to play something else, and quit, you’ll have to wait until your entries reset (every 12 hours) to enter again.

REWARDS - M.O.D.O.K’s GENEROSITY

Below is a list of what you can expect as a rewards for each completion of M.O.D.O.K.’s Lab. Keep in mind that since this is 1 path, completion will also equal exploration. Also keep in mind this is per instance, meaning the below rewards can be earned a maximum of 2 times a day for the duration of the event.

Summoners must update to the latest version of the game to be able to partake in MODOK's Lab.

Enjoy the madness!

Comments

Karlos7

the rewards are not good, it helps those who are starting, but for those who already have a playing time they are bad.

Deadbyrd9

No one forces you to play content. Whether it’s new content or reused it would be a chore either way if you already know doing these “side missions” is a chore @IanMoone89

DrZola

Acanthus wrote: »

Sees 50% sig stone again

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I’m guessing your “50% chance” for Trials was like mine.

Dr. Zola

WestBrooklyn_21

I just wanna know are we gonna see the dimensional rifts again? Or at least a shot at a 5* awakening on occasion

Acanthus

DrZola wrote: »

Acanthus wrote: »

Sees 50% sig stone again

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I’m guessing your “50% chance” for Trials was like mine.

Dr. Zola

I think I lost like 200 prestige to some people just by sig stone RNG since the first Modok lab

RCunha

Kabam is "giving" us another way to gather more cristals and catalist shards, and all you do is complain, i rather do this event than do arena and the daily catalist quest.

Bahamut

BobsYourUnkle wrote: »

Are people really complaining about the rewards?

Over a 28 period, if you do Heroic and Mastery difficulty twice every day, you get a total of 5.6 t2a, 21 t4b, 4,000 4* shards, and 14,000 5* shards. For a few 0 energy fights per day. If those rewards were on a monthly calendar instead, people would be praising Kabam for their generosity.

The entitlement is real.

Edit: Don't get me wrong, I would prefer if it was the same rewards balanced out to only have to do it once per day. But I'm not so jaded to think I'm somehow getting screwed for getting all these free rewards just because i have to put in a small amount of work.

Fair point, but since the difficulty of the boss battles has been increased, a lot of people who were able too do the last one won’t be able to do this one, or they will but it will cost a lot of Units for something that was easier to get just a few months ago

DNA3000

Thawnim wrote: »

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SpiritOfVengeance wrote: »

Ill go with it this time but please don't get used to releasing this modok labs thing no one missed it when it went, your other ideas such as the scrapyard and rifts were much more popular.

Actually, I thought the MODOK event was pretty fun; I liked the randomizer element and my only real gripe was with the 8 hour timer. In fact, I think a once-per-day MODOK with somewhat higher rewards per run would be even better, because it would be less of a chore and more of a interesting diversion. The once per day property of Trials of the King is an important factor in making the TotK rewards seem to be more of a bonus and less of a chore to me.

I'd imagine you would prefer them to double the rewards and reduce the ability to run this quest to once per day.

I assume almost everyone would prefer that, but I would settle for less than that. In fact if it meant we were going to be having events like this every month or at least far more frequently than in the past (as it currently seems) even 30% more rewards but reduced to one run per day I'd be fine with.

I'm sure a lot of players would prefer more shots at more rewards: I'm saying what I'd be fine with.

beyonder8421

People expect too much for a freebie.
Having said that, I do not like this game mechanic and wasn't expecting it to come back (some of the combinations were horrible).

I think they should do a mix of things people tend to like and just reward glory or loyalty, so everyone can spend on whatever they want.
Or a specific store for this month (like Valor), that includes all of these rewards. In that way you can just save for what you really want.

In any case, I am ok with the rewards, I just do not enjoy the quests themselves. But will play them anyway because I clearly have an addiction problem XD

DNA3000

Bahamut wrote: »

BobsYourUnkle wrote: »

Are people really complaining about the rewards?

Over a 28 period, if you do Heroic and Mastery difficulty twice every day, you get a total of 5.6 t2a, 21 t4b, 4,000 4* shards, and 14,000 5* shards. For a few 0 energy fights per day. If those rewards were on a monthly calendar instead, people would be praising Kabam for their generosity.

The entitlement is real.

Edit: Don't get me wrong, I would prefer if it was the same rewards balanced out to only have to do it once per day. But I'm not so jaded to think I'm somehow getting screwed for getting all these free rewards just because i have to put in a small amount of work.

Fair point, but since the difficulty of the boss battles has been increased, a lot of people who were able too do the last one won’t be able to do this one, or they will but it will cost a lot of Units for something that was easier to get just a few months ago

To some extent that is true, but if we are going to account for this we should also account for the fact that players tend to get more skilled and have stronger rosters over time, so while there are people who could do a certain level of difficulty the first time and will now find that exact same difficulty harder, there are other players who will find the same level of difficulty easier than it was the last time because they have gotten stronger faster than the content has gotten harder. For those people, the same rewards are taking less effort, which means Kabam is giving out the same rewards at a lower relative difficulty or at the cost of less resource expense from those players.

nIHSEAN

Why increase in difficulty?
Those fights were hard enough for majority of the players.

Mr_Otter

So I ran the numbers for the maximum amount of shards one can earn in this

shards*28(days)*2(twice a day)

SHARDS
11,200 5*
4,200 4*
11,200 3*
16,800 PHC

CRYSTALS
1.12 5*
2.1 4*
5.6 3*
8.4 PHC

Also a reminder that this isn’t exactly a “freebie” for newer players as hard alone has minibosses at 4/40 4*s and the true boss at 3/45 5*

Expert (or the 5* shards) are gonna be a gauntlet with 4/55 5*s (max signature) minis and the true boss at 3/35 6*

All are gonna have up to 6 buffs including some hefty ISO boost to Caltrops or Unblockable Finale, immunity, stun immune, and probably slashed tired and thorns with any and every champion a possible obstacle like Dormammu, Magik, Iceman, Mordo, Hyperion, AntMan, Mephisto, CW-Panther Morningstar, Scarlet Witch, Electro, Ragnorok, and I believe even Thanos and Maestro too. With any number of buffs they’ll go from hard to insane. And with each 12 hour reward cycle you only get 1 chance or you essentially “lose” those rewards. I’m pretty sure there will be seasoned players that will get just an UGLY string of fights and probably lose a few 5* shards here and there too.

“Do or do not, there is no try.” -Yoda

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Kpatrix

These quests were fun, who is to say that next month we won't see something different, and the month after something else. This isn't permanent, it seems like they have a few different monthly special quests like this they can randomly rotate now.

We all know something big will hit with Infinity War, no need to complain, they are keeping us engaged and I'm happy to see them return as well as the rewards.

Bryon_502

I think this even is good. I would like to see more events like the 2* only 5* shard arena. Or a 3* only war. I have all these lower teir characters that are pretty much useless. I don't grind in the areas for 3* champs so....

...What to do with all my 1,2,3,and now 4* champs?????

LeNoirFaineant

Mr_Otter wrote: »

“Do or do not, there is no try.” -Yoda

Gotta say I love Yoda and all and that's a famous line, but it's just wrong. There is try.

NateThePraxis

Kabam Miike wrote: »

BitterSteel wrote: »

Kabam Miike wrote: »

JOHNOSA1995 wrote: »

It's still 200 5 star shard you said updated!?

Our bad! That was bad math on our part. Sorry!

so is the 200 value right, or should it be higher?

The 200 value is correct.

why not 300? Some of us cannot do Master. Remember the little people!!!

beyonder8421

nIHSEAN wrote: »

you could be told you have a chance at Mordok crystals, see people get tons of them only to get 0 on 26 days .

What is a Mordok?

Bahamut

beyonder8421 wrote: »

nIHSEAN wrote: »

you could be told you have a chance at Mordok crystals, see people get tons of them only to get 0 on 26 days .

What is a Mordok?

M.O.D.O.K. at Mordor

Heyheyhey

So increase the difficulty ...

But no increase in rewards. Another bad math @Kabam Miike

Mr_Otter

LeNoirFaineant wrote: »

Mr_Otter wrote: »

“Do or do not, there is no try.” -Yoda

Gotta say I love Yoda and all and that's a famous line, but it's just wrong. There is try.

Yeah you can try all you want I guess. All I meant was “almost” is a “no” in this challenge. Nothing left in stash, no units, out of crystals, and nothing left you’re willing to spend, means those shards are gone.

Supercaptain18

This is not the event quest we are looking for

IanMoone89

Only changes they made was adding a 6* boss and prepare to face the worst champions who are a pain in the ass when comes to being defensive and a 6*

beyonder8421

IanMoone89 wrote: »

Only changes they made was adding a 6* boss and prepare to face the worst champions who are a pain in the ass when comes to being defensive and a 6*

As far as I remember, the bosses in MODOK labs were easier than the fights in the middle, but back then I think the class of the boss was fixed (cosmic). Perhaps cosmic champs were easier back then. Since they are also randomizing the class, it could get a bit more difficult.

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Speeds80

As has already been explained. Autofight was disabled last time and people complained as there are easy levels to run, autofight is nice, for those levels, it’s optional and definitely not for the harder levels. Hopefully it’s not much harder than last time, was a good difficulty when aw and aq are on and you have to use your c team, much harder and might be hard when they are on, t2a shards and 5* shards = decent rewards for a few fights

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Mr_Otter

Fanoin wrote: »

So basically enter roll the dice and pray you win with auto fight on what's the point. And we all know how well the player AI works lol

I think it’s just an option for easy/medium so we can ignore the game and make a sandwich while we earn free shards