Introducing Back Issue #1: Ultron's Assault

Summoners!

Let’s take a trip way back in time! Back to a time where a maniacal machine was on the path to destroying the Battlerealm, but several courageous Champions and Summoners stopped his rampage!

Introducing, Back Issue #1: Ultron’s Assault!

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 Battle Realm and the Contest of Champions. We want to give Veteran Summoners a way to relive those moments, and to give Summoners 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 40 and up. This version features extreme challenge, new opponents, updated map layouts, and new combat effects for the boss fights. This quest will test even the mightiest of Summoners, so be prepared! You can find out more about the challenges you will face in Variant Difficulty in our latest Dev Diary post here: https://playcontestofchampions.com/dev-diary-added-difficulty/

Each Chapter of Variant Difficulty requires that you only bring Champions from 2 specific classes. These Quests will test not only your skills, but your knowledge of Champion’s abilities, immunities, resistances, and counters! Those who rely on only a few Champions will find the need to diversify, even outside of the Champion Requirements in place.

Remember Summoners, Variant Difficulty is going to be HARD! We’re stressing the use of a varied roster in this iteration. The good news is that Back Issues are permanent content, so if you’re not able to take Variant Difficulty on right now, take all the time you need and come back to it when you feel you are better equipped!

As the name suggests, this is our first iteration of our Back Issue Quests. Our goal is to periodically release more Event Quests for our Summoners to relive! Keep an eye out as we go back and explore more of the history of the Contest of Champions!

Rewards:

For completing and mastering all of the Classic quests, you earn:

Tier 2 Generic ISO x4
Tier 3 Generic ISO x22
Tier 4 Generic ISO x6
Gold x12250
Units x225
Tier 1 Alpha Catalyst x1
Premium Hero Crystal x3
3-Star Hero Crystal x1

For completing and mastering all of the Variant quests, you earn:

5-Star Rank 2 → 3 Gem Crystal x3
5-Star Rank 3 → 4 Gem Crystal (2015 Champions 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 x21600
6-Star Crystal Shards x2250
5-Star Signature Stone Crystal x48
Gold x2,100,000
Units x360

You’re probably wondering about those 5-Star Rank 3 → 4 Gems for 2015 Champions only. Those crystals contain class specific 5-Star Rank Up Gems that can only be used on Champions that were available upon release and those released until the end of 2015!

Here are all of the Champions that these Rank Up Gems will work on. NOTE: Some of these Champions are not available at the 5-Star Rarity. This list does not necessarily indicate that they will be released.

Captain Marvel
Drax
Ms.Marvel
Spider-Man (Symbiote)
Venom
Ronan
Gamora
Groot
Superior Iron-Man
Thor
Black Bolt
Storm
Cyclops (Red Team)
Colossus
Magneto
Deadpool
Wolverine
Magneto (Marvel Now!)
Deadpool (X-Force)
Magik
Guillotine
Iron Fist
Juggernaut
Thor (Jane Foster)
Dr. Strange
Scarlet Witch
Unstoppable Colossus
Luke Cage
Electro
Ant-Man
Yellowjacket
Spider-Man
Captain America
Spider-Gwen
Rhino
Hulk
Abomination
Joe Fixit
Captain America (WW2)
Black Panther
Moon Knight
Elektra
Punisher
Daredevil
Winter Soldier
Hawkeye
Black Widow
Daredevil (Classic)
Rocket Raccoon
Hulkbuster
Ultron
Iron Patriot
Star-Lord
Kang
Iron-Man
Vision (AoU)
War Machine
Vision

This Quest will be available starting tomorrow, November 14th at 10 am PST! Remember, this is permanent content, so you can take your time completing this throwback!

Comments

NOOOOOOOOPEEEEE

The difficulty of this must be pretty high for these rewards.

Hiddenelementx

Are those the rewards for this particular classic/variant quest or all of them put together?

If all of them, how many will there be?

Nemore

How difficult would it have been to alphabetize the 2015 champ list?

XxLoganTDCxX

Maybe they will bring back Qwenpool goes to the movies but it might take a while because it was just realized a few months ago

Kabam Miike

Hiddenelementx wrote: »

Are those the rewards for this particular classic/variant quest or all of them put together?

If all of them, how many will there be?

That's just for this one! We're not sure yet how many more of these will be coming, or how often they'll be released, but we do want to do more!

Kabam Miike

NOOOOOOOOPEEEEE wrote: »

The difficulty of this must be pretty high for these rewards.

Oh, it won't be easy...

V1PER1987

Nemore wrote: »

How difficult would it have been to alphabetize the 2015 champ list?

Isn’t by class better? When you pull 3 science you can go straight to the science section and realize only one is worth ranking.

ShadPrince

OneManArmy wrote: »

ShadPrince wrote: »

Jh_Dez wrote: »

Nice rewards but not liking the 2015 champions

I mean, it's still an extra rank 3->4 gem, if you didn't notice the other one that'll work for all champs.

4 in total actually. Besides i bet we can find 3 awesome champs from 2015 worthy!

That's true, I missed the extra ones.
And I mean, Magik, Starlord and Luke Cage are there, so that's great.

LoPresti

With those rewards, this is gonna be hella hard. I'm ready

Acanthus

Hope you gonna ban the mercs for this. Probably wishful thinking but oh well

RagamugginGunner

Really hope I don't pull a skill, tech or mutant 2015 gem. No good champs in those classes.

Nemore

V1PER1987 wrote: »

Nemore wrote: »

How difficult would it have been to alphabetize the 2015 champ list?

Isn’t by class better? When you pull 3 science you can go straight to the science section and realize only one is worth ranking.

Sure, but then alphabetize them after organizing them by class.

Snizzbar

Are the Classic rewards very low? Or is that just what rewards were like three years ago?

Robby199696

Is the difficulty on par with LoL or closer to symbiote difficulty?

ShinobiGuy

This sounds good, especially the permanent part.

unknown

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BirdReynolds

If it’s permanent but only the first one, will potential future back issues replace this one or will they be in addition to?

Night_Owl

It looks much harder than LOL.

Kabam Miike

Ghostspider231 wrote: »

How big is the quest? Size of a normal event quest or are we talking RTTL or LOL sized?

It is the size of the original Ultron's Assault Event Quest, but some of you may not know... This Event Quest had 9 quests, and not 6 like our current Event Quests.

Bendy

What star will these be at level and Sig level

spigwender

You did good, Kabam. You did good.

Campo4

I like the 2015 champions thing because most of us wouldn't use t2a on them, so to be able to rank them up without consuming those resources is just good for roster building. And 3 of them on top of it.

Skill - Hawkeye would be great
Tech - if you don't have SL up, great
Cosmic - Venom is great now
Science - Spidey for defense
Mutant...well Red Cyk is supposedly great in AW
Mystic - Magik if you don't have her up yet or Guilly

All decent enough characters that you wouldn't necessarily rank over more modern champs, but now can.

Voluntaris

Is the "Ultron" listed as a 2015 champion the LoL Ultron or the regen Ultron?

unknown

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OKAYGang

Curious is the 2.1 million in gold just a bonus reward at the end or does that sound include what we're going to earn for every normal move and fight on the map?

tntsl

IMO there should be 3 difficulty levels. It sounds like the levels are going to be roughly equivalent to Regular and Uncollected in the monthly quests - at least based on the rewards that's what it looks like.

Jaffacaked

Can we get an idea of the energy cost per tile or per quest\chapter ?

Man_Bat

A lot of those early quests had class gates. Will those feature in this reprise?

Epsilon3

This is HOT! Not gonna lie I’m having trouble containing myself with all them goodies

TheBaldAvenger

Kabam Miike wrote: »

Ghostspider231 wrote: »

How big is the quest? Size of a normal event quest or are we talking RTTL or LOL sized?

It is the size of the original Ultron's Assault Event Quest, but some of you may not know... This Event Quest had 9 quests, and not 6 like our current Event Quests.

But they were smaller quests than what we get now right? What will the energy costs be?