Witness the Great Revival! Act 6 Chapter 1 - Coming March 13th

BORN AGAIN
Carina has awoken. For ages she’s been trapped in her crystal prison, but with the support of Ægon, The Collector finally has his daughter back, but she’s not interested in standing still. Keen to find her place in The Battlerealm, Carina begins to understand her power and explore the fringes of the unknown, but Carina’s rebirth has reminded the Elders that the scars of their past have yet to fully heal. Taneleer Tivan and En Dwi Gast must jockey for Carina’s attention as they both attempt to mold her into the Elder they think she ought to be. Unfortunately for the both of them, Carina is as rebellious as she is powerful, and her defiant nature might just prove too much for the old Elders to handle…

Join Carina, Ægon, The Collector, and The Grandmaster when the final episode in the Elder Saga begins in ACT 6: REBIRTH!

RELEASE + LEGENDS
Act 6 Chapter 1: Great Revival releases on MARCH 13TH for all who have completed Act 5: ELDER’S WAR to enjoy.

Alongside this release, we’re happy to announce a Legends Run for Chapter 1! This Legends run will begin the moment you start Act 6 Chapter 1, and end the moment you 100% explore all Quests in the Chapter. You’ll have until April 13th at 10:00:00 AM PDT to log a time. The rewards for the Legends run of Act 6 Chapter 1 are:

Rank 1-5
10x Tier 5 Class Catalyst Fragment Crystals (2% each of a random Tier 5 Class Catalyst)
22,500x Tier 5 Basic Catalyst Fragments
2x Tier 2 Alpha Catalysts

Rank 6-100
5x Tier 5 Class Catalyst Fragment Crystals (2% each of a random Tier 5 Class Catalyst)
11,250x Tier 5 Basic Catalyst Fragments
1x Tier 2 Alpha Catalysts

In a new turn of events, we’ll also be featuring a Legends Run for all Chapters of Act 6, and a special Act Legends Reward throughout the release of Act 6! The top times for each Chapter’s Legends will be collected, and awarded with a new 6-Star Champion never before owned by any Summoner!

In order to win the Act Legends Reward, you’ll need to place in the top times of each Chapter, as follows:

Chapter 1 - Top 20 Times
Chapter 2 - Top 40 Times
Chapter 3 - Top 60 Times
Chapter 4 - Top 100 Times

If you happen to qualify for all 4 Chapters, you’ll receive the Champion 4 times, meaning you can Awaken them this way! We will have more to reveal about each Chapter’s and the Act Legends rewards in the future, but that’s all we have for you for now.

CHAMPION REQUIREMENTS
Act 6 is some of the most challenging content to date, and the perils within require only the strongest Champions of The Contest. Chapter 1 will contain CHAMPION REQUIREMENTS that will restrict the Champions you use to ONLY 5 and 6-Star Champions.

BUFFS
There are 7 new buffs making an appearance in Act 6 Chapter 1. Each Quest features one or more of these Buffs as Global effects, so you’ll need to bring your best. See below for each Buff and a little description of our intentions with it.

NO RETREAT! - When the Attacker dashes back, they gain Degen Timer for 1.2 seconds. Dashing back again while the Degen Timer is active causes a Passive Degen, dealing 200% of the Defender's Attack as direct damage over 6 seconds.
This Buff is meant to impose the mentality of its title: Do not retreat. While other similar Buffs like Caltrops can be easily countered with an Immunity, No Retreat requires careful planning and execution on playstyle to overcome. No Retreat was designed to be possible - but challenging - to avoid.

Special Delivery - The Attacker begins the fight with 15 Combo charges. Each landed basic attack decreases the Combo charges by 1, and launching a Special Attack will reset the charges. If all charges are removed, they are reset, and the Attacker suffers a Passive Degen equal to 100% of the Defender's Attack Rating over 4 seconds.
Similar to fighting Thor Ragnarok, this Buff will require you to make sure you have a Special Attack at the ready, but there are sure to be challenges to that strategy strewn throughout…

Combo Party - For every 10 hits of the Combo Meter, the Attacker gains a permanent Cruelty Buff, granting +500 Crit Damage Rating. When struck, the Attacker loses all Cruelty Buffs if their combo meter is lost and takes 40% of the Defender's attack as direct damage for each Buff removed this way.
This buff is generally quite simple, and is intended to create a “ride the line” feeling - you want to get your combo count up, but losing it will cost you dearly.

Long Distance Relationship - While close to the Defender, the Attacker gains a Weakness Debuff every 3 seconds, reducing their attack by 10% permanently. Staying far away from the Defender causes these Weakness effects to fall off.
The goal here is to encourage you to find “openings” to deal as much damage as possible. Waste those openings, or just spend too long near the opponent, and you’ll need to back off in order to gain your damage back. If you’re pinned in a corner, you’ll want to use your abilities to create some space and start dealing damage again.

Close Encounters - While close to the Defender the Attacker Regenerates 1% of their Max Health every second. While far away from the Defender, the Attack Degenerates 3% of their Max Health every second.
Sort of the inverse of Long Distance Relationship, Close Encounters encourages you to stay as close to the Defender as possible, and being efficient as you bait specials or get out of the way of abilities that could cause trouble up close (like Mephisto or Omega Red).

Power Struggle - The Attacker cannot gain Power during the fight through normal means. Each time the Defender reaches a full bar of Power, the Attacker is granted one as well and whenever the Defender launches a Special Attack, the Attacker loses an equal amount of Power.
This one is all about a “use it or lose it” mentality - you’ll want to make sure you’re keeping an eye on your Opponent’s power and how it relates to your own. Characters who can control power using their specials, like Vision or Magik, will excel here.

Hurt Locker - Using the same type of Special Attack twice in a row gives the Attacker a Delayed Blast charge for 5 seconds which may be removed by landing a Heavy Attack. If the Blast expires, the Attacker takes 50% of their Health as direct damage.
This one is (as the name might suggest) focused on creating a “bomb defusal” moment while you play. If you make a mistake, you’ll have a small window to correct it before your mistake comes back to bite you. Rest assured there will be challenges that will threaten to trip you up…

PI RANGES
Keep in mind these are approximate - there is some variation around the values but in general, this is what you can expect:

Quest 1
Paths: ~22,500-28,000 PI
Boss: ~ 55,000 PI
Quest 2
Paths: ~23,000-30,500 PI
Boss: ~ 58,500 PI
Quest 3
Paths: ~23,500-30,500 PI
Boss: ~ 50,000 PI
Quest 4
Paths: ~23,500-35,500 PI
Boss: ~ 54,000 PI
Quest 5
Paths: ~27,000-31,000 PI
Boss: ~ 66,000 PI
Quest 6
Paths: ~28,000-39,000 PI
Boss: ~ 72,000 PI

ENERGY/PATHS
In general, quests in Chapter 1 have a consistent energy requirement the whole way through. On average, All quests in Chapter 1 will have:

3 Energy Per Step
~ 9-10 paths
~ 600 Energy for Quest Mastery

REWARDS
Of course, we know that any announcement of new Story content wouldn’t be complete without some nice rewards for your efforts. Here’s what you can expect:

Quest 1 - 6 (Completion + Exploration)

30x 5-Star Signature Stone Crystals
180,000x Gold
63,000x Tier 2 Alpha Catalyst Fragments
50x Units

Chapter 1 Completion
9,000x Tier 5 Basic Fragments
2,000x 6-Star Shards
5,000x 5-Star Shards
1x 5-Star Rank up Gem Crystal (2-3)
1x Tier 4 Basic Catalyst
1x Tier 4 Class Catalyst Crystal
500,000x Gold

Chapter 1 Mastery
1x Tier 5 Class Catalyst Fragment Crystal (25%)
1x 5-Star Rank up Gem Crystal (3-4)
Tier 5 Basic Catalyst
4,000x 6-Star Shards
8,000x 5-Star Shards
3x Tier 4 Basic Catalysts
3x Tier 4 Class Catalyst Crystals
1,000,000x Gold

Chapter Total (all of the above)

1x Tier 5 Class Catalyst Fragment Crystal (25%) (Note: This is a Special Crystal, and not the regular Tier 5 Class Catalyst Fragment Crystal)
1x 5-Star Rank up Gem Crystal (2-3)
1x 5-Star Rank up Gem Crystal (3-4)
13,000x 5-Star Shards
30x 5-Star Signature Stone Crystals
6,000x 6-Star Shards
1,680,000x Gold
63,000x Tier 2 Alpha Catalyst Fragments
4x Tier 4 Basic Catalysts
4x Tier 4 Class Catalyst Crystals
1x Tier 5 Basic Catalysts
9,000 Tier 5 Basic Catalyst Fragments
540x Units

BECOME A CAVALIER
A new Act, a new Progression point! Summoners that complete Act 6 Chapter 1 will gain the new designation of “Cavalier”!

This designation is not as game changing as Uncollected, and is a step up similar in scope to becoming Contender, Proven or Conqueror.

Cavaliers will have access to a brand new Cavalier Crystal that guarantees at least a 3-Star Champion with a 38% chance at a 4-Star Champion, an 11% chance at a 5-Star Champions, and a rare 1% chance of a 6 Star Champion! These Crystals will be available for 200 units each.

Cavaliers will also have access to:

- A 25 Unit Discount on Grandmaster Crystals
- A new Cavalier Calendar in place of the Grandmaster Calendar that will grant a Grandmaster Crystal over 7 days, instead of 14
- An upgraded Daily Crystal that contains a rare chance of T5B Fragments, 5-Star Shards, or 6-Star Shards, and double the amount of - T2A Fragments, T4CC Fragments, and T4B Fragments!
- A slightly upgraded Free (4-hour) Crystal with more Gold!

This is the next step after becoming Uncollected, and we plan to continue to add more as the Story progresses!

Comments

LFC4EVA1987

Kabam, not allowing 4*s simply does not align with your game design. RNG has to be taken into account when making these decisions. It's the same with the nick fury events. Don't get me wrong, it is in fact fun to use different characters, but the rng and the very limited amount of materials to upgrade champions does not allow for such harsh champion limitations. Variant class limitations pushed it as far as it can when it comes to limitations. My questing team has 3 max 5*s, and i still need one 4* for sinergy. Will you send me a 5* version of that character (ghost rider) so that I can use my upgraded main champions in act 6 (blade)? I have spent monetary and time resources to be able to upgrade my champions to be able to use them for events such as these, hence the excitement of the community in anticipation for the act announcement... And now I am being told that my blade is going to be pretty much useless until who knows when i pull a 5* ghost rider? It is unnecessary and makes no sense kabam. It's limiting something for the sake of limiting cause it seems like the exciting thing to do. It is one of those decisions that you as a team can look back on and shake your head in disbelief wondering how you decided to move forward with thinking that it made sense.

Funny that blade becomes a decent payout in crystals just before this change

DukeZman

So just to confirm, as of act 6 going forward, you have phased out those champions you refuse to release in 5* or 6* versions?

You know who I'm talking about.. Thor, Scarlett Witch, Wolverine, etc.

I read these forums daily, and have yet to see anything from a mod stating a reason why you won't release them.. it's almost laughable how blatantly the topic is ignored. But that's another topic, for another day, and I'm done holding my breath waiting for a reason.

How about a nod or a wink in reply to this one? Are the original fan favorite gods of old (post nerf obviously) being phased out? Leaving us hanging is much worse than just responding.

We've started slowly rolling out some of these Champions, and are always looking to see if we're in a place where those Champions can safely be released. We don't currently have plans to release these Champions, but as you can see from the release of Black Widow, Electro, etc., this could change.

So no Mutant Crit team in Act 6 ever. That's stupid.

MaatMan

So just to confirm, as of act 6 going forward, you have phased out those champions you refuse to release in 5* or 6* versions?

You know who I'm talking about.. Thor, Scarlett Witch, Wolverine, etc.

I read these forums daily, and have yet to see anything from a mod stating a reason why you won't release them.. it's almost laughable how blatantly the topic is ignored. But that's another topic, for another day, and I'm done holding my breath waiting for a reason.

How about a nod or a wink in reply to this one? Are the original fan favorite gods of old (post nerf obviously) being phased out? Leaving us hanging is much worse than just responding.

We've started slowly rolling out some of these Champions, and are always looking to see if we're in a place where those Champions can safely be released. We don't currently have plans to release these Champions, but as you can see from the release of Black Widow, Electro, etc., this could change.
So no Mutant Crit team in Act 6 ever. That's stupid.

totally not wat was said.

NOT YET is wat was said.
Maybe, Maybe not.
but NOT YET

nOux

I have 30 5* and 2 6* from all of them due to RNG i have only 3 decent champions. Why are you punishing people who are unlucky in champion pulls by locking act6 to only 5-6* champions? Do you expect me to spend 4000$ only to try to get usable champions to enter act 6? What happened to using skill to play the game?
Kabam, your greed just demotivated me to play your game and i can say that a lots of people are feeling the same.

Rockypantherx

It’s truly incredible. With being unable to use my 4* Quake, my hype just went from 100-0 in 1 second flat.

See you in 5 years act 6. Maybe. I have to have gotten a 5* one by then right. Right?

DukeZman

Act6 is not for noobs and people will probably have to handle it the hard way.. Don't have 5* heimdall? Wait for him or don't try to cheat death at all, find other ways.. Can't dash back? Don't use starky (ghost will probably still smash it).. You need 100 revives to finish a path? Stash them, grind arena for units or buy them with money, act6 isn't going anywhere.. We'll face 23-28k pi champs and you're complaining about 4*.. Would like to see how many of those complaining about 4* used any 3* in act5, even if for synergy purposes only..

That being said.. Kabam.. Rewards suck balls..

It's not that I want to use a 4* (that I know of). I want the synergies for my Medusa and Domino. You shouldn't need all 3 in 5* or 6* to play this quest. Same with Trinity synergy.
But I just wanna use my R4 Domino. But I don't have 5* or 6* Rulk or Massacre so I'm sol. It's a stupid decision and people are right to complain for multiple reasons.

Maximus_Spankerson

Variant had better rewards...

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mum_m2

Act6 is not for noobs and people will probably have to handle it the hard way.. Don't have 5* heimdall? Wait for him or don't try to cheat death at all, find other ways.. Can't dash back? Don't use starky (ghost will probably still smash it).. You need 100 revives to finish a path? Stash them, grind arena for units or buy them with money, act6 isn't going anywhere.. We'll face 23-28k pi champs and you're complaining about 4*.. Would like to see how many of those complaining about 4* used any 3* in act5, even if for synergy purposes only..

That being said.. Kabam.. Rewards suck balls..
It's not that I want to use a 4* (that I know of). I want the synergies for my Medusa and Domino. You shouldn't need all 3 in 5* or 6* to play this quest. Same with Trinity synergy.
But I just wanna use my R4 Domino. But I don't have 5* or 6* Rulk or Massacre so I'm sol. It's a stupid decision and people are right to complain for multiple reasons.

Then learn to play without it.

I didn't want to play variant because I couldn't use wasp and ghost together but I did and I'm having a lot of fun doing it

Themadpotato

Variant had better rewards...

Just wait until the rest of the chapters come out

Mags

Act6 is not for noobs and people will probably have to handle it the hard way.. Don't have 5* heimdall? Wait for him or don't try to cheat death at all, find other ways.. Can't dash back? Don't use starky (ghost will probably still smash it).. You need 100 revives to finish a path? Stash them, grind arena for units or buy them with money, act6 isn't going anywhere.. We'll face 23-28k pi champs and you're complaining about 4*.. Would like to see how many of those complaining about 4* used any 3* in act5, even if for synergy purposes only..

That being said.. Kabam.. Rewards suck balls..

23-28k pi? That's on par with the 6*s in epic and last chapter of UC monthly.. Which I regularly bring 4*s to. There's no justifiable reason to ban them from act 6.
If a player wants to bring 4*s and can't handle it, let them burn units all they want to make progress, who is it hurting?

And I have brought 3*s to act 5 solely for the synergies quite a few times! Main guys locked in AW/AQ, bored waiting for links.. perfect time to push some story. In fact, I beat the final Ultron with a 3* Loki three times! (Second time was a solo)

Practice, skill, and a bit of luck is all it takes to beat any content with a 3* - just don't get hit😋

Themadpotato

It’s truly incredible. With being unable to use my 4* Quake, my hype just went from 100-0 in 1 second flat.

See you in 5 years act 6. Maybe. I have to have gotten a 5* one by then right. Right?

Even if you were to use your 4 star quake, just looking at the nodes, you wouldn't have been able to finish act 6.1 with her

Kobster84

It’s truly incredible. With being unable to use my 4* Quake, my hype just went from 100-0 in 1 second flat.

See you in 5 years act 6. Maybe. I have to have gotten a 5* one by then right. Right?
Even if you were to use your 4 star quake, just looking at the nodes, you wouldn't have been able to finish act 6.1 with her

They are just new nodes doesn’t mean they will be on every champ

Brunn

CHAMPION REQUIREMENTS that will restrict the Champions you use to ONLY 5 and 6-Star Champions.
ARE YOU SERIOUS ?? MIGHT AS WELL QUIT NOW!! PLUS REWARDS ARE GARBAGE !!!

A_Noob_Is1

Who had the bright idea to restrict four stars? Most of my five stars are useless duds and the only thing I can rely on for fighting is god tier four stars. So either unban four stars from act 6 or fix the dud five stars to make them more useful.Buff them like you did gamora.

DNA3000

It’s truly incredible. With being unable to use my 4* Quake, my hype just went from 100-0 in 1 second flat.

See you in 5 years act 6. Maybe. I have to have gotten a 5* one by then right. Right?
Even if you were to use your 4 star quake, just looking at the nodes, you wouldn't have been able to finish act 6.1 with her
They are just new nodes doesn’t mean they will be on every champ

They are described in the announcement as global buffs.

Kobster84

It’s truly incredible. With being unable to use my 4* Quake, my hype just went from 100-0 in 1 second flat.

See you in 5 years act 6. Maybe. I have to have gotten a 5* one by then right. Right?
Even if you were to use your 4 star quake, just looking at the nodes, you wouldn't have been able to finish act 6.1 with her
They are just new nodes doesn’t mean they will be on every champ
They are described in the announcement as global buffs.

Ah well ****

Dtl7714

Question with No Retreat node. Does evade such as Spidey, black widow, and Dominos activate it?

Rockypantherx

It’s truly incredible. With being unable to use my 4* Quake, my hype just went from 100-0 in 1 second flat.

See you in 5 years act 6. Maybe. I have to have gotten a 5* one by then right. Right?
Even if you were to use your 4 star quake, just looking at the nodes, you wouldn't have been able to finish act 6.1 with her

I was going to use her for hurt lockers, power struggle, maybe combo party and stunnable no retreat. Would have made those nodes significantly easier. But alas, I will have to find another way around them.

BirdReynolds

I’d like to have been a fly on the wall for this decision making, to know how they thought this would pan out.
This should have been an exciting day for the community, but now a huge section of players have been alienated.
It doesn’t affect me much at all, my 5*/6* roster is very healthy. But now I find myself trying to talk several alliance mates and friends out of quitting altogether.

Really really incredibly poor choice. I don’t think that can be overstated.

Scholia

One of the worst decision ever made by this bunch.

Can you advise us why we can’t use 4 stars? You guys are absolutely ridiculous. Complete bs. Greedy af.

Themadpotato

I'm tired of this ****. We need 4 stars to be available in Act 6 for both synergies and utility purposes! We need 5* Gamora and Scarlet Witch Now! **** Ridiculous! Boycott this Act!

There's no point in being mad and suggesting a boycott, because quite frankly it does nothing. There is an obvious trend towards a better availability to more 5 stars that Kabam is trying to push and the point of not being able to use 4 stars only means that 5 stars should now be prioritized more. I get the frustration in lots of people not being able to use their synergy teams, it just means people will just have to work with their roster to complete it. If you don't have the roster to push through it, just wait. There's no need to rush in right away. It's permanent content.

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Savage_

A 4 star completed this. Just saying

myPUNCAKE

I’m not sure if this has been answered yet, but is Act 6 the end of all story mode content or just this “elder wars story” in story mode? Seeing as contest of champions is an endless game of grinding to the top I’m assuming more static content will be added

DNA3000

I'm tired of this ****. We need 4 stars to be available in Act 6 for both synergies and utility purposes! We need 5* Gamora and Scarlet Witch Now! **** Ridiculous! Boycott this Act!

A boycott would be meaningless. Content gates like this are put in place to reduce the number of people going after the content immediately. It is impossible to tell the difference between people not doing the content because they are waiting until they have a stronger roster - which is intended - and people not doing the content to make a statement.

espo1

This is the official death of 4* champions..its all about the Benjamins

LeNoirFaineant

Kabam, not allowing 4*s simply does not align with your game design. RNG has to be taken into account when making these decisions. It's the same with the nick fury events. Don't get me wrong, it is in fact fun to use different characters, but the rng and the very limited amount of materials to upgrade champions does not allow for such harsh champion limitations. Variant class limitations pushed it as far as it can when it comes to limitations. My questing team has 3 max 5*s, and i still need one 4* for sinergy. Will you send me a 5* version of that character (ghost rider) so that I can use my upgraded main champions in act 6 (blade)? I have spent monetary and time resources to be able to upgrade my champions to be able to use them for events such as these, hence the excitement of the community in anticipation for the act announcement... And now I am being told that my blade is going to be pretty much useless until who knows when i pull a 5* ghost rider? It is unnecessary and makes no sense kabam. It's limiting something for the sake of limiting cause it seems like the exciting thing to do. It is one of those decisions that you as a team can look back on and shake your head in disbelief wondering how you decided to move forward with thinking that it made sense.
Funny that blade becomes a decent payout in crystals just before this change

You think they released the Blade crystal and were laughing evil laughs the whole time knowing that people would spend but not be able to use? I mean do you think that's how it really went down? Reminds me of when the first cryptic message came out and someone posted that it was to get us to stop talking about the war debacle or whatever it was. The cryptic message was going to come out with or without a firestorm on the forum. The Blade crystal was going to be re-released independent of the decision to keep 4*s out. There is no plot to screw us lol. I'd still like to hear the explanation for this decision though. The more I look at it the less sense it seems to make.

Madman_marvin

I’ve got a great roster of 5*s and one great 6*, but I still use specific 4*s because RNGesus has not blessed me with certain 5*s. I can clear plenty of content (I had to clear most of act 5 with 4*s because I had awful 5*s) with some of my 4*s and use them for synergy. To limit this to only 5* and 6* is shortsighted and I feel horrible for those that have even worse 5*s than me. Why punish people with the skills, but not the champs to go with them?

LeNoirFaineant

I’d like to have been a fly on the wall for this decision making, to know how they thought this would pan out.
This should have been an exciting day for the community, but now a huge section of players have been alienated.
It doesn’t affect me much at all, my 5*/6* roster is very healthy. But now I find myself trying to talk several alliance mates and friends out of quitting altogether.

Really really incredibly poor choice. I don’t think that can be overstated.

Agree completely. And I will say it's bizarre how often Kabam seems to shoot themselves in the foot with the community. They come out with something great and then it's all forgotten when they make a boneheaded decision the same month lol. Like fixing matchmaking manipulation and then starting wars 4 hours before they have ever been started.