Back Issues #3: Polar Opposites

Once upon a time, a mutant of incredible power sought to shatter the Battlerealm and free his kin through any means necessary. Surprisingly, the one who opposed him most greatly was himself!

Introducing, Back Issues #3: Polar Opposites!

Available 10am PT, Wednesday August 14th!

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 Battlerealm and The Contest of Champions. We want to give Veteran Summoners a way to relive those moments, and newer ones 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 45 and up. This version features more of a 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/

The Variant Challenges!

Variant Difficulty will test not only your skills, but your knowledge of Champion abilities, immunities, resistances, and counters! Those who rely on only a few Champions will find the need to diversify.

Like Back Issues #2, we’re going to be encouraging the use of certain Champions. This time, you’ll want to take advantage of the Composite Construction (All Tech Champions in this fight are immune to Ability Accuracy Modification) and Stack Overflow (Each Tech Champion on the Attacker's Team increase the Attacker's Debuffs Duration by X%.) Global Nodes to boost the power of your Tech Champions!

For even more of a power up, use the Mutant hunting Sentinel to take advantage of the brand new “Apex Manufacture” Global Node geared specifically to the Mutant hunting Sentinel! Apex Manufacture allows Sentinel to gain Analysis Charges even faster, and to deal bonus True Damage per Analysis Charge!

Take a look at the new Buffs you’ll be combating or benefiting from:

These are in addition to other nodes that you have already experienced.

Rewards:

This Back Issue Quest features 6 Individual Quests over 3 Chapters, unlike Back Issues #1 and #2, which featured 9. Quest Rewards reflect this.

For completing and exploring all of the Classic quests, you earn:
Tier 2 Generic ISO x3
Tier 3 Generic ISO x16
Tier 4 Generic ISO x9
Gold x9575
Units x150
Premium Hero Crystal Shards x8000
3-Star Hero Crystal Shards x2000
Stony Core x1

For completing and exploring all of the Variant quests, you earn:
5-Star Rank 2 → 3 Gem Crystal x3
5-Star Rank 3 → 4 Gem Crystal (2015/2016 Champs 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 x27000
6-Star Crystal Shards x2250
5-Star Signature Stone Crystal x42
Gold x2,100,000
Units x270

NOTE: Colossus is a Final Boss and Old Man Logan is a Mini-Boss encounter in this Variant Difficulty. We have tuned the difficulty of this Content to compensate for where we believe their rework will land them in terms of difficulty. They will be updated when their rework is complete. Summoners that complete this before the rework will have the chance to fight their current kit.

Comments

Lormif

Kabam guys

Please check first your own game and then make anouncements

2015 tech gem says kang vision and even war machine (only as 4 star)
I'll report that bug. Kang should not be in there.
So, those that used it on Kang already, simply get the benefit while everyone else looses out? That is hardly fair.

Do you know anyone that was able to? do you know it was not just a bug that his name was listed in the description?

Kobster84

Kabam guys

Please check first your own game and then make anouncements

2015 tech gem says kang vision and even war machine (only as 4 star)
I'll report that bug. Kang should not be in there.

Why not he became available to get in 2015 just as ultron lab became available to get in 2016 therefore they should be able to use their respective 2015 or 2016 gem

Theoncomingstorm

I don't know what is the point of removing Kang from the list. I wouldn't rank him up outside of a rank gem anyway. lol

I wouldn’t rank him up WITH the rank up gem. The guy sucks

Lvernon15

I don't know what is the point of removing Kang from the list. I wouldn't rank him up outside of a rank gem anyway. lol
I wouldn’t rank him up WITH the rank up gem. The guy sucks

I guess people rank him up for diversity? I don’t see the use of removing him though, it’s not like he has any impact on anything, he’s just a trophy

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Deadpooliscool2019

I almost had a spasm reading the rewards dang kabam

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Lvernon15

@Kabam Miike will the sentinel boost node and the tech are immune to aar be in every quest?

Kobster84

@Kabam Miike will the sentinel boost node and the tech are immune to aar be in every quest?

I think so similar to the buff duration for xl champs in v2

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Rougeknight87

@Kabam Miike does the composite construction node mean that all tech Champs (metal) are also immune to Magneto?

Wanted to know this also, not many good tech options who aren’t metal. SL and yondu off the top of my head

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Lvernon15

Anyone have an idea how to counter this node? I guess my 6* Angela would be the best option or maybe Sabrethooth? But there is no tech with regular regen or do I missing one?

Willpower won't count I guess even the Champs are always healing with liquid courage 🤔

I reckon a lot of the defenders will have regen, any champ who regens a lot will work or ghost or quake if you pay well because there is no need to take parry or block damage

Raganator

Anyone have an idea how to counter this node? I guess my 6* Angela would be the best option or maybe Sabrethooth? But there is no tech with regular regen or do I missing one?

Willpower won't count I guess even the Champs are always healing with liquid courage 🤔

Seems like a good job for Blade.

Lvernon15

Anyone have an idea how to counter this node? I guess my 6* Angela would be the best option or maybe Sabrethooth? But there is no tech with regular regen or do I missing one?

Willpower won't count I guess even the Champs are always healing with liquid courage 🤔
Seems like a good job for Blade.

Blade doesn’t use a regen buff, he just regens passively

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Raganator

Anyone have an idea how to counter this node? I guess my 6* Angela would be the best option or maybe Sabrethooth? But there is no tech with regular regen or do I missing one?

Willpower won't count I guess even the Champs are always healing with liquid courage 🤔
Seems like a good job for Blade.
Blade doesn’t use a regen buff, he just regens passively

Ah yes. Well, time to dust off my KG.

Lvernon15

Yeah I have Quake 5* at r5 but one hit into the block and you are done... But this could be a nice exploit to use her with Heimdall + Angela/Hela synergies.

If Quake is dupe (mine is sig100) she probably would reflect a massive amount of damage and could finish defenders by this 😅

I’m hoping that her concussion is able to stop the buff gain like it does with aggression fury

TwmR

Yeah I have Quake 5* at r5 but one hit into the block and you are done... But this could be a nice exploit to use her with Heimdall + Angela/Hela synergies.

If Quake is dupe (mine is sig100) she probably would reflect a massive amount of damage and could finish defenders by this 😅

You could go with electro with heimdall synergy and just dance around for a while then get hit and reflect all damage back

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Lvernon15

Yeah I have Quake 5* at r5 but one hit into the block and you are done... But this could be a nice exploit to use her with Heimdall + Angela/Hela synergies.

If Quake is dupe (mine is sig100) she probably would reflect a massive amount of damage and could finish defenders by this 😅
I’m hoping that her concussion is able to stop the buff gain like it does with aggression fury
Aggression Fury and this comparable buffs mit Regen are aktiv buffs and all 2 seconds... Since this node will trigger every second I guess while quake triggers autoevade this node also will activate

I think the time gap is less than a second

Lvernon15

Yeah I have Quake 5* at r5 but one hit into the block and you are done... But this could be a nice exploit to use her with Heimdall + Angela/Hela synergies.

If Quake is dupe (mine is sig100) she probably would reflect a massive amount of damage and could finish defenders by this 😅
You could go with electro with heimdall synergy and just dance around for a while then get hit and reflect all damage back

Oh yes, didn’t think of that, I hope that means we can cheese an entire quest with it, get in the bin high skill ghost Strat in just going to take a hit with my rank 2 6* km

Kobster84

Anyone have an idea how to counter this node? I guess my 6* Angela would be the best option or maybe Sabrethooth? But there is no tech with regular regen or do I missing one?

Willpower won't count I guess even the Champs are always healing with liquid courage 🤔

Finally have a use for my 4:55 x23

Timone147

That’s in poor taste to not let people use the gem on those champs. Like what the hell is the harm. It’s not like there’s a boatload or tech champs in 2015/2016 people are dieing to get to r4 anyway

LeNoirFaineant

Kabam guys

Please check first your own game and then make anouncements

2015 tech gem says kang vision and even war machine (only as 4 star)
I'll report that bug. Kang should not be in there.

Maybe it's a mistake, but how is it a bug? Why remove him? Why not include classic ultron? It seems so arbitrary.

Kabam Miike

Kabam guys

Please check first your own game and then make anouncements

2015 tech gem says kang vision and even war machine (only as 4 star)
I'll report that bug. Kang should not be in there.
Maybe it's a mistake, but how is it a bug? Why remove him? Why not include classic ultron? It seems so arbitrary.

Because that is not the intention with these Rank Up Gems, or these Champions.

Cain

Yooooo can y’all not mention the cheese methods so we can have a chance to do it easy before they change the quest lol 😂

Kobster84

Kabam guys

Please check first your own game and then make anouncements

2015 tech gem says kang vision and even war machine (only as 4 star)
I'll report that bug. Kang should not be in there.
Maybe it's a mistake, but how is it a bug? Why remove him? Why not include classic ultron? It seems so arbitrary.
Because that is not the intention with these Rank Up Gems, or these Champions.

He was released in 2015
Are you gonna say when variants come around for 2018 gems goldpool will not be allowed

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