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

Raganator

Happy Variant #3 Day!

Raganator

im def screwed on this event. no ghost, sentinel so i might be holding back abit

That's like saying people who didn't have XL champs were screwed in Variant 2. XL champs weren't even the best option for most of the fights.

TheTalents

im def screwed on this event. no ghost, sentinel so i might be holding back abit

There are many champs to take care of issues in MCOC. No need to have defeatist attitude before the content even drops.

Kobster84

Sentinel buff isn’t working no double damage or double analysis

Tehsigzorz

Sentinel global buff is bugged

CFree

Sentinel global buff is bugged

Looks like it from watching Seatin. It’s in the bug section now.

Bossdog55555

@Kabam Miike sentinel node is bugged. Cost me a bunch of resources. Please fix fast.

V1PER1987

Very first fight with Sentinel and can tell his global isn’t working.

Guidry50

There needs to be a difficulty between classic and variant. Classic is a waste of time and variant is for the whales.

Nick_Caine_32

is the tech buff in general working? anyone trying without a sentinel?

Kabam Miike

Hey all, we are looking into this right now!

Nick_Caine_32

am i crazy or is the flux dispersal node working properly? it doesn't show anything building up on magneto and my damage is immediately capped. I do a heavy and then its the same thing. nothing is critical and at times i'm getting zero damage.

I read it as 5% at a time building up...i'm no expert so someone else please jump in if i'm crazy

WardenZero

The in-game mail stated that Variant 3 would be available to “all summoners level 40 and up.” However, the actual quest is level-locked to level 45 and up. This doesn’t really affect me, as I am not going to try the variants for a long time now and am level 44 1/2 anyhow, but obviously either the announcement or the quest itself is wrong, and this should be fixed, as there are certainly summoners who this will affect.

Nick_Caine_32

also @Kabam Miike when you first beat the initial quest after magneto boss it comes up with an offer for increased sentinel drops. I went to buy it and it said it had expired and disappeared after. no way to find it now. may be another bug - would like to have it offered again at least.

тнanoѕ

The first bug is the accessibility to this event quest, on forum and in the in-game mail it is stated that variant difficulty of this quest will be made available to players above lvl 40 but on the actual quest screen it's saying 45. Which one is correct? @Kabam Miike

Lvernon15

Whoever designed this content needs a raise, really like the short design and gimmicky node combinations like the recharge power shield aon path, also really like how with skill it can be done with lesser champions, and that while some tech champs clearly shine above like ghost and sentinel there are still many great counters to the harder fights, so besides the bugs I have to say this is one of my favourite content releases the game has ever had

Kobster84

The debuff duration increase also seems bugged

Catapoulpe

Whoever designed this content needs a raise, really like the short design and gimmicky node combinations like the recharge power shield aon path, also really like how with skill it can be done with lesser champions, and that while some tech champs clearly shine above like ghost and sentinel there are still many great counters to the harder fights, so besides the bugs I have to say this is one of my favourite content releases the game has ever had

If Sentinel wasn't bugged yes

powerbusters

Another bug interaction with willpower and robots ,I thought robots cannot Regen from willpower but in final quest Kang boss on the path for long distance relationship because of the weakness debuffs void melts all champs including robots as they are reverse healing from the weakness debuffs and not petrify or any of voids damaging debuffs please fix this asap

Lvernon15

Another bug interaction with willpower and robots ,I thought robots cannot Regen from willpower but in final quest Kang boss on the path for long distance relationship because of the weakness debuffs void melts all champs including robots as they are reverse healing from the weakness debuffs and not petrify or any of voids damaging debuffs please fix this asap

That’s not a big, void deals damage whenever there is a debuff active, it’s not the heal reversal

Kabam Vydious

The in-game mail stated that Variant 3 would be available to “all summoners level 40 and up.” However, the actual quest is level-locked to level 45 and up. This doesn’t really affect me, as I am not going to try the variants for a long time now and am level 44 1/2 anyhow, but obviously either the announcement or the quest itself is wrong, and this should be fixed, as there are certainly summoners who this will affect.

The first bug is the accessibility to this event quest, on forum and in the in-game mail it is stated that variant difficulty of this quest will be made available to players above lvl 40 but on the actual quest screen it's saying 45. Which one is correct? @Kabam Miike

Thanks for drawing this to our attention, @WardenZero & @тнanoѕ! It's an error in the in-game mail and post here. The correct level is 45. Sorry for the miscommunication on our end!

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TheBroook

IMO everything is working as intended apart from the Apex Manufacture node. Composite Consturction, Stack Overflow, and Overclocked are working as intended.

Currently got 4 tech champions in my loadout, and i have noticed an increase timer on the debuffs for Incinerate (Sentinel S2) and Shock (Sentinel Heavy, Stark Spidey S2 and Nebula Heavy/S2).

THE_SOLDIER_SP_6311

Other back issues didn't stop me, what chance does this one have.

Alphalink_28

is it worth doing variant 3 100% or should I focus on completion and just save my resources for endgame

Spideygran76

So I am trying to make it through V3 3.1 and I figured I'd take the spry, gassed and can't touch this path.
I figured if I only hit them when they were stunned they couldn't evade and so couldn't apply a fatigue to me. This is not the case, I am having a fatigue dealt to me on every hit so being powerdrained and taking 25% of the defenders attack. This occurs no matter who I use, whether they're stunned or not.
I assume this is 100% bug?

Alphalink_28

who's better for variant out of tech: Sentinel, Iron man(IW),Ghost, red skull or nebulae
are there any absolutely not's for the V3

Fred_Joeity

Huh. Not too bad. I’m trying for completion with 5* r4 Ghost and 4* Stark Spidey, with boosts. Any tips?

Fred_Joeity

I’ve got the first chapter down. Are there any defenders I should worry about since I don’t have Sentinel?