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.

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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.

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!

No problem! Thank you for addressing this!

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WillieB

Nice job on this event Kabaam. It's the right level of hard and I really like the fact there isn't 6-7 paths per section. There have been a couple of bugs but that happens when releasing new content.

The_Jagga81

@Kabam Vydious Void isn’t working against spite power gain node on 2.2

GroundedWisdom

Just finished initial completion with not a single revive. Love it.

Team was 5* R5 Sentinel, and then synergies: 5* R4 Star-Lord, 5* R4 Yondu, 6* R1 Rocket, 4* R1 Yondu (just for the PI bonus)

What did the Synergy give?

G2DK

Just finished the initial completion as well.

Stark Spidey was the absolute mvp for about 90% of this. OG Vision as well.

That Kang is very nerve wracking. Had to use the domino flaming synergy and have the timing down perfectly.

Zuko_ILC

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

Ghost is cruising through it

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Wicket329

There’s another bug regarding ability accuracy, in that it’s not just tech champs who are immune to reduction. Every enemy is immune to AA reduction. I tried using Quake and Blade to work around certain tricky matchups such as Blade (with trinity synergies) against Electro, and I got an “immune” callout from electro at the start and his static shock was wholly uneffected. Maybe there’s a force of will global that I missed, but I don’t think so.

LeNoirFaineant

Is it worth ranking a 4* Sentinel for this? I've done completion on chapter one but haven't had time to go further yet.

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Fred_Joeity

There’s another bug regarding ability accuracy, in that it’s not just tech champs who are immune to reduction. Every enemy is immune to AA reduction. I tried using Quake and Blade to work around certain tricky matchups such as Blade (with trinity synergies) against Electro, and I got an “immune” callout from electro at the start and his static shock was wholly uneffected. Maybe there’s a force of will global that I missed, but I don’t think so.

Check the nodes. There’s at least 1path with a Force of Will node

GroundedWisdom

Just finished initial completion with not a single revive. Love it.

Team was 5* R5 Sentinel, and then synergies: 5* R4 Star-Lord, 5* R4 Yondu, 6* R1 Rocket, 4* R1 Yondu (just for the PI bonus)
What did the Synergy give?
Higher PI for sentinel and the opportunity to fight with other tech champions to take advantage of the global nodes. Yondu and starlord were very useful in this event as well.

Thanks. Yes, I saw the Nodes after asking. I'll definitely try them out with my R4.

Kobster84

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?

Yes can we get this fixed

Aleor

Looks like sentinel is fixed now

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V1PER1987

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?
Has this been fixed yet?

We had this bug in an EQ couple of months back when Ultron Classic was the boss in a quest. He was putting the fatigue debuff even when he was prevented from evading.

Nope this is not fixed and is 100% a bug. There’s absolutely no way to play around this. Defenders can’t evade when they’re stunned. Please fix this.

Lvernon15

@Kabam Vydious Void isn’t working against spite power gain node on 2.2

The spite functions as if it’s 300% power gain and the petrify only takes 50% from the 300

AngryYoshi

Have a question. Will those who did a run through and completed while sentinel was bugged get any type of compensation? I do have a 4/55 sentinel and some map f the fights were pretty long. Or will we just get a congrats on doing it while bugged? Obviously comp would be awesome but if not I’m not gonna cry a river over it. Just curious.

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hungryhungrybbq

Right, just discovered the long distance Void. Overall, so far (doing mostly easy paths, granted) I thought the content was quite fun. However the void encounter feels cheap to me. As a suicide mastery user, I already have a dislike for him as a defender and still disagree about how that interaction works. You should only take damage from a debuff that he has caused in my opinion. Not something that a mastery or node causes. It's still a challenging mechanic having to play around his own debuffs. He doesn't need the extra punishment for those who choose to use suicides or from a node. Normally you can use a double immune to even the playing field, but this node interaction takes that option away.

Lormif

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

I didnt use sentinel at all, you dont need him if you have an imiw or sparky, or even RS.

xNig

A little too easy tbf. Spent units on refills only. About 10-15 revives to explore, mainly cause I ran it half awake. 😂

borntohula

A little too easy tbf. Spent units on refills only. About 10-15 revives to explore, mainly cause I ran it half awake. 😂

Nice. I am however mighty curious how you did that Spry/Gassed path. As far as I can tell, that path is so bugged, you can't even get past the first defender with those 10-15 items you apparently spent on the entire thing. It just isn't possible. You get the fatigue debuff whatever you do. RIP after that.

xNig

A little too easy tbf. Spent units on refills only. About 10-15 revives to explore, mainly cause I ran it half awake. 😂
Nice. I am however mighty curious how you did that Spry/Gassed path. As far as I can tell, that path is so bugged, you can't even get past the first defender with those 10-15 items you apparently spent on the entire thing. It just isn't possible. You get the fatigue debuff whatever you do. RIP after that.

Ghost. Single hit intercepts. No gassed no fatigued.

Werewrym

@xNig did you fight Namor while he was bugged?

Lvernon15

A little too easy tbf. Spent units on refills only. About 10-15 revives to explore, mainly cause I ran it half awake. 😂
Nice. I am however mighty curious how you did that Spry/Gassed path. As far as I can tell, that path is so bugged, you can't even get past the first defender with those 10-15 items you apparently spent on the entire thing. It just isn't possible. You get the fatigue debuff whatever you do. RIP after that.
Ghost. Single hit intercepts. No gassed no fatigued.
What content is difficult with ghost? Only where she gets some cheap interactive damage, I guess

Most fun and interactive damage can be dealt with using hood, it’s mostly content where you can’t bring her synergy like variant 1 or act 6 if you are unlucky

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