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PSA: it is possible to skip non-consecutive Tower Blocks
Note: Thanks to Cat Murdock for providing the key insight. However, any misunderstandings about this are entirely my own. One question that has been floating around a lot, and hasn't been answered definitely yet (as far as I know, I might have missed it somewhere) is: how does the game decide where to place me at the…
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How high can I go in Towers? (Numbers and stuff)
A question I hear people asking a lot is "how high can I get in towers?" Since there is a CR soft/hard cap, given a particular roster what's the highest someone could reasonably expect to reach. First, for those that are not aware of the mechanics of Towers fights, your damage is modified by the difference between your…
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Power of Towers Week One Review
Week One of Towers is now in the record books. Although both the Skill and Mutant Towers are still going to be around and progress will still be made on them for the remainder of the current Towers season, Week One offers us a clean glimpse into player activity for just two towers. How did we do? In Week One we scored…
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Power of Towers Realm Event Day One Update
24 hour point total: ~ 1,319,217,040 There are three release weeks of class towers, of which skill and mutant are active now. Assuming players score similar amounts of points for all six towers, to reach the top milestone of 5.25 billion points requires scoring 875 million points per tower, or 1.75 billion in each week of…
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Project Banquet 100k
I recently updated my MCOC Unit guide: How Where to get units in MCOC. In that guide I mention that with sufficient grinding a F2P player could get as much as 115,000 units in a single year. Granted, that would require a substantial (but not super human) amount of time, but still, that's a lot of units even for someone who…
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Power of Towers Day Two Update
No, I'm not going to be doing daily updates. My plan is to do weekly ones, unless there's something interesting to report. Today, there's three interesting things to report. Also, technically it's Day Three, but I'm giving an update as of the end of Day Two. Well, there's also Day three stuff in here, but whatever. First…
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Power of Towers Realm Event (is kinda weird) [Day Zero post]
I was asked a couple of times, so yes, I'll be tracking the Power of Tower Realm Event. Ordinarily I start posting scores after the first day (or week), but I'll start this one with a day zero post, because what the heck is even going on in this event? Milestone 60 is 25,000 points, milestone 61 is 3,900,000,000 points.…
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Efficient Unit Grind in the Arena (1640 units/week, <2hrs/day)
TL;DR: One hour 40 minutes per day, six days a week in the arena, translates to 1640 units per week, 85,280 units per year. This counts all the units from arena milestones, and the average units you get from arena crystals. This requires a sufficiently large roster which a lot of players are approaching or already possess.…
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Essentia vs BG Token store price comparison
This is a companion post to my previous post comparing Essentia to Glory store pricing, which was posted here: https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/412485/analyzing-essentia-store-pricing-comparing-essentia-to-glory I did not look at the Battlegrounds store in-depth at the time, because I thought that…
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Analyzing the Big Brain Builder Bundle Options
Kabam released a new build your own offer bundle today, and because there are a lot of possible options players can choose I decided to analyze all possible combinations of offers to determine which options would offer the best value for players. Of course, different players can have different needs in the game, so it is…
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Analyzing Essentia Store pricing: Comparing Essentia to Glory
First of all, this is not a complete pricing breakdown comparing everything to everything else in the Essentia store. For reasons that will become clear, that's not a thing anyone can easily do. For another things, this is not a defense of the Essentia system or the Essentia roll out. For the record, I like the Essentia…
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Squad Builder was probably a horrible engagement tool
A lot has been said about Squad Builder, the game mode that looks more or less like video poker. Some people like it, some hate it, a lot of people have been very critical about it. Me personally I don't hate it, I did play it (like: to death), but I don't think it is a particular good implementation. But what do the…
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Where to get Units in MCOC in 2026 (We'll need them for banquet this year)
Note: this is an update of my 2025 guide from (https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/385738/how-to-get-units-in-mcoc-in-2025-its-like-2024-but-with-fewer-typos#latest). There are some additions, mostly revolving around the change to EQ and related changes to daily quests and events. I've also added some…
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Summoner's Choice 2026: Darkeity Light vs Lighteity Dark
And then there were two. And to the surprise of no one who has followed this game as long as I have, they might be the two that players love the most, but they are also the two that players hate the most. In keeping with tradition, Kabam has given more in depth previews of the character concepts for both. Let's take one…
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Summoner's Choice 2026: What We Do in the Shadows
It is that time again: Summoner's Choice 2026 is here. This was our field of choices: And we've now narrowed the options to the final four: In 2024, The Darkeity Dark candidate Shathra took it all. In 2025 the darketiest candidate got to the final round but was upset by Mr. Knight, the undarkeity option. This year, the…
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PSA: Use boosts in the solo Colosseum
Because: 1. They work, and it is a bit of a grind, and every little bit helps. 2. If you don't you might never, ever, ever forgive yourself for forgetting to do so. Like, ever.
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Post your banquet scores and rank here
With banquet ending in about an hour and a half with rank rewards to follow, I'm posting this because I am going to be collecting data from 2025 banquet to both analyze and to use for reference for next (this) year's banquet. I will be combining and sharing this data with @RichTheMan who does his own data collection in his…
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2025 Banquet Realm Event Progress
Well, it is just 32 hours into a 334 hour Realm event and apparently there are already people wondering if we're not making good progress. So, for those wondering, and those who just want to point at something for those who keep bugging them about it, here we are: This is our current progress in 2025 compared to 2024. We…
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DNA3000 goes to Summoner's Fest
While it is all still in my head (actually, it isn't all in my head anymore but I'm hoping a lot of it is) I thought I would share my experience with Summoner's Fest. There are and will be a lot of coverage on the things Kabam revealed there, and I'm sure all of that will be covered in great detail by many content…
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There are no prestige tiers in Adaptive EQ rewards (plus one more Adaptive reward factoid)
TL;DR 1. There are no prestige tiers in Adaptive EQ rewards. 2. Bonus milestone rewards are not included in the EQ rewards summary screen This is an addendum to my previous post: How Adaptive EQ rewards work that I posted a couple weeks ago. In that post I described the basics of how the new Adaptive EQ reward system…
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How Adaptive EQ rewards work
There still seems to be a lot of confusion as to how the new Adaptive EQ rewards actually work. Most of the confusion surrounds one of three basic areas: how are rewards earned, how much am I supposed to get, and how does prestige affect rewards. I have carefully investigated all three, here's a primer for everyone still…
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My issue with Adaptive difficulty
A lot of people have given feedback on adaptive difficulty. There are a few people that like it, a few more at least have no problem with it, and a lot of people don't like it. There are a lot of reasons why: fight lengths, fight difficulty, narrow roster checking, relative reward value. Now that I've had a chance to both…
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Fantastic Force Recruitment Midpoint analysis
With two weeks of the Fantastic Force Recruitment event now in the books, I've had a chance to analyze the data I've collected up to this point. Here's basically what I have. First of all, here's a tabulation of all the hands I've recorded. I accidentally lost the data from day one and a bit of day two, so week one…
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Optimizing Arena (Ascension, Express, Recoil)
TL;DR: - Ascension helps a lot in the trials arena - Recoil masteries also help but with downsides - Express mode is generally faster (for me) than trying to hit the biggest match in the trials arena. - Total units available to moderate grinders in the game is about 96,000. - It is possible to grind out all the milestones…
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I'm probably ascending the wrong champs (as an arena grinder)
A couple weeks ago I posted an article about how fast I was currently competing all the milestone rewards in the standard three-day cycle arenas (the two 4-7* arenas and the Summoner Trials). The bottom line is that on average I was taking about 34 rounds to do the basic arena, 44 rounds to do the featured, and about 116…
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The Biggest Crystal Opening in MCOC History (?)
At least until someone decides to laser project the game on the side of a building. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0sqewseRhQ Finally, a setup where I can actually see how many rock stacks Thing has and not have to count in my head to tell if that's a 6 or an 8. The old guys know what I'm talking about.
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PSA: Massive power outage potentially affecting players in Spain, Portugal, France
Alliances with players in Europe, specifically Spain, Portugal, and France may be experiencing power and/or connectivity disruptions today. Be aware some of your players may be unable to log into game, or even communicate that they are unavailable. Try to cut them some slack if they are unable to enter AQ immediately or…
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Ascension and relative power levels
I was trying to make some ascension decisions the other day when I decided to actually calculate precisely where Ascended champs fall in the power spectrum of champion rarity. How does an ascended 6* compare to 7* champs? Are ascended 5* champs viable competitors to 6* champs? That sort of thing. There's no way to do a…
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We can still change the Women of Power rework outcome. *Without* losing rewards.
So here's where we are now: X-23 currently has about a four millon ballot lead on Rogue, who is in second place. With a little more than two weeks to go and no signs of the trends changing, X-23 will be the winner by a substantial margin. Can anything change this? Well, yes. As I mentioned in my previous post…
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The WoP 2025 rework vote isn't over yet
So here's the current state of voting for the Women of Power 2025 rework event: The clear leader is X-23 with about 32 million votes. Rogue is in second with about 29 million, and everyone else is far behind. If nothing changes significantly, the only race is between Proxima and Squirrel Girl for fifth place: they are in…
