Alliance Quest Mid-Season Map, Rewards, and Glory Store Update - Nov 2019
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Summoners,
On November 15th, we’re introducing Optional Modifiers to Alliance Quests, but that’s not the only update!
In addition to Alliance Quest Modifiers and Honor Rewards, we’ve refreshed Minibosses and Local Nodes for Maps 3-7, refreshed Alliance Quest Rank Rewards, and given the Glory Store an update!
Check out the details below!
Alliance Quest Map Updates
Map 3
Swapping out Hulkbuster Mini-Boss for Gamora
New Local Node Buffs
Section 1: 125% Iso-Infused, 200% Health, Enhanced Special 1
Section 2: 150% Champion, Boost 200%, Health, Enhanced Special 1, Fury
Map 4
Swapping out Deadpool Mini-Boss for Ronin
New Local Node Buffs:
Section 1: 150% Champion Boost, 200% Health, Changing Winds, Enhanced Crits
Section 2: 150% Champion Boost, 300% Health, Renewed Vigor, Changing Winds, Enhanced Crits
Map 5
Swapping out Morningstar Mini-Boss for Red Skull
New Local Node Buffs:
Section 1: 200% Champion Boost 200% Health Boost Special 2 bias Kinetic Transference - 3
Section 2: 200% Champion Boost 300% Health Boost Special 2 bias Kinetic Transference - 3 Stun Immunity
Map 6
Swapping out Mephisto Mini-Boss for Symbiote Supreme
New Local Node Buffs:
Section 1: 300% Champion Boost 200% Health Redoubled Determination - 3 Power Drain Kinetic Transference - 3
Section 2: 300% Champion Boost 300% Health Redoubled Determination - 3 Power Drain Kinetic Transference - 3 Pilfer (Regeneration) - 3
Map 7
Adding new Mini-Boss Annihilus
New Local Node Buffs:
Section 1: 300% Champion Boost 200% Health Aggression: Armor Sadist - 3 Soft Guard - 2
Section 2: 300% Champion Boost 300% Health Aggression: Armor Sadist - 3 Soft Guard - 2 Opportunist - 1
Alliance Quest Modifiers and Honor Rewards
Alliance Quest Modifiers are a new, optional addition to Alliance Quests that will allow Alliances to fine tune their difficulty, and add extra Challenge in exchange for Honor Rewards and Bonus Points. Read all about them in this post here.
We always have a brand new post detailing the amount of points, and how you can earn them. Read that here.
Updated Rank Rewards
Below is a look at the new Alliance Quest Rank Rewards:
Glory Store Update
We’ve bumped up the amount of Fragments you can receive for many of our rarer Catalysts. You’ll notice that the Glory Crystal has been removed. We’ve increased the amount of Fragments of a Specific T4CC that you can purchase daily, and reduced the cost of the Greater Glory Crystal. After these changes, the original Glory Crystal didn’t make sense to include anymore.
It’s Go Time!
All of these Updates will be live on November 15th, when the next series of Alliance Quests starts! Additionally, this series will feature no map costs.
On November 15th, we’re introducing Optional Modifiers to Alliance Quests, but that’s not the only update!
In addition to Alliance Quest Modifiers and Honor Rewards, we’ve refreshed Minibosses and Local Nodes for Maps 3-7, refreshed Alliance Quest Rank Rewards, and given the Glory Store an update!
Check out the details below!
Alliance Quest Map Updates
Map 3
Swapping out Hulkbuster Mini-Boss for Gamora
New Local Node Buffs
Section 1: 125% Iso-Infused, 200% Health, Enhanced Special 1
Section 2: 150% Champion, Boost 200%, Health, Enhanced Special 1, Fury
Map 4
Swapping out Deadpool Mini-Boss for Ronin
New Local Node Buffs:
Section 1: 150% Champion Boost, 200% Health, Changing Winds, Enhanced Crits
Section 2: 150% Champion Boost, 300% Health, Renewed Vigor, Changing Winds, Enhanced Crits
Map 5
Swapping out Morningstar Mini-Boss for Red Skull
New Local Node Buffs:
Section 1: 200% Champion Boost 200% Health Boost Special 2 bias Kinetic Transference - 3
Section 2: 200% Champion Boost 300% Health Boost Special 2 bias Kinetic Transference - 3 Stun Immunity
Map 6
Swapping out Mephisto Mini-Boss for Symbiote Supreme
New Local Node Buffs:
Section 1: 300% Champion Boost 200% Health Redoubled Determination - 3 Power Drain Kinetic Transference - 3
Section 2: 300% Champion Boost 300% Health Redoubled Determination - 3 Power Drain Kinetic Transference - 3 Pilfer (Regeneration) - 3
Map 7
Adding new Mini-Boss Annihilus
New Local Node Buffs:
Section 1: 300% Champion Boost 200% Health Aggression: Armor Sadist - 3 Soft Guard - 2
Section 2: 300% Champion Boost 300% Health Aggression: Armor Sadist - 3 Soft Guard - 2 Opportunist - 1
Alliance Quest Modifiers and Honor Rewards
Alliance Quest Modifiers are a new, optional addition to Alliance Quests that will allow Alliances to fine tune their difficulty, and add extra Challenge in exchange for Honor Rewards and Bonus Points. Read all about them in this post here.
We always have a brand new post detailing the amount of points, and how you can earn them. Read that here.
Updated Rank Rewards
Below is a look at the new Alliance Quest Rank Rewards:
Glory Store Update
We’ve bumped up the amount of Fragments you can receive for many of our rarer Catalysts. You’ll notice that the Glory Crystal has been removed. We’ve increased the amount of Fragments of a Specific T4CC that you can purchase daily, and reduced the cost of the Greater Glory Crystal. After these changes, the original Glory Crystal didn’t make sense to include anymore.
It’s Go Time!
All of these Updates will be live on November 15th, when the next series of Alliance Quests starts! Additionally, this series will feature no map costs.
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Comments
Maybe a stupid question but I've searched forums and even googled it...what is "changing winds" node for second mini boss in map 4?
The cost changes from 1 glory buying 2/3rds of a T5BC fragment to 1 glory buying 2.5 T5BC fragments. That's a 369% increase in value. So by the time you would've earned 1 T5BC before, you'll now have 3 and 7/10ths of them.
Every time there are game problems someone asks why Kabam doesn't just halt everything until every problem is fixed. And the answer is two fold. First, most of the time everyone in the company can't work on every problem. At best, everyone might be able to test for certain kinds of problems. But artists can't fix ability bugs, programmers can't fix content bugs, champion designers can't fix arena bugs, and systems designers can't fix champion bugs.
The guy whose job it is to change some cells in Excel to update the Glory store cannot in any way help fix problems in the game's combat or reward systems. And the guy whose job it is to change the AQ systems to implement modifiers is basically done already.
If you want Kabam to halt everything until they fix everything, there's an easy way to simulate that. Just delete the game from your phone. Because if they halted all development every time there was a problem, very quickly there would be no game.
2. No one is talking about "changing things" without "fixing things." But once the systems themselves were fixed so that the damage to the game was contained, there was no point in making the systems people sit around and wait for all other damage repair and remediation to complete before going back to what they were working on.
3. Here in the civilian world, I've worked on systems far larger and far more complex. I manage a consolidated multitenant environment. I've done work for the military, for municipalities, for large enterprises. And much more relevant here, I've had some experience working for online games. I know how the development works, the tools and systems, the operations environment. So hearing I ain't right from y'all is a bunch of hooey.
Hope some mod consider and push this serious issue to the game team.
The issues that affected the game this weekend have mostly been resolved, with the exception of rewards not being able to be claimed, but that doesn't affect any content going forward.
The team that designed and implemented Alliance Quests are not the team that are in charge of looking into Data for Alliance Wars, etc. They are also not in charge of stability of the game.
We can't stop the entire game and all new content while we wait to collect data and resolve unrelated issues. We're working to resolve those issues as quickly as we can, and hope to have compensation out as soon as possible.
As for Game Crashes, those are not related to any issue we've had lately, and is not something that we're getting many reports on. If you are experiencing these, please submit a crash report through our Support team.
Now, let's all please keep the comments in this thread on topic.