Here’s your Marvel Contest of Champions news brief for Monday, January 27, 2020.
Schedule Notes: Round 2 of the 4* Iceman and Nova Featured Arenas at 1pm EST. Summoner Sigil Owners, your Solo Event and Gold Quest reset at 1pm EST. UMCOC Podcast, Live On Discord, 8pm EST.
Episode #2 of the Contest Realm Podcast is now live on Youtube, Spotify and Soundcloud. Special guest MetalSonicDude joins myself and RichTheMan to discuss the Abyss of Legends.
Here’s your Marvel Contest of Champions news brief for Saturday, January 25, 2020.
Schedule Notes: 100% Champion availability until AW attack resumes around 2pm EST. The Lunar New Year Event is now live.
Kabam officially announced Mojo and Longshot will join the Contest in February, and released a first look at next month’s events. It looks to be a busy month, as in addition to the regular event quest, the “Love Is A Battlerealm” side-quest returns, and there will be a 21-day Mojo-verse arena.
The big news of the week is that we are about the enter the rewards lockout period for Alliance War Season 15. You must be in an alliance by Friday, January 31 at 6pm EST, and play 5 wars with that alliance to be eligible for Season Rewards. Alliance War Season 15 will end on Tuesday, February 11.
Full Roster Availability (No AW/AQ): 100% champion availability on Friday, January 31 at 3pm EST through Saturday, February 1 at 2pm EST.
Sunday, January 26: Dungeons reset at 1pm EST (Science/Tech). The AQ series begins at 3pm EST.
Monday, January 27: Round 2 of the 4* Iceman and Nova Featured Arenas at 1pm EST. Summoner Sigil Owners, your Solo Event and Gold Quest reset at 1pm EST. UMCOC Podcast, Live On Discord, 8pm EST.
Tuesday, January 28: Man-Thing enters the Basic Pool at 1pm EST.
Wednesday, January 29: Dungeons reset at 1pm EST (Mutant/Mystic). The Alpha Arena begins at 6pm EST.
Thursday, January 30: Round 1 of the 4* Sunspot and TBA Featured Arenas at 1pm EST.
Friday, January 31: 100% Champion availability following the conclusion of the AQ Series at 3pm EST. Alliance War Season 15 Rewards Lockout at 6pm EST.
Saturday, February 1: Dungeons reset for the final time this cycle at 1pm EST (Skill/Cosmic). 100% Champion availability until AW attack resumes around 2pm EST. Tier 4 Basic Arena at 6pm EST.
If you plan on clearing some difficult content in Marvel Contest of Champions this February, you’ll need to know when all your champs will be available. Here is the full schedule of 100% roster availability (no AQ/AW) for the month. All times are EST, 2pm is based off of the approximate end of AW attack.
Friday, January 31 at 3pm – Saturday, February 1 at 2pm
Sunday, February 2 at 2pm – Monday, February 3 at 2pm
Sunday, February 9 at 2pm – Monday, February 10 at 2pm
Sunday, February 16 at 3pm – Monday, February 17 at 2pm
Tuesday, February 18 at 2pm – Wednesday, February 19 at 3pm
Tuesday, February 25 at 2pm – Thursday, February 27 at 2pm
Here’s your Marvel Contest of Champions news brief for Thursday, January 23, 2020.
Schedule Notes: Round 1 of the 4* Iceman and Nova Featured Arenas at 1pm EST. Dungeons reset at 1pm EST. The AQ Series ends at 3pm EST. Tier 4 Basic Arena at 6pm EST.
Congrats to Seatin on an initial clear of The Abyss just 6 hours after release! He also posted just the final Collector fight if you want to see how it all ended.
Also congrats to Lagacy, who also made an initial clear last night.
Overall Impressions: Variant 4 Waning Moon is the easiest of the four current Variants to 100% explore, assuming you have not skipped over a star-level in roster development. This is not likely to be an issue with veteran players, but newer players who rushed their progression may be a little weak in spots and will need to do some targeted rank-ups. Even if that is the case, the cost of ranking 2* and 3* champions isn’t cost prohibitive these days, and the rewards are certainly worth it.
Cheaply clearing Variant 4 is dependent on a few facts. The first, as always, is reading nodes and selecting proper quest teams. Next is dealing with a few select fights along the way, and understanding how you will have to alter your play-style and what counters to use.
These fights are: – Electro Boss in 1.1 – X-Force Deadpool Boss in 1.2 – Moon Knight Boss in 2.2 – Caustic Temper Mordo Mini Boss in 3.2 – Moon Knight Boss in 3.2
Details on all these encounters is contained in the individual chapter guides, linked above.
Frontline: MCOC 