Here’s your Marvel Contest of Champions news brief for Thursday, August 26, 2021.
Schedule Notes: Round 1 of the Civil Warrior Basic Arena and Peni Parker Featured Arena begin at 1pm EST. The third Summoner Showdown challenge (Nameless Hyperion) opens at 1pm EST.
Here’s your Marvel Contest of Champions news brief for Tuesday, August 24, 2021.
Schedule Notes: Jabari Panther is scheduled to enter the Basic Pool at 1pm EST. Please confirm via the in-game banner. Incursions Milestones reset at 2pm EST. The Alliance Quest Series kicks-off at 3:15pm EST.
September’s Motion Comic, X-Men: Future Shock, debuts today at 11am EST. Based on yesterday’s teaser art and the thumbnail, expect to see Kitty Pryde and her loyal companion Lockheed as the stars of the video.
Here’s your Marvel Contest of Champions news brief for Monday, August 23, 2021.
Schedule Notes: The Summoner Sigil Solo Event, Gold Quest, items on a 7-day timer, and the Legendary Crystals in the Black-ISO Market reset at 1pm EST. The Legends Celebration, including the Gold and Battlechip boost, begins at 1pm EST. Round 2 of the Super-Skrull Basic Arena and Stark Enhanced Spider-Man Featured Arena begin at 1pm EST. 100% Roster Availability ends at 2pm EST. Alliance Quest Enlistment opens at 3pm EST.
It’s Episode 71 of the Contest Realm Podcast! In this episode Rich & I discuss the latest MCOC news, including the bug issues and the Summoner Showdown, What If Episode 2, the upcoming Future Revolution Launch, and updates to Realm of Champions.
Next week in Marvel Contest of Champions brings us the Legends Celebration, Peni Parker’s official Contest debut, and the final Summoner Showdown Challenge.
Alliance Wars Seasons We are currently in Season 28. Rewards eligibility will lock on Friday, September 3 at 6pm EST, and the season will end on Tuesday, September 14.
Full Roster Availability (No AW/AQ): 100% Champion Availability starting at 2pm EST on Sunday, August 22 through Monday, August 23 at 2pm EST.
Sunday, August 22: Sunday Arenas begin at 1pm EST. 100% Roster Availability begins at 2pm EST.
Monday, August 23: The Summoner Sigil Solo Event, Gold Quest, items on a 7-day timer, and the Legendary Crystals in the Black-ISO Market reset at 1pm EST. The Legends Celebration, including the Gold and Battlechip boost, begins at 1pm EST. Round 2 of the Super-Skrull Basic Arena and Stark Enhanced Spider-Man Featured Arena begin at 1pm EST. 100% Roster Availability ends at 2pm EST. Alliance Quest Enlistment opens at 3pm EST.
Tuesday, August 24: Jabari Panther is scheduled to enter the Basic Pool at 1pm EST. Please confirm via the in-game banner. Incursions Milestones reset at 2pm EST. The Alliance Quest Series kicks-off at 3:15pm EST.
Wednesday, August 25: No schedule updates.
Thursday, August 26: Round 1 of the Civil Warrior Basic Arena and Peni Parker Featured Arena begin at 1pm EST. The third Summoner Showdown challenge opens at 1pm EST.
Friday, August 27: The Alpha Arena begins at 6pm EST.
I’ve been playing MCOC for 6.5 years now! Let’s see how my account has progressed in the last three months.
Champions – 726 (+26) PI – 1,996,350 (+147.742) Prestige – 11,336 (+411) (Increase over the past 3 months)
Two new champions have entered my profile, and my account is about to break the 2 million mark! Once I duped Apocalypse, it was clear we would be going to Rank 3 immediately. He’s become one of my workhorse champions, particularly in Variant 6 which I have just finished up. Morningstar is my most recent Rank 3. She doesn’t get a lot of love these days, but she is still a beast ramped-up, particularly in Incursions. Falcon remains at the top of my profile and is the one 6-Star I am currently feeding Signature Stones. Falcon is now Sig 80.
6-Star Roster
I now have 54 6-Stars, up from 46 since the last update. I’ve had a lot of luck pulling Science champions lately, adding Spider-Ham, Immortal Hulk, Red Hulk, and She-Hulk. It’s going to take a lot of Science T4CC to get them all to Rank 2! In the last three months I’ve taken Ghost, Cable, Red Goblin, and Ronin to Rank 2. Spider-Ham I’m ranking up as well, and he’ll go to Rank 3 if I can dupe him.
5/65 5-Stars
I now have 37 5/65 5-Star champions, up from 36 three months ago. As I have transitioned to focusing on 6-Stars, I don’t have as much T5 Basic available for 5-Stars. However, the one 5-Star I did think was worth ranking up was Immortal Abomination. He was a major help with Summer of Pain Mysterio and could solo the Acid Wash lane I was running when I was in a Map 7 Alliance.
4/55 5-Stars
Note: Gambit is Rank 3, but She-Hulk and Punisher are Rank 4.
Thanks to Variant 6 Rank-Up Gems I now have 20 Rank 4 5-Stars, up from 18 last update. Hela, Longshot, She-Hulk are my new Rank 4s.
Top 5 Most Wanted (5* or 6*) Aegon – Abyss (5-Star) Silver Surfer – Prestige (6-Star Dupe) Spider-Ham – (6-Star Dupe) Dragon Man – Cause he’s a robot dragon. Sorcerer Supreme – Buff/Unstoppable Counter
I pulled 5-Star Cosmic Ghost Rider, so he comes off the Most Wanted List. I also pulled 6-Star Spider-Ham, but I want to dupe him so he remains. I’ve been playing a lot of Dragon Man and Sorcerer Supreme on my FTP account and would love to have them on my main. Sadly, Aegon continues to evade my account despite 80+ Dual Class Crystals, and he remains at the top of the list.
Content Progress
I’ve been quite busy with real life the past three months, so I haven’t gotten into Act 7.2 yet, and I didn’t get a chance to attempt the Grandmaster’s Gauntlet. I did manage to complete all the Summer of Pain objections, which I’m happy about. We’ll see how the final challenge goes!
The one piece of content I’ve been focused on recently is Variant 6. Now that it is complete, I can get the rest of the V6 guides out and move on to Variant 7 before heading back into Act 7.
For alliance play I’m currently in DOMIN, which is where my FTP mini account Frontline Jr also lives. With my current playtime restrictions, I’ve had to cut back on the time spent on Alliance Gameplay as well as SQ/EQ so I can focus on permanent content. At some point I’ll move back up, but likely not until 2022.
Total Account Spend: $637 USD (+$69 past 3 months – $30 of this was July 4th)
Content Progress (% as of May 17 in parenthesis for comparison)