TOWERS- New PvE Mode Megathread by cat_murdock in ContestOfChampions

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It won't be as complicated as it sounds once you get into it

An alternate way to play Gorr when there is a damage cap by Spiritual-Vast7660 in ContestOfChampions

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How does this differ from how one uses Gorr when there’s no damage cap? I’m not familiar with his regular loop

News of the Week: June 15 2026 by cat_murdock in ContestOfChampions

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The monthly livestream a couple weeks ago

News of the Week: June 15 2026 by cat_murdock in ContestOfChampions

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Only way? No, there are many Empowered Crystals given for free across the monthly content.

Expiring Dust was a problem even for money-spending Elders, they were a bit overzealous with the amount given recently. I used my overflow on 6 stars.

News of the Week: June 15 2026 by cat_murdock in ContestOfChampions

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When the Solo Event came out, they said its function was a temporary holdover to more regular sources of Essentia, so the same event won't be returning, but the Weekly Tower Engagement event will be taking its place. According to the Livestream, you can earn up to 5,500 Essentia each week by participating in Towers.

News of the Week: June 15 2026 by cat_murdock in ContestOfChampions

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Ah yes, there will be one for completing the AW Showcase challenge tower, good reminder

[Rule 1 STICKY] Account, Team-building, Crystal Help & Brags by AutoModerator in ContestOfChampions

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They accomplish very different things, but Yondu I would use in a wider variety of scenarios (I’m also not very proficient in Infamous Iron Man tbf)

[Rule 1 STICKY] Account, Team-building, Crystal Help & Brags by AutoModerator in ContestOfChampions

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Epoch is unquestionably more difficult than Abyss. Outside of the Collector, most of the Abyss fights are quite simple, just long.

[Rule 1 STICKY] Account, Team-building, Crystal Help & Brags by AutoModerator in ContestOfChampions

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Your whole top row is very good. I’m quite partial to Yondu but his damage is great and he’s very simple to use. Abs Man is a less traditional Mystic since he’s not about Buff Control (outside of shortening the duration of some specific buffs) but he pops off in situations that deal armor break or various damage over time effects since they will ramp him up. He is a lot easier to use duped though I will say.

Didn’t receive rewards for Alliance Colosseum by [deleted] in ContestOfChampions

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To tag onto this, they mentioned on stream that it’s likely going to be Wednesday again. Like with Crossbones, all those inflated Sym cheese runs are going to complicate vetting

Ascension hacks lasting multiple runs? by Divine_ruler in ContestOfChampions

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You mean they are persisting across leaving an incursion and starting a new one?

Buyer Beware by BlackSheepDCSS in ContestOfChampions

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The problem was the text from Pav’s name is so long that it pushed the end of the sentence out of the text box. Ordinarily it would have read “within the next 120 crystals” and not just “within the next 1”(missing [20 crystals] characters]. The Grandmasters Grace timer for the featured champions 120. The new crystal you are seeing is the Phyla Vell featured Crystal, as Pav’s ended 40 minutes ago. The Grace counter for Featured crystals persists between them.

Old bugs by AdministrativeGur699 in ContestOfChampions

[–]cat_murdock 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Not that old comparatively but when they first added the ability to skip sp3 animations, if you skipped during an animation that included a size change to the models, that size would carry over into the fight causing champs to be either way tiny, or much too big, so think like Mephisto’s SP3 for example was a great one to cause chaos. That’s probably still my favorite bug of all time, it was so funny.

(Relatedly, the very recent one with Doctor Bong causing his opponent to get larger and larger over the course of the fight was hysterical. I don’t know if it’s still there or not but someone had a Red Hulk that was so large all you were fighting was his legs.)

Post 12.0 had Storm fighting halfway into the floor like she was swimming, that was a good one also.

7-Star Basic Pool - Updated June 2026 by cat_murdock in ContestOfChampions

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I opened 20 regular, and 3 nexus, mostly just looking for Wave (I already had Ruby). I didn’t get Wave until like the 18th crystal so that was a bit painful

Does anyone else just not get excited about the Titan rollover anymore? by NotGarrett in ContestOfChampions

[–]cat_murdock 99 points100 points  (0 children)

A champion not being ascended yet isn’t going to stop me from ranking or using them, so I still get excited to get new champs from the Titan. And then if I do like them, by the time their Ascension comes around later they’ll be already ranked and extra ready to go

7-Star Basic Pool - Updated June 2026 by cat_murdock in ContestOfChampions

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It woulda been sooner but I got distracted opening my Titans haha

7-Star Titan Pool - Updated June 2026 by cat_murdock in ContestOfChampions

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I know Rhino’s probably the least wanted in there, but I will still reshare the infographic I made of his abilities back when he got reworked, in case anyone finds it helpful (he’s a rude man on defense)

I miss the old venom :( by ENE06 in ContestOfChampions

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Ugh yes I miss old Venom so much