Chapter 2.1

TB: COSMIC

Cav: COSMIC with MYSTIC Secondary

TB Main Nodes:

Cosmic Grit: You need 3 Fury, Armor Up, or Precision Buffs and you get an Aptitude Buff.

Pumping Iron: They take 60% less damage when you have no buffs. Each buff you have reduces the 60% by 20%. So if you have 3 buffs they take full damage.

TB Bring:

Vox, Angela, Hype, Gamora, CGR, Venom, Hela, SuperSkrull, maybe even Kamala Khan.

Crowd Sourced Intel: For extra fun bring Odin and throw his pre-fight buffs on Angela or Venom for a faster ramp up (or any other Cosmic).

Landmine Path Fights:

Easy Path | 1* Chest: Watch out for that Quicksilver- I hate fighting him. Next up is DarkHawk.
Path B | 2* Chest: Watch out for Shuri at the end, Shuri can't have her ability accuracy reduced so her chance to auto-block won't be reduced by your buffs per the node. You want to have someone that can ignore auto-block, like Vox (after SP1) or Angela (max Sig with 3 Buffs).

Quest Boss: Thing (Science)

Main Nodes:

Harmful Blocks: When either of you Block an Attack you are inflicted with a Bleed Debuff dealing 35% of the Opponents Attack as Direct Damage over 6 seconds.
Power Shield: Only your Specials do damage. +400% Damage.
Special Connoisseur: He takes 90% less damage from all sources except SPs while you have a Prowess Effect active.
Matador: You only gain Power when he uses a Special Attack.
Healthy Disposition: He rotates between Stun, Slow, and Heal Block Immunity ever 8 seconds.

Old Sarge Says:

Round 1: It's a Crazy Ass fight with Mister Sinister. lol Just watch out for when he goes Stun Immune from the Healthy Disposition node. I took 27 hits and still came out with 83% health. And it only took 37 hits to get him down- those Degens with a 400% damage boost from the Power Shield node do some serious damage. lol
- - UPDATE: Thanks to a fellow SHADE discord member I was informed this fight was so easy because I randomly got the Prowess bonus based on the RNG from his Sig Ability. If you don't get that then this fight with Mister Sinister will SUCK.
Round 2: It's not a clean fight, but OG Storm can make Rock Guy into dust pretty quick. The Bleeds from the Harmful Blocks node ramp her Prowess up really fast. One SP2 or SP3 was enough with the 400% SP Boost from Power Shield.
Round 3: You, my SHADE discord friend was correct- I did not get the Prowess from Mr Sins Sig Ability and I did almost no damage to him. Finished off with OG Storm. You can hit his Block to remove Rock Stacks since hitting Block applies Bleeds.
Final Round: Easy win for Apoc. You can Parry/Heavy (when Thing is not in Stun Immune phase) to remove Rock Stack and Apoc's SPs do a lot of damage since he has Prowess. Don't need to ramp him on the path either, just Normal Apoc works well.

Civilian Intel:

Jack O'Lantern: Just play him like a usual Thing fight and spam sp2 after he loses his rock stack. Poisons and incinerates melt his health bar.
I used my brand new Gambit 7* for Thing, easy
Dani Moonstar wrecks.
Dust is the answer for Thing boss!
Dust wrecked that thing boss in 1sp2 sp1 combo.
Dust again, save for SP2 and then SP1. Not really need to worry nodes and hit block.
Thing is very annoying, Sinister works well. Let him hit into your block and then fire off your sp1. Its a longer fight but pretty safe. Be aware of his rotating stun immunity.
Bishop one shot Thing at only 20 prowess with a sp2.
OG Storm or StormPX work great.
6* Storm put in pretty quick work for me. 1 sp2 and 1 sp1. Didn’t have more than 5 prowess on her at a time.
Had most trouble with 2.1 Thing boss so far until I tried Storm. She builds easy prowess and one sp1 can take him out. Don’t have to be too careful either on the bleed inducing blocks as that will help build her prowess.
Used newly awakened Gambit for Thing, easy win at 7r1.