It’s been more than a year since Marvel’s Avengers launched and, despite some of the predictions after its rocky start, the game is still online, adding content, and making improvements to its systems. The next big batch of content arrives at the end of this month and brings some changes that have been in the works for a while.

In addition to bringing Spider-Man to the PlayStation versions of the game, the big November 30 patch is going to implement the long-discussed rework of the game’s resource and gear systems. These are massive changes, especially for endgame Marvel's Avengers players, so it will be important to make sure everyone understands what is happening.

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Before the patch arrives, players will have a chance to study up on all the coming changes and think about how they will impact their gameplay loop and current loadouts. A good place to start would be by understanding how gear upgrade costs will work and how the changes to resources are going to play out...

The equipment menu from Marvel’s Avengers

Upgrade Costs

Players will now be able to improve the Power Level of an item by consuming a higher Power Level item and paying the upgrade cost. The cost is Fragments and Upgrade Modules and will be modified based on a few factors.

  • The upgrade cost will be increased if the rarity of the gear piece is less than the gear piece being upgraded. For example, if players use an Epic gear piece to upgrade a Legendary, the upgrade cost will be higher. Conversely, players will get a discount consuming a higher-quality item to upgrade something else.
  • The upgrade cost is also based on the Power Level difference. If an Epic gear piece is being used to upgrade another Epic gear piece from Power Level 100 to 101, then the cost will be 100 Fragments and 10 Upgrade Modules. That cost increases per Power Level upgraded.
  • The same gear being upgraded from Power Level 100 to PL 102 will cost 200 Fragments and 20 Upgrade Modules.

These costs start increasing beyond Power Level 140 and do not include the rarity modifications.

Resource Rework

  • Dismantling Gear – Dismantling gear will now reward the player with Fragments, Upgrade Modules, and rarely Polychoron, based on the rarity of the gear.
  • Enemies - Defeating enemies will now only drop Fragments in quantity and frequency based on the size and difficulty of the enemy. Some smaller enemies will not drop any Fragments at all, while normal Adaptoids drop Fragments most of the time, and enemies such as Blitz Dreadbots and Elite Exos drop more Fragments more often.
  • Mission Rewards - All missions that had a non-standard resource as a reward will have it replaced with fragments in larger amounts. All missions and mission chains have some Fragments or Upgrade Modules as a part of their reward with the amount increasing based on type of mission.
  • Strongboxes - Only a few strongboxes will continue to give out Fragments as the others will focus on higher-quality gear. Large strongboxes and Stockpile strongboxes will focus on giving out resources with Stockpile strongboxes also awarding Upgrade Modules. Silver, Gold, SHIELD Cache, and DNA Strongboxes will not award Fragments or Upgrade Modules.
  • Gear and Faction Vendors - With no need for the retired resources, we have removed all the resource conversion options from all vendors and replaced them with specialty gear offerings similar to the Wakandan Gear Vendor. Each Vendor has different offerings that can improve as your hero increases their Power Level. Most of these specialty offers will have a higher Fragment cost when compared to the normal gear. The prices for all gear have also been adjusted to account for the focus on Fragments.
  • Challenge Card Rewards - Some rewards on Challenge Cards gave resource packs, so these have all been replaced or adjusted. The Rare Resource bundles have been removed and, in its place, will be a bundle of Fragments or Upgrade Modules. The Exotic resource bundle no longer gives Uru and grants more Polychoron than before.

That’s just the tip of the iceberg in relation to everything that is changing when November 30 arrives, but it should be enough to give players an idea of what’s coming. Be sure to check back in the near future for more strategy guides, updates, and news. Until then, Avengers Assemble!

Marvel’s Avengers is available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.

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