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Here's the full list of tasks to complete to finish Spec Ops 15 and recruit Nico Minoru in Marvel Avengers Alliance .

Spec Ops 15 launched today for Marvel Avengers Alliance. It's a lesser known storyline this time around featuring the villain Arcade as both the main boss and group boss. Up for grabs for finishing your Spec Ops tasks is Nico Minoru. If you manage to collect enough Lockboxes for luck to win out, you can also get Moonstone. Here are the full patch notes released today:

Chapter 3 of Season 2 of Marvel Avengers Alliance is out, revealing more of the story behind the Circle of Eight and dangling the gold Original Daredevil costume as the reward for finishing all the Chapter's tasks. The patch also fixed a few item bugs and included some major changes to Daredevil, Hank Pym, and The Wasp and minor changes to others:

Season 14 of PVP for Marvel Avengers Alliance just launched yesterday and brings with it a couple of balance changes and two new heroes for grabs. Big changes include splitting the armory bonuses between your attacking and defensive teams with a one time reset available. Prevalent weapons from last season: the Vigilante Toolkit and its various components, the Protector of Attilan combo, and avoidance effects have all been nerfed to some extent. Domino is the PVP reward if you manage to finish in Adamantium and Sabretooth is available if you get lucky with lockboxes (or just manage to get a lot). Here are the full patch notes:

Spec Ops 14 launched today for Marvel Avengers Alliance. This one features a tie-in with the upcoming Thor: The Dark World movie and as such the Heimdall is yours for the taking if you finish this round of tasks. There's a group boss again this time. It's Kurse, the dark elf lieutenant and if you get lucky with the collected lockbox, you'll recruit Loki. Here are the full patch notes released today:

Phoenix got a bit of a nerf to her resurrection and Phoenix fire ability in the latest round of "bug fixes" in Marvel Avengers Alliance . Basically, she now only has a 50% chance of preventing an ally (or herself) from dying and the ability no longer gives her a damage buff. Phoenix Fire no longer removes buffs from enemies. Here are the full notes:

The 11th Season of PVP has launched for Marvel Avengers Alliance with Spiral up for grabs this time around if you manage to hit Adamantium League by the season's end. Along with the new season, Magnetic Boxes are on sale in case you haven't gotten Magneto yet. They're doing away with them after the sale (but I'm sure they'll bring it back for future sales) as the "Lockbox" tab is beginning to look quite crowded. Five heroes got an overhaul with this patch and look to be slightly to significantly better. They are: Cable, Deadpool, Gambit, Rogue, and Spider Woman. Here are the full patch notes:

Here's the available tasks and task list for Spec Ops 13: Infinity of Marvel Avengers Alliance:

Spec Ops 13: Infinity of Marvel Avengers Alliance launched today (with the requisite bugs that seem to accompany) with the leader/ruler of the Inhumans, Black Bolt , up for grabs if you successfully complete all 25 tasks. The Spec Ops also includes Thanos as a group boss and Thane as a Lockbox hero . Here are the full patch notes:

Squirrel Girl is recruitable for a limited time when you complete a set of 10 new covert tasks in Marvel Avengers Alliance . The deadline to complete the tasks is September 18, 2013. Here are patch notes as well as the list of covert task s to recruit Squirrel Girl:

Here's the full Spec Ops 12 task list you'll need to complete to recruit Ares in Marvel Avengers Alliance. The option scoring challenges are included as well.

Spec Ops 12 just started today in Marvel Avengers Alliance. The hero up for grabs this time is Ares the God of War. He has some pretty brutal abilities just as preventing healing and resurrection effects as well as a "Avengers Assemble"-type ability-buff called "War Never Changes." Here are the full patch notes and don't forget to actually start the first mission before grabbing your Isos or they'll go to waste:

PVP Season 10 of Marvel Avengers Alliance just launched today and with it a new hero, Bishop , if you end up with a spot in Adamantium. Also up for grabs is Elektra as the latest lockbox hero . You can score up to five lockboxes a day by winning five PVP battles with additional lockboxes for PVP tasks and the PVP daily spin. Here are the full notes:

Season 2 of Marvel Avengers Alliance has finally launched with the first chapter available and 6 new missions to try. New features include Heroic Battles (iconic battles between heroes and villains such as Wolverine 1v1 against Sabretooth) and Incursions (which are like PvP battles without Armory that can reward you with rare loot). They've also re-jiggered the rewards system to be a little less repetitive but require a bit more from you in terms of heroes acquired. The reward for full mastery of the Chapter 1 is both Bruiser and Scrapper versions of Heroic Age Iron Fist . Here are the full patch notes:

Havok recently got a "re-factor" and overall buff in Marvel Avengers Alliance. The biggest change is he now has a passive chance to gain an extra turn when an ally attacks! It's especially good because his second and potentially most powerful attack, Plasma Wave, now gets paragon exploiter but also "Kicks like a Mule." So you can KO an enemy with a massive attack and still have a chance to not lose a turn. Of course, there's also a bug fix that wasn't. Blackheart's summons for his bruiser form were supposed to have stopped healing , but I guess they never got the memo. Here are the full patch notes:

Here's a the list of tasks needed to complete Spec Ops 11 of Marvel Avengers of Alliance and recruit Daimon Hellstrom. Also included is the option tasks to get Demonic Lockbox for a chance to recruit Satana.

Here are the full patch notes for Spec Ops 11 for Marvel Avengers Alliance , which features Daimon Hellstrom as a potential reward. The notes highlight the abilities of Daimon and his lockbox-recruitable sister, Satana. Here they are:

Marvel Avengers Alliance Spec Ops 11 just launched today and the hero to be recruited this time around is Daimon Hellstrom , a Blaster who gets bonuses when's he's debuffed... mostly by his own attacks. You might want to hurry through the initial quests to unlock the group boss, Blackheart , because Daimon's sister, Satana, is the lockbox hero/anti-hero this time around. The faster you unlock the more spawns you can squeeze out.

In a bit of poor timing, Playdom recently patched Marvel Avengers Alliance with some hero changes... about a week before the PVP Season is slated to finish. Here're the highlights: The changes effect some high-usage heroes like Rescue, Magneto, and Thor. Specifically, Thor and Phoenix get a buff in that their respective group buffs are now quick actions that really wasn't needed (say hello to "Inspire Bravery" and "Thunder" in one go). Magneto and Rescue on the other hand got hit with the nerf bat. Magneto's shield now has a duration and he does slightly less damage on his main attack. Rescue now only has a chance to remove buffs (70%) on each hero's turn and got an all around nerf on Reconstruction Matrix (it doesn't remove DoTs and heals/shields for less). Also the Warbringer Axe is now better and worse (but mostly better) , the buff now applies after the very first action rather than on the Agents turn (which means an attack buff s...

It looks like Playdom is trying something new for Marvel Avengers Alliance and adding sponsored tasks ("Sponsored Covert Tasks"). The new side task looks like it's sponsored by UL , whose certification you might recognize on some of your electronics and what not. The tasks are pretty easy to do and you get a nifty device called a Charge Dissipator out of it that gives you a nice defensive passive buff (and 5% attack bonus) or a decent PVP bonus if you decide to slot it in your armory. Here's the short task list:

The latest patch for Marvel Avenger's Alliance features key buffs to the Phoenix Five version of Cyclops and Magik and may see the two appear more frequently in PVP. The biggest buffs come to Cyclops who, among other things, gets a new passive to increase teammates' stats and a buff to Optic Blast (Flanking - grants Follow-Up) that may let him one-shot a Blaster . His AOE also now causes Incapacitate. The P5 passives on Cyclops and Phoenix have been upped to 40% which brings them in line with the other P5 costumes. Changes to Magik should make her more viable for PVP as her Soulsword now increases her survivability a little and she doesn't take as much of a hit from being debuffed as before. Here are the full notes:

Marvel Avengers Alliance is currently running a 3 day sale featuring three past items for a limited time. One of them the Phoenix Flare costs 64 Gold, but the other two, Cosmic Flame and Arc Reactor Charge, are offered at a discounted 48 Gold each. However only one of them is worth looking at buying...

Here are the full patch notes for PVP Season 9 of Marvel Avengers Alliance for your reference:

PVP Season 9 just launched for Marvel Avenger's Alliance with X-Men original member Angel up for grabs. The season runs for 27 days. The requirements for rewards have changed to make it a little easier for players to get to the higher tiers. Here's how it works now, plus a quick look at Angel (who looks like he might be good):

Here's the quick but complete list of tasks required to recruit Wonder Man for Spec Ops 10 of Marvel Avengers Alliance as well as the optional tasks for lockboxes to recruit Constrictor :

Spec Ops 10 has launched for Marvel Avengers Alliance! Up for grabs this time is  Wonder Man , a protector who is immune to DoTs (damage over time effects)! There's another collectible box villain recruited as well: Constrictor. Unlike Spec Ops 9 which was a super-long whole month, you only have 23 days to complete this one so you might want to start saving up on Unstable Iso-8s now. Check out the full patch notes below:

Here are the full patch notes for PVP Season 8 of Marvel Avengers Alliance. There are a series of buffs and nerfs to several heroes and a serious buff to Tacticians that make them the suit of choice right now (they now gain an extra turn when attacked by a Blaster - max of one extra turn per round). Here are the full notes:

Marvel Avengers Alliance PVP Season 8  just kicked off. Up for grabs this time is  Red Hulk , a Tactician Hero that can blow up in your face and Juggernaut is available as a new PVP lockbox villian. You can get Unstoppable Lockboxes by winning PVP battles (up to 5 a day). The season is a bit short (19 days). Here's a look at Red Hulk and Juggernaut:

Playdom put another 50 free Isos up on the Marvel Avengers Alliance fan page for Spec Ops 9 . Don't expect it to be up for very long but here's the link:

Here's a quick task list reference for Spec Ops 9: Extremis of Marvel Avengers Alliance (i.e. the Iron Man 3 tie-in Spec Ops). We've got plenty of time for this one; it's running for 32 days (unlike the abbreviated Ultron Spec Ops) through June 5. Complete all 25 task to recruit Rescue (i.e. Pepper Potts).

There's a good amount of time to do the current Spec Ops 9 of Marvel Avengers Alliance , but here's a link for 50 Free Unstable Iso-8s  to help you along (for some reason the prismatic color of the last Spec Ops showed up, but it still added 50 to my stash of red Iso-8s):

Playdom just posted 10 Free Command Points on the Marvel Avengers Alliance fan page. They don't tend to leave these up for very long so get it while you can! Here's the link:

Get it while you can. Here's 10 Unstable Iso-8s for the latest Spec Ops of Marvel Avengers Alliance . You can try collecting them again two weeks after the first time you collect them, but Playdom has been taking them down fairly quickly lately... You'll want to have started Spec Ops before you collect this or else you won't get anything.

Right on the tail of Spec Ops 8, and timing with the near debut of the Iron Man 3 movie, Spec Ops 9 has launched for Marvel Avengers Alliance! Up for grabs this time is Rescue , who can remove a debuff from each team member at the beginning of their respective turns. Also coinciding with the launch are a new Iron Man 3 -themed costume each for Iron Man and War Machine. Check out the full patch notes below:

Chapter 12 is out for Marvel Avengers Alliance . It wraps up The Pulse storyline . The latest hero available to recruit is British hero Union Jack . His attacks give him various buffs that let him preemptive attack against various attack types. It works out pretty well depending on your setup. What's especially nice is that his preemptive attack will refresh its respective buff. Here are the full notes:

Here are the patch notes for PVP Season 7 of Marvel Avenger Alliance :

Marvel Avengers Alliance PVP Season 7 just kicked off. Up for grabs this time is Shatterstar , a Scrapper Hero that can pierce through shields and prevent new ones. More obtainable is the SHIELD Slugger which can causes a 3-round debuff that can randomly stun similar to Deadpool's ability. Here's a look at Shatterstar:

Get it while it's hot: Playdom just posted a link for 3 free gold on the Marvel Avengers Alliance Facebook page. Here's the link:

Here's the task list for Spec Ops 8 of Marvel Avengers Alliance for your reference. The optional tasks list to gain Omega lockboxes to unlock Omega Sentinel is included as well.

Playdom recently put out 20 free Unstable-Isos out for Spec Ops 8 on the Marvel Avengers Alliance Facebook page (all previous Unstable-Iso links are dead). Here's the link:

Here are the full patch notes for Spec Ops 8: Vision of the Future with Vision and Omega Sentinel being introduced to the roster. Some notables: Omega Sentinel can class change a la The Punisher. They've added a Group Boss feature where you team up with friends to take on Ultron with Lockboxes on the line (details below). Here are the full notes:

Special Operations (Spec Ops) 8 launched today for Marvel Avengers Alliance and continues the story from Spec Ops 7 with Ultron running amok. Your prize for completing all 25 tasks this time is  Vision who can channel energy like Havok and has a chance to phase like Kitty Pryde. A new lockbox hero is also up for grabs: Omega Sentinel . Here's a look at Vision and some thoughts:

Black Knight is the newest hero available for recruiting in Marvel Avengers Alliance. As with the new heroes, he'll set you back an even 90 command points. Notably, he's immune to magic effects. Take that Dr. Strange and Scarlet Witch! (Actually, the most overused heroes in PvP seem to be Wolverine and Phoenix now). Here are the latest patch notes including Black Knights abilities (whoever wrote them was having a little bit of fun: "Upgrades the animation to awesome"):

Along with a new season of PvP in Marvel Avengers Alliance, Season 6 brings a new PvP Lotto wheel with some updated prizes. The wheel is accessible once you achieve 5 PvP wins for the day. Here's the full list of what you can get from PvP Lotto:

PvP Season 6 starts today in Marvel Avengers Alliance. The hero up for grabs is Fantomex (whose most notable ability is that he basically gives "Reality Warping" i.e. 20% chance to dodge to your whole party). There are some significant PvP balancing changes on some chars that should support a bit more diversity among the top tier. Here are the full patch notes:

Chapter 11 is now available for Marvel Avengers Alliance. To unlock it, you'll need to have completed: at least 1 Star Mastery of Chapter 10 - Mission 5;  acquired at least 151 Story Mastery Stars and; recruited at least 25 Heroes. You can now also get a sneak peek of Chapter 12 in the game's interface. Here are the full patch notes:

Spec Ops 7: Ghost in the Machine is well under way for Marvel Avengers Alliance. Complete all 25 task and Hank Pym (Ant-Man) is yours! If you're still in the hunt for Magneto, Magnetic Lockboxes are available as prizes in some deploys. Here's the Task List for Spec Ops 7 of Marvel Avengers Alliance for your reference:

It's been a long while since they posted one of these, but here it is: 50 free Isos for Spec Ops 7 of Marvel Avengers Alliance! Here's the link:

Here are the full patch notes for Marvel Avengers Alliance Spec Ops 7 :

Special Operations (Spec Ops) 7 launched today for Marvel Avengers Alliance , which means... the game is slow! Okay... kidding! ...kinda (I'd be careful playing today as the game seems to crash more when Spec Ops just starts). Up for grabs this time is Hank Pym aka Ant-Man . His abilities are a bit similar to Wasp's, except he's a tactician. Here's a look: