Characters for Dark Dimension

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Intro

Dark Dimension (DD) is the official end-game content of Marvel Strike Force. Players doing it are in the end game because the requirements for DD are not easy.

Currently, there are 5 Tiers of Dark Dimension, and requirements are gradually increasing. Basically, it means that the initial decision of the DD team is extremely important because reaching the next requirement is a lot easier with already improved characters.

Clearing each Tier of Dark Dimension provides a significant progression boost because it awards players with an enormous number of most-needed resources. Dark Dimension I will ask for Heroes with 6*. After that, you will need characters at T13, T14, T15, and Tier 16. DD mechanic is simply ingenious because as soon as you finish 1 DD Tier you will get enough resources to reach the requirements for the next Tier.

Dark Dimension is an Epic Campaign game mode in MSF that is unlocked when the player reaches level 65. The task is to complete the nodes, where players face a lot of enemies and get crucial (for progress) rewards. There are different requirements for each DD, which we will explain separately in each DD section.

It is end-game content that was usually difficult at the time of release. At the moment, the starting DDs are easy, mainly due to the evolution of the game and the new characters that are available to us and which can now progress comfortably through older DD.

On this page, we’ll explain each of the DDs, ending with the yet-to-be-released DD 6, and suggest the best teams/characters players can use.

Take care of the equipment you need for the Characters because it is not good to accumulate Characters with the same Gear trait. As you know, the game divides Characters into 5 groups, according to the equipment they use: Skill, Tech, Bio, Mystic, Mutant. You should (if possible) have the 5 characters you take to the Dark Dimension be as diverse as possible in Gear trait. That way, it will be easier for you to reach a required Gear Tier with all of them.

Dark Dimension – I

Requirements:

5 characters at Gear Tier 12
You can battle each node with at least 1 eligible character

When you reach Commander level 65, the Dark Dimension game mode will open for you. To start Dark Dimension I, you need to have 5 characters at Gear Tier 12.

Character suggestions

What we suggest for DD-I are characters with which you can easily farm Shards and are also very useful for DD and other game modes. Here are some of our suggestions:

Shang Chi (Villains 1-3, Milestone III Orbs) – Skill
Nemesis (Cosmic Crucible Store) – Mutant, Carbonadium
Squirrel Girl (Heroes 5-9, Alpha Raid Orbs, Milestone III Orbs) – Bio
Captain America (Heroes 6-9) – Bio
Vulture (Raid Store, Milestone III Orbs) – Tech, H.A.M.M.E.R. Tech

These 5 are our picks for new players because they are all useful even through the later game, and you won’t go wrong if you invest your resources in them. There are other great characters, such as Gamora, Wakandian Characters, and Young Avenger Characters which can prove themselves excellently in DD-I.

Rewards:

We can collect prizes after and during the first and second runs. After that, you can play that DD as much as you want, but you won’t get anything except Profile Border Upgrades.

DD-I contains 10 nodes. Following completing each, you will get 100K Gold and 4K Gold Orb Fragments. After two runs through DD-I, you will earn 2M Gold and 80K Gold Orb Fragments just from the rewards you get from completing nodes.

When you complete all 10 nodes for the first time and thus DD-I for the first time, you get the following rewards:

310 Kestrel Character Shards (5 Yellow Stars)
2 Red Stars for Kestrel
6 random fully crafter T13 Items
600 random T13 pieces of gear
720 Superior Basic Catalyst

When you complete all 10 nodes for the second time and thus DD-I for the second time, you get the following rewards:

500 Kestrel Character Shards (7 Yellow Stars)
5 Red Stars for Kestrel
9 random fully crafter T13 Items
900 random T13 pieces of gear
1080 Superior Basic Catalyst

As you can see, DD-I is a great way to collect crucial game resources like Gear and Gold. From the very start of the game, try to unlock the farming spots of the mentioned heroes and raise them to 6 Yellow Stars as soon as possible.

Dark Dimension – II

Requirements:

5 characters with Gear Tier 13
You can battle each node with at least 1 eligible character

Character suggestions

Since DD-II doesn’t require you to have a high amount of Yellow Stars on the characters, here we will suggest some slightly more exclusive characters. Note that the characters we propose for DD-I can do the job in DD-II as well.

Shang Chi (Villains 1-3, Milestone III Orbs) – Skill
Nemesis (Cosmic Crucible Store) – Mutant, Carbonadium
Squirrel Girl (Heroes 5-9, Alpha Raid Orbs, Milestone III Orbs) – Bio
Captain America (Heroes 6-9) – Bio
Vulture (Raid Store, Milestone III Orbs) – Tech, H.A.M.M.E.R. Tech

In addition to the above characters, here are a few more that you should definitely bring to DD-II if you unlock them in time:

Nick Fury (Legendary) – Skill
Hela (Villains 3-9; Gamma Raid Orbs, Milestone III Orbs) – Mystic, Miasma
Shuri (Legendary) – Tech, Vibranuim
Cloak (Villains Hard Mode 2-6, Raid Store, Alpha Raid Orbs, Milestone III Orbs) – Mystic, Miasma
Ikaris (Raid Store) + Sersi (Villains Hard Mode 2-9) – Mystic, Astral Energy + Uru
If you plan to go for Apocalypse, you can farm, Level up, Gear up, and bring to DD Horseman teams characters (Wong, Gambit, She-Hulk, Strange Heartless …)

Rewards:

We can collect prizes after and during the first and second runs. After that, you can play that DD as much as you want, but you won’t get anything except Profile Border Upgrades.

DD-II contains 16 nodes. Following completing each, you will get 200K Gold.

Every odd node will give you 8K Gold Orb Fragments, and every paired node – 2K Mega Orb Fragments, with Gold (after completion).

After two runs through DD-II, you will earn 3.2M Gold, 128K Gold Orb Fragments, and 32K Mega Orb Fragments just from the rewards you get from completing nodes.

When you complete DD-II for the first time, you get the following rewards:

310 Ultron Character Shards (5 Yellow Stars)
2 Red Stars for Ultron
18 random fully crafter T13 Items
1800 random T13 pieces of gear
2160 Superior Basic Catalyst

When you complete DD-II for the second time, you get the following rewards:

500 Ultron Character Shards (7 Yellow Stars)
5 Red Stars for Ultron
27 random fully crafter T13 Items
2700 random T13 pieces of gear
3240 Superior Basic Catalyst

Completing DD-II, we unlock Ultron, a member of the Masters of Evil team, who will be indispensable for the upcoming Events through which we will unlock exclusive characters and win other prizes. So – try to do DD-II properly, as smartly as possible. Sometimes it’s better to spend a little more time with characters that are a little more ineffective but easy to farm or gear up.

Dark Dimension – III

Requirements:

5 characters with Gear Tier 14
You can battle each node with at least 1 eligible character

Here things become a bit more complicated compared to the previous two DDs. In order to start DD-III, we need 5 Gear Tier 14 characters, but to complete it, we need significantly more. Namely, nodes 1-4 do not have any trait requirements. So they can be started with any 5 Characters T14 gear.

After that, the fun begins. The 5-8 nodes require from you 5 Global Characters Gear T14. Then for nodes 9-12, we need 5 Cosmic Characters Gear T14. And finally, on nodes 13-16, we need 5 City Characters Gear T14.

For a fully effective run, we need at least 15 Gear T14 Characters. 5 each for Global, City, and Cosmic nodes. Nodes 1-4, we can compete with any of these 15.

Character suggestions

Now we will list the best characters for each trait with which you will easily pass DD-III.

No Requirements / Global

The best team for these 8 nodes is Death Seed. As long as you have all the Death Seed characters, level them up and equip them, and you’ll have literally no problem 1-shotting every node.

If you don’t have the Archangel and the team, or you don’t have all of them – then the situation becomes interesting. These are the best that we can recommend to you from the Characters that are currently farmable in the game:

MLF, Rogue, Red Hulk (if you have them)
Gambit (Heroes Hard Mode 4-9, Arena Store) – Mutant, Osmium
Agatha Harkness (Cosmic Crucible Store), – Mystic, Arcane Magic
Nick Fury (Legendary) – Skill, Superhuman Serum
Shuri (Legendary) – Tech, Vibranium
Spider Weaver (Incursion 3-7) – Mystic, Molecular Cloth
Ultron (complete DD-II) – Tech, Adamantium
Captain America (Heroes 6-9) – Bio, Vibranium
Wong (Heroes Hard Mode 1-9) – Mystic, Focused Chi
Omega Red (Legendary) – Mutant, Carbonadium
Rescue (Villains 6-9, Blitz Store, Milestone III Orbs) – Tech, Gamma Radiation
Captain America (Sam) (Heroes 3-3, Doom 2-6, Milestone III Orbs) – Skill, Vibranium
Black Knight (/) – Skill, Arcane Magic

These are the most potent options for DD Global, with which you can pass nodes 1-4 (non-requirement). Choose carefully, and be sure you have a Protector, Support, Damage Dealer, and Controller – a good combination. We propose something like this:

Captain America – Bio, Vibranium
Omega Red – Mutant, Carbonadium
Spider Weaver – Mystic, Molecular Cloth
Nick Fury – Skill, Superhuman Serum
Rescue – Tech, Gamma Radiation

Cosmic

For Cosmic requirements nodes, here is the best team in our opinion:

Vahl (Incursion 6-9) – Mystic, Osmium
Photon (Villains Hard Mode 7-9) – Bio, Molecular Cloth
Kestrel (Dark Dimension I rewards) – Skill/Tech, S.H.I.E.LD. Tech
Kang (Incursion 3-8) – Tech, Quantum Energy
Nova (Nova Trials) – Bio, Osmium

If you do not have and are not able to farm these characters because 2 of them are currently non-farmable, and one is brand new, we recommend the following as adequate replacements:

Ikaris (Raid Store) – Mystic, Astral Energy
Sersi (Villains Hard Mode 2-9) – Mystic, Uru
Hela (Villains 3-9, Gamma Raid Orbs, Milestone III Orbs) – Mystic, Miasma
Deathpool (Incursion 6-8, Milestone III Orbs) – Mystic, Miasma
Strange (Heartless) (Villains Hard Mode 5-9, Arena Store) – Mystic, Prometheum
Silver Surfer (Doom 1-9, Blitz Store, Milestone III Orbs) – Mystic, Astral Energy
Doctor Strange (Heroes 4-9) – Mystic, Palladium
Thanos (Cosmic 2-9, Gamma Raid Orbs) – Mystic, Palladium
Void Knight (/) – Bio, Alien Spores
Infinity Watch team (all farmable)

City

Here is the best team (in our opinion) for City requirements nodes:

Dagger (Villains Hard Mode 4-6, Arena Store, Alpha Raid Orbs, Milestone III Orbs) – Mystic, Miasma
Cloak (Villains Hard Mode 2-6, Raid Store, Alpha Raid Orbs, Milestone III Orbs) – Mystic, Infinite Energy
Ghost Rider (Robbie) (Cosmic Crucible Store) – Mystic, Miasma
Ms. Marvel (Hard Light) (Raid Store) – Mutant, Promethium
Vulture (Raid Store, Milestone III Orbs) – Tech, H.A.M.M.E.R. Tech

Some good characters you can also bring:

Mister Negative (free daily gift from Web Store) – Mystic, Infinite Energy
Squirrel Girl (Heroes 5-9, Alpha Raid Orbs, Milestone III Orbs) – Bio, Unstable Cloth
Kingpin (Villains 2-9) – Skill, Vibranium
She-Hulk (Heroes 7-9, Blitz Store, Milestone III Orbs) – Bio, Gravitonium
Spider-Man 2099 (Villains Hard Mode 1-9, War Store) – Bio, Molecular Cloth
Gwenpool (Villains 7-9) – Mystic, H.A.M.M.E.R. Tech
Firestar (Heroes 7-3) – Mutant, Ballistic Weave
Spider-Man (Big Time) (rewards from Raid Seasons) – Tech, Chromium
Shang Chi (Villains 1-3, Milestone III Orbs) – Skill, Molecular Cloth
Ronin (Arena Store) – Skill, Osmium
Kraven the Hunter (Raid Store) – Skill, Molecular Cloth
Lizard (Heroes Hard Mode 5-9) – Bio, Unstable Cloth
Spider-Man (Noir) (Heroes Hard Mode 7-6, Arena Store) – Mystic, Ballistic Weave
Mysterio (Heroes 2-3, Heroes Hard Mode 1-3, Alpha Raid Orbs, Milestone III Orbs) – Tech, Luminium
Shocker (Heroes 2-9, Milestone III Orbs) – Tech, H.A.M.M.E.R. Tech
Black Cat and Green Goblin (Classic) (if you have them)
Red Goblin (/) – Bio, H.A.M.M.E.R. Tech
Gwenom (/) – Bio, Experimental Serum
Venom (Heroes 3-9, Alpha Raid Orbs, Milestone III Orbs) – Bio, Alien Spores

Rewards

We can collect prizes after and during the first and second runs. After that, you can play that DD as much as you want, but you won’t get anything except Profile Border Upgrades.

DD-III contains 16 nodes. Following completing each, you will get 250K Gold.

Every odd node will give you 8K Gold Orb Fragments, with Gold (after completion).

Nodes 2, 6, 10, and 14 will reward you with 2K Mega Orb Fragments and 200 T4 Ability Materials, with Gold (after completion).

Nodes 4, 8, 12, and 16 will reward you with 5K Elite 5 Credits, with Gold (after completion).

After two runs through DD-III, you will earn 8M Gold, 128K Gold Orb Fragments, 16K Mega Orb Fragments, 1.6K T4 Ability Materials, and 40K Elite 5 Credits just from the rewards you get from completing nodes.

When you complete DD-III for the first time, you get the following rewards:

310 Ultimus Character Shards (5 Yellow Stars)
2 Red Stars for Ultimus
600 Silver Promotion Credits
27 random fully crafter T14 Items
4320 random T14 pieces of gear
5400 Superior Basic Catalyst
Superior – Quantum Energy, Miasma, Vibranium, Superhuman Serum – 12 of each

When you complete DD-III for the second time, you get the following rewards:

500 Ultimus Character Shards (7 Yellow Stars)
5 Red Stars for Ultimus
250 Gold Promotion Credits
36 random fully crafter T14 Items
6480 random T13 pieces of gear
8100 Superior Basic Catalyst
Superior – Infinite Energy, Arcane Magic, Carbonadium, Alien Spores, Astral Energy, Uru, Adamantium, Bloodborne Nanobots – 12 of each

DD-III doesn’t reward players who complete it with a new Character. Instead, they get a bunch of Silver and Dark Promotion Credits in addition to the standard rewards. That is not bad because it will speed up the process of raising Red Stars for crucial characters in the roster.

Dark Dimension – IV

Requirements:

5 characters with Gear Tier 15
You can battle each node with at least 4 eligible characters

DD-IV takes place in a similar style to DD-III. In order to start DD-IV, we need 5 Gear Tier 15 characters, but to complete it, we need significantly more. Namely, nodes 1-3 do not have any trait requirements. So they can be started with any 5 Characters T15 gear.

For nodes 4-6, we will need non-legendary Global Characters. Compared to DD-III, we cannot use Legendary Characters now. It makes the game difficult for us, but what’s there is.

The story is the same for the following nodes: 7-9 non-legendary Cosmic, 10-12 non-legendary City. And finally, 13-15 Legendary Characters. All Characters need to be Gear T15, of course.

The number of characters required is increased compared to DD-III. Completing this Dark Dimension requires players to have 20 Gear T15 characters.

Character suggestions

Now we will list the best characters for each trait with which you will easily pass DD-IV.

No Requirements / Non-Legendary Global

For nodes 1-6, we are suggesting players use Global Characters. These are the best that we can recommend to you from the Characters that are currently farmable in the game (and some of them are non-farmable):

Nemesis (Cosmic Crucible Store) – Mutant, Carbonadium
Spider Weaver (Incursion 3-7) – Mystic, Molecular Cloth
Captain America (Heroes 6-9) – Bio, Vibranium
Black Widow (Nexus 3-9) Skill, S.H.I.E.L.D. Tech
Quicksilver (Cosmic Crucible Store) – Mystic, Fortified Chromium

Some good characters you can also bring:

Gambit (Heroes Hard Mode 4-9, Arena Store) – Mutant, Osmium
Wong (Heroes Hard Mode 1-9) – Mystic, Focused Chi
Dark Beast (Doom 1-6) – Mutant, Experimental Formula
Ultron (complete DD-II) – Tech, Adamantium
Agatha Harkness (Cosmic Crucible Store) – Mystic, Arcane Magic
Captain Carter (Cosmic Crucible Store) – Bio, Molecular Cloth
Abomination (Cosmic Crucible Store) – Bio, Gamma Radiation
Rescue (Villains 6-9, Blitz Store, Milestone III Orbs) – Tech, Gamma Radiation
Captain America (Sam) (Heroes 3-3, Doom 2-6, Milestone III Orbs) – Skill, Vibranium
Black Knight (/) – Skill, Arcane Magic

Non-Legendary Cosmic

For Cosmic requirements nodes, here is the best team in our opinion:

Vahl (Incursion 6-9) – Mystic, Osmium
Photon (Villains Hard Mode 7-9) – Bio, Molecular Cloth
Kestrel (Dark Dimension I rewards) – Skill/Tech, S.H.I.E.LD. Tech
Kang (Incursion 3-8) – Tech, Quantum Energy
Deathpool (Incursion 6-8, Milestone III Orbs) – Mystic, Miasma

If you do not have and are not able to farm these characters because 4 of them are currently non-farmable, we recommend the following as adequate replacements:

Ikaris (Raid Store) – Mystic, Astral Energy
Sersi (Villains Hard Mode 2-9) – Mystic, Uru
Hela (Villains 3-9, Gamma Raid Orbs, Milestone III Orbs) – Mystic, Miasma
Strange (Heartless) (Villains Hard Mode 5-9, Arena Store) – Mystic, Prometheum
Silver Surfer (Doom 1-9, Blitz Store) – Mystic, Astral Energy
Doctor Strange (Heroes 4-9) – Mystic, Palladium
Thanos (Cosmic 2-9, Gamma Raid Orbs) – Mystic, Palladium
Void Knight (/) – Bio, Alien Spores

Non-Legendary City

Here is the best team (in our opinion) for Non-Legendary City requirements nodes:

Dagger (Villains Hard Mode 4-6, Arena Store, Alpha Raid Orbs, Milestone III Orbs) – Mystic, Miasma
Cloak (Villains Hard Mode 2-6, Raid Store, Alpha Raid Orbs, Mielstone III Orbs) – Mystic, Infinite Energy
Ghost Rider (Robbie) (Cosmic Crucible Store) – Mystic, Miasma
Ms. Marvel (Hard Light) (Raid Store) – Mutant, Promethium
Vulture (Raid Store, Milestone III Orbs) – Tech, H.A.M.M.E.R. Tech

Some good characters you can also bring:

Mister Negative (free daily gift from Web Store) – Mystic, Infinite Energy
Squirrel Girl (Heroes 5-9, Alpha Raid Orbs, Milestone III Orbs) – Bio, Unstable Cloth
Kingpin (Villains 2-9) – Skill, Vibranium
She-Hulk (Heroes 7-9, Blitz Store, Milestone III Orbs) – Bio, Gravitonium
Spider-Man 2099 (Villains Hard Mode 1-9, War Store) – Bio, Molecular Cloth
Gwenpool (Villains 7-9) – Mystic, H.A.M.M.E.R. Tech
Firestar (Heroes 7-3) – Mutant, Ballistic Weave
Spider-Man (Big Time) (rewards from Raid Seasons) – Tech, Chromium
Shang Chi (Villains 1-3, Milestone III Orbs) – Skill, Molecular Cloth
Ronin (Arena Store) – Skill, Osmium
Kraven the Hunter (Raid Store) – Skill, Molecular Cloth
Lizard (Heroes Hard Mode 5-9) – Bio, Unstable Cloth
Spider-Man (Noir) (Heroes Hard Mode 7-6, Arena Store) – Mystic, Ballistic Weave
Mysterio (Heroes 2-3, Heroes Hard Mode 1-3, Alpha Raid Orbs, Milestone III Orbs) – Tech, Luminium
Shocker (Heroes 2-9, Milestone III Orbs) – Tech, H.A.M.M.E.R. Tech
Red Goblin (/) – Bio, H.A.M.M.E.R. Tech
Gwenom (/) – Bio, Experimental Serum
Venom (Heroes 3-9, Alpha Raid Orbs, Milestone III Orbs) – Bio, Alien Spores

Legendary

Bring 4 Legendary Horseman: MLF, Rogue, Red Hulk, and Archangel. Those and Nova are the best combination for Legendary nodes. Legendary Horseman and Nova can be unlocked by completing their Scourges / Trials which are limited-time Events. They are usually repeated after some time, 30-45 days.

If you have them, you will one-shot all Legendary nodes.

If you don’t have them, here are the options:

Omega Red (Legendary) – Mutant, Carbonadium
Magneto (Legendary) – Mutant, Palladium
Shuri (Legendary) – Tech, Vibranium
Nick Fury (Legendary) – Skill, Superhuman Serum
Ebony Maw (Legendary) – Mystic, Arcane Magic
Doctor Octopus (Legendary) – Tech, Titanium Alloy
Black Cat (Black Cat Trials) – Skill, Luminium
Green Goblin (Classic) (Green Goblin (Classic) Trials) – Tech, Experimental Formula

Rewards

We can collect prizes after and during the first and second runs. After that, you can play that DD as much as you want, but you won’t get anything except Profile Border Upgrades.

DD-IV contains 15 nodes. Following completing each, you will get 300K Gold.

Nodes 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 10, and 13 will give you 10K Gold Orb Fragments, with Gold (after completion).

Nodes 5, 8, 11, and 14 will reward you with 2K Mega Orb Fragments with Gold (after completion).

Nodes 6, 9, 12, and 15 will reward you with 5K Elite 5 Credits and 200 T4 Ability Materials, with Gold (after completion).

After two runs through DD-IV, you will earn 9M Gold, 140K Gold Orb Fragments, 16K Mega Orb Fragments, 1.6K T4 Ability Materials, and 40K Elite 5 Credits just from the rewards you get from completing nodes.

When you complete DD-IV for the first time, you get the following rewards:

310 Doctor Doom Character Shards (5 Yellow Stars)
2 Red Stars for Doctor Doom
20 random fully crafter T15 Items
3600 random Superior Catalysts: Armor, Damage, Health, Focus, Resistance
4500 Superior Basic Catalyst
Superior – Quantum Energy, Miasma, Vibranium, Superhuman Serum – 18 of each
Superior – Unstable Molecules, Isomer, Secret Intel, Arcane Powder, Spliced X-Gene – 110 of each
Superior – Laser Torch, Phosphates, Locked Case, Esoteric Glyphs, Cytoplasm – 55 of each
Superior – Charged Particles, MRI, Confidential Dossiers, Vial, Metabolic Enhancers – 35 of each
Superior – Dargonite, Hypercharge, Remote Access Codes, Psionic Essence, Biopolymers, Pressurized Tank, Spectral Analysis, Microdot, Mythic Geode, Phytonutrients – 70 of each (those are Mini Uniques)

When you complete DD-IV for the second time, you get the following rewards:

500 Doctor Doom Character Shards (7 Yellow Stars)
4 Red Stars for Doctor Doom
30 random fully crafter T15 Items
4800 random Superior Catalysts: Armor, Damage, Health, Focus, Resistance
7500 Superior Basic Catalyst
Superior – Infinite Energy, Arcane Magic, Carbonadium, Alien Spores, Astral Energy, Uru, Adamantium, Bloodborne Nanobots – 18 of each
Superior – Unstable Molecules, Isomer, Secret Intel, Arcane Powder, Spliced X-Gene – 160 of each
Superior – Laser Torch, Phosphates, Locked Case, Esoteric Glyphs, Cytoplasm – 80 of each
Superior – Charged Particles, MRI, Confidential Dossiers, Vial, Metabolic Enhancers – 50 of each
Superior – Dargonite, Hypercharge, Remote Access Codes, Psionic Essence, Biopolymers, Pressurized Tank, Spectral Analysis, Microdot, Mythic Geode, Phytonutrients – 90 of each (those are Mini Uniques)

DD-IV rewards players who complete it with Doctor Doom and a bunch of T15 Gear. Doctor Doom is a great plug-and-play Character, still usable in all game modes (he is an old Character). Even serviceable, it might be wise to wait with his build in favor of some more priority Characters.

Dark Dimension – V

Requirements:

5 characters with Gear Tier 16
You can battle each node only when you have 5 eligible characters

DD-V takes place in a similar style to the previous two. In order to start DD-V, we need 5 Gear Tier 16 characters, but to complete it, we need significantly more. Namely, nodes 1-3 do not have any trait requirements. So they can be started with any 5 Characters T16 gear.

For nodes 4-6, we will need non-legendary non-legendary City Characters. Compared to DD-III, and the same as in DD-IV, we cannot use Legendary Characters now. It makes the game difficult for us, but what’s there is.

The story is the same for the following nodes: 7-9 non-legendary Global, 10-12 non-legendary Cosmic. And finally, 13-15 Legendary Characters. All Characters need to be Gear T16, of course.

Completing this Dark Dimension requires players to have 20 Gear T16 characters.

Character suggestions

Now we will list the best characters for each trait with which you will easily pass DD-V.

No Requirements / Non-Legendary Global

For nodes 1-3 and 7-9, we are suggesting players use Global Characters. Know that for non-requirement nodes (1-3), you can use whatever you want, whatever you upload to T16 first. Usually, it’s one of the Horseman teams. These are the best that we can recommend to you from the Characters that are currently farmable in the game (and some of them are non-farmable):

Nemesis (Cosmic Crucible Store) – Mutant, Carbonadium
Spider Weaver (Incursion 3-7) – Mystic, Molecular Cloth
Captain America (Heroes 6-9) – Bio, Vibranium
Black Widow (Nexus 3-9) Skill, S.H.I.E.L.D. Tech
Apocalypse (Apocalypse Saga) – Mutant, Astral Energy

Some good characters you can also bring:

Doctor Doom (DD4) – Mystic/Tech, Miasma
Quicksilver (Cosmic Crucible Store) – Mystic, Fortified Chromium
Gambit (Heroes Hard Mode 4-9, Arena Store) – Mutant, Osmium
Wong (Heroes Hard Mode 1-9) – Mystic, Focused Chi
Dark Beast (Doom 1-6) – Mutant, Experimental Formula
Ultron (complete DD-II) – Tech, Adamantium
Agatha Harkness (Cosmic Crucible Store) – Mystic, Arcane Magic
Captain Carter (Cosmic Crucible Store) – Bio, Molecular Cloth
Abomination (Cosmic Crucible Store) – Bio, Gamma Radiation
Rescue (Villains 6-9, Blitz Store, Milestone III Orbs) – Tech, Gamma Radiation
Captain America (Sam) (Heroes 3-3, Doom 2-6, Milestone III Orbs) – Skill, Vibranium
Black Knight (/) – Skill, Arcane Magic

Non-Legendary City

Here is the best team (in our opinion) for Non-Legendary City requirements nodes:

Dagger (Villains Hard Mode 4-6, Arena Store, Alpha Raid Orbs, Milestone III Orbs) – Mystic, Miasma
Cloak (Villains Hard Mode 2-6, Raid Store, Alpha Raid Orbs, Mielstone III Orbs) – Mystic, Infinite Energy
Ghost Rider (Robbie) (Cosmic Crucible Store) – Mystic, Miasma
Ms. Marvel (Hard Light) (Raid Store) – Mutant, Promethium
Vulture (Raid Store, Milestone III Orbs) – Tech, H.A.M.M.E.R. Tech

Some good characters you can also bring:

Mister Negative (free daily gift from Web Store) – Mystic, Infinite Energy
Squirrel Girl (Heroes 5-9, Alpha Raid Orbs, Milestone III Orbs) – Bio, Unstable Cloth
Kingpin (Villains 2-9) – Skill, Vibranium
She-Hulk (Heroes 7-9, Blitz Store, Milestone III Orbs) – Bio, Gravitonium
Spider-Man 2099 (Villains Hard Mode 1-9, War Store) – Bio, Molecular Cloth
Gwenpool (Villains 7-9) – Mystic, H.A.M.M.E.R. Tech
Firestar (Heroes 7-3) – Mutant, Ballistic Weave
Spider-Man (Big Time) (rewards from Raid Seasons) – Tech, Chromium
Shang Chi (Villains 1-3, Milestone III Orbs) – Skill, Molecular Cloth
Ronin (Arena Store) – Skill, Osmium
Kraven the Hunter (Raid Store) – Skill, Molecular Cloth
Lizard (Heroes Hard Mode 5-9) – Bio, Unstable Cloth
Spider-Man (Noir) (Heroes Hard Mode 7-6, Arena Store) – Mystic, Ballistic Weave
Mysterio (Heroes 2-3, Heroes Hard Mode 1-3, Alpha Raid Orbs, Milestone III Orbs) – Tech, Luminium
Shocker (Heroes 2-9, Milestone III Orbs) – Tech, H.A.M.M.E.R. Tech
Red Goblin (/) – Bio, H.A.M.M.E.R. Tech
Gwenom (/) – Bio, Experimental Serum
Venom (Heroes 3-9, Alpha Raid Orbs, Milestone III Orbs) – Bio, Alien Spores

Non-Legendary Cosmic

For Cosmic requirements nodes, here is the best team in our opinion:

Vahl (Incursion 6-9) – Mystic, Osmium
Photon (Villains Hard Mode 7-9) – Bio, Molecular Cloth
Kestrel (Dark Dimension I rewards) – Skill/Tech, S.H.I.E.LD. Tech
Kang (Incursion 3-8) – Tech, Quantum Energy
Deathpool (Incursion 6-8, Milestone III Orbs) – Mystic, Miasma

If you do not have and are not able to farm these characters because 4 of them are currently non-farmable, we recommend the following as adequate replacements:

Ikaris (Raid Store) – Mystic, Astral Energy
Sersi (Villains Hard Mode 2-9) – Mystic, Uru
Hela (Villains 3-9, Gamma Raid Orbs, Milestone III Orbs) – Mystic, Miasma
Strange (Heartless) (Villains Hard Mode 5-9, Arena Store) – Mystic, Prometheum
Silver Surfer (Doom 1-9, Blitz Store) – Mystic, Astral Energy
Doctor Strange (Heroes 4-9) – Mystic, Palladium
Thanos (Cosmic 2-9, Gamma Raid Orbs) – Mystic, Palladium
Void Knight (/) – Bio, Alien Spores

Legendary

If you have them, you will one-shot all Legendary nodes.

If you don’t have them, here are the options:

Omega Red (Legendary) – Mutant, Carbonadium
Magneto (Legendary) – Mutant, Palladium
Shuri (Legendary) – Tech, Vibranium
Nick Fury (Legendary) – Skill, Superhuman Serum
Doctor Octopus (Legendary) – Tech, Titanium Alloy
Black Cat (Black Cat Trials) – Skill, Luminium
Green Goblin (Classic) (Green Goblin (Classic) Trials) – Tech, Experimental Formula

Rewards

We can collect prizes after and during the first and second runs. After that, you can play that DD as much as you want, but you won’t get anything except Profile Border Upgrades.

DD-V contains 15 nodes. Following completing each, you will get 500K Gold.

Nodes 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 10, and 13 will give you 10K Gold Orb Fragments, with Gold (after completion).

Nodes 5, 8, 11, and 14 will reward you with 5K Elite 5 Credits with Gold (after completion).

Nodes 6, 9, 12, and 15 will reward you with 2K Mega Orb Fragments and 200 T4 Ability Materials, with Gold (after completion).

After two runs through DD-V, you will earn 15M Gold, 140K Gold Orb Fragments, 16K Mega Orb Fragments, 1.6K T4 Ability Materials, and 40K Elite 5 Credits just from the rewards you get from completing nodes.

When you complete DD-V for the first time, you get the following rewards:

310 Dormammu Character Shards (5 Yellow Stars)
2 Red Stars for Dormammu
10 random fully crafter T16 Items
Augmented Catalysts: Armor, Damage, Health, Focus, Resistance – 640 of each
800 Augmented Basic Catalyst
Augmented – Quantum Energy, Miasma, Carbonadium, Superhuman Serum, Vibranium, Infinite Energy – 12 of each
Augmented – Unstable Molecules, Isomer, Secret Intel, Arcane Powder, Spliced X-Gene – 384 of each
Augmented – Laser Torch, Phosphates, Locked Case, Esoteric Glyphs, Cytoplasm – 320 of each
Augmented – Charged Particles, MRI, Confidential Dossiers, Vial, Metabolic Enhancers – 256 of each
Augmented – Dargonite, Hyperphage, Remote Access Codes, Psionic Essence, Biopolymers, Pressurized Tank, Spectral Analysis, Microdot, Mythic Geode, Phytonutrients – 36 of each (those are Mini Uniques)

When you complete DD-V for the second time, you get the following rewards:

500 Dormammu Character Shards (7 Yellow Stars)
4 Red Stars for Dormammu
15 random fully crafter T16 Items
Augmented Catalysts: Armor, Damage, Health, Focus, Resistance – 320 of each
2400 Augmented Basic Catalyst
Superior – S.H.I.E.L.D. Tech, Arcane Magic, Vibranium, Alien Spores, Vibranium, Astral Energy, Uru – 12 of each
Augmented – Unstable Molecules, Isomer, Secret Intel, Arcane Powder, Spliced X-Gene – 192 of each
Augmented – Laser Torch, Phosphates, Locked Case, Esoteric Glyphs, Cytoplasm – 160 of each
Augmented – Charged Particles, MRI, Confidential Dossiers, Vial, Metabolic Enhancers – 128 of each
Augmented – Dargonite, Hyperphage, Remote Access Codes, Psionic Essence, Biopolymers, Pressurized Tank, Spectral Analysis, Microdot, Mythic Geode, Phytonutrients – 108 of each (those are Mini Uniques)

DD-V rewards players who complete it with Dormammu and a bunch of T16 Gear. Dormammu is a plug-and-play Character usable in all game modes. However, currently, Dormammu’s effectiveness decreases in some game modes. He is no longer in the Arena META. He is not usable in the new Incursion Raids, while he still has value in the War and Cosmic Crucible game modes. So in relation to what you prefer, decide for yourself whether to build Dormammu or not.

Dark Dimension – VI

Here we will discuss everything related to DD-VI, the requirements, the characters we propose, and rewards.

DD-VI came out on June 27th. Currently, we can purchase T18 Gear from the Supply Store, and there is a Teal Epic Orb in the Raid Orb section that contains T18 Gear. Fragments for that Orb we can obtain from Incursion Raid rewards. We must mention that buying from the Supply Store is very expensive, but it will make your DD-VI prep go faster. It is up to you if you want to do that or not.

Requirements:

5 characters with Gear Tier 18
You can battle each node only when you have 5 eligible characters

It is a tricky topic because the Gear T18 is new to the game. The main way to get them right now is through the Incursion Raid and Supply Store, since T18 gear is still so rare, we should carefully choose who to level because mistakes can cost us dearly.

Choosing the Character to upgrade to Gear T18 will depend on many things. For example: which of the Characters do we own, at what level are some of our Characters, what are our personal preferences, and what are the new characters we know will soon be in the game? In general, there are a lot of aspects that influence the best course of action. Character availability, their origin, how many Gear pieces they require, and even your own preferences.

DD-VI will be similar to the previous Dark Dimensions with requirements. In order to start DD-VI, we need 5 Gear Tier 18 Characters, but to complete it, we need significantly more, 20 characters minimum.

Nodes 1-2 – Have no trait requirements, so we can use any GT18 character here. But since the next nodes require Global characters, we should prioritize them in terms of who to get to GT18 first and use them on these starting nodes as well.

Nodes 3-5 – We will need non-Legendary Global Characters. Similar to previous Dark Dimensions, we can’t use Legendary characters until we get to nodes that specify them.

Nodes 6-8 – non-Legendary Cosmic characters

Nodes 9-11 – non-Legendary City characters

Nodes 12-13 – non-Horseman Legendary characters

Nodes 14-15 – Legendary or Apocalypse characters.

There are no Iso-8 requirements for Characters in DD-VI, but the higher Iso you have on them here, the easier it will be for you.

Character suggestions

Non-Legendary Global – The best team (regardless of resource requirements)

Apocalypse (Apocalypse Saga) – Mutant; Astral Energy
Nemesis (Cosmic Crucible Store) – Mutant, Carbonadium
Captain America (Heroes 6-9) – Bio, Vibranium
Spider Weaver (Incursion 3-7) – Mystic; Molecular Cloth
Doctor Doom (Dark Dimension – IV) – Mystic/Tech, Miasma

Alternatives

Gambit (Heroes Hard Mode 4-9, Arena Store) – Mutant, Osmium
Agatha Harkness (Cosmic Crucible Store) – Mystic, Arcane Magic
Quicksilver (Cosmic Crucible Store) – Mystic; Fortified Chromium
Wong (Heroes Hard Mode 1-9) – Mystic, Focused Chi
Black Widow (Nexus 3-9) – Skill, S.H.I.E.L.D. Tech
Abomination (Cosmic Crucible Store) – Bio, Gamma Radiation
Ultron (Dark Dimension – II) – Tech, Adamantium
Dark Beast (Doom 1-6) – Mutant, Experimental Formula
Captain Carter (Cosmic Crucible Store) – Bio, Molecular Cloth
Rescue (Villains 6-9, Blitz Store, Milestone III Orbs) – Tech, Gamma Radiation
Captain America (Sam) (Heroes 3-3, Doom 2-6, Milestone III Orbs) – Skill, Vibranium
Black Knight (/) – Skill, Arcane Magic

Non-Legendary Cosmic

For Cosmic requirements nodes, here is the best team in our opinion:

Vahl (Incursion 6-9) – Mystic, Osmium
Photon (Villains Hard Mode 7-9) – Bio, Molecular Cloth
Kestrel (complete DD-I) – Skill/Tech, S.H.I.E.LD. Tech
Kang (Incursion 3-8) – Tech, Quantum Energy
Dormammu (Dark Dimension V) – Mystic, Miasma

If you do not have and are not able to farm these characters because 3 of them are currently non-farmable, we recommend the following as adequate replacements:

Ikaris (Raid Store) – Mystic, Astral Energy
Sersi (Villains Hard Mode 2-9, War Store) – Mystic, Uru
Deathpool (Incursion 6-8) – Mystic, Miasma
Hela (Villains 3-9, Gamma Raid Orbs, Milestone III Orbs) – Mystic, Miasma
Strange (Heartless) (Villains Hard Mode 5-9, Arena Store) – Mystic, Prometheum
Silver Surfer (Doom 1-9, Blitz Store) – Mystic, Astral Energy
Doctor Strange (Heroes 4-9) – Mystic, Palladium
Thanos (Cosmic 2-9, Gamma Raid Orbs) – Mystic, Palladium
Cosmo (Cosmic Crucible Store) – Bio, Astral Energy
Void Knight (/) – Bio, Alien Spores

Non-Legendary City

Here is the best team (in our opinion) for Non-Legendary City requirements nodes:

Dagger (Villains Hard Mode 4-6, Arena Store, Alpha Raid Orbs, Milestone III Orbs) – Mystic, Miasma
Cloak (Villains Hard Mode 2-6, Raid Store, Alpha Raid Orbs, Mielstone III Orbs) – Mystic, Infinite Energy
Ghost Rider (Robbie) (Cosmic Crucible Store) – Mystic, Miasma
Ms. Marvel (Hard Light) (Raid Store) – Mutant, Promethium
Vulture (Raid Store, Milestone III Orbs) – Tech, H.A.M.M.E.R. Tech

Some good characters you can also bring:

Mister Negative (free daily gift from Web Store) – Mystic, Infinite Energy
Squirrel Girl (Heroes 5-9, Alpha Raid Orbs, Milestone III Orbs) – Bio, Unstable Cloth
Kingpin (Villains 2-9) – Skill, Vibranium
She-Hulk (Heroes 7-9, Blitz Store, Milestone III Orbs) – Bio, Gravitonium
Spider-Man 2099 (Villains Hard Mode 1-9, War Store) – Bio, Molecular Cloth
Gwenpool (Villains 7-9) – Mystic, H.A.M.M.E.R. Tech
Firestar (Heroes 7-3) – Mutant, Ballistic Weave
Spider-Man (Big Time) (rewards from Raid Seasons) – Tech, Chromium
Shang Chi (Villains 1-3, Milestone III Orbs) – Skill, Molecular Cloth
Ronin (Arena Store) – Skill, Osmium
Kraven the Hunter (Raid Store) – Skill, Molecular Cloth
Lizard (Heroes Hard Mode 5-9) – Bio, Unstable Cloth
Spider-Man (Noir) (Heroes Hard Mode 7-6, Arena Store) – Mystic, Ballistic Weave
Mysterio (Heroes 2-3, Heroes Hard Mode 1-3, Alpha Raid Orbs, Milestone III Orbs) – Tech, Luminium
Shocker (Heroes 2-9, Milestone III Orbs) – Tech, H.A.M.M.E.R. Tech
Red Goblin (/) – Bio, H.A.M.M.E.R. Tech
Gwenom (/) – Bio, Experimental Serum
Venom (Heroes 3-9, Alpha Raid Orbs, Milestone III Orbs) – Bio, Alien Spores

Non-Horseman Legendary

Our picks for these nodes. For Non-Legendary requirements nodes, here is the best team in our opinion (regardless of resource requirements):

Nova (Nova Trials) – Bio; Osmium
Omega Red (Legendary) – Mutant; Carbonadium
Doctor Octopus (Legendary) – Tech, Titanium Alloy
Green Goblin (Classic) (Green Goblin (Classic) Trials) – Tech, Experimental Formula
Black Cat – (Black Cat Trials) – Skill, Luminium

Other Picks:

Nick Fury (Legendary) – Skill; Superhuman Serum
Shuri (Legendary) – Tech; Vibranium

Legendary and/or Apocalypse

Apocalypse (Apocalypse Saga) – Mutant; Astral Energy
Nova (Nova Trials) – Bio; Osmium
Doctor Octopus (Legendary) – Tech, Titanium Alloy
Green Goblin (Classic) (Green Goblin (Classic) Trials) – Tech, Experimental Formula
Black Cat – (Black Cat Trials) – Skill, Luminium

Other Picks:

Nick Fury (Legendary) – Skill; Superhuman Serum
Shuri (Legendary) – Tech; Vibranium
Omega Red (Legendary) – Mutant; Carbonadium
Morgan Le Fay (Pestilence Scourge) – Mystic, Osmium
Rogue (Famine Scourge) – Mutant, Ballistic Weave
Red Hulk (War Scourge) – Bio, Gamma Radiation
Archangel (Death Scourge) – Mutant, Fortified Chromium

By these nodes, we already have Apocalypse and 4 excellent Legendary Characters, so there is no point in spending additional resources to raise 4 Horseman Legendary Characters. It is very likely that with some of them (Red Hulk, Morgan Le Fay) and the Apocalypse, the last 3 nodes will be somewhat easier. However, it is not worth spending additional materials even if we spend a few days longer in DD VI.

Conclusion

None of the above regarding suggestions for DD-VI Characters is certain, and absolutely everything is subject to change depending on what awaits us. As soon as you start collecting T18 Gear, don’t equip anyone yet, be patient – it will definitely pay off.

The list may be confusing and misleading since we put in the best teams characters that basically should be ignored (like Eternals for example) but there was no way to show you differently what is the best setup at the moment and to explain to you that even they are the best setup you shouldn’t take the bite.

Hopefully, this will be helpful for a certain period but the page will need an update sooner rather than later.

Rewards

As we know, Super-Skrull is a Character obtained after completing the Dark Dimension – VI. We know that we will get T18 Gear, and in addition to that, more valuable game resources

We can collect prizes after and during the first and second runs. After that, you can play that DD as much as you want, but you won’t get anything except Profile Border Upgrades.

DD-VI contains 15 nodes. After completing each (except the last), you will get 1.25M Gold. The last node will reward 2M Gold.

Nodes 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 will give you T17 Mini Uniques. 50 different Mini Unique per node.

Nodes 5, 8, 12, and 14 will reward you with 2.5K Elite 5 Credits after completion.

Nodes 11 and 13 will reward you with 2.5K Elite 6 Credits after completion. Node 15 will reward you with 5K Elite 6 Credits after completion.

Nodes 4, 7, 10, and 15 will reward you with 2K Mega Orb Fragments after completion.

Nodes 3, 6, 9, and 14 will reward you with 200 T4 Ability Materials after completion.

After two runs through DD-VI, you will earn 39M Gold, 16K Mega Orb Fragments, 1.6K T4 Ability Materials, 20K Elite 5 Credits, and 20K Elite 6 Credits just from the rewards you get from completing nodes.

When you complete DD-VI for the first time, you get the following rewards:

310 Super Skrull Character Shards (5 Yellow Stars)
2 Red Stars for Super Skrull
10 random fully crafter T18 Items
Augmented Catalysts: Armor, Damage, Health, Focus, Resistance – 936 of each
3200 Augmented Basic Catalyst
Augmented – Ballistic Weave, Vibranium, Molecular Cloth, Gamma Radiation, Carbonadium, Focused Chi, Unstable Cloth – 20 of each
Augmented – Unstable Molecules, Isomer, Secret Intel, Arcane Powder, Spliced X-Gene – 720 of each
Augmented – Laser Torch, Phosphates, Locked Case, Esoteric Glyphs, Cytoplasm – 288 of each
Augmented – Charged Particles, MRI, Confidential Dossiers, Vial, Metabolic Enhancers – 144 of each
Augmented – Nebulizer, Hyperphage, Nucleic Infusion, Biopolymers, Ritual Salts, Psionic Essence, Security Bypass, Remote Access Codes, Liquid Hydrazine, Dragonite – 44 of each (those are Mini Uniques)

When you complete DD-VI for the second time, you get the following rewards:

500 Super Skrull Character Shards (7 Yellow Stars)
4 Red Stars for Super Skrull
Nick Fury Skrull Costume
15 random fully crafter T18 Items
Augmented Catalysts: Armor, Damage, Health, Focus, Resistance – 1872 of each
6400 Augmented Basic Catalyst
Augmented – Judas Bullets, Promethium, Adamantium, Gravitonium, Carbonadium, Titanium Alloy, Luminium, Experimental Formula – 20 of each
Augmented – Unstable Molecules, Isomer, Secret Intel, Arcane Powder, Spliced X-Gene – 1440 of each
Augmented – Laser Torch, Phosphates, Locked Case, Esoteric Glyphs, Cytoplasm – 576 of each
Augmented – Charged Particles, MRI, Confidential Dossiers, Vial, Metabolic Enhancers – 288 of each
Augmented – Nebulizer, Hyperphage, Nucleic Infusion, Biopolymers, Ritual Salts, Psionic Essence, Security Bypass, Remote Access Codes, Liquid Hydrazine, Dragonite – 88 of each (those are Mini Uniques)

Dark Dimension VII

Dark Dimension VII launched on March 20th and requires newly released Gear Tier 19 to enter. Availability of GT19 is limited, as it always is early on. So far the only means of reliably getting that is Incursion II Raids and the Supply Store (Gold Purchases).

Requirements:

Characters with Gear Tier 19
All nodes require 5 characters (except Mythic, where you can use 4 characters)

Free-to-play or ftp adjacent players can expect to complete DD in 7-9 Months, depending on Gear availability. Character choices will matter if you intend to optimize your run. Currently, you can only focus on 2 Sections – City and Mythic. Mythic is the last section, but it is not very likely that we will get a lot of Mythic characters any time soon, so your options won’t change much. Moreover, Mythic characters like Apocalypse, Kestrel, and Super Skrull are often used daily in Arena/Raids, etc, which makes them great candidates for being the first characters to take to GT19.

City section is the first section (following a few non-restrictive nodes) and active players might be able to reach it in the next month or 2, which means that recommendations for City might not change as much or at all. This means that some City characters are also safe to start working on.

DD VII has 13 nodes and will require a minimum of 24 characters at GT19 to complete. All nodes require 5 characters to start the battle, while the last 2 nodes (Mythic nodes) can be launched with 4 characters.

Node 1-3 – any 5 characters at Gear Tier 19
Node 4-5 – any 5 Non-Legendary, Non-Mythic, City characters at GT19
Node 6-7 – any 5 Non-Legendary, Non-Mythic, Global characters at GT19
Node 8-9 – any 5 Non-Legendary, Non-Mythic, Cosmic characters at GT19
Node 10-11 – any 5 Legendary characters at GT19
Node 12-13 – any 4 Mythic characters at GT19

There are no requirements in terms of Iso, Yellow, or Red Stars, but the stronger your character is – the easier your run will be.

The first 3 nodes will have no restrictions so you could use any GT19 character here, the next section will require City characters. The most efficient way would be to upgrade 5 City characters first and then move to the next Origin. But the balanced way would suggest starting with important characters you use daily, such as Apocalypse, Black Knight, and Super Skrull. And once you have these 3 you can move on to City characters, like Ghost Rider (Robbie), Vulture, etc.

Character Recommendations

Each section will have recommendations based on available characters. They will be optimized in a way that accounts for different Gear Origins, character availability and/or value in other game modes, synergies, etc.

Next to each character, you will find the name of the Unique Gear Piece they use, as well as the character origin.

City (non-legendary, non-mythic) section (nodes 4-5)

The best optimized team:

Ghost Rider (Robbie) – Mystic; Miasma
Vulture – Tech; H.A.M.M.E.R. Tech
Kraven – Skil; Molecular Cloth
Lizard – Bio; Unstable Cloth
Ms. Marvel (Hard Light) – Mutant; Promethium

Alternatives:

Venom – Bio; Alien Spores
Mysterio – Tech, Luminium
Red Goblin – Bio; H.A.M.M.E.R. Tech
Gwenom – Bio; Experimental Formula
Firestar – Mutant; Ballistic Weave
Spider-Man (2099) – Bio; Molecular Cloth
Mister Negative – Mystic; Infinite Energy

The best team would always include Robbie, Vulture, and Kraven. The other 2 slots would have been filled with Venom or Mysterio, but some issues prevent that. Venom shares his unique with Super Skrull and is expensive since he requires all 6 gear pieces to be GT19. Mysterio is also quite expensive but he has the benefit of using a unique that is not on demand. Because of that, the optimal team includes Lizard and Ms. Harvel (Hard Light), but they will still be good. Lizard will work great with his Sinister teammates and his presence will allow Vulture to provide Sinister Six characters with 50% Drain. Ms. Marvel will be useful by providing protection, rewinding Speed Bar, and removing negative effects.

Global (non-legendary, non-mythic) section (nodes 6-7)

The best optimized team:

Black Knight – Mystic; Arcane Magic
Quicksilver – Mystic; Fortified Chromium
Captain America – Bio; Vibranium
Captain Carter – Bio; Molecular Cloth
Nightcrawler – Mutant; Osmium

Alternatives:

Gambit – Mutant; Osmium
Spider-Weaver – Mystic; Molecular Cloth
Iron Patriot – Tech; Titanium Alloy
Namor – Mutant; Promethium
The Leader – Bio, Gamma Radiation
Nemesis – Mutant; Carbonadium

Right now, the best team for this section is the Out Of Time trio (Black Knight, Captain Carter, and Captain America) paired with 2 strong plug-and-play characters, in this case, Nightcrawler and Quicksilver. Although Nightcrawler requires Osmium and that unique will likely end up being used in other sections as well, so he might be the first to end up being replaced. In the coming weeks and months, this selection will also grow and we might have better recommendations, so presently only Black Knight is a sure thing and can be upgraded.

Global selection is wider compared to others, and there are a few other ways you could go about this. You could use full X-Treme X-Men here, but that would be unwise since they all would require Mutant Gear which would slow down your progress significantly. Going with smaller groups from the same teams makes more sense, you could use 3 X-Treme X-Men (Forge, Nightcrawler, Gambit), or you can go in with the full Cabal squad plus 2 other members.

Cosmic (non-legendary, non-mythic) section (nodes 8-9)

The best optimized team:

Vahl – Mystic; Osmium
Kang – Tech; Quantum Energy
Photon – Bio; Molecular Cloth
Void Knight – Bio; Alien Spores
Cosmic Ghost Rider – Mystic; Miasma

Alternatives:

Ikaris – Mystic; Astral Energy
Sersi – Mystic; Uru
Cosmo – Bio; Astral Energy
Thor (Infinity War) – Mystic; Uru
Hela – Mystic; Miasma
Beta Ray Bill – Mystic, Uru

As it stands right now, optimizing this section is somewhat problematic. Vahl and Kang are likely to end up being essential for this and Photon can pair well with them because she’s not expensive and doesn’t interfere with gear origins. Picking the last 2 characters is harder since most great picks end up being Mystics (Eternals, Cosmic Ghost Rider, or any Bifrost members). Void Knight can be a good fit here, but his unique is Alien Spores, the same that Super Skrull uses and it might end up slowing down your progress since Super Skrull should be a priority.

By the time ftp players reach this section we will have more available options. At present, only Kang and Vahl seem like essential characters, and it is hard to imagine them being replaced.

Legendary section (nodes 10-11)

The best optimized team:

Green Goblin (Classic) – Tech; Experimental Formula
Doctor Octopus – Tech; Titanium Alloy
Red Hulk – Bio; Gamma Radiation
Black Cat – Skill; Luminium
Omega Red – Mutant; Carbonadium

Alternatives:

Nova – Bio; Osmium
Rogue – Mutant; Ballistic Weave
Morgan Le Fay – Mystic; Osmium
Archangel – Mutant; Fortified Chromium
Nick Fury – Skill; Superhuman Serum

So far, the best lineup for the Legendary section consists of Green Goblin and Doc Ock, with Black Cat, Red Hulk, and Nova, this way you can have 2 Battlefield effects (allied and enemy side) active at all times. That said, Nova uses Osmium and there are other characters you might prefer to use it on, so for the optimized team we ended up replacing him with Omega Red.

Green Goblin will be responsible for applying a lot of Trauma, Doc Ock will support Goblin and provide him with Charged, while also Healing everyone and granting Speed Up to his adjacent allies. Black Cat will be responsible for controlling the enemies with her Trauma+Stun and removing Charged from them with her Ultimate. Red Hulk is mainly there for his Battlefield effect and his damage, while Omega Red can apply Ability Block very often which will be quite useful.

By the time you reach the Legendary section new Legendary characters will be released and they might be a better option for this, hence there’s no need to rush and Gear them up just yet.

Mythic Section (nodes 12-13)

The best team:

Super Skrull – Bio, Alien Spores
Apocalypse – Mutant; Astral Energy
Kestrel – Tech; S.H.I.E.L.D. Tech
Doctor Doom – Tech; Miasma

Alternatives

Dormammu – Mystic; Miasma
Mephisto – Mystic; Arcane Magic
Ultron – Tech; Adamantuim
Ultimus – Mystic; Uru

Ideally, you want to have Apocalypse, Super Skrull, Kestrel, and both Dormammu and Doom, but since you can start the battles in this section with only 4 characters you can go in without Dorm. Doom will be better because both Mythic nodes have Black Cat as an enemy in the first wave, so his Revives will be removed by her. Dormammu is also Mystic, which may end up being a popular origin so gear might be limited. Dormammu will still be useful, thanks to his heals and the Stun+Trauma combo on his Special so if you can use all 5 of them at once you should do it. For your second run, you will be able to use Mephisto here instead of Dorm.

While Ultron and Ultimus are available as an alternative, they should be ignored at all costs. There is a possibility that a new Mythic character will be released at some point and if that happens we will update this section.

Rewards

The main rewards from the Dark Dimension VII are no doubt the Mephisto character shards that you get after completing your First-Clear and Timed runs. You can also earn Red Stars for Mephisto, a ton of Crimson Gear, and plenty of other rewards from clearing nodes

Node rewards:

Mega Gold Orbs (nodes 1,3,5,7,9,11,13) – a total of 9 Mega Gold Orbs
800 T4 Ability Materials (200 from nodes 2,4,6 and 8)
4 Mega Gold Orbs (nodes 3,5,7,9)
2 Diamond Orb (nodes 11,13)
Elite 7 credits (nodes 10,12) – a total of 5,000 Elite 7 Credits
Each node also awards 25 Crimson Mini-Unique gear pieces

The node rewards are available for both – First-Clear and Timed runs, so after completing the Dark Dimension twice you will get double the rewards listed above. The third clear or any other consecutive clear will only award you achievement progress that will unlock new Player Frames.

First-Clear Rewards:

310 Mephisto character shards (5 Yellow Stars unlock)
2 Red Stars for Mephisto
10 fully crafted Crimson Gear pieces (2 for each – Bio, Mutant, Mystic, Skill, Tech)
Bio, Mutant, Mystic, Skill, and Tech Mini-Uniques
Arcane Magic, Miasma, Astral Energy, Alien Spores, Experimental Formula, Luminium, Osmium – Crimson Uniques
Tons of Crimson Catalysts and Gear Pieces.

Timed run Rewards:

500 Mephisto Character Shards
5 Red Stars for Mephisto
15 fully crafted Crimson Gear pieces (3 for each – Bio, Mutant, Mystic, Skill, Tech)
Bio, Mutant, Mystic, Skill, and Tech Mini-Uniques
Molecular Cloth, H.A.M.M.E.R. Tech, S.H.I.E.L.D. Tech, Titanium Alloy, Vibranium, Focused Chi, Infinite Energy – Crimson Uniques
Tons of Crimson Catalysts and Gear Pieces.

Conclusion

Assembling teams for Dark Dimension won’t be an easy task, but as long as you plan ahead, don’t rush, and are selective about your characters, you will be able to clear it.

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