Epic Quests are sets of story-based missions that allow you to build up characters as you progress through a list of challenges.

The Rise of the X-Men Epic Quest follows the story of Wolverine and the classic X-Men, and served as the introduction of Mutant characters to the game.

This Epic Quest was also the one which introduced the Deluxe Pack system, as well as a second Native Tier-2 (Jean Grey) that requires other quest-related characters to be built up.

• Characters

  Below are the characters involved in the Epic Quest. These were all added in the same update, with the Epic Quest being the primary way of farming their X-Genes. Additionally, as all these characters are Mutants, Biometric Selectors do not work on them. X-Gene Selectors do, but those are much rarer. The Native Tier-2s (Wolverine, Jean Grey) require Phoenix Feathers and M'Kraan Crystals to build up, not Black Anti-Matter and Norn Stones of Chaos.

  Wolverine The protagonist of the Epic Quest. As a Native Tier-2, he will gradually be built up to Level 60 as the Quest progresses.
  Rogue A free, farmable character, who can be obtained from X-Gene Selectors. She can also be farmed from the "Tracking Missions" that unlock as you progress.
  Beast A free, farmable character, who can be obtained from X-Gene Selectors. He can also be farmed from the "Tracking Missions" that unlock as you progress.
  Storm A free, farmable character, who can be obtained from X-Gene Selectors. She can also be farmed from the "Tracking Missions" that unlock as you progress.
  Cyclops A free, farmable character, who can be obtained from X-Gene Selectors. He can also be farmed from the "Tracking Missions" that unlock as you progress.
  Magneto The Deluxe Pack character, who can only be unlocked by purchasing the Deluxe Pack for 6600 Crystals. He is unlocked at 6 Stars upon purchase, and additional X-Genes are given as Deluxe Rewards and Deluxe Mission drops.
  Jean Grey The Ultimate Native Tier-2, who can only be unlocked by upgrading the prerequisite characters to Tier-2 and Level 60. She is unlocked at 1 Star once this is done.

  Deluxe Pack

  6 Star Magneto Instantly unlocked when purchasing the Deluxe Pack.
  Deluxe Mission (Mutual Enemy) Instantly unlocked when purchasing the Deluxe Pack. Deluxe Packs are a feature of every Epic Quest except the Doctor Strange one (and a slight exception for the Fate of Mankind / Eternals Epic Quest, which features two Deluxe Packs). Deluxe Packs can be purchased with Crystals (6600 of them in this case), and unlock an exclusive character who cannot be otherwise acquired, and an exclusive mission that drops valuable rewards. Deluxe Packs are generally viewed as solid investments. Even if the character that is unlocked gets power creeped, the mission stays unlocked for you to keep farming materials at a higher rate. Mutant materials, which drop from this Deluxe Pack, are useful throughout all stages of the game - both for building mutants and for recipes in the Crafting Lab. The exclusive character for this Deluxe Pack is Magneto, who gets unlocked at 6 Stars immediately after purchasing it. To get him to Tier-2, you can use a combination of the X-Genes given as "Deluxe Rewards" in the Epic Quest progression, and farmable X-Genes from the unlockable mission rewards at about 20/day. Deluxe Rewards are additional rewards given at each stage of the Epic Quest after a Deluxe Pack is purchased. These can be claimed retroactively, so you can go back to missions already completed and collected the Deluxe Rewards - there is no penalty for progressing far in the Epic Quest before buying it. The total Deluxe Rewards are listed below.
  400 Magneto X-Genes Deluxe Rewards gained from progressing in the Epic Quest. This is more than enough to get him to Tier-2, with the average cost to upgrade gears to 20 being 166 X-Genes.
  630 M'Kraan Shards Deluxe Rewards gained from progressing in the Epic Quest. Enough to reach full Mastery for Magneto.
  1500 Crystals Deluxe Rewards gained from progressing in the Epic Quest. A decent "cashback", putting the net price of the Deluxe Pack at 5100 Crystals.
  3,000,000 Gold Deluxe Rewards gained from progressing in the Epic Quest.

  Rebirth of the Phoenix

  Jean Grey "Rebirth of the Phoenix" allows you to unlock a 1 Star Jean Grey once you reach Lv.60 and Tier-2 with the 5 listed characters (Rogue, Cyclops, Wolverine, Magneto and Storm). You will then have to build up Jean Grey manually as a double-cost Native Tier-2. Note that: - Beast is not required, despite him being part of the Epic Quest. - Magneto is required, so you can consider Jean to also be locked behind the Deluxe Pack's 6600 Crystal cost.

  Requirements

  These are the characters required, and the materials needed, to complete the Epic Quest.

  5 Star Rogue
  5 Star Beast
  5 Star Storm
  5 Star Cyclops
  1100 Norn Stones of Strength Can be farmed in Dimension Missions or bought outright from the Support Shop - 400 daily for 3000 Dimension Tokens.
  1100 Dimension Debris Can be farmed in Dimension Missions or bought outright from the Support Shop - 1000 daily for 3000 Dimension Tokens.
  800 Norn Stones of Chaos Primarily farmed from non-Mutant World Boss.
  5 Rank 4 Black Anti-Matter Primarily farmed from non-Mutant World Boss. Combining from scratch takes 1000 Rank 1 Black Anti-Matter + 5,625,000 Gold.
  3 Rank 6 Black Anti-Matter Primarily farmed from non-Mutant World Boss. Combining from scratch takes 2400 Rank 1 Black Anti-Matter + 16,500,000 Gold.
  1000 M'Kraan Shards Primarily farmed from Dimension Mission, Tracking Missions and Messy Friends (from X-Force Epic Quest). Can also be bought outright from the Support Shop - 400 daily for 3000 Dimension Tokens.
  1000 M'Kraan Crystals Primarily farmed from Mutant World Boss, Veiled Secret, The Big Twin (from X-Force Epic Quest), or Deluxe Missions (X-Force Epic Quest included).
  1000 Phoenix Feathers Primarily farmed from Mutant World Boss, Veiled Secret, The Big Twin (from X-Force Epic Quest), or Deluxe Missions (X-Force Epic Quest included).

  Rewards

  These are the total rewards gained throughout the Epic Quest's 54 stages.
  Tier-2, Fully Mastered, Lv.60 Wolverine From here, work on Lv.70 / Tier-3 if desired.[p]Note that his gears must be upgraded to +20 before you can realise Potential in World Boss to reach 70.
  Various X-Genes You get 30 of each Tracking Mission character's X-Genes. These should help with the Rank Up requirements in the quest progression.
  200 Norn Stones of Strength These should help with Research.
  200 Dimension Debris These should help with Research.
  100 Norn Stones of Chaos These should help with Research.
  400 Rank 1 Black Anti-Matter These should help with Research.
  200 M'Kraan Shards These should help with Research.
  100 M'Kraan Crystals These should help with Research.
  100 Phoenix Feathers These should help with Research.
  3 Dimension Chests: 6 Star ISO-8
  2,000,000 Gold
  100 Energy
  100 Clear Tickets
• Listed below are all the playable missions that are unlocked during the Epic Quest, and their rewards (excluding S.H.I.E.L.D. Archive drops).

  Tracking Missions

  Going Rogue
  Friends and Enemies
  Weathering the Storm
  Blindsided! These missions drop at least 1 X-Gene per run, with a decent chance of a bonus one. Each mission has an individual limit of 10 X-Gene runs per day (but a single run that drops 2 X-Genes only counts as 1 X-Gene run). The Energy cost of these missions is low (3 Energy with Stage 1 Boost Points, 4 Energy without), making them a decent way to farm Uniform XP while acquiring X-Genes.

  Veiled Secret

  Magneto's Might
  Rise of the Phoenix These missions are a good way of farming Mutant Tier-2 materials. Each mission has a daily entry limit of 2, and drops about 20 Feathers and slightly less than 10 M'Kraan Crystals per run.

  Deluxe Mission

  Mutual Enemy This mission is unlocked upon buying the Deluxe Pack, and has a daily entry limit of 2. Each run will drop about 10 Magneto X-Genes, 40 Phoenix Feathers, 10 M'Kraan Crystals and a handful of M'Kraan Shards, making it one of the most valuable missions to play. Every run will randomly select one of the Tracking Mission characters as an Ally Shifter (if played manually), and rewards a single X-Gene of that Shifter character upon mission completion. This is pretty inconsequential since all of them are farmable.
• At various points in the Stage List, you will be asked to complete "Research" tasks. These require you to sacrifice some resources to progress. The Researches are listed here in the order they appear in the Stage List (and generally, goes from easiest to hardest).

  Broken Robot Debris

  1

  x100 Dimension Debris Skip Cost: 1 Crystal per item, 100 total
  Broken Robot Debris

  2

  x100 Norn Stones of Strength Skip Cost: 2 Crystals per item, 200 total
  Regeneration Device

  1

  x1000 Dimension Debris Skip Cost: 1 Crystal per item, 1000 total
  Mind Resistance Device

  1

  x1000 Norn Stones of Strength Skip Cost: 2 Crystals per item, 2000 total
  Book of Reapers

  1

  x800 Norn Stones of Chaos ]Skip Cost: 5 Crystals per item, 4000 total
  Broken Robot Debris

  3

  x5 Rank 4 Black Anti-Matter Skip Cost: 800 Crystals per item, 4000 total
  Mind Resistance Device

  2

  x1000 M'Kraan Shards Skip Cost: 3 Crystals per item, 3000 total
  Cerebro

  1

  x3 Rank 6 Black Anti-Matter Skip Cost: 6400 Crystals per item, 19200 total
  Mind Resistance Device

  3

  x1000 M'Kraan Crystals Skip Cost: 7 Crystals per item, 7000 total
  Regeneration Device

  2

  x1000 Phoenix Feathers Skip Cost: 7 Crystals per item, 7000 total

Epic Quest Collections contain random items that have a chance to drop every time you run a specific mission. Each Collection comes with a reward upon completion.

The Beast's Lab Collection contains 5 items, each subdivided into 3 sub-items that can be farmed from missions within the Epic Quest. Once the required amounts of all 3 sub-items for a Collection item are reached, it is marked as collected, and your reward can be redeemed.

The amount you need to farm for each sub-item is more or less arbitrary. Each sub-item has its own drop percentages, and some will drop in higher quantities at once than others. None of the rewards for this Collection are much good anyway, so it's probably not worth focusing on any of these.

For each sub-item, the number of items needed is shown to the side. The icon shows the mission the sub-item drops in: as listed in the "Unlockable Missions" section.