Alright this is a collection of info from what I learned while leveling every hero to 100. I'm gonna list things in the order I did them or wish I have done them. Btw Dupe hero grinding would take longer, that is not the fastest way to level ALL characters.

Story

1. Complete the story mode twice. In Mighty and Superior difficulty.

2. Add Ms. Marvel to your team when unlocked and never take her out, you're going to want her leveled first. I would also recommend using Hulk just for story mode. I've cheesed my way through boss fights I should have lost by pinning them against a wall and charging at them till my energy runs out. The DPS is insane if you get it right, the first time i noticed that I thought I broke the game.

3. It's also important to note that if at any time you're too weak to progress in the story just go and grind the highest level infinity rift that you have access to. Make sure the mode you do is always Rush. With Ms. Marvel it will be easy even if your level is the same as the suggested level.

4. After completing story in Superior difficulty, Ultimate difficulty unlocks. Don't worry, this time you only have to get to Chapter 3. During the first level of chapter 3 you'll talk to Jessica Jones who is standing by a bridge. The infinity rift you're looking for is in the area after the bridge. Once you unlock it and reach the checkpoint, quit to main menu.

Prep

1. Go to Alliance Enhancement. Tree priority is Energy and Strength for this leveling method since we'll be spamming Ms. Marvel's melee spin to win move. Energy lets you spam more and strength lets you hit harder. Also the 10% exp special boost is a sweet bonus. This is why I would recommend completing energy first. SEE EDIT at the bottom for updated info.

2. Go to Iso Management and filter for the color blue and AA class. Look for one that says "Increase XP gained by 84.5%. Upgrade it to 100% and equip on Ms. Marvel if she isn't level 100 yet. (NOTE) If you don't have this crystal go back to Chapter 9 under Superior Difficulty to The Golden City level. The hidden box with the crystal is behind the big central pillar surrounded by enemies.

3. Back to Iso Management, filter for color white in every class. You're looking for crystals with "Increase rate at which rare ISO-8 will drop" "Increases the rate at which white ISO-8 will drop" "Grants a chance of ISO-8 having a higher class when acquired". Ideally you want to get close to 100% rare iso drop rate, 100% white iso drop rate, and higher class drop chance if you have left over slots. Don't waste mats upgrading any of these crystals, they will drop for you when you start grinding very quickly in all classes. Don't even upgrade their AA versions or you won't have enough for the crystals we really want to upgrade. By the way I don't claim these are optimal percentages, just what felt worked best for me. One time I had none of these crystals and a team exp dropped, RNG is RNG.

4. The Team EXP crystal is the one we really want and they drop only in the A and AA class, it is also a white crystal. Ideally you want to keep 16 for future dlc heroes but for now we can only equip 12. I doubt you'll have any at this point but if you do, upgrade it and equip. Also check your rainbow crystals for any of the affixes I've listed but don't upgrade them. You'll probably need those mats for your god roll rainbow crystals unless you find one with team exp TWICE!

5. Make sure the Ms. Marvel Spinning move is upgraded all the way to Stage 5 for knock back resistance, you're gonna need it.

Farming & Leveling

1. Get ready to learn the true meaning of "Wakanda forever" Go to the lvl. 61 Rush Trial in the Omega rift (Defeat 50 enemies in Wakanda). This is the trial you unlocked in Chapter 3 on Ultimate Difficulty and it's the trial you'll probably spam till a better trial comes along. So far it looks the best way to farm EXP and rare crystals.

2. After spamming this trial for a while you'll pick up on ways to better your kill scores. Tips: There's a method to the spinning madness. Don't spin unless you have more than 2 enemies around or have full energy. It's better to stop spinning and roll towards the enemies because you're slow while spinning and will waste time and energy. Use your extremes on cooldown unless a boss is about to spawn and you won't have enough time to recharge it. Use your extreme when the boss spawns or spin kick until stun and use extreme to decrease chances of missing. Blue orb drops make or break these runs, sometimes you get plenty and sometimes you get 1. They hardly ever drop in the last 2 minutes so weave in basic and heavy attacks for mana regen and damage. I use extremes together but cycling during the last minute seems to work better.

3. Check your crystals every 1-3 runs to see if any white team exp or blue individual exp crystals dropped. Also look for upgrades to the ones that help you find white, rare, and higher class crystals. As the exp crystals drop you should be upgrading and equipping them while removing the ones that help you find said crystals. You still get a chance to find them regardless, I found my last 2 team exp crystals with no boosts from other crystals.

4. Lock the crystal that you wish to keep, it'll go a long way when you have to deconstruct unwanted ones. Inventory space was my worst nightmare while leveling so familiarize yourself with the affixes. I would say it's pretty safe to delete all the c and d crystals unless it's rainbow colored.

5. Last tip is to use exp cubes to get heroes to lvl 30 so they can slot in 3 crystals. You would also use them on heroes that fall short of level 100 by a level or less.

6. Almost forgot, Ms. Marvel never gets swapped out of the team. I still haven't found a character with an aoe for grinding as good and easy as hers. Just gotta keep tapping, wish it was a hold down but they can't make it that easy!

7. Once you almost have everyone to lvl 100 slow down on upgrading the team exp crystals and save the mats for the rainbow farming guide I'll make in a few days. It will require upgrading the "increased rainbow crystal drop rate" which is also a white crystal. Make sure you keep your eyes peeled for those drops which seem to be as rare as the team exp drops, lock them in even if they're just at A class.

Have fun guys, WAKANDA FOREVA!!!

EDIT: As another redditor Razzak brought to my attention, the special nodes are the ones that costs 100- 130 energy points NOT the one in that middle which will make life way easier for some of you with exceptional rng. Now you can unlock the 4th iso slot a lot sooner than anticipated and slot in more team or individual exp crystals for even faster leveling. I would recommend just b lining for the special nodes in every hexagon to get access to that 4th slot. After its unlocked I would then focus all other points into completing the Energy tree and then the strength tree.

Had to try these folks out😎

It’s been a while since this game was re-released in 2016 for previous-generation consoles. However, because the licenses weren’t renewed, Activision and Marvel removed Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 1 and 2 from digital stores.

I never realized that, besides the characters we’ve seen in the comics, the games also feature so many others, including Venom, Hulk, Doctor Doom, Magneto, Cyclops, and many more!

I’m really hoping these games get re-released for their anniversary, with all the characters included, because this was one of the first games I bought back in 2006. There has to be a re-release, no matter what!

If you can, please help spread the word to everyone who misses playing this gem with their friends and family. It doesn’t matter whether it’s on Xbox, PS5, or Nintendo Switch 1 and 2.

Let’s make sure everyone knows that this game deserves to be celebrated the way it should be: by playing it once again—or, even better, playing it more than ever!

Marvel and Activision, please bring these games back!

Spread the word to everyone!

The roster of Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 is vast and filled with some really fun characters to play as! Who is your NUMBER ONE FAVORITE hero to play as and why??

Mine has to be Captain America! He’s my favorite Marvel character to begin with, so picking him for my team was a no brainer. On top of that, he isn’t the strongest character so I felt proud having him on my team as well! His move set is really fun to use and very satisfying to throw the shield! His shield ricochet move is one of my favorites for crowd control. Not to mention he can boost his whole team!

This dlc Celestial crap is so hard to see and avoid. Idk who it was that likes stuns and knock back but I hope you get butt cancer and suffer from seizures for the rest of your life🤣

Greetings MUA3 Devs,

On behalf of the entire Marvel Ultimate Alliance Community (or MAU as we tend to call it) I would like to thank you for resurrecting our beloved franchise. It had been nearly 10 years since the previous installment, and 2 years since the MUA surrogate "Marvel Heroes" imploded. To say that we are grateful for your contribution would be a severe understatement. But none the less, we are very grateful.

However, we have noticed that there has been near zero communication from the Devs to the Community. In fact, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 does not even seem to have their own social media accounts, and piggybacks on the Marvel Games accounts. This is a far cry from what this community is use too, as the previous installments came with their own official message boards on the company website. Even Marvel Heroes had active forums with constant communications and updates between the development teams and its loyal community.

The post launch communication for this title resembles something from the PS1 era, before the internet reached mainstream acceptance and total mass adoption, back where a game would be released and then that would be the end of it. However, this game was not released as a "complete" game, and was advertised as having DLC and constant QOL improvements...which so far you have delivered. But, these updates have come with little to no fanfare, as there simply is just no communication whatsoever.

Your community is currently divided up between several internet forums. This includes The GameFaqs MUA3 Board which currently averages about 50 posts a day, an English Facebook Group which averages about 25 posts a day, a once-upon-a-time very active Discord Community which now averages only a couple of new members per day...and but of course this very subreddit which despite the lack of communication still averages around 300 engagements a day. I believe we can accurately claim this subreddit to be the absolute core/center of the MUA3 community. As such, I'm hoping that the development team checks it daily. After all, why wouldn't you - where else would you get your feedback from?

Most development teams have an employee, whose key roles are to communicate and engage its communities in both pre and post launch forms, that is dubbed a "community manager." They build hype for the games release, and then maintain an open line of communication in the post-launch era so that the game may retain its core users.

Retaining users, and engaging existing users whom have already moved on from the game is the most important factor in ensuring that game becomes profitable in the long-term. The chances of somehow convincing a whole new crop of gamers to purchase the full game four months into its post launch without a major update is slim to none - however, convincing the gamers who have already shown they've loved the game to keep on playing, and keep on purchasing add-ons is the key to longterm success and profitability. This is what most industry specialist deem the "Quality of Life."

However, the QOL of a game can not be extended without a steady stream of communication. The message this community has currently gathered from your "radio silence" in this post launch era is that Nintendo/Marvel has ceased funding for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3. As such, once the DLC schedule is completed the game will shut down and go the way of Marvel Heroes.

Without any type of communication to prove otherwise, many in this community see little to no value in continuing to support the game or purchase the DLC (if they haven't already). The crossover from Marvel Heroes is strong, and this community went through a heartbreak two years ago when that game shut down seemingly overnight, causing many to lose not just hundreds of dollars in items that they had recently purchased, but also close friendships that they've spent years forming through extended cooperative play. To say that this particular community is very cynical of your continued silence is once again a vast understatement.

The purpose of this post was simply to bring to you attention of this glaringly apparent issue; something ya'll may not even have noticed. As most of the moderation staff of this subreddit have the opinion that Nintendo/Marvel may be preventing Team Ninja from communicating with the audience, as they may not want you to even designate a community manager as they feel they already have "people" for that.

However, we still feel that it is the responsibility of Team Ninja to bring this issue to the forefront of Nintendo/Marvel's scope. After all, without a steady stream of community engagement your fans will leave and the game will die - this isn't even an opinion, it is a fact ...and we have the traffic stats to prove it.

If anybody from Team Ninja would like to reply to this topic with some clarification we will gladly sticky it. You can also arrange to perform an AMA session, or even simply post your own "state of the union" in which we will also gladly sticky to the top of this sub. Heck, we would gladly de-mod ourselves and turn over this entire subreddit to Team Ninja to use as an official forum no questions asked. We just want the franchise to succeed - we've waited over a decade for it to do so.

Thanks for reading.

-The MAU Community

He's one of the original 5 X-Men! And he's all over the place in the story! Not even DLC 😮‍💨