Adeon Hawkwood

Good to know, I've tagged the article with a Historical tag.

Well the point is that with the 35-39 range you get everything in the 40-45 range plus Kinetic Combat Dam/End/Rech and Entropic Chaos Dam/End/Rech both of which are pretty popular. I consider the 30-34 range is a poor choice since it includes all of the recipes that cap out at 30 which tend to have little value.

Well the 20-24 range has more recipes in it than the 35-39 range but without knowing the exact weighting we can't say for certain which is better. Although I think that the 35-39 range has more recipes that you can sell for large amounts.

As a side note, according to the Wiki article on experience it would actually have gone faster if they'd been SK'd to 47 since NPCs greater than +5 give no more XP than +5s.

The bit that interested me though is that 45 is not actually the optimal level. As mentioned above you get no additional benefit from being more than 5 levels below the enemies but even against level 50 enemies it's better to be 46 than 45. The loss of XP from fighting +4s instead of +5s is outweighed by the extra XP from being closer to the teams average level. Of course if you've got 2 or more lowbies then level 45 is better.

Yeah the forum change broke all the links so unless you have the thread name finding old threads is almost impossible.

I agree, however if I keep assuming that they aren't going to change the pseudo-pets I'll be pleasantly surprised if it turns out that they have

Really? The only time I've seen it was during a Zombie/Rikti raid. I'll have to try that sometime. Any advice on where in PI to try it?

Interesting, I did a quick forum search and couldn't find anything. Does anyone else have a link to this?

I did some calculations based on Paragon Wiki's XP rules and that says you'd have to kill about 10K level 54 bosses to do it assuming that you SK the character to level 50 and have a team of 8.

A two person team fighting level 50 bosses would have to kill 6.6K bosses (assuming the lowbie is SK'd to level 46).

A two person team with the lowbie SK'd to 50 fighting level 54s would need to kill about 5K

Those are kinda the extremes but with varying team size versus boss level to optimize kill time I'm starting to think you could get a high enough kill rate to do it in four hours.

Probably not actually, I don't really know.

Another option is that the level 1 was exemped down to level 1, if you just look at the targeting window it can be easy to miss the level number color.

No, the intent of Hamis is to allow for more efficient slotting by allowing one slot to provide the same benefit as 2 SOs (or in a few rare cases 3). Since Active Defense doesn't allow for Defense enhancements to be slotted normally using HOs is enhancing an aspect of the power that is intended to be un-enhanceable though the use of SOs.

I know at one point there was a bug with HOs (I'm not sure if it got fixed or not) where HOs that provided a debuff could be slotted into a buff power (and visa versa) and still give their effect (the requirement was that the other aspect of the HO had to work in the power). For example a defense Debuff HO could be slotted into a Defense Buff power in which case it would enhance the defense buff by 33.33% rather than the 20% normally provided by defense buff SOs. This was clearly stated by the devs to be an exploit and while I can't say how they feel about the Membranes in AD it does seem to be unintended behavior.

While Procs (both regular chance to do X procs and proc120s like the stealth IOs) are unaffected by exemping unless you lose access to the power that it's in the global IOs (like the ever popular LotG +7.5% recharge IO) are affected by exemping in the same manner as set bonuses.