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try this option. it is by no means perfect but do not enter an arc that has only unique maps in the description. all the outdoor maps are labeled as unique in the mission description pages.(afaik)

yeah i was basing my statements off of observation in rv. I mostly play heroes and right now the fotm is for a team of 3 or 4 villains to all trow sharks. and that usually ends up being a dead hero considering stalkers and some of the veats can crit. so they get the benefit of extra damage from a power that will also immobilize anyone that doesnt have combat jumping and ss.


I pvp with a thugs pain but haven't actually done the respec into the patron powers. I plan to build for regen and plus health to stack with my buffs. My brother has another thugs/pain we plan on huddling and using painbringer on each other i order to make us really hard to kill.

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When you are fighting a group of 3 minion level custom critters it is almost like being attacked by 3 player controlled toons.


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This is flat-out hyperbole. While generally more difficult than standard mobs, custom mobs are not even remotely in the same league with player-controlled opponents. The AI sees to that. Custom mobs are just as predictable as standard mobs, just as easily manipulated, and just as dopey.


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my statement you quoted above is not hyperbole. an even con minion is exactly like facing an unslotted player controlled toon when it comes to an alpha strike. the dopey ai may be easily manipulated but hen you add in the skills of the average non powergaming player. And the fact that the critter alpha shot has a much faster reaction time than any player controlled team could ever hope and dream of it is exactly like a well organized spike.

Since the custom critters are using the exact damage scales we players use then it is not an exaggeration it is a fact that if a level 20 blaster faces a group of 3 even level minions he is facing the unslotted damage potential of 3 player created toons. Of which have hard written into their ai to respond to first contact with a barrage or throwing knives simultaneously.


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When taken in the context of my original thought of a squishy toon absorbing an alpha strike from 3 even con minions is ALMOST like facing 3 player controlled toons is not hyperbole.

If you create custom critter clones of praetorian demons fire blast/fire melee and you attack a spawn set for 8 with a spines/fire scrapper they hit like a truck in comparison to the normal critter demons. Why you say? because they now have smashing and lethal damage in their alpha shot which is what most squishy toons are the most vunerable to.

sure the stone tank that run mision architect customs won't have to worry but a troller who isin't optimally built or pre so's gets owned quickly if their aoe control powers miss.

Q/R

The whole problem with the system right now is it was plainly put to live about 3 to 4 months too soon for it to be a much better workable tool. quite honestly this should still be in dev only testing.

There is no reason they could not have given us clones of existing critters we could mix and match from the critter power scale and base.

If they took the time to create class boss generic versions of critters there would be no problems. they could also force us to stick to existing enemy ratios and not allow all minion,lt, or boss spawns. Stuff like this should be hard coded into this feature,

We wanted it now!!!!! and we got it now. full of holes and bugs that have been exploited and worked around.

The added ranged attacks to melee only custom critters are not the problem. Just as darth said in his posts it's the fact that the critters are like pvp under pre issue 13 rules. When you are fighting a group of 3 minion level custom critters it is almost like being attacked by 3 player controlled toons.

Not to mention that on large teams yout team of 8 is being pounded on by the best cordinated arena pvp spike that could ever be cordinated. Alpha strikes cripple a character quicker than anything you have ever faced in normal game play short of av's
for this to be fixed it will take alot of time and dev effort. Which it is not going to get because they have spread their resources so thin working on the next two big ticket items that will also be full of holes and exploits that cause all kinds of problems when they are released.

gang war takes both

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leviathan trowin sharks is not unconventional in pvp it is fotm. as the sharks do crazy damage in pvp.

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Well, this is what im basing some of my post from pvp patron

And the few people I also talked to about it told me to go with mace. The throwing sharks doesn't do THAT much dmg. KB is really where its at.

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Yes in that post you will see where the guy said that he was not sure how issue 13 effected those power picks. In issue 13 any person with super speed and combat jumping can run right out of your immobs and the slows only effect the recharge componets(only if the power effects recharge) hover also will allow fliers the ability to stay airborne and slowly hover out of reach of your minions. the damage of the sharks is definately greater than mace for pvp

leviathan trowin sharks is not unconventional in pvp it is fotm. as the sharks do crazy damage in pvp.

lowbies are hard to play especially on mission where people put in a forced level spawn situation. if I am level 6 and i zone in a map and all of a sudden i am level 45 fighting level 45's my powers don''t seem to scale properly damage wise and the critters seem to never miss. this is while solo trying other peoples arcs. i like soloing missions but have found it hard to do on a lowbie.

well that's horribly inconvient considering how easy it was before this patch.

i was trying to edit one of my custom groups. i wanted to exchange a broadsword/invul for a broadsword/superreflexes.

Yet when i try to remove the invul instead of seeing the remove tab it says base group and will not allow me to remove it? is there a new trick to alter the groups or do I have to remake the entire custom group to make 1 change?

lol,

paraphrase?

what about the map in uais arc that has all the werewolves in it? that on has forests and water and would suffce for a staging ground.

i got to admit shadow Ijust love that damn duck in your avatar lol

panzer you forgot where she complained about her 3 hour to make masterpiece mission architect arc has not been played because of us ebil farmbers

I personally have npc dialouge turned off on all but one toon that I solo arcs with. I have seen some very very funny missions that were set up with great rewards yet were not using exploitive enemy types. one of thebest low level missions I played was a sewer run made for villains that centered on eventally runnig into a hero sewer team and helping give them their trip on the pain train back to level.

It had all the normal npc's that hero sewer runs would see and at the end is a custom set of hero's that get suprised when you show up.

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please elaborate how Farming(not exploiting ritki or bugged missions) prevents you from enjoying the game?


I am not here to please you. I am also not here to help you enjoy this game. I could care less how frustrated you are. Because I am not the cause of your frustration and neither is farming in the general sense of the term. go back and read how my group has fun.


Enlighten me on how my friends and I are interacting with you in any way? We do not use broadcast because we have our own accounts and do not need fillers. We do not powerlevel new people to the game and we do not allow anyone to join our challenge maps. We do nothing to you nor do we interact with you in any way. We are always hidden from team searches so we are not even turning you down for regular mission teams. Yet you insist I meet you in the middle so you can feel better about your self?

How about NO! How about you learn that life is not fair and you cannot get everything you want and some times compromise isn't gonna happen.

I will not bend over backwards to ease your frustration that I have nothing to do with. Maybe all you need is fresh eyes on the game. Maybe you are afraid of change. Maybe you are used to getting your way. And like I said if you want it your way take your 15$ to burgerking cause I aint hearing it.

casandra. please explain how My small group of friends who each have 2 accounts and pad our own missions, do not spam for farms, do not exploit enemies that are bugged and known exploits, We do not powerlevel lowbies for influence or real money inteferes in your playstyle whatsoever

The answer is you cannot. I am not in atlas spamming over and over and over 46 scrapper looking for farm! we gather on vent and never use in game chat for anything but dragging recipees and salvage into the window to show what drops we got for our ticket sales.

You however are here trying to directly intefere in our fun by calling for nerfs to our basic playstyle when you should just be using the tools available to you to not see the spam in question. you can ignore individuals globally and have all the peace and quiet you want.

The fact is you and others on your bandwagon are the ones who have the problem and you are the ones who insist others cater to your wants.

Since I am not directly intefereing with your playstyle. Yet you are intentionally trying to intefere with mine then

Yes I will say that my 15$ gives me the right to play how I like and your 15$ can go to burger king where you can have it YOUR WAY!

Honestly cassandra the main differnce is that people who are power gamers(not the people abusing exploits) are caught up in the slugfest and are being painted with a very very broad brush as being an ebil farmer.

There are alot of us who just enjoy a challenge. and who are not packing comm officers in our maps. those of us here defending power gaming are not the comm officer exploiters or the meow farmers. We are the ones who are getting even more rewards for our arc than the comm officers but we are fighting elite boss spawns together as a super team. but a run takes an hour and a half due to the challenges.

We are playing how we want for our 15 $ we are not breaking any rules. We were told by poshyb that the limit to the number of av's and eb's was the spawn count on the maps. So we are not abusing anything. Yet alot of the anti "farming crowd" have taken it upon themselves to report our maps as "farming" even when there is no exploit being used. That is why we can claim to leave us alone and that your 15$ is no better than ours. If you are the one on a crusade to change us then you have no ground to stand on.


my sg will not use a ritki exploit map. Mainly because we do not like to fight them. they are too easy to kill. we fight enemies that require everyone to play a role in taking them down. Our favorite map right now contains elite bosses that are a mix of fire melee/invul, dual blades/invul and super strength/regen

Our team make up is a ss/invul tank, my fire/rad, and a rad/archery defender. Maybe a blaster here and there.


We have a blast fighting those spawns and even pulling two spawns together. We are talking eb spawns that are not gimped by any means. And yet some anti farmer will enter our mission and flag it as a farm without even getting close enough to see what enemies are in there.

Do not preach to us on your crusade to alter our game and try to say your 15$ entitles you to do so.

Ok i guess I am done venting and I won't be posting in this thread any longer. Untill a dev tells me I am wrong the rest of you can suck an egg

When I look for story driven content I generally find that 6 or 7 out of ten pop up when I use the search function with key words like comedy, story, role play. lowbie, I do not search by star count. I search by arc size mostly. there is one in particular I liked where some one recreated a sewer run. except it was set to villianous and the story was you were running through the sewers looking for a hero sewer team to give them a real challenge. You have to look though you can't search for farm or ticket and try to find one that way for sure.

it may be possible some one has found a way to get under the map again and is killing you while you have very little health. as far as I know they fixed the hole that people used to use to get in there but if some one still had a toon under there it may be possible they are teleporting their friends under it still to farm pvp recipees.


Of course this is all speculation and worst case scenario. I would try to recreate it and contact customer support right then and give them as much detail as possible in the bug report. And as the other poster above me mentioned copy down the hit rolls channel and the damage rceived channel dialog maybe that will tell you what is happening.

just wait untill the patch on test gets put on live. then evey singl custom enemy group will be team wiping even the best group gathered to take them on. that patch is soooo broken it aint even funny.

never mind nothing to see here edited because of a misread on above post lol

honestly atlas park is over crowded for 2 reasons. power levelers can lvl their lowbies without zoning. and 2 wentworths can be seen through the e building upstairs window. the sheer convience of droping out that window into wentworths is a big draw to people running ae content.

u cannot punish farming. you can punish exploits. huge difference between the two. untill more people realize that farming is not going away and start zeroing in on the exploits only will this get better.

haha you mean the one arc I made that had a story to it I gotta redo because my archery foes are gonne be too tough? I chose archery because of theme and the fact that set to easy mode they only had 2 attacks and I beefed up their secondaries to make them more of a challenge. me thinks ill just get out of the story building game and go back to playing wii