Woodchuck

Finished this for the first time last night. Could have done without two elite bosses at the end (fighting Castillo was no problem, it was having all my buffs drop right before the Titan showed up and wiped the walls with me).

Lagging, and then can't log back in after the client crashed. Failure to connect to DBserver.

I tried to run this mission this evening twice and had Ajax go invincible both times after the machines went down. The first time I was able to get him down to half health before it kicked in. Second time, didn't even scratch him.

Anyone else have any rewards go active today that you weren't due for?

I logged in today and received 3 different ones, equivalent to six additional months of paid time.

Odd.

My only real regret is taking ghost-slaying axe one time, on my first MA scrapper, because it is so much lamer than sands of Mu.

I haven't taken ghost-slaying axe ever again.

I don't mind the Halloween events. They're a chance to dust off my 50s to grind for some salvage drops and the occasional new badge. So far, I haven't had an issue getting the banner badges, though the villain side instances seem to be out of whack to hero side instances (while on last night, supernatural activity was running in 5 different hero zones concurrently and 0 villain zones for the better part of an hour). Happy with the drop rates and glad to see the spawning is fixed to be more even than in previous years (as opposed to the Ghost-less last year we had)

I will say that ToTing is absolutely brutal on my lower level characters this year - there is no reason my level 18 stalker should have to navigate a vampire lord boss, or crone as often as he did yesterday I was averaging a vampire lord 2 out of 10 door knocks. Same rate for crones. At that level, it's hard to survive the werewolves, much less the boss level characters.

So I guess, he'll just have to wait until next year, when he's high enough of a level to actual survive it on his own.

They should make a special badge for anyone who has ever had a badge taken back.

Call it "Redacted" or something. Or "Kept the Receipt"

Anyone more ambitious than me put together an offline mission planner yet? I realized I spend most of my time typing dialogue and exposition, sometimes over and over again, and it would be great to have a resource to work on it while out of the game, so I can just cut/paste over what I decide on.

Thanks!

I'm trying to locate the Arachnos tech cave/Arachnoid cave map that you get a few times running story arcs between 40-50. Does anyone know what unlockable map pack it is a part of?

Thanks for the help!

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Most Wealthy Archetypes
Heroes: Scrappers
Villains: Brutes

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NERF Wealth!

Ha!

-Glad the ToT villains list as "mystical" so that the invention salvage drops are the more valuable ones like Hamidon goo, Pangean soil, Prophecy, etc. While door-farming isn't terribly dynamic, at this point, I'd rather do that than run X number of mystic villain missions in PI for the same drops (actually got two Prophecy drops in one hour last night just door hunting).

-seems like the costume salvage drops were adjusted to more frequent. Last year I ended up with wildly out of proportion costume salvage ratios (12 Statesman masks...to 1 Hamidon), this year I've already got 4 complete sets of costume salvage in 4 hours work).

-Like the higher end inspirations as always.

-costume power drops are quick. I spent about 4 hours total yesterday in FBZ (PI was a nightmare) and got 30 of the 33 costumes and all 3 badges.