Golden_Avariel

Would someone else go to the Dam leak in Faultline (Drowned Rat badge location) and tell me if the falling water looks normal? The usual water geiser has turned into weird spurts coming from a couple of spots just below the bridge. It looks really bad to me.

I have never gotten Drea and almost always get to PO late, usually running the Mayhem at level 10 (and getting a level 5-9 contact out of it).

Exception was my stalker who went there at 6th level and she still got Mikey.

I couldn't tell you on the hero side. I almost always go to KR around 6th but it seems pretty random which I get. Well, if I'm with someone it is guaranteed we'll get different detectives.

Edit: Almost forgot - If you talk to Kalinda/Burke after they're finished they'll tell you to see Mikey the Ear/Drea the Hook even if you haven't gone to PO yet. So it seems to be pre-determined.

On the north side of the damn along the edge of the western cliff where the red-arrow is on the map, there is a scraggly looking tree. The tunnel entrance is a hole in a pit under the tree. Like 3dent said, you don't actually click on a door to enter the tunnel.

Explore the tunnels until you find the door with the mission indicator.

Or take GG up on her offer. I would.

I was simply answering Thirty-Seven's "What difference does it make?" question. I already said there were good reasons why it could work.

I agree. I just think seeing zombie pets blue-side is immersion-breaking. It doesn't mean I can't live with it and I look forward to having my merc mastermind go rogue so obviously I'm not against heroic masterminds.

It's just that necromancy sort of bothers me as I find it awfully... not sure how to express it... icky? grotesque? unheroic? selfishly inconsiderate of the dead? Whatever... it's me, not you. I'm sure you'll be wonderfully heroic and have some comforting back-story like they are really badly made automatons, or good ol' ooc obliviousness to cover it.

BTW - thanks to Dumpleberry for his snarky remark to my previous post. I couldn't help but laugh at how I'd left myself open for that.

You'll still be amazed at how often you miss even when the last hit chance shows a consistent 95% like it does for me. I swear I miss 1 in 4 or 5, not 1 in 20.

But then that matches the way I used to roll dice back in the day. My gaming buddies always claimed I was lucky in love and unlucky at dice. I can live with that.

I'm very worried the old tails will disappear and the new ones will be moved to the Back slot with no way to select both a tail and wings/cape. Shadowguardinal will become frozen in time because tail + scarf is her signature.

But I'll try to keep hoping.

Zombie pets walking around under the Atlas statue is going to be annoying for me. I'm sorry but that's how I feel. It's just a game and I'll try to ignore it but it'll be hard.

I seem to build my domination bar very fast since the update. I thought it was my imagination but maybe not. I used to hoard domination for the end-fight and only very long missions would let me do it more than once (running as a pair) but it seems a lot faster and I trigger domination a lot more freely now. It's a lot more fun.

Last night, in a 3 man team doing valentine missions I distinctly remember someone asking for a card after the first spawn was finished and I accidentally triggering domination instead of Fortune.

I know that's subjective and I don't know the numbers (for anything really) but I believe you are right.

Hmm... I had hoped this had died. This is turning embarrassing for me. Well...

I've earned plenty of merits in teams where everyone was cooperating on the same contact and got the same rewards - in fact that is SOP for us.

But even if that wasn't true I'm still not comparing apples and oranges... merits are merits and it doesn't matter how you earn them. I was under the impression that they came faster in TF/SF's than arcs but I don't believe that anymore, at least for me, because of the way the devs rate them vs the way people run each differently vs the way I've experienced them so far.

And while I do feel villains seem to come up short merits-per-level-wise, that was not my intended point here. This was not a "devs hate villains" thread. I could just have easily used a villain arc for comparison. It was purely random chance that I did that particular arc the day after the Cap SF.

In the end it was just a personal epiphany that effort <> reward and I found that sort of amusing and counter-intuitive for a game.

But I yield and there's no need to rag on me further. It's all fair and there is nothing amusing or sad about it and I'll never mention merits here on the forums again.

I don't know, I kind of agree with the OP. If someone looks cross-eyed at my doms they die whereas my defenders, blasters, and controllers often survive surprise situations... or at least it feels that way.

However, I love my dominators and deaths usually only happen when I make dumb mistakes (alas all too common ) or a surprise ambush is targeted on me. Most of the time I totally sweep missions, solo or in teams from level 1 to the early 30's which is as far as I've gotten so far.

I didn't even know about Sibling Rivalry until last week so my wife and I ran it. We enjoyed it.

Yeah yeah... 15 minute strike forces an' all that.

But 5 missions and 2 AV-class critters for 13 vs 3 missions with an EB for 14?

I'm just sayin'