Necrotech_Master

right now i only pick natural origin anyway because the mini powers they give you IMO are extremely useless, end-hogging attacks. natural origin also would allow me to get a dmg bonus on nem staff or blackwand depending on which i want to get, and i think the natural origin enhance stores are located more conveniently (although this is kind of moot once you hit 32)

i know theres other bugs with the mayhem mishs too where the hero shows up with some longbow but after you finish all them off, then you didnt complete because a huge herd of the flying longbow are flying 100 ft in the air above the bank

i could possibly make one, but i only play on victory so i wont be able to get money until you can just email it

getting the heavy badge is actually faster if you can organize with someone to kill you after you get the heavy since you can just hosp and go back to the heavy point you were just at

if you need help with the badge, im usually available on victory server (which also has a fairly low pvp count since i know a portion of them went to freedom or virtue)

once i got the badges on my main from pvp zones, i rarely if ever go into a pvp zone, even for shivans or nukes because i dislike pvp zones and nothing in the PVE game requires shivans or nukes, they do make certain tasks easier, but i rather just save up for a vanguard heavy through regular play

when i did go to the zones for badges, i usually only went if there were poeple there that were interested in the same thing as me, or if there was nobody else there, if there were poeple there i would go in and go about my business, then the instant i was killed by a pvper i would just leave till later.

i only had 1 case where i would go into a zone and then someone would come in and stalk me, EVERY time i went in the zone for like a month straight even if there was nobody in the zone, like 5 to 10 min after i went in the same guy would go in and routinly try to fight me, while i didnt mind the occasional pvp and it was a pvp zone, it did get annoying (especially when the zone had other villain pvpers in it who wanted to fight the guy but he ignored everyone and continued to go after me), that kind of behavior is annoying, but it is a pvp zone, so i didnt get that mad, i just left the zone and stayed out of the zone for a while (a month or so) and never had issues from him again

i think if they never attached badges to the little zone events i would prolly never go into the pvp zones to begin with because i can live without the temp powers (the badges i only get on my main, 90% of my toons have never been in a pvp zone)

my main toon is at 604 right now (hes a villain as well), and by the end of the month ill have another vet badge and the last of the day job badges

after that all i really can get is the last 3 dmg badges and any new badges

the ones im missing that are unobtainable now is the 2nd anniversary badge, master thief, vet badges, destined one (from the cov collector edition), and those special ones like bug hunter and passport

my main is a ninja/dark and its pretty awesome, since you get the 2nd pet which can stack holds with the oni and all the -tohit of dark complements your ninjas base defense (although nto a lot, its still helps with the -tohit working with it)

on my ninja mm, i have a set of soulbound allegience (with the chance for BU proc) on the jounin

i mostly used the genin as IO mules to hold some of the pet uniques (+res and +def auras)

i dont remember what i slotted with on oni

pentad is easy, its just 1 round, and can be done with 1 other person (as long as they are the same AT as yourself)

now the swiss draw is the only one that requires 8 people and is 3 rounds long (and its very annoyingly complex)

i dont think AE is the worst thing, and its definitly not the first big exploit

as far as i remember, the cathedral of pain trial exploit allowed poeple to lvl just as fast as in the AE exploits, then theres thart one exploit that was around a long time ago that allowed a PB to put unlimited enhance slots on a single power and 2 shot hamidon

i dont think the AE failed, but i know it still has its issues, they did cover some obvious exploits early on before it was released by making allies suck rewards so you didnt get a horde of AV allies to do the work for you

i agree that custom power selection was a little touchy, but they should have done it differently, so instead of being able to give allies 0 powers (which is what the "civilian/person" custom critter selection was for) they should have forced the custom critters to have at least 1 power in both primary and secondary set)

i overall enjoy AE, i personally when bored, use one of the extremely small casino maps, set 2 boss spawns, 1 ally 1 enemy, and in test mode just sit back unkillable/unaggroable and watch the AVs fight each other to see who wins (like LR vs states, BABs vs states, mako vs manti, ect ect), which is very entertaining to watch a few fights when your really bored

the AE is another option for poeple to play with, if you dont enjoy it find something else to do in the game, theres literally hundreds of things you could do (fully IO toons, run tfs in odd ways (speed, normal, small team, ect), collect badges, run a supergroup, hold events on your server, ect), plenty more things to do than just troll the forums when some little nerf happens because poeple were abusing the system, i have faith in the devs that they are doing whats in the players best interest while it may not always seem so.

gratz on being on victory for 1 year, im coming up my 4th year (my vg is about as old as my account, so that will be 4 years about 1 month after my vet badge)

while i agree the AE needs to have its holes patched up, i think they kind of knee-jerked a fix because they are currently testing i17, why not just add this to i17 first and put it through alongside i17?, as many others have said, the little exploit has been around since we could select custom powers for custom critters (which was at least i16 if not before)

on another point of view, this did hurt the AE community because while your mishs will still be playable, the amount of poeple actually wanting to play a mish with 80% reduced xp/inf/prestige (or more) is very small, i honestly dont like playing mishs with more than 25% reduced xp/inf/prestige

if your more story oriented and dont care about rewards as much, then more power to you, and this blanket fix wont affect you

i usually drop mishs because i dont feel like doing it at the time

the most common mish i drop is the first instanced mish in the tutorial zone, i hate sitting through 2 loading screens (loading into the mish and loading back to breakout/outbreak) for a 2 min long mish that you get 0 xp in until you finish the mish, i just as rather save the time, skip it, and just load into the actual game