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Originally Posted by Local_Man

Most of the folks I know who play Illusion on a regular basis have been commenting on the change in Phantasm's AI causing him to run into melee and die frequently. This is a problem not only because you lose a chunk of damage from your pet, but also some folks relied upon Phanty's Decoy to hold aggro when re-casting Phantom Army.

Well, I rarely do this, but I went ahead and PM'ed Castle. He gave a quick but nice response that this was a problem with all pets and other critters, and that it is on the list for them to work on.

That's all I really expected or wanted . . . to know that it will likely be fixed sometime in the hopefully not too distant future. I appreciate that our Developers will answer such questions. Thanks, Castle!

Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba

I was solo. I was running the same arc over and over and over again. Zone in, kill boss and spawn. Zone out. Zone in. Kill boss. Zone out. Zone in. Run lap killing all necessary. Zone out. Zone in. Fly to last section. Kill boss and spawn.

Repeat.

That is in NO way the same thing as: Zone in, clear map for the love of the killin, zone out.

And THAT is in no way the same for me as Bounce from map to map, enemy type to enemy type, run TF here and there, run some papers at +4/x8, run some AE maps at +0/x8 for tickets, hop from new lowbie to new lowbie, etc.

Originally Posted by Scythus

I've bugged this so many times....

Originally Posted by Ironblade

From a mission from.... umm.... darn. I forget his name, but he's contact standing right behind Wentworths in Talos. Unfortunately the mission does not appear in Ouroboros.

You can also get it from the weapons side mission in a safeguard/mayhem mission.

Originally Posted by Deacon_NA

If everyone quits the team but 1 other, it should only spawn for a 2-member team. However, I don't know the specifics of your ITF challenge, which may require a 6-member spawn.

Anyway, other temps to consider would be
Flashbang Grenades: aoe -def and -tohit debuff (I don't remember how to get)
Recovery Serum
Wedding Band: 30% resists to all (Stephanie Peebles arc)
Cryonite Armor: some s/l def (I don't remember how to get)

Some vill temp pets to consider, even though they're not terribly powerful:
Loa Bone (very easy to get from Bocor in Oro)
Coralex pet (from the Renault SF, it's 50-50 you'll get this or you'll get an attack)
Vial of Bees (don't laugh, they're useful)

Don't forget all the various base empowerments.

If you're especially ambitious, get a Longbow Mech. If you're doubly ambitious, switch sides after you get your LB Mech and get the Arachnos version. Fair warning: I have no idea if you can actually hold both.

Originally Posted by Lothic

I had that one (as well as all the other AE badges that were removed) done within a few weeks after they were introduced without playing more than a few hours a day. I really don't think any set of badges can legitimately be considered "too grindy" if they could be done so quickly.

People who whined about it so much managed to ruin the effort I and many other people put into it. Frankly I think it was pathetic that the Devs caved into people who *gods forbid* got upset that they were going to have to put a little effort into badging.

If you considered "30K defeats in test mode" to be too hard or annoying to do then guess what? You should have just not bothered to do it. All the whining manged to do was to grief the people who actually played the game and lost the rewards for their finished efforts.

Thanks, but no thanks. That's the kind of help from my fellow player I -don't- need...

Originally Posted by Master-Blade

The scenario I'm about to bring up doens't necessarily fit what you are asking.. but it is a disappointment as well....

...Killing all those Custom enemies in AE and other various tasks just to have the badges stripped a couple weeks later. haha

Originally Posted by SinisterDirge

I know, it just boggles my mind that someone would take the time to post, but not take the time to read all 9 posts above it... Then on top of that, be so horribly misinformed.

Originally Posted by Zombie Man

I'm guessing that the Praetorian arcs will eventually make their way to the flashbackmachine.

The Posi and the Devs are pretty good (now) about making sure badgers can access all arc- and mission-based badges (with the exception of Mayhem/Safefguard).

Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion

This has probably already been answered here....a hundrd times? But i normally hang in Brute holla.

Does Global Recharge bonuses affect recharge times on Accolade powers?

Thanks

Originally Posted by UberGuy

Just to be clear, I'm not just talking about really min/maxed ticket farming. I'm talking about any form of dedicated ticket farming, where you play the same mission with the same foes over and over. (To answer your question, in the better farms those foes usually are tailored in some fashion to be weak to your strengths, but it doesn't have to be anything spectacular. It being spectacular just probably makes you able to take on more foes and thus earn more tickets faster.)

In my experience, there are only so many people willing to run farms for hours at a time on a regular basis. I'd say probably 1/3 to 1/2 the people I know well in game have farmed the AE at some point, but probably only like 1/10 or fewer of them do it with any regularity. The rest get bored and want to do other stuff.

That may happen with AMerits too. Even though you can't quite "farm" them in the same sense, you do still have to repeat the same content a lot. We're getting more in I19, though, so that may help sustain it.

Originally Posted by BrandX

The price of LotG: +RCH seems to have gone down a bit, probably due to the ease of people getting them (good thing imo). I can only think other ones have gone a bit.

Originally Posted by Lothic

If there's some generic "bad geometry in Warburg" that's getting fixed then sure, it might get a Patch Note. But if that "bad geometry" was identified as the main vector for an exploit then no, the chances of it getting mentioned is pretty much nil, regardless if the phrase "fixed bad geometry in Warburg" is reasonably vague or not.

Originally Posted by Local_Man

Basically, Defense buffs and debuffs both work in the powers if you could slot them. Normally, you can't slot a Defense Debuff power in a Defense power. If you could, you would choose the Schedule A Defence Debuff over the Schedule B Defense buff.

But Hami-Os allow you to slot them into any power that will accept any part of the enhancment . . . so an Enzyme has ToHitDebuff/DefenseDebuff/EndRdx. Since Defense powers will accept EndRdx, you can slot the Enzyme in the power, where the Defense Debuff applies to enhance the Defense buff.

It is an exploit, but nobody expects it to be fixed anytime soon.

Originally Posted by Variant

I'm back to playing this game after a long hiatus and I'm wondering if there are good channels to join for team play at any level?

Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex

I'm out of ideas. I can say I've been using the proc on my Mind/Ice Dominator for a long time without issue, although getting knocked out of inviso by crystals on CoT maps was a surprise the first few times until I figured out what was doing it. The only time I've otherwise been spotted has been against certain AVs and EBs, who seem to aggro-on-cast. Unless it's connected to something weird, like the Mutation buff or the end of HP boosting powers is being recorded as damage and thus unhiding you.

Originally Posted by ketch

Do you have a damage proc in your confuse perchance? That's one possibility for drawing aggro though stealth.

Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex

Are you watching your stealth radius numbers in the Combat Attributes pop-out box? The Stealth radius remains suppressed for a good while after taking a hit. Maybe 20 to 30 seconds. If you got hit by the previous group by anything (possibly even death AoEs like Carnie endurance drain tho I haven't tested this explicitly, I just watch the numbers) you are not invisible when approaching the next group. Pets of any kind also reveal your location I believe even though most enemies wont come after you unless the pet moves out of range or is killed/unsummoned.

Originally Posted by StarGeek

From what I've heard, the LRSF and STF both share a timer on getting a hami O. No idea about doing a Villain and Hero Hami raid in the same day, though.

Originally Posted by Fulmens

Would you be happier if they went back and throttled how fast you could spend reward merits and tickets?

Or is your problem not actually the inconsistency but the limitation itself?

Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex

The issue with SS + Stealth IO happens if you are subjected to an attack. Any AoE will do. The IO stealth suppresses but the Super Speed stealth does not. The AoE does not have to be from an enemy; the red or blue (even though they don't do damage) crystals in CoT maps seem to do it.

Originally Posted by Lemur Lad

Inconsistent with what? Ever since they replaced the Drop system with the Merit system because of rampant Speed running, They've made it clear they sought different ways to put a throttle on how quickly people could get their rewards.

We're moving from a system where it would take you 2-3(or more days) to get any Rare recipe to a system where you can get any Rare in 1-2 days.

Whether you see it as a further restriction or not really depends on how narrow your blinders are. Folks with a bit of perspective see the A-Merit system as much quicker and more efficient despite the timers, and they're right.