NordBlast

Originally Posted by Quatermain

Grats, you just had to shake your bad luck charm.

Why so slow though?

Originally Posted by Vega

I've been having a couple of wacky problems with them, and was wondering if anyone else has had this experience.

With the unlocking of Alpha slots, I have been logging in some characters that have been offline for a little while. One thing that I have noticed is that the Portal has been removed from my power tray. It no big deal, just wondering if it's just me.


The second one his really baffling. I entered my base to dump off some EoE, then summoned a portal so that I could unlock yet another, but when I did, nothing happened. The power was consumed but I had no portal. I tried this with a few characters, all with the same result. Finally I bugged it in game and got a reply back from support saying that is working as intended. I asked in global channels and some people report the same problem as I have. Others say that they can drop a portal in base just fine.

Is anyone else having problems with the portals? Im sure that it is not working as intended if the power is consumed, but hey, tech support sent me here, so I figured that I would ask before replying to them.


Thanks.

Originally Posted by Roderick

Are you sure? I'd say he's missing Siege and Anti-Matter.

Black Swan is required in the new arc. (She was in the old arc too, I think; Nightstar was the easy to miss one.) Siege doesn't exist at all in the new arc, if you did that one, then you have to do standalone missions until you get him.

EDIT: Just saw Rajani's post saying that Black Swan isn't required in her mission. Is that for sure? I was sure I had to beat her when I did the mission.

Originally Posted by docbuzzard

The funny thing was that after I quit the team (because I don't have interest in badges, and particularly wasting extra time in pursuit of them), they messaged me after I was in a mission to indicate that they had given up on master of, and were just doing it normally. However since they had already wasted 20 minutes of my time before that, I declined. Then I got on a Apex team after finishing my mission. That team got master of Apex. That's wasn't much trouble. We just had to follow instructions and play competently.

Originally Posted by Dispari

I'm still not sure what issues people are having with Trapdoor. If you just kill his clones (which is easy enough to do considering they're minions) he regens like a normal EB. I've soloed him with everything as far down as Corruptor damage. The only things lower than that in damage are Controller, Defender, and petless MM. And I'm pretty sure those have the tools to handle him as well.

Kill his clones and use inspirations. If you still can't handle it, take a friend.

Originally Posted by Chyll

Nord, are you saying that only Bosses can 'port? If so, that's news to me but may explain some of what I encountered. I'll have to test that. I don't remember noticing any difference in the past (boss vs. Lt), but Malta arcs are something I normally find a way to bypass with most characters.

Originally Posted by Dollymistress

Actually, the strategy is to leave someone outside the warehouse to teleport everyone out after the glowies are clicked. Then you summon pets and use bio nukes outisde, before returning back in to hit D11 with tonnes of nukes and draw him into all your pets to die.

There is a downside to this plan - you only have 7 players to grab 8 glowies in 30 seconds, so no one is allowed to sit back after they've grabbed "their" first glowie. If you fail on the glowies I believe a bunch of large robots and a lot more CW/Malta arrive on the scene, so it's a really bad thing to let happen.

Sending all 8 players into the warehouse for glowies, then retreating back to the narrow entrance hall is safer as far as clicking goes but has the obvious danger that if you aggro D11 early you're really in trouble with pets and nuking in time, before his invisible buddies start spamming mines.

Of course, if you send all 8 people in AND you don't get all the glowies in time, you may as well reset since things will get ugly fast.


p.s. I'm not happy about declared non-badge collectors coming on to the thread and suggesting ways to make things harder for badge collectors. I don't think a pvper would like it if I went to a pvp thread and suggested a nerf to something they do.

Originally Posted by Zombie Man

Bruce "Horatio" Harlick is no longer with Paragon Studios.

But I agree with you, we need a better Game Master making decisions over allowing multiple solutions including, you know... PULLING.

For a game that for years told those who charged into overwhelming force and kept losing and kept complaining that the foe was too hard to 'kite' their foe, to suddenly take away that very tactic of kiting is jarring.

Originally Posted by EmperorSteele

LOL, Flea!

Anyway, while Snow Globe's near-entitlement whining about how getting "hard to get badges" is actually hard sometimes grates me, in this instance I'm forced to agree. A master badge is something that should be hard, but obtainable via strategy and preparation.

Without any way to prevent the mines from going off, or being set, or any warning if a mine that you personally haven't tripped is about to go off, it all seems highly luck-based. That isn't very good design, IMO.

I get that we're supposed to watch our feet and move, but if everyone is close together, anyone who doesn't move or moves the wrong way will get blasted without warning. So okay, stay far apart... too bad more than one meleer will result in both of them stepping on each-others toes, in a sense.

I'd say make the "mine-layer spawn" health % based. Spawn one at 50% health, 25% health, and 90% health. Maybe give them each a limited life span of about 5 minutes so that waiting the spawns out is a viable tactic?

Originally Posted by gec72

The new giant "open" room is awful for lag. Just hideous (about at the level of Longbow bases).

Originally Posted by BrandX

What server are you on? I know I see Red Side Hami Raids formed like twice a week on Virtue.

Originally Posted by all_hell

It makes sense thematically the same way that the Vanguard is cross-faction. And pragmatically, it'd allow for a larger pool of toons and players to participate. And personally, since I don't play blue-side it would give me a chance to finally do a Hami

Originally Posted by James_Donner

Nothing you are referencing here has much to do with IO's. Your talking about strategies that people use to manipulate the mechanics of the TF. Prime example; Katie Hannon TF, Run this TF with a dark/* def and an cold/ice def. The ability to A. know the exact spawn point of the witch mob B. drop a tarpatch +sleet +any rain power and the apply tohit debuff -def -res and -regen to Mary and this tf goes from 30-45 min down to 15-20. Add in melee AOE, 1 stealth character with ATT and it just gets faster. No IO's or fancy builds or anything. People were doing speed runs of katie, eden and the sewers long before IO's and now the tactics learned LONG ago are just reapplied. Don't blame IO's for players who expose weaknesses in the games design.

Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper

There's a noise and a graphical effect. The effect is very hard to notice if you've got your graphics setting turned down, or if there's already another blue swirling effect near you. (The ATF I ran, we had a Cold Corruptor with a matching blue Arctic Fog; he got caught many times.) The sound effect is also hard to hear if you have your volume turned down, or if there are too many other sound effects going on.

Originally Posted by Snow Globe

I don't think that is always the case. At least it wasn't last night.

Originally Posted by Spatch

Triggering is autohit?! So, once a mine is triggered, fuggeduboutit -- you're hit (as the triggerer)? Good grief. Am I understanding this correctly?

I did a shivan run last night, and a nuke run, picking up all three nuke types (as an aside, first time I've used the Access Bypass salvage -- bloody handy that). Also respecced my badger, a Peacebringer, selecting Group Energy Flight as a throwaway replacement to a previous Fitness power. I can see it coming in handy for this badge, negating the need for everybody to get a jet pack, so long as they stay close to me.

Heh, someone spoke of oddball, niche powers a few posts back -- I'd say Group Energy Flight qualifies.

Originally Posted by Master-Blade

If you fly, you wont hit the mines. Just stay above his head.