Panzerwaffen

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and my new server Freedom

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Problem summed up in one sentence...

No problems with finding or forming normal teams here on Protector.

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How do you solo task forces? I tried today, after managing to get everyone to the zone to get a Citadel task force. Which is annoying enough to have to bug people. Once i kicked everyone it just dropped the mission.

I need this last task force for my Task Force Commander, but i guess ill never get it. I don't have 4 hours to spend doing a task force with random people, if i can do it alone i can take my time. I guess theres just nothing left to do at level 50

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As has already been said, you need to have 2 people remain on the team to keep the TF going. Further, you need to be able to handle the larger sized spawns (which should be no issue for any decent scrapper), and also need to be able to handle the AV at the end. Other than Positron where the final boss is only an EB, all the other TF's will require you to fight an AV.

And Citadel should take no more than about 2 hours with any halfway decent team.

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We need to start spreading the word that AE farms are NOT the best way to level by any means, but are in fact a difficult, boring exercise in frustration that involve much more debt than XP.

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Especially when bad players on bad teams insist that lvl 54 bosses are the best way to go "cuz they got moar expeeze, dood!"

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There is not a +2 levels and larger mob size setting

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But there should be!

Congrats OP, this has to be one of the best Freedumb 2xp whines ever!

I'll be thinking of you while enjoying being able to team all weekend long with no delays logging and no lag on my "dead" server.

No problems here on Protector. I've barely touched AE in the last several weeks, and have no trouble finding teams or putting them together. Run at least one TF every day, often more. Put together a team to run the new TF within 20 minutes of Issue 15 going live with no problem.

Sounds like you need to re-evaluate your methods of finding teams.

*edited to add: What the heck does this have to do with Archetypes & Powers anyway?

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Ok thank you and also what is the amount of purples do you think I will get in 10 runs?

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Most likely zero.

Acrobatics provides mag 9 -kb. 7 of which can't be ehhanced, and 2 of which can be further enhanced by adding knockback enhancements.

Congratulations! Welcome to the club.

I heard the guns are supposed to stop his AOE stun if used right before he activates it.

*edited to add that this apparently is incorrect according to this post:

There seems to be some confusion as to the use of the dimensional ground ray in the final fight of the Task Force. Before Reichsman’s hit by the ray, he is in a phased state and is running a rather nasty debuffing aura. When he is hit by the ray, it “grounds out” some of his power and he returns to a normal state and his aura is shut down. This will persist for the duration of the fight. The dimensional grounding ray isn’t intended to be used at specific points in the fight; it should be used early on, and one hit will do.

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The doors, heroside, for the midnight club *now say which zone they go to.*

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Love this one!

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The Toxic Tarrantulas in the first mission hurt more than Reichman. As for cookie cutter = lol

we had

50 Fire tank
45 fire scrapper
50 Ill/kin
50 ill/storm
50 fire/fire blaster
50 MA/SR scrapper
47 grav/storm

very little debuffs , very little buffs.

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Same here.. Grabbed the first 7 players I could when the servers went back and ran the TF.

3 blasters
3 scrappers
1 Inv/SS tank
1 Earth/Thermal controller

Not what you'd call a super-optimized team. No one had played the TF before on Test. Had no idea what to expect from the final battle. Just ran in and beat on Reichsman until he fell down, while randomly firing off temp powers that we had no actual idea what they did.

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I don't know Heraclea, I think that something that requires more than simply running in and beating the tar out of the bad guy is kind of refreshing.

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Actually, based on my experience from running this twice, it really is as simple as "run in and bash" for Reichsman, at least heroside. No real strategy is required, the encounter is not particularly hard, just tedious to chip away at those 226 HP.

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Recipe information not popping up on 'mouseover.'

1. Open Wentworth's/Black Market screen.
2. Place multiple recipes in your auction house slots.
3. Mouse over 'stored' recipes.

Results: Only the last recipe placed in the auction house will show 'mouseover' text. It does not matter if any other items are currently stored in the auction house, or their order.

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This is such an amazingly annoying bug. I never really appreciated how important that feature is, until now that it is not working.

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Just playing to fifty does not guarantee you enough inf to IO your toon with sets,

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And it is not supposed to. Just because a player got a character to level 50, does not mean they are entitled to IO sets.

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Wonder if they'll ban a bunch of "exploiters" for farming the arena.

Since, ya know, we should have JUST KNOWN it was wrong.

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Was your moral compass spinning?

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Did we miss something there? Is there supposed to be more to this than just a punching bag of 226K HP?

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The story?

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Perfectly valid point. I was just hoping for something requiring a little more thought at the end.

Just finished this up, and it doesn't seem that there is really much to the final encounter. Just an AV with a whole lot of HP that needs to be chipped away at for a long time. 3 scrappers, 3 blasters, one inv/ss tank, and one earth/thermal controller. No strategy beyond run in and bash on the AV pretty much.

Did we miss something there? Is there supposed to be more to this than just a punching bag of 226K HP?

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Hmm.. Can't seem to find the new Vines pieces in the costume creator. Ulterior shows, but not Vines.

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Vines is just a pattern.

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D'oh!

Hmm.. Can't seem to find the new Vines pieces in the costume creator. Ulterior shows, but not Vines.

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You folks remember back in the day when they actually used to post news and patch notes WHILE they were patching?They also actually announced beforehand that they were going to be putting a major update live BEFORE they did it.Seems like the devs they have working now are sleeping on the job pretty seriously compared to the performace of previous teams.

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You mean like this:

Issue 15 Announcement

Or this:

Patch Notes for Issue 15

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For those of us who do not like farming, and we do number high, I have an idea for a system to implement to hinder farming in AE.


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Why is it that so many players seem to have this overwhelming need to control or "hinder" what other players do?

If you don't like what a team is doing, either don't join to begin with, or leave the team. This is not rocket science here.

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Yep Manti and hopefully level 32.

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"Hopefully"?!?!

I find your lack of faith disturbing.

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I cannot maintain a vast social network. Nor can I commit myself to supergroup activities. Thus, I thrived on PUGs. Until AE came along. Now those seem all too rare.

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Well, if you can't maintain any type of community relationships in a massively multiplayer online game, then you are pretty much out of luck, I guess.

Any thoughts on how well a Shield/Fire tank would do? Seems like the AOE damage would be pretty darn good between Combustion, FSC & Shield Charge, while still having some excellent single target damage with Incinerate & Greater Fire Sword.