The Grim Heaper

When I was on an apex team, we didn't generally have trouble avoiding patches of doom (not to say there weren't related deaths), but we seemed to be a rather melee heavy team, and we had trouble coordinating where we dodged to. Basicly when there was blue to be seen, everyone scattered in 6 different directions. This had two side effects; it prolonged the fight against the waves of enemies, and made the AV (who was far too content to sit in a patch of doom and use her crossbow) take longer as we couldn't always coax her out so we could resume beating on her.

All in all though, it was an enjoyable departure from the ever larger bags of HP they tend to send us up against.

When respeccing into inerrant fitness, you have two options;

1) Slot everything (including fitness) the exact same way it was before. The three new powers you pick should be things that either don't require much slotting to be useful (Hasten, travel powers, etc), or can be mules for global IO bonuses, like luck of the gambler.

2) Try to salvage slots from other parts of your build;

• In the past, fly used to require more than the default slot to reach the flyspeed cap, if your build is old, you could get a slot from there.
• have some powers three-slotted for recharge? Get the Spirit alpha-slot buff, and knock off slots from those powers.
• Frankenslot to downsize slotting requirements - If you are relying on SOs or common IOs, consider that 5 dam/rech set IOs (from different sets) can be just as effective as 3 dam and 3 rech enhancements

Personally I just wish we were given two additional slots at 50, so that the lvl 49 power pick could be 6 slotted.

Some powersets do have a Swift-like power in them; Super reflexes, Soldiers of Arachnos, and possibly electric armor come to mind...

My scrapper has both Quickness and Swift one slotted with a lvl50 Fly IO, two large improved movement bonuses, and hover slotted with two BotZ (and a single lvl50 defence IO). Total speed is 39.06mph. Not the fastest, but it moves me around at a decent rate in missions, and if I need to, the jump pack will boost me to the fly cap for a short while.

You have to be a villain or a rogue in order to start the mission arcs to enable Patron Pool Powers. These arcs can be run at lvl 40+. If a character is of heroic alignment at level 40 or above, you must switch it (back) to a villain alignment and completer the patron arc. you can then switch to hero again and still have access to the PPPs on that character.

Pvp sets are usually called "Gladiator's ____" or "____ of the gladiator", and are all orange (very rare) and have a chance to drop from PVP kills that (that count towards rep). They give additional set bonuses while in PvP.

Purples are ultra rares, others have mentioned their drop mechanics. They offer superior enhancement numbers, procs generally have a better chance to fire, and do more damage when they do. The set bonuses often have better numbers, but slotting enough of a set to get the desirable bonuses often requires a significant investment.

Although in theory, couldn't you modify the teleport bind so that Shift+LeftMosueClick (or control/alt+click) fired caltrops at your mouse's target (assuming it's viably aimed at the ground)?

/bind lshift+lclick "powexec_name Caltrops"

switch lshift with the chord key of your choice (ctrl or alt)

Not exactly what Drunken was asking for, but it is more streamlined and would interrupt the flow of battle less if it works.

I'm just going to throw this out here for B_C to ignore.

Devs have set a hard value on the worth of PvP IOs. That value is 24-70 days. (Assuming logging in once a day to perform the required tasks. Sticking to the 20 hour cool-down, you COULD reduce this further.)

To shorten your required time investment 46 days, you have to pay 480,000,000inf and 1200 merits. 1200 merits is roughly 60 in-game hours. That's about 10,434,782.61inf and 26.09merits per day saved. Assuming no exponential growth in cost/day as the number of required days approaches 1; a single day acquirement of a PvP IO recipe will cost you 730,434,782.61inf and 1826.08merits (91.3 hours)

But what is the value of a merit? I'm tempted to go with the oft stated average value of a random roll (around 20mil per roll? times 91?), but that requires utilizing market prices, which B_C contests as being over inflated. So I must limit myself to a more hard-coded inf value. The ITF. When not speeding through an ITF, it takes about an hour. In the average such hour (team of 8, fighting at lvl 50, with SG-mode on) I make about 2 to 2.5 million on mob defeats alone. add another 0.5 million from vendoring Enhancement and common IO drops, and we've got at least 2.75mil/hour. So if we go with the dev's benchmark of about 20merits/hour... (2.75mil per hour)*91.3hours= 251,086,956.52inf

730,434,782.61inf + 251,086,956.52inf = 981,521,793.13inf ... lets call it 1 billion even.

By the dev's own metrics, that are made publicly visible, they can not offer these recipes for any less than 1 billion inf without making the existing methods pointless and redundant. And they will likely not back down on the time investments on these IOs. They are the rarest of the rare (so far).

They are not meant to be had by anyone who simply wants them, they are end-game stretch goals. Time sinks to give those of us who have devoured the available content something to strive for. If they were simply handed out (and based on your price-points, B_C, it would functionally just be handed out), there is little reason to keep going; They have the shiny, They have beaten the last boss.. PvP IOs are CoH's equivalent to epic raid gear; that awesome sword that random monster #2387 drops 0.01% of the time; that shiny pokemon that has a decent nature, IVs, and the right egg moves, that you went up and down that stupid path on your bike a bajilloin times to hatch an ungodly number of eggs to get the one singular diamond in the r... *cough*

Where was I? oh yeah.. 90% of the user base does not care about EVs, IVs, natures, or STAB moves. They get their Mudkips up to a high enough level to beat the elite 4, and they are happy. But sometimes they see that the rabbit hole went much deeper than they first thought. But don't complain to Nintendo if you find that a 1 in 8192 chance of a shiny is not fair, especially if the community has informed you that you can cut those odds to 1 in 2048 by forcing your pokemon to procreate with a mail order bride from across the ocean.

Yeah, herding like that is usually inefficient now-a-days, although it can still be good in a couple situations;

• when you reach a "room of death". Rooms with a few to many spawns packed unusually tight together. Steamrolling can still work, but accidentally catching the aggro of the other spawns can wipe an unprepared team.
• The rest of the team cannot handle the mobs that are over the (acting)tank's aggro limit. Most likely to occur if a smaller team is running missions at x8. But if you have to resort to herding every other mob, it might be time to lower the settings a bit.
• Coulda sworn I had a third, now I can't remember it.

wait... is this the one where you start off on the ship, and then there's the outside section with the giant platform?

If so, there is no door to go "inside" the skyraider base... about midway up the main body of the platform on the "front" there's an alcove with a room that supports 2-3 spawns, the glowie should be in there...

Besides... Thanksgiving is the second Monday in October, we already missed it, people.

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So, with all that said - I think your best bet (aside from inviting the friend over, if that's even a possibility) is to take many a screenshot, upload them to some site (photobucket), and send the friend the link.

If I had to guess (which I do), the third hostage and the mob guarding it may have spawned in a somewhat odd place...

In warehouses;

• On top of shelving units and spiral ramps in those 90 degree hallway turns
• Underneath ramps (notably in the big 'end room' that 90% of all warehouses have)
• behind/inbetween shipping containers. Usually in the room with the stacks and stacks of the things, with the doorway in the middle that leads to a similar room that's clear in the center with the containers styacked haphazardly on the sides.
• Somewhere in the 4 rooms that surround the + shaped intersection.

In office buildings, it's a little tougher as they can sometimes spawn in the little side-rooms that things don't normally spawn in. In sewers, check the raised platforms...

Those are the most often over-looked areas that I can think of... Have you oppened your map? If it's the last spawn, they should show up as red arrows, although that feature can be a little flaky sometimes... Worst case, you could try calling the contact and auto-completing it, abandoning and restarting the mish (hope for better spawn locations), or /petition for GM assistance. I'd only use that last one if nothing else works.

Also, was amusing for a little bit near the start of the mission architect; have a Hercules (or Natterling) as an ally; they tried to combine with you.... which auto-kills you

That has long since been patched

And, now that I think about it, the only mobs I've ever noticed using any significant portion of their endurance are npc allies, and Praetorian Clockwork (the minions)...

Although it may be that many of the Praetorian groups were made this way, I only recall it on the Clockwork sweepers, cleaners, etc...

On behalf of all player characters who drain endurance, I effing hope not! enemies with 10 endurance can go on blasting 20 times longer than I could with a full 100 (assuming I didn't have stamina)...

No capes!

But, honestly, it just depends on the style of the costume. sometimes it looks better with the right cape (there's also the "Scarf" cape style, or one of the tattered designs which is also scarf-like - goes good with the asymmetrical or full mantle - for when a full cape isn't ideal but the costume needs that little extra decoration...)

And I find they can work just as well thematically with SS or SJ... although at the runspeed cap, the cape physics can get a little... jerky?

EDIT; and sometimes I use capes just so I don't have to stare at my hero's spandex-clad *** all day.