The Grim Heaper

I got a negative rep for a little bit of humor, once... but I figure it balanced out because someone else gave positive rep for it. *shrug* The best you can do is disable your rep, but you're still in the positive, so...

The extra g in "pig" is for gamingg..

That 'g', however, is just a typo.

Quite sure it counts off anything the Nictus can target. pets, players, statesjerk....

That being said - non-targetable pets (voltaic sentinel, lightning storm, etc) by their very nature wouldn't contribute to the heal.

It's also not 'wrong' to buy recipes for really cheap, and then vendor them... Not the most efficient method of generating inf, but if you don't have much to start your other inf generating activities... (just leave at least 5 on the market... someone might need one eventually.)

Usually the only times in recent memory that my team has not been able to out-DPS the healing Nictus is when a Plant Control character used carrion creepers...

Generally speaking; most targetable summoned pets do not provide sufficient DPS to overcome the additional healing they provide Rommy when the healer is still up. (also doesn't help that non MMs can't focus the pet's damage on Rommy; so they're uselessly hitting the various Nictus spawns)

Not sure if MM pets fall under this category. Haven't teamed with one on an ITF run in a long time.

-PI: Check closer to portal corp, there are often lvl 48-50 CoT in the parking lot
-Cim: there's a lot of high level guys around the whole map - I think the higher level ones tend to spawn closer to the wall (northern edge of the map)
-RWZ: lvl 48-50 tend te spawn in the Point Du Hoc area. But yeah - they tend to be Hazard zone sized spawns.
-RV: depending on your server and what time you play, this might be ideal. Grab yourself a havy and atack groups of arachnos with it. Or attack the lvl 54 pillbox turrets. (and if you like the shineys - there's badges for pillboxes captured, and heavies controled)

-If you're going to enter the shadow shard (ideal for soloing, as no one else is ever there... although the spawns are tough.) there are lvl 48-53 Rularuu and Lanaruu throughout the entire Storm Palace zone.

Peregrine island... Cimerora, Rikti War Zone... The Shadow shard.... Recluse's victory (pvp zone - beware)...

Or, while not solo; now that we get XP while exempt.... join a lowbie sewers team!

Quick test... editing in a second.

EDIT: huh... ok, the time is correct (set it to -6:00 CST)... but at the bottom it still says "All times are GMT -5.". But, uh, 'all times' seem to be for whatever I set my timezone to...

And if a shivan isn't enough.... bring a warburg nuke or three*! :P

But, yeah, GW is rather tough solo... -acc, holds, and self heals on an EB/AV makes things difficult...

*Edit: in addition to the Shivan.

I don't know about "soon", but probably "soon(tm)".

I'd immagine the reward for killing him would be your standard reward for whatever he is (arch villain?), and the TF continues; the game doesn't really care if you kill him then - it doesn't know the Reishman critter from a hole in the wall. the mission objective is more or less to get him to spawn - beat on him uselessly for a bit - then get out (one way or another)...

EDIT: And I'm fairly sure the devs are wary of turning anything into the next "quick katie", there's no way they'd let the TF end there if you managed to do it.

Actually in an "ordinary mish" you do not automatically get back on the team if you are DCed for any reason. The AE is not ordinary - it uses a sort-of modified TaskForce code for teaming... (Where you cannot pass leadership voluntarily once the team task has been selected, but you can freely invite others onto the team while the task is in progress. Any cases of spit instances notwithstanding.)

In a TF/trial, if you DC and then log back in, you are still on the team. and the team leader could not have found someone to replace you without having everyone abandon the Task Force, and reform it.

A raid team is much like a regular one... the game will not remember whose team you were on when you log back in. And really the only way to prevent team leaders from filling the spot you previously occupied is by having some way to communicate with that person outside the game (Ventrillo/msn).

Other than out-of game communication, your only option is to broadcast a message like "Got DCed, can I get a re-invite?" And if they filled your spot already, follow that up with your standard looking for group fare, and if need be, form your own.... I'd say most disconnects on an MS raid occur in the bowl phase anyway - just open up the search window and invite everyone in the zone who is not grey'd out, and advertise for everyone to send you a tell for invite. At that point in a MS raid it's just mindless hammering on the rikti anyway.

Not sure it's the universal travel set bonuses are that worrying... If your spending THAT many slots there, then they are probably lacking somewhere else (more of an issue on some builds than others).

I think it's more the throwing a number of the procs (knockdown protection/slow resistanse) in the default slot that they dont want.

Ok - without going into THAT again (let's try to keep that contained in your other thread) - I... just don't see this happening... as it stands; the number of North American servers we have is, some would argue, stretching our population a bit thin as is.

If we "merge" by just removing restrictions to who can acess what server - I don't really see the 'problem' getting much better. Who's to say that 90% statistic (that I'm sure Homer would have something to say about), is not present on the NA servers? Sometimes it feels that way over here too. Not saying it might not be a bad Idea to remove the boundaries, but...

And the logistics of merging in any other fashion (as it is a periodic suggestion for the NA servers), is nightmarish - to say the least.