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Hi Necrotech Master,

thanks for the response, I just been back in and noticed I could scroll the info box for the power and what you say is there in Capital letters. My bad

Sorry about the unnecesary question.

I am drowning in Halloween Costume salvage drops! Even had two drop in one door knock just now!

Hi,

I downloaded and extracted the patch no problem an hour ago so seems to be working okay now.

Using this hacked version I can now pick "Fly" at lvl 6 without picking Hover or the other one (brain is gone!) and way before lvl 14.

Is this a problem with this hacked version of Mids, or does it reflect what is going to happen in Issue 19, or is this just how it has always worked in Mids?

I am excited because if it is a real change then I can fit in Evasion and Elude. if not, then Evasion it is.

Maybe it has something to do with the Vet reward and early travel power pre requisite picks?

Cheers

Hello everybody,

so we got a 10 day event kicking off tomorrow with 6 new badges (5 and an Accolade) gained through a special Hallowen tip mission drop.

I have seen some comments that these new tips are even more infrequent than the regular ones that can take a while to drop.

So I wondered what is the thoughts on maximising my chances of getting all of the badges by soloing or by teaming?

I will be running a lvl 50 Claws/SR scrappie that is no slouch at downing foes.

If I solo I guarantee every drop is mine, but teamed we should get so many more it might be faster.

Do we know if when teamed and a member gets a Halloween tip which is then run if all members get a reward pick?

Thanks for any responses/thoughts.

Cheers

Hello,

no point in doing the Respecs if you have all three already. The badges are tied into the award of a respec and so will not be available to you.

Hi,

have a look at this link,

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=201918

You will need a PvP rep of 400 to get the correct badge to unlock the Healers and a second account to get the Arena match going before you leave the PC on whilst you go on vacation!

The only consolation I can offer you is that not so long ago, the amounts required were dropped by about a factor of 10 so we now have it real easy

Please ask away if reading the linked thread raises more questons.

Cheers

Well they probably cannot decide on what colour it would be

Hi Guys,

I was on that Villian PUG on Virtue last night.

It was a shout by a player called Barreck l.....? I apologise for forgetting your handle already.

He/She was a very experienced, calm and clever player who took us by the scruff of our necks and got us all 6 of the AV's and so also the accolade.

Our team varied from 4 to 8 in number and when not biffing the AV's we also worked on the 1000 longbow defeats and farmed the Pillboxes. It was a really enjoyable few hours.

We had a bunch of deaths but nobody cared and all kept our sense of humour.

We also had a great deal of support and co-operation from the Vitrue Heroes who decided to run a parallel blueside team.

As a long time Scrapper, it sure was weird running out of the Redside base and being watched by a blueside Stalker! The world has stood on it's head lately.

There were a lot of side duels going on between the individuals on those teams but as soon as the work started we called a truce.

Great fun and thanks to all for helping me to get my badges.

Cheers

Hi Guys,

just a minor threadjack, but does this merger mean the end of the Lowbie run through Steel to get to the Tailors?

I know the run has been diluted by Icon's in the D and stuff but I did learn a lot of tactics doing those runs

Cheers

Hi,

hope you get sorted real soon.

Just by way of, I always duck into Dark Astoria for my tips. Large and numerous spawns of lvl 21 foes waiting to be wiped out at speed.

I get my first 3 tips there and then do the missions and if I don't get any tip drops during those I just head back to DA. Never have to wait long in there.

Cheers

Hi,

well just took my alt to Steel and defeated 10 Hellion arsonists and never went near a fire (never even picked up the extinguisher) and was awarded the first badge "Volunteer Firefighter".

The badge definately needs only 10 Hellions OR 10 Fires.

Cheers

Hi Guys,

mystery solved, I can stop fretting now

Thank you both very much.

Hi everybody,

tried Forum search but could not find any relevent threads.

What is happening when I se the word "Overpower" in orange text floating from the top of the foe I am currently attacking please?

I have seen it occasionally on all my alts but yesterday I rolled a Grav/FF troller and I am getting this on nearly every attack when using my lvl 1 and 3 Grav powers. (Crush and Gravity Distortion)

Thanks, am just just asking out of curiosity

I have not rolled these Primary/Secondary's before.

Cheers

Hi Guys,

I have just rolled a new alt on Pinnacle so will hop over and check the first badge out next time ingame

Cheers to all.

Hi,

further to the above, I have had a quick check ingame and see the following in my nearest to completion listings:

UNKNOWN
Gain this badge by defeating 100 Hellion Arsonists and 100 of the fires they set. This progression meter counts Hellions defeated.

(This badge counter sits at the top of my nearest to completion lists. It is full and I get no Pop-up info if I hover over the icon. Presumably because it is at 100% as shown in the blue meter line?)

UNKNOWN
Gain this badge by defeating 100 Hellion Arsonists and 100 of the fires they set. This progression meter counts Fires defeated.

(This badge counter sits way down the lists and the Pop-up shows 37 of 100 defeats - 37% complete)

I also presume that the two UNKNOWN titles actually refer to the same badge, in this case the "Fire Chief" one, being the last of the three in the set.

Cannot confirm that these meters work in the same way for all three badges.

I can therefore ignore Hellions and concentrate on the missing 63 fires

All this just for info and not sure if it clarifies anything.

Cheers

Hi,

if you check your "nearest to completion" listings you should find two entries with regard to the "Fires" badges.

One lists the number of Hellions required and currently defeated and the other gives the number of fires requiring extinguishing and your current total achieved.

These were added just recently and are not next to each other in the listings (at least not on my machine).

I have an alt with all the Hellions defeated that is top of the listings and about 50% of the fires which is seen very near the bottom.

Cheers

Hi,

have a look at this:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...ight=flashback

Enjoy

Hi Guys,

guess I fall in the middle about chat over cutscenes.

On the first run of the content all I want is to enjoy the new stuff and see what the guy has to say (Just ran my Hero through the Barracuda SF for the first time - cracking cutscenes!). No intrusive comments from the players thank you.

But also after a zillion runs of for example, the ITF, anything to help lift the familiarity is okay.

The problem is remembering that my old familiar run is very possibly another teammates first run so see my early comment!

Cheers

Hi,

really good advise about the "already spawned" check!

We actually did this with all our members at low medium and high levels and he was definately not anywhere abouts (at least not nearby or on the island).

It is worth the effort to do that check just in case!

I did wonder about bugging it but in the end did not as I figured the Dev's are well aware of this situation. Maybe I should have though?

Do petitions get reported to the Dev's in feedback from our GM's I wonder?

Cheers

Hi all,

on Virtue 30 mins ago. Unexpectedly got on a Caleb team of 8 and spent three ingame days/nights defeating and not spawning the prey.

I sent a petition and the whole team cheerfully kept at it.

After 40 minutes with no response one member had to go and that started a cascade leaving.

I was sending a second petition and looked up to see I had the star as I was the only one left!

As these things happen I immediately received a tell from a GM informing me Caleb was about to spawn at my location. Eek and he did. But he also took off at great pace and despawned before I could even fire off one attack.

I screamed over every channel I could for the team to get back to Nerva and started to ask the GM for another spawn.

Guys started flocking in and the GM respawned Caleb by me. That was a fun minute trying to respond to the GM, invite the guys back to the team and engage Caleb to stop him clearing off again.

As it happened we got 6 of the team back and took the Ghostie down.

The chat log was definately worth a reread. There were skid marks in the sky where our members did a panic return to the island

The GM was fantastic and understood what was occuring and helped us out, our thanks to her

We never got a proper spawn and never got an event notification.

My advise is to try the usual way and if that is unsuccesful send a petition and give them time to respond. After a decent interval petition again still being very polite!

And just hang in there till they get to you, because the wait is still better than the thankless futile attemps that may never get you the badge. We all had horror stories of earlier attempts.

Have a good spawn