jacktar

Hi,

well with regards to squishy Defenders, I have just last night levelled my first Emp/Electric to 50.

I soloed the mish "Defeat Infernus and the Summoning Portal", a mish of all CoT.

I reached the last room and took down the guards so there was only me and the EB, eyeball to eyeball.

My xp bar was 99.9%.

We went at it and after a full on battle he bit the dust. I immediately levelled to the magic 50 and spat on the corpse.

I turned on my heals and with a huge grin on my face marched my "Squishy" the entire length of the (my!) map. It was a "leave by the front entrance" moment.

I will never forget the reaching 50 on my Defender, it is one of my gaming high spots

Go for it OP, persevere and all shall be yours

Cheers

Hi guys,

yes Virtue does have a dedicated badge channel, "Virtuebadges09".

It is active and used by a cool and helpful bunch of players. Well recommended.

Welcome to the madness that is being a "Badger!"

Cheers

Hi Nericus,

was due my Vet yesterday and it arrived right on time, so it must be an intermitant problem.

Hope you get sorted real soon.

cheers

Hi Guys,

right on the money Roderick. I was refering to the new diff system, not the latest patch fix.

At last us mainly soloing players can go and stress test our toons during "normal" play sessions and even though I was biffing "Hero Longbow guys" it sure felt good

Anyway, four and a half runs to get 600 foes was all it took and the vast majority of foes were blue conning!

So after the initial hiccup it seems as if the system is indeed working as planned. I will be very interested to see if others have the same experience by way of confirmation.

And as a "Reformed" character I now leave to hunt those pesky and definately villanous Toxic's and Mu Guardians

Cheers

Hi Roderick,

thanks for your really helpful response It is jolly nice to get confirmation about things just to get the head sorted.

Anyway by way of an update to original post......

1. having logged off and on again the diff and spawns sizes now seem to have sorted themselves out and I am getting large spawns with virtually all foes conning blue with a coupkle of yellows and a few whites. This is no problem at all and in fact stops the thing being too boring.

2. I have completed two runs through the map clearing all before going through the log out/in nonsense and my foe tally of defeated has gone from 400 to 670! At this rate another 3 runs might just do the job.

3. I think I now understand the Dev's purpose behind the new diff settings as, boy oh boy am I having a blast

Am on my lvl 50 claws/sr scrappie and in mish am surrounded by huge spawns of Longbow all firing machine guns and flamethrowers and rocket grenades and am knee deep in spent cartridge shells and bodies and noise and action heheheheh.....

I just keep fighting and fighting and still they come, it is scrapper lock heaven and then just as things die down (literally as well as imaginary) in rush two more add on spawns, so it is a pop Elude job and just keep going.

It is a long time since I felt so Heroic ingame and then actually realised I was grinning like a daft thing and on a real high. Thank you Dev's

So as far as this badge goes, the farm method using Flashback is still an absolute choice.

Being able to farm 600 foes so quickly should also make it a great choice for other foes as well if needed and the speed does mitigate the logging out/in hassle.

Cheers

Hi everybody,

so am back to farming for the Longbow badge (1000 defeats with 600 still needed) on my lvl 50 scrappie.

My thoughts were to use the Guassian arc, the Red and the Black, via Oroborus and with my diff set to -1 foes, with number of Heroes on higher than 4 and probably 8 and with no bosses or AV's. I will be solo of course.

To get to the right mission in the arc requires four other missions before getting the "Raid Data Center" mish with all it's lovely Longbow harvest.

I was getting what seemed to be the right level of spawns but the foe levels seem to be all wrong.

I was getting a lot of orange and red conned foes during the first four mishs and those Rangers hit hard! (Why no badge for their demise?)

And in the fourth I even had Lt Sofuloglu (?) as an EB albeit conned orange.

The latest patch notes refer to a fix to the new diff settings to make them ignore personal settings during TF's and trials.

As all flashback adventures come under the quasi TF rules does this mean they are now affected as well? if so, this seems to be a hit against using the "O" system.

Finally as the mish with Longbow is in the middle of a TF I am locked into this and unable to play any other game content, for a break, without dropping the TF and having to redo all earlier four mishs just to get to the Longbow again. And of course to reset the mission I have to quit the game and then relog in the toon again.

Am I missing something obvious or can you point me to a large number of low level Longbow elsewhere please? (Bloody Bay?).

Thanks Guys

Hi everybody,

heheh, two years and finally hit 601 badges last night. Needed three for the 600 and got on a Hydra trial which was a blast and what a PUG! We rocked and all got the Defeat, Gladiator and Exploration badges

So sitting on 600 feeling smug, and along comes my 24 month Vet badge just to remind me that the work is not finished yet

So now at 601 and off to RV for some more pillboxes.... argh

Cheers

Hello everybody,

sorry to drag this up again but have been away for a few weeks and cannot find anything under search

In issue 16, with the new difficulty system, I am running my level 50 toon through regular Radio missions in PI, solo.

I have set the Foe level to -1 and number of Hero's to 8, no bosses and no AV's.

I am getting large spawns, all at level 49, ie conning blue.

Under these circumstances will I have a chance of getting any rare recipe (purples) drops?

I have asked this three times on the in game chat channels and each time got a 50/50 split of YES and NO answers. There is a deal of confusion out there, well at least in game on Virtue at the times I play!

Thanks for your forebearance and wise heads

Cheers

Hi,

yes it is because I just logged in but, the Server Status page is still showing all servers down!

It is now eight hours since shut down and I only tried after seeing this thread because of the "Down" status!

Or am I the only one still seeing this status? (Maybe my browser is not refreshing correctly?)

Ah well no matter at least I am in now

Cheers

Hi Guys,

great info and I have now got both a handle on what to do and also when to do it.

All your replies were spot on and big thanks to you all.

Now to explain to my teamies just why I am not healing them

Cheers

hello everybody,

a complete newbie to the Defender AT with an operational question.

"Vengence", I know what it does, but am not sure about the best/correct/wise way to get it done.

So, am on a team with another Def with Vengence and I have the Rez power.

I am never sure when I should Rez in case I screw up his Vengence cast.

Then again, if I have the Vengence and a dead teammate, do I just get in to the team and cast it then TP the dead guy out and Rez, or just cast Vengence and Rez.

Do I have to "Gather" the team and then cast Vengence?

I would be really grateful for clues as to how you all use the power in a combat situation.

Any tips/experiences and especially any "Do not under any circumstances do this" things.

Thanks for you help

Hi,

just a thought, if you are going to start collecting your badges then go back to the vidiotmap link and get the free and superb map pack download.

They replace the ingame map with similiar, but with all the badge locations and a heap more useful stuff added. It is a fantastic adition and will enhance your gameplay experience.

Happy hunting

Hi Guys,

thanks for info. I am aware of the "No Progress Bar" situation with all the Glad badges but most (subjective) are associated with the awarding of another badge, be it a defeat or accolade or whatever.

The associated badge usually has a counter and so it also indirectly gives an indication of progress for it's Glad badge.

I was just checking if I had overlooked any associations for this particular badge.

So I guess it is "Patience Grasshopper" mode in RV till it dings

Thanks again and yes, I do wish all badges had a progress indicator!

Hi Guys,

am I correct in saying that there is no way for a blueside toon to check how many defeats they have towards getting this badge?

I am camping out in RV as I toil away, but as a non PvPer feel a bit of an intruder.

Just making sure I have not missed out on progress checking somewhere.

Thanks

Hi,

can I ask, are you limiting answers to the choices listed, or are they just by way of a starting list?

If not, I can recommend an Illusion/Rad troller, and that toon can get you into GM killing as well if you wanted that challenge at a later date.

Funny, I have also hated with a vengence the current spines scrappie look but always wanted one, and after seeing the changes in I16 I will be rolling a new "Mettalic" (I think that is it?) spines as soon as it goes live. The look is fantastic

Cheers

Hi,

apologies to OP about my comment on the cost of a build for AV defeating.

I got a bit carried away and had in my mind that the unspoken question would lead inevitably to a solo GM defeats build, a completey different proposition!

Sorry for the confusion

Hi,

welcome to the AV killer club.

I use a lvl 50 Ill/rad troller for this task.

If you go to the "News, Events, Announcements" section of this forum and then select "Announcements" and then scroll through you will see the editions of The City Scoop by date.

Over the last ten or so editions one of our best AV killers "TopDoc" has written major contributions to the magazine specifically about what you need to know for AV killing.

My toon is based on his advice.

I hope one of the more able formites will post a linkie for you as I am useless at that sort of thing

Be prepared to spend a great deal of inf on your build but be assured it will be worth it.

Cheers

hello everybody,

to get this badge you have to defeat the AV's during the STF/MSTF.

Do you get awarded it as soon as you defeat the last of the required AV's or do you also have to continue on to successfully complete the TF when it then awards?

Thanks

Hi

or you can enter thread and then click on the white down arrow symbol named "View First Unread" which is on the left just above the date and time of OP's post.

Both arrows are missing if you have viewed all posts in the thread.

Hello everybody,

can anybody tell me what happens to a player on a TF or Trial if they get Dced, by way of affecting team membership?

I know on a ordinary mish that if you simply relog in, you are still in your team and in the zone, assuming the team is still working in the mish.

But over the past few days I got DCed whilst in a Hami raid and a Rikti mothership raid and a STF. (Reasons for Dcing still under investigation, but probably Graphic Driver stuff)

On both Raid occasions when I immediately logged back in, I was no longer in a team. On the Hami occasion I was also not in Zone but guess that was because Zone One was full?

After the STF DC I was still in and did rejoin my team. However I wondered what would have happened if it had been say a Posi TF, with just two of us doing it. Would my DC have ended the TF under the one player rule?

What I do not know is if I was replaced by Raid team Leaders whilst DCed, or was kicked by the "System"?

Any thoughts or info or experiences would be most welcome.

And yes of course, I am now not getting involved in group activities until my problems are sorted

Cheers

Hi all,

is it possible to swap builds whilst on a task Force?

I would like a damage build for Defeat Alls and a stealth for Click the Glowies or a Healing/Buff-DeBuff build for support and to use different builds during the TF.

And I could have access to another box of Insps!

Cheers and thanks.

Hello everybody,

new Forum and bad search foo

Can I get a linkie to a comprehensive raid guide please.

I know there was one on the old forum site. I am using the Wiki as well.

One that reflects the most up to date methods would be ideal, but an older one that has the ongoing principles for good raid leading would be a great help as well.

I am on Virtue, but guess the guides from other servers would cover all I need to know as well.

Thanks for all/any responses.

Cheers

Hi Guys,
was skulking about in RWZ last night when up came the shout for Raid kick off.

The leader was an experienced player going by the toon name of Haite Kordal (I think, I was very tired!).

As I was one of the first there we had a bit of chat.

Leader said it was their intention to run these "Monday Mothership Raids" on a regular basis from now on.

The only real diference was that the raids wold now be scheduled for earlier in the evening.

They will kick off at 18.00 Central time (19.00 Eastern?).

We then ran four raids, all successful and had four teams out most of the time.

If you want to have an outing then just turn up at the Point Du Hoc marker before that.

Our leader was very well prepared and kept us on the right track.

There is always a need for team leaders, not anywhere as stressful or involved as a Hami raid team leader, so if you are used to forming and gently team leading, then please do shout out that you will form a team

Finally, the Raid Leader will always need a "Super Tanker"for the GM lead so let the Leader know that you are available when you arrive.

I had a good night, got a wallet full of merits and nice progress towards my raid badges. Nuff said

Hope to see you all there on Monday evenings.

Cheers

Hi,

if you look in your Vet badge section you will see all your Vet badges and also another box for each that offers that badge's rewards.

So under the Vet badge that qualifies you for your attack power you will see the box for you to claim them. If you select it you will then be asked which of the two (Sands or Axe) you wish to choose.

Same process for all the other stuff.

Enjoy and welcome back.

7.53 beats 7.56 lol