mr_elotes

same happened to one of my toons when i ran the Kahn right after the servers came up after maintenance...he just needs 1 more to be at tier 4

i've reported a long time ago as a bug, as like the op no matter what tip mission i do if it's DE all the DE bosses show as bosses and not lt...this is running it set at 0/1 with no bosses...still no response if it is or not

So i should flip flop my numbers then from reading the above posts? I have +50% melee def and 39% s/l def on my fire/stone tank (should go 39 melee and 50 s/l)

Just curious on what is a good inf/min to gain on a farm? Once on a team a person said 500-800k but i felt this might have been a little low.

This is from a reply to a post that I did awhile back about "farming" for purple ios (before you were able to set difficulty and certain aspects may have changed and not be needed now). I ended up averaging (key word) about 1 every 5 runs but there time where that avg jumped a little bit higher. Remeber YMMV. Sorry for the wall of text in advance...since i am coping/pasting what i replied with.


The mish is the last mish of the ITF. So you must have 1 other person to keep the taskforce open and make sure that the other person is the same as you, meaning a hero or villain so you can sell stuff at the market. Also with that said I will let you know the pattern i use since the runs i do with ppl always skip all these mobs.

Once you enter the mish, go straight up and turn right (there are 2 vators to make it up the wall if you dont have a way to get up there). walk up on said path and there should be a grp of 20 (minions and lts) adjust dif to your liking (remember you want drops and to kill things fast as possible so it doesnt matter if level 50 or 53). once those are done, you should be at the end where you can go towards the towers. On the wall by the towers are another 20. Once you clear those hit the towers (take your time and try not to get overwelmed this is where i sometimes die, if so do use your sg base instead of the hosp so that when you teleport back you will be at the front door...no travel time).

Now remember how I said to turn right in the begining? well the other side has 2 grps of 20 as well so kill those. Now its time to go towards Rommie. But what about all those others with the EB's you say? skip them...not worth the time. Now looking at the courtyard with all those ppl you will see that there are 2 walls on either side of the court yard. 2 more grps of 20, 1 on each wall. clear those and then the court yard. In every group that I listed, there should not be any surgeons that you have to contend with unlike if you decide to farm the front wall outside the mission. All in all you should have killed about 350-450 mobs AND be full on recipes and maybe salvage (2 runs and you will be definatly full. On the third dif i avg 2 mil on kills alone, about 12-15 recipes, and anywhere between 20-40 salvage drops depending on how the game wants to treat you and taking about 15-20 mins a run solo).

Now mind you i run this on my tank and brute. Me and a buddy have been able to make it to the last mission using 2 tank/brutes easy. As far as the first 2 mishes are cake walk (they only spawn for 2 ppl and should be easy). The third mish is the issue. Key is to kill the av's first and make sure to take daedalus (spelling?) with you since he is a rad and keep him alive since he wil debuff the crap out of rom and requiem and make them easy pickings, vet team tp works great if one person stays with him and the other tps to the comp...then do the comp and we found it easier to kill the robots at each wave then attack the comp again. hope all this makes sense. Also your toons will be locked into the tf, so make sure its a toon that you dont mind leaving in there.

Using my stalker, fireball crits quite a bit (esp if on a full team on multiple mobs and from hide but also works when not hidden) from the epic set...not sure this helps out.

thanks all for the responses...I guess I'll be running back to back itfs in the morning then, kill most for shards and component (sry made the mistake of calling the component a shard in OP) and a speed for merits since they dont get hit with DR...Thanks once again

If I run a tf and choose the shard, and run the same tf again to get the merits, are the merits hit with dr or will i recieve the full amount? Also viceversa if I do it the other way (merits first then shards). Thanks all in advance.

Dont want to assume anything but it seems that one of the reasons you are doing this is to get the villain patron powers for your blaster...I think all you have to do is respec your character and it should already be available with no need to switch...but if not, sorry for making an assumption.

Try confusing the healing nictus in the ITF to make things that much easier...the only downfall is when the lieut. from the ambushes get the scream off.

posted that i can do this...then found out i had to work 2 mins after the post...thats the edit.

format or buy a new HD and install it there?

I use o&o defrag and checked it against the normal on the system and its perfect according to both...thanks for the help

was using the latest driver but thought that may be an issues so i tried using an old one to see if it would fix it. also did everything you posted prior to posting.

edit: dbl post

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i actually tried switching it to my other hard drive last night...same thing

After the crash when the updater is verifing files it errors on several pigg files. The first time it crashed and verified files these were the piggs files that it errored on while trying to fix them:mapsmission, player,playerfemale huge, sound 3 text gui1. Now mind you that the updater fixed a lot more files but these were the ones that it gave the error message "you may be out of disk space or trying to install to a location where you have insufficient permission". So i click ok so it can do a checksum of all files and finally fixes all of them (some take more than 1 try.)

Get logged in and crashes again. Go thru the above again and a different set of pigg files are now giving the same error message of lack of space. The new piggs that errored were:soundmusic1,soundv3, textgui1, texmaps,texvworld,texworldbases1.

This has now happened multiple times and the games crashes and different times from after hitting next on the updater to just jumping around traveling in game to loading a toon or map.

I reinstalled the game the same thing still happens. Cant play more than 5 mins if I am able to play at all.

the hard drive that it is in has 190gigs free and there are no permissions on the comp...I haven't changed the location in almost 3yrs.

if you want, pm me and I send you the info of the farm i farm and looking at the numbers that someone posted (purp drop for every 1700 or so mobs) seems to be close to what i get. Which means about 5-7 runs of the farm i do and it takes about 10-20 mins a run and you DONT have to ask for fillers and run it solo at your own pace.

Da Lil Guy: fire/stone tank
G. Roth: ss/wp tank
Cool Daddy Cool: ice/ice blaster
Dark Taker: dark/dark def
Speed Balls: grav/kin troller
Oon Ga-duha: kat/regen scrapper

Shocking Results: Elec/Stone brute
Power of Suggestion: mind/eng dom
Fireball Frenzy: fire/thermal cor
Mr. Ghost: em/nin stalker
Mortified Misery: necro/poison
Handy Trooper: VEAT

Hey Positron...where did you put my Flowbee?

The 60 month vet rewards with the assemble team one, to me means that everyone gets the benefit from it. Lets say 1 or 2 ppl have it, they travel to mish and can team tp the rest without any risk to those that dont have it.

As for as opening an extra power, IMHO depends on build. As some have stated, some will benefit, others won't.

Now that I think about it, a certain toon that had all 4 travel powers (i think) that pvp'd will probably benefit the most...Curious on his take of this.