Or better yet, get a Quinfecta that includes a Boresight!
The original topic was about getting a badge for the Quinfecta. No such luck - Positron says the technology just isn't there for doing that. A pity. I'm afraid some folks will actually get this and not even know it because it came in the middle of a big battle.
I wonder who will be the first to get a quinfecta from a minion?
Any chance Positron can make a badge for Quinfecta? Like let it have a counter that tells how many times you get it over the career of your heroe or villain?
Bump and Grind Bane/SoA
Kenja No Ishi Earth/Empathy Controller
Legendary Sannin Ninja/Pain Mastermind
Entoxicated Ninja/PSN Mastermind
Ninja Ryukenden Kat/WP Scrapper
Hellish Thoughts Fire/PSI Dominator
Thank You Devs for Merits!!!!
ummmm did you read the post you Quick Replied to? 
"Null is as much an argument "for removing the cottage rule" as the moon being round is for buying tennis shoes." -Memphis Bill
Nope
Bump and Grind Bane/SoA
Kenja No Ishi Earth/Empathy Controller
Legendary Sannin Ninja/Pain Mastermind
Entoxicated Ninja/PSN Mastermind
Ninja Ryukenden Kat/WP Scrapper
Hellish Thoughts Fire/PSI Dominator
Thank You Devs for Merits!!!!
Coincidentally, that would also be the answer to your question. 
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There's also the fact that they're Monsters not Giant Monsters.
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Aren't DE monsters considered Giant Monsters? (Doctor Brainstorm refers to them in his post about GMs and recipes.)
He's incorrect about that, that was my point.
"Null is as much an argument "for removing the cottage rule" as the moon being round is for buying tennis shoes." -Memphis Bill
Yeah, I see your point now. I guess I was thinking that since they don't have levels, they might be using the Giant Monster code, but they're definitely called "Monsters" instead of GMs. And the DE monsters wouldn't be prone to the "camping" problem that Brainstorm said they wanted to avoid, since it's not like they're hard to find.
Off-topic, does anyone else think "Giant Monster" is kind of a dumb designation anyway? The DE monsters are bigger than many so-called "Giant Monsters." Maybe "Elite Monsters" would be better? 
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Off-topic, does anyone else think "Giant Monster" is kind of a dumb designation anyway? The DE monsters are bigger than many so-called "Giant Monsters." Maybe "Elite Monsters" would be better?
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Yes, the Devs got themselves into a nomenclature mess.
First, there were the Archvillians. A rank of foe above 'Boss'.
Then they created AV ranked toons that really couldn't be called 'Archvillains' because they're just dumb monsters, so, they called them "Monsters." These were meant to be tackled by a single team, just like AVs.
Then they created zone wide creatures meant for several teams to tackle at once, these are the "Giant Monsters" that you find as zone events.
Then they created City of Villains and couldn't call the herioc AV-classed foes 'Archvillains' because they're heroes, so, they called them 'Heroes' confusing them with the players of City of Heroes who are 'heroes.'
Throughout all this, the actual size of the creature became irrelevant. Sure, Lusca is a giant Giant Monster, but Scrapyard and Deathsurge aren't that giant. And the DE Monsters are giant, but not Giant Monsters.
Bleh.
Doc Brainstorm was incorrect to call the DE Monsters "Giant Monsters" (as was I for a while until corrected... I went to the Hive and Monster Island on both Live and Test to check it out... the DE creatures are "Monster" rank, not "Giant Monsters"). Positron should smack Doc Brainstorm around a bit for making that mistake.
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ummm Zombie, the 5 drop includes Base Salvage already. The only thing that can 6 drop is a DE monster.
Base Salvage
Invention Salvage
Recipe
Enhancement
Inspiration
Essence of the Earth
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Just as an appendix, since no one has mentioned it before, there is the other sexfecta, from Rikti:
Base Salvage
Invention Salvage
Recipe
Enhancement
Inspiration
Vanguard Merit
Although that could actually be six, seven, or eight, depending on whether you were bagging a minion, lieutenant, or boss, with the varying number of merits you get.
I don't have enough data to be able to state for certain -- is the automatic SO drop for taking an AV separate from the random-chance enhancement drop? If so, you could do six from an AV if you happened to be the team member that got a regular enhancement drop in addition to the SO, and more for a Rikti AV.
"But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses."
-- Bruce Leverett, Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers
from any minion:
Base Salvage
Invention Salvage
Recipe
Enhancement
Inspiration
Costume Recipe
so Rikti could be up to 7 with a Merit.
Or 8 if you bag a boss and count them separately
Base Salvage
Invention Salvage
Recipe
Enhancement
Inspiration
Merit 1
Merit 2
Merit 3
If you really want to play the numbers, though, a freak minion could potentially drop a sexfecta twice, on account of their rez.
Though the chances of such a thing happening would be so remote, I doubt anyone's experienced it yet.
Nice!
By the way, the Monsters on Monster Island do have levels. It's not specified, but they fight "as if level 50". I didn't know this, and I dragged a bunch of SGmates out around level 43 to fight one. I got an SK and all of a sudden I was doing like five times as much damage.
Mini-guides: Force Field Defenders, Blasters, Market Self-Defense, Frankenslotting.
So you think you're a hero, huh.
@Boltcutter in game.
There's also the fact that they're Monsters not Giant Monsters.
"Null is as much an argument "for removing the cottage rule" as the moon being round is for buying tennis shoes." -Memphis Bill