Depends on team size, and which missions. 
Last Kheld arc (45+) you're guaranteed of some, since they're part of the storyline. Same with various Cimerora arcs. (Well, newspaper missions and the ITF.)
Personally, I have only seen them show up (lately) on full 8-man teams.....
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Wow these are still showing up?
I remember an old Dev post that if these are appearing out side of the Kheldian story arc to petition that Map and details to have them fix it.
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Wow these are still showing up?
I remember an old Dev post that if these are appearing out side of the Kheldian story arc to petition that Map and details to have them fix it.
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Must've been a really *old* Dev post - long since swept under the rug. Those things can (and probably have) appeared on every map in the game
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Me too. However, the one that came with the last spawn of Mary, or the one near Doc Aeon on a MoSTF run I could do without.
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Me too. However, the one that came with the last spawn of Mary, or the one near Doc Aeon on a MoSTF run I could do without.
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I believe that a Kheldian Gold Standard should be based on SO's, and for anything above that... there's Platinum!
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Oh yeah, most of the time when Cysts spawn, they're actually a fun and refreshing change of pace. Sometimes, however, where they choose to locate can be slightly problematic...
Say, next to a Malta EB with a couple of Sappers near
In any case, I *don't* thing they should be in regular missions. Storywise, I can see Quantums ("Hey, look, cool weapons, and we gotta do is shoot squids when we see them") and Voids ("I'm a bounty hunter. My target is about to attack your base. Let me lend a hand").
But Cysts...? Are these the things that Nictus stay in to keep from dying, and to travel interstellarly with? Doesn't that make them, like, Uber-Important for Nicti and worthy of safekeeping and protection, entrusted to the most loyal of allies/minions/slaves? So, why is there one right here in the middle of this Hydra infested swamp again?
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So, why is there one right here in the middle of this Hydra infested swamp again?
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Well, I think the Devs should at least explain how the Cyst got there in the first place...
I believe that a Kheldian Gold Standard should be based on SO's, and for anything above that... there's Platinum!
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Cysts usually won't start appearing unless your team size and difficulty is set to where you will have regular bosses appearing in your mobs.
Except for some examples like the missions in the Cimerora arcs previously. Those are fun times on those rare ocassions when you have 2 cysts that appear side by side and you have to guess which one is the more dangerous of the two.
Seems to me I've only ever seen them show up in 6+ man team missions, but its been a while since I've seen one. And the ones in the 45-50 Kheld story arc aren't really true Cysts. When my WS ran through that arc (solo) they didn't spawn anything, they just sat their while I beat on them. Maybe being solo made a difference?
I always play on big teams so I figured facing them once until lvl 27 was a bit odd. It was probably because the difficulty setting wasn't very high until the later levels. After playing some more yesterday, I encountered more cysts...probably 3 or more. They were pretty fun. Yeah some people died (some forgot the explosion at the end lol), but they weren't incredibly difficult. Although, I couldn't imagine how going up against 2 cysts next to one another would turn out.
The Cysts themselves are not the problem. The problem is when Cysts show up close to enemies that you have to be in melee to defeat, because as more team members close in to melee the enemies, more fluffy balls of purple death come out of the Cyst.
Each of these Cyst-pets essentially slows down whatever it attacks so if you cannot take out all the pets at once, or rapidly take out the Cyst, the team may wipe and the enemy-group spawn may be aggro and kill you. It's worse of course when the enemy-group spawn contains AV's! 
I believe that a Kheldian Gold Standard should be based on SO's, and for anything above that... there's Platinum!
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A few years back a friend told me that they will spawn if you have a mission in your que that needs to be finished from the K-contact and you join a team doing other missions.
Although i haven't rolled one in a very very long time back then by following that simple rule of thumb i never spawned one no matter what size or diff the team.
Not sure if its still applicable but give it a try, if you do ur
K-contacts mish, solo em n try to wrap them up before u lf team.
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Wrong-O on your friends part. I've finished that contact's long ago and I still reguarly gift my Teams with Cysts.
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I definitely agree because I like to go slowly and read stuff about the story, clues, dialogs and the characters I'm fighting, both with in-game story-arcs that I want to experience, and of course MA arcs.
I believe that a Kheldian Gold Standard should be based on SO's, and for anything above that... there's Platinum!
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Wrong-O on your friends part. I've finished that contact's long ago and I still reguarly gift my Teams with Cysts.
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Just curious, do you have any missions unfinished? even a radio mish in your que
but even if its not true today it made a difference years ago, havent rolled one in like 2 years but not one cyst spawned has to speak for something back then.
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Wrong-O on your friends part. I've finished that contact's long ago and I still reguarly gift my Teams with Cysts.
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Just curious, do you have any missions unfinished? even a radio mish in your que
but even if its not true today it made a difference years ago, havent rolled one in like 2 years but not one cyst spawned has to speak for something back then.
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Okay I took your 'K-Contact' to mean Kheld Contacts. I've absolutely finished all those - none hanging. If that's not what you mean, then I'm not sure...
Now, I almost always have normal missions pending in my list. I've never really noted if joining a team with No Outstanding missions of any kind clears Cysts up - maybe I'll give that a looksee...
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Me too. However, the one that came with the last spawn of Mary, or the one near Doc Aeon on a MoSTF run I could do without.
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Hah!
Had one show up recently as part of the last ambush on the '30 Fir Bolg thru the door' mission out of Croatoa. Actually we had to go find it, since we cleared the map, then that ambush, then stood around for a minute wondering what was up....
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A few years back a friend told me that they will spawn if you have a mission in your que that needs to be finished from the K-contact and you join a team doing other missions.
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Wrong-O on your friends part. I've finished that contact's long ago and I still reguarly gift my Teams with Cysts.
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Just curious, do you have any missions unfinished? even a radio mish in your que
but even if its not true today it made a difference years ago, havent rolled one in like 2 years but not one cyst spawned has to speak for something back then.
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Okay I took your 'K-Contact' to mean Kheld Contacts. I've absolutely finished all those - none hanging. If that's not what you mean, then I'm not sure...
Now, I almost always have normal missions pending in my list. I've never really noted if joining a team with No Outstanding missions of any kind clears Cysts up - maybe I'll give that a looksee...
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I did mean that when i said k-contact it was just so long ago i cant remember if i ever had any type mish on que. lol
Maybe ill roll another and check it out, if you try let me now im curious about this now lol
Im one those people hates questions left unanswered LOL
Last night my PB girlfriend and I were running around about 20 something, just two of us on heroic. Look at us trying to rescue this person with a Cyst nearby. With some luck and fancy flying, the Cyst dies, we kill the rest of the spawn, job well done.
Then we had three ambushes hit us. The first ambush was uneventful. The second AND THIRD ambush had void seekers in it.
The game hates us.
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that is true
" I don't let me kids play on the Freedom Server" -Oya
I rolled my first Khledian and managed to get him from lvl 1 to 27 in a matter of two days (no farming/AE either). I always worried about meeting up with cysts, but it only showed up once around lvl 12 and the team took care of it without too much trouble. I was just wondering how likely it is for cysts to show up in missions. Should I have encountered them more often