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If you have a complete group, i.e., minions, Lts, bosses, Xp is only reduced to 75% for custom critters at Standard/Standard power settings. Any mobs from regular groups in your missions still give full xp.
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If it's a lowbie arc, you should be using customs sparingly anyway. The fact that they are way overpowered for a lowbie is far more annoying than the reduced XP.
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Thanks for pointing that out, I thought the 75% reduction applied to standards as well. I'll get back to work on it right away |
Originally Posted by Justice Blues
If you have a complete group, i.e., minions, Lts, bosses, Xp is only reduced to 75% for custom critters at Standard/Standard power settings. Any mobs from regular groups in your missions still give full xp.
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Lowbie arcs are particularly useful, actually. Tickets are much more valuable than lowbie salvage and recipes. PM me when you're done and I'll run through it on my AR/Cold 
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If it's a lowbie arc, you should be using customs sparingly anyway. The fact that they are way overpowered for a lowbie is far more annoying than the reduced XP.
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Also, if you create a character with Standard/Hard power selections you get 87.5% XP. This allows you to avoid excessive powers in the attack set (like Build Up), while making them tougher (for your typical melee-based mob).|
Originally Posted by ReclusesPhantom
Thanks for pointing that out, I thought the 75% reduction applied to standards as well. I'll get back to work on it right away
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It takes a little longer to defeat them, but they can't one-shot you.
It's often very useful to make your custom group with a few of your own customs and some standard mobs that are recolored and renamed.
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GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.
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After posting a similar query in another thread, I was told that creating a good lowbie arc does have a point:
you yourself can run it with every new toon you make and avoid the doldrums of running through the same old lowbie missions for the fifty-umpty-jillionth time.
Even if no one else ever plays, you've already done yourself a favor.
So I made mine and have been using it and so far I'm happy with it. If anyone's curious, it's the third one listed in my sig.
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Make it for yourself first. Then take your friends along. Beyond that, since there's so much stuff out there, you can't really expect anything. If you set out making it with all those faceless people that might play it in mind, you won't have fun making it and you'll be just as disappointed when you get few plays-- for no other reasons than the law of averages, and the fact that AE buildings are no longer "where everybody is".|
Originally Posted by ReclusesPhantom
So I was planning a lowbie arc, but now with the new AE changes I'm wondering how many people would play it. It uses Standard Groups and a Custom Group with standard critters, but with xp reduced to 75% for even standards, is there any point in making the arc?
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In my mind, my arcs are like I'm a GM again, and I'm making game modules for my friends. I take my SG on runs, and I send out some tells to global friends who usually run it with their groups. Plus, that means that the majority of comments that I get are coming from people whose opinions I know I respect.
It's always someone I don't know who comes up with a comment that makes me think, "were you paying any attention at all?"
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Great advice, Red.
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So I was planning a lowbie arc, but now with the new AE changes I'm wondering how many people would play it. It uses Standard Groups and a Custom Group with standard critters, but with xp reduced to 75% for even standards, is there any point in making the arc?