Trick or Treating Rocks: Questions

Last night in Brickstown, I joined up with two different ToT teams. One, in particular, killed a ton in one location. Then, the sky turned red and out of the earth right beneath us came zombies and Night Mares and all kinds of crap and about 30 other heroes joined in and we fought for around 20 minutes, or it seemed like it. I was able to do Hasten four or five times.

Did the zombies show up because we did so much damage at one place?

Also, while I was happy fighting with my pug team, another team was lfm for a banner mission. Is that something I'd need to get a contact to do? It was very easy to recruit last night and if I can't find a banner mish I'd like to just start one.

Re the first paragraph. The ToT was good xp, the zombie outbreak was crap xp, but I killed over 100 zombies just myself, picking them off before they reached the core of the fighting. Why is that?

Are there specific cities that you can ToT in? I didn't notice any in SC, and SC was very easy to pick up members for Bricks in.

Last question: I've got two hami costumes, 2 helmets of each kind. A week ago I paid 300k for each to get my fifth costume slot. They're now worth 50k and I can't put them in my vault for storage for when it might go up. I guess I just sell at this low price?

No,the zombie attack is a event that occurs it has nothing to do with how many baddies you and your team killed.Why the xp is low I have no idea hopefully someone can answer that for you as i am curious also.

The banners are something new this year no contact is needed just pay attention to the event chat like it said in the GMOTD when you logged in yesterday.

Store and hold on to your salvage,watch the market in a few months and you will see prices will go back up as the salvage becomes scarce again.

ToT is going to be lvl specific for the zones,hence a lvl 50 can't come to Atlas to ToT,BUT,if you get on a higher lvl team and they are running in their correct zone then you will be able to also because of ssk.

Hope this helps.

The Zombie Apocalypse exp is pretty poor. It's due to the way the zombies are coded to use the giant-monster "always fight at your level" code. The Rikti Invasions are the same way. Frankly, though, the exp is the least portion of a ZA. It's the fun of a mass event

(and since you get exp for any of the zombies that are injured by your team and there are literally hundreds of zombies being taken down, it does add up over the whole event)

As for the special Halloween salvage...just hang onto it. You can personally carry a bunch of each one, and you CAN store them in Base Salvage containers (our base has one salvage rack that's just for Halloween salvage so new toons can go in and get an extra costume slot if they want one).

I wouldn't try selling them now...right now they are going to be rather plentiful and thus cheap. Hold onto them until, say Jan or Feb, and they'll be much more valuable (if you care about trying to make cash off of them that is).

Personally, my SG will be trying to buy up a ton of them for later use.

Choice of powers after downing the zone GM? I did that last night and didn't get a choice of powers. I got the accolade and associated badges. Granted I was lagging quite a bit and actually didn't make it to the GM before my team and others took him down.

Do you have to do damamge to get the powers choice? What are the choices?

Well, I'm assuming that the "your team has to do x% of total damage" rule that GMs follow applies to the special GM spawned by the event (it might not though, I don't really know for certain).

I was on 3 seperate events last night and I got the temp power choice each time, even though I didn't even make it across the zone to where the GM spawned before he was dropped the first time, so I'm not sure why you didn't get the choice.

That said, they aren't anything spectacular:

A 10-use Confuse power (I haven't activated it, but I'm assuming it's similar to the Valentine Event confuse power)

A 10-use Fear power (again haven't activated it yet)

A 1-hour-in-game-time auto power that gives a +15% damage bonus

A 1-hour-in-game-time auto power that gives a Resistance/Defense bonus (not sure..don't have this one yet)

Ah, thanks. I'm not sure how much damage the team did as I kept rubberbanding back to a point on the map...was very irritating!

Wow, thanks for the information.

The only temp power I got last night, as a treat, was a toggle for looking like a Paragon Protector. Hmm.

This is the first special event, besides double xp weekend, that I've been to. Though I've seen the Elohai [sp?] and the big Jack fighting in Croatoa, I think. Somewhere. And we couldn't get them apart to fight them.

Zombie Apocalypse XP -- Their XP is significantly and intentionally reduced precisely because of how easy they are to kill when a bunch of players gang up on them.



Greater Mystic Aspect (Giant Monster) Reward Table and Merits -- Unlike other GMs where you or your team needs to do at least 10% of the damage to get credit for the kill and Merits, the Greater Mystic Aspect is more like the final Hamidon, which means, all you have to do is do at least 1 point of damage and be nearby (probably 250 ft) in order to get the Merits and the Reward Table.

This means that there should be no need to rush to the Aspect and start killing and doing a lot of damage before others show up.

Last I checked it was only 99 of each type of Halloween salvage.

Trick-or-Treating has been pimped a ton since last year, especially as a rare monster spawns goes. Last year even on a team you needed often several evenings to get 20 ghosts to coem ouf these doors, let alone GET them as the loved to run off back then. And instead had several thousand zombies and pumpkins. This time the formerly rare stuff and bosses spawned like crazy, and on a team of 4 everyone had all their defeat badges in half an hour or so. I also feel you dont have to wait so long anymore before you can click another door.