Yes, as long as you have at least 1 of each rank.
Note that this is waived in boss details, you can have the boss be from an all-boss group and won't be penalized in that instance.
Alrighty. I was just wondering why my custom group at the end of my arc was still getting xp-nerfed. I'll have to figure out some way to get a boss in there when I'm already at 99.98% full. ;0)
Customs will give you reduced xp unless their powersets are set on hard/hard or extreme/extreme (I forget which) as well, the penalty can be especially bad if you chose to custom pick their powers.
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Hrm... not sure which way to go then. The customs now are set on standard/standard and I really don't want players just to get annihilated by these guys. That really isn't the point of the arc. And setting MA on hard means the customs will lead with some very hard hitting powers.
I think going standard is fine or rather, the lesser of two evils here. Better to have mobs that still give okay xp and are manageable, than ones that give normal xp but requires everyone that isn't a melee AT to rest after every fight.
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Custom-picked powers will only result in 0 xp if you remove any Standard powers.
Hard/Hard will give full xp, but most sets get stuff like Build Up or Power Sink on Hard, so even melee ATs get annihilated.
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Darkfire Avenger DM/SD/Body Scrapper
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Yah, I wish they'd at least let us trade one for another one. One of the standard powers for superstrength is hurl. When you are trying to create that 'this group is just a bunch of normal people' faction, the ss jab is okay. The normal guy picking up the large chunk of concrete and chucking it at someone sort of... um... breaks immersion.
To put it lightly.
They have to have the ranged attack. Too exploitable otherwise. Unless the ranged attack is in a powerset used as a secondary, and the critter already has a ranged primary, but will still throw ninja stars at you instead of pulling out its gun, that's just the devs being lazy.
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This may sound like a dumb-dumb question, but what is the minimum number of mobs that can be used in a custom faction to have that faction give normal experience?
1 minion, 1 lieutenant, 1 boss?