Bosses also have the chance of dropping a Random Rare Recipe, formerly known as Pool C.
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To the OP, if you don't catch the value of that it also means, "Currently known as a random merit roll".
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Originally Posted by StarGeek
Bosses also have the chance of dropping a Random Rare Recipe, formerly known as Pool C.
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Hmmm...I had been thinking about turning bosses off (multiple arachnos bosses hurt...)|
Originally Posted by GavinRuneblade
To the OP, if you don't catch the value of that it also means, "Currently known as a random merit roll".
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So much for THAT idea. Thanks for the info guys.
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It's like a 1 in 2000 chance or something. I've gotten at least one that I noticed. I think it was a hold triple...
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Bosses are not currently worth the Inf/XP they give for the time they take to kill.
They have something like double the HP, more resistance and more powers to kill you with than Lts. They do not however grant double the Inf/XP of Lts. This is what I have noticed in leveling and farming. The bosses just aren't worth the trouble.
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For the record, Boss level enemies are worth 3 times the XP of a LT.|
Originally Posted by _Pine_
Bosses are not currently worth the Inf/XP they give for the time they take to kill.
They have something like double the HP, more resistance and more powers to kill you with than Lts. They do not however grant double the Inf/XP of Lts. This is what I have noticed in leveling and farming. The bosses just aren't worth the trouble. |
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Experience
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Agreed. We're supposedly playing these games for the fun of it.
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Originally Posted by Decorum
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Originally Posted by Panzerwaffen
For the record, Boss level enemies are worth 3 times the XP of a LT.
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Experience |
They also have three times the hitpoints making them impossible to remove quickly. In general they are a bad bargain. Op was wrong about the numbers but absolutely correct in the conclusion
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They also have a somewhat higher percentage chance of dropping recipes in general.
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Originally Posted by Larcen3
Forgetting about xp and inf* (also forget about the larger inspirations they can drop)....is there any advantage to fighting bosses? Is there a special recipe pool that only bosses can drop?
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Originally Posted by Another_Fan
They also have three times the hitpoints making them impossible to remove quickly. In general they are a bad bargain. Op was wrong about the numbers but absolutely correct in the conclusion
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Originally Posted by _Pine_
Bosses are not currently worth the Inf/XP they give for the time they take to kill.
They have something like double the HP, more resistance and more powers to kill you with than Lts. They do not however grant double the Inf/XP of Lts. This is what I have noticed in leveling and farming. The bosses just aren't worth the trouble. |
They also give over 100 prestige per kill even at level 1. Just sayin.
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I can be found, outside of paragon city here.
Thank you everyone at Paragon and on Virtue. When the lights go out in November, you'll find me on Razor Bunny.
In the end, it all comes down to how fast you are able to take things out. If you are extremely slow at taking out bosses like my defenders are, then bosses are not really worth it. But my fire/shield and my fire/kin can fly through them pretty easily (at same level...when increasing a lot higher than that it is much slower).
So I love to have bosses on because it increases recipe drops and gives that ability to get the TF recipe drops (random merit roll/Pool C). I have gotten quite a few of these over time. Can never complain about getting a LoTG +7.5% recharge from just running a normal mission.
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What about the effect of the relative level of a boss? If he (or she, I guess) is 1 or 2 levels higher than you, does that affect the chance for getting a rare recipe drop as opposed to if the boss is your level or slightly lower?
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Relative level has no effect on the chance to drop a recipe, except that grey enemies won't. In other words, you get more recipes/hour fighting blue enemies than purple ones, because you have the same chance per kill, but more kills per hour.
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Originally Posted by Quantumizer
What about the effect of the relative level of a boss? If he (or she, I guess) is 1 or 2 levels higher than you, does that affect the chance for getting a rare recipe drop as opposed to if the boss is your level or slightly lower?
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Originally Posted by Another_Fan
They also have three times the hitpoints making them impossible to remove quickly. In general they are a bad bargain. Op was wrong about the numbers but absolutely correct in the conclusion
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Originally Posted by GavinRuneblade
Depends on level. At 50 yes.
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http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
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I lost the thread, but Arcannaville has stated that both per point of damage and per point of endurance a +2 boss is the most efficient source of experience. The thread seemed to back it up and is where I learned the joys of fighting super-low-level bosses with my low-damage characters.|
Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
2.997 times the HP of a lieutenant at lv50, exactly 3 times the XP of a lieutenant. Barring the boss having higher resistance to your damage type than the lieutenant (which isn't a given, especially if we're talking about the 'No Bosses' option which will downgrade a boss into a lieutenant with the same powers as the boss), the boss is actually slightly better XP/time. (Of course, individual critters may have XP modifiers or powers modifying their HP.)
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The thread was trying to determine if endurance cased a functional limit in exp gain or if anyone was able to gain exp faster than Arcanna predicted based on her understanding of end.
"Hmm, I guess I'm not as omniscient as I thought" -Gavin Runeblade.
I can be found, outside of paragon city here.
Thank you everyone at Paragon and on Virtue. When the lights go out in November, you'll find me on Razor Bunny.
Yeah, now that you bring it up, I recall reading Arcana's prediction, but I never kept up with it.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
Forgetting about xp and inf* (also forget about the larger inspirations they can drop)....is there any advantage to fighting bosses? Is there a special recipe pool that only bosses can drop?
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