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Posted on: 2011-02-20 12:11 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
I have had him survive the whole thing before. I really wonder what's the point of having him there.
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Eh. Show how powerful Battle Maiden is beating him and the woman up? IIRC, he's a level 44 grav controller and the other npc is level 25ish. If you can save him from the initial aggro, nothing else aggros to him (and he doesn't aggro to anything else) due to the level difference. We healed him whenever a patch formed on him (the untyped damage barely affects him). |
Originally Posted by Leandro
I have had him survive the whole thing before. I really wonder what's the point of having him there.
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To be honest, that was the first time I've ever see him not be oneshot before anyone got 5' out of the door.
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Originally Posted by Leandro
I have had him survive the whole thing before. I really wonder what's the point of having him there.
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Hehe, something similar happened to me and my team at the first mish of Apex. We got three of the Kheldian Cops still alive even after all those War Walkers and Clockwork swarms. Those were some tough cops
I've never even heard of these NPCs.
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I've never been able to keep them alive to the end. Best I've gotten is the third wave, then they get aoe'ed. Maybe if it was a buff heavy team that made sure to shield/heal them...|
Originally Posted by Pyrokinetix
Hehe, something similar happened to me and my team at the first mish of Apex. We got three of the Kheldian Cops still alive even after all those War Walkers and Clockwork swarms. Those were some tough cops
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If you wipe out the initial first wave of the Clockworks, two of the kheldians run to the side of the stairs and hide, the third normally stays in agro view but a good bubbler or well placed trip mines usually protect him from any harm |
Originally Posted by Satanic_Hamster
I've never been able to keep them alive to the end. Best I've gotten is the third wave, then they get aoe'ed. Maybe if it was a buff heavy team that made sure to shield/heal them...
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Originally Posted by Vanden
I've never even heard of these NPCs.
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I've attempted that TF several times before. And I've never heard of any of these NPCs before, either.
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Originally Posted by Vanden
I've never even heard of these NPCs.
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When you enter street level in the Apex TF, there are low-level, friendly NPCs standing in front of Battle Maiden and her troops. I assume they represent the last of low-level heroes trying to fend off the invaders. They are summarily filled with arrows as you arrive. This usually defeats the female NPC immediately, but the male one, Dr. Advance, usually survives it.
I know I have seen Dr. Advance in some other tip or Mayhem missions, so I'm guessing the other one probably is from somewhere else also. Since she always bites it, I don't remember her name.
I've also seen Dr. Advance survive the TF. I think I've seen it twice.
(In case folks haven't discovered this, the nanite patches do far less DoT to NPCs like pets. This and the fact that he and the invaders lose mutual aggro quickly due to level difference is how I think he ever survives more than a few seconds. Edit: It also helps that the arrows KB both lowbie NPCs significantly, frequently kicking Advance out of the area of any early patches, which seems to be a common but not consistent occurrence.)
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Dr. Advance lived to the end of Apex TF.
Then died two seconds later from a blue patch... But he lived to the end!
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