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So is there a new AE 'sploit or what?

Adeon Hawkwood

By Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2011-07-16 13:39 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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The only thing AE does is "democratize" the ability to run these farms, and not restrict them to level 45+ characters who have the appropriate contact.
I pretty much agree with you about this. The farming doesn't seem so much easier as it is more accessible.

I happen to have a video of a very low damage character doing a variation of these farms (an Ice/Rad Controller). I'm posting it in the interest of showing how one particular kind of very low damage character can leverage it to some level of success. It's not "ticket capped," doesn't fight bosses, and the mission wasn't picked because of a damage type I'm resistant to, but the video shows a leveraging a very low damage set for what it's worth. (The character is actually a support character who does not actually have his AoE immobilize slotted for damage.) If nothing else it illustrates one variation of the farms for people (or developers, for that matter) who are unfamiliar as encountered by a somewhat atypical and unideal farming character.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIZyL9m4E1U

Anyway, while on the whole I don't feel the farms are exploitative, one element of them that is kind of "aberrant" is that they milk the aggro-cap rules for all they are worth. Enemies will gather around you like with dumpster diving but I think only 16 will attack you. If the rules changed so that they could actually fire, I wouldn't be able to survive.

The rules for inspirations are also rather hilariously broken?/unbalanced? in favor of soloing, though I doubt they'd ever be changed. This is a legacy issue dating back to the origins of the game. However, the AE does allow you to eat inspirations at the vendor, buy more, then run into the mission with capped damage and a full tray while enemies pile onto you at the door. Not sure if that's exploitation or not. It's definitely a bit cheap, but I have done it before on some characters.

 

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I was stating a fact about how AE gets modded, when it does get modded, not my opinion about it.
My disagreement is the "when it gets modded" because if you look at the system it's much more of an "if it gets modded" that hasn't been acted on for the past few months.

 

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Yeah the one thing I know about isn't an exploit anyway, its just a ramification of certain ATs in certain situations. And people can't/don't use it to power level others, its a solo thing. So if people are asking for experience a lot these days, I think it is just because people want to get to 50 for the "shineyz".

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My disagreement is the "when it gets modded" because if you look at the system it's much more of an "if it gets modded" that hasn't been acted on for the past few months.
I've seen some obvious and non-exploitive farms disappear within the past few months. Though, it is possible the owner of the arc pulled it.

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I've seen some obvious and non-exploitive farms disappear within the past few months. Though, it is possible the owner of the arc pulled it.
I dunno. I'm going to lean towards the owner pulling since there's still a HoF Farm up, which doesn't even really try to hide that it's a farm mission.

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