Zone wide event help

Rikti Invasion (first phase): Run around like a chicken with its head cut off. When you see a bomb, destroy it.

Rikti invasion (second phase) and Zombie invasion: Get in the middle of the pile of people and kill stuff as fast as you can.

Praetorian events: Follow the instructions on the pop-ups.

Deadly Invasion: Wipe out all the monsters around all the banners before the timer runs out, then break the banners. When all the banners are broken, kill the Monster that spawns.

Thank you very much. I feel less "lost".

You completed the previous phase. If I remember correctly, it's just a matter of defeating enough ghouls of the correct type (as stated in the pop-up).

The mob boss not the ghoul.

Speaking of the ghoul event. I killed several PPD but it didn't start the PPD event. Is there a trick?

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

Originally Posted by ShadowNate ;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!

Thank you. I'll try that.

Do you know the dynamics of the mobs? If a lvl 50 pops in a 20s zone, does the mob levels change? What if the 50 is going to Wentworth's?

Good question.

In zone events like Rikti invasions and Zombie attacks, the enemies are coded to not have levels, the to hit calculations and damage dealt are figured as if they were even level to whomever is damaging them, or who they are damaging, etc.

Unfortunately, there's not. I think I know the (praetorian) event he's talking about.

Versus the Syndicate:
1. Kill X number of syndicate outside the building. THe PPD will show up to help - don't let too many die.

2. Inside, you 'lure out' the boss one of two ways:
- Set bombs (glowies) or
- defeate named bosses.

If you go the second way, it makes the final fight somewhat easier.

3. Once lured out, go to the waypoint and hit the roof. Defeat the boss and X number of minions.

4. Enjoy your new badge/temp power.

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Right - although lower level characters will have a tougher time due to their enhancement values not being as good, and having over-all less tools available (poorer attack chain, less able to defend against what the mobs can do)...

Also, I belive most invasion mobs have a hidden level of about 30. It mostly governs what they drop when defeated.

These are for Virtue, but I expect most other servers are similar:
Atlas: Around Ms. Liberty.
Galaxy: On the lawn in front of Back Alley Brawler, but finding a group in the zone is rare.
Kings Row: On the street in front of the PPD HQ.
Steel Canyon: Around Positron.
Skyway City: About half the time, around Synapse. The other half the time, around wherever the team happened to be when the event started.
Talos: On the hill near the train station.
Independence Port: Nobody does events here.
Faultline: No fixed location.
Brickstown: Events don't happen here.
Founders: In the plaza around Numina.
Peregrine: In the Portal Court plaza.
Cap Au Diable: Near the entrance to the Vanguard base.

I disagree with your first sentence. If you run around at random, you will only randomly find bombs. If you run around where you're supposed to, underneath the path of the ships, your search for bombs will be much more fruitful.

Just don't get too close to the ship without lots of friends.

Let's explain this in detail since these two posts kind of gloss things over.

In this game, when a foe is "level-less" That means it's ToHit and Damage values are scaled to whoever it is attacking, and vice versa.

BUT

Every one of these foes has a hidden level, or the level values it's base attributes are taken from. This effects things like damage resistance, defense, hit points, etc, and these values DO NOT scale. It also controls the base damage and number of their attacks.

These hidden levels vary. For example in the case of Rikti in an invasion, they are 30. But Rikti Bombs are 50. In the case of the Praetorian events, I believe the hidden level of foes is set to whatever the cap for the zone the event is in. When it comes to a monster like Eochai (but not Jack in Irons interestingly) for the Halloween event, there are actually 3-4 versions of him drifting around (if you doubt me check for yourself, try and End Drain the one in AP, then do the one in Peregrine. It's fun.)

So what does this mean? Well in one respect, anyone who joins can be effective and participate. In another respect though, they won't always feel like they're doing well. Someone who is just barely leveled enough to hang out in Neutropolis is going to have a lot more trouble with the Failed Experiment event than someone at or near level 20. Or when someone brags about soloing Eochai, you should find out which one. It's not really impressive unless they did the one in Peregrine.

This shouldn't stop anyone from trying them out though, my point is mainly something to keep in mind if things go poorly, so you know why.

Thanks for expanding on that. I couldn't remember more in depth details, other than the usual Giant Monster code that gets used.

I seem to remember that there is some balancing factor in play, to actually help players who are lower in level than the hidden event mob level, but I didn't even want to try and bring that up.

The bottom line for the OP is not to worry about participating in the events.

Quick clarifications: This is the one that is announced as "supernatural activity detected in <zone name>". Players just call it "banners".

Phase 1: You have to have people killing monsters at all of the banners, not just 1, not "most". Or you're wasting your time. A bar shows you "banner vulnerability". The more you all kill the faster they banners become vulnerable.

Phase 2: Everyone gathers on one banner at a time and kills it then moves to the next. Attack the banners not the monsters. You get one badge per banner the first time you defeat it.

Phase 3: Kill the monster that spawns and there is a navigational aid telling you how far you are away from him to help you spot him. Move fast, no one ever waits and they slaughter him fast so if you're not there in time you'll miss out.

rikti hidden lvl is 50 (ive done comparisons on their HP)

most everything else is 25 i think (havent really done much comparing on their hp)

I believe it also controls the levels of their drops.

Thanks Bill : )

I was back in Praetoria again tonight. Again, I was twarted by the mysterious "lure the boss out" message and failed. I missed your post, but found it on a search, amazed that I was the OP! Thanks again. I'll try it next time I'm cruisin Imp City.

Well yours truly did, I saw this message "Giant octopus sighted in Independence Port". I then sprinted and engaged the octopus solo. I forget what level I was..umm 30 something? It hit me so hard, I felt it in rl.

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Ah, Lusca.

I guess seeing the giant monsters can be considered an event.

I think what was being said about Independence Port, it's so freaking huge, people don't like just zipping around it. I don't even know if its the target of Rikti raids or zombies.

I'm pretty sure no one would try to deal with the Apocalypse event banners, if they even happen there, since the timer would probably run out just flying from one banner to the other.

(But I do love Independence Port during the Winter event, just zipping around getting xmas presents and crushing the snowmen that get left behind by lazyheads.)

It'd be nice if more people had an incentive to take on Lusca. I usually enjoy the fight, but after you get the badge, the 2 reward merit payoff for defeating her just isn't enough to get people excited in teaming up to take her down.

You can usually find a lonely Lusca, waving tentacles at one part of IP or another.

Maybe one day, Lusca will drop a unique tip mission, like the Halloween event sometimes does.

Totally agree. I wish there were more incentive for all the GMs, but Lusca especially since she's extra hard. Or at least extra time consuming. Not sure if more merits, or a special tip goodie, or what that extra incentive should be, but I really think it would be nice if something could be done to make GM hunting more enticing. The risk/reward seems a bit out of whack here, and not to the 'too much reward' side.