Devouring Earth Lieutenants Pets
By
Coulomb2,
Posted on: 2012-01-23 24:43 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Played through two missions with DE (level 30 and 31). Both Herders and Fungoids were spawning their pets normally.
But on that subject ... does anyone remember way back when Herders and Fungoids actually summoned swarms, and the Devoured actually summoned swarms in sets of two? It's been a *long* time since I've seen them do that.
M.A. Arcs
Intended for high level play: The Primus Trilogy (Arc #s 10931, 283821, 283825), "Freakshow U" (Arc #189073), Purification (Arc #352381, Dev's Choice!
)Intended for low level play: "Learning the Ropes" (Arc #100304), "Cracking Skulls" (Arc #115935), "The Lazarus Project" (Arc #124906)
I'd rather them spawn anything but those Cairns! oh they can take a triple digit attack and turn it into a single digit one sometimes >.<
Combat Kangaroos, Justice Server. First 50's
Jirra Roo Plant/Storm/Stone/Musculature Controller
Combat Kangaroo Rifle/Energy/Mace/Spiritual Blaster
Kung Fu Kangaroo Martial Arts/Reflexes/Body/Spiritual Scrapper
Tribal Arc Shield/Elec/Mu/Spiritual Tanker
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Wow, you're right, now that you mention it, I've not seen swarms in a DE mish in ages! I have no clue why now, as you said, swarms used to, well, swarm ya, during DE mishs..
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Originally Posted by Coulomb2
Played through two missions with DE (level 30 and 31). Both Herders and Fungoids were spawning their pets normally.
But on that subject ... does anyone remember way back when Herders and Fungoids actually summoned swarms, and the Devoured actually summoned swarms in sets of two? It's been a *long* time since I've seen them do that. |
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They used to really make fights interesting because of their auto-hit slow effects. Way back before the global defense nerf, when you still had the ability to taunt unlimited amounts of stuff, my wife (who played a blaster) directed me to "gather" a very large room's worth of them. Like any good husband, I did as she asked, neither of us thinking about the effect those summoned swarms would have.|
Originally Posted by Madadh
Wow, you're right, now that you mention it, I've not seen swarms in a DE mish in ages! I have no clue why now, as you said, swarms used to, well, swarm ya, during DE mishs..
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By the time I was done, I had so many swarms on my tank that my recharge was utterly floored, and taunt was taking something like a minute to come back (not to mention my other attacks too) -- made for a very interesting fight because I was having a lot of trouble holding aggro since I could barely *do* anything.
M.A. Arcs
Intended for high level play: The Primus Trilogy (Arc #s 10931, 283821, 283825), "Freakshow U" (Arc #189073), Purification (Arc #352381, Dev's Choice!
)Intended for low level play: "Learning the Ropes" (Arc #100304), "Cracking Skulls" (Arc #115935), "The Lazarus Project" (Arc #124906)
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Originally Posted by Coulomb2
They used to really make fights interesting because of their auto-hit slow effects. Way back before the global defense nerf, when you still had the ability to taunt unlimited amounts of stuff, my wife (who played a blaster) directed me to "gather" a very large room's worth of them. Like any good husband, I did as she asked, neither of us thinking about the effect those summoned swarms would have.
By the time I was done, I had so many swarms on my tank that my recharge was utterly floored, and taunt was taking something like a minute to come back (not to mention my other attacks too) -- made for a very interesting fight because I was having a lot of trouble holding aggro since I could barely *do* anything. |
It was more the odd 30 minute hunt for that one swarm hiding in the rafters and preventing the defeat all mish from completing that I remember.
Mind of Gaia lvl 50 Defiant's first Mind/Storm 'troller.
Deadly Doc 50 Dark/Dark Corr
and lots more on Pinnacle,Union and Defiant
After further study I think this is just in mission DE. I posted this because I had run several tip missions and the "Prevent Shadowhunter's Resserection" mission from Maira Jenkins all on x8 and only saw the cairns. I have seen devouring earth lieutenants outside these missions drop the other pets since I posted this but those inside don't (at least the level 45-50 tips Coulomb2 reports that the lower level tip DE do drop others).
Someone mentioned that the devouring earth in the tip mission were the praetorian DE with elevated to hit, I confirmed the elevated to hit using the combat analyzer III temp power.
I've noticed recently that the DE Lieutenants don't seem to be bringing out their pets other then the Granite (Cairn).