Did they change this (AVs in DA).

Maybe spoilers ahead.

So, after participating in a lengthy discussion on the forums about how Dark Astoria should have AVs, I came under the assumption that there were no AVs in Dark Astoria.


OH BOY WAS I WRONG!!!

Much to my surprise on the rescue Slinger mission I was greeted by a level 54 AV Black Scorpion. I am, of course, running these DA arcs the first time around on my no-protection-except-through-mezz dominator solo. Now, I rose to the challenge. I managed to beat Scorpion solo, however it did drain away my entire inspiration tray full of super-inspirations, cost me several temp power recipes, and took four tries to do it. I'm still on the adrenaline rush of having accomplished such a feat on a toon that is distinctly set out not to solo AVs.


This makes me wonder, though. Were things changed, or have people been skipping AVs this whole time?

Nothing's been changed AFAIK. There are some AVs. Black Scorpion as you've found, as well as Diabolique and Tub Ci will spawn as AVs, if you have that setting on. The hullaballoo was about other characters (Blue Steel, Mot himself, etc) that really seemed (to some of us, at least) like they should have been AVs, but always spawn as EBs.

Indeed, always been like that, which is part of the EB in DA puzzle.

The Arachnos Patrons spawn as AVs when that setting is on because those mobs exist natively as AVs in the game and get scaled down to EBs.

Most of the unique bosses made for DA were made as Elite Bosses, which is why they don't turn into AVs with higher difficulty settings.

I24 Proc Chance = (Enhanced Recharge + Activation Time) * (Current PPM * 1.25) / 60*(1 + .75*(.15*Radius - 0.011*Radius*(360-Arc)/30))
Single Target Radius = 0. AoE Non-Cone Arc = 360.

I wonder if the Scaling power which Incarnate Trial AVs get, which change their maxHP, Damage and Regen according to size of league would work for the EB-only bosses to make them more of a challenge for larger teams?

It's worth PMing a dev about anyway. :3

Well, the scaling is a power applied according to teamsize. The formulas can be found here:

http://tomax.cohtitan.com/data/power...llains.Scaling


And in theory this can be applied to an EB.

Um... why don't you do it? I don't think I have any more clout to be heard by a dev than anyone else here...

On that subject, I've noticed for some reason when I am solo and have set myself to 'Fight AV's as EB', They STILL have the purple triangles.

However, if I am on a SMALL team (me plus one or two people), they spawn as EB's WITHOUT the purple triangles. It's not just that they coincidentally are triangles down when we reach them, just no purple triangles.

This has happened several times to me in the Alpha Arc for example, lemme tell yah. Slugging through Trapdoor, the Weakened Honoree and whatever their name is Longbow agent, etc with an Earth/Sonic Controller solo (without dropping him in the lava, not that I didn't try) with Purple triangles up, only to help out some people through the arc later with no triangles in sight, yeeesh.

I've helped pals through that arc two more times in teams of three and again, no Triangles on Elite Bosses. But all my solo runs through that arc? Triangles.