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Necro-post, but this is still happening. Looking at my logs now, I get the AS activation, but no roll to hit, etc... Next line is my target attacking me. I seem to be seeing it more often. This stalker is only at level 21 and I've had it happen maybe once per day.

I've been knocked back doing Lightning Rod and just hopping, but a little KB resist via a set prevents most issues

I haven't but I'll see if I can check one of the other arcs with a similar. I just know at the time I saw some movement in those badges

Pools of Mercury has reached level 21 in Praetoria. Put in some low bids for level 25 IOs since that should save information in the long run. Did Loyalist Power until Neutropolis where I did Responsibility and was weirded out by Mother that I went resistance, then did the Warden arc. Still informed Marchand of stuff, but since he's as disgusted with Berry, etc... I can go with that. Just wish the later arcs in First, Night Ward, and Primal that have the Praetorians would acknowledge the Praetorians characters instead of treating them as new to them. Should be feasible to do this without too much effort. I think the one that bugs me the most is Reese in Number 6's arc. So now before leaving Praetoria, I think I'll run around and get all the exploration badges and plaques. May have to make a second build with some flight capability though. I think I can do the top of the building in Nova, but getting to the top of the reactor in Neutropolis seemed more problematic.

It's a fun challenge. I did that with another char of mine who is now level 46, still a praetorian. Done a few CoPs and SBBs. I had them turn off XP and did all the arcs on the way up. One thing I found I can do is certain Oro arcs that start with a train mission can be done via Team Teleport. (Hmm, not suitable just realized because of p2w) Some of the First & Night Ward arcs are rather insane. And whoops, did the responsibility arc in Neutropolis and need to get back to loyalist to do the Power arc. Mainly for Bobcat. 😄

Yep. I had another bad turn where I missed a destroyer boss a bunch and he slammed me off a ledge into another group. That one was a funny death. So clone #4 of Pools of Mercury is now up to level 14 and already doing Neutropolis. I decided to only do the Power Loyalist Arc. I also learned from the previous clones and have a couple breakfrees on me. At least until I get status protection. Did screw around on a different stalker just to check a theory. If you have a hostage that is non-combat, turn on walk, and you can stay hidden and walk them out...

The particular one was Alec Parson's "Bait and Switch" when rescuing Susan and having to lead her out. Made more complicated in that I didn't clear up to her. There was an earlier one where I kept getting bombs tossed at me by Destroyer's in one of Luke's missions. Some ambushes in missions do not see stealthed chars, and some home right in and attack.

I've been doing a stalker (SJ/WP) in Preatoria. Try #3. Endless ambushes on a escort got the first clone at level 12. Second clone got to level 5 before getting some bad luck with a Lt. (Stunned, then while stumbling around, hit again with a large attack.) Let's see if clone #3 does better.

Dr. Arvin's missing: "Retrieve Subject Zero in South Aetna!" has a bit of a typo in one of the random dialogues Rocket Girl: We're runnin' out of crush& we gotta latch onto Red Bomb's group...!

I use the tram all the time. Also useful for when in zone you're close to a tram and your destination is close to the other stop. I think my least used travel method are the Tunnels, but that's often because I don't have their locations as well memorized. 😉 Least number of zoning steps is my method. When you're on a mission, you need to be quick, people's lives may be at stake!

Out of the 70 odd chars, my favorite is still Ice Pirate. A DB/WP Scrapper that was originally based on my PnP champions character that got written up way back in the 80s

In the arc "Psimon Sez", mission "Interrogate GIFT researcher" when you finish off his guards his dialogue is: " GIFT Researcher: You've come for the psi-crystal research, haven't you? I sensed it& it seems to have affected me!" Maybe put in a space and replace the ampersand with an ' and'

I make way more inf on new chars from drops than the influence that they can get from just the inf reward. Even the chars that are turning off XP to hit all contacts before out leveling do 2xp before breakpoints.

I like the new functionality, but for those people who want Fly/Hover and SJ/CJ not to coexist, maybe throw another option on Null? Not sure how much work that would be, but it may be a simpler solution. And I think the binds may still work then?

My Praetorian, "New Kind of Kick" is level 44 now and been mostly self sufficient in her enhancements. I think the only non-solo stuff she's done is over the winter event and SBB, but I'll see if I can get into a CoP starting in Pocket D or Echo. Most of the information gained has been via recipe conversion.

I rarely autocomplete, but the ones that tempt me the most are: 1) Any in the outdoor factories where you have to hunt down multiple objects or mobs. Takes longer to find stuff than anything else. 2) I forget who gives it, but find 12 Mages in the Orobenga caves with Malta. 3) Dream Doctor : Do the Diabolique Trial. It's not that I don't do the trial, but hate having that hang over me.

My latest controller has wormhole and fold space to get things to the tank

Very cool. That would be a nice png to put in the hcwiki for the Eden trial.

Yay! I had been purposely avoiding exploration badges in anticipation of this release. Looking forward to more (and hope to see similar with plaques)

Only real prep I do is if I remember the curse breaker. Otherwise, it's take care of ambushes before pulling Holz, dealing with him, then the Honoree. I'll have to do the trip mines before getting the blinky with my beam/traps blaster. Haven't done it yet with that one.

Yep. SS + Stealth used to be enough. Now it's just Stealth. I think some people are thinking Infiltration is supposed to be more stealthy and finding it's not. I started playing around with it more since the latest patch and except for mobs with extra perception, or mobs that have a debuff/damage field, you can walk right up to them.

That would be great. There are still explore badges out there too. I hope the person who did all the existing ones isn't burnt out on it, because they did a fabulous job with them.

Exactly.

Could it be something with parking in a dayjob that gives a better recipe drop rate? As Faultline noted, it doesn't seem to be related to the vet level. Could be some other variable that gets tweaked. And one thing I have always felt that the RNG gets itself in ruts. Doesn't seem to matter if it's hit/miss, opening hero packs, drop rates, etc... Over a period of time, it seems to even out, but when you're on a streak of getting the worse rolls, it feels personal.

Ok, it seems to only happen when a Praetorian Char is copied over to Beta. Icon will change to the Hero/Villain from it's Goldside counterpart and will be that on both Beta and the starting server, but only once. Recreated on both a char in Echo Plaza and Nova Praetoria.