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As someone who tried to get to testing more, but has a background in QA, there's a need for some more standardized testing. It's a lot of adhoc with targetted testing. If on the discord, there are calls for scheduled team content which helps a lot, but depends on scheduling. And this release was huge with a lot of different moving parts which couldn't really be helped since there were outside contingencies which are a part of the whole volunteer roles of everyone. I think a document listing the changes and what parts should be checked is a good start, but often "Just play some content on brainstorm" is needed to catch the unintended consequences where you poke at something in one place, and it breaks something elsewhere. Pretty sure that's how Serpent Drummer's mission snuck thru, since I doubt anyone ran thru that on Alpha or Beta testing because as far as anyone knew, nothing directly changed.

I haven't seen an issue yet, but I think it's been my scrapper, brute, tanker, widow, and blasters that either can take the hits, or move around enough. Might have to check with my small number of MMs.

And I withdraw Pentad victor to being hard to get. Followed KaizenSoze's method from and got it with a defender/scrapper duo. Swiss Draw looks like the tedious one to setup, but may play a bit with it this week to doublecheck the instructions given.

You just have to escape the final fight area and get back to the underground area before the portal overloaded. Follow the glowing lines to exit. If you have someone with incan that knows the way, they can port everyone out.

I prefer WP, but the other two are better in most content.

Just because you don't acknowledge that you suck. You're like a cartoon that hasn't realized they're standing in mid air so gravity has no effect. <just in case, this is in jest, Betty makes the best pasta and builds>

Curious on implementation: Would each entity get a table that they would then run thru, or are tables shared? I suppose what one could do is when an entity is generated, a list is generated that has unique 1-100 (or 1000, so 0.1 to 999.9) and then you pop off the numbers as they are used. If list gets to under a threshold, a new list gets tacked on. (And these would be generated constantly and given out to requesting entities) Not sure if this would really solve stuff, but maybe?

"Defeat 50 Succubus or Hellfire bosses to earn this badge." ?

I think I sat on doing the Pentad Victor badge for well over a year before just doing it and getting the last two badges.

It does say Bosses, which some of the new ones are not. Annoying as they are. (maybe another badge for them)

I was going thru some of my salvage on characters, and there were a few rare salvage that were over 20, but not Hami Goo.

Yes, you need to be red to see them in Ouro. Fair point on Piecemeal. It's not for everyone, and for the story, can be done once. (Unless you have a bunch of badgers)

This bug is probably heading off the complaint about the next mission: Run over to Borea to be told the next mission is from the portal you just left

So, easily taken care of with my maxed out Widow with a Empathy healer for support. Only died once... Stats, from killing everything in the building: 202 Mobs, 57 of whom were bosses, and a whole 25 that were worth a reward: Once outside, I just killed the minimum needed and ran. Looks like the assault portals are the only bugged ones since the portals opened by communication officers acted normal. If everything gave XP, people would be flocking to this mission...

On Piecemeal, it's just a part of the whole story started with the Steel Canyon Arc, continued with Buzzsaw, then tied into the Galaxy City part. So, I liked how it tied a few different things from past lore as well. The new Striga arcs are interesting for similar lore continuation, but more traditional beating up stuff.

Ok. Had a character with Alpha opened on them, but no others. Last mission of Number 6, when I clicked on the last clue needed 2024-03-09 12:09:25 Congratulations! You earned the Dimensional Investigator badge. 2024-03-09 12:09:25 You received 375,000 Advanced Psychic Incarnate experience for your Hybrid slot. Then I went ahead and restarted the mission and got another 11% at [12:17] Congratulations! You earned the Avatar Smasher badge. [12:17] You received 375,000 Advanced Psychic Incarnate experience for your Hybrid slot. Other badges collected while doing this (vet levels, rejecting inspirations, etc...) don't seem to do this. So mission related. AM's personal story doesn't do this. Played thru Belladonna's arc, no Hybrid gained there. Same result of 22% though, so maybe you got that second bump at the end of the arc of Number 6? One note, the Number 6 arc was never released on live, just on beta before sunset.

I do remember seeing some complaints. I was running mostly solo at that time, but had alts on every server.

I redid my widow who wasn't that bad, but I hadn't really invested in sets before page 7. So, the change has been very impressive. The problem is now if I go to play my katana/nin scrapper that isn't fully invested...

You can only have one mini pet out at a time.

Hmm, those arcs might be doing that, but does look like Alpha needed opening. At least, non-50s don't gain anything from Number 6's arc. Will poke at it a bit more later.

Dang! I just learned a handy thing! 😄 And thanks for making a chart

I've got a pair I can check Number 6's arc out for that

I have a few I suppose, but I do bounce around my various characters. My main with the most vet levels is a Dual Wield/WP scrapper. Loosely based on a Champions character from the 80s. I have some characters that I keep around, but don't play them much. A mix of concepts I want to make work, some based off other Champions chars, some based off characters from live, so nostalgia or something to revisit.

Should not be possible since you need the Lore & Destiny unlocked to be able to do the Magisterium. And yes, since it takes Advanced Psychic XP, you can't buy your way into it. And obligatory, use hcwiki, it's being updated while paragon wiki is static: https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Incarnate_System

Hmm, I do have a Grav/Time on Excel with Fold Space... Anyway, yea, these powers do need to be used properly. My fire/fire/fire blaster on live while one of my teammates was setting up some stuff and asking us to wait "Bored Now" (This was on team speak) Ambush predator was the thing. Back when Kora fruit harvesting gave you Large inspirations, phase shift lasted as long as you had endurance, and target limits weren't a thing, I'd go Kora harvesting by pissing off all the Rularuu while phased, get them close and blow them up. This didn't always work, but that's why RotP existed...