Apparition

Alan Desslock has a story arc by the name of "The Longbow List," which is level 30+. I started it at level 50, set to +2. The third mission in the story arc, "Take out Hero. Retrieve list," has a bunch of level 41 Longbow Eagles... as well as a level 41 Back Alley Brawler. The rest of the mobs in the mission are level 52. I'm looking at BABs right now, and he's nine levels lower than me and conning gray.

Yeah. Instanced MSRs are ran on Torchbearer and Indomitable. They’re not ran on Excelsior (any more anyway), and Everlasting as far as I know. Which is a shame as they’re better and more equitable than zone MSRs IMO, but to each shard its own. 🙂

Yep. Personally, mothership raids are my favorite thing in-game to do, but a lot of my friends find it too boring. So they bring a Brute or Tanker and pull Rikti to the bowl while trying to outdo the other Brutes and Tankers.

The I Win button.

The instanced version kind of does. At the end, the Rikti retreat and the mothership is left smoldering.

Well, maybe, but since you're given the option of dismissing and it just doesn't do anything, this is pretty obviously a bug.

Dismissing the Vanguard MDC doesn't do anything. The pet just stays there.

That happened to me before several months ago on an Apex TF, except I was playing a Blaster. I was also team leader.

Golden Brickernaut's explosion does three ticks of damage... one for about 30,000 damage, another for about 5,000, and a third for about 5,000. No one is surviving that. :P

The code is out there. There may not always be Homecoming, but there will always be City of Heroes out there, somewhere. Even if it needs to go underground again.

Brutes have 90%, same as Tankers.

That’s because when Homecoming first started, many, many players went “I want all of my 50s back *NOW*!” and just PLed to their hearts’ content, without thinking about nor caring about what permanent damage that would do the game, especially to new players. “Meh, it’s an ancient game. Who cares? New players will figure it out.”

Uh… It was in the post just prior to yours.

Says someone who tanked Statesman like a pro Friday night.

One Relentless run on live for me was about three hours and fifteen minutes, but we had a substantial lack of damage. Too much support, a Tanker built for surviving, and very little damage. I'm not complaining though. IMO, the latter Task Forces and Strike Forces made by Paragon Studios (Apex, Tin Mage, Mortimer Kal, and especially Penelope Yin), are entirely too short. They don't feel like TFs/SFs. While the ASF may be a little long, I'll take that over running a ten or fifteen minute TF/SF any day. They feel very anti-climatic and not worth the effort. The ASF is a very nice change of pace.

Yep. No more amplifiers on iTrials.

Ran ASF on +2 Malicious. I was team leader. Entered the first mission, ran up to Becky, started talking with her… and then she took off like a bat out of Hell, walking through walls and through the first floor elevator, never to be seen again.

I can't decide on a Hybrid Incarnate for my Illusion/Darkness Affinity Controller. Does the Assault Radial Hybrid work on the pets? Would either of the Control Hybrid Incarnate be "better?" It doesn't feel like it would, because outside of Blind, Deceive, and Spectral Terror, there honestly isn't a lot of "controlling" going on with Illusion.

"You can do this by taking down 18 pylons in the zone." should be updated to "You can do this by taking down 20 pylons in the zone." Probably should also mention the instanced mothership raid as well, somehow.

I'm running the last mission in Levantera's first story arc. The mission is "Defend Vanguard Base" with objectives "Find Faultline, Find Fusionette, Defeat Raid Leader." Anyhoo, I beat up some Rikti. Eventually, I get a couple of ambush waves headed my way. Well, one of the ambush waves ran by another group of Rikti. The group of Rikti the ambush ran by became immediately hostile to the ambush, and started attacking the other Rikti. It just kept going on like that for a minute or two, as I watched the Rikti defeat each other.

Exactly. The fact that Homecoming made it so you can get a tier one Alpha just by dinging veteran level one made the Apex TF and Tin Mage TF Alpha restriction pointless. Considering that it's buggy, better off doing away with it.

Well, it looks like that I can go ahead with stripping and deleting my Electric Armor Tanker that I've been procrastinating on.

Not a developer, but from what I understand Paragon Studios baked those mobs into Longbow and Arachnos, and would require a lot of work to separate.