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Woot! Glad you're back. BTW, I noticed something when editing the top post. In the "All That Glimmers" 3.x series, here are the mission numbers: All That Glimmers 3.1: Summonings in Nerva Archipelago [43022] All That Glimmers 3.2: Ninjas in the Wind [40394] All That Glimmers 3.3: Gods in the Planes [43537] Part 3.2 was published before the other two—May 2021 as opposed to August and September for 3.1 and 3.2, respectively. @Ankylosaur, what's the story there?

Right? If I'm on with my +3 Incarnate, it's almost certain that he's not only already done the MJ arc and met the Praetorians, but also saved the world from Mot and gone quite a ways toward thwarting Emperor Cole's invasion of Primal Earth.

BTW, this thread linked in Oklahoman's signature is directly relevant here:

I ran an 8-member blaster team tonight and got it, so it seems to be fixed now.

I almost forgot these guys: I created the second one after a big outage (due to Homecoming's hosting provider) a few years ago.

Great thread idea. Here's my main, 70s Man. I won't say his outfit wouldn't stand out in 2024, but he's wearing street clothes. He also has a fancier outfit for the disco: Then there's Mediocre Fred. He's inspired by a Smothers Brothers song. He's a werewolf. His human form started as the first guy below, but then I decided to play off of the name "Fred" and give him a bicyclist outfit. Finally, this is The Bureaucrat, with his standard outfit, ready-for-action jacket-free look, and a nice sweater vest for Casual Friday:

Is that from monster hunting in general, or specifically Scrapyard? Scrapyard was such a weird mega-event that I'm not sure what to make of drop rates on that one. But if the drop rate is supposed to be 10%, that would mean there's a 90% chance of getting at least one drop after defeating 22 GMs and a 99% chance after 44. There's a 50% chance at 7. So if we're seeing numbers in the 22-44 range without a drop (Scrapyard excepted), it seems like it's not a 10% chance, whatever the patch notes say. I haven't battled enough non-Scrapyard GMs to do those numbers personally, though.

I did quote that language at the top of the thread. :) And I've been getting reward merits at an insane pace—so it's definitely not the case that there's a 10% chance of getting the pet recipe every time you get reward merits. Whether that's WIA is a different question, of course.

I really enjoy teaming with my Kin/Sonic Defender. Teams love speed boosts, and Sonic has some nice debuff for when you aren't making everyone go zoom. I never feel idle or useless with that character. That character does have Siren's Song, which is a big AoE sleep, but she doesn't use it when teaming (because there's not much point). It comes in handy when she solos, though.

When I saw the title of this thread, I thought it was going to be about the average age of most Homecoming players. And then I thought, well, that's actually probably a bit low...

I ended up getting the pet recipe after about 160 kills or so. My working theory is that it's tied to the criteria for getting the badge: if your team doesn't get enough of the damage percentage, the drop roll doesn't even happen. But that's just a theory.

Before the latest issue dropped, it wasn't that hard to spawn Scrappy with a bit of Scrapyarder hunting and then take him down with a team of 4 or so. If that's still the case after Tuesday's patch drops, it shouldn't be that hard to get the badge. It might even be easier, since it seems like you have to be on a team that gets a certain percentage of the damage on him to get credit for the badge, and Big Damn Leagues actually make that harder to do.

From the patch notes: What does that mean, exactly? I thought it meant that if you got enough credit on defeating a GM that you received reward merits, you also had a 10% chance of getting a recipe for a mini pet version of that same monster. But I joined Scrapyard Beatdown 2024 for a while today, and after defeating Scrappy about 70 times, I don't see any pet recipes. So now I'm wondering if I'm reading the patch notes wrong.

At least they're exploiting the new content. The first time I logged in after the patch went live, It wasn't 30 seconds before I saw someone in LFG looking for a fire farm. All that new stuff—and still, there are people just doing fire farms.

I usually find that Sprint + Athletic Run (or, if you're into weird running stances, Beast Run or Ninja Run) is more more than adequate for moving around missions. Combat Jumping adds a nice bit of vertical movement, and it also gives some defense and is a LoTG mule, so most of my characters have that as well. A jetpack gets me any flying I need.