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20 minutes ago, heyedwin said:
I'm trying to understand why it's not longer giving me the 5 easy merits after reaching all locations using the vidiot map.
Because the change in exploration badges occurred today and Vidiot Maps needs to be updated. So, *currently*, it's wrong.
I don't know if they have updated it for the new badges yet, but you would then need to update.
As for your video, you did *NOT* get the eight exploration badges.
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1 hour ago, heyedwin said:
I might be wrong on the reason it might have been changed but this video should prove that something had changed.
It proves that the guy making the video isn't paying attention at all.
Go to full screen and read the badges.
He counts off eight badges but one of them is 'TIpped Off', which you receive for getting a tip mission.
So he does NOT have all eight exploration badges.
Edit: Okay, I came off a little harsh there. I didn't realize that was your video. But my point stands.
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50 minutes ago, Shadow Metal said:
I was setting a timer and popping over to fight him earning six merits an hour for a few hours a day, the few days a week, I have available to do this.
Back again to comment that this is a horribly slow way to earn merits.
Probably the best way to get merits - but which depends on other people's schedule - is Hamidon raids. On Everlasting, they do Hami raids 2-3 times every day and each time they summon him twice. You can get 120 merits in about 15 minutes. This is per character, per day. They run them at 7PM EST, 10PM and midnight (not sure if the midnight one is every single day). Plus one in the Abyss on Saturday afternoon.
If you're willing to deal with the tedious grind you described, instead transfer a character to Everlasting (or any shard with scheduled raids) and get some easy merits.
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23 hours ago, Etched said:
Sooo.
My question is this, how would any of y'all handle this situation?
Pretty much the same way I deal with beggars in Pocket D when I'm on my fire/fire brute.
"Hi, any chance you can PL me?"
"No."
Except that, since this was an email, I would just delete it and act like it was never there.
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15 minutes ago, heyedwin said:
The change comes in, interrupting the easy badge location.
No, it doesn't. You get the merits by getting all 8 badges in the zone. Nothing changes and you do not need to go to a different zone.
So, no, you DON'T know why it was changed.
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A durable, high damage character can earn 20 merits in 5 minutes by doing the Signature Story Arc 1, chapter 1. This amount can be earned once per week on each character. Run a bunch of different characters through that and it's serious merits.
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8 minutes ago, Shenanigunner said:
The problem with Kindle etc. being that Jeffy can reach out and take books away from you.
Unless they're in the public domain and from somewhere like Project Gutenberg. Over 70,000 free books available at gutenberg.org
Plenty of classics like Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allen Poe.
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25 minutes ago, Yomo Kimyata said:
I absolutely hear what you are saying, but it's pretty hard to sympathize with the marketer who is pleading that other sellers sell at higher prices...
The RPG version of 'first world problems'.
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8 hours ago, temnix said:
Why doesn't Homecoming make its files available to the OuroDev people, though? The game is free and, as far as I can see, kept up by donations.
My guess would be that they are restricted from doing so in the licensing agreement they have with NCSoft.
I don't imagine the IP owner would want a newer, updated version of the game being released 'into the wild'.
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Yikes. I had a Lady Grey on Thursday that was exactly the opposite. Everybody followed the few instructions I gave and our 'tank' was a brute that knew the missions and maps at least as well as me, if not better. Super smooth.
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On 2/16/2024 at 1:47 PM, Runetide said:
Heck, I went looking after I posted this and saw a comment about getting archetype origin enhancements and was surprised they existed! I don't even know where one can get merits at a decent enough clip that I could get a full set of them for my farmer in under a week (or more) of gameplay.
Well, if you're willing to go hardcore.... On Everlasting, they do Hamidon raids at least twice per day (7PM EST and 10PM, sometimes also midnight). At each time, they actually do it twice and you can get 120 merits in about 15 minutes. The devs have said they're fine with this since it requires massive teamwork (we're talking 40+ people). The reward has diminishing returns for each extra raid on the same day so if you brought a different character to each raid, they could each get 120 merits. You could get two full ATO sets in under a week.
A more efficient way is to use the merits to buy converters. Sell those and buy the items off the market and you'll come out slightly ahead. Even more efficient is to use the converters to convert trash IO's to useful ones. This takes more time and research but is REALLY big bucks.
The way I get merits is that I do whatever task force is the 'weekly strike target' at least once each week. Each character can get a bonus of double merits once each week. The lowest task force starts at level EIGHT so I'm sure you have many characters that could do this. The weeklies for the coming week (starting at midnight UTC) are Manticore, Mortimer Kal and Admiral Sutter. The minimum levels to join are 30, 20 and 20 respectively. I enjoy the task forces and do them for the XP since I have over 52,000 merits.
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On 2/15/2024 at 8:21 PM, Runetide said:
From what I'm hearing is that enhancement set bonuses are the fine-tuning for an already good build? I've only seen a few of the proc enhancements so I guess I'm still pretty novice when it comes to end game content.
Hold on a second. I think you might be misusing a term. A proc is very specific sub-category of IO's (Invention Origin enhancements). If you really meant IO's in general, then that's a different story. You really do need at least some IO's for a good performing build.
Having said that, you can put together a good build, that makes the character DRAMATICALLY more effective, for maybe . . . . between 50 and 100 million for most characters. I wrote in another thread how I made a tank incredibly tough (with 350% regen rate) for around 20 million back on live. Could do it for maybe half that now.
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On 2/15/2024 at 6:28 PM, Runetide said:
I've been noticing a consistent discussion being made that the only way you're able to, uh, successfully deal damage in the late game is by utilizing procs. These rely on specific IO enhancement sets which sell for millions if you aren't the fortunate sort to get a drop. Even so, I've seen players talking about spending BILLIONS of Inf so they can get their build completed.
The first sentence is flat-out false. I would agree that you do need procs in order to min-max your character to do the absolute best possible damage. But to "successfully deal damage"? That's total nonsense. And I think I understand 'late game' reasonably well. I just checked and I have 28 characters that are fully tier 4 incarnate.
As for spending billions on a build.... is that even possible? It was common back on live, but everything is so much cheaper now. A full purple set is around 120 million for the GOOD sets. I've never seen a build that could have more than six purple sets. Add the ATO's and every useful unique and I honestly don't know that you can shoehorn more than ONE billion into a single build. I guess you could spend more if you're a 'buy it now' person, but that's on the person with no patience.
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2 hours ago, Dao Jones said:
Question for you (or anyone reading): given I won’t have optimal slotting AND I like not micromanaging my defenses would you have an opinion between SR, WP, and Regen?
Um.... no opinion? They're all good. I've taken SR to level 50 on a tank and a scrapper, regen to 50 on a scrapper and sentinel and I've taken willpower to 50 on a tank.
Personally, I like regen because I like having something to click (besides inspirations) in an emergency.
Also, I'll say Erratic1 isn't wrong about bio. I never change the stance and it's a really good set too. You have the OPTION of some management with the stance, but I never do. It's like my dual pistols blaster can change ammo types but never does.
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19 hours ago, Dao Jones said:
I’m play style agnostic enough that I’m flexible. Maybe a slight preference for range only because in my distant memory I recall hating having to chase mobs, but that’s solvable with sufficient mobility. (And it looks like at a minimum we now get the Fitness pool for free, so that’s good.)Well, I would definitely try a sentinel, then. I have a water/regen sentinel and regen is better on a sentinel than a scrapper since the sentinel version gets an absorption shield.
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Not me. If I find or craft any extras, I hoard them.
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Most task forces get advertised on the Looking For Group channel and often also a shard-specific channel. For example, Everlasting has a channel called Everlasting TFs. Indomitable has one also, but I don't recall the exact name. On any shard, I would say search for a global channel with the name of the shard in it and see what's there.
There's a lot less organized supergroup activity since every who wants can simply make their own SG with a fully-equipped base. (The prestige cost for base items has been removed.)
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6 hours ago, DougGraves said:
How confident are you that your thread is properly edited?
Googly's editing and ban-hammer are fully IO'ed.
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14 hours ago, Snarky said:
Surprisingly well, but like most SF/TFs these days….just a bit odd.
14 hours ago, Snarky said:I led a lot of “ odd TFs” today like Mort Kal and Oper Renault and saw a lot of good hustle… and a lot of green lol. Or maybe rusty memory probs.
I observe the one factor that all these "odd" task forces had in common - you. 😛
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On 2/13/2024 at 3:26 PM, BelleSorciere said:
If this power is meant for nothing but stealthing missions and requires you to have a stealth IO or be a stalker (or in page 7 a VEAT) to actually use it, it seems *extremely* limited in usefulness compared to what most other travel powers provide.
I think it was supposed to be "extremely limited" since it's a free power. Believe me, if I had to use a power pick for it, I would never take it.
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5 hours ago, Dao Jones said:
At a guess I suspect the answer is probably either the new Sentinel AT, or a Brute, but I'm curious to hear if there's an edge case out there worth exploring.
Those are definitely sound choices. I would say any AT that gets a defensive set secondary, so: sentinel, brute, scrapper, stalker would my top suggestions.
After that, I would ask about your play style. Do you prefer ranged combat? Is maximum damage output your goal? In this game, you can easily solo with a defender; it's just slower.
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1 hour ago, WuTang said:
Still learning. I'm not sure how else to level efficiently.
Why is it important to level 'efficiently'? If you're having fun, just play the game and you'll level when you level.
If you specifically want a level 50 (to generate influence, for example), just make a fire farmer. That's the most efficient way to get XP. Of course, playing the market is the most efficient way to get influence.
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2 minutes ago, ZemX said:
Speed Phase, I agree, isn't as useful as it sounds. For stealthing, which seems to be its only real use, I can't say I've ever really needed that to get to the end of a map anyway.
I don't know that I've ever actually used it. All my characters with Superspeed also have a stealth IO in one of the prestige sprint powers.
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5 minutes ago, BelleSorciere said:
I had stealth, unless the stealth provided by superspeed doesn't count. And if that's the case, that makes it worse. Especially given stealth no longer stacks,
Some stealth effects stack and some don't. For example, Superspeed plus a stealth IO in a sprint power stack just fine and give full invisibility.
Annoyingly (to me), Superspeed grants "stealth", which just makes you harder to see and is useless once you get within 15-20 feet of the enemy. It just reduces their perception range. Meanwhile, the pool power 'Stealth' grants full invisibility - you can walk right up to the enemy and bump into them and they won't notice you (unless they're a sniper, Rikti drone or someone else with enhanced perception).
So, in the situation you described (being right next to the enemy), the stealth from Superspeed does nothing. All the stealth powers work that way (except the one called 'Stealth', which actually grants full invisibility).
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Is he putting out bad vibes, Oddball?