Diantane

Well that's a switch. I go talk with Borea and she acts like she's never seen me before (have done at least 75 missions with her already - they did say they were impressed with me for what I've done so far). She tells me to go kill 10 ritki and I do. Then she sends me to talk with Gussian who leads me to Dark Watcher, then The Grey Lady and then to Levantera who gives me missions. No idea why it didn't work before. Oh also got a badge that allows me to collect Vanguard Merits. Finally something.

Thanks and no. Not a badge hunter - lol. I see badges as an achievement with no reward except those that aid your Long Distance Teleport Accolade.

I spoke with Levantera, but all she does is introduce Borea Serphent Drummer tells me to talk with Levantera Gaussian send me to Levantera or Borea. Now when I do Borea, she always gives me two missions. I've always selected the second mission since the first one is on all contacts is to kill 15 Outcasts or others. You do enough of them and the team breaks apart. I'll try doing the first mission selection. The second one is just a grind. So it all stems from Borea, before you can move on.

I had never been to this section before. Finally found it as well as Dark Watcher, but he just tells me to talk with someone else. Not interested in doing an infinite amount of repetitive missions for Borea, so now I'm at a standstill. She has zero rewards anyway. So now my only choice is to grind PI Portals (which I hate and will never do again). So either find something in RWZ (or other place) or go play another game.

Thanks for that. Will explore further. My team left RWZ last night and did a couple arcs in Night Ward, but that ran out so I'll be investigating RWZ again.

Doc Buzzsaw's level range is 35-39. Probably won't talk to a 46

Tried to find the Dark Watcher, but he appears to be underground (possibly in the sewers).

I found the ringing payphone and get nothing either by double clicking or one long press. Guess you have to be 50 to access it.

Trying to find the those arcs now -- not interested in another evening of grinding.

According to Wiki she only has ten missions. Well she may only have ten, but she repeats them over and over again. Started there at level 41 and now 46. No end, no badges and no merits. You may as well grind the senseless radio missions.

Clicked on the link, That's funny. I used to do other arcs in RWZ besides Borea. Don't think this one is a real arc. They keep repeating missions a lot. Seems endless too. It's just grinding (boring).

I read in the last update that there would be new story arcs in RWZ. Has anyone experienced them yet? I solo them the first time to learn the story and then host teams so they can experience them too, but I have no idea where to go. Any ideas?

Ifs fairly easy to get a large number of merits when you are 50, but they are harder for low level players to get. So I discovered a way to get 90 merits, a few hundred thousand influence and 13 levels in two to three hours time. At level 1 join a Death From Below trial. You'll get to level 6 or 7 in ten minutes @ double XP. Then go to the Hollows and get the Wincott and Flux Story Arcs but right about the time you get the last mission from Flux, "Frostfire", you will reach level 14. Its very important to watch this as you must turn off your XP in the Options as you can't go over 14 in order to get the next two arcs (Julius the Troll and Valshak the Mystic). When you reach the end of Valshak, you will have 90 merits. Note: when you reach 14 and turn off your XP, delete your double XP buff so you can get influence. Once you finish these arcs, go ahead and turn your XP back on. If you are soloing the last two arcs, you should lower the dif to -1/1. Since you're not getting any XP and you will get through it faster.

I'd say if you wanted to go afk, doing so right at the ouro portal is a bad idea as travelers are trying to click on the portal and can't because so many are blocking it

Some of the teams that I host have been made up of all defenders. For some reason the huge amount of buffs, debuffs and protections makes this team rock through mobs pretty fast. I'm surprised more defender teams aren't around. Trivia; When LIVE first started, two RAD defenders with the same debuffs on a boss would allow anyone to kill it with one simple "brawl." This was nerfed two weeks later.

No, its not the chicken and the egg... Why do so many players go to the ouroboros and then just stand there all day? Could they possibly run away from the portal so travelers can actually see it to click on?

When I made a defender I have to train the first attack, but after using it in DFB for a half down levels, Its's removed from the toolbar and I concentrate on my primaries. I have a 50 pain/rad defender. Its best blast with 3-SO damage enhancements does 3 x 30 (big deal! ). The only defender I have that does any real damage is a kin/beam 50. All the other ones are very weak damage. A defender's blast are a secondary power and they don't crit. I tried dual pistols on a Sentinel and it took me almost two minutes to kill anything during Frostfire. I can't imagine training DP on a defender - lol.

I bet

With the long cooldowns on most of your powers, it seems like most of your time would be spent waiting.

Doing Frostfire at +4 allows a player at level 14 to advance to 19 in less than an hour + time for wipes. A wipe happens mostly because the PUG team is full of inexperienced players. They would normally play at +0 but all of them want to be 19 fast. After the first hour of players quitting and re-recruiting, and then playing until they level, it becomes easier. After they level twice, everything gets very easy and fast. I have done Frostfire at no difficulty before and it was dead boring (never again). To make it easier for the players, we do the first two indoor missions at +1, then Flux at +3. So Frostfire at +4 is just a little harder.

Update: Well that plan didn't come to fruition. There were no mid-level players online (well one controller). Just 50+ and a few lowbies. I'll try again tomorrow. My handle is "Diantane" on Excelsior

It seems that most everyone had the answer to correct my issue about trying to put together a well rounded team by asking them their AT. I only wish I posted this four years ago - lol.

When I host a team I usually explain the storyline and tell the team about problems that lie ahead, Today while doing the Striga Isles arcs, we were all laughing together and having a really good time. On the Agent Watkins arc that starts in Steel, When we do the first building mission, I explain quite a lot to everyone. But when we enter the last room that has well over a hundred Freakshows, I let them find out on their own what is about to happen, but I do tell them that I know how to beat this room. That they only have to ask for my help. They usually go on in, but when the team wipes and wipes again, they say something like, "What were you saying about how to beat this room?"

Thank you too!

Yep, that was the one. I've hosted the Flux arc at +3 for about two years. It allows the time the team needs to become acclimated to the higher level foes so raising up to +4 Frostfire, won't be that much more of a challenge. Unless the team is made up with long time players, splitting up the team usually leads to disaster.