Apogee

Hey, this appears to be bugged. I tried it multiple times and all I got was...

I thought the OP quit the game last month to spend more time doing things that matter?

Almost all of my 100+ characters are a Primal/Praetorian mirror combo. Yes, I have run through 1-20 Praetorian content a lot.

Good for you OP. Go enjoy life and do what works best for you.

In a related note, both Accuracy and Regen were nerfed in the latest patch. News at 11:00

Good catch. Funny thing is there is a Newcastle, Maine about an hour north of Portland up the coast.

She is at the Fight Club tourney near the end of Reese's arc but that is outside not in a bar

I believe that Player2 freed up that name already. At least the odds are good that he did.

The last mission for Marauder gives you a single Lt in multiple spawn points is one example

I usually only see 1-3 mobs on most all maps in low end Praetoria (while playing at x1). I also jog past a lot of mobs (not using stealth) to get to the end of the map to complete the mission, thus avoiding a ton of pointless clearing. Mobs in Praetoria will not follow you unless you attack them or they are a scripted ambush. Only a few of the ambushes you actually have to fight, and a lot of those give you NPC helpers. There really is only one tough ambush and basically you just have to outrun it and try to defeat one guy before they catch up to you.

Are you talking First Ward and Night Ward? I agree those can be a challenge for the unprepared. Nova Praetoria? not so much.

The only ambush I ever worry about is the one in Bobcat's arc when you finally find Shen. Someday I would love to try that mission with a full AoE group and see how long we can last. I find the Blast Master ambush annoying but have learned to just ignore them and concentrate on the mission objective. The molotov cocktails don't hurt too bad.

I don't think too many people have the patience to wait 5 minutes for Anti-matter to show You have plenty of time to escape before he arrives.

Are people generally running Gold-side content at +4/x8? Is that what I am missing?

Nope, not trolling. I run half my 100+ characters through Praetoria (1-20) and I find it a much more enjoyable time than running blue side content. I love the Praetorian sewers much more than the Primal ones and find the enemy groups generally more fun to deal with in Praetoria. I solo all the time anyway so the lack of teams in Praetoria is no big deal. The only actual challenging content I have run across is the last Hunt for Shen mission in Bobcat's arc. I guess I just don't understand all the issues people have there. You can jog past mobs if you don't want to fight them and they don't follow (except for scripted ambushes but those are a minor annoyance more than anything).

I hear this stated a lot around the forums that Praetoria is so difficult, especially for new players. I don't get it. Early Praetorian content is way easier than Blue or Red side starting zones. For one, travel is much easier with fewer zones and most importantly NO CAVE SYSTEMS (I'm looking at you layer cake cave). Enemy groups are also easier to deal with for the most part. The only difficult part of Praetoria is trying not to out level the contacts or doing certain contacts out of order resulting in a missing contact. If you don't care about completing all the missions Praetoria is one of the fastest and easiest means to get to level 20 outside of AE.

Why change the colors for Praetorian factions? Goldside needs it's own colors

Just remember that if you want to complete all story arcs you have to complete some arcs before others (finish Doctor Steffard's arc before doing the last mission for Interrogator Kang, don't start missions for Calvin Scott until you complete Crow and Helix's arcs)

You have to be Loyalist to get Power missions and you have to be Resistance to get Crusader missions. You can do 3 of the 4 arcs per zone without switching sides. However, the game is designed around you switching sides to maintain your cover as a double agent. If you want to get all the badges you need to switch at least once per zone. You do not need to switch alignments to get the Moral High Ground badge (for 5 alignment choices), simply complete 5 alignment missions.

Over my 100 or so characters on my primary account I run half Blue side and the other half as Gold side versions. Blue side I usually do the Arachnos and Skulls arcs, then work through Steel to Faultline, Striga, and Croatoa. Gold side I do a complete all run (turning off xp at levels 10/15/20 to get all the missions) then make my way to Faultline, Striga, and Croatoa once I go thru the portal. I run mostly the same content but using different powersets and playstyles keeps it fresh.

As for me, I rarely ever team now and I doubt I would team more after a server merge. Likely I would simply stop playing altogether, especially if I lost my names.

Hey VV, glad to see you are still hanging around. I hope you are still enjoying the game. Thank you for all you did back in the dark days of the sunset. Although TF Hail Mary didn't pan out, you helped keep hope alive. It was that hope that led me to the news of the secret server and eventually to Homecoming. Thank you.

It was a publicity stunt and now the guy is showing up in any search for the game. Guess it worked

Pretty detailed reviews:

The only weird behavior I have seen is a couple of npc pathing issues. One time my companion ended up standing on someone's desk during a quest conversation. It was funny how the quest npc was looking up at my companion during the conversation. With over 50 hrs in so far and only seeing a minor pathing issue is pretty good. I haven't seen any issues like what you describe. Maybe that is isolated to the console?