Voltor

Not glossing over anyone, was trying to look at previous postings and missed you. Also no one says you have to farm the Legatus badge right now. I chose to do so, as is my right. Just as it is your right to choose NOT to do so. Also, congratz on your totals 🙂 As to why I did it: well given that I.R.L. for the past 18 months was kicking me in the teeth and punching me in throat at the same time, and I had to depart the game for a couple of recent months to wrap up all the I.R.L. business, I decided to do some soloing when I returned. So I checked that Romulus mission and after a few runs, came up with a fairly efficient way to smash through it, and also noted that the mission can also be pretty nice for both inf and recipe drops. So after 1500 runs of it, I get the following: 1. Main base and several auxiliaries loaded up with max storage 2. 2 billion more inf then I previously had, it would have been 3 billion but y'know......super packs 3. secondary alts burn away vet badges which = emp merits = transcendent merits = easily equip new incarnates 4. secondary alts, while not dedicated badge alts also burned away money badges 5 and 6. Bonus. 5. Badge hunters get completed. 6. If this means I go down in H.C./CoH history as one of the craziest if not most crazy player.......well I can live with that. Not a goal, but a result I can live with. After all in the end, it is only a game. 🙂

1582 active badges to obtain in the game at this time. 15 Archetypes for character creation. 1 of each Archetype dedicated to getting all badges. For the third time, all 15 stand completed. (Yes. I did grind Romulus 100 times, each alt.)

# Name Server Archetype Badge Count 1 Atomic Al Excelsior Blaster 1582 2 Blaster Lorraine Excelsior Blaster 1582 3 Brimstone Rider @Voltor Excelsior Brute 1582 4 Brute Lorraine Excelsior Brute 1582 5 Controller Lorraine Excelsior Controller 1582 6 Dark Voltor @Voltor Excelsior Warshade 1582 7 Daubechie Excelsior Blaster 1582 8 Defender Voltor @Voltor Excelsior Defender 1582 9 Deus X Superstone @Voltor Excelsior Tanker 1582 10 Dominator Voltor @Voltor Excelsior Dominator 1582 11 Gem Excelsior Controller 1582 12 Jane Reaction Excelsior Controller 1582 13 Lorraine Excelsior Defender 1582 14 Mazha Excelsior Dominator 1582 15 Natasha Voltor @Voltor Excelsior Arachnos Widow 1582 16 Nature Lorraine Excelsior Defender 1582 17 Operative Voltor @Voltor Excelsior Arachnos Soldier 1582 18 Praetorian Voltor 2 @Voltor Excelsior Scrapper 1582 19 Scorpio Voltor @Voltor Excelsior Stalker 1582 20 Sentinel Voltor 2 @Voltor Excelsior Sentinel 1582 21 Stratosphire Prime @Voltor Excelsior Corruptor 1582 22 Stratosphire Voltor @Voltor Excelsior Controller 1582 23 Tank Lorraine Excelsior Tanker 1582 24 Voltor @Voltor Excelsior Blaster 1582 25 Voltor Prime @Voltor Excelsior Peacebringer 1582 26 Wild Kard @Voltor Excelsior Mastermind 1582 27 Burning Dombloo Excelsior Blaster 1581 28 Cloelius Grigoras Excelsior Controller 1581 29 Crimson Sting Excelsior Arachnos Widow 1581 30 Dark Bladed Excelsior Scrapper 1581 31 Delavault Excelsior Warshade 1581 32 Kwof Excelsior Blaster 1581 33 Misericordia Diablo Excelsior Stalker 1581 34 Random Psycho Excelsior Arachnos Widow 1581 35 Sentenza Excelsior Controller 1581 36 Svana Excelsior Arachnos Soldier 1581 37 Vangelis Excelsior Scrapper 1581 38 Barb-Ra Excelsior Scrapper 1580 39 Caddoch of Helios Excelsior Blaster 1580 40 Jack Lord Excelsior Blaster 1580 41 Saskya Excelsior Brute 1580 42 Yuliia Excelsior Defender 1580 43 Lil Bug Excelsior Brute 1579 44 Luverne Excelsior Tanker 1579 45 Nights Flame Excelsior Blaster 1579 46 Shadow Duck Excelsior Controller 1579 47 Sister Corruption Excelsior Defender 1579 48 Typhara Excelsior Peacebringer 1579

Dark Troopers appeared in Season 2 of Mandalorian, so I would presume Kyle is canon.

I think in ep 4 the Death Star defenses were designed to ward off capital ships, but their deflectors weren't built to effectively block starfighters. Also the original Enterprise DID take a few blasts from the Doomsday Machine's planet destroying beam before shields went down and the hull began to suffer. So maybe one blast from the Death Star super laser could have been withstood. But once Enterprise shields dropped, the Tie fighters and laser cannons may well end the fight.

Ahsoko Tano tells Mando that Grogu/baby Yoda has a lot of fear in him and that it may be best to let his abilities fade. The classic game: Jedi Knight: Jedi Outcast had Kyle Katarn go through the process of rediscovering his abilities as he let them fade after Dark Forces 2.

And there 's the old question of how would the Enterprise fare against the Death Star

The old saying "use it or lose it", Leia may be instinctively using the Force at this time in the Obi series, but without training and being sheltered by Bail Organa and trained as a diplomat and joining the rebellion, her Force powers could have faded. Vader sensed Luke in the trench attack on the Death Star and later learned he was the one that blew up the Death Star and that his name was Skywalker. That was when Vader knew his child survived and he began to change. In Empire Luke's training unlocked his power and the Emperor realized what a threat Luke could be. ROTJ Vader and Luke sense each other but that could also be the father/son bond via the Force. Until Luke revealed the truth to Leia she had no real awareness of her power, with her awareness comes her power as she sensed Luke survived at the end. However she wasn't trained yet and did not seem able to see the ghosts at the end.

Well at least Kennedy's influence is diminished now. However Leia could save Obi Wan from the "certain point of view" that her being kidnapped makes him realize that while he must guard Luke that he is still a Jedi, and that evil triumphs when good does nothing. Thus he retrains and gets his fighting edge back and Qui-Gon helps him with the advanced training to become a ghost. Right now I suspect Qui-Gon doesn't speak to him at all because of Obi's current mindset of despair and now horror at seeing Vader. Also I suspect this season will be what convinces Obi-wan that Anakin is truly destroyed as he tells Luke in ROTJ. "Your father was seduced by the Dark Side. He ceased to be Anakin Skywalker and became Darth Vader. When that happened the good man that was your father was destroyed. So what I told you was true, from a certain point of view" and also "He's more machine now then man, twisted and evil" Obi and Yoda are convinced that Vader is beyond redemption and must be destroyed.

I had heard Thrawn was back thanks to Rebels but hadn't watched it, As to the Obi series, rumors abound that it was expanded to 3 seasons with Obi slated to appear in other TV series set before the classics. As to Disney not handling characters from the classic movies very well, that is due to Kathleen Kennedy, imo. Her TV show for Star Wars called Acolytes I believe, is facing troubles all due to her disorganization and constantly changing things. Rumors abound that CEO Chapek is phasing her out of the Star Wars projects, Rumors state that Lucas will become President of Lucasfilm and rebuild it and then pass the torch to Fiege and remain as consultant. As to young Leia saving Obi Wan, maybe. However that would likely occur in such a way as Vader does not see her directly or make contact with her at all via the Force. IF he were to see her or sense her in the Force he may notice the strong resemblance to Padme and do the math or he might just kill her for being a Force sensitive and thus a future threat. While he does encounter her in Ep 4 and 5 he doesn't do the math until Ep 6. I suspect that the next 2 eps of Obi Wan will be him seeking Leia while at the same time restoring his connection to the Force and getting his groove back. The final ep would be Obi vs Vader and possibly Qui-Gon's ghost giving Obi an assist.

Rumors abound that they plan to incorporate Legends material and story elements/characters into the assorted Star Wars TV series, including Thrawn. We shall see. Another rumor is that Mace Windu may have survived, but I hope not. Nothing against Sam Jackson, but Mace took about a million volts after being literally disarmed and was blasted out the window for a long fall. If he survived, what reason would have for not seeking out Yoda, Obi Wan and other Jedi and forming a strike team to first shut down and destroy Vader and then the Emperor? As to Obi-wan, I am enjoying this series and await the next episode with eager anticipation. This skirmish was only round 1, I predict that round 2 may well occur on Mustafar as Leia might be taken there to lure Obi-wan to Vader. By that point, Obi should have gotten his head back into the game and regained his fighting edge and spirit. At this point he is no match for Vader at all as we saw. He is horrified at what Anakin has become, he does not believe he can defeat Vader and that lack of belief is making him even more unfocused. Rumors also abound that the ghost of Qui-Gon will indeed appear to Obi Wan after Obi gets his head back into the fight.

Sounds like power customization and/or proliferation. Something old returning and something new?

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You can do them anytime you want in the order you want on any alt that you want.

Marcus Valerius offers some timed missions to fight against regular Cimerorans. Since the new contact's story arc is still in development, can she simply offer some timed missions that pit us against incarnate Cimerorans until the new arc is ready?

Any chance that some alternate attack animations are going to be added to radiation melee? Example: atom smasher as a foot stomp and not just smashing fist into the ground or a single fist attack animation for radiation siphon instead of the current one? Also Devastating Blow could use a tune up, imo.

Only the mission holder needs to enter, all members on team should get the badge even if they are in another zone. If a character is zoning when the badge is won though, they might not get it,

If memory serves didn't the plan a contest for a player character to join the phalanx but the shutdown ended it?

The Phalanx has powerful members, but Statesman was the Mary Sue/Superman of the team. yes he could be a bit of a jerk but as the incarnate of Zeus that wouldn't be a surprise. It has also been stated that he didn't use his full might often because he understood the Well and the dangers of being linked to it. Positron is an overamped armor wearer, Bab and Cit are powerhouses but not at Statesman levels, Sister Psyche and Yin are the obligatory telepaths, Numina brings magic, Manticore is the hero without powers. While they have likely stepped up their game and rallied around Positron, the team lacks the overamped powerhouse that can swoop in and pulverize superior enemies that the rest can't handle. Case in point the lousy Justice League movie: they can't stop the invasion so they revive Superman and of course get smashed by him until Lois arrives and he fully wakes up then he returns to smash the leader of the invasion. As to Silos/Nemesis, he believes the power of Rularuu is the key to stopping battalion, and he does state that the power of Statesman is dispersed and cannot be reformed at the end of the VIP arc, however that statement is open to suspicion given the source.

Which do you think? resurrect or replace? IF memory serves, had the game not been closed down, Emperor Cole was going to suit up and claim to be Statesman to fight the Battalion, but that isn't likely to happen now. So should Statesman be revived and restored to his full power? Or should he be replaced? If replaced, I would suggest that the time has come to cure Hero 1 of his Rikti contamination and be restored.

I will also warn that if you try to get the Bailout Hero badge via running the DD trial and it fails, which is a rare event but still possible, it is not known if you lost your only chance to get the badge. Just use mission autocomplete.

I don't know who it was back on live that decided the criteria for this badge but they must have been in a really bad mood that day. Currently to get the badge, you need to defeat one each of the 16 nightmares that spawn in stage 1. Only 3 spawn in stage 1 and its random. Which means many runs of the trial, or else the Ten Rounds of Nightmare farms that happen at times. So the question is: does it really need to be one of each of the 16? How about changing it to either: Cutting the amount from 16 to 8. or Leave it at 16 but remove the one of each of the 16 criteria so that after 16 nightmares, be they repeat spawns or not you get the badge.

Method to get the Handsome Badge unlocked in a fairly quick manner: 1. Your Main account with badge seeking character logged in 2. Drone/alt account with toon that does not have Handsome badge already. 3. Team up the alts, drone gets the Ganymede mission, badge hunter completes it. 4. Drone gets next mission, badge hunter enters it and door parks in it while drone speaks to Null and goes Rogue and then enters the mission. Badge hunter gets the key. Drone speeds to lock box and smashes it. 5. Drone and hunter exit and Drone shifts back to Hero or Vig alignment and speaks to Ganymede then back to Nul to Rogue again. 6. Drone gets mission from Scratch, badge hunter clears it quick as it is just defeat boss+guard. 7. Drone gets next mission, both hunter and drone enter. Drone door sits, badge hunter gets key and smashes cauldron. Both get handsome badge and both can talk to DJ Zero for Snaptooth missions. Fastest time for me to the above: 10 minutes. DJ Zero can be contacted 10 times as always for the Snaptooth mission, however unless they made a change you can call him anytime of the year as long as you have not reached the limit of 10. Thus new alts you make through the year could go get heart of light, party goer and V-tips from the snaptooth missions and Toothbreaker badge as well. This has been this way since event released on live.

Believe me I understand well the constraints of time. Was hoping today was both Valentine event and the new missions is all

Nice updates. So......about the missions with the incarnate cimerorans.......