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The Mapserver event on Indom last year was the most nuts XP I've seen outside of egregious AE exploits (that I... heard about, never knew them first hand of course). 30X (that's THIRTY times) xp for those mobs. 3x bonus, as detailed above with combined P2W booster and server bonus, for mobs with base 10 XP. Glorious. *Note to anyone thinking of "well akshully"ing this - don't. I have receipts.

It's a fairly new thing, awarding alignment points within a mission. I don't recall seeing it until i27p6, with Stribbling and John Houston. I haven't done any of the i28p1 new contacts (I need to) but when I looked at the wiki for one (Ashling Corlett) I noticed a reference to an alignment point so there's another.

The snippet is from my 3rd attack. The first one had an aesthetic problem with the image. The second time 4 of the 5 fired so I did another to get all 5. I would certainly be interested in any data supporting the notion that the first application has the highest proc rate (not accounting for pseudopet business).

Here's my 1 Acc + 5 proc slotted infrigidate with all 5 procs (the fifth one is Achille's Heel) firing on a test pylon:

I just tried this because, if it worked, would be a good use of an invention discount which has a max value of 150k inf (when crafting a purple) and a Reward Merit certainly has a valuation of more than 150k. However, it didn't work for me. I just tried using a discount coupon and the worst case occurred, both a merit was spent and an invention discount coupon was used. I did it twice to make sure, it was repeatable. So, if someone wants to say they saw this work, I'd love to hear it, otherwise I caution readers to NOT use this method to acquire tips. I'll use one more of each to illustrate. Before picture, with 8 coupons and 207 RMs: After, now with 7 coupons and 206 merits.

I'm sure the suggestion forum isn't the best place for a "Mark and Recall" usage discussion but I'm not going to be the one to create a post. In the meantime: Operative Renault SF, mission 1. Find the portal first and Mark the location. Find Barracuda and free her. Recall. Mission over.

Whoa! This is like LeBron James telling you "you played a great game of basketball".

I personally don't care but I have seen players express their want to have this info hidden. This privacy matters to them, . I am deeply sorry though for the inconvenience you're going to suffer to (checks notes) click a button.

I've thought, for a long long time now, that Kin + Cold was the game's "I win" button. That goes back to SO builds and is as true today in the age of demi-god builds as it was then. To make it a trinity, let the third be me on... anything. Blaster, Stalker, doesn't matter, just gimme those buffs.

Opting out of privacy is a standard practice now. This was a good implementation choice.

Anti-Matter. You can see Null the Gull to confirm, he has an option to check Dim Warder progress. You can choose to do the Keyes iTrial, Tina McIntyre's arc via Ouro (last mission has him) or join someone who is doing Tina's last mission. It's not terribly uncommon to see people advertise in LFG that they're doing it.

When the Sheer Willpower accolade power was released, I looked at the requirements for both red and blue side and my initial reaction was that redside was the preferred way to acquire, I tend to do those SFs when they're WST anyway. I decided to give a go at the blue version "Protector of Paragon City". A back of the napkin estimate for how long it would take for each task led me to believe I could perhaps get the blue one quicker than the red one, that is when both are starting at 0. So I set off to go through everything on the patch notes release: Now, what I didn't do was read the details about the story arc badges. I assumed (and here's a lesson in what happens when you assume) that those badges were for simply doing those arcs. They're not. They're awarded for specific choices and actions. So the PSA is to make sure you know what you need to do to get those specific badges, which is a good practice in general. As for me, I'll stick with my gut instinct that the redside version is the way to go.

When I go afk with a Stalker and a zombie invasion happens, and I'm talking about afk in a villain zone like Nerva far away from any other players, I invariably have a few new friends around when I return to the game. They don't attack because they don't see me, but, and this is the important part, they do spawn, because the invasion mechanic doesn't need to see me to spawn mobs. This particular myth is frustrating to still deal with. Fortunately I don't see it as much, I haven't seen anyone say to turn off Arctic Fog in an MSR in a long time so there's hope.

The date of that video (April 10, 2021) is pre- i27p5 (Oct 10, 2022). I used an ice/fire blaster for farming pre-p5, it was "real and spectacular". I put it aside after page 5, the aggro changes made the incoming dmg too much to deal with even with 45/75 numbers. Truth be told I was retiring from farm life at this time so I didn't try to solve this. Others may have a different experience. Because farm life is so far in the rear view mirror, I don't know what current "best practices" are. I was using an asteroid farm. If folks use a more spawn-to-spawn technique that's probably more friendly to a blaster. Anyway, so I can contribute to the OP's question, maybe try a dom. In spawn-to-spawn fights they're very safe, when perma dom at least. Plant/fire, something like that.

I use filters, you can see the ones I was using at the moment I took the screen snippet (4th post in this thread). Without querying I personally wouldn't even see the value of having a spreadsheet at all.

Yes. It's just like slotting a recharge enhancement of whatever the particular alpha offers (not getting into nuances of what is exempt from ED)

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Not joking in the least bit - this thread provided the impetus I need to finally make a petless MM, which has been on my to-do list for a while. It will be a Beast/Marine. I actually think it'll be decent, just finished Mids-ing it, procs errywhere.

Could the reference to "Alpha Slot" be eliminated please? I see way too many team leaders forming this that ask for alpha unlocked and it's not needed any more, the debuff was removed years ago. https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Issue_27_Page_3#Apex_&_Tin_Mage_Task_Forces

If there's some means of allowing soloers to opt out of these EBs, fine, whatever. I absolutely would strongly object to being denied the opportunity to solo them though by some global change to deny their spawning for all soloers though. I rather enjoy these fights.

I found the notion that Umbral Beasts doesn't take Fulcrum Shift buffs so unlikely I logged in a kin from a different account from my dark/ troller to see firsthand and indeed the FS buffs do apply to the Umbral Beast. Screenshot of its attributes:

You asked for advice and the most important piece I have is: update your data. The most well designed spreadsheet is garbage if you haven't kept it up to date. Also (and this is advice I need to take) don't be afraid to delete fields you no longer care about. I have a few columns for data I used to track that I no longer use (like when to farm for Emp merits, on a 10 day timer to max out day job xp, shown as "FarmDay" below). Here are my columns: I have other sheets in the document that provide a little more granular data. Also several sheets within the doc do some calcs, like a proc calculator.

So, just to boil it down - AFK while resting in a fire within a zone like St. Martial. Disruptive/Kickworthy? Y/N

In Max's mission "Break out Director 11", mark the door (with a staircase emblem) that you pass on the way to the last room, with Director 11. Free D11, use recall. You'll be at the door he needs to be escorted to, the fight with Blue Steel still looms on the other side of the door...

The HC world. I assume you have some familiarity with HC Wiki. That shows See https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/S.T.A.R.T. Paragon badge