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The accuracy is to insure it hits. That particular enhancement slotting does nothing to increase magnitude or duration. Slotting for effect, in this case immobilize, increases duration. There's no increasing magnitude short of stacking the mez. Someone will come along and "well akshually" the couple of ways to increase mag but for this purpose, I'm ignoring them (it involves incarnate powers and/or certain IOs) If you really want to see this in action you should buy the power analyzer from the START vendor and watch the attributes for mezzes as you use them.

Like Flea said, this setting can't be changed in a task force so no , they couldn't change it at during an ITF. Speaking for myself I don't think about GF, at least not historically but I seem to be encountering it more frequently these days. Now it's on my checklist at Null to turn off. The shame of it not being something toggleable is that there are edge cases (I can think of one) where I do want GF and that's the Seed of Hami encounter. Because turning off GF is a standard configuration I set now, I don't get the temp fly from the Seed fight. Not the biggest deal, I've always got a flight pack but it does hinder my MMs some. I've got to say, as a GF hater, I cheered for the team lead in the OP story.

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Level Band: 30-40 Alignment Hero Name Score Notes A Blood Spattered Journal 2 defeat boss to free escort, defeat ambush, lead escort out A Voice In Your Head 6 2 bosses to free non-escort hostages, defeat named boss, -points for DE in 30s Cracked Cell Phone 7 free 3 hostages (Overdrive is optional helper) A Curious Black Jewel Case 4 4 (non escort) hostages to free, ambush on 2nd A Desperate Cry For Help 0 3 captives to free and escort, glowie An Obvious Trap 7 3 glowies, boss defeat Beethoven's 5th Symphony 0 actually merits a negative score. Free hostage that's aggroholic, tons of ambushes. On the plus side NPC appear invul to any dmg. Denmark Wants Muscles This Friday 10 destroy 2 containers, defeat boss I don't care. I want her dead! 9 defeat 2 bosses Noise Within Noise 7 3 glowies, ambush The Nemesis Meme 8 free Overdrive, free hostage, boss Truly Bizarre Rumors 8 free a hostage, defeat boss ambush Wanted Poster With Your Face 7 free 3 hostages, defeat boss Morality Crossing the Line (only option) 5 click glowie be wary of turrets and proximity bombs Level Band: 30-40 Alignment Vigilante Name Score Notes A Blood Spattered Journal 5 click glowie (may be > 1, there were several false alarms), defeat boss ambush, council pool A Curious Black Jewel Case 3 destroy 2 chambers, defeat boss, 2 glowies A Desperate Cry For Help! 6 3 glowies, ambush A Voice In Your Head 5 3 barrels to destroy, boss, DE while you're 30s An Obvious Trap 3 1 glowie, 2 bosses, free npc who turns hostile for another boss Beethoven's 5th Symphony 3 3 boss spawns Cracked Cell Phone 6 glowie, boss, boss ambush Denmark Wants Muscles This Friday 8 talk to, boss, glowie I don't care. I want her dead! 8 defeat boss Noise Within Noise 5 glowie click, boss fight, -points for not giving an exit button on complete The Nemesis Meme 9 click 3 bombs, that's it. Only -1 for being on Synapse finale map Truly Bizarre Rumors 0 5 bosses, you may only need to defeat students for 2 of them Wanted Poster With Your Face 7 defeat boss to free boss who turns on you Morality Today's Newspaper (only option) 10 talk-to, glowie, defeat Frostfire who doesn't fight back

I have been making efforts to acquire the new "Between Realities" accolade, which includes a requirement to complete 25 alignment tip missions . Like many of you, I have a lot of characters here on Homecoming. Not all of them are going to get this accolade but I do want many of them to have it. That means completing tips and I mean a lot of them. There is a lot of variation on the "speedability" of these missions. In order to focus on the speediest tips, I made notes on what I found to be the ones I could complete the quickest. I decided to put some formatting around these notes and publish it here as a guide to anyone interested. A couple of caveats: These ratings are completely subjective. What I rate an 8 another may well consider 6, or 10 perhaps. There was no standard used so I don't really have an answer for why one gets a rating of 7 and another gets a 6, it's all based on "feels" at the time of completion. What do the numbers mean? I use them to put tips into 3 bands: 8-10, the A tier. I load up on these from the mission computer, up to however many are needed to reach 10 points, at once. 4-7, B tier. I might do one of these if it dropped from a mob and decided to do it rather than head back to the base to purchase one from "A". 0-3, F tier. Never purchase and discard if one of these happens to drop from a mob defeat. How did I go about this? To walk through an example of how I go about this, let's use vig tips. I run these from Atlas, it's a small zone, missions will at most be .8 miles away (the largest distance I've seen), most will be 200-400 yards away and has contacts you can use LFG to port to (like Wavelength). Starting at 0 alignment points, I'll grab all the "A" tier missions, I count 6 of those. Set them all up so you can see their distance and start doing them in an order that looks efficient. When those 6 are done and assuming I got no tip drops I want to use, I'll go back to the base computer and purchase 4 more. Then I go back and purchase the morality mission that I prefer. Repeat until you see "You have earned the Multifaceted badge". Or keep on going, I won't stop you. Note - although tips won't drop once you have 3 on a side (blue or red) you can purchase significantly more. I didn't state it explicitly but a tip costs 1 Reward Merit. Even if you're frugal about spending merits, you do get 40 when you complete the morality mission. Before posting the list, I want to mention I find blueside tips much friendlier for speeding. They tend to be in the zone you choose them, unlike redside which will likely send you to Grandville, if you're over level 40 at least. Grandville, in my opinion, is NOT conducive to speeding. If you have no issue with the 3 dimensionality of that zone, you may find it less objectional than I do. This isn't a complete list, it's all the hero, vigilante, rogue and villain tips available to those level 40-50. I did not include vill tips available to vigilantes nor hero tips available to rogues. I'll do those at some point. Not today. I happen to have a character in the 30s so I did all the vigilante and hero missions for 30-40 as well. Eventually I'll try to include all levels. Not today, not this month. If you are interested in more details about each tip mission, see here: https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Alignment_Mission Formatting sucks, after 15 minutes of putzing around I stopped caring. Without further ado: Level Band: 40-50 Alignment Hero Name Score Notes An Unstable Trigger 3 practically identical to the vig version. Also awards Eye of the Storm A Biting Wind 10 almost identical to vig, maybe a tad easier [1 less enemy to defeat] A Clever Trap 2 too many objectives (5 or 6) Art Psychics and You 4 3 glowies, wait for ambush Blatantly False Malta Plans 9 Defeat boss with hostage. Defeat boss that ambushes on that spot. Broken Pocket Watch 2 4 glowies, 2 hostages, too much Cloud of Odorous Smoke 5 free Silent Blade, beat a boss, click something Doc Quantum's Moral Quandary 7 free NPC, defeat boss upon ambush Elegant Party Favor 0 escort 3 hostages Explostion in Peregrine 3 2 bosses, 2 glowies Malta Gunslinger Action Figure 0 Takes too long with multiple ambushes. On the other hand 10/10 if you want to be afk, Frostfire can kill mobs Miss Thystle's Plea 10 beat 2 bosses Out of the Corner of Your Eye 0 2 hostages to free and escort, Carnies, ambush, 1 pro: overdrive an optional ally Scrawled Bark 6 4 hostages and a boss but the one time I did it they were all in one room. Round 'em up and nuke and it's not bad Shattered Jar of Flesh (in IP) 6 2 bosses, would have score much higher if not in IP Some Nut on Talk Radio 10 glowie, boss. The vig version is one of the worst but this is among the best. You Can't Keep Your Balance 3 3 glowies, boss You're a Cruel One, Mr. Phipps (IP at Ms. Lib's chopper) 1 free 3 NPCs (look for "torture agent"), click glowie, wait for ambush Frostfire (plus lore pets) can kill off the mobs Your Life Story! Wait, what? 0 Free hostage, fight ambush, aggro hungry escort through KOA map. I'd score neegative if I could Morality One Good Spider 4 defeat 6 different mobs, escort some dummy The Usual Suspect 8 free hostage ("police captain"), defeat 2 boss ambushes Level Band: 40-50 Alignment Vigilante Name Score Notes An Unstable Trigger 3 Too many steps involved. This mission gives you Eye of the Storm after defeating Maelstrom. Art Psychics and You 4 Three glowies, a boss. It loses points because the clicks take a loooong time. Biting Wind 10 defeat boss, structure, small map Blatantly False Malta Plans 8 Beat a boss, click a glowie, defeating ambush not required Broken Pocket Watch 6 Nemesis, 3 bosses (and mobs), big map, chance to SLOWLY work on Fake Nem and Warhulk badges Clever Trap 8 3 glowies, shock treatment and entire last room Cloud of Odorous Smoke 10 a named boss. Also, this is the void farm Doc Quantum's Moral Quandary 10 Defeat boss, exit Elegant Party Favor 6 defeat 3 named mobs, carnies, -1 point for the chance of an illusionist Explosion in Peregrine 5 defeat boss to free npc, then click 3 glowies. Points lost for needing to do this in sequence, Blast Furnace must be freed first. Malta Gunslinger Action Figure 10 beat the boss, click exit. Very small map Miss Thystle's Plea 3 4 boxes to destroy, boss, then doppleganger ambush. Out of the Corner of Your Eye 4 Simple, defeat a boss, defeat another boss, defeat yet another boss. The downside is - KoA, the last 2 bosses are ambushes that have to find you. Scrawled Bark 6 3 glowies, beat a boss, beat an ambush. Shattered Jar of Flesh 0 Click a glowie, you hear a growl and the objective changes to defeat an ambush and 6 (SIX) spawn points of Arachnoids. Awful mission, easily worst vig tip Some Nut on Talk Radio 0 This is a rescue of an aggro hungry NPC. Would be fun for someone looking for rewards, mob is pretty good ally but not for speeding tips. This ally is what puts it above the prior one but still a 0/10. You Can't Keep Your Balance 5 -points for mission being outside Atlas 3 glowies, boss ambush You're a Cruel One Mr. Phipps 6 This is always in IP, maybe always at Ms. Lib's chopper, +points for beating up Phipps. Click on Phipps, beat boss ambush. This would be (9 or 10)/10 if not in IP. Your Life Story! Wait, what? 7 Glowie and boss, would rate higher but KoA aren't speed friendly (they see you even when stealthy and throw auto-hit caltrops). You may not die but you'll take longer than you want. Morality Easy Job, Easy Money! 2 Too many moving parts, including waiting for multiple ambushes One Rogue's Work, Another Rogue's Pay 8 Defeat boss, talk to Ghost Widow, run to end defeat other boss, click glowie Level Band: 40-50 Alignment Villain Name Score Notes A Broken Nemesis Jaeger (GV) 8 just defeat a boss spawn, would be 10/10 but GV... A Hand Delivered Note (GV) 8 rescue silent blade, defeat silent blade Blood Bane Spider Helmet (GV) 5 defeat a boss, another boss spawns, defeat him, two glowies, in sequence Classified Mission Directive (PO) 3 3 glowies, ambush after each one, council cave Emergency Radio Broadcast (GV) 8 glowie, Polar shift ambush on the spot Exotic Armor Schematics (PO) 1 escort, ambush, awful Extremely Annoying Ring Tone (GV) 2 escort NPC to computer (short), defeat boss (ambushes, some take a while) Filmed Announcement (GV) 2 4 objects to destroy, 2 bosses (one ambush) Just How Evil Are You? (GV) 8 2 boss spawns, ambush on the spot Lacquered Porcelain Shard (GV) 2 free a mob then escort (not to door) Old Russian Ballad (GV) 7 glowie then malta ambush. Mission I had was in Arachnos reactor base Rikti Artifact Rumors (GV) 2 glowie, 5 (lost track) ambushes then go find bosses Seeds of Destruction (PO) 7 defeat Des, find glowie, "Whip Cracker Badge" Taper of the Frozen Flame (GV) 8 glowie, ambush at glowie The Dagger of Caernoz This is How She Dies (PO) 6 9 defeat Des, destroy altar, defeat Des again, awards Whip Cracker defeat Overdrive then Des ambush Two Too Many Flambeauxs (GV) 6 Defeat 2x Flambeaux, 3 crates. Both Flambeaux are in same spot so not as bad as expected Morality Hometown Hero (GV) 0 3 bombs, ambush after each one My Other Selves (PO) 3 lots of objectives but fairly linear Level Band: 40-50 Alignment Rogue Name Score Notes A Broken Nemesis Jaeger (GV) 2 2 glowies but lots of false glowies too. Ambush after each correct glowie, including Ms. Thystle and her Unstoppable A Hand Delivered Note (GV) 7 Free Silent Blade, boss ambush Bloody Bane Spider Helmet (GV) 2 Click NPC, ambush (multiple), retrace steps to beginning. awful Classified Mission Directive (PO) 2 too many objectives, 3 objects to destroy, 2 glowies + 1 boss Emergency Radio Broadcast (GV) 1 Escort mission + glowie click, at least it's a non-combat NPC so you can walk back easy enough Exotic Armor Schematics (PO) 6 3 glowies, ambush Extremely Annoying Ring Tone (GV) 7 talk to npc, click glowie, defeat ambush Filmed Announcement (GV) 5 4 glowies, defeat boss Just How Evil Are You? (GV) 0 rescue and escort two non-combat NPCs Lacquered Porcelain Shard (GV) 6 3 destructible objects, boss that can be illusionist Old Russian Ballad (GV) 6 click glowie (many false), click another glowie, click npc The Dagger of Caernoz This is How She Dies (PO) 8 0 Defeat Des, defeat boss (who spawns on the spot), destroy altar Escort aggro hungry NPC Taper of the Frozen Flame (GV) 7 Destroy object, boss ambush Wanted: Uqua. Dead: Alive (GV) 9 Defeat boss, an boss ambush appears right at boss so not much additional effort Seeds of Destruction (PO) 3 defeat Des, boss, glowie, gives "Whip Cracker" Morality Easy Job, Easy Money! 0 wait for many ambushes One Rogue's Work, Another Rogue's Pay 7 glowie then a sequence of bosses, usually linear

Snarky, this isn't meant as in-depth, but just some off the top of my head thoughts. 1. Psi Tornado doesn't do knock BACK so doesn't need any conversion to kb. It does knock up So you don't need Overwhelming Force. It is a fantastic home for the Force Feedback proc though. Using the power of (1-probability of no procs firing) it will have a very high chance of firing with decent mob density. I frankly would proc bomb it, there are tons of options. If you want to make up the lost mag 4 kb protection you could use Blessing of the Zephyr piece in fly. In general, you've got a lot of ST attacks from the primary. You could ditch one and you'd never notice. Personally I'd swap TK Blast for TK Thrust and NOT slot for kd conversion. This is a "personal taste" thing, I like to use it as "get outta my face" power. Tactics is sufficient for giving enough perception to attack stealthy mobs. I don't know of PVE cases (apparently it's helpful in PVP) where the Rectified Reticle proc is what makes the difference between an enemy being seen or not when you already have Tactics. So I'm saying just an EndRedux, or a ToHit/EndRedux (+5d) piece or a Cytoskeleton (ideally lvl 53) if you're living large. In Drain Psyche, in lieu of the two basic recharges there are heal/recharge and endmod/recharge HOs that would still get you to ED cap for recharge while buffing the stats of heal and/or end mod. With PFF, you've already got a "get out of jail" card and with Hasten active you've got only 5 seconds of DP downtime so I'm not feeling a lot of love for Force of Nature. The resists it gives is hardly god-mode (30% on top of no resists except for s/l). I don't feel strongly about this but I think there's something better to do here.

I always appreciated GE's genuine energy and enthusiasm. He was active in some private channels I'm in and while he was opinionated (and I didn't always agree with those opinions) he was always, always respectful and never dismissive. He is missed and the game suffers a loss with his absence. Rest in (electric) Power good sir.

https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Andrea_Mitchell#Prevent_the_Banished_Pantheon_from_completing_the_ritual That particular mission is timed, you can't autocomplete timed missions. If it is that odious to you, you can simply let time run out. You can even play other missions while the clock ticks. Doing that though may not award you the temp power and MAYBE even the arc xp bonus (maybe it does). It is the last part of an arc so you will need to address it either by completing it or letting the timer run out. My 2 inf, it looks pretty easy based on stated mission objectives. Close portal, 4 artifact pieces to find sounds like 5 total glowy clicks to me. I do imagine you have to beat Archos as well. If you're not stealthy you can create "Grant Invisibility" from an SG buff empowerment statoin. It won't give you full pve invis but will make it so you can run around the map safely if you don't get too close. For clicking glowies you will probably need to defeat whoever is close to it (if any). Someone may say "just consume purple insps" but if 3-4 BP are attacking, someone is apt to get a hit in, just defeat them. I haven't done this since live so I don't remember specifics, I do remember it was popular for BP mask hunting once up a time.

1. /toggle vault is the command. 2. yes after moving from vault to salvage

Here are the PI contacts: https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Peregrine_Island#Contacts

I was cranking out morality/alignment missions today for the new badge and made special effort to take note if badge progress was made upon completion of the morality mission. It did NOT, on several characters I monitored. So the morality does not count as one of the 25 missions for the badge.

I've seen all the episodes, including the pilot referred to in the OP. That one I saw about a week ago. I'm not going to go on record saying this series was "good" but there were one or two episodes that made me laugh, the one that comes to mind is when she dated one of the Riddler's henchmen. I also remember thinking it was on an upward trend by the time it was cancelled, but not so much I was going to go letter writing.

If you're thinking "Oh shucks I missed the opening night, too late for me" then think again. This coming Friday is as good a chance to join up as the opening night was. I'd say for this next session you don't need to start as a Praetorian. Make a Marine Affinity and/or Water Blast character (or use an existing one you have) with whatever alignment you want and you can still join us on the gold side. Missions will no doubt still be in Praetoria, probably focusing on some Neutropolis and First Ward arcs.

The first one has been answered, there is no "penalty" except a penalty for being outside of the radius. If all 8 teammates are in range, all 8 will get ported, period, I've seen this happen plenty of times. The second question is a great one. I'd love to see this fixed. It's not game breaking but certainly "game annoying".

I logged a bug for this before. I'm not saying this to say OP shouldn't have created a new thread, I'm glad they did. I just want to consolidate the issue so that whatever devs may happen to be monitoring this (if any) it can help show there's a real, replicable problem with this particular room.

How and when I use temps is buried within several layers of "if..." statements. At the highest level, if the temp power is in-game time based or charge based. I'm including something lilke wedding band in the latter category even though it's limited by time, it's time of usage not in-game time. An example of the former is something like Kama from the St. Martial event which expires in 20 hours of in-game time. Then further conditions would be "is this useful?" For a lowbie controller a melee attack like that can come in handy. For others like melee classes, probably not. Rune of Warding and Iron Blade are examples of in-game time temps that I usually acquire and can find use for, at least one of them, for most characters at that level (mid 20s to mid 30s). For the temps that have less usage upon reacquiring, I really need to be in a bind to use those (Amy's Ward, Wedding Ring). Like, I need to be on a third failure of an AV on a solo tf before I'll use those. Easily replenishable temps, like Shivans, I use proactively on solo tfs just to end the AV fight quicker. I like to have a Warburg bio nuke in my inventory "just in case" but even though that can be reacquired its usage is a real last resort (only happened once on HC). Something like Enchantment of Serafina I'd have to figure if a team is going to need a boost against a psi av/hero like Numina or, well, Serafina. I'm not sure I've ever actually used it on HC. The psi resists is about the same as a small orange insp so, meh. The real bummer is you can't use these when you most want. Upthread it was mentioned using them on Mo runs but you can't, at least not the old school Mo tfs that award with no deaths. Temp powers (except for some travel) are disabled for those.

Have you ever thought "I wish I could find a team in Praetoria"? Well soon (exactly 12 hours from now) you can. That is, if you're either a Marine Affinity or Water Blast user. Don't forget your wet suit! So go ahead and create your character now (or within the next 12 hours) so you're not scrambling at start time. Of course you're welcome to scramble at start time as well, you'll just be a little bit behind, which is no big deal.

I'm sure my testing was flawed the first time, that's why you test a second time!

I gave it a second test and see the BU proc go off fairly frequently on me, never on a pet. No need for a video, thx though.

I just did a test with Gaussian's BU proc in this power and didn't see it fire off once. It's possible I wasn't monitoring something correctly. Does anyone have hands-on, empirical evidence (plz no "well it should..." responses) that the BU proc works and who does it effect, friendly entities within the tide? The player? I monitored both my MM pets and myself.

A booster multiplies the enhancement effect by 5%. For a level l50 IO, this becomes 42.4*1.05 = 44.52, or a final increase of more than 2%, which is significantly more than "a fraction of 1%". We all have our own definition of what provides utility but I find there's far more utility from boosters than converters because a booster will actually make your character stronger. I'm not talking about spamming them into purples because yes, in that case, with ED, you are getting "a fraction of 1%" for some (not all) attributes.

A very frequently encountered mob with KOB is the Cyclops.

If OP thought Hopkins was bad, I look forward to them being able to defeat Hopkins to hear their thoughts on the next fight (I'll stay spoiler free for this tf we've all done 250 times).

I've seen people say "I bet Marine would make a good superteam" well here's your chance to find out for yourself. My prediction? Yes, a very good superteam.

Looks like patrol xp (50%) on the alt which eventually got used up and then the xp became equal. So not a glitch.