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Total accident by the way. I turned off enhancements on whim to see if I could my lower DPA below AV kill speed. I guess the mission adds a global proc enhancement somewhere. It might be a long haul, but at least this is an easy setup. Does not take up multiple account, unlike damage taken.

I know this question has been asked before, but since there have been a lot of good changes over the past year I thought I would ask again. Money is not an issue, but you only get to use SOs. Best soloer from 1-50, not necessary the best soloer post 50, or the best build overall. Do any of the new sets stand out for soloing? Or is it still the tried and true?

I would be happy to pay a monthly fee to play the game. As it is I never get a donation in in time. What I do not want is a large corporation to own the game. Then the MBAs get involved and start micro-optimizing costs and profits. Next thing micro transaction appear and after that *shudder* NFTs. 😞

@Glacier Peak I might have found a faster afk method. It is definitely not faster than active brawl. Also, it might be specific to builds that have a good fast AOE. For example, my Bane with frag grenade. You have to use Flashback on the mission. Set to -1x8 and the magic sauce is set enhancements to have no effect. Turning off enhancement turns off the special mission dot. Without the special dot. The AVs are unkillable because they still have buckets of hp and regen. But the rest of mission buff keeps working, your recharge and damage are maxed, which negates the loss of enhancements. Also, you're still level shifted because incarnates still work. The level difference between you and the AVs maximizes damage. Now, gather up the mobs and auto fire your fastest AOE with the largest target cap. Current calculation for my Bane. ~26K damage per min * 60 = ~1,500,000 per hour = ~67 hours for the badge. But wait! It gets better. My Night Widow has spin which hits even harder. ~32K damage per min * 60 = 1,900,000 per hour = ~53 hours for the badge

Short answer is that I did have enough power selections or slots to use it effectively. Long answer is that I would only take Shatter Armor on a mace only Bane. I am not in love with Shatter as some people. It has a long recharge, 30 second, and requires either taking Mace Blast or Web Envelope which are IMO meh. I have a good attack chain w/o it. I used those powers and slots for durability.

The Homecoming wiki does not a clean list of hero vs villain badges. This exists, but there is a lot of overlap between the lists. https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Badges As for day jobs, there are four I see that are blue side specific, City Hall, Trains, Stores, and Shadow Shard.

If you want to steamroll most content you cannot beat a Crabbermind... Having said that I don't enjoy playing them, too many things that need to be managed. Banes are like defender/stalkers. Good AOE, good def buffing, decent -resists, good single target, plus you can sneak around like a stalker. A great team asset, plus a good soloer. General not end hungry once built out. I can run barrier instead of ageless. Does not require massive recharge, but benefits well from it. The downside is that they are good at many things, not oh my god good at anything. And of course the ever annoying re-draw issues, which one day I hope the devs fix. Here is an example build which is close to what I am running. Slotting varies because I am always tinkering.

Trick Arrow revamp. Turned one of bad sets into one of the best sets.

Note on Cyclopes (Fabled) / Minotaurs (Mythical) If you get a team together hunting them in Cimerora is pretty fast. An kill most ITF will give you about 20-25 of both. We got 80+ of both 30 mins hunting with a group. The triple spawns really speed things up.

I figured it was an existing bug. Also, happens with Malta bots combining into mega bot. I like to report them just in case the devs go... Oh that's interesting.

Trick Arrow/Dual Pistols is a very strong combo. There are plenty of builds in the forum. My standard warning it's a very busy build to play.

As the one of the resident Bane mace nuts around here. I would not waste your time on any ranged Mace powers except maybe Poisonous Ray. As Six-Six said, Mace melee attack hit like trucks. The ranged attacks are expensive, slow, and lite damage. Except for Poisonous Ray because it's pure toxic damage, which is boosted by Venom Grenade's -40% toxic resist. Still not great, but I use it for a low level ranged attack. It's also procs decently.

If you are soloing a mission and have bosses set to no. Meaning no bosses should spawn in the mission. When 5th column boss that is downgraded to a lt transforms into a werewolf. It spawns as a werewolf boss. Simple version, werewolf transformations are not respecting the no bosses mission setting when soloing.

Did she click and move away from the plaque quickly? Plaques are a bit more twitchy than badges. Click on plaque and wait next to it for 3 seconds. It probably was a bug, but I know there are some weirdness with plaques.

Thank you Ukase! I think this is my goto mission for this badge now.

Great find. I did it through Oro. It's at a good level. I was able to get 8 wolves in the first mission before the servers restarted.

A little more hopefully helpful information on finding Cryo bosses. In Eden, the area called Serpentine, has a skyscraper in the southern end. The area around the skyscraper is crawling with 35 Crey, like 80% of mobs are Crey. A quick mental guess is there 10+ spawn points. There other areas with lots of Crey but those are a mix of 34-35 Crey. These are all 35+. If you go circle around the skyscraper hitting the existing mobs so the de-spawn. You'll get a cryo every min or so on average. Still tedious, so I would do whatever you like to get the gamma tanks. Then use Eden to get the last cryos. Unless someone has found a better spot in Eden than this?

I got the gamma tank badge. I agree now that Eden is the best place for the cryos.

After seeing the thread about four players getting the Worthy Opponent. I though I would give my two cents about doing this w/o an specifically designed team. I did my first run today with a PUG. We won mostly through pure tenacity and a lot of super inspirations. We went into the final mission with only 7, at the end the tank dc'ed. So, no aggro control. Fortunately, we had a bubbler and enough other defense to make it doable. Took about 2 hours. A few notes: The loss of set bonuses didn't hurt as much as the lack of incarnates. Celerity still works, so you can stealth a lot. Hero T9s suck. You'll need to wait them out. Many of the heroes have T9s. Prioritize your targets and make sure to switch when a Hero pops their T9. Bring lots super inspirations. Temp powers are very useful. Pets, wedding ring, envenomed daggers, Warburg nukes, bring them all! Confuse works with the usual caveats. You might be able to pull one Hero, but most of the time you are going to get them all. Unless you sleep or confuse the rest. The other thread:

A little data from my grinding out the Escape! arc for Crey cryo bosses and gamma tanks. Three missions, median sized maps. Took about ~35 minutes to clear all mobs. Run total: 7 Cryo bosses 77 Gamma tanks Two more runs for gamma tanks and five ish for cryos. Though, I can start skipping from group to group checking for cryos after I have finished the gamma tanks. That will speed things up. Anyone else found a better mission? What were your numbers?

Excellent hunting ground for Vanguard. Mr. G (Primal) first arc. First two missions are wall to wall Vanguard. Available at level 50.

At least for Crey Gamma Tanks. Contact: Operative Grillo Arc: Escaped! Level 50 Location: Grandville Three mission arc which is good for doing non-incarnate or alpha only Ouroboros badges. All three missions are full of Crey. I saw lots of gamma tanks even at -1x0.

Agent Watkins, Graveyard shift arc. The Greater Good and Went off Script badges only go the mission owner. HC wiki does state that.

Thank you I was able to get the pentad badge. It was very glitchy, I had to try several times before randomly it worked. Three interesting things: Arachnos Widows (Night Widow and Fortunata) was listed as Arachnos Soldier Arachnos Soldier (Bane) was listed as Arachnos Widow I was able to get it to work with one Widow and one Bane. I had reset the match and invites several times. Flip between freeform and custom pentad. Then it just worked one time. Good enough.

Could you elaborate on the Pentab and Septad? I tried with two different ATs. Tried all the different pentab types, hero, villian, custom... The start match button would enable, but it wouldn't start the count down. I had the matches set to unranked.