That actually worked

[DougGraves]

The Lost AV in DFB can be cured by the lost curing wand from Montague.

 

The curing wand made dfb a lot easier, taking out a boss each spawn.

Edited September 29, 2021 by DougGraves

[Clave Dark 5]

Did you still get the badge?

[DougGraves]

I already had the badge, so I don't know

[Snarky]

That is crazy funny. Now i want to try it lol

[Yomo Kimyata]

When I play blue side, I run Montague before I run Faultline.  The Lost Cure takes out a bunch of bosses, but some missions will not complete if you take out the wrong ones.  I'm thinking of Free My Daddy in particular -- you can zap every Lost in the place *except* the mob that is guarding Mr. Yin.

 

I've never thought about using it on Muxley or Kurse.  I'll have to try that next time.

[DougGraves]

I also have a temporary power a contact gave me to use against clockwork.  I don't think it is as impressive but I'm saving it for the Synapse TF.

[TerroirNoir]

I am definitely going to try this!

[The Chairman]

This is really cool. Are there other "I Win" buttons out there? Nothing pops out to me...

 

Pretty funny that this actually works.

[lemming]

Semi-related,  you can get to Cimerora without having access to the Midnight Club, though you have to get to 50 without it.

Then use the Oro in base to start Sister Solaris' arc and port to her.  You can start the ITF and go into the midnight club via the crystal.

Fairly useless, but semi-interesting.

If you get introduced to Sister Solaris via Dark Astoria, that does auto award the Midnight badge.

[Yomo Kimyata]

Some updates on Faultline arcs:

 

The Lost Cure has no effect on Kurse.

The Lost Cure will defeat Muxley, which completes the mission.

If you use the Lost Cure on the captors of any hostage (Mr. Yin, Fusionette, the Arbiter Sands) they cannot be freed and will just sit there cowering or pumping their fists throughout eternity.  EDIT:  this is incorrect.  They will be freed once any cured Lost exit the mission entrance.  However, this can take a really long time.

 

Edited October 5, 2021 by Yomo Kimyata
corrected an error

[Doomguide2005]

3 hours ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

Some updates on Faultline arcs:

 

The Lost Cure has no effect on Kurse.

The Lost Cure will defeat Muxley, which completes the mission.

If you use the Lost Cure on the captors of any hostage (Mr. Yin, Fusionette, the Arbiter Sands) they cannot be freed and will just sit there cowering or pumping their fists throughout eternity.

 ... what happens if you use it on all but one captor, thin the herd first?

[Yomo Kimyata]

1 minute ago, Doomguide2005 said:

 ... what happens if you use it on all but one captor, thin the herd first?

 

Cowering or fist pumping forever.  I think that releasing a hostage has a "defeat all" flag for the entire mob, while the Lost Cure seems to just remove the enemy entirely, so nothing gets defeated.  but that's idle speculation.

[dtjunkie]

So I used it on the Boss guarding Fusionette the other day. She didn't release initially. However, after the Lost boss was cured, the citizen he turned into started running for the exit. Once he exited the building, Fusionette released.

[DougGraves]

As a note, the lost cure does not break stealth for a stalker.  So you can just take out the lost while safely hidden.

[Yomo Kimyata]

1 hour ago, dtjunkie said:

So I used it on the Boss guarding Fusionette the other day. She didn't release initially. However, after the Lost boss was cured, the citizen he turned into started running for the exit. Once he exited the building, Fusionette released.

 

That's good info, thanks!

[dtjunkie]

On 9/29/2021 at 11:44 PM, The Chairman said:

 Are there other "I Win" buttons out there? Nothing pops out to me...

 

I've always wondered if the Divining Rod temp power (from Gordon Bower's Arc) would do high dmg against Ghost Widow. Probably not, but I feel like it should.

Edited October 1, 2021 by dtjunkie

[Aurora_Girl]

Ghost Widow is not a ghost. 🧐

 

According to the in-game tags, anyway. Which is dumb. 

[srmalloy]

13 hours ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

I think that releasing a hostage has a "defeat all" flag for the entire mob, while the Lost Cure seems to just remove the enemy entirely, so nothing gets defeated.  but that's idle speculation.

Since going through Perez Park curing the Aberrant Rectors doesn't advance the count for the Finder (defeat Lost bosses) badge, I expect that you're correct, and the cure just removes the Lost mob, replacing it with a civilian mob.

[Yomo Kimyata]

14 hours ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

but that's idle speculation.

 

Just reserved the name Idle Speculator on Everlasting.  Now to figure out an AT, powerset, and build.

[gamingglen]

1 hour ago, srmalloy said:

Since going through Perez Park curing the Aberrant Rectors doesn't advance the count for the Finder (defeat Lost bosses) badge, I expect that you're correct, and the cure just removes the Lost mob, replacing it with a civilian mob.

 

I zap the others with the Cure, and defeat the Bosses for the badge. I find it hilarious when they start attacking the new civilian.

[gamingglen]

1 minute ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

 

Just reserved the name Idle Speculator on Everlasting.  Now to figure out an AT, powerset, and build.

 

Healing only Emp?   wait, that would be Idle Spectator.

[0th Power]

5 hours ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

 

Edited October 1, 2021 by 0th Power

[srmalloy]

7 hours ago, gamingglen said:

I zap the others with the Cure, and defeat the Bosses for the badge. I find it hilarious when they start attacking the new civilian.

You have to be careful with that, though. The game has an interesting quirk connected with curing one mob in a spawn. When you cure one, all the others in the group aggro on him simultaneously. If they happen to be all shotgunners, they will draw and fire at the same time, and the game stacks up the shotgun blast sound to the point where it is physically painful. Once everyone has their weapons out, though, it spreads out, so it's only the first shot, and only with shotguns.

[TraumaTrain]

12 hours ago, Aurora_Girl said:

Ghost Widow is not a ghost. 🧐

 

According to the in-game tags, anyway. Which is dumb. 

 

Dumb. And weird since her bones are on display in the Galaxy City gov building. (They actually are.)

[Yomo Kimyata]

On 10/1/2021 at 1:12 AM, dtjunkie said:

So I used it on the Boss guarding Fusionette the other day. She didn't release initially. However, after the Lost boss was cured, the citizen he turned into started running for the exit. Once he exited the building, Fusionette released.

 

I stand corrected and dtjunkie is right.  I ran the Free My Daddy mission and zapped almost every Lost on the way.  I used the Lost cure on the entire mob then waited about five minutes.  Yin was still locked in the cowering animation, so I ran back to the entrance and there was a cured Lost hung up on a corner.  He disengaged, I ran back to Yin, and Yin was released as a captive.  So yes, you can Cure the Lost who are holding hostages.  It just takes a long time for them to exit the mission, so it's probably not worth it.  i'll edit my previous post.