New today: Manticore & Sister Psyche's wedding

[KaizenSoze]

New very fun event. It's a challenge to actively solo. Unless you want to sit passively in the back of the zone.

 

Bring friends!

[Octogoat]

Bless the newlywed couple

[lemming]

Three of the badges can be done fairly passive (if patient) and testing it out, you can get Officiator with some patience and surgical strikes if you are on a fairly squishy char.    The hidden surprise is a bit more of a challenge, and that one you should have a team for.

 

And thanks for finding that bug, it was noted in test, but I don't think it was figured out.

[Display Name]

To begin, there's a minimum level of ten that allows you to start a wedding team.  However, you can *join* a team at level one.

 

This is what I have on the five new badges and the special surprise mentioned by lemming, above.  Please note that there are seven more badges to obtain for the Spring Fling event.  I post a link that lists the badges near the end of this post.

 

Wedding team (blue or red)

 

01) Start with Sigil (blueside) or Kadabra Kill (redside.)

02) Upon entering the mish, please note the Wedding Ushers at either end of the crowd.  These NPCs will show you which heroes and villains you need to defeat to obtain the Officiator badge.  The use of "introduce yourself" is intended to be ironic.

03) It's nice if the team lead asks if everyone has the Down in Front badge.  To obtain this badge, a player stands between the bride and groom when the ceremony begins.  Once everyone who needs the badge is in the drink, Positron can be talked to again to interrupt the ceremony.  The team lead should stand behind Positron the whole time (unless they need the badge, too.)

04) Lay out the smackdown.  The AVs always spawn at the base of the stairs.  Although not always in the same spot.  Team leads: Don't forget to call/talk to the contact to close the mish when it ends or it will remain stuck and incomplete in your mish list.

05) Players will receive the Best Man/Maid of Honor badge (blueside) OR the Wedding Crasher badge (redside.)  You could also receive the Officiator badge if you've defeated all of the heros and villains in the Wedding Usher's list.

 

Nemesis wedding

Hoo-boy!  This is NOT hard at all if people pay attention to the chat!  Normally, it's extremely dangerous because people don't pay attention to the chat.

Note: The Nemesis dialogue option appears with Positron upon completing both the blueside/redside runs of the wedding.  And there seems to be a minimum level to go with it.  Maybe lvl 45?
Note: Originally, there was a known bug for running this mish redside.  I don't know the current status.  The bug did something and basically you didn't get the special prize that lemming mentions, above.  I've never ran into this nor do I know anyone who has.  I'm not saying that the bug isn't real, I'm just saying that it's infrequent.  So until you find out more please only run this blueside.

 

01) All players should purchase three "clips" of Envenomed Dagger from the S.T.A.R.T. vendor.  Click Temp Powers > Attacks to find it.  This will cost 150,000 inf.  This will give you 90 ranged attacks of the power.  The team lead needs 840,000 inf to provide all team members with the money to purchase this if they're really *that* serious.

02) Enter the mish.

03) STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Don't go any farther!  The team lead will talk to Positron.  As soon as they do, the Chaos Spiel badge will drop.  You can now abandon/reset the mish if you only wanted the badge.

04) Let the team lead decide how to aggro the enemy.  Some team leads are very ambitious and want to get the Officiator badge.  It's *vitally* important that you follow instructions if they do.  On the second day of the event, I was on my squishy Sentinel and I went from zero to Chaos Spiel, Officiator and even the special prize in a single run!  So I don't want to hear your stupid excuses!

05) Don't forget your Envenomed Dagger.  It makes life so much easier.  Especially if an entire team is spamming the target.

06) Pay attention to the timer.  While the Chaos Spiel drops, a twenty-minute timer will appear in your Nav window.

07) To successfully complete the mish, you only need to defeat Lord Recluse.  *However,* you will not get the special surprise if you don't defeat the villains on the Wedding Guest's list.  It doesn't matter if you already have credit for their defeats.  You have to defeat them again when doing this mish to get the special surprise.  Traditionally, people take down Black Scorpion first because he has taunt.  On the hero side, people take down Numina first because she has healing.

08) If you get the special gift, a window will pop up informing you of this.  You *have* to click the "Ok" button to close it.  So you'll know if it happens.

 

In summary:

01) Best Man/Maid of Honor: Complete Sigil's wedding mish (blueside.)

02) Wedding Crasher: Complete Kadabra Kill's wedding mish (redside.)

03) Down in Front: Simply stand in front of Positron while the ceremony is going on.  It will take about a minute or so.  You'll get dumped in the pool.  You can literally solo this.  Just get the badge and then move far away.  The NPCs will finish the mish for you.  Or just reset the mish.

04) Chaos Spiel: Select the "Nemesis" dialogue option when speaking with Positron.  You can then abandon the mish if you don't care about the special surprise for completing it.  You get the badge immediately after speaking with Positron.

05) Officiator: defeat all signature heroes and villains while in their wedding outfits.  You only need 10% damage against each and the NPCs will do the rest.

 

The Special Gift: awarded upon defeating all of the villains in the Wedding Usher's list during a Nemesis wedding.

 

The rest of the badges for the Spring Fling event are listed here:
https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Event_Badges

 

Use these targetting macros to help you get the Officiator badge.  I've confirmed that these are all of the ones you need.  After creating your macro the first time, you can right-click it and select "Edit" to change the name instead of creating a new macro:

 

Heroes

/macro target target_name Citadel

/macro target target_name Back

/macro target target_name Sister

/macro target target_name Manticore

/macro target target_name Positron

/macro target target_name Statesman

/macro target target_name Ms

/macro target target_name Synapse

/macro target target_name Numina

 

Villains

/macro target target_name Lord

/macro target target_name Ghost

/macro target target_name Captain

/macro target target_name Scirocco

/macro target target_name Black

Edited yesterday at 03:54 AM by Display Name

[Doc_Scorpion]

Any hints on passively soloing it?

[Razor Cure]

This is so cool! Love the insanely huge 'ending'  and special present!

Possible text error during the vows..

" [NPC] Manticore: Truly, deeply, and with every fiber of my being I trusted you. The rest of the world only sees the actions I task. They view me as the loose cannon of the Freedom Phalanx who takes reckless actions without fully considering the consequences."

 

'actions I task..' should it be 'actions I take?'

 

 

Possible Suggestion: Best MAN / MAID of Honor. Obviously our toons are locked to Male/Female/HUGE, but in the days of LGBQness..what about a Best Person / Person of Honor (Honorable person?) options? This would also make a lot of sense if your toon is (costume, bio or rp-wise) a monster, creature, alien, or other gender type.

 

Edited Friday at 10:42 PM by Razor Cure

[Backfire]

1 hour ago, Display Name said:

**To activate the Nemesis dialogue option, you have to have both the Best Man/Maid of Honor and Wedding Crasher badges.

 

***Selecting this dialogue option does two things:

01) It activates a twenty minute timer (in your Nav window.)

02) BE WARNED!!!  *Everyone* turns against you!

 

Is there more to this? Do you have to be level 50, as well? My lvl 42/43 character got both badges but Posi isn't giving the Nemesis option.

[GM Crumpet]

Anyone else want to whisper "At the right time, duck. You'll know when" in her ear?

[GM Crumpet]

Or "Don't shoot your wife" in his ear?

[lemming]

36 minutes ago, Doc_Scorpion said:

Any hints on passively soloing it?

If you are just completing it, you can just hang out in the back and let "Manticore & Sister Psyche" defeat the villains, or if red side, "Ghost Widow & Recluse" beat up everyone.

 

Then if you want the officator badge, you'll need to be careful, but smack the signature chars while staying within 100' when they get defeated.  It will take several runs, but the nice thing is that the ones you need to defeat are the most likely to be spawned.

 

Chaos, you can get the badge, but you will be knocked into the ground unless you have a decent team with you.   You'll need to finish off the opposition to get the special gift (not a badge).

[Display Name]

30 minutes ago, Backfire said:

Is there more to this? Do you have to be level 50, as well? My lvl 42/43 character got both badges but Posi isn't giving the Nemesis option.

To be clear, my toon *was* level 50 when she started getting the Nemesis option.  Using the Nemesis option makes for a dangerous mish, so I wouldn't be surprised.

[Doc_Scorpion]

1 hour ago, lemming said:

If you are just completing it, you can just hang out in the back and let "Manticore & Sister Psyche" defeat the villains

Just ran it once, looks like I need to plan lots of AFK time for my squishies.  (It's easy to get a team now, that's gonna tail off after a week or so at most.)

[DoctorDitko]

Looks like fun! 

But I'll warn you, as a better Doctor once said: "I always dance at weddings."

 

 

 

Edited Saturday at 02:50 AM by DoctorDitko
citing source

[KaizenSoze]

If you want to actively soloing it. Support toons works well, because they keep the audience alive.

 

Having 20 bosses fighting for you helps a lot. Trick Arrow/Storm Defender 5:20 solo at 4x8.

 

[lemming]

7 hours ago, GM Crumpet said:

Or "Don't shoot your wife" in his ear?

Perhaps, "Shoot Malaise next chance you get."

[lemming]

Things I have found:

• On both sides, there are opposing healers.  You want to gank them to speed stuff up.
• Tossing a Nectar into the opposing group at the beginning of a fight really helps.  Lots of confusion, and more of your guys survive.
• Chaos option is a little buggy.  Sometimes you get booted after just defeating a couple AVs.   (Was thought to be while crashing the wedding, but I just had it happen with a blue run, but I did have red siders on the team. Still got our pet)  edit: Had it backwards, blue side has the known bug

Edited Saturday at 05:07 PM by lemming
reverse that

[gameboy1234]

How does it end?  I was soloing it and it just kept respawning more opposing guys.  I think on the third respawn I finally just exited, too much boring samey fights.  Don't understand what's going on.

[KaizenSoze]

2 minutes ago, gameboy1234 said:

How does it end?  I was soloing it and it just kept respawning more opposing guys.  I think on the third respawn I finally just exited, too much boring samey fights.  Don't understand what's going on.

There are three waves, you quit just before the end.

[Doc_Scorpion]

Things I've learned after a number of solo runs with my kinda ok/average toons of various archetypes and levels and my own kinda ok/average self at the keyboard:

- Let Manti and Psyche tank for you.
- Completion time seems to hover around 15mins no matter what I do.  I've had a couple of anomalously short runs with EA defenders (ranged group heals and buffs), but that seems to be luck of the dice as much as any contribution I made.
- Being able to pick off non AVs doesn't seem to help much WRT time.
- Let Manti and Psyche tank for you.

[Pleonast]

On 2/7/2025 at 1:06 PM, Display Name said:

The lowest level toon that I have that can start the mish is level 25.  It may be lower than that.  However, you can *join* a team at level 1.

 

I have a level-12 character that could start and complete it. But my level-4 could not start it.

[Display Name]

22 minutes ago, Pleonast said:

 

I have a level-12 character that could start and complete it. But my level-4 could not start it.

I have confirmed that level 10 is the lowest start level.

[Zhym]

On 2/7/2025 at 6:33 PM, Octogoat said:

Bless the newlywed couple

May they have a long and happy marriage!

*checks the "Who Will Die?" SSA.*

...oh.

[Zhym]

On 2/7/2025 at 10:43 PM, GM Crumpet said:

Or "Don't shoot your wife" in his ear?

"Remember that your quiver has non-lethal options?"

[FupDup]

Manticore literally has Stunning Shot (Stun) and Ice Arrow (Hold) equipped, but that noob forgot to use them. 

 

https://cod.uberguy.net/html/powerset.html?pset=v_freedomphalanx.manticore_rv

[catsi563]

just for clarities sake you only need to defeat the villains?

do or do not need to defeat recluse last?

 

and the only award other than bragging rights is the

Spoiler

special pet?

 

 

to provide a little context to the question I just beat it where the team defeated the villains but beat recluse first got the thing

 

then did another run where we wiped out ALL the heroes and villains saving recluse for last but no badge or anything

Edited Sunday at 08:19 AM by catsi563