Upgrade Maria Jenkins to always include Siege and add Antimatter

[MsSmart]

Just a suggestion to streamline the Portal Jockey accolade...

 

So far the Maria Jenkins mission gets you all the villains you need but Siege and Anti-matter, well sometimes you get lucky and get Siege instead of doing infernal twice.

 

So I would love to see were you get Siege as the normal line-up and not do Infernal twice. And then add a mission that has Anti-matter, for great convenience to the player pursuing the accolade

 

Its only a suggestion to reduce tedium, and not have to depend on itrials or do and entirely super long thread just to get antimatter, I agree these are work arounds, but would be nice, if not forced into them

[golstat2003]

I can't see any downside to this. 

[Shin Magmus]

It could be made easier sure, but it's already consistent. 

 

   If you go to Ouro and do "A Hero's Hero" you get 13/14 AVs and the Shrouded badge, this includes Seige very early on (2nd or 3rd mish).  You can get the other explore badge from clicking 2 glowies in the 1st mission of "To Save a Thousand Worlds."  This total activity should take a max of 90 minutes, closer to 60 minutes. 

 

   After this, all that's left is Anti-Matter.  The other Ouro arc "The Instant Army" ends with the Neuron/AM mission and takes almost exactly 30 minutes every time.  You can avoid doing I-trials for all of it. 

[kelika2]

1 hour ago, golstat2003 said:

I can't see any downside to this. 

makes tina macentire invalid and something something needs a downside because 1960s dungeons and dragons reasons

and there is already not enough reasons to ever do the reactor itrial

[Uun]

Go red side and get Born in Battle. 

[Psyonico]

Just a minor correction,  Maria will always give the Siege mission,  it's just not part of the arc. 

[lemming]

38 minutes ago, Psyonico said:

Just a minor correction,  Maria will always give the Siege mission,  it's just not part of the arc. 

Yep. And you can abandon missions until you get the Siege one.   (Unless you get the arc, so usually it happens afterwards)

 

I don't find the Tina arc very bothersome to do, but if this change happened, no objection.

[Lunar Ronin]

10 hours ago, Shin Magmus said:

It could be made easier sure, but it's already consistent. 

 

   If you go to Ouro and do "A Hero's Hero" you get 13/14 AVs and the Shrouded badge, this includes Seige very early on (2nd or 3rd mish).  You can get the other explore badge from clicking 2 glowies in the 1st mission of "To Save a Thousand Worlds."  This total activity should take a max of 90 minutes, closer to 60 minutes. 

 

   After this, all that's left is Anti-Matter.  The other Ouro arc "The Instant Army" ends with the Neuron/AM mission and takes almost exactly 30 minutes every time.  You can avoid doing I-trials for all of it. 

 

This is exactly what I do on every character.  Although I made the mistake of doing the original Tina MacIntyre "The Praetorian War" story arc just for a change of pace once.  Once.

[MsSmart]

16 hours ago, Shin Magmus said:

It could be made easier sure, but it's already consistent. 

 

   If you go to Ouro and do "A Hero's Hero" you get 13/14 AVs and the Shrouded badge, this includes Seige very early on (2nd or 3rd mish).  You can get the other explore badge from clicking 2 glowies in the 1st mission of "To Save a Thousand Worlds."  This total activity should take a max of 90 minutes, closer to 60 minutes. 

 

   After this, all that's left is Anti-Matter.  The other Ouro arc "The Instant Army" ends with the Neuron/AM mission and takes almost exactly 30 minutes every time.  You can avoid doing I-trials for all of it. 

which missed the point of having to do a long threat for Antimatter sweetie

[Glorificus]

Agreed.  Put Siege in one of those activate 5 portal devices maps.  Put Antimatter in that one mission where you just speed to the room to activate a terminal to get info.  Simple.

[Rudra]

9 minutes ago, Glorificus said:

  Put Siege in one of those activate 5 portal devices maps. 

He is already in the Take Down The WarWorks mission from the same contact.

[Ukase]

I find this so interesting. 
I don't think it's that much the OP is asking for. 

There's a fair number of folks who have getting those 4 passive accolades down to a science. I myself, have multiple characters on multiple accounts with Siege/AM and Multi-Dimensional/Shrouded, or some combination thereof. I have the process of getting the accolades down to a routine. 

All the OP is asking for is to streamline the process. If you get yourself on an ITF and outlevel Tina Mac, you have to do her thing through Ouro. Doing a longer story arc through Ouro can be problematic because you miss opportunities. You can't just stop. You have to quit. And then start over later. 

We have so many options to get this stuff done - that is true. But it makes far more sense to have everything in one tidy arc. 

It doesn't matter that it's "easy enough" to do the way we already do it. It doesn't matter that it's all available with this method or that. The suggestion is simple, and likely super easy to implement. The only question is whether there's a willingness to install it by the HC dev team. 

 

[Rudra]

21 minutes ago, Ukase said:

I find this so interesting. 
I don't think it's that much the OP is asking for. 

There's a fair number of folks who have getting those 4 passive accolades down to a science. I myself, have multiple characters on multiple accounts with Siege/AM and Multi-Dimensional/Shrouded, or some combination thereof. I have the process of getting the accolades down to a routine. 

All the OP is asking for is to streamline the process. If you get yourself on an ITF and outlevel Tina Mac, you have to do her thing through Ouro. Doing a longer story arc through Ouro can be problematic because you miss opportunities. You can't just stop. You have to quit. And then start over later. 

We have so many options to get this stuff done - that is true. But it makes far more sense to have everything in one tidy arc. 

It doesn't matter that it's "easy enough" to do the way we already do it. It doesn't matter that it's all available with this method or that. The suggestion is simple, and likely super easy to implement. The only question is whether there's a willingness to install it by the HC dev team. 

 

You're right in that it is all up to the devs. However, while there are still multiple badges with excessive requirements to get, Portal Jockey isn't one of them. And the OP feels like a request to take away any effort in getting badges. Which were given to us as rewards for that effort. (At the least, to make the badges near automatic. Especially in the case of Portal Jockey where we already get most of the requirements from a single contact despite multiple contacts for different reasons sending us to different realities. May as well just rename the badge the I Did A Story Arc From Maria Jenkins instead if the OP is implemented.) (Edit: And while we're at it, remove the tracker from Null the Gull. Who needs him to track something we would now get automatically doing a single story arc?)

 

Edited 14 minutes ago by Rudra