Catwhoorg

PP's gone all Becky on us.

It is fixed on TEST.

Will be coming live with the next update.

The team name bug is fixed on the latest test server patch btw.

Same experience as Cath.

I have managed to get one caged, but it was not as reliable as I wanted it to be

SO/Common IO 3 heal 2-3 recharge 0-1 endrec

Sets. Its really hard to look past Doctored Wounds. Great set that is well worth slotting, and is uncommon Pool A, so not that expensive.

debuffs

Rad Infection
3 Tohit/defdebuff/endrec HO
Enervating field
2 level 50 endrec IO
Lingering Rad
3 recharge, plsu maybe an acc.
(If I am using LR, the target already has Rad infection on it, so acc isn't that critical)

I went with AR for concept

/Sonic /Rad and /Dark would all be reasonable choices with good AOE to leverage the acid mortar with and useful secomndary effects

/Archery will be the best for AOE, but its best tool (rain of arrows) in itself takes quite a while to go from initiation to damage, which coupled with trap set-up could be a bit frustrating.

/arenalist

bringsup the arena console anywhere in the game

create your match conditions and list.

/ai playername

invites your opponent

Hit start match and you are ported into an arena instance and away you go.
After the match you exit and get ported right back.


Thats as far down the /duel route this dev team will likely go. (and /arenalist is a very new command).

PVP is only to take place in specific instances, the zones, the arena and bases (when enabled), never in the regular PVE zones.

Entry into the RWZ is not level gated.

Getting the 'Member of Vanguard Badge' and general access to merits, still requires you to be 35+ and run Leventera's first arc.

Actually another thing to check in game (making a list for later in your thread, sorry).

Take a level 50, and a lowbie (say sub-5) on 2 accounts. Start Leventera's arc in flashback from a SG base. See if the badge is awarded to the lowbie.

When runnign through Techbot Alpha's thread about Vanguard merits, the same thought actually occured to me.

One issue I can see (not insurmountable) is that Vanguard merits are right now 35 and higher.

To keep that if desired, may require some new tech/programming.

Even if you created a autmatic recipe in the invention table that was a level 35 or higher, that doesn't gate anything right now. A level 1 can happily craft (but not use) a level 50 recipe.


I haven't tried this (and have no game access right now), can a lowbie directly purchase a high level recipe from merit vendors ? (I recall what is avaiable being level gated, but haven't really bought a lot with lowbies)

That may be a way to the level gating mechanism. Have a 'recipe' sold by the merit vendors for say 10 merits, that uses no salvage, and just a little inf for the crafting, an gives 50 Vanguard merits.

Sam just FYI, Vanguard heavy is 250 merits.

On several characters I have a thousand or more merits going 'to waste', on one I have some seven thousand and chnage.

Before making them easier to obtain, or reducing the costs of the existing items, we actually need more things to buy with them otherwise we end up with large amounts just sitting there.

First of all the quartz buff the tohit of the enemies, not the accuracy.

This may seem like a niggle over terminology, but it is very important.

the simple verion of the tohit equation is:

Final tohit = (base tohit -def + tohitbuff) * accuracy

The to-hit buff is basicaly counteracting your defence on a 1:1 basis.
An accuracy multiplier would be working from at/near the 5% floor and not have a great effect.

DE buffed by quartz are one of the few NPCs that pose a major threat to defence based characters in the traditional PEV game (Nemesis with Vengance and Rularru are the others).

I dont know of anywhere with the exact numbers, but I do know how to find it them out.

Using a power analyser on a DE group (or surveilance if available), monitor their +tohit before (should be 50%) and after a quartz is dropped.

Why are merits so easily available for ship raids ? -- that is the primary incentive to run the raid

It is my opinion that the Devs are being genorous in allowing us to earn them slowly by other means.

The closest in-game analogy would be runnign DE missions allowing you to build up partial credit for a HO.*

My bottom line thought, a single well coordinated team can get the shield down and get lots of merits, they cannot easily** summon Ukon Grai due to bomb planting counting for the whole team, but they can get lots of merits. Two teams (16 people) dont even require much coordination

*which it kinda of does as HOs are tradable, but the inf earning isn't restricted to just DE missions.
** there is a way round this, but it basically requires the single team to split into 3 seperate teams before planting the first bomb.

That particular mission has been safe at the entrance every time I have run it.

Of there are mobs close and basically all around, so maybe one of the people who zoned in first moved and drew the aggro ?