Eric Nelson

You may also want to pay close attention to the "Unlockable Contacts" page on the wiki -- unlike CoH, there are a plethora of contacts, ranging in levels, that have to be unlocked before you can experience their content. Some of the better red-side story arcs can be accessed from these contacts, in my opinion.

Wish I'd known about this list before outleveling the earliest one (although thankfully I discovered it before going any farther!).

Nice job, Geoff! I think you phrased it very well (and linked to the "coordinates" article for bonus points)!

It's not expandable on my display, though, it just shows as a "NOTE" entry within the text of the mission rundown (but I don't think you should change anything about it at all).

Keep in mind that it's a recipe, so you have to craft it first, and then it's a temp power, so you only have 30 uses before it disappears.

Here's the full information from the wiki (you can find the other temp powers detailed on the wiki as well).

Enjoy smashing!

I'm frankly astonished that there's no helpful hint note present in this arc's writeup in the wiki entry here. It might be nice if an editor added a little something in the way of help, because this IS a nasty hard mission in that regard.

For the most part, I really like using the wiki for mission and TF arcs for that very reason (the common presence of helpful hints).

Yeah, Fleeting Whisper fell victim to what I did for a few seconds, too, when first I read the "level 47" lament -- at first I thought it was referring to the stealth benefit, but then I realized that, yeah, it would help if your toon was at least 47 to be able to SLOT the thing...needless to say, I deleted my post in mid-sentence.

Check this article at paragonwiki for a lot of useful stealth information.

You can see from the chart near the bottom of the page that a Stealth IO gives out 30' of PvE stealth, and Super Speed gives 35' -- combined, 65'. You can also see from the chart that the powers Invisibility and Combat Invisibility give out 55' of PvE steath; so the combination of a Stealth IO and Super Speed gives more stealth than either power.

In practice, this is exactly how I outfit nearly all of my toons (placing either the Running or Leaping Stealth IO on Sprint). It's very handy to be able to turn on Sprint and Super Speed for effectively full invisibility, or selectively use one or the other (or neither) as the situation demands.

One further note on Stealth IOs: while you have to obviously be of the minimum level to slot one (-3 to the level of the enhancement), no matter what effective level you are exemped to, the stealth benefit of the IO is still available (depending on the power you choose for it, of course; partly the reason I use Sprint, which is always available).

Also, let me suggest hunting in Founders' Falls for any of these. There are many areas (and missions) that can offer Devouring Earth, but I've always found it quite easy to run up and down the strip of land that exists on the west side of the FF map in between the road and the foothills (it starts out to the north being populated exclusively by Circle of Thorns, but as you go south down that strip of land, eventually the DE take over). Since they spawn in around the 30s (IIRC), they're relatively easy hunting for a decently-leveled character.

It was only live for about 2 days, IIRC. Our SG was able to muster one run, but before we could organize more (none of us had any idea that the exploit existed), the exploit was discovered and the Trial was yanked down, never again to see the light of day (at least not yet)...

Very nice event, a definite upgrade from the past years' Halloween events.

The only thing I have to add here is to echo what some others have said -- have NPCs somewhere around that explain the background and give a bit of direction/advice on the event. It's fine that it'll be available outside the game, and of course players will help other players as always, but it would really be great to have the flavor within the game, and to help out newer players.