Memphis_Bill
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*coughs*Catgirls of Paragon*cough*
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There are catgirls in Paragon?
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There are decent guides already in place on how to deal with Mayhem missions, those nuggets of villainy goodness we get after several newspaper missions.
One thing that's barely touched on, though, is dealing with the inevitable aggro - "Longbow death squads," giant ambushes and the like. That's the aspect I'm touching on here. Hopefully it'll make an alrady fun mission even more of a blast.
The mobs that stand around on the street are like ordinary mobs. They have an aggro range, and will attack if they see you (or are attacked.) These, we're not worried about. Go forth, defeat them, get time (and keys for side missions from the special mobs.)
Longbow Ambushes
Every once in a while, though, just like in the "real" Paragon, you'll find yourself going to a new area of the map - Hyde Park, for instance. The first time you cross each "boundary," you will trigger a Longbow ambush. You can tell by the NPC chat that they've spawned as they tell you to give up.
What do you do?
Do just what they say. "Freeze, Villain!" Not because you've had a change of heart, but because you *want* them to catch you - preferrably away from other NPCs. Solo, they're a weak spawn and can be taken out quickly and easily.
Do NOT just keep running to the bank. You'll cross more boundaries and get more Longbow ambushes to appear. This can be most unhealthy when they follow you into the bank.
Deal with the ambushes one at a time as they appear.
The Eagle Death Squad.
This gets mixed reports. Some never say they see them, others exit the bank and get nailed by eight or more Longbow Eagles.
My lowbies never see them. My high levels do - unless they never jump or fly. It *seems* the key to this is not to use a "vertical travel power" - Superjump or Fly, though even later Combat Jumping can get you high enough.
If they do spawn (they don't, in my experience, have NPC chat - at least that I ever hear,) get ready for a fight. They are a pain. Or just sprint everywhere. More time to blow stuff up that way.
The bank vault.
The NPC guards are cake, of course, but there are four (that I've tested and seem to be able to repeat regularly) points that ambushes spawn:
- When you first stand in front of the vault door. This, on solo/villainous (first time through to get the reward) gets a simple two minion spawn, before you ever touch the door. They take their time to get to you, but they will get there.
- Between 1/3 and 1/4 "Health" on the vault door. This on the same settings seems to spawn a single Lt pretty consistently. Just wait and take him down.
- When the vault door is defeated. Another two-minion spawn. Take them out before...
- Grabbing the glowie. This spawns the Hero and longbow.
Rushing through these *will* cause the spawns to pile up. While my Brutes don't typically mind, some of the less hardy classes would much rather deal with these two at a time than a pile of six or so.
I wrote this after seeing another complaint about "massive ambushes" at low settings. These tactics have been repeatable for me, and kept the mayhems very manageable. Team size and setting will, of course, affect the spawns you get, but the points when they spawn will remain the same. -
*thumbs up*
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*grabs frosting, covers Aaron* Happy b'day!
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I play on Pinnacle and would therefore be the most drunkest. First.
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Memphis Bill and Therra are also both on Pinn. So... twice the drunken, twice the fun. -
Main?
*looks at stable of alts*
What is this "main" of which you speak?
Of my characters -
Violet Flame would fit in, probably bringing in music (hope you like 80s and/or dance stuff,) but would run into things. A lot.
Memphis Bill would probably be at the grill, and not be bothered all that much by the explosion. Fire tank, y'know.
Sanguine Phantasm would probably be hanging around, not being noticed. She's less a people person than a kill people person. OTOH, she appreciates a good burger.
Therra Arcson would be in mingling, talking to everyone, and probably bring drinks and some potato salad.
Medikitty would be there helping after the grill explosion. -
Wow, great
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These are all supposed to be our heroes, right? I hope that's not the case. Otherwise pay no attention to the scaly black lizard-man trying to electrocute our panicked artist. I mean, if all those heroes suddenly took notice of the fact that there is a villain amongst them he could be in some real trouble.
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Yeah, he's the only villain...
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Just him. Don't mind the blue lady in the fortunata helmet. It's... um, a gift.
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Some time ago, Celtic_Bolt did a great rendering of my Kin/Dark, Clair de Lune. At one point, I'd basically stuck it on a black background to use as wallpaper. I just liked what he did with her so much.
Well... new (widescreen) monitor needed new wallpeper. (Well, didn't NEED, but you know how that goes.) Playing around a bit with photoshop and this happened.
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....Views of the city and statues set to music, just isn't my thing.
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too bad you're not into those, but here, i hope this one makes up for it
it has action, humor, and shooting! hope you like it.
Trigger Happy - Music Video
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Oh my..... I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything with that. Just got a new monitor, after all... Good job
(Like the look too.)
As for the first one.... very sweet.... -
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Acoustic Delusions and
HexGirl.
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Wow Aero. Any chance you're doing a HotBod group shot? You've got a few already.
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I could see that!!
Might need some censor bars though! 
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They'll behave if the kids are in the pic. -
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I love how your "making do with the materials at hand" work is about a billion times better than anything I could ever do even with unlimited access to the best materials on the planet.
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Well, you've seen what happens when he draws a circle.... -
Yay, I got a closeup!
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*Still thinks it's Rowr.*
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Cropped and tweaked a bit...
The card for Frosty Femme - no description... seems the card creator blows it up *JUST* enough to pixelate :P -
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I bet it's Roxstar
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It's obviously Rowr.
.... it doesn't look like her now because she's in disguise. A very big disguise. A very big disguise that hides her femaline ... er, lines. (What, female + feline = femaline... )
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Heh. For once, Alex gets to pounce on someone else's queue!
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Protector group 2 before work.... just pinn left
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Thanks I've been HALF tempted to do the multi-costume shots....
then I decide I'm not insane enough to do that. I still have... two servers on the secondary to do. (And I've actually done a little trimming...) -
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Ooh, nice
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Coolness, gratz!
And tell Matsu to pop in on WM once in a while, sheesh...