Minotaur

You can pretty much assume that anything advertised on the Australia channel will be on Justice if it doesn't say specifically that it's somewhere else.

I forget, was the random roll at your level or the level of the TF ?

The token system I proposed would at least give you the chance to specify what level the IO you got was, while accomplishing essentially the same thing. Also the 19 merit TFs would become quite popular in your world.

Hydra Os would be more fun if they were like IOs, ie they gave a fixed bonus regardless of your level. That would actually make them useful.

I think my troll with a baseball bat is pretty intimidating

Too low in general.

Compare a team "playing normally" through sister/citadel/manticore/numina, killing most of the mobs. The time taken is not dissimilar to the time taken for the two halves of posi under the same conditions. The merit rewards are uniformly higher, and in some cases much higher. Synapse is a bit longer but not twice as long and has more than twice the merits, there are only 4 properly stealthable missions, and 3 of them are on very small maps so you don't save a huge amount of time by stealthing them. My best time for Synapse is 1:08 which would probably be 1:25 or so killing most of the mobs, but 1:08 was with a really good team and much faster than I usually do it.

The big difference however is if you assume the groups doing them are the right level for them, ie lvl 15 for posi, level 35 for manticore rather than exemped. Now the other TFs may actually be significantly faster as well as better rewarded if you're not stealthing.

The other thing about the rewards on the TFs from sister upwards is that I usually use the speed running techniques, but set the mobs to +2 or +3 so we get great XP off them for the time taken, you can't do that with lvl 15 vahz/CoT sensibly.

Fixed in the test patch (or at least claimed to be by the patchnotes).

I'd have preferred them not to fix the scaling, but allow the difficulty slider to operate in that mission so you could have all level 36s if you wanted to, but it wasn't compulsory. We tried to run a +2 katie, but the mobs all spawned in as 34s anyway in that mish although it worked fine in the others.

Well you've just removed the best thing in I17.

Do NOT do this without adding a box to the options window to give people the choice whether to auto accept/auto decline/click to accept.

Can we get some clarification whether there is some technical reason for this, as I've only seen a very small number of people ask for it (less than have said they hate this change in this thread already).

Without bosses IIRC, so you just face one EB that's even vaguely tough.

What prompted this was when I was making money off regen tissue +regens. I forget the precise levels involved at the time, but the effect was level 10s turned up in decent volumes and sold at x. Level 12s turned up in decent volumes, sold at roughly x and there was plenty of supply of both. The last level 11 turned up way longer ago than the last 5 10s or 12s and sold for 60% more. Prices had dropped since the last one turned up, it would not sell for a looooong time if you put it up at more. People would just be looking for a low level one, 10, 11, 12, 13 are all the same to them, and they'd grab the low hanging fruit.

Not sure whether we will, it was originally 20/20 and got reduced in the beta.

You really don't have much of a clue how to run stuff fast do you. I'm by no means the fastest around and have completely cleared an 8 man old posi in 2 hours. I've finished it in teams of 2,3,4,5 pre I17 sub 1:20, with a best of 1:09. If I had a purpled out 50, I could have got it down well below that.

The version thru ouro is slower, because it seems to insist on sending you to the far end of Boomtown every other mission which the original TF didn't.

Where do you get 90 merits for old posi, it was 66.

I haven't tried properly speed running the new one, but in the beta where we were checking stuff so not speeding, we took 45 mins for the first half and an hour or just under for the second. I'd guess about 35/45 mins would be fairly normal for people speed running the 2.

So the new posi is IMO the same length or longer than the old one for less than half the merits. I don't touch it with a barge pole unless I want the badges. What with removing the XP from the hunts in Numina (about 1/3 of the TF), I'm seriously unimpressed with the state of rewards atm.

If you can get on half an hour early, I'll show you how to get the XP easily in time.

"No, this is why I run the store, and you're a lowly assistant, you tell him we can't do him the basque, stockings and heels for his upcoming Rocky Horror show visit."

You have to be careful though, one of the funniest suicides I ever saw was a claws/invul knocking a load of +severals out of invincibility range with shockwave, at which point they all got up and shot him dead. This was a scrapper rather than a brute with less hits, but the issue remains.

Absolute rubbish. Back when I was poor but had effectively unlimited respecs (more than I ever use as a 69 month vet) I would get SOs at 22 which are better than 25 IOs, and then respec at 27, get full sale price for the IOs slotted, and with the profit on the 10 in the tray purchased for peanuts from WWs, actually make a profit on upgrading from 25 to 30 SOs.

It can be sensible to use SOs of level 25/30 and possibly even 35 if you intend to move on to set IOs in the mid to late 30s and have the respecs spare.

This change is TRULY HORRIBLE on the Numina TF. All the hunts giving no XP.

Half an hour of wasted time with no XP/inf/prestige.

Real disincentive to do this TF now, another one off the list, I used to do it a lot. Not good, in the last few weeks Posi (scandalously under rewarded for merits), Numina and LGTF have gone, what next ?

I have many toons that need this, so will provide something if I'm around.