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We have an arcane divisions within Scorpio that deals with the mystical/extraordinary in a BPRD (hellboy) sort of manner. I'll even share our super secret new page we're working on. (We're rebuilding our Division pages right now).

S.C.O.R.P.I.O. Arcane-Ops

Arcane-Ops is also tied with the Psi-Ops group as an overall Paranormal unit. We're actually doing an story right now for Halloween.

Halloween this year comes with far more Doom™

Not sure, but that would be a good question to ask Manticore.

From what I understand the universe was a collaborative effort though I'm sure different people worked more on different things.

I'm sure Nemesis was probably part of the original story bible, since he's mentioned in the history going back fairly far. He's most likely been a collaborative effort in regards to his nuances and plots.

We did it in about an hour I think so yeah it went fast and was actually fun.

I had a particle cannon on my Mind/Emp troller without a problem, but again we had a really good Dark Armor tank and a Invuln Tank.

I just ran this recently after hearing all the doom and gloom about how hard is. We had a very fun run honestly and it wasn't to hard so here is the advice I can offer.

If you can bring along a WP or DA tank. They have resist to Psi and they can keep the hydra busy while you work on the other areas.

Bring someone with recall and a rez. Make sure you bring someone for team buffs and a troller or two wouldn't hurt.

Keep everyone organized. Know who got what temp power and make sure everyone knows what their role will be for that temp. Also make sure they know NOT to click on more then one glowie.

Explain everything ahead of time, before you even enter the silo. The wiki entry on the Sewer Trial has everything you need to know.

But here is what we did:
- Take your time descending down the silo, get all glowies and don't let anyone leave the platforms. If they do and die this is when having a tper with a rez comes in handy. Kill all of the Rikti, keep an eye out for baby krakens, it will take a team effort to take them out.
- Clear out the tentacles with the Thermite cannon while your tank keeps the hydra occupied. Once tentacles are down clear out the baby Krakens guarding the entrances to the force field generators.
- Clear the force field generators but don't take down the generators themselves. Have everyone keep to the sides and out of LoS of the Hydra as they can.
- Once the Rikti are cleared from the generators split your team into groups of two, then on the count of three from the team leader take down the generators. One person in each group of two should announce their generator is down.
- Attack the Hydra Immediately. Anyone with the particle Canon should be hammering away at the Hydra at all times.
- Make sure you have a scrapper or a second tank ready to intercept the Rikti Ambush. This will happen as soon as the force field comes back up.

Once that ambush is defeated then rinse and repeat from clearing the generators. For us it took three times, it can take up to 5 if the generators aren't coordinated well. But overall I found it fun and not too hard.

Just make sure everyone knows the gameplan and you keep them aware of whats going on.

I get crafting rage...

Its also why I stick to commons. I just buy the crafted commons as I need them and completely ignore everything else unless I'm just selling things I pick up.

Anything beyond that I bribe my other half to do crafting slotting for me.

The whole process just annoys me, its like being at work with the spreadsheets and the components, and market finagling... and things not being available, or buying the wrong thing or to many of something, or grrr

I'll pay the premium I'm loaded anyways

As a level 40 character if you joined a level 2 sewer team you would be exemplared down to level 2, you would receive powers up to level 7 (so your powers up to level 7 would be available for use), and you would receive the XP of a level 40. So if at 40 you normally get 1K xp for a white minion you'd receive 1K xp for a white minion.

But you would be effectively fighting as a level 2.

Well most of the shorter stories I write that cater specifically to our group are only ever published for a very short period of time. For some of the longer arcs I tried to make them so that anyone, theoretically, could play them and enjoy them.

But you're absolutely right, in a group setting creating content for your group isn't selfish. If it was having separate super groups with arguably its own story and content would be selfish. MA just gives us a more interactive way of telling stories or getting members involve in stories.

I think beyond maps I'd love to see more advanced types of "events" in MA missions, like ambushes by a non-aggressive mob that says a few lines then disappears. I'd love a bit more control over how/where things spawn, and the ability to put more detail on items as needed. But I know and assume a lot of this gets to be a bit more custom then they could easily add into the MA interface.

But absolutely for groups, especially those into stories and group events MA is a godsend.

This, though I'm not much of a fantasy fan. I'd love to see more dynamic content. But really what keeps me with CoX is it doesn't seem to require the time sink to be fun. The other games I've tried seem to involve this massive time sink before the game is even remotely fun.

I just don't want to come home to a slog, I work a lot I want to hop in, have some fun, then hop out without feeling I need a commitment like I owe my workplace.

SS on my Kat/Regen works fine, even managed to complete this with my AR/Dev blaster.

Just takes common sense and being stealthy enough to find the glowies and/or take out any mobs you need to without over aggroing the map.


I would love to see the Get the News Out mission fixed because in concept its fun, by design however its not because of reasons everyone else has already aptly described.

Nothing wrong with weird...

Weirdly its posted on his account twice so I'm not sure which is most current. I know he's still working on it though so he'd probably love the feedback.

Arcs $49020 & #296401 "Rescue the President!" by @Robziel.

May be worth talking to customer support about. Its possible the opt in/out function isn't functioning properly or there is some setting preventing people from receiving it. Could be a issue with a email host blocking it. I'm personally on Gmail and always get them myself.

But if you've checked the spam filter and made sure you were allowing email from that address and you're opted in I'd contact support.

Its a lot of fun red side. I've heard its a slog villain side though I haven't done it since it was on test and it was a slog then.

But its quick and a blast to do hero side. Definitely check it out if you get a chance, we try to run it periodically with the SG because.. well beating up natzis is fun.

First thing I suggest is making sure your email account isn't blocking emails from newsletters@ncsoft.com.

If you aren't then log onto your account as http://www.plaync.com, go to your Account profile and update your Contact Information. The Newletter opt in/out is there.

The 5th Column Task Force is no Co-op, its different on villain or hero side.