City of Villains

City of Villains Lambda

2011-10-26T07:31:00.000-07:00

Lambda Incarnate trial gives incarnate experience to open interface and destiny incarnate powers. Some helpful hints to having a successful trial. 1. Have some type of stealth even if it is a stealth enhancement in sprint. 2. When inside the compound team 1 normally goes after the ware house and team 2 to the labs. Whatever way you go buddy up with someone and take out the containers. Getting all the containers from the ware house and the lab are key to a successful Lambda. 3. Have some type of flight power it helps with taking out the guns in the towers. 4. Have one team work the adds and one on Mauler. once you get the adds astral everyone on Mauler.

The trial starts out on the street. It is a simple run down the street and kill everything. When all the streets are clear kill the gate guards. Then you enter the compound and proceed to clearing out all the troops. Start left and then go right then fly up on the roof of the building and clear off the roof tops. Then it is all the way around the compound killing the turrets. Once the last turrent is gone go back to the front and enter the building. There you will destroy the security robot. It can be held pretty easy. This is where things get rough. Team 1 to the warehouse, go straight and down the elevators. Team 2 to the lab go right and down the elevators. Buddy up and destroys crates or containment containers. Use TPs if you got them. You really need to get the 10 and 10 of crates and containment. Now it is back out side. Anyone with acid temp power uses it on a security door. Try to pass all the pacification grenades to main tank to use on Mauler. If you do not have enough acid or grenades destroy crates and containers outside until you do. Team 1 should try and contain Mauler while team 2 takes down the adds until astral merit is achieved. then everyone chases Mauler around the board. I know this all sounds easy but it takes a lot of team work to accomplish this. I recommend skype and have each team have its own call, typing takes away from killing.

City of Villains Incarnate

2011-10-25T10:46:00.000-07:00

After a long long weekend I have learned more about incarnate. First the trial of the week gives a notice of the well. It has helped me to level shift one of my brutes. This also does not require the amount of people the incarnate trials do. I have done 3 of the 4 incarnate trials. BAF, Underground and Lambda. For those of you new to incarnate try to get on a BAF(behavior adjustment facility). This seems to be the easiest and I have successfully completed it with on 13 team members at the end. Second push the green button. Why? Because there is always one person who everyone else is waiting on. It takes a while for an incarnate trial team to form up. This leads to lots of time staring at a screen waiting. So when the mission pops up be ready and hit the green button. If you lucky a team will stick together for 3 or 4 runs with a 5 min break for the restroom, get drinks and for the smokers to smoke.
Third know what you are going to create before you start. Make a list of all the salvage you need to create the next incarnate power. This way you know what reward to pick. As a side note, know what it requires to make the tier 4 of that power in case you get real lucky and get a very rare. Fourth use the breakdown and side shift on incarnate salvage, emperium merits and astral merits to use your threads wisely.

Ok BAF notes.
BAF is the fastest of the incarnate trials. It requires some planning but not a lot so here are the highlights.

1. Try and be level shifted in Alpha before you go it helps a lot.
2. If you do not have crowd control try and bring a pet.
3. Take out adds as fast as possible or they will crush the squishy healers.
4. Get your level shift in lore before running judgment up.

BAF starts out Going through a door on to a field of MOBS 35 must be killed to move to the next step. This is pretty easy as the tanks and brutes hold the aggro and everyone else can just swing free. You will see a lot of judgment powers dropping from those who have it unlocked.
Next is Night Star who is at the Bivouac sight. One person goes and drags her to the tennis courts while everyone else buffs and sets up at the tennis courts. Once she is at the courts game on and remember to take care of an add or two to help the squishy healers.

After Night star is down the prisoners start to escape. If the group is low on master minds and control setup in the walk way and just kill everything that comes near you. If you have lots of control and master minds man the doors and do not let them even reach a sidewalk. This is where if your hero does not have control you need to bring out pets. I have modified my one of my brutes to have a patron power pet and patron power hold. It makes a huge difference in helping to prevent prisoner escape. once you unlock lore pets use them here also make sure you summon them at 5:09 on the timer. If you let no one escape you get 2 astral merits.

With the prisoners dealt with Siege is you next challenge. He is at the admin building. Again everyone to the tennis courts except one person to drag him to his death. Debuff, heal and just punish him for being on the wrong side.

When Siege falls both him and Night star rise up. Now you must take them both out. The trick is they have to die within 10 seconds of each other so watch the bars. If you notice one stronger than the other switch so they are balanced going down. It works best if you assign a small team to just deal with the adds.

Once the last of the two drops your choice of invention salvage pops up and the trial is over.

City of Villains Incarnae salvage

2011-09-28T10:47:00.000-07:00

I have found two little aides in gaining incarnate power. I have sat in queue for hours waiting for an incarnate trail. I have only done 4 so far. So I do mission after mission to gain shards with the difficulty set to the highest I can do without getting wiped every two seconds. This has got me to where I am now.
In doing this I have learned that the 1st mission of “Who will die” will once a week give you 10 incarnate threads and 1 astral merit for 14 threads a week. This mission can be done solo. I have also learned that you can use the Van Guard crafting table to turn 150 vanguard merits into Gria Matter. This can be used or turned into one incarnate shard. This can be done every 18 hrs.
If anyone has come across any other way to gain incarnate salvage solo please let me know.

City of Villains Demonic Forces

2011-09-27T16:31:00.000-07:00

Demonic Forces as he is right now.

City of Villains It is all about the money.

2011-09-27T12:21:00.000-07:00

Leveling my brute through the AE missions I gained a lot of tickets. I decided to start out buying rare invention salvage for 500 tickets each and selling them for 1.5 million influence each. That meant every missions I made 4.5 extra every run. After hitting 50 I started buying bronze reward recipes as I needed a ton and they are expensive on the black market. I would get a bunch of uncommon and a few rare some I could even use. In a day or two I had complete sets of Yellow invention enhancements in all my powers. Anything I made I could not use got sold on the black market. It has been almost a month since coming back and I have over a billion influence.
I also spent over several billion more on getting mostly rare invention enhancements in all of my powers. This includes 3 luck of the gamblers global recharge for 150 million each. My brute seems to do ok in missions but I am striving to get the purple invention enhancements from the black market at around 500 million an enhancement 6 enhancements per power that could take some time. So now I am working to gain the billions I need to up grade.

City of Villains

2011-09-27T10:31:00.000-07:00

Four years ago I left City of Villains. Things have changed so much since my departure. I am amazed how much new content there is now. The invention system is one of the best crafting systems in MPORP. The black market is a great auction system for time and energy. The fact you change sides, for heroes types to go bad or villains to go good. Of all the changes I am glad that they did not increase the level CAP. Instead they came up with the incarnate system and it is well laid out and organized.(once you figure it out) My only peeve is that you need to be on an incarnate trail to gain incarnate exp and threads. There should be ways that you can these items if you play solo.
Four years ago I had a web page favorite for City of Villains. I cannot even remember what the name was anymore. I know I cannot find it today. I lived by the posts on that page, I read builds, I posted questions, it was one stop shopping for city of villains or city of heroes. Since getting back into the game I have not been able to find that one stop area of information. So I wiped out my gaming blog and made this page. I plan on gathering all the important need to know things and save them as posts.
Two weeks ago I found a youtube video on how to level a brute fast to 50. Within 4 days my brute Demonic Forces was 50. Yes 4 days of real life and about 12 hours of my time he maxed out all by himself. So then it was time to look for builds. It was a lot harder than I thought for one most people only show “purple IO builds”.

Well in 4 days I had 39 million influence. That does not even come close to one purple IO enhancement. So through trial and error and several respecs I finally got him to what I thought was good.

Then came the incarnate. Through missions I got my incarnate abilities active. Soon on missions I got enough incarnate shards. However I had no idea what to do with them. Some reading from the Wiki, lots of searching the internet and some game play. I created my first alpha incarnate power. Did not figure out for several days I needed to slot it. Then one day while running around I got an IM asking if I would like to do one of the incarnate trials. Of course I said yes and just sat there and listened to all the others talk. It was a lot of shit talking and a little of what needed to get done on the mission. I did what most Marines do when they do not know something and just followed everyone else and did what they did. It worked out and we did two trials that day. The next day same thing the IM came and I went off again. Now I had a lot of stuff for incarnate and little to no knowledge of what to do. A lot of reading and a lot of looking at the incarnate window I went to work.

I now have three incarnate powers and have a level shift in Alpha. This also caused me to respec again as I had new powers that I used and old ones I did not.

All that being said I decided to make a City of villains blog to store information and post questions. I hope that it grows into something but only time will tell.