Unconfirmed rumor has a Hami raid starting at 7pm Central time on Victory. 

I'll be there with Flux Faraday.

Naienko: Deeeeeeeing!
Stax: Did you level?
Naienko: Yeah, my packing skill just leveled.
Pengy: Was it a power level or a slots level?
Nai: Slots, of course.
Stax: What do you have slotted in it now?
Nai: Nothing. I spent all my inf on the 'new house' proc.
...
Archmage: Has a 100% chance to go off every 10 seconds.
Naienko: It's like the +regen proc.
Pengy: It goes in mental health, which refreshes every 8.8 seconds ... or in Nai's case, maybe every 13 seconds.
Naienko: Nah, mine refreshes every 3 seconds -- that's how long it takes me to change moods.

What ever happened to Hamidon?

I used to watch my friend go on Hami raids with the SG, waiting for the day that I would be high leveled enough to join them. A few years pass by, I'm finally high enough leveled to be granted entrance to The Hive... And there's nothing there. Ever.

Does Hamidon only spawn in an instanced mission map now? I miss the days of the massive lagfest and of yellow death.

My significant other does not play City, but he thankfully indulges me when I talk about it. Which is often. So he knows at least a little about the game (in a broad sense).

He refers to Hamidon as Ham 'n eggs. :)

At first when I laughed he thought I might be laughing at him, but I assured him that we come up with terms like that all the time. (Orangebagel) I thought it was pretty funny so I wanted to share.

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COMBINED NOTES

Powers

*Rikti Drops Ships’ movement rate standardized. They are now completely immune to Slow movement effects.
*Stealth powers should once again function in PvP zones. Good hunting.
*The Power of the Hamidon temporary power is now Deletable.
*All Rikti should be targettable after they die.

Tasks

*Borea Repeatable missions to defeat 10 enemies increased to defeat 50.

Rewards

*Characters who are below level 47 will not be able to select a Hamidon (or Synthetic Hamidon) Enhancement as a reward. They can choose anything else they qualify for from the reward choice table, however.
*Rikti Monkeys in Invasions will now grant experience points when defeated.
*Characters should only get reward credit for placing a bomb once per assault on the Rikti Mothership.

Rikti Invasions

*Rikti transporters now shield incoming invaders from attack until they have fully materialized.
Badges

*Fixed numerous minor text and display errors with badges

Bases

*Fixed a crash when moving Slow Fields.

User Interface

*Fixed "Suppress FX When Close" option to work correctly, and to persist when a character logs/zones.
*Fixed Check Name to no longer show names of characters that were recently deleted as unavailable.


CITY OF HEROES

Rewards

*Characters over level 40 cannot select the Multi-enhancement from the Eden Trial. Added SO Enhancements to the Eden trial choice dialog box.

CITY OF VILLAINS

Powers

*Psionic Dart for Dominators’ endurance cost was set too high. It has been reduced to its correct value.

Graphical Effects

*Added special case to Carrion Creepers effects to prevent it from incorrectly persisting after the power ends.
*Dominator, Plant Control - Reduced particles for Vines and Carrion Creeper to optimize performance.
*Minor optimizations to various power effects for Corruptor’s Cold Domination and Thermal Radiation to reduce their framerate performance impact

City Zones

*St. Martial: all stores in the zone should now buy salvage and recipes.

x-posted to cityofvillains
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Who authorized the Hamidon Enhancement choice change and when do I get to strangle them!?

So what if I my level 45 or 46 can't USE the HO for a while? I can store that bad boy or sell it; I still worked my off hiney to get it. I was counting on being able to do Hami raids on my 45 Stormie who needs a few HOs so I would have the ones I wanted by 47! Grrrrrr.

The griefing method was pretty much the time-tested training of the Giant Monsters in the Hive to the group clearing them out to spawn Hami. Basically, we were trying to take down one Monster, when we were suddenly met with three more. Several wipes were had.

On the bright side, I did go from no Essence of the Earth inspirations at all to this:



(No, I didn't have any other purpose to this post than to show off that inspiration tray.)

Guardian's going to attempt a Hami Raid tonight at 9EST. There's drama so no telling if we'll be able to gather enough people, but we're hopeful. Coming early would be helpful, as we'd like to get EoE farming and most of the instruction out of the way so we can start at 9.

Edit: For anyone who's interested in what happened... with TA's help, we actually got started with spawning Hami almost an hour and a half before the announced raid time. By 9EST we did, in fact, have enough people to raid. Though we were not very successful overall, pretty much everyone stayed until 11EST and a lot of progress was made in our strategy. Go Guardian!

Again, this is information I haven't seen posted anywhere so I just figured I'd share my personal experience. IMO, it's some of the most useful practical information I've found in applying anything IO. These IOs are now my absolute favorite new addition to the game.

The two IOs in question are -
Karma: Knockback Protection
Steadfast Protection: Knockback Protection

These two IOs are exactly the same with the exception of Karma being a defense IO and Steadfast being a damage resistance IO. Both offer -4 mag knockback protection that works like a set bonus - your protection will always be on regardless of whether it's slotted into a click, toggle, or inherent. These are not unique, either, and you can slot multiples if you have multiple mitigation powers or a power that takes defense AND resistance such as Shadowfall. They do only work on you, even if you slot them into a friend buff... when I slot this kind of enhancement I refer to it as "attaching" it to a power rather than slotting the power with it since the power is just a vehicle and doesn't interact with the IO at all.

What's all this mean to you? Well, a lot, if you don't have knockback/down protection provided in your set. I haven't fully tested the ins and outs, but here is what I can tell you about practical uses -

- 1 KB enhancement (mag 4) slotted into Increased Density had my Kinetic Defender standing toe to toe with Banished Pantheon and Nemesis. Not once did she get knocked around... not even by purple conning BP bosses or the Shaman's Earthquake. This is HUGE for my Kin and has been enough of a change to get her back onto my 'actively leveling' list.
- 2 KB (mag 8) enhancements slotted - on Stealth and Fortitude - changed Hami/Mito knockback to knockdown on my Empath Defender. I used an Essence of Earth (after nerf to resistance cap), 2 KB enh, the 20% mez and 30% mez uniques when testing against passive aggro and the result was that by the time I'd jumped up from the knockdown I was unstunned. My toggles didn't have to be on for any of those IOs to work, so it wasn't a problem. I used Heal Aura and one or two respites to live the entire duration of the EoE with no other outside help.
- Since Super Reflexes' Practiced Brawler and Invulnerability's Unyeilding have mag 10 protection, according to Red Tomax, and neither suffer Hami/Mito knockback/down I'm assuming 3 KB enhancements (mag 12) will negate the effects. I haven't been to the Hive with an active Hami to test on since my Empath got his third to be sure, though. Nothing more than 3 should be necessary for anything shy of PvP (I've heard Force Blast has mag 18, for instance).

I need to test my KB enhancements against Elite Bosses and ArchVillains still, to see where they fall in the range, though my best guess would be 2 or 3 enhancements. In the end, one KB enhancement can be an AT's best friend and anything more than that should probably be considered only necessary for specialized toons' use.

That all said, if anyone gets dropped either of these recipes and is crazy enough to not want them, I would love to have them ^_~ Happy hunting.

Omg! Hamidon is invading the Czech Republic!

Check it out!

Current Mood: silly

Last night at about 2am EDT I finally met my pre-I9 goal of level 45.

I hear that Virtue has Sunday evening raids (thanks, Ery!) and so I'm going to try to make it tonight, at least for part of it. Snag is that I don't get off work until 9pm EDT and probably wont be home until very near 10.

But if anyone would like to join me and be my tour guide/translator, that would be great!

And I will definitely be there for both of the weekend raids next time around (I have to work Wednesday. BOO!).

Thanks to all that have helped get me here and the crew on Ventrilo and here on LJ that have put up with me being entirely too excited about each level in the 40s.

- Crash

Since the idea of a jello Hamidon seems to have caught the interest of a few people, I thought I'd further spam the group by making a post for people to discuss:

• Flavours.
  What IS the delicious flavour of giant amoeba of doom? I'm going with "mostly lime, lemon and grape" here...
• Moulds.
  Will just a bowl do? Or does someone have a creative idea using a bowl and some saran wrap?
• How do you make mitos?
• Am I going to get an e-mail from Positron saying "Knock it off, you scare us"?
• Should we also be considering Enhance drop cookies?

I'd posted this on the closed beta forums, and as a comment in an earlier post, but I actually posted in the suggestions forum about the Mito respawn. Feedback welcome. (Really, if my idea does suck I'd like to know so I can stop defending it :P)

In the new raids, mitos respawn when Hami reaches 75, 50, and 25% health. The problem I see with this is that they literally just pop out of nowhere.

1. Hamidon is a large cell. Life doesn't pop out of nowhere. When damaged, it regrows.
2. This "popping out of nowhere" seems to be a real problem for the team of heroes/villains trying to take down Hami.

So how about instead of just respawning, they regrow? For instance they could start out small-ish with a reduction in effectiveness. Pounding on Hami harder would make them regrow at a slower rate. They still regrow, slowly gaining in effectiveness and ramping up to 100%. Or, if the players stop dealing as much damage to Hami, they regrow a bit faster. Thus players can decide how much damage to keep dealing to Hami, and how many players to spare to go kill the mitos.

Obvoiusly players wouldn't be able to take down all the mitos again before several of them had reached full-regrowth, but it gives an opportunity to manage them in a more realistic way.

Spoiler Warning: This post contains spoilers about the new Hamidon encounter and a wealth of information about his strengths, weaknesses, and the current best strategy for taking him down. If these are things you want to figure out on your own, do not read any further.

( Episode Two - The New Hamidon )

Editted to add: This thread by XenoHero on the Training Room forum is good for getting new folks up to speed on the details about Hamidon that have been uncovered on Test so far.

Cross posted from cityofvillains.

I was reading comments in buran's previous post about Hami raids and it got me to thinking that I haven't yet done one, and I'd like to before the I9 update. My only Hami-able toon is on Pinnacle. Anyone know if there's a Pinnacle-specific Hami raid channel I can join, or when they're usually run on Pinnacle.

Taking it one step further, if anyone is willing to post - to the best of their knowledge - the current Hami-related channels and usual raid times for each server, I and probably many silent others would offer a great heap of thanks.

Since there was no Hami raid on Virtue tonight (see the pic for details), I took a couple screenshots instead. I liked the composition on this one the most.

"Many heroes died to bring you this picture..." ... well, no, just me (twice) but I'm already at 50, so no harm done!

( Picture enclosed )

Redesigning the Hamidon

Highlights:

Mito spawns changed
Hami spawned by defeating GMs
Hive (and Abyss) limited to 50 characters per instance

Official Discussion Thread

And now: Introducing Back Alley Brawler!!

Current Mood: pleased

Just stumbled upon this while waiting to start tonight's raid. Pretty Amusing, at least the costume :)

Presenting - Mini Hami