Comments on: My First Story Arc

By: Ethic

Ethic — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 03:05:46 +0000

I ran the first mission, was fun until One-Thumbed Charlie beat the snot out of me. He threw everything at me, including what looked like the kitchen sink. Pretty cool.

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Smarter, Not Harder (Guild Wars) | Kill Ten Rats — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:28:05 +0000

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By: Glazius

Glazius — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:19:35 +0000

You can pick the boss name if it’s random too. Not sure about “out of level range” unless you’re using a special boss from a group that’s normally out of mission range, like one of the Chief Soldiers that shows up at 25 for some reason. “Random” fires the group’s “random boss spawner”, which generally only creates it in the conventional range.

What I was saying about naming the end boss is more like naming your Outcast boss “Flamey O’Hotman” when the random option has an equal chance of spitting out a Lead Freezer.

By: Ethic

Ethic — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:01:34 +0000

I don’t know, it told me I’d play as level 13 against level 45. Maybe it changes when I enter the mission proper?

By: Zubon

Zubon — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:19:47 +0000

I can pick random if I don’t name the end boss? When I set a random boss before, it told me I was out of the level range.

By: Glazius

Glazius — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:09:54 +0000

You can select a random boss from the enemy selection to show up, Zubon. That’s how I did things to smooth out the rough edges in some level ranges. Like Council, their bosses go on all sorts of weird level progressions. Tsoo also.

Unless you have a name tied to a specific boss model, random’s the way to go.

By: Zubon

Zubon — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:41:10 +0000

Ethic, it should automatically sidekick you up to the minimum, and the groups involved should not have too many nasty powers. I think you are fine to try Artifact content at any level.

I have a partial re-build for lower levels, but the mission bosses are a problem. Many of the groups cannot use the same bosses for their whole level range. The Circle of Thorns, for example, re-names them every 10-15 levels, and the only Family boss available across the board was their Quantum. So I must set some level range for it each time. The entire Family enemy set I used was the 45-54 rather than the 1-40, because the whole faction starts over there.

I might want to make lower-level story arcs, but I don’t know how popular that would be.

By: Ethic

Ethic — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:31:21 +0000

Level 45, never mind.

By: Rog

Rog — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:26:12 +0000

CoZ. City of Zubon!

By: Kio

Kio — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:34:37 +0000

I see what you mean.. “Any” is fairly unpredictable. I’ve been trying to use “Mid” for things I don’t want to be found too soon, but I don’t want to force someone to dig all that deeply for, which also leaves it almost too random for my taste (it’s that whole “Map-Crazed DM” component to my personality I suppose).