Has anyone ever completed the defeat 5,000 perk?

screwthisprocess · October 2017

How long did it take? It seems possible, but something that happens years later when you could care less about it. Has anyone ever planned and defeated 5,000 foes?

pantagruel01 · October 2017

Plenty of people have completed multiple 5k perks. How long it takes depends on which mobs you're after, but it normally takes a few days.

screwthisprocess · October 2017

Interesting, maybe I should look at some videos. A few days isn't bad.

jaazaniah1 · October 2017

Get a good AoE, head to VB and blast away. You will probably get some salable costume drops along the way.

screwthisprocess · October 2017

Sweet thanks you two

lezard21 · October 2017

Vehicles have trivialised kill 5000 perks. Just get Incendiary Rounds and blast away. The most troublesome perks are the Lemuria Construct ones and Bureau 17 robots due to the low number of spawns they have, everything else should take 4-6 hours each at worst.

legendarylycan · October 2017

isn't rank 3 of the lemurian construct one only 100 though - or am i thinking of empyrean constructs? are those even a fightable thing? either way, that helps offset the low number of spawns

chaosdrgnz43 · October 2017

I only got the 5k perk from Dogz and Sov Sons. Because of Costume piece unlocks.

iamrune · October 2017

Isn't Pet Cemetery still bugged?

That's the third 5000 Kill Perk that tracks Foes Pet kills, but only seems to track a very few specific foes pets.

I have it, I grinded it out over a period of eight months to get the once rare AF [the Robo-Teddy] that perk used to grant.

A year after I ground it out, the robo-teddy beacame a free grant to anyone who completed Westside.. Ugh.

But that's why I remember that particular kill perk line and it's bugged nature so well.

guyhumual · November 2017

I got the zombie dance, so that's 5k of all the Vibora bay mobs plus evil spirits. How quick it is depends entirely on how close the mobs are, how fragile the mobs are, and what powers you're using. If you're trying to kill 5k Sovereign Sons with a blast attack it's going to take a long time. If you have a decent AoE attack, like epidemic, and you're in an area where they're clustered together and respawn relatively quickly then it might take four to six hours. When I got the perks I was farming costume unlocks so I didn't really keep track of the time, but when the zombie dance was added to the game it took me about 4 hours to get the under 4k evil spirits I needed to unlock the dance. A lot of that time was me traveling back to sell the junk I'd picked up along the way.

monaahiru · November 2017

Take pesty and [Epidemic]...

sparklisina · November 2017

I have almost all of them completed. I think I only need 5 more to have them all?

@Glass-Rose in game if you have any questions about farming spots or anything.

chaelk · November 2017

iamrune said:
Isn't Pet Cemetery still bugged?

That's the third 5000 Kill Perk that tracks Foes Pet kills, but only seems to track a very few specific foes pets.

I have it, I grinded it out over a period of eight months to get the once rare AF [the Robo-Teddy] that perk used to grant.

A year after I ground it out, the robo-teddy beacame a free grant to anyone who completed Westside.. Ugh.

But that's why I remember that particular kill perk line and it's bugged nature so well.

you get Sorcerer teddy for westside culmination

highjusticar · November 2017

With game devs liking to hide pop culture references in their games, I am surprised there isn't a one for 10,000 Maniacs called Because the Night or something like that.

mithrosnomore · November 2017

I don't know if using an old Patty Smith / Bruce Springsteen song title to give a wink and a nod to 10.000 Maniacs is the best choice, even if they did cover it themselves.

Maybe "In My Tribe" (an album title) or "Trouble Me" (one of their original songs) would be a better choice?

Assuming it would even happen, of course, which isn't likely.

Even if they were going to go into the game and add some now Easter egg perks, I think that they would probably go for something a little more relevant now, not make references to a band that hasn't been relevant for over 20 years (since Natalie Merchant left).

Or maybe I am missing something.
The modern music scene isn't my thing (nor, really, is the band). Maybe 10K Maniacs has experienced some career renaissance and I haven't noticed because I am not listening to the radio stations that would be playing their new (or even very much of their old) stuff.

spinnytop · December 2017

"10,000 Fists" seems like a good title for that.

nepht · December 2017

spinnytop said:
"10,000 Fists" seems like a good title for that.

You get that perk from Club Caprice right?

markhawkman · December 2017

I've seen at least 2 people with the thriller dance.

legendarylycan · December 2017

and you'll see very few more; 5K kills for 6 different groups is a pain when your only AoE is 50 foot with a 15 foot spherical radius - especially with nephilim whose presence is sorely lacking in non-apocalypse VB

spinnytop · December 2017

shadowfang240 said:
and you'll see very few more

I've seen more than 2. In fact just the other day I saw 4 lined up doing the dance in sync. That's twice as many!

guyhumual · December 2017

shadowfang240 said:
and you'll see very few more; 5K kills for 6 different groups is a pain when your only AoE is 50 foot with a 15 foot spherical radius - especially with nephilim whose presence is sorely lacking in non-apocalypse VB

Great news: get a friend, with a teleport team teleporter, to run VB crisis, and have them teleport you to Jerryrig's garage at the during the last mission. You'll get a never ending supply of nephilim to kill. They no longer drop anything but it's great way to get those 5k kills.

roughbearmattach · December 2017

shadowfang240 said:
and you'll see very few more; 5K kills for 6 different groups is a pain when your only AoE is 50 foot with a 15 foot spherical radius - especially with nephilim whose presence is sorely lacking in non-apocalypse VB

Get a vehicle with an AoE, and many mobs are quite easy to farm. Also, ask folks in-game for help and advice, as noted, by guyhummual above.

roughbearmattach · December 2017

guyhumual said:
They no longer drop anything but it's great way to get those 5k kills.

They can still drop Nephilim-specific items: costume drops and limited summon devices. When I completed the perk for the dance emote, I got several of both.

legendarylycan · December 2017

roughbearmattach wrote: »

Get a vehicle with an AoE, and many mobs are quite easy to farm. Also, ask folks in-game for help and advice, as noted, by guyhummual above.

yeah, that's kind of what i'm doing right now with nephilim...but 4 kills every few minutes takes a long-**** time to make any progress with, and i don't know of any larger clusters of them that DON'T have master villain or higher-ranked enemies among them (since i'm just parked and letting my vehicle's basic weapon, which is set to autofire, deal with them as they come up while i do other, more productive things)

markhawkman · December 2017

The area around the High Apostolic Church are loaded with them. It's a mixed bag of henchmen, villains and mastervillain/enforcer but mostly the first tow.

legendarylycan · December 2017

yeah, that's where i parked to farm those 4 i mentioned above - right next to the spawn point for one of sammie's dolls in the HAC graveyard

markhawkman · December 2017

You could do laps around the church and wipe every Nephilim that get in firing range.

monaahiru · December 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yt-mp6PpFI

Yay. o3o

markhawkman · December 2017

https://youtu.be/4kw2tzrkVlY
Flying version courtesy of @lezard21

iamrune · December 2017

I got the dance perk now too. It wasn't really hard at all, nothing like Pet Cemetery was.

markhawkman · December 2017

what's pet cemetary?

legendarylycan · December 2017

markhawkman wrote: »

what's pet cemetary?

killing pets, oddly enough - you know, things like sigils, drones, probably those curs ulfhednars summon and whatever those things are that twisted archons summon

farming rak'shasa for his mind worms would probably be the best way to make progress on pet cemetery if the worms count for it, since he spams them like crazy

markhawkman · December 2017

oh.. hmm... Elder Worms do that too.

roughbearmattach · December 2017

shadowfang240 said:

markhawkman wrote: »

what's pet cemetary?

killing pets, oddly enough - you know, things like sigils, drones, probably those curs ulfhednars summon and whatever those things are that twisted archons summon

farming rak'shasa for his mind worms would probably be the best way to make progress on pet cemetery if the worms count for it, since he spams them like crazy

Sigils cast by lemurian Arch-mages worked great, since you can keep beating up sigils without killing the archmage.

chaelk · December 2017

start on farming-
get bored
go do something else

get asked "how many did you kill?"
what?

iamrune · December 2017

roughbearmattach said:
Sigils cast by lemurian Arch-mages worked great, since you can keep beating up sigils without killing the archmage.

That's the old bug back in the day, may still be for all I know.

It used to be that pretty much ONLY Lemurians Archmages Sigils counted towards the Pet Cemetery perk.

markhawkman · December 2017

Hmm... I should check to see if worm mind-worms count.

yogid0nnie · December 2017

The hardest one I did was the 5K Emperyan giant robot things in Lemuria. It took me 2 weeks, but that was years ago when I played the game regularly. I use to farm 5 k perks and have a lot of them on my main toon, Pin Down.

Has anyone ever completed the defeat 5,000 perk?

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