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A few months ago, I reviewed my time spent doing Missions in the New Amsterdam Area. You can find that article here at HR Mission Breakdown: New Amsterdam. I hope you found some of the information useful from my time fighting crime in that area, and today I want to bring you some information on the next available mission zone, Planet X.
Planet X will have appearances from multiple characters that come from a different dimension. I wasn't around for those days, but you don't really need to know who the bad guys are to defeat them. Just turn them into BADGE and let Director Nova sort them out.
In many ways, working on a mission in the Planet X zone is very similar to what you encountered in New Amsterdam. There are five mini-bosses you will encounter, one Big Bad boss of the overall zone, and lots of opportunity to find things as you do your duty. It is more exhausting, and will drain your energy more than the New Amsterdam zone, costing 2 Energy per attempt, which will also earn you more experience (2XP per standard attempt) on your journey as a hero.
There are 3 incarnations of this mini-boss, so expect to gain a lot of experience searching for it. It took me 70 tries (140XP) to make my way through all of them. If you trick-or-treat at Halloween, you've likely been to these two villain's houses.
The third mini-boss is a Living Dead Girl, or as you've most likely seen her around previously as Your Zombie-Ex-Girlfriend.
No, I know she's not really your Ex-Girlfriend. That's just her name. Your Zombie-Ex-Girlfriend.
NO! Not your ex-girlfriend. Your Zombie--
OK. We'll do to her like they did to the POTUS and she is now YZEG.(Supernatural, 2XP, 100% drop of YZEG Power Card worth 2MP). 3 versions, and rather quick to show up for me with 11 attempts(22XP).
Next up, you will be searching for Dr. Fulcrum's assistant/fixer, Vixen (Physical, 2XP, Mad Speed Power Card worth 2MP). She's a bit of work, but in 101 attempts (202XP), you can take her down and then go after her boss, Dr. Fulcrum. I hear he has his ups and downs...
One thing about Dr. Fulcrum, he really, REALLY doesn't like to make house calls. I looked for him 97 times (194XP) and decided I'd had enough. I'd collected quite a few Small Keys while searching for him and decided to use some to open the door he was hiding behind. Dr. Fulcrum(Technological, 2XP, 100% drop of Supercharged Leggings) didn't like it when I hit him in the adam's apple as I asked him where his Big Bad Boss, NecroMech was.
Fortunately, six Small Keys and a secret door later, I found NecroMech(Magic, 3XP, 100% Sorcerous Sabotage Power Card worth 2MP and Necro Ring) and brought him down.
To get to this point, I'd gained around 620XP and 16MP worth of Power Cards. Compared to the 167XP/11MP I got in New Amsterdam, I found the effort here to be subpar to the earlier mission I completed. More than 3X the experienced gained, but the rewards were hardly equitable. There aren't very many unexpected drops of items, like the Super-Laser Power Card, but you do have the opportunity to collect a Seed of Potential Supernatural Core piece occasionally.
Once completing the initial round of Planet X, you can go at it again for Bronze, Silver, and Gold variants of the mini- and Big Bad bosses.
Here is how my efforts resulted:
Attempts(XP) Opponent Opponent XP
29(58) Bronze Gragglebrak 2(4MP)
89(178) Bronze HBLST 2(4MP)
28(26) Silver HBLST 2(6MP)
9(18) Silver Gragglebrak 2(6MP)
53(106) Bronze NecroMech 3(4MP)
48(96) Gold HBLST 2(10MP)
23(46) Bronze Vixen 2(4MP)
3(6) Bronze Dr. Fulcrum 2(4MP)
79(158) Gold Gragglebrak 2(10MP)
81(162) Silver Dr. Fulcrum 2(6MP)
99(198) Bronze Zombie Ex 2(4MP)
52(104) Silver Zombie Ex 2(6MP)
7(14) Gold Dr. Fulcrum 2(10MP)
95(190) Silver Vixen 2(6MP)
5(10) Gold Vixen 2(10MP)
9(18) Gold Zombie Ex 2(10MP)
15(30) Silver NecroMech 3(6MP)
22(44) Gold NecroMech 3(10MP)
Each of these bosses also has a percent chance to drop items of varying quality. The Power Cards, such as Mad Speed, variants all sell for the same base MP reward while the equipment, improve in their statistics. Good luck trying to collect them if that is your goal.
700+ missions completed, 1400+XP earned with another 39XP from defeating the bosses themselves rewarded me with a slight bump in value of Power Cards for resale as New Amsterdam.
Planet X: (6x4)+(6x6)+(6x10)= 24+36+60=120MP
New Amsterdam: (5x4)+(5x6)+(5x10)=100MP
Reselling the MP Power Cards may garner you another 18MP(Mad Speeds, Sorcerous Sabotage, etc...), so overall there are rewards to defeating villains her, but if I had to choose, I'd do New Amsterdam over Planet X.
I hope this information helps some of you to decide where you want to do missions at. Next time, I'll look at Purgatory Penitentiary and give you my thoughts on that zone. If this kind of information is helpful to you, be sure to share it and let me know in the comments.
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