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|Type of Zone=Villain City Zone
|Type of Zone=Villain City Zone
|Level Range=40-50
|Level Range=40-50
|Trainer=Arbiter Apolis
|Trainer=[[Arbiter Apolis]]
|Task Force Contact=[[Lord Recluse]]
|Task Force Contact=[[Lord Recluse]]
|Event=[[Arachnos Flier]]
|Event=[[Arachnos Flier]]
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|Enemies=[[Arachnoids]], [[Arachnos]], [[Circle of Thorns|Circle of Thorns]], [[Crey]], [[Knives of Artemis|Knives of Artemis]], [[Longbow]], [[Nemesis]]
|Enemies=[[Arachnoids]], [[Arachnos]], [[Circle of Thorns|Circle of Thorns]], [[Crey]], [[Knives of Artemis|Knives of Artemis]], [[Longbow]], [[Nemesis]]
|Connecting Zones=[[The Abyss|Abyss]], [[Monster Island|Monster Island]], [[Nerva Archipelago|Nerva Archipelago]], [[St. Martial|St. Martial]], [[Rikti War Zone|Rikti War Zone]], [[Recluse's Victory|Recluse's Victory]]
|Connecting Zones=[[The Abyss|Abyss]], [[Monster Island|Monster Island]], [[Nerva Archipelago|Nerva Archipelago]], [[St. Martial|St. Martial]], [[Rikti War Zone|Rikti War Zone]], [[Recluse's Victory|Recluse's Victory]]
|Lines=[[Rogue Isles Ferry]]
|Lines=[[Ferry#Villain Ferry Locations|Rogue Isles Ferry]], [[Black Helicopter Line]]
|VidiotMaps File=grandville
|VidiotMaps File=grandville
}}
}}
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== Overview ==
== Overview ==
'''Grandville''' is a high-level zone, appropriate mainly for level 40 to 50 villains, in City of Villains.
'''Grandville''' is a high-level zone, appropriate mainly for level 40 to 50 villains, in City of Villains. Grandville represents the culmination of a villain's career, an epic zone featuring ''"Spider City"'', a huge Arachnos tower with a web-like supporting structure. Villains can get to Grandville via the [[Ferry#Villain Ferry Locations|Rogue Isles Ferry]] and [[Black Helicopter Line]].


== Zone Background ==
[[Arbiter Apolis]], the trainer, is located in front of [[Lord Recluse]]'s tower and statue, along with the [[Merit Vendor]], [[Jetpack Vendor|Jetpack Quartermaster]], [[Fortunata Fateweaver]], and [[Quartermasters|Elite Quartermaster]]. Grandville's only Broker, [[Wiggy the Brit]], is nearby as well.
 
As you emerge into this dark towering metropolis, you will know that you have finally stepped into [[Arachnos|Arachnos']] parlor.  Here you must make an immediate choice, will you become the predator or the prey?
 
Rising from the gritty streets, slate grey buildings ascend into the sky, blotting out the sun and driving Grandville into the blackness of perpetual night.  Among the shadows, the city is a dense jungle of skyscrapers linked together by walkways and bridges.  Below are the castaways, infiltrators, and mutated creatures too terrible to mention.  Above are the less wild but more cunning hunters, like spiders waiting to pounce.
 
Originally a prosperous pirate town, Grandville grew into to a thriving business center in the mid 1950s.  A small independent island, many corporations found benefit in operating outside the laws of the U.S. and the locals were eager to welcome new investors.  Over time, lax regulations and the proliferation of offshore banking drew in even more businesses.  Because it is so small, rather than grow outward, the island was forced to build upward, leaving those with the least power cast-off at the lowest levels of the city's strata.  Already fortress like, when Lord Recluse took over the region he chose Grandville as the location for his capital and built himself a massive watchtower complex called the WEB.  Now [[Lord Recluse|Recluse's]] citadel soars above this stratified city, the pinnacle atop a ladder of power.
 
Passing through the streets of Grandville it is possible to catch an occasional glimpse into the Gutters below.  Through imperfect junctions, missing grates, and open sewage pits, a vertigo-inducing drop plunges into the darkness of the Gutter where the dredges of Grandville lurk.  Unable to effectively control the creatures hidden here, Recluse has an Arachnos Flier patrol the area, its only goal to annihilate all living things in its path.
 
Above this dank underbelly, Arachnos officials and local business people live and work in Spider City.  With miles of over-walks, railings, and bridges to keep everyone far from the grime below, this is the safest level of Grandville.
 
The white-collar bureaucrats and Arachnos agents of Spider City go about their lives under the oppressive shadow of the Tangle.  This claustrophobic neighborhood extends from Spider City all the way to the very tops of the WEB buildings.  With tangles of cables, catwalks, fire escapes, and makeshift hiding places, this brutal area provides a precarious existence to those who can survive its dangers.
 
The WEB itself is an enormous building complex at the heart of Grandville with an array of cables spiraling outward from the center, a literal web suspended over the entire island.  A ring of skyscrapers surrounding the central Arachnos watchtower under this intricate webbing, the WEB truly is the inner sanctum of Recluse's domain.
 
Supporting the elaborate vertical construction of Grandville is the secretive Web Fabrication Plant located on a manmade island to the north.  Supposedly dedicated entirely to the construction and maintenance of the WEB superstructure, the exact nature of this industrial plant remains suspect.
 
From the WEB, Over-Governor [[Elisa Silk]] handles all the civilian affairs of Grandville. The official Arachnos Keeper of Secrets, Silk is a powerful figure in the Rogue Isles—not even Recluse himself knows exactly what it is that she conceals.  Watching over Grandville's security matters is [[Marshal Mayhem]], a subtle man best known for his complex global extortion schemes.
 
With the completion of Grandville, Recluse has spun his web and now lays hidden, luring those he seeks to destroy, a patient hunter setting his trap for an unsuspecting prey.


== Contacts ==
== Contacts ==
=== Strike Force Contacts ===
* [[Lord Recluse]]
=== Trainer ===
=== Trainer ===
 
* [[Arbiter Apolis]]
* Arbiter Apolis


=== Brokers ===
=== Brokers ===
* [[Wiggy the Brit]]
* [[Wiggy the Brit]]


=== Normal Contacts ===
=== Regular Contacts ===
 
; Levels 40-44
==== 40-44 ====
 
* [[Arbiter Daos]]
* [[Arbiter Daos]]
* [[Dr. Forrester]]
* [[Dr. Forrester]]
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* [[Westin Phipps]]
* [[Westin Phipps]]


==== 45-50 ====
; Levels 45-50
 
* [[Abyss]]
* [[Abyss]]
* [[Efficiency Expert Pither]]
* [[Efficiency Expert Pither]]
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* [[Vernon von Grun]]
* [[Vernon von Grun]]


=== Unlockable Contacts ===
=== Special Contacts ===
 
; Unlockable Contacts
==== 40-44 ====
* [[Ambassador Kuhr'Rekt]] (40-44)
 
* [[Number 204]] (40-44)
* [[Ambassador Kuhr'Rekt]]
* [[Television]] (45-50)
* [[Number 204]]
* [[Viridian]] (45-50)
 
==== 45-50 ====
 
* [[Television]]
* [[Viridian]]
 
=== Patron Contacts ===


; Patron Contacts
* [[Arbiter Rein]] (Patron selection mission)
* [[Arbiter Rein]] (Patron selection mission)
* [[Black Scorpion]]
* [[Black Scorpion]]
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* [[Ghost Widow]]
* [[Ghost Widow]]
* [[Scirocco]]
* [[Scirocco]]
; Strike Force Contact
* [[Lord Recluse]]


== Zone Events ==
== Zone Events ==
=== Major events ===
* Every two to eight hours, an [[Arachnos Flier]] will launch from the central tower and go on patrol of the zone.


* [[Arachnos Flier]]
=== Minor events ===
* None.


== Important Locations ==
== Important Locations ==
=== Neighborhoods ===
=== Neighborhoods ===
* Spider City
* Spider City
* The Fab
* The Fab
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* The Tangle
* The Tangle


== Stores ==
=== Exploration Badges ===
 
{{BadgeBox|Guttersnipe}}
Elite Quartermaster sells:
{{BadgeBox|Master of the Airwaves}}
 
{{BadgeBox|Overlord}}
* Level 40, 45, 50 Magic Single Origin Enhancements
{{BadgeBox|Sewer Dweller}}
* Level 40, 45, 50 Mutant Single Origin Enhancements
* Level 40, 45, 50 Natural Single Origin Enhancements
* Level 40, 45, 50 Science Single Origin Enhancements
* Level 40, 45, 50 Technology Single Origin Enhancements


=== Plaques ===
{{BadgeBox|Arachnos Rising}}
* [[Arachnos Rising#Monument 4|Arachnos Rising IV]]: In The Gutter neighborhood, just outside the wall around Spider City. [[Coordinates]] {{coords|1729.5|-459|1514.5}}
* [[Arachnos Rising#Monument 5|Arachnos Rising V]]: On the back side of the large tower in The Tangle neighborhood. [[Coordinates]] {{coords|2766|-340|793}}


Jetpack Quartermaster sells the [[Raptor Pack]] Temp Power for 10,000 [[Infamy]].
=== Stores ===
* '''Elite Quartermaster''' sells level 40, 45, and 50 [[SO]] [[Enhancements]] of each of the [[origin]]s.
* [[Jetpack Vendors|Jetpack Quartermaster]] sells the [[Raptor Pack]] Temp Power for 10,000 [[Infamy]].
* {{orange|Contacts in the zone sell enhancements and inspirations. Will be added.}}


== Transfer Points ==
=== Transfer Points ===
 
* [[Black Helicopter Line]] to the [[Nerva Archipelago]] and [[St. Martial]]
* Black Line helicopter to the [[Nerva Archipelago]] and [[St. Martial]]
* [[Ferry#Villain Ferry Locations|Rogue Isles Ferry]] to [[Cap au Diable]], [[Sharkhead Isle]], the [[Nerva Archipelago]], and [[St. Martial]]
* Ferry to [[Cap au Diable]], [[Sharkhead Isle]], the [[Nerva Archipelago]], and [[St. Martial]]
* Submarine to [[The Abyss]] and [[Monster Island]]
* Submarine to [[The Abyss]] and [[Monster Island]]
* [[Vanguard]] mantains a portal to the [[Rikti War Zone]].
* [[Vanguard]] maintains a portal to the [[Rikti War Zone]].
* Portal to [[Recluse's Victory]].
* Portal to [[Recluse's Victory]].
== Badges ==
=== Exploration Badges ===
{{BadgeBox|Guttersnipe}}
{{BadgeBox|Master of the Airwaves}}
{{BadgeBox|Overlord}}
{{BadgeBox|Sewer Dweller}}


== Villain Groups ==
== Villain Groups ==
 
* {{Enemy Arachnoids}}
* [[Arachnoids]]
* {{Enemy Arachnos}}
* [[Arachnos]]
* {{Enemy Circle of Thorns}}
* [[Circle of Thorns]]
* {{Enemy Crey}}
* [[Crey]]
* {{Enemy Knives of Artemis}}
* [[Knives of Artemis]]
* {{Enemy Longbow}}
* [[Longbow]]
* {{Enemy Nemesis}}
* [[Nemesis]]


== Statistics ==
== Statistics ==
* Grandville covers 69,696,516 square feet (2.5 square miles) of navigable area.
* Grandville covers 69,696,516 square feet (2.5 square miles) of navigable area.
* Its extremes are as follows: north, -5503; east, -639; south, 4223; west, 6527; top, 1300; bottom, -864.5
* Its extremes are as follows: north, -5503; east, -639; south, 4223; west, 6527; top, 1300; bottom, -864.5
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* The image that composes the map is 512 pixels by 512 pixels.  The scale of the map is 1 pixel = 19.042969 feet.
* The image that composes the map is 512 pixels by 512 pixels.  The scale of the map is 1 pixel = 19.042969 feet.
* The top right corner of the map area is at coordinates (7789.387423, -5523.480316).  Note that this area is not directly navigable.
* The top right corner of the map area is at coordinates (7789.387423, -5523.480316).  Note that this area is not directly navigable.
== Notes ==
* Grandville was released for City of Villains in [[Issue 7]].


== External Links ==
== External Links ==
 
* [http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/game_updates/issue_7/issue_7_grandville.html Zone preview] for [[Issue 7]]'s release of Grandville.
* [http://www.cityofvillains.com/feature_update_issue_7b.html Zone preview] before the release of Issue 7.


[[Category:CoV City Zones]]
[[Category:CoV City Zones]]
[[Category:Villain Zones]]
[[Category:Villain Zones]]

Revision as of 05:35, 23 February 2009

Grandville
Map
Villain City Zone (40-50)
Trainers:
Arbiter Apolis
Trial / TF Contacts:
Lord Recluse
Events:
Arachnos Flier
Plaque Badges:
Arachnos Rising IV, V
Day Jobs:
{{{Day Jobs}}}
No updated MoreMaps4U map available

Overview

Grandville is a high-level zone, appropriate mainly for level 40 to 50 villains, in City of Villains. Grandville represents the culmination of a villain's career, an epic zone featuring "Spider City", a huge Arachnos tower with a web-like supporting structure. Villains can get to Grandville via the Rogue Isles Ferry and Black Helicopter Line.

Arbiter Apolis, the trainer, is located in front of Lord Recluse's tower and statue, along with the Merit Vendor, Jetpack Quartermaster, Fortunata Fateweaver, and Elite Quartermaster. Grandville's only Broker, Wiggy the Brit, is nearby as well.

Contacts

Trainer

Brokers

Regular Contacts

Levels 40-44
Levels 45-50

Special Contacts

Unlockable Contacts
Patron Contacts
Strike Force Contact

Zone Events

Major events

  • Every two to eight hours, an Arachnos Flier will launch from the central tower and go on patrol of the zone.

Minor events

  • None.

Important Locations

Neighborhoods

  • Spider City
  • The Fab
  • The Gutter
  • The Tangle

Exploration Badges

Badge
Guttersnipe (2861.5, -475.7, 2311.5)[Copy]

Life at the bottom is rough, and after visiting Hobo Row in the Grandville's Gutter you can agree.

Badge

Top of the world! You have climbed to the top of the radio tower in Grandville.

Badge
Overlord (1357.5, -441.0, -596.5)[Copy]

You've visited the beach outside the Grandville city walls, where Lord Recluse viciously repelled an invasion of Longbow landing craft.

Badge
Sewer Dweller (2681.5, -443.6, -729.5)[Copy]

A new low, even for a villain, you've stumbled through the very very bottom of Grandville in the area known as 'The Gutter.'

Plaques

Badge

Know your friend—but know your rivals even better.

Stores

Transfer Points

Villain Groups

Statistics

  • Grandville covers 69,696,516 square feet (2.5 square miles) of navigable area.
  • Its extremes are as follows: north, -5503; east, -639; south, 4223; west, 6527; top, 1300; bottom, -864.5
  • The greatest distance between two navigable points within a horizontal plane is 2.29 miles.
  • The image that composes the map is 512 pixels by 512 pixels. The scale of the map is 1 pixel = 19.042969 feet.
  • The top right corner of the map area is at coordinates (7789.387423, -5523.480316). Note that this area is not directly navigable.

External Links

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