Bionic_Flea

Most of the people I play with are min/maxers to some degree or another but few of them have a stable of all purple/rare/PvPIO builds. Most of them have at least one character, usually their namesake, that they outfit with the best that they can. Sometimes they finish one and then start on a new character to pimp out, but it takes time to complete it.

The rest of their characters are modestly outfitted, whether that be with sets, commons, SOs, HOs, or some combination thereof. But they know what powers to pick, how to slot them, and how to use them to great effect in a given circumstance.

All of the new content should not require extra-ordinary builds, tactics, or teamwork, but I look forward to at least some content that does require some or all of those.

Just like we have now with Hammy raids, Ship raids, STF and RSF -- there is nothing wrong with having somethings be a little more difficult than running in and clicking buttons mindlessly. In fact, I'd be disappointed if none of the new content had an element of difficulty greater than anything we have seen so far.

And if they did make something that hard, I would expect a commensurate reward in merits, HOs, or some other new shiney.

I have a merc/dark MM, a cold/fire corr and an arrow/pain corr that can participate in any team you would like.

I think 12 nukes and 100 EoEs is a bit of overkill, but I guess it's better to be over-prepared than under. Anything unused can be saved for the next one.

Ideally, Brutes should only need 1 or 2 EoEs per wave. Other than the Hammy Taunter, regen buffs from the gather phase should get you by the first 30 - 60 seconds, but it's not bad to go ahead and pop one as you run in.

At 2/3rds to 1/2 health Brutes should go ahead and pop a second unless they have dull pain or something equivalent, then they can probably hold off if their heal fills them back up.

If everything is working as planned, all six yellows should be down before the expiration of the second EoE. But mierde happens so it's better to have more than less.

Similarly, unless you are doing a no-retreat raid, one bio-nuke for each or the first 3 waves is all you need. But extras can be used if there is a wipe.

I have been guilty of SBing someone on a team after being asked not to.

I didn't do it on purpose to bug them. I just had a habit of working my way down the list every so often and buffing everyone to avoid the "SB PLZ" spam. The person that didn't want it was in the middle of the list and my fingers were faster than my brain.

I don't think that makes me a griefer or an idiot, but I suppose SnowGlobe and others would disagree.

Nice article! I'm looking forward to trying these arcs and I hope this positive PR gets more subscribers.

Knight in White Satin.

Meh. I can understand the buffer just trying to be nice and I can understand the player that doesn't want buffs for all sorts of reasons. What I can't understand is the vitriol for having one position or the other.

Oh. It's the Internet. Nevermind. Vitriol is inherent.

Also, inspirations are broken. You should fight toe to toe like real men and stop complaining.

I always think that regens should go for recharge and +HP since they don't really start with any mitigation other than regen and heals.

I heard that several of those 18 were dual boxing it.

Yellow Mitos have extraordinary range and AOE defense (I'm talking waaaay beyond soft-cap). Fulcrum Shift takes a tohit roll. Are you sure that fulcrum shift was hitting?

I would have no problem if GR only had 1-20 missions. I would play them on new alts and on my old favorites to get any badges or for the fun of it. But I say that expecting that they would soon add additional content, say level 21-40 in I17 and 41-50 in I18.

If they did something like that, I would be satisfied.

You can pick up an alternate reward, but not the same reward, within the time period. This works for Hamidon, Stateman's TF, and Recluse's SF.

I also thought it was 24 hours, but I remember begging the devs during Beta to reduce it so that regularly scheduled raids and TFs could be run everyday at the same time, without worrying if you finished it 1 minute too fast.

For no particular reason other than my own imagination, I imagine that the Universal Enhancement Slots will be gained one by one by some process, whether that gaining experience, completing tasks, or whatever.

I further imagined that you would have to make a choice of what to slot to achieve some small but tangible bonus across your other powers. For example, you might gain 3% accuracy to all powers, or 3% damage, or 3% resistance, etc.

I would certainly take my namesake character through any new progression, possibly some others, but certainly not all of my level 50s. I have a lot of 50s, none of them is completely purpled out, although several of them have some purple enhancements. Most of them have at least a couple of good IOs and decent sets.

But a few have only generic IOs and some SOs and I could care less if I ever slot another enhancement in them. It doesn't bother me in the least.

While I can understand and sympathize with the OP's point of fearing to "have" to do x, y, or z over and over to get each of his stable of characters, I can't truly relate because I don't have that fear. I'm just looking forward to new challenges and interesting things to do and see.

I've been silently leveling a few characters on Freedom for the last few months and I've had a few alts in Freedom for years that I never quite got around to finishing.

But I now have a level a few level 50s on Freedom from leveling or transfers: merc/dark MM, fire/cold corr, rad/psi def, emp/sonic def; an almost finished arrow/pain corr, and a bunch of lower level stuff.

Most of my characters are on Justice and I'm pretty experienced at running all the raids and TFs.

I joined RF2009 but don't talk much on it. If you need a body for a raid, TF, SF, or to round out a PvP team, send me a tell @bionic flea or @freebooter flea.

I'm hoping its a revamp to the shadow shard to make it co-op, cleaned up task forces, and a new raid against Rularuu!!!

I also expect we will get that "global enhancement" that was discussed in the mysterious survey a while back:

Hello and belated welcome to my good friend TV.

Can we get programming like this?

Hi Doc! Congratulations on your promotion.

I'm looking forward to your work and reading more from you on the boards.

Congratulations and good luck!

How much of the design is already set and when can we really see your design vision in the game as a whole.

In other words, I assume that much of Going Rogue and the next issue or two have already been designed and are in the process of being programmed and polished. What issue do you think will be the first War Witch Design Vision Issue?