Blood Red Arachnid

You're not stating these things as your opinion. You're imposing. And when someone starts imposing, that crosses the line for personal benefit. My statement (again, point completely missed) is that imposing is a problem. Merely having an opinion isn't.

You have completely missed the point. The location on the power scale in which something can be called a "god" is ultimately subjective. It is well within the realm of possibility that someone playing this game has a concept of deities in which a 50 caliber rifle would pose a serious threat to them. As shocking as this is, it shouldn't be a surprise that people have opinions during pretendy fun time that are different than yours.

If your concept for a character is one that directly conflicts with the game design in which you have decided to immerse this character, then that is your problem. It is not your authority to impose your idea of pretendy fun time on other people, and it certainly isn't your authority to impose it on the people who make the game that you have put your character in.

This. So much this. It never ceases to amaze how different the concepts of deities can be from person to person. But, at the end of it, whether you are referring to something on the level Thor from the comic books, or all the way to Adonai Himself, the scales of power is ultimately in your head.


The way I see it, "incarnates" has less to deal with anything remotely divine, instead dealing more with the well of the furies. The term is just the term used, adopted not out of literal meaning but out of habit. But, if you want to see it differently, that is up to how you write the stories in your head.

Ah, good to hear. So I am being ignored without being /ignored. Now, as for the details...

*I think it is just one guy or just one global. This isn't an event that happens very often, but it does happen. Each time I've hosted a trial, I have personally never had a problem keeping up with all of the tells. But, if there were a "mistake", I probably would've caught it by the second tell I would be sent by the person.
*I don't spam. I will send a tell, a second, and sometimes a third throughout the entire length of time it takes to form the league, which is usually over the span of 10-15 minutes. I will broadcast once or twice after these tells are ignored. I stop after this, usually because at that point I assume that I am being ignored and am just annoying everyone who is not the league leader.
*I am not hidden. Ever.
*I do not set myself to refuse invites. Ever.
*I check my LFG queue before joining a trial, since experience from having hosted numerous trials has taught me that this is a common reoccurring problem. I also check to make sure I am not lingering in a previous task force.
*These were never on trials that were formed quickly. These were on trials that were formed slowly, to the point where the trial leader would actually broadcast after every time a member joined their league, over the span of a quarter hour.
*The first time this had happened, another person heard my broadcast and mentioned something to the leader, with no luck. Another player, hearing the incident, started forming their own trial and invited me onto it with no problems whatsoever.
*Specific AT's were not requested.

Before I come to the forums and make a thread about the subject where people will inevitably start to assume the worst, I exhausted every other outlet for explanation. This had really perplexed me, so I asked about the ignore system in the game.

This still has me a bit perplexed, since this has happened three different times... on three different toons. Now, even though there are a lot of players on virtue, very few of them step up to actually host trials. That's the reason why I host trials on my own (Usually MoM, TPN, and Keyes since other people don't run those as often). I am fairly certain that it is the same guy who is doing it, since his name seemed familiar. But, with no ignore message and no common theme between toons (Rogue, Vigilante, Villain), it is implying that this individual is getting the globals from each of their tells, specifically looking for my handle, and then ignoring instead of /ignoring me just to hear me send tells to them and occasionally broadcast.

I suppose that if I had popped redside with my Vigilante for awhile, then it might make that thing where you don't accept tells from the other side an explanation.


Now, the big question you've all been waiting for: Have I run afoul anyone in the game? The answer is yes, I probably have. I imagine it is hard not to, since I have seen players go ballistic for the smallest and stupidest things. I remember once I heard someone go into a long rant because I mentioned that Christmas shopping for my sister was expensive. The flip side to this is that I get plenty of laughs and plenty of praise. I've had numerous tells where I am praised, and I have had none where I am scorned. If people are hating me, they are doing so very quietly. Also to point out, I don't have any recollection of ever sending a tell and being sent the "you are being ignored" message.

This is what my first theory was, however it would be the only instance in which a damage proc would essentially be firing off of itself. Also, it would make the core power procs nearly useless, as they would always tick just once or twice. Though that would be the most effective way to test the theory: The core damage procs, when they activate, should rarely tick more than twice (6.25% chance). If it happens too frequently, we'll know it works by a different mechanic.

Those numbers up there could very well be correct. It is just that it is hard to see what is happening when you look at the values individually. Taken from the negative perspective, you aren't going to be getting 5 ticks 76% of the time you fire off an attack: well more than a majority. Though it does seem like the 5 ticks were rarer than that, though. They seemed so rare that I'm still uncertain if they actually happen, or if I am just miscounting.