Carnifax_NA

Just logging in with someone over 20 will do it, that's what I had to do using a level 27 dom.

I did have a spare Earth/Fire dom hovering at 19 just in case though.

I've been playing this game 4.5 years
I've just moved from the EU to the US servers
I'm delighted by this change as I can now make a Widow and remake my Warshade US side.

Great move IMO.


Given that there is new level 50 onwards content on the way with GR, and that the devs said unlockable at 50 ATs were a mistake overall it's a clever move by them (I'd probably have gated it to 35 but 20 is fine by me too).

Well, you can by 22.



Getting it at 18 means you can slot it up, take Stamina at 20 (assuming you need it) and have both slotted with 3 recharge for HoE and 3 Ends for stamina at 22.

Despite repeatedly inquiries they didn't address Server List merges at all in any way, shape or form. Well the Ocho did bring up Forum merges and the reasoning behind it but that's all.

Cake?

Damn it Damz, you made me run off to check as well.

Apparently my Craptop "is capable of running Ultra Mode" though. Erm, no dear, it's not.

Your sarcasm meter is broken.

Yeah. It's almost like they haven't finished the update on the server side or something.

Very curious...

City of FemDoms!

(I'm making a Widow myself. I might make him a boy though, just to be a unique snowflake).

I'd still consider that needlessly draconian, I'm happy with the current set-up.

I've got a different build again, pretty much evenly spread across all three forms and heavily Frankenslotted. I've a few viable Human Form powers, including three toggles (Smashing/Lethal shield, Shadow Cloak and Inky Aspect) and both Shadow Blast and Essence Drain 3 slotted and well slotted Nova (5 slotted AOEs, 3 slotted blasts) and Dwarf (Mire, Taunt and Heal strongly slotted, weaker single-targets).

So I play according to whim and whimsy mostly. If Unchained is up I'll use the human blasts to make a corpse to explode. If I've two Fluffies then I'll tank for them, if Quasar comes up when I'm tanking I'll do the double-mire Quasar thing (it's hilarious when the Team Tank decides "bored now" and nukes the rest of the spawn). If Eclipse and Mire hit well I'll play the Floating Purple Platform of Doom for a bit.

Only pool I bothered with is Speed, don't have the dedication or resources to work towards a Mule build, but I could certainly see the attraction if you can afford it.

This. Imagine if we used the model WoW and WAR used and merit roll results became Bound on Pick-up and other Recipes Bound on Craft.

*shudder*

The wails from the Marketing forums would be epic though

They're the people who make the game. You have the choice of paying 8.99 to play their game by whatever rules they decide on, whether good or bad (or both).

Asking why the devs should say is kinda redundant, it's what they do for a living.

That's called Godmodding isn't it?



"I'm actually controlling your character now"
"No you're not"
"I meant you to say that"
"Take this so!"
"I meant you to start slapping me in the face"


That's a daft argument, CactusB. There's such a thing as fudging something beyond breaking point.


You'd be better off coming up with a better explanation, even if it's something like "I'm using a device I got off DATA / Ritual I got from MAGI to bring you back from the brink".

The Devs disagree with you, one factor determining how they change things is how widely it is being misused by the playerbase. Part of the change was aimed at changing players behaviour as well.



I sorta agree with them too, for example Freakshow bosses are trivial to certain builds (anything with high melee defense or lethal/smashing resistance which does NRG damage). With the minions & lieuts thrown in too they become a little more varied in terms of the damage they do.

A single enemy type, with one set of attacks and defenses & weaknesses is easier to game & exploit than a number of different enemies.*



Given that they also developed a new set of Difficulty settings around the same time it seems logical to infer that they also wanted to move farming away from the MA, where it doesn't generate much in the way of "trivial" drops like common salvage, and back into the main game where spawns follow the traditional spread of Minion, Lieut & Boss.

The devs don't care about stopping farming. They care about stopping farming which exploits glitches in the game and leads to rewards being reaped out of all proportion to the risk involved.

^This.

I've got kids now (well 1.5 at the moment). Even when my friends are local a lot of them are nurses working nights etc and it's too easy to lose touch. Facebook lets me see when they're planning a gig or night out or if a birthday is coming up and plan around going out with them that night.

People seem to think Facebook is an alternative to having "real friends" and "real get togethers". It's not. It's a supplement to them and lets you keep in contact casually with those you don't see for months (and plan when you will see them again). It's a lot more casual than making a phone, and more sociable too since ALL your friends can see the bit of news or planned get-together and decide to join in.

There's lots of things I don't like about Facebook such as privacy concerns and Farmville spam (both can be dealt with though), but there's lots of good and useful things about it as well.

If you don't like it grand, but don't assume its for losers "who have no real life friends" or a means for you to soley talk about yourself.

I don't Twitter, but I wish I'd invented it. Watching the ebb and flow of trends is more interesting to me than reading what people actually say on it (the metadata is more useful than the data IMO).

* 10 slots does not equal ten brand new IOs needed to slot them and 10 discarded ones which you need to save from the old powers however. Every Controller Epic has an AOE blast and toggle shield for example.*

Your argument was that there's no way for new players of keeping junk IOs in their inventory. Which is frankly baloney. New players won't need more than 10 slots and "junk" IOs are by definition junk and may as well be Respec Vendored.

There's only two instances where I can see that you'd end up with more than 10 decent IOs worth saving which you'd want to have in your Inventory.*

1) A PvP build from before i13 *might* have slotted IOs which are now less than optimal resulting in the need for a "from the ground up" total rebuild (dropping sets which give Defense for Regen & +HP ones or something)
2) You're gutting a character because you don't like them any more and want to transfer a lot of IOs to a new build.

But you didn't cite either of these reasons, instead you choose arguments and situations which aren't really valid IMO, probably to attempt to strengthen your case.

In both cases if you feel that strongly about them you can respec multiple times with the character, using a combination of Trial Respecs, Freespecs, Vet Reward respecs, IO Respecs and/or Paid for Respecs.