Carnifax_NA

Indeed. I hope the Devs brought a raft of good answers to his question in preparation for the EUs anniversaries meet-and-greet.



Hell at the moment I'd settle for one subscription allowing to access both sides and keeping the server lists separate if it's such a technical issue.

I've seen a few of these too, one on a Citadel TF we took part on. Didn't think they should have been kicked but did feel like shouting "Why did you take 2 Rezzes and skip Fort!!" but kept it bottled in and instead basked in the warm knowledge that my Plant/Emp kicked their arses in terms of contributing to the team.


They dropped halfway through the last mission and no-one noticed until after the AV was down. Then we got the "stuck TF" bug and some of us repeated the last mission without the Tank, the Warshade just ran at Vandal instead.


That TF ruled (I got a Miracle Unique with the first roll as well just to cap it all off, so all those monotonous Council Bases were worth it).

* ^This basically. You're not really supposed to be SOed out at the moment you hit 22, you're supposed to gradually fit them in.

Nowadays it's ridiculously easy to do so thanks to various methods, but it's still not the expected norm.

The market is shared between them. It makes it trivially easy to get SOs at 22 if that's what you really want to.

I don't understand TBAs points at all really. On one hand they WANT IT NAO in regards to SOs but on the other they're not willing to go through the easy steps in order to achieve it. It takes about 4 mins marketing at the start and end of a play sessions to set yourself up to make half a million or so. That's ignoring selling your own drops altogether and just bidding low on suitable level 50 recipies at the end of one session and vendoring them at the start of the next.

If you've some objection to that for whatever reason my alternative (or parallel) was to run some fun MA intro arcs, convert the tickets into Bronze Rolls and sell them. Hell you could just use tickets to buy the DOs/SOs in question if you really are allergic to the market (although I'm pretty sure TBA uses IOs extensively at the end game going on other posts).

Because the perceived worthlessness of these IOs means they are exceptionally good value for someone who likes to Frankenslot, like me.




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I've a robot Dominator called RuntimeException who's whole concept is that it was jury-rigged with a Clockwork Psi Transmitter and is so badly coded and bug ridden that anyone getting close gets their minds overwhelmed with psionically transmitted spam, DOS attacks, infinite loops and overflow errors. They end up running away slowly, *randomly attacking others, frozen in place or falling over (he's an Ice/Psi).*



* Of course I can't blame the suicidal love of running into melee range on the Pet AI.*

I suppose, but not really to a massive extent. Neither is what I'd usually consider powerful force multiply buffs/debuffs. -Recharge caps fairly quickly anyway and -Defense isn't the most sought after of debuffs, people tend to be well slotted anyway.

Unfortunately most of the advice there I do, including forming my own teams occasionally.



SGs are the only thing I don't do, thanks to my weird playtimes, relatively speaking.


Yep, this is true and should resolve itself within a week or so. After that there should be tonnes of people redside again.

Warshades are great additions to a team, but they aren't force multipliers, at least not in the way I understand the term.

And the solution? I genuinely want to know how other people go about it. I tend to use the channels a bit as well and given the pre-i17 lull it's sorta frustrating at the mo

I've made a fair few villain teams over the last few weeks but that gets tiresome too. Do you send tells to one or two people in teams via the Search window or how do you go about it?

I said "for the most part". I've certainly never come across it anything like as much as it seems to pop up on the forums.

You missed the bit where I said "shooting over support". Shooting pistols is hella-fun, I agree with you, I've a Thugs/Traps myself who does the same thing. Doing it instead of laying down Poison Gas and Acid Mortar when your team is struggling with a big evil spawn is indeed silly.

A lot of teen characters I've had go through the same thing to some extent. My Stone/Fire Brute (DOed with just Acc and End everywhere) was truly horrific and needed to Buff Farm the AE just to get me to 22 so I could deal with it.

And Controllers.



Do pets count? The Lich and Bruiser come with knockdown versions of Torrent and Handclap respectively.

"Literally, a bandwagon is a wagon which carries the band in a parade, circus or other entertainment."

Yay. I was right. Roll out the "Carni was right" bandwagon.
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What do you mean it doesn't exist?

This whole thread reminds me of Marges "Am I cool kids" bit from the Homerpoluza epsiode of the Simpsons to be honest.*

I don't see the point (which of course makes me cool. Until I point it out.... damn!)

Given the lack of any information about what you think should be in the set and what would make it different to say Willpower or Invulnerability (both of which would make fine Reptile sets) adding more reptile cossies and just choosing one of those two sets (or Regen or whatever else you fancied trying out) instead would seem to be to be a far more flexible solution.

Like coating yourself in small reptiles for defense? Won't PETA get upset?*


At the moment you could do this using different cossie sets, a CC emote and either Invunerablity or Willpower as the Defense set. More lizard/reptile/dinosaur costume pieces would be nice though.

Controllers control their enemies and Dominators dominate them. For the most part not having control over controller pets is fine, one less thing to worry about, but Planties AI is terrible altogether.



I would like there to be an option for a MM to switch AI scripts so we can try and choose one that suits them (I think different pets have different AI scripts, but not sure how many or varied they are).

If you've got Eclipse slotted for Damage Resistance and are running it along with Human form shields or bubbles then it basically caps after 3 or 4 enemies hit anyway, that's why you don't see any difference between 3 and 8 targets.



But with it capping you can take over 4 times more damage than vs just running human form shields. That's why it's so awesome.

Or "starting a self destruction count-down, blowing yourself to little pieces and then getting better".*

Nope. It can never self-stack. It'd be ridiculously overpowered if it could since it fires every 5 seconds or so.

As is it just seems a bit dull to me compared to other suggestions for new ATs in this forum. Given that there's plenty of suggestions for new ATs cropping up all the time on the forums, I'm just saying there's not much here which makes it unique or stand out compared to some of them.


It needs some zing IMO, something to make it stand out more compared to those other suggestions for new ATs, and to stand out against ones already in the game.