Chyll

Not true. I enjoy it.
I'm just not fanboi enough to ignore that it could be better.

GG non sequitur, ftw!

I know. That's why it cracks me up. The flat denials are sooo transparent.

Subject matter reflects very little on the actual music at issue.
I wish I wasn't at work and could spend the time to find the link, but the melodies were well beyond similar in the most recent instance...


Don't get me wrong, she is talented enough to be entertaining when I catch it on the radio. I begrudge her and her 'performance' nothing, but I'm not spending any of my cash on it

My quoting was incomplete, I meant to reference the entire chain that roughly went:

"more jumping dodging"

"terrible idea"

"then you must want an escort" (implication being that was a poor substitute)

How about each trial brings it's own unique and fun flair rather than just repurposing something that has already been used twice in the last couple of issues.

It is the same mechanic as Apex whether you call it an airstrike or nanostrikes of doom or pixie dusting (as has been pointed out - heck the entire story line is a repackaging of Apex, as was also pointed out).

And that is fine, but it is lazy. I have no trouble pointing it out even as jump in and enjoy playing the TF.

Yes, this is annoying. It's pointless to have added them, and it is pointless to do them.


Holds. Hold PriDur and kill him.
Ran this last night when we had a controller and dom with [Domination] up - he never even got off a single air strike.

Also painless, you can prevent them getting up the stairs with some lovely KB so they never nuke amongst those laying the beat down on the AV.



I am glad you like the lazily repetitive design.

Because, to the ear, they sound a ton a like.

And, someone put portions of the song side by side to play them (no link handy) and the melodies were nearly identical through the chorus.

(Look, for someone that grew up in the 80s, Gaga is pure early Madonna rip off in style and sound. It's fine, but it is incredibly obvious and the denials crack me up.)

yeah, and I have a bridge I'd like to sell you...


Classic Al (does need more accordian, though)

I have always been under the impression that MMs were meant to be more Crowd Control (-> Aggro-Management) rather than Support.
edit: I mean I seem to remember reading that in the past related to design intent.


And Stalker has to be damage, right?
And I tend to think of Brutes as damage first, also.
edit: these two are my thoughts.

Yes. For a variety of reasons I have long stretches of almost only soloing, or certain characters that only solo.


[QUOTE=StratoNexus;3600060]On that same character that you mostly soloed all the way to 50? The one who has already soloed almost all (or maybe even all) the story contacts? Still having fun solo now?

Sure? Why not?


Look, one, can you truly judge someone else's prefered/enjoyed playstyle just because it is different than your's? It is opinion, not fact. Two, debating or deriding his chosen playstyle bears not at all on the question. He asked, as legitimately as possible, for ideas he had overlooked to help him play the way he wants with a specific character.

Your mileage varies significantly. Good for you.
I have as much fun teamed or solo.
And I don't see what the post has to do with the OP to boot.
But my response to your response isn't what you want to hear, so just ignore it.



Anyway, Sam. I'd jaunt up to Ouro and make certain that I didn't miss any arcs. I know you said you felt you had hit them all, but just in case, I'd give it a look.

Then I'd run the new I20 SF. It isn't level 50, but does reach to 40, so you'd have a fairly complete feel with your character and have something new (assuming you didn't play it already). For that matter, did you hit the two new Sharkhead contacts (drawing a blank on names here) from a couple of issues ago?

Then, is this a character you really want to keep a vill? If not, run tips to go over to Blue and hit up some level 50 contacts there for "new experiences".

It seems to me that there have been a (not insignificant) number of discussions that have been... questioning... of various aspects of I20. So, "overwhelmingly positive"?

I haven't been so amused at something on the forums here in a while. Thank you.

It is a puff piece, I agree. It is nice to get the news out that vaunted end game is in CoX now, but I'm kinda with Bill about glossing over issues, the happiness of the Giddy Gang aside. I would have been happier to hear "We are happy with the initial release, and we are listening to players and working to improve the foundation to make it even better."

I just finished this, after mentioning it a few posts ago.
I agree wholeheartedly with this summary review.

It was a light, fast read yet an entertaining and worthy entry to the superhero fiction genre.

Yep, a useful corrollary of "Remembr to duck."

GL, mac.

Participated in my first of this style on Virtue last night.
Have not encountered it on Justice.

Those are the only two servers on which I've run the trials.

I have gotten as high as 49% on a single Lambda run. That is an outlier, however.

Though Lambda does tend to run higher, in my experience, than BAF due to the smaller team size I suspect.

Thank you. I do remember that now, and appreciate the summary.

'Fraid I saw a +2/+3 only recruitment last night.

Now, to be fair, it was going for a MoBadge... but still.

This has not been said better.

Just for my own clarification/understanding. How does earning rate - as per your estimates here - correlate to application rate? (I couldn't think of a better term.)

Earning threads as threads in trials can lead to near instant conversion to powers. If I understand properly, there is a daily shard-to-thread conversion cap? I thought that is where the 3 year number was coming from, not from earnings rate. So earning speed need be no faster than the application speed, because the latter has a governor on it.

(It is entirely possible that I have misunderstood something with the shard-to-thread conversion. It hasn't been something I have looked at meaningfullly.)


Astromomical? No. And for short spurts I'd be perfectly comfortable doing it, but I'd hear about that from my spousal unit pretty quickly.

Plus I have other games I like, and books to read, and children's sporting events to attend...

(Only pointing out that there are perfectly reasonable things to prevent players who like the game and want the shinies to not play constantly...)

I always appreciate your numeric efforts.