Chyll
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Quote:pool power. couldn't repeated fast enough 10 times otherwise.Originally Posted by SilverAgeFan
We're not talking Assemble Team, correct? But rather the fourth tier power from the teleport pool? (I ask in part because it is the latter I am most interested in and the former is currently amongst the many greyed out vet and temp powers on these trials). -
Quote:In Beta at one point we had some success with a high-stealth (or stalker) with super speed finding a crate and then team porting everyone in hot at the location where they focus on the crate.Originally Posted by SilverAgeFan
Edit 2: a challenge to other players willing to think outside of the box: 3 astral merits to the first person who can describe a successful strategy that employs either group fly or team teleport to speed up and make either of these trials more efficient. This may sound like a joke, but I'm serious. There was a remark a ways back about the devs trying to design some of the new challenges with the more "situational" (read: often skipped and lampooned!) powers in mind. Curious as to how far they'll go.
the stealther moves on, finds a new location, and then hot ports the team as soon as they've cleared the object to the new location.
was not tried enough to offer a judgement of its efficacy, but it is a strategy to consider. -
Quote:Truth... but I look forward to there being more variety in our gameplay options for our incarnates.Originally Posted by HardRider
As said before...this is war..not some pansy as5 ****** of a AV trying to conquer a town or murder a hero. i like the new system..adds more to the game
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Quote:Yep, yep.Originally Posted by SilverAgeFan
Because of the level difference, long duration soft control seems better than hard control here.
I've found blackstar nuke's -to-hit to be useful. Sleet's KD is handy. Other similar powers are just excellent. -
My first runs on the beta server I hated both Lambda and BAF.
Subsequent attempts, a little better understanding, and I grugdingly hated BAF and grudgingly accepted Lambda.
Now we find ourselves live, and that assessment has not changed.
I have a passionate dislike for BAF... there is no meaningful way to control the adds at the end and unless you work fast or have plenty of soft control to limit the 9CUs the league gets overwhelmed and once that happens I do not see a way to overcome (but maybe I'm still missing something).
Lambda has strategy and action to control the final phase that a team can exercise and earn success. I like that.
BAF you have to brute force a solution - as far as I can tell so far. And that feels icky, a bit. *shrug* -
Quote:No, I do not believe it is.Originally Posted by IanTheM1
Feedback: Holy cow is that excessively prohibitive. Now I know for sure I won't be even bothering with Lambda anymore, except maybe a few more inevitably failed runs to get the last of the XP for Destiny.
Considering you can get an Astral Merit from the BAF for more or less just defeating a single AV, there's a huge imbalance there.
It feels like it should be lowered to 5 Grenades, 5 Acids, 5 Cooperation Bonuses, or something similar.
Four live runs; 1 success.
Teams of 8 (twice), 12, & 16 (straight queue pug and formed teams). I don't think we failed to get all the grenades ever. I received many Astral merits, and the emp; Interface unlocked and slotted at the first level. -
I think the raids are fine overall, but I completely agree with this sentiment:
Quote:C&E, regarding this:Originally Posted by Kiken
If every piece of Incarnate content that comes after is the same, though, then I'll not be so impressed.
I know I want non-trial, solo or normal team incarnate content. And I want it to be challenging and push me to the limit.Quote:Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
This kinda mystifies me when I see it.
Mostly because most people I've seen say something like this mean it along the lines of: I'm not super unless I can crush any opposition to me with no effort at all. -
It is an issue of quantity...
I've had the occasional drop on various characters, but I have one that whenever I log in finds himself solo at +0/x8... he doesn't 'farm' but anything he runs that's the setting and he is my leader in purple drops easily, despite not even hitting 50 until considerably after the purples were introduced.
Assuming your friend plays similarly - more solo than team and at a high multiple player setting.... then the RNG hates him and I recommend a sacrifice on an altar of dice.
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Quote:Yeah, that was a bit over played. Both because we have such a vast first hand knowledge of conditions elsewhere in our galaxy. And second, because it is hard to believe that a civilization could become so dependant on liquid water if it was so incredibly uncommon...Originally Posted by Primantiss
I thought the water thing was a bit silly though.. Especially when the scientist guy said we had the only liquid water in the Universe.. What? I doubt that.
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Yes, all markets are one.
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Hmmm, I have a couple concepts that I could finally firm up to take advantage of this idea.... I'll be in touch.
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Quote:8 man PUG yesterday and we had Marauder down to 33% health or so when time expired.Originally Posted by AkuTenshiiZero
Yep.
So how exactly did Marauder's personal legion get past playtesting? Because I hate to break it to you but there is no way that an average 8-man, randomly-selected PUG can deal with this. Call me bitter, but the content after GR has gone from bad to worse. Stacking spawns on top of stacking spawns. I remember when things like this were considdered a bug!
Tough? Yes. Doable? Also, yes.
The key is the acid temp powers - all you can get. And then work the courtyard spawn of more acid as needed. The learning curve on getting everyone to understand the requirements will be ongoing for a little while.
(note: Try doing it with no level shifted league members. Now that is brutal.)
(And note: completing the trial without ever using any acid is a requirement for the MoLambda. ouch.) -
I would support #3.
#2 /unsigned. I've put plenty of "reasonable" prices up and still had to wait longer than week(s) for a bid from someone not trying to grab something on the cheap/sly.
#1 /unsigned. The last thing we need is all the snarking global and private messaging that would result. The offers and bids are what they are. The prices that show up are the ones that were paid. If you cannot or will not pay that... there are plenty of other ways to get what you want. Alignment merits in particular have radically changed the acquisition of recipes that are desired. -
Quote:I'd second Footfall, though the intelligent alien elephants probably wouldn't be particularly excepted as other than campy.Originally Posted by Mental_Giant
Footfall would make a good movie. I'd like to see a War Against the Chtorr TV series, too (once it's finished).
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Can't say it has the greatest synergy, but my grav/ice was my first dom to 50 and plenty of fun.
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Late to the discussion, but put me in the "it delivered what it promised" category. Not aspiring to Oscar level film making, but a solid alien-war movie. Fun and enjoyable despite the over used wobble camera and hitting every cliche in the great-big-book-of-war-movie-cliches.
However, the one thing that tripped me up thinking through the scenario and my suspension of disbelief.... where the heck were our nukes. I know I'd be jumping up and down saying "what is a few cities, we're talking the human race here! nuke 'em, nuke 'em!" somebody somewhere would have tried it.... -
Quote:absolutely.Originally Posted by Mirai
1. Ice/Ice/Cold Blaster. Great combination of ranged damage and control
- I also keep going back to my Dark/cold corr
- elec/elec dom is giddy fun
but anything is fun on any given day in Paragon... -
My elec/ is the only tank I've taken against her, and she slices him apart like he's a level 1 blaster. Even hover taunting, her range shot wipes me in a couple of hits. I always feel awful about it.
So, I make sure I have purples ready to go and tip the buffers handsomely.
note: never tried it when she wasn't buffed, someone on the team always wants the badge...
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Quote:1989? bah!Originally Posted by Tymers_Realm
You think that's bad...
:::Cradles hardback copy of Champs 3rd ED:::
Copyright 1989
Pries his D&D softcover red book off the shelf from next to the Gygax signed AD&D hardcover...
(now I can't dodge the old label. dang) -
Quote:Same, though my binding collapsed and I had to put the thing into a binder ages (10-15 years) ago.Originally Posted by Schismatrix
Damn, hard to believe it's been that long since i bought my copy.
Still have it somewhere, but the binding wasn't exactly the strongest.
Almost tempted to get this just because even though i haven't played the game in years and years.
Some of the longest and best campaigns of any RPG I ever played were with that original release. Good times.
(shhh. I'm not old. look a pie!!!) -
Quote:Not that it particularly has anything to do with my personal I20/end-game concerns, but having participated in all three of your examples...Originally Posted by Blue_Mourning
The only thing in game that is like these is the Cathedral of Pain. And having played both CoP and Lamba (and for a brief period a BAF, but the server shut down on me) I can say that CoP is much harder than Lambda or BAF. It's that kind of noise that's really annoying and even worse it's the kind of falsehood, among others, that just gets repeated again and again and again.
I do take your point, and it is likely the best comparison, but I'm still not sure it is a good comparison between BAF and Lambda with a prevalence of incarnate contribution in beta sneak and CoP on Live with more limited abilities available.
That aside, and in contrast, I've only been part of one failed CoP after several runs, and have never run it post incarnates so I imagine it is certainly a different animal now. Now while that personal CoP experience gets back to your solid coordination and leadership points a few posts ago,, I would say that in no way do I think CoP is harder.
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Quote:There is another category of folks (based on anecdotal rumor and vague of facts of indeterminate nature) of those that have been testing for some time and are bound to refrain from stating their opinions fully...Originally Posted by Blue_Mourning
And worse than all that there are those that are complaining about the current state of i20 when they haven't even tested the majority of it. Venture stated at one point that he logged on, read what Prometheus said, and then stopped testing. There are those who are complaining about how hard it's going to be to start the trials and some of them haven't actually tested it. There are others who have complained about the lag that it must engender because "If they're anything like MSR or Hami....", and THAT ALONE tells me that they haven't tested it..
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Quote:So going in my signature.Originally Posted by Blue_Mourning
Chyll, for instance, is loud, but not annoying.
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Quote:Good. I recognize my hang-ups are my own, and the game isn't doomed because of them.Originally Posted by Blue_Mourning
I don't think you specifically are being hysterical.
And I don't want you to apologize and sincerely am pleased that you (and others) like it.Quote:Originally Posted by Blue_Mourning
I am sorry you don't like the roll out. I do, and I'm also not going to apologize for that, but I do understand it.
You know, if I had written in the alignment system, I would have done it exactly like you suggest, too. I was disappointed, but short of having to re-write all the arcs to put action choices in them I lived with the compromise on that one.Quote:Originally Posted by Blue_Mourning
I don't particularly like that the tip mechanic is the only way to switch sides - I would love that the choices you make with regards to things like Trapdoor's fate would have an effect on it. It doesn't. That, to me, is frustrating.
Yeah, by itself that doesn't bother me either (if it was clearly in parallel rather than linked).Quote:Originally Posted by Blue_Mourning
But with all that being said, I kind of like them tying it to the current storyline.
Ah, see I wish that was true. Being part of the raid/trial mob doesn't make me giddy with my sense of power. I've always gotten more out of beating Recluse as an EB than I have on Hami as a personal sense of accomplishment, regardless of the related reward.Quote:Originally Posted by Blue_Mourning
For the first time it really makes your character feel like a part of the bigger world, that what you do has some kind of an effect.
Yeah. Then we are 100% agreed. And I doubt anything will change for a long time. I discuss it because I care and have loved the game.Quote:Originally Posted by Blue_Mourning
I understand why people don't like it. I'm sorry that I don't have any arguments for them other than to say "give it time". If that means you have to unsub in the meantime, so be it. -
Quote:We can agree there.Originally Posted by Blue_Mourning
Mostly agreed. I actually suspect that since they said they want to eventually add more lore pets and they can add more powers to existing incarnate trees, that the newer raids will both provide either more incarnate trees, or more incarnate options. From a game play design standpoint once the core 10 slots are done it will be easier to add stuff rather than add more slots.
Just my patience to wait for that will be long exhausted by the time that happens. And I firmly believe it could have been implemented better in terms of the lore/story links related to the mechanic. I expected more.
I'd like to think I'm not being hysterical. but my level of disappoint with this is a first through all releases and changes since I7 (about when i started). It really is likely to shove me out the door.Quote:Originally Posted by Blue_Mourning
I think my only point is that there's an increasing segment of the population that's acting as if the sky is falling and we haven't even gotten the bulk of the Incarnate powers released yet. Measured criticism is fine. Hysteria is grating.
And I am sad about that.