ClawsandEffect

It would help the RMT business. RMT = Real Money Trade.

One of teh services RMT sites offer is a PLing service, where they will take your character an PL it to 50 for you for a fee that is paid in real money.

It is both A) against the terms of service of the game and B) a HORRIBLE idea, because then the RMT site has access to both your account and your credit card information. Many of them are run out of China or some other country where it is impossible to prosecute for internet crime. They will frequently use the accounts of people who paid them for PL services to spam other players with ads for their services, resulting in the person who paid them for the PL getting their account banned. Also, they will use your credit card to start dozens of accounts for the purpose of continuing to spam people.

If you could transfer characters from one account to another, it would just make things easier on the RMTers, because then they could level a character to 50 and sell it to someone.

It would be a very good thing if the RMT people could be stomped out of the game altogether, but they still seem to be around, at least on the more populated servers.

You've clearly never been a teenage boy, particularly a geeky one. To a teenage boy with a crush, doing something like that is perfectly reasonable.

It's not pathetic so much as it is immature. I always got the feeling that Anti-Matter was kind of a prodigy child genius who never really grew up emotionally.

I thought the same thing. That pronunciation of that word reminded me instantly of everything I've ever heard Ringo Starr utter.

Works both ways too though.

A villain whose motivation can be summed up as "I do bad things because I'm EVIL! Muahahahahahaha!" is just boring.

A good villain has something about them that you can maybe identify with or perhaps feel sorry for them about. Marauder being insecure, Anti-Matter having a crush on Mother Mayhem, Chimera being upset about his dad, those are all issues that real people have. And they are all believable motivations for someone to be an evil SOB. They feel like real people, instead of cardboard cutouts. A villain who is evil "just because" just doesn't have too much about them that is believable.

I prefer any of the villains I mentioned here over Recluse, because Recluse is a Saturday morning cartoon bad guy whose motivation is basically "I have a grudge against Statesman, so I'm gonna be a bad guy to piss him off. Oh, and I want to take over the world, because that's what bad guys do."

For now at least. I'll be surprised if it stays that way forever. We'll probably eventually get higher level content in Praetoria.

"Does this mean I have to give up my mp3 player?" is my personal favorite.

You know you can click on their name in the chat window and get their global name already, right?

That's what I do in situations where I'm saving a spot for someone and want to make sure it's really them before I invite someone.

On my one level shifted character I noticed the same thing: My missions were a lot easier than they were before because I was fighting blues.

Solution: Increase your difficulty to +1 or +2 and it will be functionally exactly the same as it was before.

Of all the possible complaints about the Incarnate system, this one is by far the easiest to solve.

.....Just remember you have your difficulty set higher before you lead a TF. +2s in an ITF where the majority of the people are not level shifted gets pretty ugly.

Funny thing is, a spell checker wouldn't even help, he's not misspelling them, just replacing them with different words that sound the same.

The idea is still HORRIBLE though.

Veteran players would get more slots for their powers than newbies? Hell no, there's enough complaining about the Vet rewards as it is, if this happened the complaining would be completely justified (about that reward at least)

This.

Badges for playing alts? Sure.

This isn't a badge for playing them though. This is a badge for sitting in the character creation screen for a couple hours creating and deleting characters over and over. It doesn't have anything to do with actually playing the game, which is what badges are awarded for.

Dark Armor laughs at them.


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Erm.

Okay, you know that on Primal Earth Sister Psyche was inhabiting Aurora Borealis' body for a while, right?

Well, on Praetorian Earth, the same thing happened, only Sister Psyche's original body died and she refuses to give Aurora's back now.

Mother Mayhem is not actually his wife. Mother Mayhem is the mind that stole his wife's body. I gathered from the backstory that he didn't start blowing stuff up until that happened.

Note: The Controller's Tier 9 power in their primary is a pet (except for Mind Control). However, it is different than MM pets in that you don't give it commands, it just kind of follows you around attacking stuff. I look at Controller pets as basically another attack that I never have to click.

I concur with the advice to try a scrapper. Basically any combination will work.

I'm fond of Broadsword/Dark Armor, but it requires some investment before it gets really good. It's good before that, but it gets downright awesome once you slot some IOs in it.

Katana/Willpower has been the most frequently suggested first scrapper for a while now. Largely because there isn't anything goofy you need to remember about the powers, you basically just toggle up and start slashing away. And it doesn't give up any end game performance for it's ease of play either.

I also like Claws/Regen, but that combo thrives on the edge between glory and death. It's very dependent on knowing what your enemy can do and your reaction time. Very clicky set

I happen to like what has been released to live thus far. I haven't played any of the raids yet, but I enjoyed the Hami raid and the Mothership raid, so I may like them, or I may not.

But I can't say whether I like or dislike something until after I've done it. That's like saying I don't like sushi without ever having eaten it.

The end game that people are railing against so vehemently is still in beta. Granted, it probably won't change drastically between now and when it goes live, but it's possible.

Example: Conductive Aura in Electric Control was VERY different in beta. It started out as a stacking stun/damage aura, and was changed when the devs realized how overpowered it was from player feedback they received. Things DO change between beta and live, and it is in beta that your feedback matters, not on the forums.

For that matter, what do you WANT the end game to be? More TFs, some story arcs? Exactly like the rest of the game, but with more power?

Personally, I would be disappointed if the end game was nothing more than a couple new TFs and story arcs with nothing to differentiate it from the rest of the game. I mean, if nothing about it changed from the 1-50 content, how are you supposed to know you're playing end game content?

Just because you don't like something doesn't mean it's no good.

Unless, of course, you can prove that everyone agrees with your opinion that it's not. Or even a majority. So far, I haven't seen any kind of majority agreeing with your assessment that it isn't good.

Whether something is good or not is a matter of opinion. Since I haven't played enough of it yet to form my own opinion, I'm taking your statement as exactly that, an opinion.