Doctor Roswell

I think it's mostly this. Old habits die hard.
Although that's acids, not nades. Also, whenever I do a Lambda trial, we just end up waiting until the clock hits 18:30 (sometimes 18:00, depending on the leader) before using the acids in order to let the adds build up. Then we can close all the gates and still have enough for the extra Astral. I kinda thought that was standard operating procedure everywhere -- are there some servers that run it differently?

I'd love to see this too (or, failing that, at least get a straight yes/no so I can stop wondering). My VIP subscription lapsed for all of about six days back in January, but I'd gladly make up for that now with good ol' cash-money.

It's worth mentioning, however, that Arachnos soldiers are still required to start as villains (and Kheldians as heroes). They're not "locked into" that alignment any more than any other character once they're created, though.

As far as I know, reward tier doesn't matter for alignment merits. What matters is whether you have access to the alignment system. (Reward and Vanguard merits don't have a separately-purchased system that unlocks them like alignment merits do, so I guess it makes sense that they be tied to tier.)

I have a box of crayons with eight colors. It covers the spectrum pretty well. On the other hand, my computer monitor claims to be capable of displaying "billions" of colors.

So when you say "every color"... ???

That's been answered: sometime in April.

EDIT: Scratch that, it's not coming "sometime," it's coming NEXT WEEK.

It was actually specifically pointed out, repeatedly, that Staff Fighting would not be a part of i22, and would be released sometime after the issue's launch. They were on Beta at the same time, but that's it. Staff was always presented as a separately-released, separately-purchased element, completely segregated from any issue. Nobody ever told us it would be a part of i22's launch -- they said exactly the opposite, in fact.

Probably the next month or so worth of new items on the market, so they don't have to take the servers down to add each item once it goes on sale.

A little over an hour ago.

And there was a 30-minute warning in-game; they said it was for "maintenance," but didn't give a time window.

I'm inclined to agree; a lot of weeks, especially lately, it seems like things are being released just for the sake of releasing something. Not as a "cash grab," necessarily -- just in terms of maybe having bitten off a little more than they could (should?) chew by committing to a weekly release schedule. They do it because they have to have something, even if it's something lackluster or downright disappointing (or great but buggy/unfinished, like the Imperial Dynasty set or Beast Mastery). If they backed off it a bit, and maybe worried about releasing really good stuff on the market once or twice a month and just rotated sales on a weekly basis now that a respectable "inventory" has been established, things might be better overall. Focus on quality instead of quantity, you know?

Careful, if they catch you saying stuff like that, we'll just end up with two straight months of Snake-rig vanity pets nobody asked for.

I'm pretty sure DFB drops even-level SOs.

Combining them would only get him as high as 50+2.

Wait, buying them would be cheating, but asking friends to just give them to him isn't? Is this some weird Jack Emmert "players should be trading for all their enhancements, that's why the stores aren't on the map" thing?

Did any dev(s) come out and say "no more freespecs, ever," or are we just assuming that? Because I always thought the policy was, "freespecs when and if there's a major change to the game that could cause a lot of players to need to use a respec to take advantage of it" (like inherent Fitness). That we haven't seen any freespecs with recent issues might just be because there's nothing in them that's "forced" us to respec.

I guess freespecs are probably a lot less likely these days, between the new business model and WSTs (hooray, it's the Thorn Tree again!), but I don't remember ever getting a flat-out NO. Something like Hybrid, combined with those new pool powers like Sorcery that we're not supposed to know about yet, might warrant a freespec for VIPs, at least. I wonder if there's a way to just hand them out to characters who meet certain requirements (say, an unlocked Alpha slot), or if "one per character on the account" is as specific as the system can make it?

(Or, you know, they could implement those changes a bunch of us suggested to Ghost Falcon a while back when alignment-change tokens were released and replace VIPs' monthly server transfers with monthly transfer/respec/side-switch tokens... he didn't seem too opposed to the idea.)

Yep, there it is.

Back before inf transfers were as easy as emailing it to yourself, those first few Luck Charms that dropped would keep my new characters in green enhancements well into DO territory.

Like a lot of responders here, I applaud the effort. I just worry it may be a little short-sighted.

True, but one could easily argue that the niche filled by a new class in most games is filled in this one every time a new powerset is added. And we've seen dozens of those.

Also, why don't the villain ATs count?

Alright, good to know. Thanks.

Definitely. Remember LOST?

At least 90% of the fun of that show was speculating on what you thought something meant.