DreadShinobi

Indeed. And while I'm not trying to belittle the accomplishment of the OP, the over exaggeration of the accomplishment is a bit misplaced.

When you have softcapped defenses and a strong heal (like twilight grasp, which OP had) as well as being an MM, which has been proven to be very strong against hard stationary targets, doing things like this shouldn't be a suprise. That and they're paladins, they don't hit hard and being low level means they have less HP and by extension far less regen.

This is nothing new.

Over on the scrapper forums, didn't someone solo something like 16 AVs simultaneously? I can't recall the specifics, but I know people have solo'd unusual amounts of AVs before. An AV isn't a GM but typically they have more offensive capabilities and less HP.

So jump away from the war walkers before they die? =/

Sutter is 20-40 and the other praetorian contact is Maria Jenkins.

I can load 8 instances of the game without adjusting my graphics (I don't play on ultra though) and my computer definitely isn't super amazing, nor was it 2 years ago when I got it.

It's handy to be able to log in fillers when you come up short for TFs, and it was invaluable when I was doing the extraordinarily broken and bugged tournament pvp badges which I spent about a week on without actually getting the badge. >:O

I'm not sure if it's a "no-no" or not in the view of the devs, but I don't think it would break the balance between scrappers and brutes.

Shield, Invul, and WP scrappers already get taunt auras, and it's one of the most defining characteristics of those sets on scrappers because of how much scrappers benefit from everything not running to the four winds. Inter AT sets shouldn't be defined by a core game mechanic, they should be defined by what the set is actually supposed to do (like the amount of defense, resistance, regen, etc it gives).

Even if Scrappers got taunt auras on the rest of their sets, brutes would still have:
-higher base hp and hp caps
-higher resistance caps (which mostly applies to fiery aura and electric armor, which would be sets in question for adding taunt auras)
-nonaoe gauntlet
-AoE taunt (scrapper taunt is single target)
-arguably better ancillary pools


Right now scrappers get:
-Higher upfront damage and slightly higher maximum damage (sometimes dependant on sets, SS/FA brutes and non-weapon set Brutes with Gloom make this gap smaller)
-Higher base damage making them more responsive to damage buffs.


Take that for what it's worth.

You do get the corresponding accolade badge when you switch sides, you just don't get all the prerequisite badges the corresponding accolade requires.

Actually this set up is at it's worst when it's being done by new players because it doesnt teach them how to play their characters or the game. New players that get to 50 almost entirely off of DFBs don't get the experience they should be getting.

Which is exactly why I bring the topic up. Foot Stomp and Whirling Smash can slot it, so it's really not an issue of it being too OP for the devs to consider implementing.

I think some of it stems from the fact that the developers want the players to figure out their own strategy. They can give a more detailed explaination of the mission goal is, but not how specifically to do it. I remember, I think when they revamped hamidon, how the developers were talking about how they had no idea how the playerbase would go about completing it and they were curious to see how they would. I'm sure it's the same for all content.

A large part of this is all the lvl 50+ content is NEW content, and much of the 1-50 content is content that is the same as it has been from when the game was released. The game engine back then couldn't support much of what they're doing today. If they remade this game today I can assure you much of what they are doing today would be spread more evenly accross the game in all levels. They are already starting to do this, with new posi, dfb, and the new bloody bad trial coming out giving more unique missions with unique enemies and goals. It's not magical thinking, it's just because it's newer.

You already have 2 sets of badges to earn each accolade since you can do it villainside or hero side.


For example I always do Demonic/Archmage and Marshal/Atlas Medallion on villain side, and then do the rest hero side.

I personally don't care for the split TF style. It's not 2 TFs, it's 2 half TFs. Now if they redid the other TFC TFs to be more like posi with more involved missions that would be great, but I don't think they should all be split into 2 parts.

Missions =/= Task Forces =/= Trials.

Trials are timed and therefore can be failed. Normal missions and Task Forces (other than specific exceptions) are not timed and therefore cannot be failed. Your comparison doesn't work.

By paragonwiki's definition: "A Trial is a type of mission arc that is similar to a Task Force/Strike Force but with fewer missions. Trials contain unusual encounters with enemies that require a high level of cooperation between team members to conquer. Special rewards are given at the end of trials, such as respecifications or enhancements that affect multiple attributes. Most contain a timed finale mission."

After 50 levels of content, I would also hope the content would become more challenging to match the player's increase in power and ability.

And none of the above changes the face that if you go into something not knowing what to do or having never run it before, your chances of success will be lower. There is nothing wrong with this.

First time success rate highly depends on how well a player can adapt to new situations, how self directed a player can be in figuring things out, and how good the leadership in the trial is. That said, for first runs low single digit percent success rate is a gross exaggeration.

I'm going to take a wild guess that you've never played any other MMOs. People instawinning their first time through just doesn't happen outside of city of heroes. We actually have it very easy here. In other games groups of people can spend months on new content before they actually complete it. And you know how people progress through it? Trial and failure. Trial and failure for weeks on end slowly progressing through with the same group of people. Here we can expect to complete trials on the day they come out with any group of players and any different group of players on the next run.

It's not as bad as you make it out to be.