Eiko-chan

I don't play this game to be someone's personal buff-bot. That's what having SB makes you into.

Masterminds. There's nothing quite like them.

Samuel plays this game pretty much exactly how I do: I love feeling powerful, I love the sight of multiple enemies charging and falling before me, I love that I can take on a dozen or more enemies at once and expect to come out victorious every time. I hate when the game robs me of my powers - be it through being mezzed and having toggles dropped, through endurance drain, through extremely high resistances and protections to my tools and tricks or through AI clever enough to avoid my main sources of damage - and find it utterly frustrating that certain enemy groups (especially ones that are nearly impossible to avoid) have more of these cheats than others (Longbow, I'm looking at you.)

So basically, I agree with everything he said. I play this game, and not other MMOs, because it is easy, because it makes me feel powerful, because I feel super when I beat down waves of enemies.

This is a game about super powers. Why shouldn't I have them?

You know, Devs could probably avoid this complaint by adding more Targetted AoE sets. Right now, there are only five to choose from, and that's including the purple and the PvP ones. PBAoE has 7, and those two extra sets allow for quite a bit more flexibility in choice.

I would disable the "seeking missile" aspect of ambushes. Some ambushes work the way they should - the run to where they were triggered and look around once there. The real annoying ones are the ones that home in on you no matter where you are and regardless of stealth. It's another example of the game cheating and it's just annoying.

I can't believe no one else has done this yet:

Just a little note, for the record: the employees of the Golden Giza (Hard Luck, Basse Crouper, Jezebel Jones) don't treat you like garbage (well, Johnny does after you're done with him, but the arc explains why, and I think it's kind of funny). They treat you like a hired thug - a dangerous and capable hired thug they're glad to be working with - which might be just as bad, but at least they aren't outright insulting.

But they are a rarity.

No thanks. Dr. Aeon's my personal favourite egghead to punch. I couldn't imagine working for him.

Beating him up and making him work for me, though? I'd be all for that.

IIRC, there wasn't a booster released this past quarter. That would make a difference too, wouldn't it?

I'd much prefer to see Illusion Dominators, who could take the set pretty much unmodified, and too heck with the "Illusion doesn't benefit from Domination" naysayers. Villains need Illusion somewhere.

Just for the record, here:

I want everyone to have all the costume options all the time. No time required. If the costume option is in the game, a character should be able to use it from the very first, pre-tutorial creator. This goes as much for unlockable-in-game options as it does for veteran reward options. The creator is this game's biggest asset and locking options out of it, I think, hurts this game immeasurably.

I'm a little less picky about the Booster Pack parts because they can be acquired by anyone at any time. If vets got booster packs for free (and people that bought them ahead of time got nothing because they've already gotten all the boosters), that would be fine with me.

Let the vets have their little powers, their little perks. Who cares? But the costumes? Those are a big farking deal.

Costumes as vet rewards - especially oft-requested pieces like trench coats and wings - were mostly likely a collosal mistake, and if the devs could take them back they probably would.

But I'll be perfectly honest here - there are way more vets that whine/would whine about losing vet rewards than there are newbies that would whine/whine about getting them sooner (at starting?), so it's never going to happen.