Emberly

No problems here in the rural north of British Columbia. Sorry your connection isn't working that well for you.

Yeah, you guys are right, this isn't the time to ask, and it's still not kosher to make demands. My bad.

Bumping once again to ask for the official word on whether the inability to have seperate forums and game logins is intentional, and if so, why that is. This is a very bad idea.

maek poast

Looks good. Gonna test if I can change my forum password to differ from my game password. Making them the same is a mistake.

edit: so the game pass and the forum pass can't be made independent.

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I'm not some super ego brute running around trying to tell everyone how I want things to work, I'm trying to figure out these MMs so I can work WITH them.

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And yet, all you've done is P&M about masterminds, mastermind players, and mastermind powersets, with a few demands that masterminds play the way you want them to thrown in to add flavour. Your comments also show that you have no real idea how masterminds are played or what they can do. You seem to think that brutes are the most important team member, everyone should kowtow to them, and doubly so when you are the brute. I've no idea why you've gotten such a negative response

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I can Tank efficiently on a *Controller* Those are the REAL SteamRollerTankn'Spankers

When you box yourself in to one way of thinking...

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Quoted for truth and beauty. My plant/storm controller is a far better team protector/damage mitigator/stuff-beater-upper than any tank, and I do it all at once.

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go figure, Bot/Storm MMs love tight clumps of mobs too).

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No they don't they only like to make a mess so the brute gets butthurt!!!1one

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And please explain how a brute needs to adapt to their mob being scattered across the whole map.

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And here is the problem, bolded for emphasis. It's not the brute's mob. The team is not there to make sure the brute can play the way he wants. Once you get past your ego issue maybe you will be able to see how ridiculous it is to tell one AT to use a playstyle designed solely to benefit another AT.

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I'm just trying to figure out how brutes and bots MMs can coexist in harmony.

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No, you're not. You're telling people to change how they play so you don't have to.

Off to roll a Bots/Storm MM, and slot for KB.

The system is what it is. People willing to spend an hour every now and then working the market are always going to be able to get what they want faster than the person who farms the wall the get what they want. And, as has been mentioned previously, lots of folks do both. Do you really think that people do nothing but stare at Wentworths?

No matter what the system is, there will always be people willing to put in the effort to maximize their gains.

I play Virtue, and it's always busy. I tried Freedom but ugh, it's got so many people that the idiots are impossible to ignore. Then again, on Virtue you get ERPing retards in Pocket D and sexual deviants who think that they are animals. Thank god for global channels.

I've tried the other servers but they are like ghost towns, especially redside. Yes, there are people there, and yes you can get teams, but nothing like Virtue. Virtue I can get a team together for any content at any time, short of Hami. I've assembled Doc Q teams at ten PM Pacific. I've built all-scrapper TFs on a whim. I have to turn people away every time I try to form a Freedom Phalanx TF, and I only recruit from a few key global channels. Last time I played on Infinity, I tried to get a TF together and was told to make a forum thread to schedule it for a few days in advance. This was using the Infinity global channels, search tool, and plain old broadcast spam. I know folks do get teams there, but I'm spoiled by Virtue's high population. Even with such a high population, I see lots of familiar faces and great players.

So OP, I guess I recommend Freedom if all you want to do is farm (why?) and Virtue if you want an. . . eclectic experience that could include anything.

I love Masterminds! I love playing them, I love teaming with them. Lots of pets? Great! Gives mobs something to think about other than my squishy [censored]. Knockback? Hell yeah! A mob flying through the air is a mob not burning me alive. A well-played MM is a great thing to watch. From my own experience, it's a rapid-fire style of play involving fine control of your pets to enable them to masterfully enact your edicts of destruction. Grave knights, you go here and then chew on that thing! Lich, you go passive until you are in position then attack that guy for maximum cone goodness! Zombies, chill at the back and give me more pseudo-hitpoints! Then I still have an entire secondary powerset to leverage for the benefit of my team, both its smarter and less-so members.

Sorry OP, no sympathy here. Teaming is a "check your ego at the door" type of thing, no room for folks who demand that others play their way only.

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And the problem is I have never seen a good MM. Honestly, how CAN they be good I guess is what I'm getting at? All they can do is attack or not attack, they have almost no control over what their pets do, and the pets like to knock the crap out of a mob and send them flying. The only good thing they do is heal and buff.

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I feel your pain. Every time a brute goes in and messes up my mob placement, I think, what is wrong with brutes? Can they be played well at all? All they can do is attack or not attack, and then they knock things all over or drag the mob around.

Tanking is the worst mechanic ever. It's like a virus that infects game design and player expectations. Good on you folks who like tanking, though, I don't begrudge anyone their fun. I just wish that we could eliminate the idea that teams need tanks. Incidentally, same goes for every other AT, and doubly for "healers," whatever that means. I've done every single piece of content short of the Hamidon without a tank on the team, and went a lot better for it. Blaster-tanking Lord Recluse without a death for the win!

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Cavatina your judging me on an online forum, inaccurately at that. Honestly, assuming makes fools of us all. I'm either guessing your the "non comformist. with a 9-5 job"? or are you liberated and living with some type of relative?, see we can all assume. Then again if you live close to NY we can meet and see how vocal you are when we meet?, sure I would love to see how much your willing to "bark" when I'm in front of you. We can forget about all the back and forth on the boards. Then again I have a feeling your going to sidestep from that very notion...

But we digress...

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Thre's the internet tough guy we all knew you had in you. Seriously, making thinly veiled threats about RL meetings? And you think it's the marketeers that have issues taking things too seriously?

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Can we all keep in mind, that its a PRETEND market. It doesn't exist. It's just code. Defending it doesn't exactly make you a better person, your not defending anything real, or anything that will change the world. Your literally defending a fake market. But that in of itself should tell you something...go outside, go eat a donut, do something just do it away from the comp, because if you think defending a VIDEO GAME market is worthwhile, you failed at life.

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Can we all keep in mind, that its a PRETEND market. It doesn't exist. It's just code. Attacking it doesn't exactly make you a better person, your not attacking anything real, or anything that will change the world. Your literally attacking a fake market. But that in of itself should tell you something...go outside, go eat a donut, do something just do it away from the comp, because if you think attacking a VIDEO GAME market is worthwhile, you failed at life.

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Nowhere is the general ignorance of the playerbase as evident as when someone wanders into the market forum by mistake. Drop rate increases? Price caps? Marking people for RMT because they have more money than you do? Makes for some entertaining threads, though.

I'd love to know where people get these ideas. How is it a problem with the game that you don't have what you want when you want it for the price you want to pay? Why should the devs step in? Why is it the fault of market players?

I will not rest until I see an "AE has killed the game" thread in every section of the forum.

Back soon, going to rest.

I thought every jackpot was at someone's expense?

Come out and do some ITFs/LGTFs and enjoy coop teams What server are you on?

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Someone made a thread praising an arc I didn't like?! Quickly! Man the thread crapper!

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What's not to like about hazard zones?

Detention Field is the worst. I have played with people who used it every fight and then acted amazed that we all weren't happy to stand around waiting for it to drop. Force Bubble at least has a use in teams, even if you have to know what you are doing to use it right. Detention Field has about three places where it can be used to any decent effect and none of them involve mission teams.

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Ultimo, just because you built a crappy defender doesn't mean a damn thing as far as the archetype goes.