Energizing_Ion

Hear, hear! I'd love an option to turn off the effects (or change the colors of 'em) for Hasten and Super Speed.

I never had any issues with the downtime and I'm in the East Coast


Granted, having a Dr. appt. in the morning then helping babysit my bro's kids then going to work and not getting back till 11pm (EDT) then going to bed...soo...no worries about servers going down for me

Sometimes it is nice to work the 2nd shift.

Yes, cause once you pop in x hardware it all works and never has issues right?

I agree; definitely needed more

So....if Justice has people that play during the time frame that you play on but you won't transfer toons there....umm...why are you complaining that you are playing on dead servers?

You now get free server transfers as a VIP (1 every month)...so it wouldn't cost you anything to move to Justice (or wherever).

^^

Thanks again

I'll go with "this" ^

I just want to point out that having the people that are poor/have poor reaction times might not be the best at calling out the timers for things....


I was curious about the Disintegration though...nice to know it's LoS based.


Does anyone know if the Oblit. beam is truly random on who it picks or is there some sort of logic behind it by chance?

I'd guess random but....

I never watched/heard of Doctor Who before until my best friend recommended it to me. I have Netflix so I watched the first 2005 episode with Christopher Eccleston.

At first, it was a bit slow and didn't quite care for the show....but by the end of the 1st episode and maybe the 2nd or 3rd show I was hooked

I liked Mr. Eccleston, liked Tennant more I think....and didn't quite care for Matt Smith at first...but now he's definitely grown on me...and probably my favorite Doctor yet. *bowties are cool*

But while I was watching the Doctor Who series my dad caught on and at first he said, "these new shows are too 'real'...effects are too good...where are the really bad cheesy effects that I remember being Doctor Who?"

He originally saw the 'old' ones and didn't like the new ones because of the good effects/etc....but now...after a few episodes, he's with me and watches them with me hehe.

Congrats



AM at the final fight is 'easy' (defeating him that is). All that he has is the following:

1.) Oblit. beam (green patch on the ground)
2.) Disintegration
3.) Atomic Blast (that "back away from AM" message; his 'nuke' power but hardly anyone ever gets hit by it)
4.) Entanglement (again, most people ignore this because it does so little damage/debuff it doesn't matter for the most part.


The only part where Entanglement comes into play is when the league is going for the Loves a Challenge badge. That little dmg over time is enough to kill the person being disintegrated (since the last tick of Disintegration does 99% dmg). So if you're being disintegrated then just make sure you're not next to someone that is a diff. color than you (red vs blue).

As a tanker, all you'd really be doing is just taunting AM and making sure he stays near the regen station that he should be by. Just make sure you're taunt doesn't have a chance for dmg proc in it; otherwise, that will not be the best during the 3 reactor phases.

Ah I see...so even though the mobs behind Imperious don't take any damage (well I know they get attacked randomly sometimes but...nothing serious from what I've seen); the +hp then heal makes it look like you healed them for x amount?

Interesting.

I would agree that the 2 badges are pretty ridiculous to get at the moment. Maybe in the future the devs will change some things to make it at least reasonable to get them.


I know another thing that makes it hard is when people are flying/hovering...very hard to see the Oblit. beam if it targets a flying person.

And if they added a timer and/or the person who is being disintegrated to the trial UI, that'd help the Loves a Challenge badge out a bit.

Also if Time Freeze stopped all counters, that'd be nice too.

Yeah I read bits and pieces of the topic throughout (and her post).

One part I noticed from her post though:

Maybe this is the problem. I know when I've been in leagues that have successfully received the Avoids the Green Stuff and Loves a Challenge badges, the leader (not me at the time; a tanker), was mainly there to taunt AM towards the correct regen station as well as "spam" what to do (not really spam per se but...).

He was watching the clock and would say, "stop attacking AM!" when he was at 75 HP (or whenever that first Time Freeze is), after a few failed attempts, he changed it so that he did that "STOP ATTACKING" macro around 80 or 82 HP gave more people the ability to read and comprehend and then follow what he said.

We had about 14 (maybe 16 once or twice?) people get the 2 badges and when the leader (tanker) said "stop attacking" or something, we usually stopped attacking AM and disengaged him.

Don't get me wrong there were times when he said, "stop attacking and wait for oblit. beam" that we didn't stop in time and then we almost failed from the time freeze/disintegration combo....but luckily AM was just close enough to the regen station we were able to recover and get healed up/move away from the oblit. beam.

I'm not sure if I'm conveying what I'm trying to say but...maybe I should just say that I'm really surprised how fast AM goes down...there are a lot of times when we aren't attacking him and just are running around dodging the Oblit. beam.


We usually don't do pets either (even MMs; MMs can join the league and use pets; just not for the final fight since sometimes pets are harder to control) but we bring out pets (lore/etc) for the last bit of the AM fight (after he regens to full for the 3rd time).

There were at least 2 really, really close calls where Lore pets were attacking the regen terminals and blowing them up...heh...lots of KILL PETS!!! STOP ATTACKING THE TERMINALS! spam going up then One time a terminal had like 5 HP left (on the 3rd station too ).


Don't get me wrong it is obviously harder to get 16+ people to dodge the Oblit. beam than 12 and so on....but...maybe, explain that when Oblit. beam starts, just move out of the way and don't worry about attacking AM? Maybe you're doing that already but .... *Shrugs*

Edit:

Again, not trying to "talk down to you" as you are a fellow avid badger but...we have also said, "don't use long animating powers when you see the "oblit. beam in 5 seconds"" message (a macro from the leader).

We've had at least 2 failed runs because people were using powers like Hurl/etc and just didn't move in time.

Ah okay, thanks Not that it matters to me but was curious.

I never found the seasonal events to be much fun. Sure I did them but only for the shiny new badges. Once I got 'em, meh...don't really do them anymore.


Now if they increased their rewards with something that might actually make them worth the time....