Eva Destruction

Maybe they should give us a badge for it so those of us who prefer smaller groups will have an easier time finding other people willing to try with a smaller group.

Actually there has been very little dev commentary on anything to anyone. And I am saying the moderators are letting people get away with a lot of "shut up and suck it," whether blatant, or disguised with inane smilies. See: the second post in this thread.

I'd guess most people who like them are doing just what you're doing: saying "I like it" and moving on instead of implying that everyone MUST like it or there's something wrong with them.

For a minute there I thought you were talking about the BAF cutscene.

I haven't done Sutter so I can't speak for it, but Mortimer Kal isn't a good SF. It contains too much exposition in a format that isn't team-friendly. A well-designed TF must show, not tell, and Mortimer's SF tells too much. Although some of the fights were fun.

And yours are nothing but the same "I get what I want so screw anyone who doesn't like it" that usually comes with an inane winky attached.

Sam, I want to +rep you so bad right now.

I agree completely. The "raids are awesome and epic and awesome" crowd is more guilty of this than anyone.

Hmm, rereading my post, it does use the word "I" quite a bit doesn't it? Hmmm, seems to me like I AM SPEAKING FOR MY FREAKING SELF. And oh look, surprise surprise, a bunch of other people, also speaking FOR THEMSELVES, feel similarly. Now who's claiming to speak for everyone?

Dismissing everyone who doesn't agree with you seems to be the new developer-endorsed direction for endgame, doesn't it, considering the amount of what is essentially "shut up and suck it" the dev-supporters seem to be getting away with.

This and this.

"Guys, we need more controllers and doms."

Is an Iron Man comic any less about Iron Man just because Spider-Man exists in the same universe and swings by in a panel or two? Is Sam's game any less about Sam just because you play the same game and run into him at the tram?

Now this may change as more people familiarize themselves with the trials, but right now, chatting hurts more than it helps since it interferes with giving useful information to newer players and coordination.

I generally know who's doing what in an 8-man team. I don't do CoPs because...again, big mess, flashing lights, who's doing what now?

I ran two out of three STFs when it was WST with complete strangers. I don't remember their names and I didn't read their backstories. The only one I ran with people I knew was a cakewalk and was boring. The two with strangers struggled in the last mission, but we did win, and they were memorable mostly because of the individual contributions that allowed us to win.

I pay attention despite the game's best attempts at overwhelming me with flashy lights and unnecessary pop-ups. I do not pay attention to who is doing what in a faceless mess of graphical effects. In a single team, it isn't a faceless mess. It's the really tough Invul Brute, the flying Energy Blaster who's really good at managing his own aggro, the Thermal who keeps everybody buffed all the time, the Fire armor Scrapper who keeps faceplanting and jokes about using RotP as part of his attack chain....it is a collection of individuals that come together to make a greater whole.

This. I love playing my 50s. I like the implementation of the Alpha slot. Not too thrilled about the WST being the only reasonable way to get Notices, but still, I like the rest of it. These raids though....

....and even if you are successful, Paragon is telling you that you're not really successful until you've succeeded over and over again.

It isn't necessary. Anyone who thinks it is needs to learn to type faster or let a faster typist lead, or take five minutes before starting and explain everything to people who don't know what to do.

I can? Cause the full BaF I was on, first I lagged to crap, then there were a bunch of flashy lights, then we fought Nightstar, then we started killing prisoners and crashed. Some people fired off Judgement nukes and Destiny buffs. I have no idea who did it. Somebody was using Storm powers. I have no idea who the stormy was. There was another Scrapper running around killing Vickys with me. I don't remember his name or powersets. There was a Brute at the prisoner door with me with the Soul Mastery immobilize. I don't remember his name or primary or secondary either.

On the other hand, I still remember some of who did what on the STFs I ran back when it was WST.

Um yeah, except the two aren't mutually exclusive when everyone has their role on a team and can stand out while helping the team.

Now that's just crazy talk. I mean, after the new shiny of Apex and Tin Mage wore off, everybody just stopped doing them and ran Hami raids three times a day for the shards. Nobody ever does the ITF anymore unless it's WST. Nobody ever does lower-level task forces that don't award components and aren't WST....

Oh wait...people still run all this stuff. Huh. Whaddya know, you don't have to bribe people to play after all.

That's supposed to be a problem? Seriously? I mean, it is a problem, but learning to read is something you should do in grade school.

I reiterate my point: Have any of these alts also earned thousands of shards?

I know it's not trivial to some people, but to me it's like complaining about a hangnail when you have a broken leg.

The ITF, if you want the Nictus weapons. MO badges usually require more than one attempt, although it is possible to get one on your very first run of a TF.

Yes, it could.

I did have that, and I'm nowhere near the number of shards needed.

I feel the need to mention this every time someone complains about the inf costs of conversion, because unless you don't sell anything ever (and maybe even then) it's pretty much impossible not to earn the needed inf in the process of acquiring the needed shards.

Giant Monsters don't have levels, so all your relevant Incarnate abilities will work against him. Go nuts.

Meh, if you run those on a reasonably high difficulty your helpers die pretty quickly. Mostly because they are dumb. Statesman refuses to die though, which is unfortunate because his hand-clap spam is FREAKING ANNOYING.

/kick Statesman.

Now that's just crazy talk Bill. We all know that "challenging" equates to being with a bunch of other people and relying on all of them not to do anything idiotic, then beating on a giant bloated sack of HP that can one-shot you.

The very fact that people are suggesting anyone who finds the trials hard should wait to be dragged along by level-shifted Incarnated-out people points to a failure in design. Learn2ply is one thing. Wait for everyone else to Learn2ply so you can leech off them is....yeah! We're powerful now!

Yeah, that'll be tons of fun, leeching off people with level shifts and massive AoEs while I watch a slideshow. Over and over again. Yay, fun!

Except that it's, you know, not. I'd rather run with a minimum team who has no idea what the frack they're doing (but are willing to listen and cooperate) and fail miserably, rack up some iXP and threads, and then grind shards until my eyes bleed. And I'm not exactly thrilled at the prospect of grinding shards either, so you can imagine how much I look forward to leeching my way through a slideshow.

Currently you do get a prompt to enter the event, so I don't see how anything would have to change.

So, let me get this straight...."I'd like to join a trial if one forms but I'm using the queue because I don't want to sit around twiddling my thumbs waiting for enough other people to want to do one" is not a valid reason to have a queue in the first place?

And about that other thing....missions will reset if you leave them to go do something else. So you'll have to go through the first half of the mission again. Big deal. If you don't want to do that, don't start a mission while you're in a queue. Stand around twiddling your thumbs, I don't care what you do, but I'd like to do something and I can see myself getting bored of the RWZ.

The taunt component of Invincibility may not be that strong, but the taunt component of AAO certainly is. I have to run certain parts with it off or I'll be dragging half that warehouse full of mobs with me. And those Vickys HURT.

IO builds should be more powerful than SO builds, full stop. They require significantly more investment, both of time and game knowledge. Now I'm not saying the right IO build should be an "I win" button, but negating the effort required to put together a good IO build is bad design.

Conducting a detailed inspection of the floor.

Purples. Oranges. Greens if you don't have a self heal. One small purple increased my DM/SD Scrapper's survivability significantly. Not so much against Marauder's swarm, and they do nothing against Siege's swarm, but against everything else, they help.