Eva Destruction

I only have five level 50 Scrappers. Oh, but I have three level 50 Brutes now. They can fill out the team. I do have 8 level 50 Blasters though. Only two are Incarnates and only three are well IO'd, but still...All-Blaster team! I will call it....Team Fall Down Go Squish. Either we fall down or the enemies do, take your pick.

If I was trying to put together an optimal team out of my 50s, I'd probably go with:

SS/Invul Brute
AR/Fire Blaster
DM/SD Scrapper
AR/Dark Corruptor
Ice/Rad Corruptor
Fire/Elec Blaster
Sonic/Thermal Corruptor

The last spot would be a toss-up...either Fire/Storm or Fire/Traps Corruptor. It would depend on what we're doing. Yes, all my level 50 support characters are Corruptors.

Meh, just play. If you screw up and pick the wrong powers, don't worry about it, you can always respec later. If you pick an AT that turns out not to be right for you, make another character. Heck, if you pick an AT that is right for you, make another character anyway. Then you will have two. You can have a hero and a villain...or three, or four....

I keep getting someone who looks a lot like me but is wearing more makeup and less clothing.

But...but...it's 5th Column! How many 5th Column tip missions are there? Not enough, says me. I do loves to whack me some Nazis, yes I do.

Yep, all those non-50s I brought on my +1 ITFs the week it was WST were complaining very loudly about all the XP they got.

As for speed-runners either they're speed-running to get the rewards as fast as possible, thereby dragging down the average completion times and lowering merit rewards for everyone, including themselves, or they're doing it for the challenge, and if that's the case they should be able to adapt to the new challenge of dealing with added KB.

As for regular teams with non-level-shifted 50s, if killing +1s takes significantly longer than killing +0s, you need a better team. A decent team massively overkills +0s.

Oh noes, 10 minutes!

Yeah so? Farmers choose optimal sets to farm with, all this means is that sets that do KD may no longer be optimal for farming. PL up another farm toon.

Bringing up outlier cases, most of which involve optimized characters that should be able to easily handle +1, especially when you have a whole team of them, doesn't really gain much sympathy for your position.

That's not what he's saying at all. What other people have done doesn't matter. What matters is what you have done. If you've done the LGTF, I don't know that. As far as my characters are concerned, the LGTF has never been done. Every character's game experience is that character's own story, and in this character's story, the events of the LGTF haven't happened until I do the TF. But if I have already done it, I can't do it again and still have the story make sense.

To my understanding, Mortimer doesn't technically give a Notice, it gives a temp power that an Alpha-unlocked 50 can convert into a Notice. So probably yes.

I would like a function to ignore specific arcs, period. That way I won't have the same 1-54 Extreme Everything-fests pop up every time I do a search.

I'd actually like limits on the maximum level range for custom critters entirely, but that's another issue.

The "must have NAO" badgers will run them on Tuesday. Everybody else will run them in two weeks when they are WST.

Well it does have Arbiter Daos in it to tell you to do the painfully obvious, but other than that it's pretty good.

There is one mission that I can think of redside that has you do the exact opposite of what your contact tells you. It's from Tavish Bell I think. Scirocco's arc could use some of that instead of yet another "talk to stupid Daos" mission.

You realize that if they did that, you wouldn't be able to hosp to base and have it dump you back at the mission door, right?

Scirocco's second patron arc kinda serves a similar purpose, in that it provides some character development, although of course you can't do it until after you've picked him as a patron. Mako needs one badly. Black Scorpion is...dumb and paranoid. What more do we really need to know about him?

No, we haven't all arrested him. This is actually a good argument for not making story arc souvenirs visible to anyone but you. As far as my character is concerned, I'm the first person to ever beat up Ubelmann, and I will be the last. I don't know what all those other level 20-somethings are doing, but it isn't beating up Ubelmann.

Story arcs aren't really designed for teams. If you want to experience an arc as a team you have to make an effort to do so, making sure everyone does their missions at the same time (which was impossible before CoV), and now allowing everyone to read the in-mission contacts' dialogue before clicking anything.

Because we keep eating the fruit she sends us to collect instead of bringing it back to her.

Yeah, and you know she could just one-shot the guy, but she lets you beat him up anyway. I mean he tried to set you up, letting you have your revenge is the polite thing to do.

I don't remember which mission it is, but there's one where you go to interrogate someone, he refuses to talk, so you break his hand. Then he offers to talk, and one of your dialogue options is "break his other hand."

Yep, I broke his other hand.

I also liked Wretch's last bit:

The whole arc almost makes Ghost Widow and Wretch look sympathetic. I say "almost" because they wouldn't be in this mess if they hadn't joined Arachnos in the first place, and they both demonstrate in the arc that they're still perfectly willing to kill anyone who messes with them.

I'd appoint you Prime Minister of Paragon Studios so you could do that.

If you are invulnerable, when you face a guy with a gun you stand there and let him empty a clip at you. Casually look down as the bullets just bounce off you. Watch the guy pee his pants when he realizes the bullets just bounce off you. Then smack him.

I'd put my base somewhere I can send my minions out to get me coffee without them getting eaten by zombies or Devouring Earth.

This. Is. Not. WoW. We do not care what WoW does. Nobody cares if our endgame is less grindy than WoW's. I care that it's grindier than this game has ever been thus far.

Successful completion of an Incarnate trial gives you a chance at a rare component. If you get lucky and get one, you'll only have to do it like 10 times. If you don't get lucky, you'll have to do it 30 times.

If you solo on the default difficulty, it isn't, quite. If you team, even duo, you outlevel stuff. The linear contact set-up kinda bugs me because of that. If you outlevel a contact, you have to go through all the contacts leading up them to be introduced again, and you might just end up outlevelling them again.

tl;dr: Put the Praetorian contacts in Ouroboros.

Oh, and I just got my Praetorian Brute to 50 today. The 50 ding badge is called Praetor. Wait, what? Who named these things?

I said SF. Not TF. Redside pretty much did away with pointless zoning and only has missions in other zones if there's a reason for them to be there. Renault sends you to Nerva because there aren't any Longbow in Sharkhead. It sends you to Mercy because that's where Ghost Widow's tower is. Blueside just sticks mission doors in random zones with no rhyme or reason.

The Numina hunts are just silly, they're needless missions not just needless zoning.