Eva Destruction

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I think I've run out of jerkass responses to these posts.

I move on to the next character.

Of course at some point I'm going to go back to my "finished" characters. They'll just be saving up shards.

I dinged 1100 last night. Yay, I'm in the cool kids' club.

I see a lot of people complaining about customs being too hard because the author wanted to make a "challenge" arc for their purpled-out Scrapper. I really doubt this is the case with the majority of these arcs. I think most of these groups are due to things like "Darkity dark dark enemies are COOL! I'm gonna give Dark powers to everyone!" or "my author self-insert AV is going to have all the powers my character does" or just plain player-killer GMing. Face it guys, the majority of the playerbase doesn't have a purpled-out Scrapper.

When you rate an arc you have the option of selecting tags. Does this do anything? Maybe it would help if you had both author-selected tags and player-selected tags visible. That way, if players tag the arc "challenging" and the author did not, it's a pretty good bet that the arc is simply poorly designed and will kill you.

Yep, that's pretty much what happens. I don't recall if they say their death dialogue or not, I don't think they do though.

Ok, everyone who avoids AE because you get tickets rather than random drops...you do realize that unless you're 50, tickets can be way more profitable than regular drops right? For one thing, the roll results are weighted, so you get fewer immobilize recipes and more recipes people might actually want to buy. For another, you can save them up and roll at the levels where stuff tends to sell for more. And if you roll in a lower level bracket, you can get desirable lower-level recipes. Where do you think all those Steadfasts and Regenerative Tissues come from?

Yes, the search sucks, the ratings system sucks, it's hard to find good stuff among the dreck, there are too many farms and outdated arcs, most people have no clue how to design custom critters but insist on filling missions with them anyway, people are still allowed to make custom critters with a level range of 1-54 which makes the "my level" search useless, the available tags are limited, the XP isn't as good as in regular missions, it's full of plot holes and spelling errors....but tickets are awesome.

What keeps me away from AE arcs is the new shiny right now, and the fact that I've played so many of them that finding something good that I haven't played is becoming harder and harder. I can't remember the last time I found a decent arc through the in-game search. I find most of what I play through the forums.

I too enjoy smashing, kicking, shooting and stabbing everything that gets in my way. I'm glad more people are doing this.

Now if only they'd turn up the difficulty to something that would give the enemies some semblance of a fighting chance, I'd do more of them. Unfortunately you aren't rewarded better in terms of drops for fighting higher level stuff, so nobody wants to do it.

Malta, because conceptually they were actually scary even to people who had travelled to other dimensions and defeated aspects of the mad god who ruled them before they started calling out every random shmoe to set foot in Grandville, posting their evil plots to their blogs and giving their untouchable faceless leaders fancy gadgets and purple triangles and, well, faces.

Freaks. I love Freaks. They are fun to beat up, their dialogue is always good for a giggle, they have some fun missions, and I love writing Freak characters in MA.

Rularuu. The Rikti are set up as the big alien menace, but once you start doing their arcs you realize that they're really not that different from us. The Rularuu are truly alien.

Honorable mention goes to the 5th Column, because I really really like beating up Nazis. Bonus points due to the last mission of Mender Lazarus's arc.

So with Inherent Fitness she had all her Scrappers respec into the stealth pool for the LotG mules?

I also think all the civilians running around like spazzes in some mission maps should be forcibly enrolled in Combat 101, as taught by General Aarons.

This is because I am a jerk.

I much prefer the new level 50 hero Morality mission to the old one. It has you actually going out of your way to do something heroic, putting yourself at risk to save someone, while the old one is somewhat self-centered and seems to be just an excuse to use doppelgangers. The crowd of civilians also make me giggle; they showed up to watch a public execution, and now they're cheering me on? Was there nothing good on TV?

Edit: That can't be it. There's always something good on TV in the Rogue Isles.