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The problem with that is that you never see that variety unless you're on a big team or on a high difficulty.

Tsoo also run into the problem of having very little variety in their minions except in the lower end of their level range. Which again leads to stacking debuff spam and is an example of what not to do.

Yes it is possible. "Defeat All" doesn't grey out anything but itself.

The servers were down for like two days right before CoV came out. I'm guessing this is something similar, getting ready for GR.

There's no law saying you have to put it on autofire. If you hit it when it's recharged and you have a second to spare (like before the fight) it'll never interrupt a combo, and if you forgot to hit it there's a ten-second warning with the flashing icon, plenty of time to finish your combo.

SR is about as clicky as Invul. Less so, if you're using Dull Pain as a heal rather than preemptively.

They do however all have an "I'm going to **** you up" button for one powerset or another. The trick is that all the critters have a different button. No one powerset is completely useless, but no one powerset is completely safe.

As opposed to Longbow. They have ONE lieutenant, which makes resistance-based armors almost useless. Not only do they take away all your resistance, but there's a very good chance they'll stun you right through your mez protection if you face them in numbers. And they all spam that stupid stun to kill squishies. Whereas if you've got high defense, they're a total joke.

The point: Make more than one lieutenant.


Yeah, well it's a good thing authors don't have access to 15-minute debuffs that persist through death for the custom critters. Otherwise you can be sure some authors would be using them on every critter in the name of "challenge."

The devs get to cheat so they can make us go get temp powers. Fortunately, we don't get to cheat.

The last patch changed that, they scale down again.

It could be either. What it does imply is that Rularuu is NOT a dimension-devouring space-god, unless the Dream Doctor has a very high opinion of himself, and everything that is said about him in game suggests that he is quite humble for someone of his implied abilities.

Again, it could be both. Rularuu is stark raving mad. He could have been unable to contain his rage, and subconsciously willed it to manifest as a separate aspect. In a simplified sense, it's multiple personality disorder, in which, at least in fictional portrayals, the main personality subconsciously creates the others, but the others are self-aware. The angry one could very well believe he created himself because he no longer wanted to be part of a guy who allowed himself to be locked up.

Writing actual missions around the lore (canon, speculation, or made up) is difficult, I agree. You have to give the player interesting ways to get all the exposition, and then there are many players who would avoid the arc just because it would necessitate using a difficult enemy group.

The Rularuu try to get it in Quaterfield's abomination of a TF. We're not supposed to let them.

According to your theory, our dimension is special because he is from here. Even in canon, he was imprisoned by people from our dimension. Revenge.

The fact that he can't is again implied in Quaterfield's TF.

If he had consumed them before his imprisonment, they would have been gone before Portal Corp existed. They never say what "consume" means. Does he eat everything in the whole entire universe? Does he just take all the good stuff? All we know is that it's bad. Cue Galactus comparisons.

Let's assume his "consuming" a dimension renders the Earth completely uninhabitable, if it's even there anymore. What does Portal Corp do with dimensions that we can't explore? We are never told. What about a dimension where they find a big expanse of nothing where our solar system would be? That is assuming that the consumed dimensions don't just wink out of existence, in which case Portal Corp would never find them because they don't exist.

Ok, that's all fine and good if he's been eating dimensions for a very long time. They were gone before we knew to look for them. But if he is still snacking away in his imprisonment....how many dimensions have we catalogued? Far more than we ever see in game. Whether any of those dimensions would be statistically likely to just suddenly go poof is of course dependent on the number of dimensions out there, but the law of comic-book probability skews the odds of it happening.

Again, revenge. Also, arrogance.

He is and he isn't. They are all separate beings, but they are all Rularuu. He's kinda like the Borg that way.

In a way, the fact that he separates himself like that lends credence to the theory that he was once human. He has god-like power, but his mind just couldn't handle it, so it fragmented itself into multiple aspects, each with more limited power, each with more limited responsibilities, but all ultimately part of the whole. What does a mad god need with kindness? Why would a mad god essentially take pictures of his dinner (the Reflections)? Wouldn't a being of such power be above such petty emotions as anger, pity, and regret?

I still think he is far, far older than the Dream Doctor. I think the quote in the Midnight Club could refer to the fact that he started out much like the Dream Doctor, as a very powerful meta-human able to transcend many of the same limitations, but went too far, went mad, and turned into what he is. The Dream Doctor could be using him as an example of what not to do.

Flippers are helping combat inflation. They're performing a public service.

I'm against price caps because if everything good went off-market it would be a MASSIVE PAIN IN THE BUTT to acquire anything. Placing a bid is way way easier and faster than trying to find someone willing to sell what you want to buy. I don't care about your profits. I want my stuff.

Rularuu are tough because the eyeballs completely bypass defense then debuff it very quickly, and the Brutes hit like Mac trucks. They are a good example of why you should avoid "I win" buttons on critters. It's like giving half the group Rage and KO Blow, then throwing in some Rad/Rads with Aim and some psi guys. Don't do that.

Arachnos is a much better example of a varied enemy group. They also have a few extreme effects that make them more difficult, and can be avoided with custom critters if you don't want to make them quite so hard (Bane Stealth Strikes, Tarantula Mistresses debuffs, -perception and -tohit, end drain, stacking slows, etc.) They are STILL easier than Rularuu because those effects aren't AS extreme as an eyeball that can hit you reliably through soft-capped defenses WHEN THEY'RE SIX LEVELS LOWER THAN YOU.

Oh, I make it a point to answer newbie questions sent through tells or asked in broadcast even if I'm hiding. I may be busy at the market, or working on an AE arc, and unable to take the time to join your team, but I can always take the time to respond to a few tells.

I've actually had quite a few people look at my powersets while I'm AFK at the train or doing market stuff and ask me questions about them. Helping those who are willing to learn makes for a better playerbase.

In my experience the ignorant veterans who think they know everything due to their veteran status far outnumber ignorant newbies who want to learn. YMMV.

This is the main reason I solo a lot. Either everyone is "rush rush rush" or "hurry up and wait."

This is the other reason.