Eva Destruction

I really, really wish they would just let us set the level range of individual critters. Then it would be possible to make a 1-54 custom group, by treating them like the canon groups with wide level ranges; they spawn different critters in each range.

Of course making a varied group like this would use up a ton of file size, but it would still be preferable to what we have now, where even a 25-50 group results in critters that are either murder at the low end or a pushover at the high end.

A friend of mine had one, way way back in the day. He got much use out of Ice Patch.

It's the Vanguard rifle. Yours for the low low price of 100 Vanguard merits, that's less than they charge for pants.

Non-combat allies turning into combatants sounds like a bug to me.

In a perfect world, I would play AE for story with no xp, and after playing an arc or two I would hit a "level up" button that would level me up and give me a bunch of play-moneys.

In this world though, where you still need XP to level and tickets to earn play-moneys, AE with no rewards would be mostly useless to people like me.

"But he knocked back my boss!"

"He's killing my guys!"

"He stole my drop!"

"He keeps buffing me!"

"If you guys don't knock it off RIGHT NOW I'm turning this team around and the next mission we do will be rescue 20 guys in Oranbega!"

is it ok with u if i use informal language too? i think i'll use it anway b/c it doesnt mater coz i'm not riting an essay

oh boo hoo, team leader shud tell them who 2 follow. if they cant follow the rite guy then they need to lrn2ply or just pay attention if team leader doesnt tell them who 2 follow then their a bad leader. ppl need 2 take responsability for themselfs and not expect to be babysat on teams.

That's actually where a lot of the problem stems from I think; I've seen from some of the people I play with that they get too comfortable with the "follow the tank, stay together, buffers will buff, everybody else pew pew pew and heal if needed" playstyle, and when they are forced to diverge from that, they don't know what to do. Other people, who haven't been babysat like that, do know what to do, they know their capabilities, and most importantly they know when not to follow the suicidal Scrapper.

CoT at 50 are pretty much a joke, and don't throw unresistable def debuffs and Hurricanes at you. If you're melee you may well be better off with them than BP.

Then again I fight Malta all the time, so I'm probably just weird. If Rularuu didn't completely negate my defense I'd fight them too.

No, it isn't. A support character's job is to SUPPORT the team. The team should do better with you, but if they can't do without you, (barring something like a +4 AV) it's time to find a better team.

They expect you to pack inspirations for tough fights. For Malta, they expect you to have the ability to deal with these tough enemies, because you're level 40 and should have chosen your powers appropriately. I do agree that Sappers having end drain resistance is just....wrong, and those grenades last far too long unless the intent is just to annoy the crap out of squishies.

No excuse for having such high debuff values with such a long duration on a minion that shows up in every spawn at level 25. None.

For that matter, what sadistic creep decided to give Mu -recovery before you have access to Stamina?

I inform the team that I am suicidally insane and anyone who follows me does so at their own risk. Sure, I'll try to keep them from dying, if they're suicidally insane like me but not as survivable, because I encourage suicidal insanity in all its forms, but if they die anyway and complain about it, then it's not my problem.

If they die and say "let's try that again," they can have all my awakens.

THIS is the part that bugs me.

When the team's difficulty is lower than my solo difficulty, there's no reason for me to be on the team except that I want a reward I can't get solo. Which turns teaming into grinding for rewards. I hate grinding, so if the team isn't going to give me fun, I'm going to make my own.

If people have a problem with that, they can either drop out of their "must babysit everyone" mentality and accept that I'm getting them more xp, inf, and drops, drop out of their "must follow the tank" mentality and run off on their own or come with me, turn up the difficulty so I have a reason to stay with them (whether it be survival or efficiency), or kick me. Getting butthurt because I'm doing what they are UNWILLING to do (not unable. If seven people together can't handle what I can handle solo I won't be on that team for long) accomplishes nothing.

Blame the eyeballs again. Just for fun, I tried to take some on with my /SR Scrapper, to see if they were really that bad. Yes. Yes they are.

Buying souls for a donut, then flipping them?

Under Standard enemy groups there is a group called Empty. It's listed (more or less) alphabetically.

Every time I get bored, they throw something new at me to keep me entertained. Inventions and AE have kept me entertained since they came out.

I also tend to pick a toon and stick with it. I treat it as a project; I don't level too fast, I get IOs on the way up, I allow myself to get attached to the character, and finish them rather than making yet another alt. They all tend to be solo-friendly as well, since I hate being beholden to teams.

This thread has a list of arcs that have been vetted by the AE community, conveniently sorted by level range. Many of them are quite good. It definitely beats trusting the whims of the search engine.

Also, this thread contains a player's reviews of arcs submitted for Dr. Aeon's second AE challenge, all of which are low level, and three of which are Dev's Choice, which (I think) means they are exempt from the ally XP nerf if you choose "normal rewards."

Making your own arc works too. Or, you can wait a few months for Going Rogue, which will contain brand new low-level content.

As others have said, find out what global channels exist on your server, and join some. Make a solo-friendly character to play when no one else is around, or make a duo with your girlfriend.

This is probably the most epic of epic rants I've read in a while.

I agree completely. And that's all I have to say about that.

So adding a long and tedious fight to an already long and tedious task would make it....funner?

I love Ruladak's cave. You can see the glowy stuff on the Rularuu in there, which makes it really creepy.