Eva Destruction

Clockwork are "robots," it's ok to kill robots unless they're sentient androids like Citadel. When you find out what they really are it's even more ok to kill them.

I would think the glowy green eyes and the bloody-butcher's-apron+surgical-mask fashion statement would have given them away...

I've never done Barracuda, but having AT-specific temp powers means you need specific ATs on your team. This game has long ago moved away from the Tank-Healer-DPS model of other games. You can succeed at most tasks with a large variety of team configurations (all Trick Arrow STF, all Scrapper ITF), and in many cases that requires more teamwork and coordination than grabbing a meatshield, a bunch of buff/debuffers and some damage.

There is no difference between beating on Reichsman for 10 minutes and beating on Recluse for 5 minutes, except that beating on Reichsman for 10 minutes requires an optimal team (otherwise it's more like 30), and beating on Recluse for 5 minutes is actually more dangerous.

Maybe it's an issue early, but some people who have helped arrest Vahzilok and even earned the Thanks of the World are looking forward to committing despicable crimes.

I was too busy being bored to read his dialogue. Yeah, no. If he even cared about the 5th (and why would he, when Axis America is still there, ready for him to come back and rule....and any attempt we make to stop him will get diverted to the Council Empire dimension instead) he'd be taking over. If he managed to imprison all those other AVs, what's to stop him from doing the same to Requiem and his pals?

Stephen Sheridan's arc. From the mission "Talk to Rebecca Brinell:"
You know, after reading that again, they really do make a big deal out of it, don't they?

So what's stopping them from having Task Forces that follow that model? They just added a Task Force in two parts, in response to complaints that the original was too long.

World Wide Red also could stand to be rewritten under the new system. It's one of the best stories in the game, but its SOOOO long and tedious. It's pretty much in three parts anyway, so just tweak a bit of contact dialogue, tweak the design of the missions a bit, split it into three parts and call it a day.

For the first time in my history on online forums I am tempted to use that Picard facepalm picture as a response to this post.

Detention field is not autohit. Again, inspirations drop like rain on x6. Eat a purple.

I have never had to deal with an Ascendant using his PFF more than once. Then again, I've never tried to fight one with a tank, if I'm going to solo I bring a character that can actually deal damage. Now Ballistas, those are tedious.

Yellow inspirations are available regardless of difficulty. On x6, they drop like rain. If you can't hit, eat them. It's no different than running a dev-created mission where some Vanguard idiot aggros a giant group of Rikti with three Guardians who have triple-bubbled everyone before you get there, accidentally aggroing two spawns of CoT with Death Mages in them, or every single Nemesis mission ever.

If you've never run into any of those situations because "they're too hard" then you really should stick to farming.

And before that it was a flat out tax on your group's total worth. It included prestige you had saved up but hadn't spent.

Base stuff is also far cheaper than it used to be.

Any guy willing to run around calling himself a Widow is probably comfortable enough with his masculinity to wear a buttcape. Mine is. (He's also completely crazy, but I honestly couldn't think of any other reason a character I'd actually want to play would join Arachnos). Free your mind of these restrictive gender stereotypes.

Also, free your butt of ill-fitting underwear. I'm convinced that's the reason male characters run like gorillas. They have a really bad perma-wedgie and can't get rid of it.

I can't remember if you can target it, but you cannot taunt it. My point is you do not need to, since the guys who can survive the aggro (ie the guys who would be taunting if they could) will have all the aggro because everyone else should be out of line of sight.

Words cannot describe how much that ticked me off. Although he is not technically their leader, just one of the board of directors...who are supposed to be a bunch of Cold War relics sitting around a table, sending faceless lackeys to do all their dirty work, not running around with six-shooters. At least the Slinger is just a jumped up faceless lackey.

This is false. You do not need to run in sight of the tree. Many of the vines in front of the tree can be taken out by a ranged attacker from the side of the tree, out of line of sight of the AV, and the rest can be taken out by the meatshield, who would be the one taunting anyway.
The Hydra head is much like the tree in that sense. Stay out of sight, stay alive. My mind boggles at how many people can't seem to get that concept after multiple attempts at these trials.

Even if it did make sense, the Akarist AV was really just a jumped up version of one of the bosses in the Justin Augustine TF, which means he has crazy resists and is another tedious fight.

A super-powered Nazi represents the kind of thing Malta IS. But they're so far in the proverbial "closet" they're finding Christmas presents.

35-40 actually.
Those in the know in Paragon City kept it a secret to avoid a panic. Dark Watcher doesn't care; you have signed up to fight the Rikti, you should know what you're fighting. Timothy Raymond doesn't care either.

I just pretend those paper missions don't exist. Let's not even mention the fact that the random boss generation nature of paper missions gives Zeus Titans Gunslinger names. The Malta scanner missions heroside are much better done, even if they are played mostly for comedy; you don't know who the enemy is until you go inside.

I don't think they do. If they do, point out which ones so I can complain about them.

The thing is, the Malta group operates behind a veil of secrecy. Being out in the open is the LAST thing they want. If a few people tell the world about them they can have those people discredited or disappeared. But when a large group of respected heroes is willing to back up these "nutjob conspiracy theories," people will start to listen, and the Malta group's methods will become less effective.

Plus, you know, a giant robot rampaging through Founders Falls is a bit hard to hide.

Alright, you win. There is a purple set that gives +def.

So your suggestion is to essentially force people to make a conscious decision to save up merits rather than roll. Making the roll becomes the path of least resistance, however those who wish to save up can still do so by clicking "Do not roll."

In that case I have one additional suggestion: make it a small pop up and not the usual reward table that takes up your entire screen.

I guess from your PoV purples are PvP IOs should be desirable to everyone?

Here is a PoV that is not mine, but which many players hold:

Purples are not necessary. Purples are not worth the investment. For the price of a single purple set I can completely kit out a character with decent IOs.

Now, the player that holds this PoV is back to the original choice: do I use lower level sets, because I want the bonuses while I'm exemped, at the cost of lowered performance at 50? Or do I go with the 50s, at the cost of lowered performance while I'm exemped? It isn't a question of what you NEED, it is never a question of what you NEED. It is a question of what do you WANT. If I WANT to be more powerful at level 35 than I would be with just SOs, I really don't give a flying rat's hiney whether a team will take me with just SOs. I want my set bonuses. I have more fun on that level 35 team with my set bonuses. Therefore, I will make the choice to slot level 35 sets at the cost of some performance at 50. End of discussion.

Please point me to a purple set that gives +def.

Please tell me how I am supposed to slot purples into all of my powers. Did they make them not unique while I wasn't looking? Did they add in purple heal, resistance, defense, end mod, tohit buff, tohit debuff?

Oh, and what if, horror of horrors, I don't feel like investing in purples on a character? I wasn't aware that the super-rare, shiniest of shinies were now meant to be something everyone can have on every character.

Players who cannot have the super-rare shiniest of shinies on every character have two options: Create a perfectly good build without them and choose between maximum efficiency at 50 and keeping their bonuses when they exemp, or come to the forums, whine about how much everything costs, get made fun of, and go back to option 1.

Right, because purples and PvP IOs have every set bonus you could possibly want, you can do a full build with them, and they are easy to acquire for all your Warshades.

Or, you know, maybe the fact that purples and PvP IOs retain their set bonuses while exemped is a sign that the devs acknowledge the choice players have to make when using everything else, and not having to make that choice is part of what makes those IOs so uber.

If you had just said "supply nerf" in the first place we could have bypassed a whole page of arguing.

Tell me this: If pool C acquisition hadn't been changed over to merits, do you honestly think 20-minute Katies would still be possible? And would they still be possible for all those rag-tag teams of whoever felt like showing up?

Higher level characters exemping into lower-level content have always been more powerful.

As it stands, players need to make a decision: Keep set bonuses when exemped, or get the full value out of the enhancements in the set--enhancements that will further lose value when you exemp below a certain level. It seems like a fair trade-off to me.

No he didn't. You didn't spell out how to make sure he has editing rights, or that "Edit Base" is not what you click to change your plot size. (It's "Upgrade Plot" by the way. I understand that it might cause undue brain stress to figure out that "Upgrade" must also mean "downgrade" since that is the only button that has "Plot" written on it.)

See, I too have done an overstressed brain a service. That is my good deed for the day. I have also challenged Myriad's unrealistic assumptions about how much brainpower people are willing to expend on their own behalf. That takes up my expenditure of brain power on somebody else's behalf for the day, so I will leave it to some other altruistic individual to explain how to make sure you have editing permissions.

I would suggest the character's level +3. That's as high as the slider goes, and it gives you the highest level IO you can use. People who can roll for "the best thing I can use right now" might be more temped to roll than if they can only roll for "my level, but I can buy and use something three levels higher."

(Also because I am selfish and would like to start rolling my 35s at 32, because that is when I start buying them and sometimes I could use the inf generated by a good but unneeded roll.)

Here, I'm done with my sledgehammer for now, you may use it if you wish.

Or, looking at it from the other side, quick Katies were a massive exploit. Actually, there is no other way to look at it. The Task Force as it was when i9 went live was horrifically exploitable. This was entirely the devs' fault. It set player expectations to a level that was too high and based entirely on this one, broken piece of content.