FreckledAvenger

Ooh, plot bunny for a new MA arc!

Ah, memories...running down the hall after dinner to play and discovering computers being taken apart.

It was still fun to watch over people's shoulders, though.

Hee...on November 2nd this year I will be turning 27 years old. Is it bad that I'm excited to share a birthday with Steelclaw?

Hee...so how's that retirement working out for you?

Moar videos plz.

Also, November 27th is the day after Thanksgiving (which I have off, yay!). Not sure if that would factor into anything, but it's there.

Wouldn't count on it. I grew up in the Bay Area and being able to see the Golden Gate not shrouded in fog was very much the exception to the rule. The one time I ever walked across the Golden Gate Bridge it was windy and foggy and generally miserable.

Of course, generally speaking the weather in San Jose will be nicer than San Francisco (not as windy/foggy) but still, I wouldn't expect it to be warm. Pack layers.

They do. Niv was teasing us in the HeroCon forum (before they revealed the name of the hotel) by telling us it had a shuttle to SJO.

Add two more! Hubby and I will be there also.

!!!

I have a friend who thinks that "Ticket to Ride" was originally recorded by the Carpenters.

My face and palm got very well acquainted that day.

Even funnier: it's not an age thing -- she's 43, I'm 27. My dad raised me right, what can I say...

Yes, custom mobs are harder in AE because they don't exist in the world. Standard mobs in AE are exactly the same as they are in the world, unless you're backing them up with custom bosses (harder) like the OP is doing. But you can't compare that group to one in the world.

Okay, how are you in a level 50 mish? Are you teamed with a level 50 player? Did you change your difficulty settings to +4 while soloing?

If you're teamed, refer to my quote about the new sidekicking system above. If you're solo, go to a Field Analyst/Fateweaver and check your difficulty settings. If it's set for +4 enemies, that's why you're seeing level 50's. You can drop it to as low as -1. If you do that, and it doesn't work, /bug it.

Edited to add: If you are experiencing behavior that doesn't fit the feature descriptions and seems to be a bug, /bug it in game and/or post to the Technical Issues & Bugs section of the forum.

I just don't understand this. Everyone gets a freespec with issue 16. Meaning...you didn't "lose your chance" at anything; you still get a freespec!

And even if you somehow needed two back to back (maybe with the new dual build feature?), run a respec trial! They're cake (but the cake is a lie)!

Ah well, back to your regularly scheduled DOOOOOM!

Yes, PFF will keep the AV off the mercs...until the mercs start attacking the AV again.

You suggested Taunt/PFF as a replacement for soft-capped defense, that's what I was responding to. I think it would be a very effective strategy for keeping the mercs alive and fighting longer, but it would be a long fight, and I'm not sure it would be a successful one without some kind of debuffing.

Or until they kill the mercs and you have to run away/resummon. Or until you have to turn off PFF to re-bubble the mercs. Dispersion Bubble won't work on the mercs when you're in PFF either.

Seems very clumsy to me (and very slow). You might survive, but I don't know if you'd ever be able to actually kill the AV.

Disclaimer: I haven't gotten a /FF mastermind to 50 yet (my bots/FF is at 26, and the Protector Bots also bubble; mercs don't).

If by "nerf bat" you mean "changing the Controller version to use the modifiers it should have been using from the beginning", then ok, nerf bat.

Controller FS values will be 40% self-AOE buff (compared to 50% defender version) and 20% per-enemy buff (compared to 25% defender version), if I remember correctly.