Frost Warden

I took Spring Attack on my fire/fire tank; I concentrated on taking AoEs for him. I replaced Combustion with Spring Attack. I had already taken CJ, SJ, and Acro, so I didn't need to take additional powers to get to Spring Attack.

While the recharge could be better, I find it a good opening for damage, mitigation, and taunt; I then start up my regular chain of attack with it afterwards.

You know, every time I read the title to this thread, my mind changes it to:

REAL reason game is going TO THE AMERICANS!

Well, I was just able to add a new free account to my existing master account, so at least part of the new player process is working.

Loved everything you had to say, Quickfire, except for:

OK, so I went and tested this out on a lvl 50 who did not have Unveiler yet. Killed 30 Fakes in PI and then 30 more in FBZ. PI Fakes ran from levels 41 thru 49; FBZ from 40 to 44. I used Hero Stats to keep track of how many I killed; I was a solo blaster, so I was the only one getting kill credits. The results:

PI
Killed: 30
Credited for killing: 12

FBZ
Killed: 30
Credit for killing: 30

So, I agree with Snow Globe: any Fakes 46+ for lvl 50s are not receiving badge credit. I wished that I had kept track of what I was actually defeating in PI, but will need to get another toon for that.

Let's get the rumor mill started on a new one!

Knockback will be buffed on Tuesday. Indeed, all powers that didn't do knockback before, now do. This will be keeping with the theme of comic book style play, and will enhance the F2P player's perception of the game.

Whatever set you like the most, they nerfed it in I21.

/takes off tinfoil hat

I can verify that it is not giving out that mission in Ouro anymore. You go through the steps like normal, but when you click on Accept Current Challenge Settings, you get a pop-up that reads I am unable to fulfill that request.

In your chat window, you get the message You cannot add that contact.

I /bugged it, in case it hadn't been already.

*sigh*

At some point I would like to play the game again; hopefully it will be sooner than later...

Just to put things in a little perspective:

I work as a network engineer for a large cable company. Often, when new products roll out, I see the following pattern:

1. Internal testing of the product
2. Roll-out to a small area of a region
3. Increase roll-out to a larger area of the same region
4. Fully release product to entire region/country

I'm seeing this pattern here:

1. Closed beta
2. Open beta
3. VIP Headstart
4. F2P launches

To me, this means that this is a pretty standard roll-out procedure when dealing with large amounts of subscribers/customers. Yes, each step has problems that didn't crop up with the previous step, but that's part of the procedure. Part of my job entails examining individual problems to see if it really is an individual problem, or if it's a problem with the product itself.

I'm seeing these same things happening now. Freedom, to me, is still not fully launched. We are still finding the problems for them to correct. Downtime to fix these issues is, for me, expected. Do I like not being able to play when I want to? No. Life goes on.

Biggest problem I'm seeing in the UG trial is convincing people to use the hospital option. Even though we tell them that there is a porter to take them back closer to the fight, they are unwilling to go because of how far the trek back would be.