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Some of the stuff DC wants to do sounds kind of interesting. Whether they pull it off or not, of course, is the question. Champions *said* it was going to outdo CoX in all sorts of way too, and....yeeeah. It looked shinier. If the Ultra Mode makes the game look like a brand spankin' new one for people whose computers can handle it, they should get marketing to work, since a lot of the new audience of video games only care about how much NEXT GEN Brown and Bloom the game has.

I have a Ninja/Storm, but I don't have any illusions of being all super-awesome like the the dudes with AOE-happy pets who can sit back lazily rocking the aura and rolling x8 spawns on e-z mode. I picked that combination just because it wasn't easy, the other MMs were just tooooo boring to play.

I wish third ninja minion had a "thing" going for him instead of just being another guy who runs around kicking things. He could've at least had Cobra Strike, or something.

1. Crossplatform sucks. Xbox turns games into epic fail. And I refuse to play an MMO if it becomes voice-chat required...it's just not gonna happen. I don't want to have to put up with all "you people" blathering away in my ear. I'll just give MMOs up when that happens.

2. Underwater zones are awesome. Gotta have a dev that loves the z axis and wants to make an epic cool area, though (Kedge Keep, I loved you so) otherwise it'll probably end up sorta meh. Babs don't want it, so it won't happen.

3. I miss Apartments. They're dying out of MMOs. In DAoC and EQ2 (and I presume Star Wars. Vanguard might've had 'em--I forget, that MMO was so bad I dumped it out of my brain) were great because you could go to a seller's house and purchase directly from there to save yourself the market's transaction cost. If you cared, you could make a nice showy apartment people could look around in...if you didn't care you had an empty house and the sales racks sitting in a big empty room. I liked to decorate and occasionally would get a random compliment about it. For high priced recipes and enhancements I could see going to a guy's apartment to buy from him, but from a superhero standpoint....going to a guy's cool secret hangout to do market transactions seems dumb. Batman doesn't invite random people into the batcave just because they want to buy some secret super weapon he invented, right? Plus, the market is cross-server and players aren't.

Nobody really cares about Mercy or PO anyway. I figure Cap will be the winter event hub for villains.

Mercy is a horrible newbie zone, and Port Oakes is just sort of...there. It has the arena and the SG registrar, I guess. In retrospect the devs probably regret the mistake of having two zones which virtually overlap. I just groundpound to level 5 as I walk to the PO ferry, get my atlas mayhem in Oakes, and proceed to Cap at level 10. Total time in the zones is pretty negligible for a side which doesn't have many zones.

I thought it was sort of interesting. Better than the supernatural Banner event, especially since it wasn't lagging the server and causing constant intrusive zone invasions. Didn't seem anybody was confused by what to do when he phased out until his GM guardian was beaten, either, unlike the banner event.

he does have a sorta dorky name. but, hey, maybe DC will sue them if they name him Mister Coldsnap IT'S ICE TO MEET YOU!

Why can't the Winter Horde use the rikti merit code for candy cane drops, though? I just suppressed bosses since they're only worth 1 candy cane be it minion or boss. Never was subbed during a winter event so I have a lot of junk to buy from those elves, and with those instant Respecs costing 500 canes I imagine the cost for those salvage bits aren't going to drop below the 100k-500k per piece on the market (unless, maybe, on the last day of the event and people want to unload instead of hoard them for next december). Or maybe Big Daddy Snowman's realm could be guaranteed candy cane drops in the vein of the RWZ mothership raid's guaranteed merit drops.

Heh, I took a special kind of joy throwing blinding powder on Knives and confusing the lot of them to turn their massive caltrop fields against them on my stalker.

Seriously? I'd expect the Soldiers to be the VEAT of choice (huntsmen double leadership is wonderful, mwahaha, although they don't have buttcapes...and for some reason my female soldier doesn't have the chest or collar piece anymore, I guess those parts got bugged by the costume devs somehow), and Corruptors to replace Defenders since they can, like, fight and scourge stuff. What do defenders get? "Oh, if this guy's HP is redlining my heal to him costs less. Yay?"

At least we all know Kheldians will continue to be the least played AT, though

Oh, see the travel timesink is still there. Just pop the ouroborous portal to skip back to AP from the faaaaar corner of IP, don't do the cape mission until you can. Simple

It could be worse--Skyway could still not have the rail connected. Ugh...the blueside cape mission was never anything but a travel timesink. Happy they did something to it, hopefully the nonsensical aura mission gets a redo too instead of just being "now you can have glowy eyes because you tore these arms off some freakshow and brought me goo from DE and bottled rikti monkeyfarts! now, to use the power of SCIENCE!"

I don't really believe someone could knock out that godawful doctor q. TF in under 4 hours. And that's, like, speedrun speed where you don't have people go AFK or the leader accidentally DCs and whoops the next in line group member fell asleep! enjoy your wasted effort...

Shadow Shard TFs need revamped SO HARD. It would please me immensely if the Shard was also getting attention paid to in Going Rogue, but I seriously doubt it. Revamping Rularuu and having some kind of awesome raid against the Cathedral of Pain (blow up the deathstar! scrap whatever Statesman's crummy PvP idea using the name was about) could be an xpac in itself.

I have on several.

Makes it easier to just hack CoT ghosties, and generally I have stuff that's better than a basic unenhanced Shadow Maul for fighting the rest of the time.

Sands of Mu are nice on the SS brute I had though. Seems to ignore the rage IMMA HIT YOU FOR 1-4 POINTS OF DAMAGE crashes.

Why would anyone lower than level 35 go to a Rikti raid? I think the contact mission to get the vanguard badge that lets you collect Merits requires you be level 35. Rapid merit drops as opposed to the glacial speed of earning them in doors is sort of the whole point of laying siege to the Mothership.

They could've put a virtual arcade in Pocket D instead of RWZ. Use the room every AE building has, but give it Rave lights or something. The roleplayers would complain, but Pocket D is just a dead zone some people use to zone hop quickly year round cept during the seasonal events if you're not on Virtue.

Darkfall? Never heard of it. Was it one of those myriad MMOs that boasted they'd be the EQ killer back in the day but were nothing but vaporware?

SW:G, #2? Lol. The most genius thing was that SOE managed to tap a market of fanboys who PAID A FEE for the privilege of being a Beta tester, by virtue of being Star Wars (Sure does remind me of another MMO with "Star" in the title). EQ and UO had far more reaching impact on the MMO genre. Oh, and to let Raph Koster sit back writing treatises on "fun" but not let him near your devs or you'll get un-fun.

I'm surprised they haven't just made a vet reward badge that globally unlocks locked *earnable* (not purchased) costume pieces like Vanguard, Roman, Rularuu, Auras, etc at level 1. It seems like something that would be beloved by everyone who has been hanging around for 6 years and have probably had to go through the tedious chore of unlocking costume pieces a dozen times over.

That or flag your account with a freebie coupon for a Booster Pack of your choice. If they've paid 6 years solid...what's the harm in sacrificing 10 bucks?

She must've visited the Shadow Shard. All the stargate teams out there used to have that warped face. Of course, there were probably only about 10 people servers-wide that ever noticed. SS r popular place.

side-face is actually kind of awesome. It should be a bug that's hunted down and made into a real face choice--when you can't fix it, turn it into a feature working as intended!

I figured it was just to bring them in line with the rest of the vanguard-named pieces. Vanguard weapon, Talsorian weapon..meh, whatever, as long as they don't change how they look.

Auras for weapons would be neat. They'd probably make it a booster pack though...humbug.