Madam_Enigma

Yes, playing the kid who controls Gigantor would be interesting.

I doubt it. I'd be noticing a crit damage that's higher then the actual attack. I've long been under the impression that Shadow Maul can't crit, because it doesn't seem to.

EDIT: I've seen the old Swipe crit, so know what it should look like.

My dark melee scrappers? I can't recall shadow maul ever critting. But then, it does some crazy good damage anyway.

And that's more an annoyance factor. This I can understand. There's nothing more annoying to me then an auto cast Healing Aura. Pets (or players) blocking access to the market is a valid complaint. "Pets create lag" however to me isn't a valid complaint. If my ninja are giving you lag cause I'm at the market, you should probably upgrade your computer for other reasons.

People have been known to attribute as much lag as a Hammi raid, Rikti Mothership raid, or a party on test server thrown by the devs. And I've never seen that. Not before upgrading my computer, or since. Even when there's a lot of people at wentworths or the black market running all their powers, it's not been as laggy as people claim.

Granted, I have a 1.5 Mbs connection speed. But I've teamed with people on dialup who said they had no problems. The only real lag THEY encountered were Arachnos base maps and loading time.

I initially first bought a graphics card after issue 7 came out. And that was because graphics improvements had made the game nearly unplayable villain side with the built in graphics chip. And the card I bought was a Radion X300. Not the best card on the market by a long shot. No real problems using that when the markets got added. And that was with dozens of people at them at least, and everyone running their high particle toggles. Now I have a radion X1600, and naturally there's even fewer problems.

Thanks for the link. I haven't read Dominic Deegan since my old computer died.

What about the street gang that actually protects people? In one supers game I was in my team stumbled across a full blown three way gang war. We were all set to bring down some heavy handed justice on them all, when we realized one gang wasn't rampaging. They were activly protecting those caught in gang war's crossfire. Yes they were thugs and street toughs, but the gang's focus wasn't on committing crime. It was focused on stopping other gangs from hurting people.

Now my brain hurts. Fire/fire doesn't do enough damage?! On my ice tank I can just barely keep aggro off fire blasters due to how much damage they deal.

Are you on Guardian? Slimy Sam (my dark/dark scrapper) is on that server. He died in the 50's. So he's a heroic zombie.

Naw, speed is proportional to the number of offenders on the team. If you have a large number of Repeat Offenders on it I imagine the ITF would just curl up in a ball and whimper for fifteen minutes then complete.

lol I've never seen the BM or Wentworths to be as laggy as people claim. Sure during test server pocket D parties it's laggy as heck. But then again you also have each instance of Pocket D filled to capacity with everyone having their pets, toggles and any location aoe they feel like casting going on. Wentworths and the black market have never been that bad.

You don't want pets out because you can't target the BM vender? Uh, hate to break it to you but other players would cause just as much problems. And your not going to get the players to vanish while their shopping. When there's 20 people crowded around the Cap Au Diablo BM, one mastermind's pets wont be making much difference in regards to your reaching the vender. Heck, that one mastermind might be having trouble clicking on the vender due to players.

What I find is an effective tactic is the following:

Step one-Teleport into large group of enemies either in Dwarf form (works best if they can't mez you) or with Inky on.

Step Two-Black Dwarf Mire

Step Three-Sunless Mire and jump out of spawn

Step Four-switch to nova form as your jumping out of the spawn

Step Five-AE everything to death with your capped damage

Step Six-Stygian Circle

Step Seven-listen to the team complain about you killing everything too fast

I actually have been booted from a few teams due to that tactic being so effective. Another team booted me cause I kept switching roles depending on what was needed most. Troller went down? Switch to human and start using Inky to stun stuff. Tanker went down? Switch to dwarf form and tank till he's back on his feet. Everything peachy? Smash the enemies in whichever creative way I feel like. And best of all I can swap roles mid fight if needed.

I love it when a warshade comes together.

Why not? You are their master. You bound the demons to your will didn't you?

Let me try explaining it again. We can't change how the story arcs are scripted. That is already set in virtual stone. What we can do is roleplay. It is an MMORPG after all. Your character is doing all these jobs for everyone else. YOU create the reason your character is willing to do everyone else's dirty work. And it's not just "because that's the way the contact is scripted" either. Why does Poison Bloom do so? Because she is a mercenary who sells her services. Why does Father Bone do so? Because it amuses him to watch the petty squables that take place. He's a depowered demon, so takes his fun where he can.

So, what is the Role Play reason behind your character? The developers can't decide that for you, only you can create this.

Or better yet, eventually rework many of the missions to take advantage of branching moral choices. Such as when your suppose to shut down Amanda Vines before she can broadcast, she offers you money if you let her broadcast go through. Do you do as Marshal Brass wants? Or do you do the right thing and accept let Amanda warn the people about Doc Aeon?

A hint, my misunderstood hero took the mission and then let her broadcast. He is a hero, even if the world brands him a villain.

Well, IF your the one person destined to bring Lord Recluse his ultimate victory over Statesman, he may not want you removed from the time stream. There's also time paradox issues involved with such actions. The Arachnos agent is sent back in time to kill your parents before you were born. Because you were never born, the reason for his mission never happened. Ergo the agent isn't sent back in time to kill your parents. Thus your parents are alive, and give birth to you.

Time travel is tricky stuff. You go back in time due to Event Y to change it in your favor. But your doing so requires event Y to not go in your favor. If it went in your favor, you had no cause to go back to change it. Such a time paradox would either negate it's self, or could possibly do damage to the time stream. It's why Recluse isn't monkeying with the future of Earth Prime. Rather he's trying to dominate the future of a paralel earth which he hopes will force events in Earth Prime to lean towards that eventual victory.

Haven't read the books yet, but what if it wasn't Recluse who actually found the well? Would he have found it if Statesman hadn't been there? I don't know. Would he have still become the man he did? That's debatable. Look what happened to Marcus Cole in Praetoria. Arranging the death of Marcus Cole before they find the well could end up changing history so that Arachnos never existed. It could change history so that the Axis Nations won WW2 and nictus spread across the globe. This could be why the the council rules one alternate earth that we can visit.

If you were Lord Recluse, would you permit anyone to mess with traveling into the past, knowing that it could jeopardize your very existence?

The devs can only do so much with storyline writing. We the players have to come up with the actual motivations for our characters. Just looking on the surface, it might appear your just some random thug (with super powers). So delve deeper into your character's psychology. WHY is your character willing to do all this? Perhaps it's for the money. Perhaps your collecting favors owed. Perhaps you just want to see the world burn. Perhaps your just making sure no one else destroyes the world before you can conquer it. Or maybe your secretly undermining them all.

As for why we put up with Lord Recluse... One newspaper mission does a great job of explaining it. Someone killed an abitor and made it look like you. So why are you going after the real killer?

"It's not that your afraid of the Abitors. You'd just rather they not interfere with your plans right now... by going back in time and killing your parents before you were born"

Seems like a pretty good reason to me.