Myddie

I dunno, it didn't work out that way for me. I successfully completed all the missions up until the bomb/kill all mission and the final stupid mob was bugged and stuck in a wall. I could see the mob there, trying to get to me, but I couldn't hit it.

There was literally nothing I could do except watch helplessly as the timer ticked down to zero... and FAIL.

All following missions were completed successfully, but no badge.

Failing because I messed up, sure, I get that, but failing because of a bugged mob? That hurts, heh.

Is giving an error MADoorinvalid when you try to enter the first quest, so the arc is unplayable right now. Reported it to the author using the feedback tool as well.

Agreed, without a doubt. I don't get why there's at least no mouse-over tooltip in the shops that describe what the enhances are. Having to right click and look at the info for each one to find the one you need is tedious. I used to get around it by buying up all the enhances I'd need for an alt for several levels and dumping them in the SG storage bins rather than having to sort through the whole list at the vendor each time.

I usually don't even bother with combining if I'm in a hurry, though I do agree with you that the extra screen seems like an unneeded step.

(Keep in mind, I only just got back, so I don't have a clue how the new enhancement boosters work and I don't even have access to them and probably never will given how high up on the tier they are.)

I definitely can confirm this. I transferred one alt from Exalted to Justice but forgot to pull the stuff I had listed/stored on the AH before I did so. So I was pretty surprised when I went to the AH after the transfer to list some salvage and found my old stuff sitting there waiting on me, including the Inf from previous sales.

Some of my alts die a lot until I figure out what combo of inspirations and powers work best against a mob, but I've played for a while, so that's pretty second nature for me. Now, speaking as a new player back in the day, yes, the debt was frustrating as all get out to me and I almost quit the game. But honestly, it doesn't last all that long. Most of it is perception. XP flows very fast in the game.

I can solo in other games from 1 to end game and never die because I know my class and I know my limitations. But in this game, some classes and powerset combos are not solo-friendly unless you really know how to min-max and use everything to your advantage. I don't even bother playing my Emp defender solo. I'm not that fond of dying.

My dark/dark Corrupter on the other hand, hovers over the mobs with impunity, EB's included, and just goes to town, draining life and End as needed to refuel.

As a fellow long time WoW'er, I do understand where you're coming from, but to be honest, I find myself missing quite a lot in the lower levels of that game as well. It's all RNG, period and very little gear has hit in the early levels. My rule of thumb in CoX when in the lower levels is to slot 2 ACC enhances into anything I consider absolutely necessary to hit as much as possible. Depending on my build and the innates of the powerset/class, I may keep 2 acc's all the way to 50.

This one I will agree with you. I'm not high enough tier for any of the nice perks, so no rez temp powers for me. Use your rez Insp's and breakfrees if you can. If I know I'm going to die, I usually do my darndest to run away from the mobs so I'll be in the free and clear to rez in the instance. Plus my SG has a hospital and teleports to all zones. I can get back into play quickly, but understand you cannot do that.

I'm an addon junky, so I will agree here. I find myself frustrated daily that I cannot change things in the UI in a meaningful way, nor can I see what all my alts have in their inventories, etc.

This game doesn't seem to have as far a view distance as I'm used to in others, but that might be related to some setting I haven't messed with. As for darkness? Villain side is very, very dark, even outside Halloween. Not sure if that could be part of your concern, but the daytime on Heroes is nice and bright outside of Halloween.

This is a frustration you and I both share. I'm used to switching very often back and forth between mouse movement and keyboard movement as I need to and find myself coming to a dead stop when I do so. I also am not overly fond of how pressing the forward movement keys for too long starts me on auto-run. I wish I knew how to shut that off. And I'm not talking about pressing R either. I'm talking about the default movement key.

Agreed. This is perhaps one of the most frustrating parts of the game for me. I've never played a game that forces you to finish a cast or attack until this one. But then again, there are few bosses in this game that are scripted in such a way that you *must* dodge an incoming attack now or die immediately, ala fire patches, huge AoE's, etc.

We will agree to disagree on this one. That's one reason why I love this game. There is no such thing as the holy trinity of healer, tanker and dps. You can take ANY combo of classes into anything, from the lowly newspaper mission, to the Statesman's TF, and complete it. It's all about skill and how well you use what classes you take. With a skilled buffer/debuffer, you'll never need much healing period, ditto for tanking. To me, that's part of the fun. No standing around the city hopelessly advertising for a tank for X activity and having the group fall apart because people got bored and left. Fill up the group and go.

That said, some of the level 50 content is very difficult if the players do as you're speaking of and refuse to listen. The higher level TF's do require coordination in many cases and can be downright impossible without it. (Incarnates toss a wrench into things, as do the IO sets to a smaller extent, so I'm just speaking to the average player with generic crafted IO's or SO's.)

A petition works just fine Gavin. My daughter had the same bug on her Widow and they granted her a Super Tailor session for each costume slot so she could change the character sex back to female as it should have been.

Don't spend money or points purchasing a feature to fix a bug that's not your fault. This is a known issue per the conversation my kiddo had with the GM, and it was supposed to be fixed in the last patch per the email she got, but still seems to be happening.

I just started running AE arcs myself for a change of pace on my blaster and I did run into this issue myself. There were several Dev Choice arcs at the top and a couple or three 5-starred arcs. I ran those, then I found arc after arc with what sounded like an actual story arc name and they were 5 starred, but no other indication of what they were for. No description, nothing.

I just came back to the game and had zero clue these were farming arcs. I'm not against the farming thing, but honestly, I feel they need to be removed from the main story arcs and put in their own tab or some such. I don't think players should have to accept an arc to figure out what it is and there should be a way to filter them out right off the bat. That goes both ways. If someone wants to farm and wants to filter out the stories, more power to them.

One of the problems I saw was that quite a few of these farm arcs were listed in the 1-50 range, which means they appear to show up no matter what level range arc you search for and because farmers have uprated these so high, they're always at the top and you do have to sort through them somehow. Maybe that's working as intended? I don't know, but it's misleading if you're not familiar with the AE system. (Like me. )