NekoNeko

Careful, last time I got neg repped was because the part I quoted was too long... go figure.

This.

lolforumpvp

Yeah, well, setting the timeline to levels doesn't really work when you consider that most characters do the Midnighter arc shortly after 10, say 10-15. This would mean that your characters (all the ones who did this arc anyways) found the Lost cure 5(+) years ago (in your level 50 character's time). If this is true, why are there still any Lost at all?

Alternate timelines sure can be confusing.

Gotcha. Thanks for the insight.

I'm with you so far, because Primaries are more powerful than Secondaries. Defenders buff better than they blast because buffing is their primary. And Blasters are better at blasting than Defenders because blasting is the Defender's secondary.

And then you say this:

Hmmm, given that Primaries are more powerful than Secondaries, how does this make sense?

Or more tactfully, what in your experience makes you say this? Are you saying that the kinetics buffs synchronize better with the control sets than with blast sets? (Just trying to see where you're coming from.) Because Kinetics, like Rad, like Storm, (like blast sets) is a much superior set as a Primary than as a Secondary.

Hey, I'm just glad they started saying Pacific Time and Eastern Time instead of PST and EST during DST!

Where did you hear that they did away with the story-arc limit?

My own research indicates that the limit is you can now have FIVE major story-arcs active. Once I got to five, I ran missions for a new contact Lou Pasterelli. I ran ALL his missions he offered me until he went "inactive", including all the "Defeat X" type missions they normally offer alongside the regular missions. Never once did he offer me "The Unity Plague", which is his story-arc.

So I'm going to assume the new limit on major story-arcs you can have open at once is now five. Where did you hear that they removed the limit entirely?

Huh, you do have a point here. I'll have to look into this.

As an update, I now have these story arcs open:

1. The Clockwork Captive
2. The Bonefire Plot
3. The Freakshow War
4. The Rise of the Vampyri
5. Corporate Culture

So that's now five open major story arcs. There's a couple more still I can get at my level (The Unity Plague and The Library of Souls), so we'll see if I can open any more.

Well, you know, I've been here 5 years now, and now I kind of eschew the story arcs while I'm in the process of leveling up. I'll wait and Oro them if I want to run them again. The only thing I do look out for while I level normally is the badge missions, and the arcs kind of get in the way of getting the badge missions.

I hate having to temporarily turn off XP so I don't outlevel the level range I'm working on because I get into a long story arc while looking for the badge mission. So way back in the day when story arcs were forced on you (you often got locked into an arc just by looking at the first mission of the arc, even before you actually took the first mission), I decided the only way to get around this was to take a couple of low level arcs early and never complete them, and voila, I would never see another arc. Until this surprise.

Silly rabbit, arcs are for Orobouros. This way I don't get locked into an arc I don't like. I can just abandon it without stalling the rest of my progress with that contact.

This was my thinking too. I intend to keep grabbing the major arcs on contacts who do not have badge missions until I run through a contact and never get their story arc.

Since they went from 3 open missions to 7 open missions, I'm kinda guessing that the max open arcs now can't be higher than 5, unless they went with no-limit. We'll see, I guess.

I know that. "The Clockwork Captive", "The Bonefire Plot" and "The Freakshow War" are all major story arcs. I now have all three of these arcs open.

What cutscene?

I played Part One (Nance's arc) through to the end twice and just the first mission or two of Part Two (Adair's arc) and I didn't see any cutscene. Is it near the end of Part Two?

Great minds... I almost posted "Troll is troll."

At least one glaring inaccuracy in every sentence was my first clue.

Even making it an "all-day" thing as opposed to only a "prime-time" thing would be better. I work nights, so I'm always "out of the loop" on stuff like this.

We did the IP (might have been Brickstown) safeguard late last week (Thursday or Friday) and got Ice Mistral. We had a nice death rotation going until we finally pulled her down.

Just a question.

Why 3 heal in Rest?

Rest is normally used out of combat, and it heals you up to full quickly enough. You could put those 3 slots to better use somewhere else.

Also, all those powers you have 4 damage in, you're only getting like 2-3% from the last damage enhancement, those slots could prolly be put to better use elsewhere as well (or put something in them other than another damage).

As for the tanker part, sorry, never played a tanker, prolly never will.

Interestingly, in WoW, credit goes to the guy doing the first bit of damage, therefore KSing doesn't really exist. It's the same in Allods Online. What you're talking about used to be the norm, back in the EverQuest days.

Huh, I never knew this. I just assumed they kept coming constantly until the mission fails or succeeds. Next time I solo this I'll try this.

I'm not going to go so far as to call shenanigans on this, but I will ask this: what AT are you and what is his build? Soloing Frostfire is not at all common (despite all the claims of doing exactly that that are sure to follow this post). I've been on plenty of teams where he wiped ALL of an 8 man team. Twice in a row.

I mean, sure, he's an EB, but even so, a strong EB with imps and Jack Frost. Especially for a level 12 or 13.

My advice for leveling would be to finish the Hollows arc (and the Cavern trial if you want), go get your temp travel powers thru safeguards in KR, do the Inventions tutorial (also start the Midniter Club arc) in Steel, then check out the Faultline arc at 15.