Obscure Blade

Even the Well likes to party now and then.

Oh, it was definitely an actual MM; I soon found him near his pet, once I realized it was a pet. And his bio talked about "Yes, I really am a Mastermind, got here because of a bug, and I'm waiting for the GMs to get around to sending me to villainside".

Well, you could solo all the time, or set up language specific SGs or server global channels.

2-4 servers, depending on what languages you read. I don't read French or German, so will "only" get useful access to two more servers.

It's even funnier when you show up with a guy who has a tail and is a Fire Armor brute; "Oh, hi Dad; I see you have a tail and are on fire tonight. Tough day at work?"

It also has a cone sleep in Siren's Song, which makes it far more survivable solo. You can knock out a whole spawn and kill them one by one; or knock them out, /kin buff yourself off of them without waking them, and cut loose with your nuke.

It reminds me of the time years ago that a bug sent a Ninja mastermind heroside. I met him in the Hollows, and was standing around looking at what I thought was some character named "Genin" and being impressed how well he'd copied the Ninja henchman!

I have both, and yes they are great.

I'd say the opposite; Air Superiority + Fly is a useful combination for a Plant/, since it lets you reach fliers and knock them down into your groundbound powers.

Sure; some of them are useful for hunt missions (like the costume slot & aura missions at 30); and once they are unlocked by that, might as well use 'em. Also, you can sell to them without unlocking them, and last I checked you still got more inf for selling enhancements to a matching store.

From the Diviner Maros arc:

The underlined is a definite shout-out to Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos.

It's my understanding that Lusca only works because it is in reality nine GMs that spawn close together, but not attached. I doubt that a giant robot whose body parts float unattached to each other is what you are looking for.

/Shield. It has 'Elemental' customizations:



A Fire/ or Electric/ Shield scrapper would be both very nasty and fit an 'elemental warrior' them perfectly with the right customization. So would a Stone/Shield Brute, although the endurance consumption would be pretty impressive I'd think; and Brutes don't get as much from Shield Charge.

Yes, that's what the Giant Mekmen on Test were about; something about experimenting with ways to target bigger critters properly.

Yes it is, if they are offline, or in a TF, or if you don't have any close friends in the game. Or perhaps you don't want to bug them about it for the 98th time.

I find it seriously irritating to have to go though my one person SGs, change all the storage permissions to avert theft, broadcast for some stranger to help, hope they don't screw up the invite process, and if then if the invite is actually accomplished having to make sure to change all the permissions back once they are gone. It makes what should be a simple, straightforward process much more awkward and irritating than it needs to be.

Not just finances. You may have been joking with your first sentence but it is actually an important concern. With a monthly subscription model, the devs and NC Soft need to worry that they will lose our interest and therefore our money; with a lifetime subscription model they already have our money. The implied threat of us taking our money and leaving is a constant drive to maintain and improve the game to keep that money rolling in.

Well, Castle got a better offer apparently and left; that could easily have put a crimp in any plans they had for putting out new or proliferated powersets. Not that a new round of proliferation wouldn't make me happy.


I want my /Traps Controllers, /Rad Masterminds, Axe Stalkers and /Ice Brutes, darn it !

A lot of people seem to think that "dev" is some kind of generic job. Sort of like a movie "scientist" who is just that, a generic scientist; he doesn't have any field of expertise, he has a degree in Science!

I recall the exchange a while back between BaB and some guy who was complaining that he was making new animations instead of fixing some bug; BaB responded with something like "Yeah, I'll just animate it away."

I'd like that. For example, Recluse is an Incarnate; there could be an Arachnos centered Incarnate TF (or just add the feature to the Statesman TF) that grants you the power to summon Arachnos pets. Or beating the ITF could let you summon Cimeroans, or perhaps Cyclops/Minotaurs - several of the high level TFs could easily be "repurposed" as Incarnate-related content. They already have as a degree after all, with the Incarnate component salvage.

There could also be an "Incarnate Challenge Setting", sort of like the "Master of" setting that seriously buffs the difficulty of those TFs so that even Incarnates find them a challenge. Beating them on that difficulty could be what unlocks the pets.