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What does Master of <TF> award beyond a title?

My take on GG's insistence on the slowness of DA progress is that it is slowness on the next timescale, ie glacial or geological (I'd rate the current solo path at geological to cosmic timescales), otherwise why keep restating the duh-level obvious.

The gorilla is lessening the reward differences for logistical hurdles. Now isn't a good time for the new kid on the raid block to start increasing them especially on a game where that was antithetical to its philosophy of the six years previous. Yes, a lot of "elite" raiders whine that herding 15 extra people entitles them to better rewards but the gorilla is starting to listen to everyone else. If you like raiding 25 man, raid 25 man, since you know you've always said it was the challenge and not the loot you were after. (The fact that 20 people could be asleep at the keyboard in The Chore and still gets things done illustrates the awesome coordination required for large raids.)

Just gather Max-1 of your closest friends (hard choices must be made), and poof, no problem.

Disabling the closed league option for holiday events would be a good start.

There's no MoLoW, nor can one person hose the attemp by not clicking the right thing at the right time, nor are there things to stand in. Holiday events don't need the closed option.

DFB behavior has been showing signs of infection. I saw someone complaining that they had 5/8 and it was taking too long to get a DFB team going. Just. Freaking. Queue. People.

Raid or Die! Is the new hotness in CoH. Of course even the gorilla has been pushing it into the old and busted bin for awhile now with LFD (a TUT that works without needing preformed groups) and LFR (a TUT that works that works without needing preformed groups) and lockouts to discourage the "need" to run the X,Y, and Z man versions of the same raid on the same character each week.

Yes please. A million times yes.

I love smashing the warwalkers in Apex (especially as a freshly minted incarnate, no shifts at all). They were big bads and now we're sending them to the scrap heap in piles.

What about Incarnates originally from Praetoria?

Then if anti-tank missiles can't hurt your pacified squishy WHY SHOULD MERE ROCKS EVEN BE A CONCERN?

You're still pacified in the building.

Balder (a god) was killed by mistletoe, so our incarnates should be afraid of twigs too.

Sticks and stones won't break a normal hero's bones but incarnates must run for cover.

There's no crash aoe mezzes to upstage with a crashless version so it'd have to have some schtick to be better than anything controllers have.

Ya, my elec blaster is still bitter. They only need to alternate conserve power and rise of the phoenix to make their nuke as nifty as the incarnate nuke.

In that other game, the one with the Safety Dance and lots of things to stand in, drunk healers and tanks are the norm. Not the world first teams (on the world first attempts) but just about every raid that was in the gearing up phase. After a few months in The Chore it was either drink or go mad.

You must tell me where you are getting these extra slots for slotting range.

Even with a boat load of global accuracy I still want one accuracy in there, so five slots left for recharge and damage, each of which need at least 2 and want 3.

If I frankenslot triples and quads I might have a slot left but generally I frankenslot to get everything evenly slotted at the edge of the red ED band so those slots go to underslotted powers, not to range.

Look up Ask versus Guess culture.

To a guesser a blind tell or invite from a stranger is overly presumptuous while a broadcast doesn't create any obligations. Even if the only obligation a tell creates is to reply it still is an unwanted obligation created by the sender.

A broadcast isn't personal. A tell is a personal imposition.

A competent villain would assure there couldn't be a second attempt, especially one that can make rocks thrown by pedestrians take down demigods when there are people with anti-tank missiles just around the corner.

Considering that Tyrant has/had the capability to shut down the mediport with his warwalkers, strap some telepathists inside, port to Paragon, win.

I think the Praetorian storyline is well past the point of the setbacks by the time of the Incarnate content. Apex and Tinman were the turning points where we got to the "we *can* beat them back" point.

I'm doing my part by not doing anything incarnate based with my two incarnates (a T3 Alpha and T1 Alpha, all built using the shard era system) until DA goes live, then if DA is good, I will continue using the incarnate system, if it is there solely to herd people into iTrials, I won't touch the incarnate system again outside of Ramiel's unlock and whatever WSTs I feel like running, if at all.

If my data is mined I want it to show I *was* interested in incarnates, ran them under the shards system and stopped dead on iTrials.

Devices just gets no respect.

Self fulfilling prophecy. If it's intentionally onerous enough to herd people back to the iTrials the people not interested in iTrials won't even go (or as premium be able to go) to DA.

Unless those smaller groups are there because they can't tolerate the iTrials in the first place.