OneFrigidWitch

Fan-frickin-tastic.

Where can I get some of these parts?! :|

Devils Hat Lou. I love it.

No offense, but I have to categorically disagree on every point Golden Girl has ever made in the entirety of this forums existence on the Good v Evil thing.

People play Good not because they believe it is the right/fun thing to do. They play Good because the entirety of the US (I will exclude European players because I just don't live there) is corrupt and "not Good". People get sick and tired of seeing abuse of the system, abuse of themselves, abuse of the world, so they play the side that makes them think there might be something better, even if its just in a comic world.

That is if they even care at all. The reality is HUGE numbers of people play blue side because the rewards are just flat out better. I LOVE Praetoria. I think playing a villain from Praetoria is the best thing since sliced bread. It is a _real_ villainy. It's fantastic. But the second I had an option, I went to blue. Guess why. Better rewards. Easier groups. Better rewards and groups at the same time. The majority of the co-op stuff has crappy rewards. Why do I want to do a co-op for 30some reward merits when I can do a blueside for 50?

Praetoria is great top to bottom. It is _really_ cool. But it ends at 20, there is extremely limited crossfaction interaction, and we have no TF/SF that we can play to generate merits. Why do we have something so awesome and cool, thats hamstrung compared to blueside?

Let's look at the real problem. You will never have people anywhere but blueside as long as the rewards are disjointed. And the advant of Freedom is just making it worse, allowing you to create pretty much anything you want and go straight to blueside to chase rewards. It has nothing to do with Good vrs Evil, and everything to do with Reward vrs Getting Shafted.

Frankenstein
LOTR
Ringworld
1984
(wanted to, but had no room for LeftHand)
HHGTTG
Foundation
20k under the sea
Going Postal

and 2 more I cant remember.... I voted on things I have read that I felt have been fomative to scifi/fantasy since they were written. These I felt were not only good books or series, but books or series that made a major dent in what was being written, both then and now. I had to take Dune out and replace it with Ringworld because I felt Ringworld had more impact. Admittedly, neither HHGTTG nor Going Postal are traditional books; however, Terry Pratchett has made a LOT of money with a unique writing style and content that has not been reproduced anywhere, with Douglas Adams in the same vein but through SciFi instead of fantasy. Both writers have produced seminal content that accurately describes an entire culture, uniquely, through this medium. To leave them out I think would have been a sin against modern content. Neil Gaiman also would have been someone I would have voted for, but 10 votes doesn't go very far...

Where can I get one of those markets.

That is _sweet_ looking.

For some reason, I just don't have a problem with the currencies, at all.

When do I get my titanic weapons?

I used to breed beardies. They are awesome pets. Hope it gives you many long years of company.

edit: bread/breed, its all the same to me... damn you spellcheck!

Bit-twiddling has been whats been extensively reported as far as the mission content redside in Mercy. And lack of a facelift. I stand by that statement. If people in closed beta have else to say, they are in closed beta and that is obviously not being presented.

I totally missed the fact that sewer trial was redside as well. My apologies for having not noticed that. I give a big thumbs up for that then.

I agree, I feel strongly that splitting the game was a massive mistake, given how little active PVP or COOP participation is available. The seperation of the two(three) sides is pretty massive. However, I think GR is interesting in that we may see more exciting content tied to being a Loyalist or otherwise, that we can play _in_ blue or redside. That makes it unique, and potentially different from the fundamental red/blue split.

I think BABs should bite it, and Widow come over from the dark side. Then Manti and Widow can get it on for being the misunderstood people in their bunch, and SP can go crazy cause she lost her man.

I don't understand this. YABE (yet another blueside event), and still redside languishes. Why don't they just kill off redside? Mercy didnt even get a revamp like Atlas. They bittwiddled a few mishs and called it a day. That just sucks.

HMMMMMMMMM. Based on what is posted here.... maybe a Fire/Time would be a really really potent set. If it has a heal+ petbased regen, then you can slot +end proc and proc on all the people affected by the regen ticks.... Wow. In general, I wonder if this would be awesomesauce in the way a dom is. Constant action, high versatility.

What about in Dark's heal? It is a remote single target -tohit debuff, and a pbaoe heal. Does everyone at the pbaoe portion get +end chance? Does the user get +end chance?

I want to get my fire/dark cor to 50. Right now she is 32; I am not sure if I should take inferno or not...

O M G! Did you guys notice, in the top t8 or t9, there is _remote vault_. The vault kinda sucks as is, but its better than nothing. And being able to vault whenever you want is AWESOME. Kind of like the super awesome remote auctioneer!

Will you be going for the one where you dont use anygrenades at all?
no acids no passives?

I dunno man. I was running a ITF once with 8 people, which became 7, which became 6 by the end. We couldn't take mr nictus, so 2 more people dropped. I was _positive_ we could do it, so I asked the guys if they wanted to give it one or two more goes. With half the team we started with and lots of patience (not patients! people will think I'm working for mother mayhem(which i may or may not be)), we finally crushed him. Ultimately, it comes down to people being willing to be patient and understanding and finding ways to work together. If they couldn't do that, it should be no sweat off your back. Things happen and then you move on.... As you alluded to, its just a game, don't take it so hard.

With elec/psi, you want to pick up the damage interface and /ice app for ultimate carnage. Once there, you can completely squash anything you want by overly excessive application of domination driven chain fences. Yes, dom works just fine on chain fences, and the extended duration on it means you can manipulate your position much easier than without the extended duration.

I dunno. stone/ is pretty smashy, but its got crap for AOE.tremor or whatever is soooooooooooooo slow. And it is all lethal damage. Thats probably _fantastic_ for BAF/Keyes, because both of those have smash vuln robots. But everything else, its just kind of bleh....

There is only one thing to pair with Elec. Psi. Just be prepared for a slog to 50. However, if you fight solo 0/2, or spend time in groups, you can do pretty well with your melee attacks and whatnot. 10 thumbs up.

THANKS ALL!

with love, hew