Primal

Grappling is a big one for me. I know the engine here can't handle it sadly.

Relatedly, an Aikido-style defense set.

In Founders, I liked to play "Sniper Battle" with my AR/Elec. Remember the game Silent Scope, vs that one sniper boss? Same thing, except you can move this time. Bonus points if I could catch a Sniper unawares, then drop Ignite patches under him from around a corner. Great fun. People talk trash about the snipes, especially AR's, but pah upon them.

A few months ago during a double xp weekend, I got on a team that wanted to sweep Rikti in the Abandoned Sewers. That was the first time I've ever been there in years of playing. When I got a character anywhere near 35 for the first time, the phat xp in the area had already been adjusted and the place subsequently abandoned.

All my characters start off in Galaxy. I like the layout better, and I never have given a care for running on a lowbie sewer team anyway. It usually is quite sparse in population, sadly.

Hickman hickman hickman.

Huh huh, now if GG wants to offer some

*slapped by animated hair*

All my search notes have the same format as well, albeit slightly different: "Set/Set. I don't do AE."

I have been called an idiot (or equivalent) a couple of times for that second sentence. Occasionally I'll join a team, find out they haven't noticed that part, and excuse myself, but it's surprisingly rare.

Long long ago I had a female character invited to an "all-girl" (RL and character) SG. They didn't actually ask that specifically and I never volunteered it, it was a blind invite. I decided a couple of days later I didn't like the sets or concept and deleted so it never came up, but I have debated what I would've done. It's not like they could ever know for sure (short of a physical meeting heh), and I'm not the type to hit on people, so it was really a question of theoretical ethics.

Carnies, easily. Hot evil chicks in corsets (and less), good drops, challenging without being overly cheap about it, a good backstory, and weak to lethal. Plus every game ought to involve crazy colorful circus people as enemies. Check, check, and check.

I also enjoy Banished Pantheon and Vahzilok.

You're darn skippy I'd see it. Even if the chances of suck were relatively high, there's always the possibility of a reboot later on if it fails yet had an audience. Sadly I cannot offer my voice for my characters. It's the pitfall of a male playing females, especially when that male has a deep voice with a pronounced Southern drawl.

Isn't Bill Z the player ex-Navy? Those guys always seem to have deep gravelly voices. Think Wolverine when voiced by Mark Hamill. Perfect for a cigar-chomping devil.

Staff/WP Scrapper. Got the name and everything.

Axe/Ice Scrapper. Axe/WP will do too, I just want Axe. I dislike the constant Fury and end management for Brutes, sorry.

Stone Melee/Fire Scrapper.

What's old is new again, and considered novel. Funny how that works.

I occasionally slot for concept, mainly involving the various procs. Some people diss them or the set, or only use them to complete a set, but some of them lend themselves well to concept. Sting of the Manticore for instance has that Chance for Toxic one, and since that's as close as my Archer will get to having a poisoned arrow, she has one in her snipe. My now-deleted Dual Blader had a Kinetic Combat Chance to Knockdown in one particular attack (which I don't remember now), since I thought it looked like it ought to knock someone down. My Fire/Storm Controller has Ghost Widow's Embrace Chance for Psionic in her hold, from the idea that seeing all the chaos she causes might cause some real trauma.

I enjoy the idea of procs in general, they give the opportunity to tweak things just a bit. I'll go looking for and slot procs even if I don't plan to use anything else in their sets.

I think that would be pretty easily doable, Westley. Mechanically, anyway, might not be the most interesting way to the top, what with no story at all, but doable.

My only character of this nature, and it's nowhere near as extreme, is a Necro/Dark MM who melees along with her zombies. She has AS, Boxing, and Kick, none of the ranged attacks. She does use her Dark debuffs of course, and the heal. I liked the idea of a voodoo priestess who gets in and punches people rather than staying back and directing. Just level 16 though, I have other characters I like better.

I realize this is sort of aside the actual discussion, but do want to address this.

Most of my Villains are either very clearly of the various levels of evil by choice, are just nuts and can't tell the difference, or are of the "elemental force beyond morality" persuasion.

I have two would-be-Heroes hiding within Arachnos though, a Fortunata and a Bane Spider, who are actually husband and wife respectively. They were slated to be assassinated by Arachnos, but managed to get the jump on the two assassins sent, took their uniforms, smuggled their three kids off the Isles, and are now hiding under false names. Neither is exactly a paragon of virtue in the first place, and for the sake of not being found out and keeping their kids safe they don't have a whole lot of problem killing who they're told to, if required. Both (i.e. I) do go out of their way to avoid the more unpleasant arcs. If possible both will go Hero in GR and get off the Isles to unite with their kids (all Heroes).

I'm well aware that canonically the above is shaky at best. I seem to recall especially that Bane Spiders are of some sort of hive-mind. I'm not always looking to impress anyone with how well I can follow canon though, especially if I like my story better.

In the spirit of the 1337 CoV trailer, I must repost this (not totally SFW). A little dated now but still makes me laugh. (Obviously I didn't make this, just saved it.)

Either it's not like that on Virtue either, or I'm just incredibly lucky, or else I have a calming presence. I played about 12 hours total Fri-Sun and every group I was on was respectful, friendly, chatty, and certainly not prone to kick anyone for something like an unusual build. I do recall someone getting kicked, who had gone afk in a mission without telling anyone, and a few minutes after the rest of us finished (with aforementioned still silently in the mission) it was mutually decided to kick him.

In the past when I've run afoul of the legendary "build Nazi" and "YOU WILL BE EFFICIENT OR I WILL RAGE" types, it's had nothing to do with double xp, and it's a testatment to this game's population that I can recall every single incident.

Hey, wrong is okay. Somebody who's not occasionally wrong is not to be trusted.

I don't believe you're trolling, M_T, I believe you're just garden-variety wrong. How long do you think it takes to read and comprehend the paper/radio missions, and the arc mission briefings? And how long should be spent in contemplation of the above? Personally, when I open up the paper I have already read all three descriptions in the time it took me to get to the second comma in this sentence, and by the time I reach the third comma here, (yes that one) I've already decided what mission my character is most likely to take, chosen it, and am en route to it. In the time it took me to write that last sentence I've made it through the arc briefing and headed off to that mission.

The teams I was on this past weekend, several different PuGs worth, did radio/papers, bank jobs, and arc missions in combination. Whatever sounded good we did. There was plenty of chatter. No resetting of a single mission. It sounds as though you define "farming" in the same way that I, every teammate I had, and I daresay a majority of the player population would define playing the game. It was just quicker, and using the word "intended" negatively is a rather odd choice considering somebody with authority decided to double the xp. I'll be doing pretty much the same thing I did this past weekend in a few minutes, only this time I...won't be farming? Or is it still farming. I'm confused.

What Day Job is it that grants an experience bonus upon mission completion? Law Enforcer maybe? I have a character sitting in a police station right now so she can get a law enforcement-related title, if I log her in tonight will I be then be farming? Huh.

I've no doubt there was plenty of farming, by anyone's definition, done this past weekend. But to assume that everyone did it is quite a leap. Plenty of cybering done this past weekend too one imagines, as well as marketeering, character-creating, bio-writing, dancing in the D...geesh, how did anybody do anything!

Replace "farming" with "power-leveling" throughout here, and it still won't fly.

I have a BS/Regen Scrapper named Sister Scylla, who was climbing the ranks of the Knives of Artemis before she turned on her sisters. Long story why, it relates to her real sister (another one of my characters), so let's just say she was way too inexperienced to win against them and was found in a vacant lot in Kings Row sliced up with her head split. Should've been dead by all rights, but somehow held on. Hero Corps offered her a chance at redeeming herself. Yes, she will be taking Weapons Mastery and slotting Caltrops for recharge.



Sadly most of the KoA stuff is off-limits to players. I'd dearly love to have that sweet-looking serrated sword at least.