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We should probably use one of those free guild website hosting thingies. I think they usually include forums. Anyone have any experience with them?
My tastes are usually not well-aligned with the mainstream, so I'm kind of used to having favorite TV show canceled, radio stations switch format, and brand names disappear. But, man, it does suck. -
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OK, all you folks out there who have played with us a few times but think you've fallen behind...first, you've never fallen behind with our group. I was dragging a level 20 through Dark Astoria with the time team.
Second, it's Double XP weekend coming up! Come join us! If you're still in Praetoria, we'll have you out in about fifteen minutes. You'll catch up fast.
Otherwise, probably a Sutter TF this weekend? Since I don't think everyone's had time to go vigilante yet? (And we can help with that, too!) -
Well, after two sessions, Water Blast is turning out to be a lot more fun than I thought it would be. Not that I expected to hate it, but the written descriptions of the powers didn't really thrill me. I'm starting to get the hang of the Tidal Power system now, and I like the choices it forces you to make.
Water Blast has a lot of AoE early, too, and that was noticeable (I thought). Add in our wide variety of corruptors, and I think that equals "time to raise the difficulty". -
My next character will be named King Ever Friendly Persona Creature.
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Quote:Thalatta (Θάλαττα) is ancient Greek for "sea". Thalassa (θάλασσα), the other form of the word, was already taken.Thalatta...does that have an actual name/point of origin/cutural lore sourse thing...or is it random?
See especially: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalatta!_Thalatta! -
I'm back from vacation, and Thalatta is waiting in Praetoria.
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How would people feel about starting in Praetoria this time around? It's been a while since we did that (when First Ward was introduced, I think).
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I've noticed this, too. I was running at the graphics setting just below the top, and I bumped down one notch. Got a lot better, but it's still slow.
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Sorry for being logged in but not actually present yesterday...I was afk when the BAF was organized, I abhor the TPN, and by the time the Magisterium trial came along, my overall enthusiasm level had drastically waned.
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It should be soon-ish. We've kind-of discussed some themes (some of them listed upthread), but so far, no one's start lobbying heavily for any one idea. If you've got some good ideas, post them or drop by the channel and mention them!
The time team has worked out really well. I know we're going to try for some of the Magisterium trial badges soon. -
We have a group on Justice that runs theme teams. We are currently at the tail end of our Time Manipulation team, and soon we'll be voting on a theme for the next team. Watch the Time Manipulation Superteam thread in the Justice forum for an announcement.
Also, feel free to join the "Justice Superteamers" global channel and say hi. We are on regularly Friday and Sunday evenings, but you will catch people on at other times, too.
[edit] scooped by the King! -
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On Sunday we made Penelope Yin very confused. First we helped her fight Clamor & the Freaks in IP (PYTF). Then we beat up her and that crowd she's running with now, in the shadow of Atlas (LRSF).
Maybe another trial on Friday? Has anyone run MoM enough to lead it? I've only seen up to part 2. -
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Oh, yes. Yes. Very much yes. At least, it helped immensely for me, when I was on my older machine.
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We did some DA arcs on Sunday (power-leveling my lowbie ice/time). And blew through an ITF (at around +0 for speed) with a half-team of pick-up folks.
Which means it must be time for an MoM or DD trial, right? Right? -
I don't mind keeping our focus narrow, but I'm getting cold feet re: single archetype. While discussing it in channel, I've heard a few people say, "sure, as long as it's not archetype X", where X was different for each person.
Maybe a "matched set" of archetypes, like controller/dominator, or corruptor/defender?
Actually, I still like my idea of picking a matched blast and assault set. Widens up the archetypes, but everyone would be doing the same kind of damage. -
Quote:Right, don't know how I missed that. I think if one decided to do a matched primary/secondary team (dark/dark, fire/fire, or elec/elec), you'd be trading choice in powersets (none) for choice in AT (wide). It would be narrower, but in a different way. A single AT team would go the opposite direction (wide powerset choices, no AT choice).Elec/elec is available on tankers/brutes/scrappers/stalkers.
We've got a lot of ideas. I think it's time for people to start lobbying for their favorites. I'm thinking a blast/assault set combo might be fun (so blasters, corruptors, defenders, dominators). Maybe Fire Blast/Fire Assault, or if you want knockback, make it Energy Blast/Energy Assault. -
Quote:You read my mind--I was thinking that, too. Fire/fire is available on everything except stalker. You could claim demons = fire and say mastermind is included, too. Obviously, we're considering thermal = fire.Fire is one of the few powersets which is available as a primary and secondary for every archetype (I think that's true), so an all fire/fire team could allow every AT, while still stacking lots of things, especially DOTs.
Dark/dark is available on every AT, if you consider necromancy = dark.
I think elec/elec is the next runner up, but it's missing a couple of melee ATs, if I recall. And you have to pretend storm = electric.
Quote:Sadly, I probably shouldn't get a vote, since I doubt if I'll be playing much more often in the future than I have in the recent past. -
I'm conflicted among the current choices. I like all-dominator right now, because I don't have a 50 yet and I enjoy the ranges sets. Tanker would be interesting, too. I'm not sure all-Stalker would play out great. It wouldn't to be bad I expect, but Stalker seems to engender a methodical approach with many small decisions along the way. Not sure that would work well in a free-flowing team atmosphere.
Maybe we should start goldside again...add a little challenge at the low levels. The existence of First Ward makes it easier to keep everyone together. If the devs hurry up, we'd even have Night Ward after that.
I can see some good themes farther in the future: Water Blast/Storm, Plant Control/Nature Affinity. Someday I still hope an all-EAT team will become truly viable from level 1. -
Quote:I think the earth team was actually the only team that allowed dominators. Funny how that works without planning for it. Scrappers, arguably the most common AT, were only allowed on the darkness team.King Chisel was an Earth/Thorny Dom on the earth project, but they are fairly rare.
Here's a slightly silly idea: "Let it Rain": Fire Blast, Cold Domination, or Storm Summoning, and the rain powers are mandatory. -
Quote:I've only been on two MoM trials, and they both failed in the second phase, not so much due to the damage (which I agree we should be fine with), but because they couldn't pull the storm thingies to Penelope. Not sure we will fare much better with all-time.I am so in for an all time MoM or DD. It's my opinion that our HoT would override the DoT in the second phase of MoM.
As for the later phases, or any of DD, I have no idea if we are well- or poorly matched.