Stone Daemon

I'd like to throw in my two inf of experience...

I've noticed that I've drawn random aggro whilst deceiving the famine rider on the LGTF. As far as I can tell, if I'm at a far enough range, the random bolt of blue sappage will hit me, but just once. If I'm closer, the rest of the mob will lock on and fire. Again, this is random, after about a minute or so of deceiving without detection.

Also note, this is when I'm by myself, with no other team members nearby or drawing aggro. The IO set I use is the purple one, with the proc slotted. In all cases my Superior invis is toggled, and not suppressed by anything else.

I would have, but I only remembered two people from the team. The rest I didn't know, and it would have been rude to mention only two.

I did thank my awesome team though!

I'm generally not one to argue with numbers (though I haven't seen these numbers myself), but my server population (and many others) begs to differ. Since GR, my server has been in the yellow status frequently. Prior to GR, it never got there except on double xp weekends.

Perhaps this is a short term phenomenon, but I'd rather be optimistic. If we keep getting this steady stream of new content, and the new Incarnate stuff doesn't fail to impress, I can see this increased activity going on for a while.

I believe Golden is referring to the lack of contacts that will have anything to do with you in Paragon (while you're a rogue) and the Isles (when you're a vigilante). Save tip missions and radio/paper missions, most contacts over on the side you're working towards will refuse to have anything to do with you--thus having dedicated contacts/story arcs available for you to do would be a nice break from the mundane.

There's only so many tip missions you can run in one day, after all, and unless you *really* love radios you're essentially forced to stop for the day and move on to another character. Or, of course, move back to your original side (blue/red) and do stuff there (which kind of defeats the whole point of "becoming evil/good" if you go back at the end of the day and save/burn a homeless shelter because you ran out of evil/good tip missions to do).

Gonna nitpick here and point out that that isn't a thriller dance, it's a Smooth Criminal dance. (Smooth Criminal is the one where he tips his hat and moonwalks, Thriller has the zombie arm motions.)

Well, don't forget, we plan on attempting a bombing run special edition of RtR around New Years. I would imagine that would respawn the GM.

IO's that you've slotted will work down to 3 levels over the current level you're at. So, if you're currently exemped to level 30, you will keep your set bonuses from IOs up to level 33. Past that, you just get the natural enhancement, sans bonuses.

Purple IOs are exempt. You keep their set bonuses no matter what. As to PvP IOs, you'll have to get that answer from someone else.

Powers can be used up to 5 levels past the level you are exemped at, so for example; if you're exemped to 40, you can use the level 41 and 44 powers, but nothing past that.

I'm not sure what you mean about wavering rules in AE/pvp zones.

Edit: The enhancements also scale down effectiveness a bit while you're exemped, for enhancements over your current exemped level.

I've even stolen his binds, so never fear!

*points to forum name* Actually, I saw you on this weekend. You were on the respec trial, no? I was running TF's with Layla. I believe we chatted a little, though you didn't seem to recognize me.

*points* I was under the impression that the shield wall defense bonus is pvp only. I may be wrong, as I don't have that set. But yes, I do know that there are two sets of bonuses.

Part of the problem is you logged in pretty late at night. Protector closes it's doors (so to speak) rather early. But that's only a vanishingly small part of your problem. Redside is most definitely a ghost town in Protector since GR hit--most of the villains migrated to blueside (which has always been the more populated side of protector). And then, yes, there is the /hide issue.

Sorry for the miscommunication, I tend to ignore redside as I don't play there myself that often, for that reason exactly.

If you were serious about looking for a team, sure, you can look me up. But if you keep the badge/tf channels open and play on blueside, you really shouldn't have a problem. I had logged in the other evening just to verify something and immediately got hit with a tell asking me to join.

I would rather play in a graveyard than freedumb. I logged into that server for the first time, and what's the first thing I hear on broadcast? Someone with a Dragonball Z name asking for an AE farm, offering money. *shudders*

That said, Protector is no longer a graveyard. Many people, myself included, were simply bored and doing other things while waiting for GR to release. Since then, I'd say the servers are at a high it hasn't seen in years.

EDIT: Which isn't saying that much, actually, heh. Let me rephrase that to say it's hit the yellow status quite regularly since GR release, and still is. I haven't seen the yellow status on Protector before except for double xp weekends.