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Just like we don't have to run any of the iContent.

But the Devs seem to want to encourage us to run it and thus get the rewards. So they might as well make them appeal to as many people as possible, hm?

I think that one just needs its frankly INSANE requirements toned down, not a price tag.

Yes, it's called the Paragon Rewards Program. Aka Veteran Rewards.

And, once again, 'devotion' has absolutely sod all to do with 'having the money'. Some people simply cannot afford a monthly sub, or have other things they need to spend money on instead. That doesn't make them any less 'devoted', it just means they don't have as much spare income.

What?

What part of 'devotion' has ANYTHING to do with 'having the time and enough money to go to a con'?!

Answer: None. Nada. Zilch.
You are seriously deluding yourself here.

Because that has a mechanical effect in-game.

Being able to buy all costume pieces will not have the same effect here as it would in WoW. There are no Boots of +5 Mincing or Cowls of +4 Blogmoffery. Costume parts are entirely cosmetic, and thus harmless.

Selling IOs on the store I still um and ah at and not sure where I stand. At least they aren't pruple, I guess. But selling an entire character? That...just nah. I think not.

....I was waiting for the Funny part... >_>

Meh, I'd still much rather have the *option* to make them glowy/non-glowy.

Speaking of 'Dev Story'...they also wrote Dr Brainstorm and the Amazingly Fail VEAT ending ramble So...yes, yes we can ignore than. Because some of it is TERRIBLE XD

I raise you the man who perfected the look that said everything that needed to be said;

-Roman Armour

-ALL Unlockable Weapons (grinding 100 Fake Nems or 200 Eyeballs is not fun, not to me anyway)

-Holiday pieces (want to make a character with a toga? Better hope it's valentines or you have to wait a year! Yeah, not fun.)

In fact, any costume part should be on the market. None of them effect stats, there are no Boots of +5 mincing.

I'm still not happy with the 'Acension' armour being locked up behind so many barriers, but I've honestly not found a use for most of the parts anyway, so that bugs me less.


Oh, and forget the store, put the damn emotes OUT of the Incarnate list and INTO the game for free! You should NOT have to pay in any way in-game or out for them. What, you have to be Incarnate to catch your breath or swoon? I don't smegging think so...

If it's anything like the Alpha unlock arc, very agreeably. If you can't solo the EBs there, it's easy enough to grab a friend to help deal with them.

Better than having to grab 23 random people to wail on a pansy turned Uber like Maelstrom...

Tripe.There is and never has been ANYTHING skill based about number crunching and hoping like hell you don't happen to miss that last attack when fighting the Boss.

I REMEMBER the old game (ok, post EDN but at least three/four years ago). I remember the scampering, rock strewn runs through the Hollows. I remember slogging from one bloody end of the city to the other because the gods damned contacts wouldn't give me their stinking cell phone number.
I remember cussing out the fact that every other blasted mission was either a Defeat All or searching for 5-10 glowies, shoved in the corner of an Oranbega map. I still remember wishing that whoever had put all these smeg-bloody-tastic 'Hunt 25 mobs' missions in everywhere would kindly drop dead.

I also remember the pre-stamina years. At no point did I think 'Oh well, I might be sucking more wind than a punctured bagpipe being stamped on by an angry Scot, but by golly at least it makes me think about my builds!' At pretty much every other mob I was thinking 'Please, get me to 22. Let this not suck as much anymore...' There was nothing 'tactical' about when you took Stamina, because nearly everyone (not the nearly) had it anyway, and three slotted it as soon as they could so they could stop being so blue-empty all the damn time.

And as for Praetorian mobs...Never has 'fake difficulty' been so appropriate, or so badly placed. I can borderline stomach it at level 50, because hey-oh, at least we have the shiny toys to fight back with by then. But at level 1-20? Really? This is pre-SO level, people, when a character is about as far from their prime as they can get. Explain to me what is so 'skill based' when all the mobs, instead of having the 50% acc base of their Primal counterparts, ALL have 65% basic? AND a shedload more attacks, mez, mez immunity and exotic damage types AND debuffs?

I, for one, am bloody glad the 'Golden Era' is long gone. Because I remember it, and it sucked.

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...I'll hunt you down, meat-sack ¬¬

Yes, because living in the US and/or being able to pay to get to a con is SO glorious and worthy of-

Wait, what was your valid arguement again?

I still sometimes get confused about where you stand, Sam

F'rinstance, I found the old content the most abysmally dull trudge ever. It was nothing but Defeat Alls mixed with Find Ten glowies in Oranbega and Defeat Everything AND the Boss.
The writing wasn't even that good. Oh sure, the story MIGHT have been interesting, if I wasn't bashing my head in with the keyboard due to the appalling dullness of the missions themsevevs.

Fast Forward to now with D-Mac and Leonard and Ross and the Agents and...it's fun. The story is interesting. And, more importantly, it's told well. No more 'beat up all these mugs because they are very bad people', there's actual interaction and characterisation within the missions.

And yes, that does mean 'gimmick' stuff. But, in moderation, I think that can be a good thing. It's only when you are utterly swamped by them that it becomes as bad as the old stuff ever was.

(Funnily enough, finding the 20 conduits in dimension X felt as grindy as Incarnate Trials do...talk about full circle much? >_> )

You can't poop on something that is already in itself poopoid >_> Just saying

Wow...

See that tiny thing whistling away up there in the sky?

That is the point. And you totally missed it. /golfclap

Agreed.

I think the thing that grates most is it being Praetorians.
If we were butting heads with Rularuu Rising, now....that would be a whole different kettle ofOH god the EYEBALLS!!