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I'm not sure I'd go that far. There's a group that I team with on a weekly basis. In fact, we have a specific day that we all play. But, if one or four of us can't make it, no big deal.

Now, that doesn't mean that a few of us aren't semi-power gamers. I like to tweak the numbers on most of my characters. I just don't play the market to gain the funds to IO out my characters. It'll happen when it happens. Fun trumps grinding to number tweak, for me. I guess I'm a casual tweaker.

Oh, come now. That would surely get Michelle hired.

Sweet! I have guys (and girls) on Justice

Of course, I have guys (and girls) on all the servers except for Freedom.

I should bring out Broad side of a barn and team with you.

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You need a level 2 Rad/Dark Defender?

Or was he Dark/Rad? I don't remember which.

Either way, you can't hit him.

I was going to say that Hasten was an mandatory as Stamina before it was made inherent. But, people would probably misunderstand what I was saying and think that I thought it actually was a mandatory power. I didn't take Hasten on many characters. Therefore, I never really needed Stamina on many characters.

I counted 5, and 4 Star Wars quotes.
Not to mention an Indian Jones quote and 2 LotR quotes.
Also, a Die Hard quote, if I'm not mistaken.

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and Ghostbusters

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And Doctor Who

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I really need to team with you sometime, Michelle.
That way I might actually get into one of your videos.

I'd team you too, Steelclaw. Even if you are one of those demented masochists.

But, I like bowling. Does that mean I'll like Manticore's TF?

Something seemed wrong about all of this when I first read it, but I wasn't quite awake enough at the time to really think about posting a reply.

You do realize that, according to Mid's, the Alpha slot's DefBuff is the exact same as you would get from an SO enhancement, do you not? You are boosting your Defense powers effectiveness (13.88% for Focused Fighting) by 20%. 20% of 13.88 is 2.776%. You will get the same amount of increase from the Alpha slot as you will from an SO enhancement. That doesn't take into account the portion of the Alpha that bypasses Enhancement Diversification.

I believe that your rant was based from a faulty premise.

I suppose if you don't believe me, I could get Arcanaville in here to go over this very simple math issue.

Maybe Nemesis is actually the Princess of Automatons inside that cast iron shell. She just wants us to think she is a he.
You know, Nemesis plots and all that.

Don't ask me where that came from. I just woke up.

Those are the ones that I keep more of than others on some characters. I still will have a couple of reds, blues or oranges. But not many.

Most of my characters tend to not use Insps because I forget they're there 90% of the time. My Fire/Energy blaster rarely ever uses Insps at all. Most things die quickly from Aim>Build Up> Flame Breath> Fire Ball> what ever single target attacks that are needed to finish the sliver health on the LTs and Bosses.

She's a Blapper as well. I was fortunate enough to come across a Celerity +stealth that I could slot in her Super Speed for full Invis from most critters. Plus, she uses the medicine pool to quickly recover health. Sometimes, even in the middle of combat. It has a short interrupt time, I've noticed.

I did an ITF shortly after the Incarnate system came out.
We didn't do a speed run because we wanted Shards. I ended up with a whopping 3 shards from killing most of the baddies in all the missions. Funny thing though, we did a LGTF too. Done the same way, and I managed 12 shards from that TF. That doesn't count the common component from either TF.

The RNG is random for random people that get random drops randomly.

I probably would have lost the race by a little more than a few seconds. but, I think I could have made it there alive. I got pretty good at avoiding aggro in high level areas on low level characters. used to make that run to the back end of the Hollows from the Atlas gate straight through the pick with nothing but Sprint...and my superhero costume of course. Wouldn't want to get arrested for indecent exposure. And flashing the Trolls might give them the wrong signal.

I found had no problems running to the far corner of the Hollows, through the pit I might add, on my level 6 character who didn't have any stealth powers what so ever.

I had a few more issues with the Praetorian missions on my Stalker. Similar to Alpha's and Sam's issues.

Homing ambushes violating my Stalker with 3 foot anal probes is not fun.

Then why have you been arguing against the idea this whole time?
Or did Arcanaville's testing results change your mind?

You are correct. It is a carrot. It just happens to be a moldy carrot that had been left in the compost for 6 months. But, it is still a carrot.

I would never call you the spreadsheet-psycho. That is entirely reserved for Steelclaw.

Queen of Maths? Yes, that I would call you.
Diva of data detection? Absolutely.

Except, the first week of the WST, I tried to get on a STF team. No-one was available for most of the day. I even used the server TF channel. No dice. Once I finally got on a TF team, the TF was a horrible failure. No NotW for me.

Sometimes, its less aggravating and less of a waste of time, to do things on your own. Except for crafting a NotW in I20.

Except, this "option" to craft NotW isn't anywhere near "halfway". Disregarding the Inf cost, crafting 4 NotWs for the Ultra-rare requires over 300 shards. That doesn't count the components used in the commons, uncommons, and rares. You are telling me that that number of shards is a reasonable number? If you are and you are serious, then I'd have to doubt your sanity, along with everyone elses that agrees with you. Which, in many cases, I already do.

I am not saying that a solo-er, of which I do for a vast majority of my play time, should be able to craft a NowT after an hour of playtime. I just think, and I belive that most of the people that have stated that they disliked the current proposed crafting costs actually said, that the costs are excessive. As in, way too freaking high. You know, unreasonable.

Most of us are not asking for a freebie. We're just asking for more reasonable costs. If we can only get 4-6 shards from breaking down a NotW, and 2-3 shard from breaking down an uncommon, I think it reasonable that a NotW should cost considerably less than 88 shards to create. Granted, it should cost more than 24 shards, I agree. I would agree with Techbot Alpha and say 40 shards is not unreasonable, if still a little high.

Most of us are not making unreasonable requests.

They can claim it. Doesn't make it so.

The claim that a TF is not 'solo friendly', is about an ingenious as the claim that standing on the surface of the sun is a tad warm.

Except, that the WST wasn't meant solely for the benefit of level 50s. Otherwise, they wouldn't have made the Sister Psyche TF one of the WSTs and given the double merits as an option. I view the reward of a NotW in the WST as an incentive to get the level 50s to do lower level content, possibly with lower level characters on the team.

I'm not sure if they had planned the exemplared shard drops before they ever mentioned the WSTs to us or not, but they mentioned that they added that incentive to get the 50s to actually exemplar and do lower level content. It could have possibly been because of all the whining, screaming, and ******** from the level 50s with entitlement issues. I don't know. I wasn't at any Dev meetings where this was discussed. Not that I have been at any Dev meetings at all.

The WSTs would still have value. Just, maybe, not as much to the level 50s.

I do not do many TFs. Mainly because I don't like teaming with random jerks. Some PuGs I have been on were great. Most were a test of my patience. Unfortunately for me, my regular group that I play with lost 2 members. We no longer have enough members to do the TFs that require 8 people. Not that we do TFs very often.

Just to reiterate, the WSTs would still have value.

I'm sure that you'll have plenty of volunteers to play that level 50 content for you, Steelclaw.

I'll even be the first to do so.

I'm going to spoil some Green Lantern comics for some people who haven't read the Blackest Night story arc yet.

Ion : Ion is in fact the symbiotic willpower entity birthed from the green of the emotional spectrum.
Anyone that is "possessed" by Ion could be termed the Incarnation of Willpower. Not a god.
Parallax : As soon as sentient beings in the universe felt fear, Parallax was born.
Anyone possessed by Parallax could be termed the Incarnation of Fear. Not a god
Predator: The Predator is the ultimate embodiment of that emotion: love with nothing to temper it.
Anyone possessed by Predator could be termed the Incarnation of Love. not a god.

I would conclude that being an Incarnate does not, in my opinion, make you the Incarnation of a god.

There is even a badge called "Justice Incarnate". I was not aware that there was a god called Justice. Just the server. Unless all the servers are gods. Then, you might be right in that we'd all be Incarnations of <insert server played on>. Somehow, I don't think that is what you were intending though.

I love that sign. We need more signs similar to that in the world.

I think that Phantasm character was the one that dropped the Portal.
I could be wrong though.

You'll also see it mentioned as WST (Weekly Strike Target), Which is the Dev's official term.
Probably because they didn't want to swear at their player base.

Well, I'm sure some of them are swearing at some of the player base. But only behind closed doors in sound proof rooms.

The Devil convinced Statesman that Statesman doesn't exist?
That is an awesome trick.
If only I could do that with my boss at work...