UberGuy

You could not be more wrong if you tried.

Look at my sig. I am a power gamer. There's a reason I have four listed Dark Miasmists. I actually have five, but one's lowish level and thus didn't make the "cut" for my sig.

If you think Dark Miasma is barely average, you don't know how to use it. It's really that simple.

If this is where your claim of Dark Miasma's abilities comes from, your bar for "average" is set ludicrously high.

Darkest Night is not an aggro management tool unless you include herding, for which it works great. Fearsome Stare, Tar Patch, Dark Servant and (in a pinch) Howling Twilight are your aggro management tools. Darkest Night is for when aggro is already managed.

No argument. However, only some of those both help keep the team alive and help the team move through foes faster. If I want to buff my team I'd prefer Cold and Sonic over FF, and all three over an Empath. I don't think I'd ever pick an Empath over a Dark for missions or even AVs except in very specific circumstances where massive healing and/or +regen makes sense, such as Hamidon aggro tanker buffing. Optimally, I would pick a cold, a sonic or a FFer, and add a Dark or a Rad for their debuffing.

One additional note. If you want a Defender or Corr who's good at helping themselves, you can't do a whole lot better than Dark or Rad for the buff/debuff set.

That reminds me of this video.

(I was hoping for a shorter clip of it, but WB seems to have purged the show from YouTube. The episode is pretty high comedy gold, including things like the Gom Jabbar as part of a beauty pagent.)

The main difference in my way of thinking is that they put a warning about the 60 day limit in the tutorial. While it's on the harsh side, I can't really take a ton of fault with them not running to the rescue if people don't read the directions. (To be fair to those people, though, the warning was not incredibly clear because of how they tried to keep it immersive. Particularly on the villain side.)

I prefer the hyphen in there. It's a play on the "ebil" I'd never considered, and I like it.

That made me curious. You can't even connect to their main site via SSL, and it looks like the login actually redirects you back to the main page, so that's where it would need the encryption if it had it. Not very inspiring securty - it implies you log into their site with your password sent in cleartext.

Then again, if you're actually giving game log-in info to such folks, I suppose one shouldn't worry greatly about potentially giving your sign-in to their site to the wider internet.

Not if they want to keep making money off of adolescent males.

Is there someone, somewhere for whom it's not virtual money?

You say those words, and they form sentences that I can parse and comprehend, but the concept behind them makes no sense. Let me list the things that make it incomprehensible.

1) The game never used to have a market or the things you can buy there. Yet because the market and the things you can buy there was added and you feel (I'm interpreting here) that they are inaccessible, you no longer touch the game. And yet, you didn't have the market or the things available there before, so they were inaccessible then too. Why did adding something that (you think) you can't use make the game less enjoyable than when you didn't have that thing?

2) You are trying to use the market as a store. It's not. If you want a store, you should go visit Cooke's Electronics, Future Dynamics or Ghost Falcon, and they'll gladly sell you SOs. The market, in contrast to a store, is a place where you bid on goods listed by other players. To earn enough to meet their minimum bids, consider selling things you get at the prices they do. If you are unwilling to do so, you need to see bullet (1).

3) Farming is only one way to meet the minimum bid levels other players on the market are setting. See (2) above. You can also earn money by pying TFs or story arcs (possibly in Ouroboros) and spend merits either on random rolls or high-value recipes, which you then sell on the market. You can also play in the AE, spend tickets on Bronze or Gold rolls, and then sell those on the market for profit. Finally, you can earn common IO memorization badges and sell common IOs for hundreds of thousands of inf.

I think there's something else at play. First, as I've stated, you think you have no access to something when it's simply not true. If you really are this dispassionate about playing, I think you have other reasons, because the reason you have given simply has no sense to it.

It's been bugged before.

Invincibility does the same thing if you slot a Kismet in it. The toHit buff scales with foe level.

That was just a coincidence. It definitely doesn't affect drops. If it started to, it would definitely be a (annoying) bug.

While I really don't care one way or the other, I have to say the game doesn't really support this interpretation.

For one thing, many enhancements (IO or not) pretty clearly represent intangible things. Take a look at Natural Origin SOs for example - quite a lot of them represent training or a technique. Those aren't very tangible unless you assume that the SO is book or something, and then what would slotting it mean? What would deleting it from you mean? Beyond SOs, quite a few enhancements of all sorts are fairly abstract. How do you carry around an Armageddon? How do you attach it to your person?

Additionally, the game does have precedent for things "poofing around" over cell phones. Quite a few canon story arcs have you interact with your contact over the cell phone as if you were right in front of them. This ranges from them asking you to show them something, ti you giving them something for them to analyze, or (more recently) them actually giving you material things over the phone. Consider the hero-side arc for entering the Midnight Club, in which you are actually given salvage to create the Lost Curing Wand... over the phone. And let's not forget that your cell phone can call your contacts from such places as other dimensions (the Shadow Shard) and the distant past (Cimerora).

All this requires a decent dose of willing suspension of disbelief to overlook or explain away. While I have no particular opinion on letting us access the market from all over the place, I don't think it's out of line with the above examples. I do agree with PeterPeter that the devs probably prefer it the way it is. It's a combination of a minor time sink and a wee bit of immersive interaction, and both are probably viewed favorably.

Are you serious?

I hope you don't waste CS's time by carrying through with ideas like that often.

Possibly. While the pets zone with the caster, they lose all their buffs. That suggests to me that they may still not have the ability to stop double buffs. That would be a potential reason to strip the buffs - to keep MMs from "double upgrading" their pets.

Hm, no, I don't know. I was thinking that 5000 was the "TopDoc number", but it seems this mystery number has infiltrated my memory of TopDoc's post on the matter.

It's anything that can drop a level 50 recipe, which is 47s and above.

What the folks above already said. This is incorrect. SS does, indeed, grant actual stealth, though only in PvE. It also lowers your threat level by one.

Additionally, note that not all ATs have a base threat level of one. For example, it is 4 for Tankers and Brutes.