White Hot Flash

George Lucas told us, and it must be true if he said it.


That, and what evil person in their right mind would do evil things in broad daylight? Silly peoples.

Until I started reading the data collection thread about the recipe drops, I never thought the issue was more than just a perception issue with the players. They assumed that being able to raise the amount of mobs or their difficulty would also increase their drop rate, compared to running on a team, without anyone really saying anything one way or the other about how the system would or wouldn't affect the rates. They looked at what was in their drop inventories, and thought there was a nerf when it was really their false hope that made them think there should be more than they got.

I'm still leaning that way, especially when Synapse has come out and said that to him, nothing is out of the ordinary, or at least, he can't reproduce what the players are telling him what's going on. I still say people are expecting something that was never meant to happen, specifically that the recipe drops would increase as the artificial team size went up.

It's not like the weakend Hami encounter is that difficult, using the tp foe workaround or not.

Mitos shouldn't be able to be TPd in the first place.

Shouldn't purples be in their own pool, since they have a very narrow drop window?

Even if the Devs handed us a complete list of things they wanted looked at, it wouldn't help squash every bug that crops up with a new Issue. There's too much old content to revisit, and a lot of beta invitees aren't interested in doing anything but checking the new shineys. Until we get more folks into betas that are actually interested in doing what they're asked to do, instead of doing what they want to do, we'll be finding interesting new bugs like the Hess and Katie bugs.

But apparantly you're not smart enough to stay away altogether and not put your foot in your mouth. Don't you have half the server to be ignoring?

If you're playing a character exclusively, then no. That's why I rotate between several characters. I played exclusively with WHF in the beginning and hit 50 in less than 4 months. He's the only one I did that with.

For a while, I was rotating playing characters that were close to reaching a goal level, like travel powers, or stamina, or costume slots. Once I hit that level with one character, I'd go play another one. I tried to spread the love, while also trying to do different arcs than I've done on previous characters. I still haven't done every arc on either side, 4 years later.

You can still find ways to extend the leveling speed without doing odd things like turning off XP, or running lots of TFs while exempted, and still play a good amount during the week.

This, CK. But I also don't assume that you played ALL of your characters all the way to 50 without getting on the easy train for at least one or two of them, either. The comment wasn't really directed at you in particular, CK, anyway. You just happened to be the latest to articulate the same reasoning for being bored.

No offense to you, or anyone else that has this many 50's already, but this kind of thinking is exactly why I'm in no hurry to PL to 50 on every toon I make. I've been playing for almost 4 years, and I have 4 50's, and a few more that are a few levels away. I still play almost every day, just not for hours on end most days. They've been saying for years that they have no interest in increasing the level cap, so how much content could they possibly add to the endgame that can't be done fairly quickly? There's been several new TFs, new minizones, etc, but once you've done it a few times, you're right back at square one again.

AE is supposed to bridge the gap between major content additions, but it's not everyone's cup of tea, which can be expected. Many people have taken to gaming the markets as their new endgame endeavour, but then you run into what to spend all the inf on once you've IO'd out your stable of characters. If the Devs were to try to add serious content with every Issue, or even every other Issue, we'd be getting them way less frequently, and the complaining wouldn't subside. QoL issues are fine, and many of the things that the new Issue addresses are much needed and appreciated. Plus, we have the benefit of knowing an expansion is getting closer to coming out.

I guess the TL;DR version is: Patience is a good thing. MMOs are a marathon, not a sprint.

Get out of my brain, dude!

Minimum level to do a TF still applies. Ex: A level 20 still can't do anything above a Sister Psyche, even if they're SK'd. Pretty sure they haven't done anything with the minimum number of teammates requirement either.

Personally, I've run into a problem with balancing a team with sks and mentors a few times, or seen it in one of the Chat channels. It was never more than an annoyance for me, but it's not necessarily unwanted or unneeded. Try to think of this scenario: Let's say you have a team in the mid twenties, and someone has a buddy that wants a friend that they were SK'd to to join the team. That buddy has a 45, but really wants to play that character and also wants to still earn xp because they're close to leveling. In the old system, that 45 couldn't join if he wanted xp, and most likely the friend wouldn't abandon him and you'd be out two teammates. With the new system, now you have two choices. The 45 can Ex down and still get xp, running the lvl 20ish mishes (and have a couple more powers at their disposal than they'd have had in the old exemplar system. Now you get to keep up to 5 levels of powers/slots above the level you're ex'd to, if you've earned them. Example: A level 33 blaster that exemplars down to 28 will still have his lvl 30 and lvl 32 powers, which would most likely be their nuke power. Yay!) The other option now is for that 45 to SK the ENTIRE team up to 44, and run the high level mishes. How is that not a good thing?

As someone said, there's a couple of sliders in the options menu that you can use to set a range of levels that you'll automatically SK or Ex in. Presumably this will get rid of the need to reaffirm your desire to be adjusted every time you zone, but I have yet to see it in action myself.

This works only until someone chooses a mission. Until then, you're SK'd or EX'd to the team leader. Once a mission is picked, everyone adjusts to the mission holder's level, if it's different than the team leader.

"Real Arcs" IS normal AE. What people have chosen to do with it (farming) is not what it's supposed to be, hence all the changes to it. Normal arcs don't get changed much.

They've already said that we'll be getting tokens for each slot. Any time there's new costume bits, or in this case, an alternate reason to use the costume editor, we get free tokens.

Purples drop in Dev Choice arcs, if people bothered to play those instead of their farms. I got one there after running about three of them.

Perhaps they also need to grant more arcs with Devs Choice status as well.

Yes, but are these seasoned PvPers steamrolling because of their general skill, or because they locked on to the FoTM builds that were nigh-invulnurable to all but a few other builds? Castle, misguided or not, was trying to open up the Arena and PvP zones to more playstyles and ATs/builds, and trying to push down the perceived need to only bring certain powersets to the fight at the exclusion of all others. The way he went about it was probably heavyhanded, but I don't think the intent was necessarily wrong. And besides, for every PvPer that said I12 pvp was just fine, there were just as many that were still calling for changes. They got change, but it just wasn't the change they were hoping for.

Herein lies the secret, but it's that patience part that gets most people.