Wicked_Wendy

Earlier in the day I was on a Lambda and one of the players was complaining that their powers were gone. We assumed it was the players first trial and explained that almost all temp powers were disabled.. but the player insisted it wasn't the temps his primary and secondary powers along with the temps were missing from his trays. I can't recall exactly what he did about it and may have actually just given up and quit.

Later in the evening I was on another Lambda and when we arrived in zone there was a slight flash, for lack of a beti was ter way to describe it, and just like the player earlier I was staring a 8 icon trays that prior to entering the queue and zoning into the trial map were full.. now absolutely nothing was in any of them. Hoping that someone knew some slash command I could use I broadcast me problem in league chat and unfortunately the only advice anyone could give was relog. I let the league leader know, logged off and back on and sure enough all my powers were back. I rejoined the trial just in time to battle Maurader and thankfully despite my long period away from the trial I was given an uncommon for my partici[pation.

What I am curious about is if anyone else has experiemced this lately on any of the three trials. Let me add a bit more to the information.. At one point someone suggested I just go to the powers tab and drag all my powers back into the trays howver when i accessed that it didn't show a single power either so I was just completely stuck. I could move of course but had none of my defenses turned on and no way to launch an attack of any kind. My only recourse was to log offf and back on to basically reboot my power trays.

I have a screen shot of this but have yet to load it so i can post it here but if this is an ongoing problem I didn't want to wait anymore before reporting it. Hopefully it doesn't occur again but if it does and ANYONE knows a slash command that will recitfy the situation I'd love to know what it is.

Hmmm let me see...

1. SoA (crab) .. this is my main/badger AT I love her
2. Blasters
3. Controllers
4. MasterMinds
5 Scrappers
6. Tanks/Brutes okay maybe Brutes/Tanks they are both close
8. SoA (Widows)
9 Defenders

I don't play the others enough to rate them but I would place

Peacebringers dead last with Warshades close behind. I have managed to get 1 warshade to 50 level and now rarely touch her and I have NEVER gotten a PB past, or even to level 20. My opinion has always been that they spent some time and created something special with thr VEATS but fell on their faces with the Khelds....

Squid mode ... Squishy beyond belief.. great damage but you need to stay alive long enough to use it

Dwarf mode .. I have never felt more like a meat shield than when I am asked to tank with my WS. People talk about how tankers have limited Damage potential but a dwarf has 4 attacks total so you spend a lot of time basically standing there taunting so everything attacks you while you wait for an attack to recharge.. Good Grief my tanks can pound on stuff constantly.

Human mode .. About the only one worth using (IMO) And here's the fun part, unless they finally fixed it, slot stamina to help with your end problem and then leave human mode and go dwarf. Now you need to slot end mods in dwarf because the ones in stamina ONLY work while you are in HUMAN form. If you try to be a tri form you need about 20 more enhancement slots than you get to make all three work .. as well as they can.


Now I won't go into detail on VEATS.. just leave you with this.. I have 3 of them, 2 are level 50 and incarnates and the third is level 43. Before stamina became inherent.. I had builds that didnt include a single Patron Power because I wanted the ones from my primary and secondary more. And the fact was I was just as effective solo or on a team back then as I am now. Oh and just one more jab at Khelds.. Despite being villains my SoAs don't have Intergalatic Bounty Hunters showing up everywhere they go trying to kill them and not once has my Crab caused a cyst to form in a mission that the team had to destroy before it caused a team wipe. hehehe okay RANT over

13 Warshade
14 Peacebringer

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minor suggestion and I will probably add this to Sexy Jays thread since it invloves costume parts. If possible, can we get the chest details we are buying with Astrals added to other things like shields. Originally my thought was THIS would be a great symbol for an SG but I realized its something EACH player has to purchase so that wouldn't work but I think it would be nice if the symbol on the chest of my SD/SS Tanker matched the Symbol on the shield. Seems like almost all of the other chest symbols are available for that so why not! If not it isn't huge just something i think would be a nice bonus feature.

Okay this thread is a minor rant and a place for anyone that has been seeing the same things I am about to describe to add their horror story.

In the past week or so I have been a part of or ran screaming away from all of the following:

1. League leader sat in the rwz and advertised he was recruiting for a BAF. I was looking to join one to get my daily dose of Empyrean goodness so I sent a tell and joined. As we recruited the final few members a TANK made a comment about how "HE" wished we were doing the Keyes Trial. Next thing I know we are queued up and I didn't notice until I hit the green confirm button but suddenly we are headed into the Keyes trial and poof we are teleporting. As soon as we arrived I quit the team and one starred the leader. Don't LIE to me to get me on your team and then expect me to just blindly do whatever. Way too many league form every day for anyone to have to put up with that.. BTW about 4 other members of that same league quit and wound up on the BAFIi joined shortly afterwards.

2. League leader advertised a BAF and I joined up.. when we got inside we were finally informed it was a master of run and we'd be doing the Keep em Seperated portion. Okay mostly I do the BAF for the easy astrals and Emp and am perfectly happy with the normal run but keep em seperate is another astral so fine. Problem was the leader threw teams together and didn't seem to care about actually making sure they could do their assigned jobs. The ADD team was the smallest of the three and ill equipped to keep the adds in check. I was on my Rad/Rad and we were doing a great job with Siege until we got totally overrun with adds, because most of the add team was in the hospital, and pretty soon the adds were totally out of control and people started to quit..INCLUDING the leader that put the mess togther to begin with. Okay first of all again don't lie.. if you intend to do a master run tell people so they can decide IF they want to join. And more important take a little time before qing to examine your teams and organinze them so there is a chance for success. LASTLY.. if you ever want me to join a team you run again don't quit when things go bad.. especially when its YOUR fault!

3. Today a group of us were standing around and someone said "Okay since no one else wants to I'll form a Lambda and we can do the BAF afterwards.. Sounded perfect until the teams formed. Team one, the leader's team btw, was nothing but brutes, tankers and scrappers. Team 2, the one I was placed on, was nothing but blasters, an MM, a corruptor, one tank and one SoA. In short team 2 was going to spend a LOT of time face down on the floor in phase two. I figured after he was done recruiting the leader would juggle but NO and not only that he announce that team 1 would be doing acids and 2 would get grenades. Acids always seems to be a little easier than the grenades .. less lag and a simpler route. Then this idiot actually q'd us up.. I was assuming all the time he was joking but he actually intended to run the league that way. I decline the q and quit. Now I don't give a crap if I hunt acids or grenades I have done enough trials to have both routes memorized but DO NOT put together a team that has failure written all over it and expect me to hang around so you can giggle at my frustration.

A good friend in one of my SGs asked me what was happening with trial leadership recently.. he'd been on a number that were poorly organized and failede misreably. My theory is this...

The really good leaders that we all loved teaming with now have every single one of their characters to 50 (+3) with all powers slotted to tier 4 and are playing lower levels toons or may even be on Beta getting a heads up on issue 21. What we have now is the bottom of the barrel.. players that THINK they know what they are doing trying to lead and blaming the failures on everyone else BUT themselves.

Personally, to date, I have avoided leading trials. At first I wanted to get to know the trial before I tried to run one and then LAG made my actually staying on line and not crashing during a trial very iffy so I stayed away from leadership.. I don't like to start something and then suddenlt go POOF and force someone else to assume leadership Well the lag situation has calmed down and i can't recall the last trial I joined that i dc'd on so I am seriously considering taking control myself.. at least that way I know what I am signed up for and I hope I know enough about the game to put together teams that stand a chance of survival.

So.. that's my rant. What sort of nightmares have you al been running into lately

Okay i wanted to add this one before it slips my mind again.

Do something about the ratio of Council to 5th column since they came back. There are Task Forces that require us to street hunt COUNCIL [Citadel, Numina just to name two] and when those TFs were designed the council were everywhere.. Now you can spend a good bit of time tracking down the few council troops the 5th column haven't run off. This get really annoying on a Numina.,, always used to be able to find and defeat 20 council pretty fast in Boomtown.. now if they haven't been replaced total by 5th column they share the same areas and as soon as you arrive the 5th column attacks and you end up in a contest to see who can kill the council faster... here's a hint in case you aren't sure in most cases the 5th column wins. So my suggestion is simple. Either put back some council mobs so we can find and defeat them OR.. revamp the task forces and do away with the mindless street hunt missions altogether. ... In most cases we wind up defeating stuff on the street that barely awards xp and inf or doesn't at all so give us a couple more door missions where we get to battle stuff our own level.. get more xp and inf and level quicker!

I like the added enhancement trays..

1. lower level toons can now accumulate up to 30 before heading to the store to sell them off for funds I want to buy the stuff I really need.

2. I don't respec often but having the ability to save 30 IO enhancers I crafted but may not need after a respec means I can either sell them at WW for a lot more than NC soft os offering or add them to the storage bins in my base so other character I own, or other SG members, can use them.

3. as already mentioned when crafting this means a lot less stops to either slot or store

For many of the same reasons I like the idea of added slots to salvage and recipes.

1. I am not a huge markteer but I will test the waters with unwanted salvage or recipes. If they aren't selling for what i KNOW I can get at a store i simply sell them at the store instead but having more slots means less trips to get rid of stuff which = more time playing the game!

2. Same as number 3 above.. if I can hold more desired salvage and recipes I don't need to stop to craft as often and don't have to wonder if i missed a chance for a PURPLE because my slots were full. I TRY to never just delete anything when I can sell it.

I can't see myself wasting any points on added vault space and I have my bases set up so the vault sits right beside the crafting table IN the same room as the enhancememnt bins. keep in mind I currently have 36 characters on virtue and my very first purchase will be 12 added slots for more characters. With the ability to email myslef just about anything these days I already have a HUGE vault system in place and with 12 more characters available, per server, it just got even larger. Sure its not as easy when you need to log one toon off and another one to get something but I'll be buying new powers, ect before I worry about adding space to my vault.

As for market slots.. I imagine the marketeers will love it but I am like the OP.. if it doesn't sell NOW I pull it, reduce the price a bit a try again. If its obvious it wont sell period.. it gets pulled and sold in a store.

I like this idea and don't see the problem.. call it whatever you like I don't see a reason why the FERRY and the Smuggler ship (which at one point was actually just caller.. the ferry) can't hook up. Hey they hooked all the ferry lines in COV and the helicopter.. they ever added additionaly heliports.

The idea to make travel simpler not to agonize over a name. currently between the combined train lines and the current ferry line players can get to and from every zone fairly quickly.. except PI. No train and a ferry that only delivers you to one zone.. IP and then you get to make your way to the train to continue. Personally I either use the RWZ to get around or my Ouro portal because the ferry is inconvenient. Sort of like the submarine we can use to get from Red to blue side (Sharkshead to IP). It's easier to just use the RWZ or the Midnighter club than use that system (I never use it but even Pocket D provides more options).

So lets just do away with the Smuggler ship and call all of the the Paragon Ferry Co. with ports in IP, Talos, Striga and PI. I am trying to think of any other stops they could ADD like they did with the chopers in COV but nothing springs to mind that would mak sense or be really beneficial.. Only other zone I can think off hand with a ladge body of water is Croatoa,,, Yeah I know Crey's Folly has a lot but that just seems silly and Croatoa already has the train not to mention a midnighter's club.

Okay for all the NON SG leaders that never have to deal with this .. I apologize this is more of a QOL for a select group..

Change to way we pay base rent and make it easier to accomplish. WHY you may ask.. becasue it's a little rediculous for my bases to have close to or even over 2 million , or more, in prestige sitting in an account and yet if I don't PHYSICALLY haul myself to Atlas Park and visit the SG Registar every time its due I find myself standing in front of transporters and crafting tables with no power. Last I checked the game was set in the 21st century so explain to me why I can't simply set something up to permit automatic withdrawls from my funds when the rent is due.

This gets really silly when you realize we utilize adapted Rikti technology so that if we are badly hurt we are INSTANTLY transported to a hospital or the medical facilities in our base but I can't even call the landlord (NC SOFT) on some imaginary phone and pay my rent with my creidt or debit card over the phone. Come on Devs let's get with the program here.. either its 2011 or it 1950 make up your minds! Heck even when my parents were renting they didn't have to physically get into their car and rive to the landlords office to pay the rent.. they mailed it to him. So give us a break and either just start to autodeduct or give us a way to pay from where ever we are when we log on so we don't need to run back to Altas every time the rent is due.

And before someone says.. they can't do that it would be taking our cash without checking with us first.. Keep in mind the only thing you can use prestige for is to add rooms/furniture/support equipment to the base or to pay the rent.. And once prestige is earned regardless of who earned it . it belongs to the base. No individual member gets a refund check if the quit the base and all the prestige they earned hasn't been used. No one is losing a thing and if nothing in base works becasue the power is shut off, because the rent is late, what good is having a brand new desk with a computer on it in the med bay doing anyone.

A recent thread sort of jogged my memory on and old issue I'd love to see and have chatted about with others that agreed..

Change the format for conducting a respec. No i am not suggesting anything absurd like rechosing powersets.. you don't like those delete the character you made and reroll. Here is what we discussed .. currently when you do a respec as soon as you enter you are a level one and begin all over again working up to the highest level you have obtained.. With the recent change in Stamina becoming inherent for many this required rebuilding all the way to level 50. What I'd like to see is a respec that works in reverse... Okay I am a 41 level and after numerous level I realize I dislike a choice I made for a particular power back at 35. Instead of starting at level 1 and rebuilding completely can we have an option to begin at 41 and simply work backwards. This would mean that instead of deleting my entire build and starting from scratch I could simply remove my choices from 41 back to 35 and then rebuild upward from there. It's not a totally impossible procedure since it does already exist more or less.. During the current respec process if you realize you forgot something you don't need to exit completely and start over again...simply hit the reverse arrow and remove powers until you get back to where you wish to redo things. So how hard would it be to allow us to simply do that to begin with.

The results of a change like this are obviouos.. Respecs take less time and don't require memorizing or writing down the portions of your build you don't wish to alter. Players are happier with the procedure and a happy customer sticks around and continues to PLAY the game.