Wicked_Wendy

Okay fine you go do a "NORMAL" BAF and spend half the night complaining about getting common or uncommon tables. I'll take your rares and very rares THANKS!

Oh one thing .. the towers don't seem to be an issue by the time you get to Siege but it's best to stay close to the building while waiting for Nightstar to arrive. They can't hit you if your close to that big roll up door. For some reason when you pull Seige they don't attack that area anymore.

OH did I also mention IF you are still working on opening a power this is a much quicker way to accomplish it. I am on my 4th character striving to gain all 4 new powers. The first three did nothing but the traditional BAFS and at best I averaged a little over 10% of the IXP needed per trial. Last night I did my first "FARM" run needing 27% to open Judgement. By the end Judgement was open and I had 13% of what I needed for Lore. Two farm runs later I was at 99% complete on Lore. Yeah I had to do ONE more BAF to get that last 1% LOL Do the math.. at 10% on a normal run it would probably have taken me 13 trials to accomplish what I did in 4 and for whatever reason, added defeat(?), I got 3 very rare components and rare instead of a bunch of commons and uncommons. Now to go finish off Lamdba and I will take my 50 (+3) back to work on her tier 4 powers

Opps figured I better add this.. I can't promise that if you do this you will see nothing but Rare and Very Rare components all night. I didn't ask anyone else what they got and it may have just FINALLY been my turn. What I do know is the other three characters I have run through the trials NEVER got a very rare drop and only a couple got rares.. I had to build most of the rares I had with uncommons and INF. Now the rumor is reward is based, sort of.. maybe(?), on performance???? Well on a normal BAF you'd defeat 4 AV and since you did it as fast as possible who knows how many fewer ADD bosses. On a Farm run we took down a single Av as fast as possibe and then started on the other.. By the end we may have taken out as many a 8 or 9 AV and spent the full 16-17 minutes defeating as many ADDs as possible. So I don't know .. Maybe a LOT more defeats/damage = better reward drops?

I had that happen to me once. It was in the RWZ and particularly laggy that day. The leader even announced he'd set the Q but I Never saw a prompt and then POOF the entire league except for me was just gone! I still join teams out of there on occassion but usually look for stuff in Cimerora or even Studio 55 where the lag is minimal. The RWZ is the prime spot to host these things with access to a store, inspirations, crafting tables and your base but during peak hours between multiple leagues forming, AE, LGTFs and even Mothership Raids (when they start just consider that particular zone full LOL) the lag can get awful and its time to look for alternative spots to form up.

Some one else asked about trying to rejoin the league by hitting LFG and re-entering the previous mission. I haven;t tried that but sort of doubt it would work. Players are using the league options to form Mothership raids, hamidon raid and even COP trials now so until the leader actually joins the Q and you get that invite do you really have a mission? Worth trying if it ever happens again but I have my doubts it would work.. AND I HOPE I AM WRONG

First I always love the fact that any time anyone comes here and voices an opinion about something there is always some JERK that immediately dismisses it as whining.



Yeah I read some of your posts which is why i decided to reply to YOU to begin with. You know if you didn't keep saying you play on Union I'd swear you WERE the guy that came into globals with that rediculous request/demand. And if he said it or not the intention was clear.. He didn't like anyone interferring with his role playing and wanted us all to stay out of "HIS" Pocket D. Since I pay my $15 per month just like everyone else.. its as much mine as his. So NO I don't have to stay away.





All that referred to is the mindless music the game actually plays in there. Everyone I know either has on some radion station or is playing their of tunes while they play.. no one listens to waht DJ Zero plays over and over and over.





No I am not and IF you are on Union don't presume to know what happens anywhere on Virtue. I have attended a number of parties and events in Pocket D ON VIRTUE and have seen coountless Masterminds with every single one of their minons out dancing. Heck I Don't even know what server he was on but a while back there was a guy on the forum that was disappointed with his new Demon Summoner MM. His reason? The Demons didn't do all the really cool dance emote like some of the other MM minons. DUH there's a great way to rate the overall effectiveness of your powers!




My ISSUE has never been about powers. Sure I have seen it plenty of times and not just in Pocket D.. 15 or 20 players in Wentworths in Talos with every single toggle running and it takes forever to make a transaction. And to answer YOUR question I know how to count. If I am on a BAF the team maximum is 24 so when we hit that magic number I rez my minons knowning within a few minutes we will be in the Q and then in the mission. My point/issue is rper have no more claim to Pocket D than anyone else that pays NC Soft to be here. The guy in globals was 100% wrong to even suggest that anyone should stay away simply because he didn't like it.



[QUOTE] Gamers have dozens of places they can gather for the forming of teams, even co-op places there are numerous options. Roleplayers have ONE co-op social area they can go to. ONE. We don't generally count Studio 55 as that's in Praetoria, and funny as it may seem, many of us actually consider going to enemy territory for a beer to be hugely OOC. /QUOTE]

Do you ever venure outside of Pocket D at all? Now maybe its a little less crowded on Union but anymore VIRTUE has a larger population than Freedom and believe me every one of those Coop sites you mention is being used. I swear I mentioned that in one of my posts and YOU accuse me of not reading well? There are on any given night 2, 3 or 4 RWZs, a couple Cimeroras, as I MENTIONED even a few Midnighter Clubs. The fact is POCKET D is one more Coop area we can go to and form teams. Don't like it? Like I said tough.. we cant force anyone to so anything here as long as it isnt a violation of the TOS and playing the GAME is not a TOS violation!


OH and your statement amuses me to no end.. So its okay for a hero to battle crime and fight evil all day and then hit Pocket D and spend the night drinking with a Soldier or Arachnos that just finished robbing the Pergrine Island Bank after destrying everything he or she could find in a 3-4 block area BUT heaven forbid we hit Studio 55.. the Praetorians hang out there????



See I don't like that.. Your making stuff up equates to YOU ARE A LIAR and 1) you don't know me so don't Assume you do and 2) I don't lie well not often and certainly not to make a point here. I occasionaly lie to proyecy peoples feelings etc... Again you, how by your admission are on Union are ASSUMING that things are exactly the same on Virtue WRONG! And if you read my posts you saw that I have and do attend things in Pocket D when I have friends there. Maybe not for hours at a time in the bar telling people about my exploits on Game Epsilom Five but I hang out with friends, listen to music and chat. I also hit every game event there is there (Winter and Spring) and guess what if the guy forming a League I want to join says.. "we are forming up in Pocket D" I am on my way because I want to play the game.

and lastly.. did you happen to look at my signature? notice the TAXIBOT in there. She was my first 50 and I was standing around in the Hollows offering players free teleport to missions or to the Atlas gate long before Raptor Pack. She is an EMP and I used to trail along behind poor 5 and 6 levels healing and buffing them so they could get through Dave Wincott's rediculous defeat 10 outcast and the 10 trolls missions. I have gone out of my way to stop and teleport players to the Tailors in Steel Canyon when I was passing through on my way to a mission. And anyone that knows me knows if anyone asks a question about this game in broadcast I will always take the time to answer.. and if I don't know it I tell them to hang on while I look it up for them on the WIKI. Don't try to compare turning off your toggles to spending 5 hours in the Hollows helping players stay alive and level faster. Like I said YOU DON'T KNOW ME.. so don't assume you do

Did you read the quote I started all this with at all?

There is no mention of can you all please just turn off your powers while you are in the D. THANK YOU He ASKS that no one come and form a league in Pocket D period. He goes on to mention lag and people spamming powers but his original request is DON'T COME HERE!

The Devs cant create duplicate RWZs fast enough to keep up with the demand but a huge zone with almost everything available in the RWZ is supposed to be ignored so 20-30 people can stand around a bar and pretend to drink while they make up stories about their ficticious lives?

Now first of all I was under the impression Pocket D suppressed most powers anyway. Secondly I have friends that are CAPE RADIO DJS so I have been there when there is actual GOOD music to tune into while you socialize. And then there is third..

I am currently running my Mastermind through the trials and I always rez my minons before we head in so I am ready for action when we arrive. Not so much an issue on the BAF since you get stuck watching the Cut scene before getting to even enter the door to the facility but on a Lambda you arrive on the steet and within a few yards you are engaged in battle. Are you telling me I shouldn't rez my pets because it adds to the lag? Then explain why its okay for an MM to rez them and then type in /petsay_all <em dance>. I can't prepare for combat but an MM that just wants to hang out and party can invite all his minons to share a beer with him/her? I don't think so.

Yeah I know people have a way of going crazy with auras... It drives me nuts too even when that start casting them to TRY and help as you get ready to enter a mission. "Gee that was nice but we are still recruiting members. That buff you just hit me with will probably just be wearing off as we hit the first mobs inside! brilliant planning!" Now on the other hand hitting me with buffs after we are ready to go so I arrive in zone ready to fight makes perfect sense and if we "BUFF UP" and then teleport to the Lambda Sector two minutes later how is that hurting anyone? Your role play experience was ruined by a two minute spike in lag?

The same day this individual made his "request" there were a couple of people RPing in one of the RWZs. I noticed the comments as I was leaving to head to another RWZ because out league, once again, couldn't all get into the one we started forming in. Now I have no clue if these two people were just RPing while they waited for their league to start up or of they were just hnaging out in the Rwz Role Playing. the point is no one went to a global channel and said.. "It may be crappy to ask, but we are having huge issues here in the RWZ trying to form league. In the future can you role players please stay out. Your taking up spots we need to get out people in."

This thread may go on for days and no one is ever going to admit they are right or wrong but let me just sum it all up for you Floating.. Until YOU or the joker that posted that comment in globals start paying my subsciption fees every month you have no right to tell me where I can do anything in game. 24 players showing up in Pocket D to form a league and then poofing off to the BAF is in no way a violation of the TOS and despite what you think is in no way grieving. So if you think any of you comments here are going to stop people form going there.. You are going to be a very disappointed man!

Sam? Let me get this straight you are saying MY attitude is wrong? I'm not the one that went onto a global chat channel and insisted that potentially dozens, if not more, of players with just as much right to be in Pocket D as anyone else and basically demanded that we go away because we were disturbing him. And believe me mine was not the only negative comment this guy got and at least mine didn't have any profanity in it.

I have nothing against Role Play.. if I did the last place I'd have every character I own is on Virtue. COH is a MMO RPG game and I completely understand that RPG means ROLE PLAY GAME. But its also a GAME and for every one of those PRers in Pocket D there are probably 20 players out there right now looking for somewhere to put together a league so they can open up their new powers.

Now you talk about the community being unfriendly? I haven't seen it. At times there have been as many as 4 or 5 RWZ and it never seems to fail that a league will get almost everyone in zone and the message comes across .. "I can't get in the zone is full!" I have seen entire leagues move from zone to zone to zone trying to find somplace where all 24 of the members can be in one spot so they can be assigned to teams. I have seen people ask politely "We have 1 member that can't enter the zone so we can start our BAF trial. Can someone please leave for a few moment? As soon as we organize we will be gone." And there has almost always been someone willing to pop out for a minute or two. That sounds pretty friendly and cooperative to me.

Every zone I mentioned in my first post is being used and used constantly right now for trials. I have seen 2 or 3 Midnighter Clubs, two Cimeroras, as I mentioned earlier as many as 4-5 RWZs, I have seen posts and joined leagues forming in Studio 55 (YES we are using Praeteoria) and there was even a league over the weekend that a buddy of mine was on that started in the Arena in Galaxy City (must have found 24 Heroes, Vigilantes and Rogues since no villain could possibly get there).

The fact of the matter is the most I have seen to date when a league formed there is two Pocket Ds.. so the majority of the players are going other places to form up. What ticked me off and everyone on Virtue TF 2010 that day was one guy in Pocket D that apparently could care less about new content, new powers, and new ways to play the game had the nerve to come on and tell US to stay out of HIS zone. He got a lot of negative feed back over it from everyone including me. But there are still more leagues forming in other zones than in his precious RP haven. IF this community was truly unfriendly and down right nasty.. every single leader forming a league that day would have purposely headed to Pocket D JUST to make that guys day worse. I spent the next two hours running BAFs in Cimerora and between runs saw leagues starting up in the RWZ, Midnighter Club etc, ect. No one went out of there way to RUIN anything for anyone. IF anyone had a bad attitude it was that guy who seems to think nothing and no one is more important than he is and we should all go away and leave him and his friends alone.

Someone else mentioned it in an earler post.. In December and again in February when the events are running I have seen as many as 4 or 5 Pocket Ds and half of them full. Where was this guy then? Had to be a LOT more lag in December than there is now. Pocket D is not a designated ROLE PLAY area the fact of the matter is there is no such area designated on any map in ANY zone. There are stores (bartenders) where players can buy inspirations, there is a hopsital so players can rez in zone during events and there is a trainer so they can level up. All of those things are tools used by players running missions not standing around chatting to one another at the bar. Another poster here brought up a good point. Now I know there have been a few comic book super heroes that were also known to drink but exactly when did being a super hero entail getting up, throwing on the old super hero outfit and heading to the bar to stand around talking about yourself and hitting on hot babes? That's not being a hero that being a lounge lizard and / or an alcoholic. Anytime stuff like this comes up there are always people that say no one can tell you how to PLAY the game. I saw that comment as well and wasn't sure if it was directed at me or not. Funny thing is I NEVER said once this guy couldn't or shouldn't RP.. The comment he made in globals was that ALL OF US shouldn't come to a specific ZONE to play the game. POCKET D is COOP so Heroes, Villains, Rogues and Vigilantes can all meet and form leagues... The trials are Coop so while there are are other places as well.. people are going to use Pocket D. If all he needs is a spot wher he and his friends can gather and chat why can't THEY move to say Perez Park? Practically no one goes there if they don't have to and parts of it are very pretty.. OH I forgot it doesn't have a disco ball and a bar!

You can imagine the responses this guy got in resonse to that. Mine was simply "Oh we are sorry. Is our playing the GAME interferring with your RP? I am sure we are all so ashamed!"

I got back a reduculous reply about there being plenty of other places to form a league. Well yes that's true but not that many that offer the league access to things it needs..


RWZ great place to start a team. access to a store to sell off enhancements and unwanted salvage you get during a trial, a place to buy inspirations to replace ones you used, and even access to crafting tables and you base. PROBLEM everyone realizes that and so many leagues form there the lag in horrible and some of your league members can't even get into the zone your in. You wind up playing music RWZ trying to find one with enough room for the whole group.

Cimerora Not as ideal as RWZ but has a store and a combat nurse. No access to crafting tables or to your base directly. LESS teams use this so its not as laggy but again less access to stuff

The Midnighter Club Seemed like a good idea but has almost no access at all.. You get a store and that's it.. no base access, no tables, and no place to buy inspirations. ALSO very small amount of people fill it.. had people actually have to wait to get in and be assigned to a team because pleayers were traveling through to get to Cimerora to run the ITF

Pocket D not idea again no store but does have access to inspirations. For access to your base or crafting head outside into the neighborhoods. LAGGY? yes but designed to hold a large number of players due to the events that run inside it throughout the year.. Winter event, Valentine's (Spring Event) etc...

Studio 55 better than Pocket D as far as lag but I searched and if there is a bartender selling inspirations he is using the best Invisible I have seen. Between mission people wind up running to the hospital in Imperial City to resupply.

Now I have heard people complaining .."Why don't you all go do that in Galaxy City.. no one is ever there." Gee that sounds great but the trial is Co-op mind telling all of us how the Villains in the league get there?

I have nothing against RPer but a statement like that is rediculous. What's next players suggesting that people stop using the AE building and the sewers in Atlas Park because it is causing lag and disrupting the costume contests? Your standing around at the bar basically typing back and forth to one another while WE are out doing missions and trying to improve our characters. And before the obvious argument gets posted to this thread.. YEAH AND WE PAY OUR MONTHLY FEES TO BE HERE TOO. Last I checked there was no sign on the entrances that said "for RP purposes Only"

Fact is right now dozens of leagues are forming at any moment and they run to any spot they can find where all 24 of them can squeeze in.

Due to the non-constructive nature of recent posts in this thread, the conversation has now come to a close.

OH God yes. Now I have only had this happen twice in all the BAFs I have done.. been on some pretty good teams that watched that closely but in both cases it was the only time I finished the Trial and discovered I'd made more that 10% of the iXP I needed.

I still cant figure out why the LAMBDA seems to reward better. Sure mobs vanish more often on the BAF than on it but there are a LOT more mobs. That and the fact that 1/3 of the Lambda all but requires you to ignore mobs and concentrate of glowies while every phase of a BAF has you killing stuff????

I guess it evens out a bit in the end. I have NEVER gotten the reward table that only offered me ten threads or a super Inspiration doing a BAF.. I have had that one three times doing the Lambda.

heheh you joke Zombie but the other day I was on the BAF and arrived just in time for the cut scene to begin. I made a quick trip to the bathroom certain it would be over and people would be screaming where are you? I got back and the thing still wasn't finished.


I have run a lot of BAFs and that scene has become my cue to go make a fresh glass of ice tea, or refill my coffee, or grab a snack or just het up and stretch LOL

Oh Look Mother Mayhem is on! BRB I am running to the store!"

Exactly! Now they changed Posi but if you were around back before it was split into two shorter TFs it was the only task force that had no AV. The thing took hours to complete back then since no one had a travel power before 14, raptor packs didn't exist, and neither did mission teleporters. Some people actually split it up over two days and there were times when a single team member would log on and do missions by him or herself just to speed things along. It WAS actually possible for one person to complete the TF solo.

Now between IOed out builds and purpled out builds there are players out there soloing even the hardest TFs but back when the best you could hope for were SO enhancers no one was even thinking about trying to solo a Maticore and facing Hopkins solo.. now he's pretty much the wimpiest AV we see. LOL Hey I have an 50 level IO in every slot of my MAIN and I don;t think I'd even want to consider doing a STF solo

Yep .. Now the BAF is already being conquered.. even I have one character with Master Of and the other only needs one more. The Lambda ones .. both my characters have Syncronized but for a while I don't see a lot of players getting any of the others. Like Lothic mentioned until we can throw teams into that with nothing but 50(+3)s where we can handle the waves of reinforcement AND defeat Maurader I can't see anyone not using their Acid. MAYBE they could get by without using the pacification grenades. I have already done a couple where we didnt need all of them to take him down. Give it time .. there are plenty of players out there now with +3s and that MO will get easier as well.

Actually Tech no I did not know that.. Thanks for the update. Does make me wonder though if Requiem is a Nictus then WHY don't we see any Galaxy style troops in the ranks of the 5th? I did mention my Canon Fu is a bit weak in some areas.. And in case anyone wasn't 100% certain this whole thread is meant to be sort of a running joke.

I really don't, or at least didn't, mind Cut Scenes prior to the incarnate sysytem .. with 12 different characters running though the WST each week to get the Notices they needed to hit Tier 4 not to mention all the TFS I did prior to that just to get to tier 3 I have seen them all over and over and over... just like everyone else. The first time I ever saw the two CSes involving Aeon in the STF I was giggling over his ineptness. After viewing it 15 times the week the STF was the WST the joke got a little stale and I found myslef thinking "Can you please just shut up and let me go pound on the AVs?" lol I know I wasn;t alone cause other team members were groaning and complaining when it finished as well.

Someone else mentioned it .. the Mother Mayhem CS in the BAF is even worse. If you are not the first one to zone in there are times that you can't even move before you have to sit and watch it.. AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN. On a full league with 24 players I have averaged abount 10% of the IXP I needed to open Justice and then Lore... sometimes a little more bit not often. SO in order to open up both those new powers I had to run... 20 BAFS. Lambdas actually reward quicker.. I was able to get around 20-25% or more per trial .. so 8-9 opened both Interface and Destiny. Figures Mauraders CS is shorter so baturally they fix it so we don't HAVE to watch it as much. Now.. at this point 2 of my 12 characters have opened all 4 new powers and gotten to the point where they are 50 (+3)s during trials.. that means I have now viewed that Mother Mayhem cutscene around 40 times since Tuesday. Yes I have completely lost what little mind I had left. hehehe

Jakarr is absolutely correct. My first MM was a Merc and they are sort of so-so as far as minions go but DM can be awesome . One thing I'd add is the fact the Feamsome Stare can be slotted To Hit Debuffs making it yet another power that makes tackling any for easier. I personally didn't use anything to enhance it but one accuracy and three to hit debuff IOs.

hehehe And Fluffy give you the advantage of being the only MM with 7 pets not 6. I threw in a recharge reduction there so i can get him/her/it (??) back sooner

I have moved on to Demons and Bots myself but with DM to reduce the effectiveness of whatever your battling any minon set can do well. By the way .. while Merc are underpowered at least they respond to commands better than ninjas.. those things are flat out crazy and happen to be the only minon set I ever deleted LOL

So what after he got his butt kicked and was sent into exile by the Center Requiem decided to cut a deal with the Nictus?

Okay my second concern is the placement of the trigger to roll this gem of great acting. I just battled my way through a horde of Cimeroran traitors and reached the grand plaza where Rommi is reviewing some of his troops along with his buddies the Nictus. I reach the bottom of the steps and start battling 5th Column and then .. POOF for the next minute or so I am watching Romulus be taken over by a Nictus. Now I have done the TF enough to relax and realize that all action has stopped until the scene is over but that first time my immediate reaction was .. "OH MY GOD before this crap started I had a WarWolf Boss IN MY FACE. Am I going to wind up dead thank to this thing?" At least most of the othe scenes we have come to know and tolerate occur when nothing life altering is happening...

Doc Aeon's double rant during the STF is while we are working our way through the base to get to the map with the AVs and is placed in a spot where no Arachnos troops are anywhere near you.

Even Lord Recluse's monologue later in the STF comes AFTER you have defeated all 4 of his lieutenants so basically it gives you a chance to heal up before attacking the Flyer and then the towers.

The scene in the Baraccuda SF where we free Reichmann from the Longbow occurs after we clear the room and leads to us being transported to the next part of the mission. Forcing us to break out of a 5th column cell to attack.

But the only place the Devs could find to put the trigger for this scene was in a spot where we are surrounded by the bad guys? hehehe THANKS BOYS WE REALLY APPRECIATE THAT! I think my heart rate has gone back down now We can continue!

Tonight it seemed like the hardest part was finding a zone they'd all fit in Adeon. I joined a league and our first move was from RWZ 2 to 3. Well by the time most of us got to RWZ 3 we filled it up and not everyone that had just left 2 could get it. So we decided to try the Midnighter Club and of course a second group was trying to form a BAF as well. And OF COURSE it filled the zone and all our members couldn't get in there either.

We finally managed to get everyone into Pocket D and start the TRIAL. Recruiting 24 members and three moves.. getting the team together and in one spot took longer than the trial!