Wicked_Wendy

I started playing the game using two ATs.. Scrappers and MMs so I have been in almost permanent Scrapperlock for more than 5 years now My phylosophy with almost any character is just keep firing until there is nothing left to attack.. then lets go find some new stuff to attack!

I think one of my FAVORITE moments was on a recent ITF with my Fire/Fire/Flame Blaster at 50 (+1). One the first mission the tank, for some reason, went right instead of left after taking out that first mob and most of the team including me headed down to free the first three Sybils. Well someone managed to aggro the whole room and I stood there with all my toggles going and firing off every attack I had as fast as I could ( I have hasten so that can get pretty fast). More than half the team was on the floor around me and I figured I was going to but was determined to take as many with me as possible. I popped a few inspirations to keep my hela up and before I knew it the only left standing was ME!

Avenger 6 is by far my best DPS character and it suprised even me when I managed to take down the room.. Now I will admit before they fell my team mates helped but a BLASTER that maganed to survive longer than the scrapper? I couldn't help but chuckle and think to myself "I IS AWESOME!" hehehe

No not really. I think the main reason I have SO many characters is once I hit 50 with one and started to run out of contacts I'd retire them and start another because the idea of running nothing but newspaper or radio missions bored me. Granted doing the same set of high level TFs over and over for shards is similar but I look at it as working toward my goal.. being the best I can be with each of my incarnates. And when i get bored or tired of doing the same thing I just switch gears and do something else. My main in my Crab spider and she is also my badger so last night I didnt feel like running yet 'another" Numina TF and did her tip missions ... I picked up one shard and, please don't hate me, had a purple recipe drop that I was able to sell at WW for 405 Million in INF. In the midst of all the Incarnat hype Tessa has continued her badging and spent a little over 4 hours a week ago completing the Doc Q task Force which means that she has now done every TF, SF and Trial presently available in the game. She has every available exploration badge on both the Gold, Red and Blue side and every history Badge as well.

Of course Tessa is not the only character I am running through the incarnate system.. I have 11 Fifty levels currently working through it and seven have their tier 4 in place, all but one are up to tier 3 and are 50 (+1) and even one that hasn't gotten to 51 level status has an uncommon slotted.

I don;t feel any pressure to rush through stuff to be better.. I have seen plenty of TFs that had 50(+1)s, 50s and other players as low as 35 (in Cimerora) all on the same team. So I don't really feel anyone is pressing for NO ONE MY TEAM UNLESS YOU ARE A 51 LEVEL! Frankly I enjoy the idea that my 5o levels have something to work towards and I don't need to keep making new characters to run through the SAME content as I level them. We have two new TFs so far and while they are pretty short its new Incarnate content and with Issue 20 we will pick up 2 new trials .. add in the 45-50 level TFs and SFs (a lot of my characters are Rogues or Vigilantes) and we are getting quite a bit of stuff to do. Heck I almost forgot the two different Hami raids (red and blue side) and the Mothership raids we can also join. Best part is all 11 of my incarnates has an IO in every slot and thanks to kill all runs on TFS and numerous Purple drops I now have three different characters that are billionaires and not one of the others has less than 250 million.

Pressure? heck I am thinking of just bribing all the villains to stay home .. Game over I win! LOL

Basically for the same reason you don't see or can't make VEATS. At the moment Praetoria is designed to be played until level 20 at which point you are supposed to chose either a life on Primal earth as a hero (blue side) or a villain (red side). Since neither Kheldians or Soldiers of Arachnos become available until level 20 it's not feasible for them to exist in Preatoria.. not to mention their canon background stories tie them to Primal earth.

There has been talk here on the forums of coming up with a third Epic Arch Type designed specifically for Praetoria but no word on when, or if, the Devs will produce such a creature.

I have heard that brand new players starting out in Preatoria don't even get the option with their first 20 level character to create a HEAT or VEAT as as second and actually have to create a character in either Paragon or the Rogue Isles and level that one to 20 efore they can make any epic. Howvever since I was playing long before Praetoria came along and had both HEAT and VEAT options available when you still needed to level a character to 50 I have no way to confirm that.. just something I recall seeing here on the forums. Hope that helped answer your question

Actually I sort of feel just the opposite. I have more than twenty level 50 characters on the Virtue Server and most were in semi retirement as I continued to level other characters rather than continue to play old ones. Since the incarnate stuff hit I started with 9 characters I picked from my various Super Groups and began running through the TFS for shards and components. I have increased that number to 11so far and 1 of those is a brand new 50 level Blaster I hit Five O with doing the WST a few weeks back. Ten of the 11 are at 50 (+1) now and 7 have their tier 4 in place. When I get the other 4 to that status I am considering adding one one incarnate so I have three from each of the Sgs I belong to and help run.

My lower levels are suffering a bit but I still pull them out now and then just for a change of pace.. I can only do SO many of the same task Force in one day and since I have 7 days to basically do 11 .. why not play a 20+ level now and then just to see something different?

As for the others .. No I probably won't run multiple TFS to anhance them as well. So they are sort of retired and I may even move some to another server to free up slots on Virtue (next time they let us do it for free of course LOL).

Okay let me state first off I have absolutely nothing against Numina or her TF. Along with any number of other players I occasionally tire of running all over Paragon battling (?) low level villains no contact I have has sent me to battle in ages but it's not bad and can usually be accomplished quickly.

Then there is this week... Now to date I have done 4 and three have been pretty good.. two barely over an hour long and one that took 59 minutes. Then there was the very first one I did today shortly after lunch. When our team mate arrived in Faultline to find and defeat 20 Vahzilok and Banner Event had JUST begun and we all got to stand around waiting for that to end. When we got to the 30 Warriors in Talos a Lady Grey TF had recently ended and the team leader, one of 2 in Talos, pickup up two of three badges for defeating Rikti while we waited so the Warriors would come back. We finally got that done and eventually finished in slightly, VERY VERY SLIGHTLY (1:58), under 2 hours. All those little added things that happen normally on any week are going to be driving Numina TFer crazy all this week.

Then let's add this to the mix..

[Broadcast] xxxxxxx: Kill stealers are pathetic lowlifes.... By the way this comment did not show up in broadcast in Atlas Park where we used to hear such utterings years ago when 1 and 2 levels would street hunt to make levels before hitting the sewers. NO this was in Founders Falls and I saw it as i was standing next to Numina while the team leader built our team. Obviously several earlier Numinas were now fighting one another over RIKTI LOL

The name has been xed out to protect the not so innocent. With dozens of Numinas forming and going on at te same time players are battling over the few villains available in some zones.. Finding 20 Vahzilok in Faultline can be a bit of a choir anytime since they revamped the zone but if there are three TFS all looking for them at once.. It gets NASTY. We all know how tough its gotten to locate Council in Boomtown since the 5TH Coulmn returned.. well try finding 20 to defeat when 3 other teams are there looking as well. Most of the others aren't too bad but it still doesn't mean a couple teams may be fighting over the same Freakshow in CF rather than getting deeper into the zone and farther away from the exit. Heck I even had competition for Banished Pantheon in DA and for Nemesis in Eden today.

And this is day one I can just imagine what tempers will be like over the weekend when the semi casual players join the mad dash for Merits and Notices of the Well.

If any DEV sees this (highly doubtful) here are a couple hints to fix this issue for the future..

1. Change the 20 Vahzilok in Faultline to 20 LOST. We don't hunt them anywhere else and there are a lot more Lost in Faultline these days than Vahz.

2. Change the 20 Council in Boomtown to 20 5th Column OR, even better, allow us to hunt either and get credit. I have seen this elsewhere.. My Crab got credit for defeating Warwloves and Vamprii while on the Barracuda TF and she was taking out ones that belonged to the Column not the Council.

3. How about we just finally get over the idea that we need to drive TF members insane and cut a bunch of the hunts out of this thing and let us get to the actual door missions that ACTUALLY award XP, INF, Salvage and Recipes. All those hunts are nothing more than a legacy to Jack "Statesman" Emmert and his theory that everything had to be a time lag trap because if any of us reached 50 we'd grow bored and leave the game. As evidence I give you the OLD Positron TF which was finally fixed and DOC Q in the Shadow Shard which is bearable now with Ouro Portals and Mission Teleporters but at one time could take as much as 8 hours over two days to complete. Drop some or even ALL of the hunts and here's a WILD AND CRAZY IDEA ..its a TF that is supposed to revolve aroound Devouring Earth so how about adding a couple door missions that actually have us fight ..THEM!

Mission one... Freakshow

Mission two .. Crey

Mission Three.. Nemesis

Mission Four .. COT

Missions 5-19 .... EVERYTHING Imaginable

Mission 20 .. Nemesis and DE (FINALLY)

Mission 21 .. DE

Mission 22 .. DE including Jurassik TF over!

Granted with coordination and no zone event interferance the hunts can be done quickly but they aren't necessary. By Monday of next week players are going to be sick of taking repeated tours of all of Paragon City and they are already getting upset with one another now.

Anyone else have any similar stories to share? this should prove to be a very interesting week. One on One battles in the Arena may see an upward swing as players find the need to punch one another. LOL I personally will be in Cimerora battling Roman traitors long before that happens

I guess it would depend on who you were teaming with. I play with friends and we spend all night joking with each other and cutting each other up. Someone dying and making Vengance an available tool would have and HAS gotten similar treatment to what you did and we were all fine with it. Hey I have several characters with Rise of the Phoenix so when I die in combat I rez and hurt a pile of NPC bad guys in the process... at 50 level debt is just another badge and normally is gone by the time we take out the next mob so who cares.

Now on a PUG with a group of people you don't know .. I could see how someone with a limited sense of humor might take that the wrong way. Personally I don't see it as rude but can see how someone else might. Yeah I Know .. "Gee thanks Wendy that was NO help at all!" lol

If it delays issue 20? NO I agree that only giving us the option for Praetorian Pets sucks but I am not SO upset by the idea I want to delay the next issue just to revamp that. Hopefully we get more options or IF we complain enough we could get a patch 20.5 (?) that adds more.

As for you hoping that future 50+ content will get away from Praetoria I'd have to say you are going to be disappointed. From what is now posted on Issue 20 not only do we get the two new trials, BAF and Lamda, that both take place in Praetoria but one of the two new 20-40 level TFs revolves around Col Duray of Preatoria joining forces with Col Duray of the Skyraiders. Prior to this no one saw any content that involved the Praetorians until after level 40 when you start to get missions from Tina on Peregrine Island. All the end game content seems to be focused around Emperor Cole and his minons.. Apex TF, Tin Mage TF and now the BAF and Lamda Section trials. About the only thing we got that doesn't involve them is the new Cathedral of Pain and you don't have to be anywhere near 50 level to join that.

Sure you can. That's the advantage of having the option for dual builds on any character. One thing you need to keep in mind.. Since your first build is a crab even though the second will be Bane powers your character will still have the crab backpack in place. Once a cab .. always a crab

I still don't particularly enjoy Apex and find Tin mage much more fun but I have learned to fight and run and yesterday managed 5 Apex TFs with only one failure.. Of course that is the first failed WST attempt I have had since week one when on two straight days I managed to wind up teamed with the SAME inept leader that got us into situations in the last mission of the STF where we simply could not finish. The first was due mainly to him insisting on attempting a Master of run with a team composition that clearly wasn't strong enough.. we failed that attempt in mission two and then were forced to go without temp powers the rest of the way. Then when our tank proved a little too squishy to stand toe to toe with LR and it was suggested he hover.. "I don't have fly and I can't use my RAPTOR pack we can't access temps" DUHHHHHHH

One thing I have noticed already this week ... We are into weel #5 and all any character needs to craft two rares and one very rare are four Notices of the well. The RWZ is not jam packed with people desperate to find an APEX and I pulled out my new 50 level Blaster and easily found an STF and an ITF to get enough shards so I could slot her Alpha and then make her my 4th Incarnate to complete the APEX as the WST. A lot of players are simply saying.. Okay Apex is the WST? See you next week when its something that doesn't frustrate and annoy me.

Yeah I know people are saying they love Apex cause its more of a challenge but I think my problem with it is this... I spend more time running around trying to save my own skin than I do actually fighting anything. As I mentioned I did 5 yesterday.. one with my Crab Spider (Set up as an AoE machine), 3 with Blasters and one with my Bots/DM Mastermind. Three guesses which At was on the lone failed attempt... WRONG and WRONG it was the MM. My pets didn't last more than a few seconds and after a while I just stopped even trying to rez them. That left me with 5 attacks (including my Epics) and my DM debuffs. Half the time I couldn't get close enough to BM to even use most of those thanks to the placement of the Blue Clouds of Almost Instant death and when I did manage to find a spot to use one .. as soon as I got off one debuff 3-4 of those stupid flying swords appeared out of no where and I'd face plant AGAIN.

Can ANYONE see how this might be considered annoying by most of the player base? Forget usng half of your powers (which you worked through 50 levels to obtain), Keep moving constantly or risk almost certain death, spend half your time trying to find a spot you can fire off a couple attacks before its time to run away again, oh and JUST to add to the frustration when you do get off an attack HARRY POTTER has sent a thousand magic swords to one shot shot. HAVE FUN!

I have been on Beta previewing Issue 20 and while the BAF is a challenge at least we can actually ATTACK and use all the powers we have there. THAT is infinately more fun to me than the nightmare that APex sends us into. I LOVE mission one but they can take BM and her clouds of death and shove it. LOL I am done for the week and will concentrate on other TFS that give good shards and components.