Greycat

I've really wanted to like traps. And I normally do - at least solo. I mean, come on, doing Lady Grey's mission from Ramiel to unlock alpha - Waltz in, take several minutes to set up trip mines where the Rikti ambushes come in or where the portals spawn in the end room, *trigger* said ambushes/portals, watch them dissolve. Fun. On a team... not so much. I might get one trip mine out before the spawn is being engaged, and they're usually dead before the animation finishes. And time bomb... I placed one on live that I'm still waiting to have go off.

Heh. Yeah. My fire/storm 'troller on live almost forgot what that blue bar was for a long time.

Didn't notice this earlier. The NPC you mention isn't ... exactly separated into their old selves. They even say "I'm not (Warshade's name, which I'm forgetting.) I'm not me. I don't know who I am." (Paraphrased.) Which - more headcanon for me than "lore says this," though I think lore kind of leans this way, too - is more "This is the result of being forcibly torn apart" than "this is what happens to any separated host," since after all the host can force out the Kheldian with enough willpower... which they wouldn't have if they weren't "them," I tend to play mine as two conjoined but still distinct beings - you *can* talk to "the Kheldian side" in them. I've had them partially separate so one could keep watching Star Trek after their host fell asleep, or have the host in a coma while they (both) recovered (and they were able to be talked to, eventually.)

2 and 3 I don' tmind. 1... ehhhhh. 1 is shady to me. Though I'll admit 1 tends to annoy me most due to some arguments on live where the person bought them low and posted them at "what they're supposed to sell at." To which my reaction is generally "that's not for you to determine." And, frankly, I usually got some fairly irritating responses. Hypothetical example. HC has an event. It results in me getting 10 ATOs just through playing over the course of that week. I can use a few, and I do. I have five left over, no real interest in them or in converting them. (Definitely hypothetical. With all my alts, I can use them, but that's neither here nor there.) I look at the market, they're usually going from 6-10m. All the ATOs have bids sitting there waiting. I decide to list them at 750,000. Why? Well, for me these have no "worth." I did nothing special for them - I played, they dropped. I didn't farm, I didn't have to spend anything to craft them. Besides that, there are obviously people that want them that don't like that price for whatever reason and, what the heck, why not let someone else enjoy them. Maybe it's one of their few characters and they don't play often, I don't know, but I want players to get them for- well, *playing.* What I don't want, and what would annoy me, is someone just getting it because "it shouldn't be that cheap" and just turning around and relisting it at 6-10 million. And no, I'm not kidding about having that exact reason thrown at me. Usually followed by a variant of "the market will decide prices," which ... is somewhat hypocritical, since it didn't just decide that price, someone planning on flipping it did. Now, I'm not saying that's why everyone who does so does it - I'm not psychic and if I were I'd have better things to look into. On live, that conversation (paraphrased) pretty much soured me on people playing the market. (Here, honestly, I don't care. *shrug* Do your thing. Enjoy.) And if I'm being really honest, what irked me most were the people seeming to brag about it more than the action itself. "I made X billion by flipping!" is annoying. "I made X billion by buying, converting and reselling" doesn't, since (a) there's some cost to the person doing it and (b) they're - in theory at least - puttin gtime into figuring out *what* to convert to, so there's a degree of... "earning it," I suppose. But, like I said. Here, I don't care. I've had enough happen IRL that the most ire it gets from me now is a head shake and a "whatever."

I wouldn't think reopening a new thread as soon as the old one on the same subject was closed is really a good idea....

They're situational. *shrug* Nothing wrong with that.

A mechanic I *believe* only my Warshades have: Varying something by the rank of the target. Notably in Stygian Circle. (I know people sometimes think the extracted essence is "stronger" if you do it on a boss, but it's not.) Healing is stronger the higher rank the defeated enemy is.

When would that be? People have gone to war over these symbols and what they represent. I highly doubt people get upset over, say, a pawprint, a musical note or the Vanguard logo.

There are a good number of flags that definitely don't use symbols we have in game.(Simple, common one - a banner or ribbon with a logo. More complex - Arabic language.) And coats of arms can get pretty complex, even with "common" shapes. It would be a nightmare - and that's before considering how to display them on a character. Yes, many flags are simple shapes. Many are not. Honestly, given how touchy and passionate people can get about any symbol, I'd say - as much as I'd generally like to see them - keeping them out of the game would probably be a good idea. There are just too many pitfalls, from "why is my country not included" to "I want to use this historic flag, why is it not included" and ... just any number of other flag-represented groups. It seems like a good way to really annoy some Christians (of different sects,) people who want the Confederate flag, people who want the Nazi flag... even those who want less controversial but still unrepresented flags. No, let's leave them out of the game.

Nobody goes south from the ferry in PI, it seems... Nice little out of the way island.

I see them with some frequency. Not DFB-frequency, but it's definitely not rare. (And I tend to run the hollows on a good number of characters. When I'm tired of it, I run the KR arcs. Nothing really sanity-breaking about the Hollows.)

I was on a team a few weeks ago (might have been a TF) when we had this happen. I'm not sure what combination of things happened, but we had an enemy held - and it was being "dragged around" behind one of the other players. (No, we didn't have anyone with Mind using TK on it. It was definitely held and changed direction as the player moved.)

Power creeeeeeep! ... actually, I think the fact it would keep you from getting higher tier bonuses as well as... "blanking" an enhancement slot would balance out concerns there. Maybe. Would it do the same if, say, you had three of one set, one of the other - would both get "promoted" one bonus tier?

No thank you. I like keeping my mez protection even after being detoggled by a sapper.

May want to see if you can do something with that text color. Personally, I'm wary of this. One of those "power creep" things. Of course, I rarely take Hasten and never intentionally perma anything, so I don't have much of a dog in this race other than being wary of said power creep.

Are they paying you for your time to play the game? If not, then what you have or do not have slotted is none of their business.

I think size is the issue for that. Jade Spider, I think, is the largest thing we fight and its targeting always seems really weird to me.

I think that depends on just what you mean, since looking at min/maxing could take it two different ways. 1 - "This lets me reach the cap due to the power itself" - IE, Hasten, Tough or Weave being the most popular examples here. 2 - "I use these pool powers for mules to let me reach X bonus." Both can be true, but they don't necessarily draw the same attention. (Hasten, for example, being popular in the "This needs nerfing!" (which it doesn't) category, moreso than "I take CJ and hover as two more places for a LOTG global recharge global." And I think both approaches tend to be used in those min/max builds. (Of course, the third meaning is the "poolboy" build which ... as much as it can, just takes pool powers, but I don't think that's what you mean. 🙂 ) Either way, the direct answer, as far as I'm concerned, is yes. Pools add more avenues to build, rather than "You are a fighter, you have these powers by this level" in so many other games. It may seem like min/maxing is dictating "these powers are musts," but that's just from it being more.. vocal and obvious. --- For my own answer, I had been considering how concealment can be mostly replaced by temporary powers at little to no cost. And it can - stealth by a quick patrol in bloody bay, invisibility by the same in Siren's, even Phase in Warburg, not to mention empowerment stations. (I want to say there's a temp for an AOE placate, but it's escaping me right now.) However, looking at it further, "replacement" by those is questionable. If you're not going to use them a lot? The temp powers are great. They last 30 minutes (1 hour for the empowerment station,) don't take up a power slot and just work. Their cost, of course, *is* that duration - they can go away (and sometimes at a bad time,) and while you can recharge them if you're in level for that zone, if you're not, they're gone, period. The pool powers don't disappear, of course, though they cost power and pool picks - but can be enhanced, for the most part, helping out the build in other ways. Plus, at its simplest, concealment does what it says on the box, so you can't really complain about that. So, to me, concealment is generally fine (offering at least one power that can't be gotten through a temp, as far as I recall.) And it's pretty flexible as far as choices in how to obtain the effect, pool or temp power.

Ehhhhhh... yes and no. I mean, when we went F2P on live it didn't turn into a cesspool - we had people who had been playing for *years* after all, the community was less tolerant of this sort of thing - we had a reputation of being a great, inclusive community (who also looked incredible.) As a *community,* we need to fight for that reputation, bring it back and enforce it - just stand up and say "No, this is not acceptable."

I think all the time we *haven't* had this game has caused issues with the community. We used to be *much* better than this. Geez. If you have the time, approximately? Bring it up to the GMs attention. This sort of thing should NOT be tolerated here, period, and yes, people doubling down after being asked to stop? Suspension for a few days, at least. Preferrably more. I don't care if it's because you're black, LBGTQ, or just named Karen (or anything else,) it's not funny and not cool at all. Edit: No, I don't play on Torchbearer.

Were you the one asking about this on Everlasting? (I'm guessing so, mostly curious to see if someone else is mentioning this as well.) Quick test, took a new blueside character to null, said make me a villain, went red right away. Switched back, UI went blue right away. (I am running the 64 bit client.)

Hmm. OK, no bites on that one. So... this should go right across the top. (Maybe a touch of pale yellow in that, at least on my screen....) Newly Risen Moon.

I'm not sure I completely support throwing a gate there - primarily because of the out of the way-ness - but I have no real argument against it, either. (Also wouldn't mind Galaxy getting to be a real zone again.) Mostly wanted to say "Nice presentation." 🙂 (I kind of miss the Paragon Times.)

Mmm. Yeah, I think the merits might be an issue with "do this as a task force." I do enjoy joining GM hunting parties on occasion, though. I don't think I'd mind either a temporary "GM hunting" ... pseudo-TF, which gives alerts and locations for an hour (and pushes some GM spawns, of course.) Or an actual TF where "The GMs are agitated and attacking," where it's instanced and, perhaps, you have to also stop whatever's summoning them - which would have the advantage of not disrupting *normal* GM spawns.

I wouldn't argue. *shrug* Not that I have many, I don't Hami much.