Glacier Peak

Blarf just needs a nibble! No need to keep being defeated over and over.

Issue 28, Page 1 is live!

Yippee! Edit: Minor stuff! Badge Art for Protector of Paragon City and Deep Strike Agent are the same: Should be: 'Protector of Paragon City / Traitor to Paragon City' 'Strike Force Commander / Deep Strike Agent' Time Bound Artificer Dialog error on number 6: It should say 15 minutes, per the patch notes: When running 'Only Love Can Hurt Like this' - Ashling Corlett (Level 41-49) via Ouroboros, the flash back Level shifts the player to Level 44 instead of Level 49 (the max Level range of the story arc). See image below: Also, is this an @Widower reference or...?

What! Was it really in game?? Are you referring to the thing that players used when the game stopped existing? I think it was called Icon? Edit: Oops, just reread and saw you said it was Icon Costume Creator.

Well done. Tangentially related, I wish I could see how much inf I've spent in game.

The technology for this, as far as I could tell, doesn't exist beyond seeing powers animate - but I think it would be pretty nifty to be able to click a drop down menu and select an emote to have a character use while in the character creation or costume screen. How I imagine it, well sort of like how a player can make the background screen darker or brighter by clicking the buttons - it would work as a button that shows a menu or drop down of emotes.

I got a Caleb and Eochai Mini Pet Recipe today. No farming, just regular GM hunting. The guy on my team, (there was two of us) actually both got a Caleb drop off the same GM defeat. So, I confirmed the fix worked.

This reminds me of one of my first suggestion threads I posted here. I remember someone responded with (I'm paraphrasing) - are the current zones full on even one server? Why do you need more zones?

It's really worth a look - like I said, once you get the hang of the correct dialog choices, you can really fly through the story arc. I can comfortably do it in 8 minutes, but my best times are sub 6 minutes.

This is not exactly right. Only Adamastor and Ghost of Scrapyard have a cooldown timer on their extra Reward Merits and Incarnate Threads. Take a look at my guide:

What's the incentive for the rest of the player base? Right now this suggestion appears to appease your desires for fun, but misses the rest of the discussion. PvP has no unique rewards. Defeating another player provides no tangible unique in game rewards. The player might get some dopamine, but that's outside the game's rewards. There are PvE rewards in PvP zones, like temp pet summons or Nukes, maybe a PvP invention recipe, but that's it for rewards.

Same. Like you were saying, Reed's inventions being ahead of his time.

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Another example of Mender Derek causing untold damage to the time stream. Now we can't even keep track of important dates or events. Thanks @Mender Derek!

DOUBLE HEADER! [1100 PT / 1200 MT / 1300 CT / 1400 ET] Saturday, July 27th AND Sunday, July 28th - Arena All-Star: Back by popular demand, I will be running the Arena All-Star accolade badge on both Saturday and Sunday this week. Tournament Victor and Pentad Victor take the most time, so we will be doing these first and once everyone has those two, we will proceed to the other three Arena badges. If you want to switch badgers after each attempt, you are more than welcome as needed. We will meet inside the Pocket D Arena area, I'll be there 15 minutes early to start inviting people. ***I'm locking the player count at 8 for each run to ensure I can respect the two hour time estimate for players who sign up.*** If you are willing to wait until after folks are done with their badge run, I can invite you after and get them. Arena Victor: Win any rated or unrated match in the Arena Arena Duelist: Win a rated or unrated Duel match in the Arena Tournament Victor: Win a rated or unrated Swiss Draw match in the Arena Arena Survivalist: Win a rated or unrated Battle Royale match in the Arena Pentad Victor: Win a rated or unrated Pentad or Septad match in the Arena Arena All-Star: You've earned the Arena All-Star badge by winning all of the above types of Arena matches Sign-Up for Saturday, July 27th - Badge Run: @Glacier Peak Glacier Peak - Ice/Cold Corruptor @Midnyte Forever Midnight - Night Widow @lemming Nikita Tesla - Blaster @Phantom_Hornet Phantom Hornet - Brute Purple Enchantress Precognitive Epsilon Sign-Up for Sunday, July 28th - Badge Run: @Glacier Peak Glacier Peak - Ice/Cold Corruptor @Midnyte Ocean Goddess - Water/Regen Sentinel [RESERVED] Cece Milrop Lingering Sickness

Looking at City of Data, the Nemesis Staff Prestige Attack power... the Animation Time Before Effect is 0.767 seconds and the Root Time is 2.5 seconds. It looks like nearly two full seconds elapse before the player can move freely.

Comics do this all the time. It is a one trick pony and once a writer makes that part of the story, every character developing moment is meaningless to the audience because it can be retconned or undone thanks to timey wimey.

I played this game for a bit with a buddy, but lost interest in the game when I found the story lacking and I was already burnt out from the massive open world survival sort of genre.

Dr. Stribbling's story arc 'Troubled Times' can be completed in 6 minutes (once you get the hang of the dialog choices) and awards 20 Reward Merits upon completion (without diminishing returns). That's 200 Reward Merits per hour if you want to chase those Merits. https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Dr._Stribbling

So much to lose, so little to gain - going the route of post-origin story and set in the past by 60 years. Giving the studio an off ramp if it bombs? What's the angle here? Time travel makes character development irrelevant and life and death meaningless from a story perspective. I'm calling it now - the Marvel Cinematic Universe will get it's universe rebooted and then younger actors will take over and the cycle will repeat - just like in the comics.

Kheldons? Like Kheldian Mafia bosses? "I'm gonna make you a lobster you can't refuse"

Without straying too far off topic.... Infrigidate is an incredible power in an incredible powerset. Even without taking in to account the flexibility of damage procs (or the fantastic Achilles -res proc), this power is an out of the box permanent debuff on target (recharges in 15 seconds, debuffs lasts 20 seconds). It drops a target's base defense by -31% on Defenders (-25% on Corruptors and Controllers, and -18% on Masterminds) - and this is enhanceable even further. It's secondary effects also floor the Recharge Rate of attacks by -70% or more. Then there's the -22.5% Fire Damage Strength or more that is particularly helpful in the early levels fighting Hellions or Igneous enemy mobs. Finally, it has tremendous -MovementSpeed debuffs that help keep runners in place instead of down the hall. And it is the best power in the game at Level 1. No other power is better at Level 1. If a character is Level 1 and they have this power, they are better than any other character at Level 1. Fight me. 😄

Small plug for my weekly Indomitable Badge Runs - for anyone who needs the Arena All-Star Accolade, I am running a badge event to acquire all needed badges. First come first serve, however, I will stay until everyone who signs up gets the accolade! PvP Badges Week 3: The Arena badges are next for the final PvP week! Tournament Victor and Pentad Victor take the most time, so we will be doing these first and once everyone has those two, we will proceed to the other three Arena badges. If you want to switch badgers after each attempt, you are more than welcome as needed. We will meet inside the Pocket D Arena area, I'll be there 15 minutes early to start inviting people. ***I'm locking the player count at 8 for sign up purposes for this run to ensure I can respect the two hour time estimate for players who sign up. Anyone who is willing to wait until after all the other folks who signed up early have acquired the badge are welcome to join up after. Arena Victor: Win any rated or unrated match in the Arena Arena Duelist: Win a rated or unrated Duel match in the Arena Tournament Victor: Win a rated or unrated Swiss Draw match in the Arena Arena Survivalist: Win a rated or unrated Battle Royale match in the Arena Pentad Victor: Win a rated or unrated Pentad or Septad match in the Arena Arena All-Star: You've earned the Arena All-Star badge by winning all of the above types of Arena matches