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And now you have to wait until you can either recruit enough people to try again and hope you don't DC again or find another team to try again and hope you don't DC again. Because nothing screams fun in a game more than trying to do something and constantly having to start over without getting to the end through no fault of your own. Edit: Or what about friends with very limited play time but have something come up during the TF/SF, such as one of their children got hurt, so you all pause the TF/SF until the next time they are on, only now you have to completely start over and hope they don't have another family emergency during their very limited play time?

Yeah, this works for me. You've got my support. 👍

This is going to get several thumbs down, but.... When you are sneaking, the last thing you should want to be doing is 'showing off your costume'. Even to teammates. Stealth isn't about having eye catching looks for your friends, acquaintances, and enemies to be oohing and awing over. When you want others to marvel and be amazed at your costume design? Stop being sneaky. When you want to be sneaky, remember that you are trying to not be seen.

I oppose this part. With the frequency with which I've been disconnected from the game or someone I was teamed with was disconnected because of our connection, being forced out of the TF/SF and so not being able to finish what we started when we get back on seems unfair to me. (Edit: Actually, I oppose a few other parts too, but some of those, like the auto-remove someone from their solo mission I'm kind of but not really sure that can't be done. So the auto-remove others just because they had a DC is going to be my focus.)

I actually find myself doing that a lot... normally because the reward table is offering an inspiration or something else I don't have room for, don't need, or don't care about. Edit: Though I should also point out if we have the option/ability to, I won't give others Patrol XP either unless they specifically tell me they would like me to do so.

Okay, I'm not even going to ask how in hell that works or what exactly she is doing, but thank you for letting me know where I could find it.

Or maybe you can explain it so the rest of us can follow along?

Okay, this is a derailment and I apologize for it, but can someone please explain what you mean by changeling? I thought it was just another way of saying tri-form, but this discussion shows it obviously is not.

You can already do this by making an Invulnerability character or a Willpower character or pick a subtle armor set character and using the stone skin textures. Problem solved. Here's another fun experiment. Try sneaking around when you are trying to show off your costume to everyone. It doesn't work. The people you don't want seeing you see you because you are out there showing off your costume. The fade is replicate our characters trying not to be seen even when they sneak down a nice wide, empty passage full of enemies that by all rights should have no problems seeing us for not being invisible. You can achieve this by going with a more subtle armor set that mechanically does what you think your character should be doing and using the appropriate aura for the effect you want.

So you wouldnt run it twice/join just because/helping someone elses group and get a little something? What does stating a reward isn't worth selecting have to do with whether or not someone will run something multiple times to help others or just because their friends want to do it? My stance on Patrol XP as reward is a given. Or at least I expect it to be so by this point in time. More sources of something I wish never existed and wish that I had the option to disable from my own experience? No thanks.

Then 1st step is fixing that.

Well, I don't have a stake in this debate, so my comments don't really matter. However, these are my thoughts: 1) If the data is available and human form only Kheldians are only 1/2 as good as other Kheldians, per @Laucianna's tests if the data can be provided, and that is not a strictly damage comparison which will always favor Nova form to the best of my knowledge, then maybe the baseline powers need another look. (To me at least, the human form should be somewhere in the middle of the Nova form and the Dwarf form for capability, but that is just me.) 2) I think the Nova and Dwarf forms should keep their transformations. It is part of their lore. 3) I think a new EAT that works along the lines of the shown Vixen clips would be a novel extrapolation of the Kheldian idea. Though I think the 'transformation' for such an EAT should maintain the transformation's form as an outline, ghost image, or other maintained effect to show it is in use. Again, I don't play Kheldians, so I have no stake in this debate, those are just my thoughts on the matter.

There were 2 of us. My Dominator and her Beast Mastery MM. However, the 2 of us were almost never anywhere near each other as we worked on different parts of the map looking for the Warhulks. I was at long range and nothing was reacting to my presence, and she was nowhere near me or the spawn each time. There were no sniper class mobs on the map. And each time I went to snipe a Council Eclipse Nightwolf Champion, Galaxy Adjutant, or a support mob near them, the entire spawn would turn to face me at long range and immediately run into long range for their attacks and start attacking me while my snipe was building up. However, they never interrupted my snipe, even when they fired before me, despite me not having anything to reduce the snipe's interrupt time and the snipe being the long form version. If it helps any, they never reacted at the start of the snipe. I'm not entirely sure, but I think they were reacting after a short form snipe time. Edit: I should also point out that after we cleared the map and exited the mission, I could snipe foes normally again.

I'm running through the Brickstown Safeguard and every time I go to snipe an enemy at range, they turn and charge me before I even fire my snipe. I'm running an Elec'/Elec' Dominator and the snipe is Zapp.

"Feels fine to me" is not a substantive argument, and does nothing to add to the conversation. OP specifically wants Shapeshifting powers to have a human animation to cater to players like you, who want to play human-only. This is done purely to give players more options and as a benefit, because human-only is that weak, and downright objectively the weakest AT in the game. Do you have hard data that can be verified and validated for human form only Kheldians being 1/10th as strong?

I logged in the game and checked before posting. And I kept the game open to alt-tab to so I could verify as I typed the post. Those 4 powers all have honest to goodness bubbles that encapsulate the character. It's just those bubbles go away after the filler field fills in. (Edit: And before anyone accuses me of saying permanent bubbles for the character should not be added to the set as alternate animations, that is no what I am saying at all. I am saying that Energy Aura already has actual bubble fields around the character. They can just be tweaked to not disappear after the animation has started. And additional bubbles can be added.)

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And if you want a set that has a more localized force field effect, then there is Shield Defense with the Vanguard Shield or the Elemental Shield: Energy Shield.

Energy Aura is basically what you are talking about. It even includes bubbles. (Edit: Kinetic Shield, Power Shield, Energy Drain, and Overload have bubble effects that go transparent with a lingering filler field.) (Edit again: And it uses both defense and resists.)

Odd. I never got a Valentine tip from doing that mission. And you can still do it through Ouroboros.

Yes, the Valentine tips. Prior to today's check, if I had any Valentine tips left over from the event, and I always did, they could not be done until the event started the following year. This was a discussion held on another thread, on the Bug Reports forum, where someone was posting that the tips were bugged because (s)he/they had tips but could not do them. And once upon a time, you could not do them outside of the event.

Mids is an excellent guide for building your characters, but you should never use it as your primary reference.

Just logged in and checked. Yes, apparently Valentine tips have been changed to be completable year round. (They used to not. [Edit: And you can check the forums to see that. There was at least one thread complaining that the player had Valentine tips but they were greyed out for doing.]) So despite my preference, I have no leg to stand on to oppose the OP.

The Valentine tips stop being doable when the event ends. So if you have any not completed Valentine tips and the event ends, you can't do them until the next event. I don't remember if the Malleus Mundi tips stop working after the event though.

It is in my experience. Regardless of whether I recruit for it or any of my friends recruit for it, 9 times out of 10, we recruit for almost an entire hour and no one ever has any interest in joining. Even when we make sure there are no Mo runs or raids going on. It took me I think almost 2 months of trying to find anyone willing to do it before I finally got the Ninja Monkey badge. And it was only because two of my friends that don't get to play very often both happened to be on at the same time so we had a group of 4 to run it (edit: without having to recruit for it).