Shred Monkey

Clearly of your list the one that needs the biggest buff is laziness... cause... um.. well.. *yawn*…. whatever

I predict any attempt to answer this question will be quickly assaulted by members of the community explaining how wrong the post is. For example... Champions Online's combat system is very similar. It even has many nearly identical powers. I basically copied my keyboard setup from here, to there, and back. again.

I don't think the sky is falling, but I do understand the OP's desire to play on a highly populated server. It's just more fun. I would encourage anyone else who feels this way to move to Excelsior as it currently has the highest population already.

Are you park him on a shelf somewhere to avoid accidentally getting another badge?

I agree, but with something a level deeper. I don't like the idea of changing anything so much that we actually lose something from the original game. (ref. "the cottage rule") But if you want to make a new power pool that has a few duplicate powers and some new ones, that sounds great.

You know, I really like the idea of grabbing a few good screenshots of a battle sometime during the TF, and linking them to the team at the end before everyone quits. It seems like a classy thing to do as a member or leader of a TF. It might take some practice of getting good shots where it doesn't seem to all about your toon being center focused on the screen.

I could see this working. You post a build and what you're willing to pay. If someone wants to take you up on it they contact you. Perhaps you negotiate a little and work out the details, then you proceed. This seems very plausible. I wouldn't do it, but I could imagine it happening.

OK... I stated earlier that I don't Power level and stated why. But I feel like standing up for the PL'ers a bit here. I see PL'ing itself as just another mini-game no different than the Pylon Challenges or trying or Speed running TFs. It's not for everyone, but it's not harmful. So some players focus on their little mini-game and optimize builds and missions to maximize XP gained or inf gained per minute. I choose not to play it that game myself, but I don't think it's wrong. Very much like how I choose not to watch professional pickle ball, but I don't think it's wrong.

Imagines... ....hover up to a spawn, lock it down, light it on fire, pull out some marshmallows and hum lightly a drifting melody.

+2 to intelligence. You feel more able to understand and use magic items and spells.

Wow.... I feel smarter after reading this post.

We could team up to take flowers to Marauder's girlfriend.

I am one of those players who like the Praetoria difficulty level. And the story lines are extremely well done. The well crafted moral ambiguity is really jolting. It deserves to be played more. I wish Pretoria was a level 20+ area we could do as an alternate to Talos/PI. As is, when I do a Praetoria toon I get lonely. It's do DFB 4 times to get to level 17 in under an hour, each time with a full team launching from a full zone .....OR..... Do Praetoria for a 3-5 evenings to get to level 20 and possibly never see a single other player the entire time. I wonder if it would be possible to just open up the level ranges to 1-40 and have missions scale to your current level.

I do this as well. If you only have room for 2 slots, I'd drop the common IO, but I rarely see a build where I wouldn't rather have the full 3 slots in endurance and drop something else.

I would support a way to make street sweeping for rewards after 50 more convenient. Currently your best options are DA and RWZ. I don't really like the idea of changing the current low level zones. I do like the idea of being able to exemplar down by yourself. (You can do this by starting an Oro Arc now, but that's a little unwieldy)

Radio missions work for this. If you see a group running Radio missions in PI at +4x8, they're usually picking council missions whenever possible. They're not giant maps filled with many tight little groups like some kind of XP buffet, but they are quite farm-able.

+4 Posi sounds like a fun challenge. But to do it with a random pick-up group who didn't know what's what you were doing and had time to plan accordingly? That'd just be a special kind of hell.

Power creep in this game was paced well I think, but the problem is that the new endgame content that should have come in 2012-2013 got cut off. Thus we have the increase in player strength, but not the increase in endgame content to follow. Initially, I didn't like how the incarnate powers are specifically built to blur the lines between ATs, but they've grown on me. They're not as overpowered as they first sounded. As for IO's. No doubt, without the IO's system I wouldn't play this game. The IO system makes this game a min/max'ers heaven. It's the only game I've found where (on a slow day at work) I can spend all day with my spreadsheets and builders playing this game without ever logging in. I've never had a problem finding my own little "challenges" and mini-games to keep my interest (e.g. 'must use powerset XYZ and not use Hasten'). I find it odd that you've picked out Ill/Rad being able to solo AVs and GMs as the problem. That's the powerset combo that has the reputation of doing it the easiest. Are you aware that you can solo GMs with blasters and Stalkers, too?

Well, at least that's a better response then making up your own reason for me saying what I said and then telling me that reason was stupid. So... let's see.. first you make up something I didn't say, and then attack me for being "stingy" and arrogance for thinking my build is too good to share. Pretty close to the definition of a strawman argument. Then when I point out that what you attacked was not my reason, you say that my stated reason was "stupid" all reasons for not sharing builds are "dumb." Would you care to actually defend that position with something other than name calling and mean words? Or don't you have anything of real substance to say?

You seriously didn't read my statement as to why I don't share my build. I never said I keep it secret because I think it's good. I didn't even say it was good,

I would make my toon bald with a blue arrow tattood on the top of my head and put on an orange robe.

So... before I start, I honestly don't care what other people do in this game. Happy to have you here, go have fun. But you asked how we felt, and here's my answer. I will never be power-leveled. I will never power-level someone else. I'll never do a fire farm... or even go to the AE building in it's current state. I'll also never share my builds. And here is why I won't do it. You see, to me, doing these things is basically playing the game for you. I honestly feel like I am stealing from you if I PL you because I'm taking away the very thing that makes this game a game. I had a huge amount of pleasure and satisfaction in creating my build, why would I take that away from you by giving you the end result of my work? If you want to be Power-leveled... if you want someone else to make a build for you ...if you buy gold, or beg for gold, then I really don't understand why are you playing. Why not just watch someone else play on YouTube or Twitch. (and why do people do that? anyway...) I'll very gladly share any and all information I've learned about this game. I'll help anyone complete any content they ask for help on. Or give them advice on how to win without my help. I'll tell you what I do to when I need influence. This is helping you achieve the fullest and most rewarding experience possible in this game. But I won't go so far as to play your game for you. That cheapens the experience and strips from you the opportunity to enjoy this amazing game as much as I do. Again, that's how I feel. But you go do whatever you want. It's fine, really. I honestly don't care. Edited, just to add this... Most people who PL others for money or for free are basically just doing it to stroke their ego. They're saying "look how amazing I am. I can level you to 50 in a few hours... I'm awesome." That's fine.. congratulations, you won the game you're playing. Good for you.

THANks....let me look up the Sentinal version of Regen quick because I recently read it has an abosrb power and I wasn't aware of this.... and.. .fail. But hey, it's still better than nothing. Also,,, Gadgetry and Utility Belt power pools? That's cool sounding. What's the story there?

If this already exists, please direct me to it. I would really love to see an online resource that lists all powers and all data for every power. This information exists (for the most part) in game using the details button, and it's also in Mid's Reborn, etc. But I really want to be able to search and export data from a website format. Paragon Wiki and similiar websites have general descriptions, but I'm looking for damage/recharge/activation time/endurance cost, etc details for every power that I can access with a web browser. Does this exist? If not, what do you think? Can we drum up support and interest and get it done?

I guess my only issue is that it is such a binary all or nothing type system. If you're a melee toon, status effects are just ignored. Before I started playing blasters, I did't even know what badguys used status effects after level 10-12. That doesn't feel like good game design. But I can't say I feel strongly about this subject. It's a non-issue for the most part, but if we're talking about it, I do think it could be better.