[Focused Feedback: New Player Experience (NPE) Improvements]

• Exploration Badges

  • Now grant 1 bar of Patrol XP (instead of a scaling amount of XP based on your level)

what are the rules with this?

do they stop at a certain level?

is it each exploration badge or just a zone-cluster or whatever its called?

do you only get the  patrol exp with the tip?

 

im fine with having over 500 exploration badges because thats 50 levels worth of rested exp and or maybe lots of vet levels or maybe downloading that maps addon so you can hit up exploration badges while on a task force on the way to missions really maxing gains per run im not hyyperventalating typing this

[[OPEN BETA] Patch Notes for February 1st, 2024 - Issue 27, Page 7 - Build 3]

• Exploration Badges

  • Now grant 1 bar of Patrol XP (instead of a scaling amount of XP based on your level

Is this per accolade or per badge?

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Is there a level limit on this?  because 50s with a few hundred bars of patrol exp might be a little much.

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[Fold Space Dilemma]

@Ghost, @Greycat

 

I meant to say Moonwalk

[Still dying at 50 on 4x8 as fire/spine tanker. CoH build provided!]

Issue 27 page 5 introduced -defense to Fiery Melee sword attacks.  So if you are running an old farm thats probably whats getting you

[Redside... Best side? Right??]

On 1/19/2024 at 10:48 PM, Dev Unitas said:

 I'd simply like to ask why people personally think this is

Whats it called when freshly hatched ducklings attach to a human due to first introduction?  I wish Imprintation was a word.  Because thats it.

 

In World of Warcraft people love Classic to death, less like TBC and less WOTLK

In second anecdote people loved the vanilla and didnt care as much as chocolate because chocolate leads to marshmallows... or strawberry.

 

-- enter tldr zone --

 

I do not care at all about stories in MMOs. I always forget, misremember or only remember certain bits like Countess Crey having visible nipples_through_clothing and getting killed and replaced by a lookalike.  That said I do not remember what I did with The Radio or the Television or the dude in the cartruck in any amount of detail without googling it.  Wanna know the only SSA I can recall offhand?  The one with the fake nem farms.  Thats it.  Oh and the one where superman dies

 

I love MMOs for the grind and rpg growth feelgoodtimes.  Hitting up a nice smooth non-speed synapes at level 15 but leaving at level 28.  or doing it as the wst on a 50 that has 8-10 bars of patrol exp to gain a vet level, a nice chunk of merits and an alpha rare thing whos name escapes me now.  Or taking my twinked bard to slaughter goblins for 6 or so hours solo singing songs of pacify, haste and crippling.  or logging on my wookie sharpshooter with a bio-engineered rancor pet dicking around Rori harvesting some good spawning leather while it lasts.

 

I LOVE task forces for that same feeling of character growth, for both experience and currency, but Red Side is built for skipping and speeding everything as well as overdesigned horse shit that borders anti-fun territory.  As a mastermind main I look at every single SF with disdain and disgust.

 

Virgil:  that outdoor mission to find the construction workers is just a pain in the ass due to being CoT debuffing to hell or teammates blowing it up by the time im done animating my summons.  On top of that the last mission was not built for masterminds in mind.  That one slow moving flaming testicle preferring to stay in the burning hot pet-fear causing lava is enough to why even do this WST when heroside has more plain jane ones.

Mantis: that last mission on the boat with fire patch and toxic patch spitting turrets that cause pets to run in all directions including the Z-axis to just fucking die

Kal: i dont know why we still have unlockable task forces in the future but we do

Renault: the last missions water spouts just throw minions everywhere.  and when their AI takes over to climb back up they will run into another spout.  basically taking the pets out of the fight

And again with the final room crap:  ice mistrals rube goldburg room of resummoning

 

And lastly, i fucking love mayhem missions so much.  safeguards suck.

And im not going to get into the unfun villain groups from the -resist stacking goldbrickers and wailers to the superfast super accurate slags only because i got bored typing

["All Natural" Mercs Build: A setup for solo heartbreak?]

i guess use a backpack of some sort and try out /sonic

[Revive Galaxy City]

boomtown, eden and thirdname was here first

[Fold Space Dilemma]

360 and walk away from a herding tank

[More backpacks!]

yes

squarelike leather backpacks

single shoulder backpacks

those tactical cylinder looking ones

animal backpacks

two straps connected to an ammo crate

something anything other than just the school backpack

[A possible solution to the kheldian revamp]

on one hand i have a thousand or so posts about minor things that i would like changed

on the other hand the kheld vanity posts are getting to me

[How often is having more than four points of KB protection actually a factor?]

4pt will protect you from most of the games knockback

8pt will protect you from higher level things (+2 or so) like 5th/council robots or rocket/grenadeers

12pt is a little overkill because if you get knocked back by something it was most likely designed to knock anyone down.

 

that said my ranged do fine with 4pt

and my dark/fire armor melee do fine with 8pt

i dont do 12pt anymore on recent wave of respecs

[Focused Feedback: Role Diversity Bonus]

Compromise post:  One person cannot fill more than one role at a time.

 

Melee - St

Ranged

Support

 

actually i got bored typing this out as it hurts mastermind mondays.  either by denying them a prism or taking along a token melee guy

[Focused Feedback: Role Diversity Bonus]

2 minutes ago, lemming said:

Usually means someone is not paying attention to any sort of instructions.  It's a single badge, but when you usually have to run the DFB twice because someone couldn't read...

My point was anytime there is a carrot on a stick, no matter the quality of the carrot, someone will go above and beyond to get it and go just as beyond if they dont get it.

I also do not know if this Class Checker thing still works if someone leaves/quits mid-TF

[Focused Feedback: Role Diversity Bonus]

This makes me slightly fearful because I just like inviting the first 7 people that send a tell.  or just joining someone else without an AT resume

oh but kelika2 its just a small reward lmao

people still freak out in dfb when a cadaver dies.

some folks still think the death ticker and timer in TFs mean something

 

this little carrot on a stick really is striking fear into me of backseat gamers getting mad over a prismatic and i dont see what new people will gain from this

dont be the wrong AT at the time of recruitment?

be what the rest of the team wants you to be for loot?

go away sorry, others want loot

 

there are few group leaders as it is and putting this added level of pressure on them for a prismatic sounds worse than the holy trinity

 

even looking at the requirements makes me grind my teeth since both of my khelds dont even have dwarf form anymore

it takes careful planning to have a fully ranged dominator

you have to go out of your way as a controller to not be classified as a support character

the base damage on khelds non-squid attacks are so low

what is my Wolf Spider build with a Bane power(buildup) classified as?

 

So unless ATs spread out more to cover more notches this sounds like a bad idea and it just gets confusing with build specific stuff like all epic ATs

Like, everyone LOVED the Tanker melee damage dmg/range increase patch

Scrappers still have taunt and some taunt auras.  oh and khelds dont have a taunt aura still

Most people select Corrs because of their secondaries.  While Ice Shields and chill doesnt sound very support-like people love that fire n forget crap

argh beast. ninja and necro masterminds

 

maybe instead of using Archetype symbols you can change that up to the character creation symbols of Melee, Ranged, Support and maybe Tank

[Focused Feedback: Arsenal Assault]

Change Heavy Blow to Shocklance.  Basically Bayonet with a Taser.

Or whip out the old blaster Taser animation

I was playing Tribes earlier and it just came to me for some reason.

[Focused Feedback: Various Power Updates]

Can Storm Cell move faster?

Jet Streams repel is the one thing stopping me from making more Storm alts.  And even if the Repel got removed there are still debuffs and damage effects lost from a slow moving Storm Cell

 

And if that cannot happen, how about an animation trimming + recharge reduction in Storm Cell to force it around.

[[OPEN BETA] Patch Notes for January 19th, 2024 - Issue 27, Page 7 - Build 1]

Oh god I have so many Mind Control characters to rebuild and make.

[Hello! A rare post from me, consider it a wishlist for 3 powersets and an overhaul of 1 :)]

The only thing I want changed in Storm Blast is removing the -repel in Jet without having to wait on Storm Cell to move

[Account bound Accolades..]

2 hours ago, InvaderStych said:

 

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

I dunno man.  You took my "dont freak out" (nut) to a level it did not need to go to.

Dont throw quotes in a glass house

[Remove Containment from Controllers]

Do it too much and why even dominator AT

Leave it as it is and your only option is a Fire/Trick troller for damage

 

Few complained about tanker damage since their buff, and they are just supposta tank according to old MMO/RPG mentalities

[How do you deal with MA's lack of AOE?]

Fiery Aura.

[Account bound Accolades..]

5 hours ago, InvaderStych said:

Seriously? Sheesh. Show some class in your OP and your ideas might be more well received. Not this one, because it isn't a good idea, but in the future you might have more luck without such antagonistic nonsense in your initial suggestion.

Dont come to suggestions to be liked.

Seriously if you think its just me then lol.  negativity is just a thing here.  Stick around for a bit and read other threads.  its the same 10 or so people all the time

 

Gatta give to receive.

[Welcome Home! - An Open Letter from Homecoming]

Well now that the newness has worn off its time to sit and worry if my DoTmonster crab spider build is getting changed

[Account bound Accolades..]

2 hours ago, golstat2003 said:

 

10-25 mil is a rounding error. Anyone who knows what they are doing (and those that don't, that's why we have forum guides in the market section) can make that in literally minutes.

and your sample size is one accolade of seven and for one character

another variable is peoples tolerance for firefarming.  i personally can only do it once or twice a week if that.  using the extreme of some dude who does it 24/7 aint right

[Account bound Accolades..]

7 hours ago, Doc_Scorpion said:

I always love these proposals...  "I really want these on all my characters, but not badly enough to actually work for them.  So, please trivialize the cost without changing the benefits!"

You would be surprised at how much 10-25m can add up considering how many accolades there are and how many alts we have

and if you have just one character and zero alts with 3 firefarmers you can be excused from your own example because thats the only way i can see your point