Apparition

Yes. Hero and Villain merits were essentially removed from the game.

When you use it in the middle of the mothership bowl more than fifty times when people continuously ask in league chat for you to stop, that's trolling. Half of the Rikti in the area couldn't be touched.

I lead a Rikti mothership raid this evening that was griefed by someone using Dimension Shift over 50 times during the raid. Checking combat log didn't show who actually dimension shifted everyone. There was a Gravity Controller present with Dimension Shift, as well as a Gravity Dominator present with Dimension Shift, so no one could tell who was doing it. Please change the combat log to display who uses Dimension Shift.

I wonder if this is related to this bug that @Kaylin found on beta.

The lag is definitely better, although it still gets pretty bad as more and more people pour into the zone. However, the lag is only half the issue. The other half is that, as has been pointed out in this thread, there's no longer any real strategy to Hamidon raids. It's not even really a raid anymore. It's just fifteen minutes of herding cats and then 150 people curbstomping Hamidon in two minutes or less. It was clearly not designed for more than fifty or sixty people.

When fighting the four AVs (Black Scorpion, Ghost Widow, etc.), at one point two in the TF simultaneously crashed using the 64 bit client. Not sure which AV we were fighting at the time.

I want to go check out the lag on the 64 bit client for myself, but my SG had other plans last night. Probably won't be able to make it tonight either, but I hope to check it out tomorrow night. However, lag or no, I still think that The Abyss' player cap should be lowered back to 50 to put the strategy back into Hamidon raids.

Your guess is as good as mine.

Out of Fiery Melee, Katana, and Dual Blades, which would be considered the "best" when paired with Radiation Armor for both solo and team content? Personally, I'm leaning towards Katana, but then I think about the small AoE radius...

Memory. 😉 I know that was the time frame the past two donation windows.

Voted time was for 12 P.M. ET/9 A.M. PT.

That's not accurate. The game was designed to have a level cap of 50 from the very beginning. The developers capped it at level 40 at launch because they simply ran out of time to meet their investors' launch window, but fully intended to expand to level 50. IIRC, there were temporary powers as well, but I may be mistaken about that.

It was a known issue due to the patch yesterday. It was fixed server side last night, but it had to wait for new zone instances to pop up. Now that the servers have been rebooted, try now.

I would avoid Lore pets. There is no need for them and will just cause lag.

A couple of Force Field and/or Sonic Resonance MMs and a couple of MMs with Clarion Core will take care of mezzes.

The only issue I can see would be taking down the pylons and the dropship afterwards. It's at least been my experience that my pets usually die a couple of times during the taking down pylons phase, and are pretty much useless during the dropship phase. Otherwise, I like it!

You also discount human nature. I've noticed all of those things, believe me. I also agree that the current Hamidon raid has spoiled people. That is why I suggest leaving The Hive the way it is. But for those who want to do it as it was on live like myself would be more motivated to keep it together. Because there would be fewer people, there'd be more personal responsibility. People stay at the rock and AFK because "Eh, there's 150 other people here, it doesn't matter if I go help them." If you limit it to 50, those same people (if they bother to come at all), will be more motivated to help, and will also be more noticed if they don't.

Nailed it in one.

That's why I suggested leaving The Hive the way it is, and lowering The Abyss' player cap back to what it was in live. There's still lag with 100 people.

I never saw nor experienced that in years of leading Hamidon raid teams on Champion and Exalted.

Not dealing with Annoyance >>>> Reward. There are plenty of other ways to get reward merits, and obtain Synthentic Hami-Os. The lag was so bad during the one raid two and a half weeks ago that I up and left during the second Hamidon raid and haven't been back since. As for capping at 50, it's fine. Raids were run that way every week for years on Champion and Exalted, and they went just fine.

I 110% agree. It's why I haven't been in The Hive nor The Abyss in over two weeks now. It is ridiculous. FWIW, I made the suggestion about a month and a half ago to keep the current 200 player cap in The Hive but to lower it back to 50 in The Abyss. That way the people that are fine with the 2 FPS in The Hive can keep doing Hamidon raids that way, and people who want more than 2 FPS can do it the old way in The Abyss.

Considering it's being deprecated in four months, no.

Either works. Ouroboros was crowded before people started forming Incarnate Trials there. Now it's just nuts, especially during peak hours.

I suggest that as soon as someone zones into Ouroboros, they are automatically shifted twenty feet away from the portal in any direction.