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    Doctor Crom's 12 Days of Christmas.

    in General Discussion

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    21 minutes ago, Snarky said:

    Fair warning, ...never party with Blitzen.  If you are lucky you will awken to a roaring headache, few memories, and no cash, ID, and perhaps clothes.  If unlucky you will awaken in a bathtub filled with ice, a roaring pain in your side, and a message written on your hand to call the hospital asap

    Aint first dates the best 🙂

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    The Officially Unofficial Weekly Discussion #58: Oroboros - do you use it for flashback missions?

    in General Discussion

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    I use it quite a bit (either in Ouro itself or using base crystal).  For me I run all of my toons through missed content.  Some I use an origin angle like my Tech Shooter Trinity Six doing Techy missions (Clockwork, Sky Raiders, Freaks, Crey), my magic users of course are pounding CoT and BP.  Naturals and story based ones often hammer the Hellion/Skull/Troll/Family/Tsoo/Warrior material.

     

    Obviously there are also the badges, even to my non-badge collectors there are some that you probably missed and have to flashback (Spelunker, Hydra Dimension) and I generally make it a point to run most of the Accomplishment Badges.

     

    Ouro allows me to experience old content (a lot of which I can do blindfolded) with new characters whose powers and play yield a different experience (and an occasional faceplant - Negotiator mission where enemies are Orange and you are a Controller).

     

    Teaming in Ouro is obviously less common because its like a TF and thus cannot pick up mid stream.  There are players who very frequently run OG Positron and Psyche and call team forms.  Occasionally someone will call a Silos (for the Jade Spider) or meet there for an SBB or something like that.  Almost all of my level 50's are parked there due to my use of Flashback and ease of getting to teams running elsewhere.

     

    Improvements.  Personally I would like to see the outbound O-Portal have Skyway, Steel and Bricks added to match where people issuing core TFs are located as they do the V side.

    Synapse Task Force Dread

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    21 minutes ago, Hedgefund said:

    As mentioned above, just do Invader.  If you're lvl 30+ you can do SSA1E4 (red or blue, to unlock Schweinzer) and then go get all the explores from Schweinzer before a fast Synapse team can even get to the Boomtown mission.  

    I get it but no, to me that's a cheat.  I know its not a cheat, its using the mechanics of the game but to me its still a cheat.

    Synapse Task Force Dread

    in General Discussion

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    Synapse is a sore spot for me because of a couple of things.

     

    First is Length.  Its not super long but there are a few missions that just don't need to be there; they are padding.  They could be removed and it wouldn't impact the "Story" a single bit.  It's a running joke to me whenever I am on one that the fastest man in Paragon City has us running around clicking call boxes to patrol.  He could knock that shit out in like 3 seconds.  Lazy Phalanxer.  Chop one of the two boss takedowns (Bertha or Long Tom, you pick.  While it has been said that Yin is the sweet spot for length, Synapse shouldn't be shortened to that degree.  Also the mission before the Babbage Spawn mission, chop that.  Do the Clockwork Baron with the Babbage at the end cause the King is bitter you took out one of his favored royalty.

     

    Second, Clockwork  King is a relatively easy AV to take out, anti-climatic considering how much harder a fight Babbage was.  He needs to be strengthened to be more of a challenge.  He needs to summon swarms of his mechanical menaces to attempt to overwhelm the team with drains and mez (like scores of Tesla Knights and such).

     

    Third, just call the rescue the workers what it is, a defeat all in all but words.

     

    I don't dread Synapse.  I don't like it, I definitely don't embrace it.  I do it when I have a toon that hasn't done it (very few of those left) or when a speed runner is doing it when its WST.  Synapse doesn't need to be overhauled like they did Positron, just cleaned up; streamlined a little.

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    MST3K Crowdfunding

    in Comic, Hero & Villain Culture

    Posted

    There were some good episodes.  The problem is the joke writing hasn't been as good.  People forget that while Joel did create the show and write early on, it was Mike Nelson who did the lions share of the writing and it shows on the RiffTrax venture with Murphy and Corbet.  Jonah was boring and Kinga was nothing like Clayton or Pearl and Son of TV's Frank.  Well its Patton Oswalt so . . . bleah.

     

    That said, I payed for Gizmoplex season and still support the show because even flat and bad its better than most comedies on TV right now.

    A Pretty Damned Spectacular Guide on Leveling with IOs and IO Sets

    in Guides

    Posted

    17 hours ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

    "Yomo," people ask me, "what enhancements do you personally find indispensible?"*

     

    Any new character will buy the following, all attuned (because I like the look, although it does make a difference for some enhancements)

    and in this order:

     

    Panacea proc (to go in Health as soon as level 7)

    Kismet proc (to go in a defense power, probably Combat Jumping, as soon as level 7)

    Shield Wall proc (to go in a defense power, probably Combat Jumping, as soon as level 7)

    Steadfast Protection proc (to go in a resist damage power, probably Tough, as soon as level 7 but if Tough at 14)

    Performance Shifter proc (to go in Stamina at level 17)

    Reactive Defenses proc (to go in a defense power, probably Combat Jumping, as soon as level 17)

    Usually both sets of ATOs.  I don't always use them, depending on AT, and I generally start to slot them somewhere in my 20s.

     

    It is difficult for me to imagine ever building a character that didn't have all of these enhancements.

     

    * In fact, no one has ever asked me this.  Consider it poetic license.

     

     

    I am almost the same here except occasionally I do not slot a Panacea and Kismet is actually quite rare in my builds.  but the rest, yea they are totally standard for my builds.

    Winter Lord

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    The main issue is that unlike Halloween where the spawns happened on their own (unless previous Unseelie weren't cleared) this requires the clicking of presents.  You don't really see calls in the populated zones for present hunting teams like you did then.  I too am vexed by the absence of this.

    Winter Event 2023

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Just like it being 5 PM somewhere, they are Purple to someone.  Back on live (and I have seen here too) during these events there were often individuals or even teams that would go around cleaning up spawns.

     

    Who you gonna call?  Snow Busters!

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