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And all SG Girls of Nukem High Squad did it in about 1 hour 40 minutes, but we all had the value added tools. TT, MT, ATT and a fairly balanced team to deliver pain unto the Rularuu. But the fact that not one but two of the four Shard TFs can be done solo (albeit slowly) without even having to be challenged by an AV or EB is kind of . . . silly. I think that in addition to reducing the overall length (mission-wise) of all of these they could use it as a chance to explain or expand the lore of the shard. Doctor Q is supposed to be the start, getting used to the zone, I get that but really, do we need another Numina hunt series. That is part of the annoyance I have with the Shard TFs is all of the padding hunts. Instead give us a taste of the lesser aspects of Rularuu like Alorre the Watcher or Kuularth the Scavenger, or show us the Factory Cubes. First TF, get to know Rularuu, a couple of minor aspects fought, Rularuu feels threatened in his prison. Sara Moore, clean up and shorten some with your Ruladak battle at the end still there (its actually a cohesive story). Augustine, add a few more of the aspects, shorten. Same treatment with Faathim as Sara Moore. Now this is key, at least in my mind, it needs to remain as a thing that occurs/occurred before the Who Will Die SSA because of how that one rolls (no spolier). That way the door is still open with regards to any possible movement relating to The Battalion as the Shard and Rularuu are factors (according to AMA Lore at least). But even if you dont go there, its a nice capstone really.

Okay, thought this was a thread about the trainer in Peregrine that they replaced Castle with. Reading is fundamental.

Because my game play area is a shared space in our house where my spouse watches TV and we have periodic pause and talk time, I have always played with the sound muted on my PC, not in game . . . unless I am alone or hunting a missing glowie. Conversely I get to enjoy not hearing howling pets . . . or Howling Twilight . . . but the Howling wasn't a bad movie.

I hear you mate. The nice thing about the utopia of Roddenberry is that you can respect what others have to say.

I just need to get this off my chest because . . . just ugh. The existence of Section 31 is the antithesis of what Star Trek was supposed to be about and it sickens me that it is embraced like it is and that it is going the get a movie. Thank you.

Heavy Rock, what am I, Charlie Brown?

Hit and miss for me. Jet Packs and Jump Packs, and any summons (War Wolf, Loa Bone) I keep and actually drag out onto an ancillary tray. A few temps work well from a thematic standpoint that I feel character invested when they use them on a lark; grenades on my traps people or my gunfighters. At low levels when doing Flashbacks they are helpers, especially stuns (Confiscated Beanbag is awesome really). Some you can get over again when you use them up via Ouroboros, Striga really is great for two good temps (Wedding Band and Whistle). Temps form Safeguard/Mayhem are on my like list. But others, I actually delete them. Almost never even think about them and the clutter bothers me.

Just like my man at First Command says; you gotta diversify your investments. Some gold bars from a defeated enemy in the Iran/Iraq AOR, a little property that might have been signed over under duress, perhaps some "missing" pieces of art from a random war to spice things up, you know, no big deal right? Seriously, I sell almost everything on the market at the 5 INF mark unless I know I can get bigger cash for it by converting or or its something I use a lot of. Then I craft and wait to slot, or convert to Attuned, saves me buckets with regards to things like Miracle, Numina, LotG. That way I spend my money on the things that I don't get often that I do need (I am glaring angrily at you Shield Wall)

I tried that with Perfect Zinger . . . had to file Chapter 11.

White Castle Knights > White Knights

Why does Andie McDowell in Hudson Hawk come to mind here.

Beats being able to create a B I F

A Tale from Outbreak The Doctors soft smile and warm tone disappeared. “Don’t you please me. When the Fury Virus struck back in 02, and that whole section of the city was quarantined, I was in there doing everything I could both as a medical doctor and with the powers that I was given to save them, to cure them. And I couldn’t, none of us could. And once they completely turned and got to that out-of-control state we couldn’t do anything, but we still tried, and many of us died in there trying until the military was called in, normal people like you and their solution was to open fire to stop them from breaking out and when that failed, they freaking napalmed the place. And all we could do was soothe their pain until they died.”

Yeah that was a typo, 4 star was what I meant and s h i t show, like crazy possible disaster possible insane-o fun or both or none and just pain and strife.

Dee Snider! Take that PMRC!

The Girls of Nukem High run SG specific "Class Trips" which are generally us doing SG only TF or SF. We do have a special event where we all jump on Illusion Controllers we have created (that all look alike for a sort of Village of the Dammed Look), then go to Way north PI and kill lots of GMs then drag back as many as we can to give people hanging out in PI a chance to form leagues to fight them (we warn and don't pull them to Portal Corps, we aren't J-For after all 🙂 ) But I have seen some power-set themed calls in LFG on Excelsior, I seem to remember a All Kin call. I have seen several all Mastermind ITF calls and the like. I would hazard to guess its a hard sell on short notice but with advertising I imagine you could even put together an all Empathy 5 star ITF . . . it would be a 5h1t show though.

Procs. Please don't say this is all about getting a handle on Proc "abuse" or whatever. I don't have a single proc in Suppressive Fire because I have other play styles and the fact is, the suppression of suppressive fire is how I have used it on most of my DP toons minus the Sentinel because . . . Sentinel. But how can anyone say that the proc action is changing. You can still slot all that in there because it still does a hold (now super ineffective and pointless) and does more damage. and now, it freaking has a super fast recharge so all I see is more proc. Again, not always about damage. I can count on like five fingers the number of times that my non-proc, non-Uber Set IO level 35 DP/Ninja Blaster has been face planted.

The rabbit is actually more disturbing. And so many questions. Who punched the rabbit in the nose and what is the tall thing behind the rabbit and is that the shadow of evil or just a malaise of sadness hovering nearby. Also off color irises, its clearly a mutant. I really need that rabbit to be put down and researched. Wait. NVM.

Toki is wise.

Ghost Marines . . . That's secksi.

Ammo swapping, as others have said, is a novelty at best. I use fire with the DoT on enemies that like that have interruptible summons (Raider Engineer, Rikti Communications Officer) and Toxic sometimes but essentially it stays on Chiller rounds because of the visible block of ice animation that helps let everyone on a team know the state of the foe. The fact that they tweaked the Mags to a variable state on the ammo swap makes the changes to Suppressive fire more problematic.

I used cold on all of them, just didn't note. sorry. I wanted the visual queues of the hold sticking. Because of the varying levels attacking the same mobs with different toons wasn't going to work. But for each level the live and test attacked the same mobs. I intend to do another long pass either tonight or tomorrow but I wanted to test something with the various levels vice all 50.

Okay whole player base.