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I haven't, but I will! I just meant that I like reading your narrative description.

Great job describing mission 1 (even if you had to reference the George Clooney Batman movie - although the scene of Mister Freeze making a rotating ballerina figurine was really great, and deserved to be in a better Batman movie)

Thanks for the update!

Lemming was correct! Although you can have the Level shift be active if you are as low as level 45, since the +5 when exemplared gets you access to your Incarnate powers (and Incarnate status) (EDIT: I had misread Lemming's actual post - they made it clear that 45 was the floor - there was no need for me to say "Although...")

I’ll have to test lemming’s statement that the shift is available if you are 46 - 49. I know your incarnate powers are available. I’ll have to see if an even con minion is white or not. (EDIT: I misread and didn't go back and re-read - Lemming did say 45, the 46 was a reference to your level at 45 - the level shift gets you to 46)

Others have explained this already, but I like chiming in. the Tier 3 and Tier 4 in Alpha is a Level Shift. It applies as long as you are level 50 (not exemped down) the tiers 3 and 4 in Destiny and Lore each give an Incarnate Shift. It only comes active when you are doing incarnate content(iTrials, Incarnate story arcs like the Dark Astoria arc and Valeria’s arc in Cimerora) or are in a zone that triggers those shifts (Cimerora, Ouroboros, Dark Astoria.) I recommend monitoring your Level Shifts via Combat Attributes, just as a nice thing to know.

I have a Buffy homage named Most Likely To Slay, who I only play in October during the Halloween spookiness. I just created a character named Space Pirate Ghost, in response to the short Pirate themed event that just ended. He’ll be on ice until next September, if the event returns. I have a character who I created nearly two years ago just to hold prismatic aethers. Everyone emails them to the global and he collects them. I have a Rikti character who only plays in Mothership Raids (mostly) I consider all of these characters to be similar to the inclusion of the Phantom Stranger in the Justice League. He’s a member, never shows up at regular meetings, but every 5 years or so the JLA is facing some weird magical threat and the Phantom Stranger shows up. Because that’s his time to shine.

Hawk, welcome! Back in the original game, I had a character called Winged Curator, a guy in street clothes with a winged harness and a sword (I wanted to avoid a mace) - obviously a reference to Carter Hall.

Clave, thanks for running this recently and having the post come back up top. I will try the arc out as well.

There’s a guy on Excelsior who lobbies for people to use the LFG queue to kick off an SBB, without pre-forming a team. Has to explain for people to queue up solo with “willing to join” selected. I’ve successfully joined once. But every time, people chime in, telling the guy that he needs to do things the “right” way (gather a team, then queue.) Clearly, he’s trying to get folks used to blind-faith LFG queueing, but it’s an uphill battle. I’ve tried to join his SBBs at times, but once you queue, you are stuck waiting and that blows, not knowing if critical mass will happen or not. I often give up and just do one of my missions, which is reliable.

I was legitimately starstruck when I saw Engineria in AE this morning (I won’t mention where, to keep the paparazzi away)

Yeah, I tend to see how dialogue tests, and if it fires off reasonably, that's good. Otherwise I push it into the completion text stage or rely on Clue Text (but I would prefer things to work the way the architect interface implies)

I don't think this is a problem specific to you. I feel like in-game, the unaware dialog and active dialog makes sense. The NPC tends to speak when you are near and when line of sight is hit, they fire off their active dialog. In AE missions, it seems like unaware and active fires off when you enter the map. Or when the NPC spawns in response to some condition, unaware and active fires off immediately. It is annoying. But I want to say that ive seen it work, depending on the map. I wish I could give better data for you.

Definitely go to the Mission Architect section of the forum. You’ll find story arcs being advertised, some being reviewed, some looking for feedback. There is a lot of charm to be found.

That’s weird! I have placed a Loremaster in more than one base, they’ve all worked.

By the way, if you are worried about having 250 prismatic aethers, next month is the Halloween event and each character (that hasn't already done so) can earn up to 10 prismatics by participating in Trick or Treat leagues. There are 5 elite bosses, and there are defeat badges for each boss that gets you 2 prismatics per badge, so 10 total. So if you have a bunch of characters who haven't already done this, you can get a bunch of prismatics.

If you are talking about mini-mode, yes. You redeem prismatic aether particles at the Hologram that’s found at any Vault or I believe in Pocket D.

I started playing on Virtue one month after launch and played until the sunset. My main tank, First of Equals, kept Faathim the Kind company during the last moments of the game. I've recreated most of my old favorites from Virtue here - First of Equals (invul/superstrong tank) Playboy Avenger (martial arts/super reflexes scrapper) Fantastic Foe (Fire Armor/Stone Melee tank) Most Likely to Slay (broadsword/regen scrapper) Amazing Faux Nemesis (Technically a peacebringer - humanoid form only. He's a reprogrammed Fake Nem with a captive Kheldian in the suit's boiler) I can't remember what my global was on Live. It *might* have been @Fantastic Foe but I'm not sure. I soloed A Lot on Live, except with a few friends duoing/trioing, and occasionally with larger teams from the Amazings SG, who would form up on Mondays for Amazing Monday. (Everyone had to have Amazing in their name ...) I recreated my first AE story arc that I made on Live - EXPLODING PLANET (currently arc 22784) and because Homecoming has prestige costs were zeroed out, my supergroup base on Homecoming looks so so so so so much better than what I could afford on Live (my SG base is open for tourism - the passcode is Solitude-784, designed to be reminiscent of someone's icy fortress (I used a lot of water textures and glass floors here and there to give as much of an icy look as I could...)) Should anyone remember me (I fully understand if you don't) my global here on Homecoming is @First of Equals

I’m looking forward to playing it - specifically because it seems like you were inspired in part to make it for your SG mates, and I respect that a lot.

This is excellent advice! I don't necessarily want to abandon the conversations with OMEGOD, but I also didn't want to have a lot of "Great Scott!" exclamations that is too Superman specific. I'll think this over, and I appreciate these reflections on character voice.

Zhym, thanks for running the arc and this feedback. I'm always interested in hearing about how easy or tough a character does against Despoticus, and I specifically asked about Ocelot violation feedback, so this is all good info for me to think about. (I agree with you that this is less successful than Allegedly, Your Death, which is think was more fun to read as well.)

Zhym, I totally respect your decision! Don't sweat it. And thanks for having this thread.

I’m Excelsior as well

I just ran it with my level 50 inv/ss tank (and I'm re-running it with my level 42 beam rifle/traps corrupter) I liked it, but I'm going to call out some typos and make some suggestions below. But I appreciated you making an arc, sharing it with us, and for using AE not just for Fire Farming or whatever. You've given us a quick arc to play, and I can see running a few different characters through it. Thanks again for sharing your arc id and wanting to get some mission architect adventuring going

My buddy has been playing a bunch of your arcs recently. THEY ARE GOOD ONES.