ZacKing

Because turning down the graphics makes the game look like shit for me. I should be able to enjoy the game world in all its detail without resorting to turning down graphics to avoid being buried under layers of bright pink flames or purple sparks or whatever other colors people want to use for their buff powers. If that's ok with you all of course. I took a lot of time to make costumes for my characters that I'm happy with. I'd like to see them without being buried beneath the visual clutter. Starting to roll out minimal FX options for powers was a step in the right direction IMO and something that I'd like to see continue. I'd also love a hide all buff VFX option that's been tossed about here a couple of times.

You're assuming I don't know about them. They aren't a solution. there's been a few discussions on these forums about a way to suppress or totally disable the VFX from buffs applied to us. That's a solution.

This is an important piece of feedback I think gets lost or just plain ignored here from the "everything has to be a team!" crowd. Teaming is great and, but having to deal with the excessive VFX spam and the totally gross coloring some people put on their powers it makes teaming less desirable. When my character is getting buried underneath layer upon layer of overcolored, oversaturated buffs to the point I can't even see where I am, teaming isn't fun.

Even 100 mil can be farmed in the AE without really playing the rest of the game but I get what you're saying. Were I to guess at what ever could be requirements to unlock the token would be stuff like completing certain story arcs, TF commander and stuff like to unlock some badges and such. At least then you'd know they played the character a little and would unlock an insta 50 token on the account for that specific AT.

Again not saying this is a good idea or that we need insta 50 tokens, but why would you assume they'd be open to everyone? Also, I play on Excel a lot and I've yet to see any PI council farming going on. People are running teams for all sorts of stuff. I think people are really overexaggerating.

I don't know what shards you all are playing on, but I PUG quite a lot and I can count on one hand the number of times there's been a bad experience. Overwhelming majority of time it's a lot of fun with great players.

This gets used a lot and it doesn't really fly for vets. Those of us who were playing since the game launched and now again have already done the content tons of times. Not saying I think we need an insta 50 token because we don't, but this excuse here doesn't work for everyone.

I understand all that. Re-read it again.

I think there's quite a few forum regulars here who need to re-read what @GM Kaiju just posted above again.

Looks cool! Is this going to include the new hard mode mechanics?

"Festivus for the rest of us"

Why not? He knows he can be of service.

Still hasn't been edited. Your post still shows a quote attributed to me that I didn't make. I did not write what you are quoting in this post.

True, but why should they conform to what you want and how you want to play?

Can you please fix your post here? You're attributing something to me that I didn't post. Thanks

Control is useful in endgame. Always has been. Is it necessary? no. Is any AT necessary? no.

If I could upvote this a million times, I would. very well said. thank you!

Trust me I can think of a lot of words to describe people who want to pretend to speak for the staff here, they just aren't very nice. :)

There you go gatekeeping again. ;) Let's let the people here doing the actual programming decide what they do and don't need to do?

Not agreeing with that other player at all, but insulting them isn't doing anyone any good. You're basically being exactly what you called them by thinking your fun supersedes theirs. 2 wrongs don't make a right. They had just as much right to be there and collect badges as you and aren't under any obligation to team with you. It sucks that some people are jerks, but that's life. @Luminara is right - it's not the players, it's how the event was designed.

I won't deny that 50 could've invited him and was a bit rude to just ignore messages, assuming they had chat open. I don't think people should be obligated to invite people to a team just because someone asks though. They have just as much right as the next person to be there. It's not like this event is a one time deal either. There will be other raids.

Not sure Taser Dart is a great solution for this. that thing barely works as a hold lol. it hardly works on the npcs in Outbreak let alone a weakened hami.

Rualruu aren't all that hard to be honest. never were. If you're a fully decked out Incarnate with IO sets bonuses galore, congrats ... you're supposed to curbstomp regular content. That was part of the incentive to do incarnates and IOs.

I like this idea! I would say that Clear Mind recharges so fast it's not hard to keep it on every teammate though.

Don't know what to tell you other than stop farming Council maps. Powers that don't do damage are still very valuable here.