Clave Dark 5

*Poison nods in agreement*

This is how you know you're doing it right. To hell with those withering hothouse flowers who quit after just a couple of deaths, this is the way. @mechahamham But yeah, that's a sizable part of the population these days.

@Six-Six Maahes Lord of Lions - based loosely upon a real Egyptian deity with that name! I loaded up on recharge so I could get two lightning storms out at once to make up for the ;loss of DMG from the other critters. Not the best MM, but he was fun to play and I swear to this day, no one ever batted an eye when I'd roll up into a team and tell them I was a semi-pettless MM. I should pull him out again for the heck of it.

The toon picks me. Sometimes it's even just the costume. I once repeated a power set choice on a Troller; the first one I drop around 45 or so, the second I zoomed up to 50 before realizing what I'd done. Maybe the second build was better too, I don't know. Sometimes I make a fun toon and then just can't be bothered, so the toon does pick me.

I found Lions/Storm worked really well for a semi-petless MM.

"Too many players are too mega-Über" anymore. It's a problem, yes! But there's any number of Yins being run right now, so I kinda doubt about "repetition" being a problem... I hope you can see that?

Yet no one seems to be running BBNY much either. I don't think there's so much star aversion (past the "new mechanics that I don't know" thing) going here so much as players just don't seem to care - there's always a constant call for Yins, some for the new TF ("Zoe"-something is it?), DfBs any time of the day or night, etc.... Just little to no Christmas stuff. I've seen one guy running Winter Realms from Ouro twice now, and he's struggling to find 16 people willing to go, even during Excel prime time (I've seen some SBBs struggling too). I have theories as to why but that's neither here nor there. All based upon my own perception of course.

I'm not always in the mental space to be able to manage a league, especially for something with mechanics that I'm unfamiliar with, you know? Otherwise sound enough advice. I was able to run it twice just now (finally! was slow to fill though) so next time hopefully I'll lead one.

This paragraph went off in some oddball directions and I'm not sure I understand why or where it ends up tbh. I think you can chill on your concerns there, no one's out to judge you, play who and what you want. I mean, there's tons of scantily-clad women running around in this game and I'll bet a purple most of them are men and no one cares.

This is why I don't listen to too many "experts" in-game and encourage others to ignore such proclamations too.

Which ones are missing parts?

Yeah, I forgot to include that: I was on Excel, which at the time was in the red-three-dots population even. I've since been back and during prime time again (Monday night maybe?) when it was two-yellow-dots and still didn't see anything after something like 20 minutes. Maybe my timing just sucks, but that's what I've seen; I was so hopeful when I saw the red dots, but it's traditionally always faded quickly from people's interests.

Co-signed.

No worries about the new systems, apparently it's already old hat and no one is running it anymore! I sat in-game for a solid twenty minutes, maybe 25, on Saturday night at 7 pm Mountain time, watching for a shout-out, posted a couple of times in LFG I was looking for it... Nothing. I only saw one BBNY running during that time as well. I know this sort of thing always dies out fast on the Holidays though, everyone rushes their newest toons in for the badges, and then doesn't look back or something.

Never use the stuff, myself, so you could stop whenever you want.