Clave Dark 5

Dear lord please let this somehow be true.

I just remembered: I do have something I want to do. My current having-so-much-fun-I'm-playing-it-past-50 toon has mostly all "good enough" costumes slots but one, I cannot make it work for me, so I'm going to give her that new dress thingy that's coming out.

Eh, I dunno. Nothing that I can recall was like an OMHGGOTTARUSHTODOTHAT sort of thing. It all looks good, don't get me wrong, just nothing stuck out.

Gentle reminder that you don't need to farm to play this game and end up both rich, at level 50, and uber-slotted. Seriously, you don't, go have fun instead! Also: not sure if serious...

Never seen this. I'd probably just ignore it, this is akin to plonking yourself in Pocket D and spamming "looking for farm plz." I have given out Inf and good enhancers ("slot this in Stamina and it will help a lot") on teams I was on though, so I'm no Scrooge, but still.

I'm with the undead on this one, every time I have to start this process it's always a headache of vague instructions and "oh, it doesn't work that way exactly here" or something. The modder really helped though, but invariably it's a matter of 45 minutes (that's often all of my gaming time!) and then somehow it all starts working and I still don't know how or why. Speaking of that modder, refresh my memory: do I have to download the new vidiot maps and then access them through, or does the modder get updates via some menu click that it will then put into place, or what?

You know... it occurs to me that when we do a Summer Blockbuster, one of those missions is to role play (vaguely) a team of thieves who rob a casino. As they're gangsters, essentially, it's a bit of a grey area, but.... have you ever heard anyone complain about "playing evil" there? I never have.

Considering the way things are going for superhero films at the box office, one of those badges had better be something like Hollywood Bomb Maybe the budget was too small, or the script was never satisfactorily smoothed out, or the editing changes made things too convoluted, or maybe it was just everything, but critics and audiences agree, this movie was terrible and your name is now a joke online.

Neat, they even retained my "2010 Player's Choice Best Original Group" forum tag!

I do make a point to comment on anything I see that I like, which is often on clever names if nothing else. And hey, if you want people to read your bios, here's a good place to start with them:

Did a random Talos PUG tonight doing just any ol' missions - radios I suspect. My 50 Dom had to run at their level without all her bells and whistles (perma-dom, my bespoke amped up damage slotting, fuin things like Venge, etc.), but still ended up tanking for the group (stalker, MM, and everyone else support squishies) by starting off with spawn-wide mezzes and then jumping in to drop my one AoE available at that level, then alt-tabbing through the foes to single target mezz them until there were no more foes. Good PUGs aren't as interesting to talk about ha ha! But yes, they are out there, often.

I take pride in anything I write. I don't have to be so miserly with my words, I put them wherever I can and enjoy it, nothing wrong with that, you do you.

I don't see us complaining here so much as just having a chuckle over how badly things can go sometimes. I do 100% PUGs, and I'm not about to stop, fool that I am. 😃

It's been noted that if you say give a foe some mix of ranged and melee, then set them for "melee only" or vice versa, they won't use the other too often; this can be useful to get their experience given to that 100% - always a concern yeah, I'd never give players foes to defeat that only pass out say 50%! I believe I saw this work with mezzes as well: a mezz or two would get used, but not like every attack. I never used this to try and rig the game like a fire farm or anything though, but I imagine some have.

Because you always write for yourself. I still do it most of the time, and I have fun doing it - therefore, worth doing.

Did a redside Lord Recluse... whatever it's called (the one with Atlas in ruins and go fight all the good guys, whilst in the cut scene Manti is apparently starting to lose it and constantly firing arrows and telling everyone they can't give up) that started pretty rough. After me and another telling the leader we weren't all that familiar with it (I think this was third run ever?), they just said "first flyers then towers," which uh... Fortunately, apparently some of the others were familiar enough and had TP, ha ha. Some deaths fighting that giant robot outside the one map, then we rushed that one (other?) map and hit the door that won't let you past till you have a key, so they rushed back alone to wherever to get it and died, etc. whilst we stood around boomboxing. They kept mentioning how bad their End was and they couldn't wait to slot the Incand to take care of that, and all their tanks had bad End problems (I didn't say anything). Overall we got it pulled off, but not really because we deserved to. I love it when that happens!

Remember the price of purples on Live though? Remember how much the Miracle unique was? You really had to work at getting your hands on those on Live. Now those, and more, are de rigueur for so many posted builds. I'll agree that knowing everything about the game does help, and that it was never super hard (I usually played with only half-slotted toons because I was a filthy casual poor, but still did just fine), but this is definitely a change from Live and I do think has trivialized things even more.

Visit the sub forums for the AT you're playing, look around for builds matching the power sets you've chosen. Sometimes you may still not find one, but you might find one with one of those power sets, which should give you some idea. Also, our lovely and talented wiki has a lot of good info, such as this: https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Dominator_Strategy

I have more than once been driven mad by forgetting that exists. XE

Presumably we do things for fun too, or just because we can. Not everything has to boil down to

Red marked the cliches, some of them nonsensical (you may find more); had to quit there lest I waste more time on this. Please see me after class.

Again, isn't this game easy enough already? We can all, easily, quickly rig the game in our favor and sleepwalk our way to vast amounts of in-game wealth as it is. Just make a choice and don't click that one thing or another this very second.

Look, I'm all for playing the game the way it was meant to be played, maybe even more than most, but let's not go crazy here! Meanwhile, every Posi 1 I play on works like that...

The way I play a Dom is really dependent on the circumstances of the team and who we're facing. I see them as a Swiss army knife of a an AT. Squishier ones or low level ones tend to stand in back and mez everyone repeatedly to help keep the damage dealers safe; toss in a ranged attack or two. More protected ones and higher level ones (as that's usually the same thing) tend to open with a crowd-wide mez and then rush into melee, esp. if they have any PBAoE like Atom Smasher. And then, while in melee, what else needs tending to?: more mezzing, another melee blow, or a ranged attack for that runner? Melee toons just hit, maybe pop a heal or something, then hit again. I think I abandon melee toons before 50 due to disinterest the most, unless I've given them a bit of extra via power pools or whatever.

Seconded. Just the last couple of days I've gotten trapped behind a Dark Servant and something else (can't recall what, a Dark Pup maybe?), and thought about that QoL change for MM pets...