Clave Dark 5

I don't care too much, but considering how rarely we get them, seems they should go back to "issues" yeah. (To be clear, I prefer pages, as little dribs and drabs I feel would be etter to keep people around than "wait 6 months, here's a big one, pop goes up, then drains away starting two months later).

Sayyyy, they were supposed to be working on Kallisti Wharf, where'd that go? I'd have thought that'd be done by now.

Still not as bad a room full of Paragon Protectors that no one's mezzed or killed quickly enough.

I prefer to TP into someone's face, but being able to occasionally choose where I TP to (like when I want to go outside Pocket D heh) has its place. If you've never used a macro/bind for TP attack powers, OMG, it is so, so worth it. I have a Sav/Shield stalker who also took Spring Attack and Combat TP (or whatever that's called) and he'd not be half as fun without them Night and day, for me.

Not throwing stones at you, just those types. Hence the 😃

I PUG nearly all the time, because it feels too slow soloing. I like the chaos of a team. So it really falls to a matter of what I can find. I tend to avoid TFs when I can because I'm bored of them and don't feel the need to chase accolades for measly returns. Generally do not farm, not in any manner, or certainly not "I just picked up 35 levels" kind of farming - I';m not here to be bored.

Speed isn't like some law of physics that everyone must obey, it's still a choice, as the bolded part of your quote attests. 😃 These are just greedy, weirdly-focused players, imho. They turn a game into a job.

That is interesting. I've been thinking we (meaning anyone but me ha ha) really needs to compile a whole complete list of all the weird ins and out of the AE system like this as we stumble across them.

I do sometimes, but I do generally prefer to be able to hear it at least a little, to help find glowies etc.

Aw, that's too bad, but understandable; in a lot of ways I feel I've done just about everything too by this point.

Some of the war maces are too small aren't they? Like, there's Mace Mastery animations that are definite two-handers that wouldn't line up with a pipe wrench, say, IIRC.

Ya gonna listen to this guy tell us about mirrors???

I love that people will do this for newbies, but I fear they take the wrong idea from such, "I need money to play the game!" But a wise player would infer that "money is so easy to come by in this game that some people burn it for fun, so it can't be all that important to play."

"Redside... Best side? Right??" Yes. End of thread. Seriously though, it always was for me. I could list why, but that's neither here nor there for this discussion. I can understand that some just feel some reversion to playing bad guys (funny, in an age when Grand Theft Auto can make billions, but of course that group of players doesn't necessarily overlap with ours), but I think ultimately that population is king. That's why even I'm mostly blueside today, and have been since the Live pop drop and Incarnate grinding leeched most people away from anything lower level. I like PUGing and find it especially needed as a low level toon. What to do? I don't want to make red side Farmville, so I don't know if "bribe the players with more XP" or something would help. The Aeon task force is popular as all get out, but with people from blue side who switch to play then switch right back I'm sure; maybe gate that so you can't do it until after you've been red side for like 48 hours? Maybe gate Null him or herself? Aeon's still just farming anyway, essentially (thanks to speed runs etc.). I doubt that would really work... I guess don't have any really good ideas.

Trust me though, all this is great stuff anyway! Just a wistful aside.... the one thing I really would have liked seeing was lots of AE love. I mean, something is still something, but I still feel it's an underdeveloped and utilized aspect of the game.

Trying to live by my credo of no farming these days and really meaning it, so the last few new toons have just gone around doing an occasional low level arc, a DFB or three (tops), while trying to avoid Council farming on PI "any level accepted" because that did feel too lazy. Not that I haven't done them once or twice, but definitely less. Now that the population is up, it's common enough to see someone advertise for a team that's at least nearish my level (I'll go below too), so I do those.

Standing in line to log in? Completely worth it.

Depending on what kind of "previewing" you're going for, I would recommend reading up on the power set(s) on these forums. You'll find out if people think one looks dumb, or is too slow, or is super fun and flashy, etc. Of course that might not apply 100% for you, everyone has an opinion, but it's not a bad start.

Take any toon to 50, then play the game, any part of it -- Inf will roll in. You don't need any real schemes or plans (unless you're redside ha ha) to make enough to get by on. I am the laziest person in this game when it comes to money and I still do fine.

If you don't like binds (I don't), I macro this on every new toon soon as they step into the tutorial: /macro TN "target_enemy_near" Somewhere I picked up a macro that also puts me on "follow" to that target, but I don't recall the wording off the top of my head (and I haven't used it too often). But I do use Ctrl+F fairly often, once I've picked a target, just in case they get knockbacked or start to run or something.

Whoa whoa, I wasn't finger pointing at you, I was bouncing off what you said more towards speaking to the OP instead. Apologies for that coming across differently. No need for the chapter and verse, I'm on your side here!

They were obviously so doubled over with laughter that they didn't know what they sent me. uwu

On any toon with any heal or Res power that I take.

I've heard stuff like this from a number of the "git gud" community who work to min/max everything within an inch of their lives, yet still find myself on teams not even starred hard content team, still using a heal (or even less min/maxy, a Res power) more often than you'd think. Players have found ways to really OP characters, bu that's not all players, nor even I think a majority of them. Play what you want, no cookie-cutter builds needed here.