Clave Dark 5

I had thougth to make a plants/Water something called JustWetMyPlants, but waited too long, I saw it in use in Atlas some months back.

Do uh we have any screen shots of this mod in action? Asking for a friend...

Only once the system was rigged to let everyone min-max beyond any reasonable levels intended by the original devs, but your superior play is obviously a thing.

I don't play the market, but I used to do a heck of a lot of MSRs, which generate a lot of cash over time. Once you have a decent 50 going, you can also just keep playing the game (doesn't have to be hard mode or anything else like that) and they just hemorrhage money. The closest I came to playing the market was a bit of flipping and super packs, which I generally wasn't too good at ha ha. And yet here I am with several IOed 50s now (many with ATIOs, but few purples).

"an endless Sisyphus simulator" is pretty much the definition of an MMO; otherwise people drop their subs. During live I think I had maybe two 50s after years in the game, and they still had unslotted holes in their weird mish-mash of IOs and single origin enhancers, because I could never afford to fill them up, even with those SIOs - partly because I also wasn't a power gamer of any stripe. I know this feeling! Now, not so much, I have over a page of fifties and they're fully IOed (no purples though because I often play at lower levels then lose interest once I hit 50, etc.) Maybe this is all just me, it's possible. And maybe I'm wrong about that "just a few hours" being a more common thing, but that's not the impression I get from anyone else here (you aside for a second), not by a long shot. And certainly not from the amount of farming I do see in-game and on the LFG channel.

I need to hear about this...

I can see that you need a hard mode after you've given everyone unlimited IOs (essentially). I don't enjoy min/maxing or (essentially) twitch-gaming, so I'm often not really up to the challenge, after having gone along on a couple of one-stars. Not my thing, you guys have fun.

My theory on this goes this way: Game is cancelled, so the small cadre of folk who still got to plat (thanks to that Dev) wanted to give it all one last go round and to finally get a chance to kit out that one AT they never tried or finished, etc. So they set up lots of stuff to make getting all those IOs etc. easier. And it's been that way since it then went public, so we all got to have one last hurrah and really got to experience much of the game we may have missed out on previously, because who knows for how long we'd have it back. And now... here we sit with multiple tricked-out 50s and the ability to zoom a character from zero to T4 Incarnate in "just a couple of hours" (which may leave them feeling meaningless and without any investment), speedruns of ridiculous proportions... which is starting to leave us sort of bored??? At least that's me theory, because it seems the population is dropping; I've ever seen Excelsior with a single green dot some times now. The problem with this then is you can't put this genie back in the bottle. Trying to throttle back on farming or IOs or whatever would elicit screams of bloody murder that would echo down through the ages. Classic case of having your cake and eating it too leading to a stomach ache and devaluation of said cake. IOs were meant to be something to pursue, not something you ever actually got all of.

I appreciate the offer, but I usually play at odd hours as I am a night shift worker. After some years in the game too, I realize I'm also terrible about ever checking my friends list. 😕

CLAVE DARK 5 AGREES!

Something using Illusion maybe. My one toon with it was called Spookhouse Horror, I think he was a controller with traps too (he was using holograms for all the Illusions powers, so my head canon went).

I see them more as evidence that people are growing bored with the game, plus the usual "I want it all now and without having to do much work for it" but so it goes.

My Halloween toon this year is going to be unforgettable!

Speed runs are becoming my pet peeve, after signing up for a couple of different runs of something, only to find out it's a speed run after starting. I mean geez, does anyone even play the game anymore?

Pretty sure I've spotted at least one person's character who's done both, yeah.

Also: there's a couple of good spots on redside that people sometimes use. One is a row of doors on a warehouse somewhere nearish the back of the Grandville map, within the walls; the second is a set of brownstone-type buildings on a street in... Sharkhead? St. M's? that gives you like four doors on either side of the street within a short stretch. The Grandville one is the more popular for the reason given above for the blue side motel, being in a 50 zone.

They park their MM in the center of the motel parking lot, not on a team. Set pets for Aggressive (probably some combo of "stay, aggressive", and then set their AoE Heal or whatever to keep popping automatically. Then they walk away. Meanwhile you and I are the ones clicking doors; their pets then target anything that walks out. Now watch someone go "oh hey, great idea!" because I spelled it out in public! 😃

Many, including yes me, consider it bad for to AFK farm your Halloween team, because they're doing the work and you're taking a portion of the drops. I've seen and reported people AFKing their MMs in the center of the parking lot of said motel, joining no teams. Bad form, imho. Rarely seen anyone defend the position.

I guess I don't understand how this is a big problem??? Standing on the tail with the spinning rotors is a bit silly, sure, but... 🤷‍♂️

(original post went crazy, here's a screen shot that's readable: It's a pain. These are things one can work past, but so is a broken foot.

Extreme CAT-Beam, cat-looking Beam rifle/something Sent. who also has the title "Extreme", so his name reads as "The Extreme Extreme CAT-Beam" now.

Generally... it's too complex to say. Power sets matter, the build matters, the AT matters. I do generally skip the worst min/max foolishness because you end up with cookie-cutter builds. No purples for me because I level my characters rather than speed to 50 and then get bored with them a week later.

I had a thought for such a character knocking around for a bit too... was thinking isn't there a Blaster secondary that gives you a sword attack or two? Go that rout with D.Pistols probably.

Look, we got rid of the Vomiting Guy, isn't that enough?!

Narcissism is self evident when groups of foes keep getting snatched away from the front of a team back to the same player over and over, sure. Pretty easy to spot. And I do team with better people I leave teams and edit a note for myself on them. I bet you too are fun on teams...