Clave Dark 5

I do that too! Mainly so I don't have to look around for that Break Free under duress.

Yeah, about this too for me, because otherwise I have to really work at it and that detracts from the fun of pewpewpew. I don't twitch game, oh and I have never once done a bind. Macros I have lots of, but I don't write them myself, I just pick them up from you helpful folk on the forums.

Have you been letting your grandson mess about with alternative realities again?

Only one has a nerd stand-up comedian who's appeared in just about everything, somewhere, named after him.

I pretty much agree/remember all that previous stuff being an issue; I would suggest that knowing that was all there before the market came along, the old Devs still had plenty of time to make "needed" changes, but didn't - as the above quoted bit demonstrates. The original devs didn't mean for us all to get tricked out super cheap and easily - they understood (and said IIRC) that it leads to people burning through the game faster and leaving sooner. Seriously, five years to fix it, but they were just working around the edges to make things slightly less impossible to achieve. Now compare that to what HC's done since opening up just a few years ago; take Market Crash alone.

Probably The Pink Bampfer, Savage/Shield stalker who's got all the BAMPF one can shoehorn into a toon. So much fun. But then I also have another stalker, Thorns/Dark who's tough enough to tank during MSRs - also fun! But my Savage/Ice Dom is pretty tough too! Err... I'll come back...

If you want farming, go hang out in Pocket D's AE, lots of people always in there doing only that.

YES!!

The moistest crits come from TP attack powers like Shield Charge. Trust me on this.

Well, Titan Weapons could use an upgrade...

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!