Clave Dark 5

People who are 50s who call for the star or to make everyone a 50 could be doing so because they're going to lose access to their near-end-game powers, taken say after they made 45 or something. If they're below 50, they also can't use their Incarnate powers, and it seems that a lot of high-performance builds crutch their way past some otherwise bad choices with those. Plus all those purple sets now won't work as well either. Please won't someone think of the 50s?! 😃 Snark aside, I'll often drop down below my level for the sake of doing whatever, but there have been times when I was all "look, I just picked up my pet! I don't want to go team and not be able to use it" or something. But I also won't demand to put put in charge or anything.

Not all THAT clunky, but also not a direct change to the code. My stories doin't tend to run long, but it would be pretty easy to implement, once you've got it all written and play-tested: If you want to strangle this little @%*$! then play AE arc #555999! If you want to save the kitten from the tree, then play AE arc #555888!

And here I came into this thread expecting to be ready to jranger it...

A majority of players have probably gotten their new toons to T4 by the end of 8 hours though. If this buff is so negligible, then why ask for it to be "more"? And I again I ask: just how hard is it to go drop by your base to pay for it with trash-level salvage? It's not. At all. Simile Time: City of heroes back on Live gives out ice cream cones, which is fine, fun, you name it - yay ice cream! Now y'all are getting this from HC and now argue that you need to stick some M&Ms in there too, for "convenience." Extending buffs is a power creep. If I wanted my bubbles to last longer, if I want my holds to last longer, if I want the range of my aura extended, if I want my attack's damage increased, if I want slows to have less effect on me...that's all power creep. More numbers for you, in any category, is more power. But hey, those M&Ms, yes, "are already in the game"! Go pick them up, they're right there! Maybe we need to deliver them to you on a pony next? Or allow you to just click a button and have them tumble down from the sky no matter where you are, because going to your base itself even once every 8 hours is far too onerous? 😃

This is such a silly gimme point in the first place, but people are apparently finding it far too onerous a task to go get these extra extra extra icing-on-the-cake buffs. Maybe these buffs aren't 100% OP I AM NOW A LIVING GOD buffs, but buffs never the less, otherwise why bother with them at all. It's power creep - a minor one yes, but still a power creep. Hasn't this game already given us enough of them? Must we go hunting around desperate for more crumbs? XD I mean, how long does it take to stop off at your base and grab them? Seriously?

Time saving is also a way of making the game easier though. And the price of said salvage is laughably negligible.

I'm guessing this would a heck of amount of work to set up, but the idea would fun, sure.

But if we're not steamrolling through paper-thin combatants we're wasting our time!! /s

Throw @cranebump into the pile of people, they've done a lot for the AE community, which most of you monsters completely ignore! Wait, that probably isn't the proper tone to take here ha ha...

I was told there'd be no math...

Really, isn't this game easy enough by now? Heck, I have this gizmo in my base and hardly ever remember to use it and things go just fine for me. Seems to me if you really want an extra inch of thick icing on top of the three inches already on your cake, then that should be on you to go get it.

Couldn't resist.

Oh yeah, this is a well known thing. When I join a group I usually remind folks in chat to target thru a pet (anyone's pet).

Being a fan of Energy pom poms, I'd never thought of that, it may be time to make a new toon! That said, I still support the suggestion 100%, because I find myself never taking them otherwise because I don't want my hands to disappear like that.

The Devs are more than happy to give out three more when you've filled up the previous ones. I've done this twice now! And speaking of, here's my low level Villain arc I mentioned above: To check it, I replayed it with a scrapper who was low level (I think about 12th level, with obviously few IOs) and things went just fine.

I believe I just re-posted an old redside story I wrote on Live (and still had) for just-starting-out villains and posted it, but I'm not 100% on that. I'll check soonish (life's a bit much right now) and come back if it is up.

Usually no. I may know which toon I want to play - probably the one I'm leveling up right now - but that's about it. Even if I deviate from that and log in an old 50, I then still usually stand around after a little marketing (like nothing really, maybe crafting some recipe I forgot they had and then posting it, that's it) and wait to see what's on offer (always happy to do an MSR, but I so rarely seem to catch one). Often about 70% of what's on offer (being spammed) are things I do not want to do, DFBs, Maria Jenkins, speed _____'s, anything farm related... so I end up standing around a bit.

Corollary: if you find yourself on a Cim team with that person, take the time to go usher then to a tunnel and then the Night Ward house to get the badge. Because if you give someones Romans to fight, they fight for a day. Show them how to find the Romans, and they fight then for the rest of their life, I guess.

Same. I hopped on my badger, who's already 50 and went and did it once for the badges... before remembering it doesn't give any. I still have a character I farmed straight up from 2 to something like 35 that I've never slotted nor gotten back to. Farming made it all feel cheap and like I was cheating, I didn't earn a thing for the character now learned a thing about playing those power sets. I don't use any 2XP bonuses or anything either, it's more fun leveling than waltzing around nuking mass groups from behind my purples and Incarnate powers.

I visited with a stalker...

Beat me to it. Great rest of the post though, that tops what I was bringing. Sometimes spectacular failures are more fun that average successes.

Did no one learn the lesson from Wave Twisters?!

I know I'm late here, but I'd say Dom, because I like Doms a heck of a lot more. I feel like based on chosen powers, I get a little bit of everything on them (mez, buff/debuff/dmg, ranged/melee, you name it) and they can hit pretty hard. I've never bothered to learn binds, so I set Hasten to auto-fire, as Dom doesn't rise all the time ASAP, I might get slowed or something. Really, if you're going to have to click one or the other, doesn't matter that much to me (plus I never learned binds, as stated). And I have all sorts of fun playing my Doms regardless.

For more fun, try that with a non-tank! I have a stalker that can do it when the stars alight right and a couple of powers recharge at just the right time, and a Dom with Telekinesis might help push some into the bowl; you know, if you survive it.

I'll be honest: I'm not even sure what a "master of" stands for, which is why I generally avoid stuff that I don't recognize. That said, I've done a few before and it went OK. Yes, I am part of the problem.