Clave Dark 5

I haven't done a badge tip yet, but wanted to shout out for running a solo toon for what I guess you might term "intentional slow playing." MY first real high level character was a redside stalker, and I abused the Hide to really get around and just look at stuff, so recently I made a new redside stalker that I've mostly just soloed with on redside. Now at 40 or so, I'm going to have to go back and street sweep all the lower zones for the fun of badging with him too -- sure I have the Vidiots map, but where's the fun in that? It's about my stalker's journey, not his destination.

I was being a tad silly, but you make a good point there. Usually those wounded foes come back to me soon enough, but the one time I'd need that single guy to finish up the boss's spawn or something, yeah, that's when the runner would be a PITA.

I wasn't even aware that was a thing, but I don't usually like to ghost to the end either. Thanks!

This is going to be a dumb question, but regarding this: Only Affect Self Activating this power prevents you from attacking foes or aiding allies - all powers will only affect yourself What can one do with this? Maybe cast a shield on themselves that was previously only "for those on your team, but not you"?

If you're worrying about some run-away loser at less than half health coming back later, your stalker may need help! 😀 Seriously though, sometimes I just shrug and move on, "they'll be back and I can kill 'em then."

This is an amazing amount of work, I really appreciate it. Nearly every time I randomly choose to make a new ________, I go sifting through the forums looking for a build to at least start with, but often don't find anything. Good to know my next stalker is now covered! (Come to think of it, I have a directionless Staff/Ice Armor sitting at like 25th level right now, hm...)

Same way that not so many mom'n'pop businesses put up their own website anymore, far easier and cheaper to just do a Facebook page. The consolidation continues apace!

My stalker has it, and I ran him to try it out. It didn't make too much of a difference for him as it's not too highly slotted yet, so most of his "real" attacks, the sorts of things you take a stalker for the first place, generally work out better (except on runners obviously). On a controller though, it'll probably be an upgrade, at least until you get into the upper levels and don't have to ever feel squishy again (or certainly much less so).

"So yes, you'll have to expend resources to rebuild these for the next one." Nice that that's explained fully to me now. Not that the game ever gave that to me. The few times I've done this I kept thinking "is this right? Maybe I don't understand this right and I'm wasting resources? Because this really seems wasteful."

That's a good start towards a tutorial, yes. Why does it also tell me when I need to make a tier 2 3 or 4 that I also need the lower stages below the one? Is it lying?

I think I've identified the problem here. 😀

Too busy being grim 'n' gritty. That said, you may have a point. But don't you dare clean up the litter or brighten the skies!

Yeah, I only sporadically check the email account their stuff goes to, and I still don't think I've seen anything about/with actual game play.

Chiming to note that I tend to go where the people are, so I'm more often blue than red. But if I happen to see a LFM pop up for red, I'll happily swap over at a moment's notice. I think like making a team on blueside, if you build one, they will come.

Creating a target enemy near button is always the very first thing I do with a new toon (well, that and check the costu8me to make sure it came out like I expected). I don't play melee too often, so tabbing usually does me well enough; occasionally I will click on a target.

Truer words have not been spoken.

It's called "Neapolitan" and don't tell me how to play City of Ice Cream! 😡

My answer to the question: kind of yes, but no, depending on power sets, powers chosen, slots assigned... it's all very variable.

That's just an obvious truth, like "don't stick your hand in the fire."

There was a bug in-game that lasted about four days on Live that allowed one to make a character with an invisible left hand, so of course I made a Dual Pistols character. I don't recall being disappointed with something like an aura showing where the hand would have been (if nothing else it was quite the conversation piece). There was also another bug for about a week that let your character;'s torso mostly disappear too, but that looked sort of dumb (although obviously I had one of those too!). Anyway, we already have headless characters, this doesn't seem that crazy otherwise. You can limit PVP costume choices, or maybe just limit the number of allowable inviso-pieces per toon too.

High praise, coming from you!

Oh, I wasn't snarking, I was kvetching - totally different thing! Were I to snark, I might point out that I can certainly believe that someone who likes speed runs would probably find the consideration of typing the two words "speed run" into their PST message to be a needless waste of inordinately large amounts of time; that cherrypicking an example of a single run of the most notorious time-wasting TF is a bit disingenuous; that I said nothing about conserving our precious resources, mobs, but did point out that rushing was apparently more important that supporting fellow players, even with a "you just stay there". But I see you and I basically feel the same way, so I won't do that. 😁

Only because my dyslexia made it "reunited and it fleas so good," yeah.

Hey you kids! Stay off my damn portal!! *shakes fist*

That's just because we don't have to spend time being ebil now, we're comfortable enough as it is! On the other hand, if uh, you're looking to like just dump some Inf away... I mean, I'm not stupid...