Clave Dark 5

I thought we covered this one already? I guess IO was hanging out on the MM forum too much, seen this chewed around several time by now. 😃 So um, yeah, they kind of suck but I still like them because one of my very first 50s back on live was an Merc MM. Somewhere elsewhere on these forums a very knowledgeable and smart poster put up a good thread about how the rifle animations the Mercs use need to be upgraded to those that players use, and detailed how that alone would make them a better pet set choice. I liked that suggestion a lot.

It really is astonishingly easy and quick to send a toon across to another server. I was a bit hesitant to do so myself, until I tried it. I can understand if you worry your name might get grabbed though (most of mine are pretty crazy so I don't worry about it).

It's things like this that literally provide reason enough why we needed the game to come back. Kind of reminds me of my defeating foes on slight inclines and watching their rag-doll bodies slooooowly slide down the slope.

Welcome back! You can never leave now. Ever. At all.

My most obvious name is a fish-looking Staff/Ice Armor stalker named Frozen Fish Stick, but I like to think I was being funny, not unimaginative.

I suppose I can sort of understand it, especially for some of the ITFs that send you to hell and back to get a drink of water or something, but I also agree that just tooling about, even if you're rushing to do so, to get to your next mission is usually part of the fun, at least for me. Over the weekend I started a new stalker (best tourist-mode toon, of course!) and actually started him redside which was my original home, and soloed him up to like 20. Taking the time to re-visit all those trashy places was just wonderful, I'm not crying, I've just got some endearing pollution and smog from the Isles in my eye.

Yeah, I tend to research advice before starting a new toon, so I dropped that proc in first thing. Can you describe a game of Wally ball for me to go try with some low-con foes?

Update (stop the presses everyone!): The first one turned out fun but is currently languishing at something like 32. I do fully intend to get back to her at some point though. But she's fine. The second one was a purple drop magnet during TOTing for some reason, but even that didn't save her. I realized I felt resistant to logging in to play her so I'm currently cannibalizing her to slot a new toon. The third one is somewhere around 40, like 43? He was fun, but I need to understand Worm Hole a bit better to play him (or vice versa I suppose). I do intend to get back to him though too. I have high hopes for the following two: Currently started up a Ill/TA Controller (Pawkysham Vex) for obvious reasons; I'd been thinking I wanted to do an Illusion troller because of the fun mirroring for the Phantom Army, and here I am! He's 23 I think. It's fun, I sort of skulk around behind the rest of the players on my team firing arrows from time to time and let loose the PA whenever things look rough or when we first tear into a particularly large-looking group. And then I've finally returned to my old home, stalkers, with a Broad Sword/ Energy Aura (Slayde the Pitlock) that's a take on Nemesis The Warlock from the old 2000 AD comics. For some reason since HC started, I've found I grow tired of pure damage classes and haven't really gotten one too far yet, but this one's working for me (must be the hide). I've also been mostly soloing Red Side (my first home!) and really enjoying that. And as the build matures he'll have some Sorcery worked in there so he won't just being a "boring melee" toon.

Seconded, I mean, if he's farming for you, this is a win-win!

I'd have arrested him so hard.

/jarnger This entire thread. /jranger

Awesome work!

Long in, figure out exactly how this new TP stuff works, dump all the macro buttons I have on older characters for the base TP (sob).

Some months back I had my first Stormie with Hurricane, and using that to try and herd and corral taught me that foes ALWAYS push past me easily. 😛

Cat's going to be amongst the first up against the wall when the revolution comes!

Looks like they're standing on the power lines, which although perhaps not the safest thing they could do, is possible.

I get that same feeling when I'm on an MSR and watch this just swarm of players moving from one pylon to the next. I'm not even 100% sure why, but, it's a nice thing.

"Such Badge" would be a great badge name.

I haven't found that too be too hard to get done either, seeing as how I've been able to get that badge repeatedly. I'm sorry but I don't agree this as a serious problem.

I can understand the problem, those railings are annoying. On the other hand, this is one thing I've done in this game dozens of times... a hundred maybe... and it's never been that hard to get done successfully, so I think I'd set this one to the side to focus on bigger sewer-fish* to fry. *Ew!

The window for Incarnates is awful, not in any way intuitive. If anything else, it should have been designed to look like the usual powers 'n' slots window, no way you'd get confused looking at that after 50. The crafting should be the same, it should mirror (or even get merged with, although you can't sell anything) with the pre-existing crafting systems. A bunch of explanatory mouse-over windows (that you could choose to disable) would also go a long long way to making the system more usable. I have never bounced off anything in-game for so long as I did with the incarnate system and I'm only half stupid - please won't someone think of the stupids?!

Was he good eatin'?

We need to be able to stream our game play * so this sort of thing can be recorded and saved forever. *I do understand why we don't right now... but... damn it!

Hooray, stubbornness wins again!

Thinking about it for a second, that's the way you'd have to do it to make it fair to everyone on the team, no waiting around for that one guy who didn't skip it or anything. OTOH, I have a feeling if such a thing was created, none of us would ever see a cut scene ever again, including new players until they grew up enough to run their own teams. Maybe because I haven't run all these things a billion times even before HC, but I don't mind cut scenes all that much, really.