Clave Dark 5

I like you devs peeps, but yeah, this! I mean, I'm being hyperbolic, but yeah. 😃

You "don't need to be on this team" no matter what AT you're playing when you're in the upper levels. You could bring in your tank, stalker, widow, troller, and it would all roll long just about the same way (except of course not quite as fast, as already pointed out). This has nothing to do with the AT you're running.

Proc-monsters are basically finding ways to wring some damage out of often non-damage powers, or super ramping up otherwise already mediocre to good damage powers. I used a build I found here for a Storm/Rad defender and dear god, she's, well... a proc MONSTER. Controllers can do this too. I heartily encourage you to read up on the topic and join the fun!

Is it the way they seem to more sit around and lock down foes instead of pummel or blast them down? I don't tend to play my controllers that way at all, if so. Making most of them proc monsters sure helps.

I'm a bad player in that I rarely do story arcs, just lots of PUGging, so I don;'t know if I've ever done the Faultline story. But I have set up numerous characters to get the RWZ badges so I can join in mothership raids. And I have to admit it's a lot of fun to get that one rescue mission with her, because that's exactly how she behaves, like a kitten pouncing on anything you even look towards.

Look at that, pushing Krzbrg1right off the cliff - you're red side alright. I'd consider joining but I don't have anyone on that server currently (would be up to transfer someone over I suppose) and I play so infrequently (maybe twice a week?) as it is I'd be useless to have around for an SG. But I like this idea.

I like this idea. Mainly because I want a pumpkin-headed toon with a lot of Fall IOs.

That would be mine too. Once or twice I've logged into the RWZ looking for a scheduled MSR and had to ask around about if it was in 1 or 2; this just helps make that clear for you.

That's kind of how this discussion seems to be going to me as well. I mean, is there a reason not to just revert and call that good? Maybe I'm forgetting something, because I haven't played ET since the change back in the day (my then-main was an ET stalker, and he didn't get much play after the change).

I don't exactly mind leading, but it's uncommon for me to actually have any leads on missions, like open contacts, or even the radio/newspaper contact ready to go. Knowing seven (or fewer) people are standing around wondering why this bizarrely named person hasn't put up the new red star yet does give me a bit of anxiety too. Plus I don't wanna be that guy who gets everyone on board, "any level welcome!" only to lead them onto an abattoir-like map full of purple Arachnos. I mean, I know all that's easily take care of up front and all.

The sun shall turn black and the moon shine with a greenish hue. The dead will rise from their graves and sit in the parks around the city reminiscing about old supergroups from Retail.

Hard to kill an old habit! My first toon was a blaster and I had to learn the very hard way about dodging street mobs.

Hard to kill an old habit! My first toon was a blaster and I had to learn the very hard way about dodging street mobs.

Because I can mute the few annoying people on move on. The Live forums back in the good ol days were chock-a-block with "potentiate-muters" ETA: Also worth noting I've almost never seen the PVE forums or in-game channels descend to "toxic," you guys are generally great.

Seeing as how this is all theoretical... All I know is that no matter which zone I play in, you always have to carefully skirt around mobs on the street. There's no reason they can't be flavored to be one thing or another here, it'll still play the same anyway.

Well, after that, I can recall another reason I was put off by PVP back in the day: the attitude of the people who posted on its forums.

Our selection of animal heads would be much better if I were driving this bus, let me tell you! Like that one that looks like a bat, with the nose? Have you ever seen anyone use it? I did ONCE, and was in fact told I had a really ugly character (which was fitting as he was red side, but still).

Sounds like it wouldn't have to be any worse than the usual game of dodge the perception radius as you cross a zone.

This is from my peeking into the new base contest; dear god there's some amazing work in there. Surely there must be some way to use the creativity and developing skill of the base editor to make new, actual game-playable maps for new missions, or to refurbish old ones? I'm sure this isn't a brand new idea, but after seeing that thread, I feel it needs to be re-suggested.

That's great!

This again all comes down to how you play. The last time I had a chance to play I was on a PUG led by a twinked-out 50+++ brute who was literally racing ahead of the rest of this "all levels welcome" radio team. Needless to say, my level 29 troller did not find these foes easy nor slow-paced. Anyone who wants top play like this can choose to do so (I even stayed around on that team).

Whoa, dude. I knew this part of community was going nuts, but I had no idea just how nuts. There has got to be a way to harness this power for evil... I mean good... I mean for the good of the game. Some way to work these places into actual maps to play on or something. These are just stellar.

AE is still primarily set up for soloing. The contact only speaks to the one player leading the team so no one else gets to see (read) the flavor text, so if you're on a team it's just another "let's go beat up those guys in that warehouse because... of stuff!" like a radio mission. If it's the stories in AE that are supposed to draw people, they need to be shared easily.

I don't have all day to spend scrolling through threads that are 11 pages long, can anyone give me a summary? I expect this on my desk by five or we're all getting pineapple on our pizzas!

Funnily enough I had a devices Blaster that I liked the look of but stopped play right around the time he got Cloaking Device, too; any and all powers that "make you invisible" or "armor" you should have a minimal FX option I have yet to fully level any melee toon this go round as well. I don't know why, I used to do well enough with them in the before times, but now, I have a VEAT that, following a build, was like sleep-walking through foes, yet never bothered to get him past I think 46? Martial Arts scrapper was fun, but... I haven't touched him in a couple of months now maybe, he's in the 30s... Some of this could be COVID burn-out though, I played a LOT when all this started, and my play-rate hasn't returned yet to per-pandemic levels.