Coyotedancer

I'm with MT here... I wouldn't trust it to always use the available resources wisely. The game's just not that smart. XP

The jail cell does give you a little more lead time... at least as long as the door is intact.

I like that we eventually "outgrow" the goons in lower-level zones... It would be annoying as all hell not to be able to walk through Atlas with a 50+ Incarnate character without being harassed by a bunch of punk-ass Hellions. XD

I've got Grey Kestrel and Nemissary's names... but... Still haven't rebuilt them. I'm really waffling on that point. I sort-of want to and I sort-of don't. Which is more wishy-washy on the subject than I was the first time I posted in this thread. I *did* end up rebuilding one other old favorite, though. I have a new version of my "gentleman monster", Shonokin, over on Torch. Given how infrequently I play with him and how odd it feels to me when I do, I guess that probably doesn't bode well for any eventual v2 versions of Kes and Nem. But... yeah. Still debating. <_<

KM/Bio brutes are great fun.... A friend has one and he's just about the most brutal brute I've ever seen. XD I was really surprised how few Broadsword/Bio brutes there were. My Semnai was one of something like 13?

It's interesting... Supposedly there are rather a lot of Psi/Energy Stalkers around. But I've never seen one "in the wild", other than my own. I was a little boggled trying to figure that one out... how they could be both plentiful AND absolutely absent... until someone pointed out that Psi/Energy Stalkers are a PvP thing. Mine isn't. I don't PvP in this game at all. But if all of Ajda's brothers-and-sisters are living their virtual lives in the Arena or RV, it makes sense that I'd never have come across them. That may be true of some of the other "But where ARE THEY?"-cases.

I dunno... Honey on a PBJ just sounds like it would make the entire thing way too sweet to actually eat. I mean, your average glop of grape jelly is already pushing the Sugar Bomb limits as it is. Honey would just be... yikes. TOO MUCH. o_0

Depends entirely on how you color those flames. Ferrian's are black. XD

Ah, the life of a "unicorn" character... I have a KM/Fire Stalker and a Claws/Fire Stalker. Fire Stalkers of all sorts are rare birds. My Dark/Ice Stalker and Archery/Time Corruptor are also pretty unusual. ETA: If you're really curious just HOW rare your combination is... look here That'll give you the number of them who had made it to 50 as-of March. XD (It looks like there were 25 Fire/Fire stalkers at 50 back in March.... So, yeah. Pretty unusual.)

It's the extra layer of duct tape holding your armor together.

Stalkers could always be dangerous... It was just harder without the fancy toys. XD

My fire-farmer went Mu if that helps your assessment any.

That's mostly because Jimmy is slower than Christmas, and Fusionette has the attention span of a goldfish. She gets distracted and jets off out of leash range. XD Our moving faster than the NPCs is the at the root of that issue for most of them, honestly. It's easy to outpace a lot of them if you have any kind of movement bonuses at all, including basic Sprint. If they don't run into mobs in the meantime, some will try to catch up. Others just give up.

Almost all of the escorts that are tagged as combat pets can follow you to the ends of the earth, Hide or not. That does seem to have been extended to a few non-combat types near the end.

I've more or less mained a Stalker forever, BB. I suspect that I know as well as anyone what they're capable of... That's why I chose to do my beta run through Praetoria with one. And yes, hostage escort missions are, and always have been, a royal pain in the rump for Stalkers, too. We all know that. My issue at the time was with the constant use (I'd say OVERUSE myself, but that's a personal opinion-) of the specific player-targeted ambush mechanics that automatically bypass Hide, which was very much a matter of the mission developer's choice. Ambushes *can* be set NOT to automatically see through Hide, and often are in the "regular" game content. Praetorian ambushes aren't exactly alone in doing it, but over-all non-Hide-busting ambushes are more common than the heat-seekers. The choice to use the Hide-busting version exclusively in all of the Praetorian content was what made me raise an eyebrow. Well... that, plus the dev's reaction when I pointed out that he was pretty much turning Stalkers into Scraps by leaning so heavily on that particular flavor of the ambush code. I'll also gently remind that all of that pre-dated the changes to our Assassin's attacks that allowed "quick use", and before the ATO sets came along with that Hide proc that changed our sneaky little world. Those two changes have made stalking through the ambushes of Praetoria much less annoying than they were at the time.

I'm in the same demographic, there.... I've used it in the past when it made sense to, but none of my current gang have it. The ones I did patron pools with here have all either gone Mu or Soul, typically for theme reasons.

I'm not sure the ambush-a-palooza nature of the missions in particular accounts for that, but it is definitely one of the challenges of leveling characters through that content. I've done it with a few Stalkers since then (Including the Live version of Shade in Shadow, the KM/WP character that I did that beta run with-), but I can't say it's the best experience for that particular AT. It's certainly not the place to "learn to Stalker". You're just not allowed to.

No joke. When the Going Rogue missions and Praetorian zones were in beta, I ran through them with a Stalker... ... and ended up asking if a Stalker had kicked the writers' puppy or something. I was essential told 'My story, my choice. Sucks to be you.' XP So, yeah. They knew *exactly* what they were doing to Stalker players with the endless "heat seeking ambushes" in the Praetorian content. They just didn't care that it turned us into wannabe scrappers.

Not everyone "plays to the meta"... There are quite a few City players who go for theme or personal preference over strict build advantage.

All of the Common salvage bits that Harry finds on his farm runs are now Potatoes. I don't care what the little pictures look like or what the game calls them. In my mind they are ALL gonna be Potatoes.

'Was about to say... I don't think App's problem is really so much a matter of transportation methods. It sounds more like they were just running with a bunch of impatient assholes. (And trust me, as someone who almost exclusively plays fliers, I understand the problem. I've run into groups like that, too. They're halfway done with the map by the time I get my slow butt in the door. <_< It's annoying. But something well beyond the base macro.)

Flea's posts almost always make me grin. And I like reading Chase's fiction-bits.

Someday that has GOT to happen. It has to, The universe demands it.

'Still wish them luck. 'Still expect... well... pretty much nothing but perpetual "updates" ultimately resulting in nothing.

It's not just me.... 😆