ShardWarrior

Shard is a fighter, so she is a scrapper. I have a few different combos for her. The main is StrJ/Nin, but I also have her as MA/Nin and Staff/Nin. I generally alternate between the StrJ/Nin and MA/Nin. Staff seems underwhelming to me, but I do enjoy the animations.

These are so cool! What prompts are you using for them? I am curious. I would like to try a more iterative and detailed prompt process. I am wondering if you are giving general prompts or more specific things.

Asked Gemini to put me on a Magazine cover for the Paragon Times. 😁 The spelling gets sort of funky - not sure why. Other than that, I thought it looked pretty cool! I loved the body armor. We need more costumes like this for the game!

I often run the old Maria Jenkins Hero's Hero arc in Ouroboros for the Statesman's Pal badge. The Defeat All Wolves in Area mission has a map bug where the NPCs will hop up into the treeline and get stuck, making them untargetable. Apologies for the dark screen grab. Probably hard to see on this screen capture since it was night time on the map. Hopefully you can see where this wolf was up in a tree. I used /whereami to get these coordinates: OUTDOOR_FOREST_01C Position: [-987.6 -6.1 1745.3] OUTDOOR_FOREST_01C Position: [-960.6 -8.4 1752.6] This happens more often than not when running this mission.

Players can begin entering Warburg at level 30 (IIRC), which means that the Nuke temps can be obtained long before the character has access to Incarnate abilities. There is quite a lot of pre-50, pre-incarnate level content that these temps can be useful for. I am certain that there are players using these temps for content other than the OG LRSF.

I do not think this change is necessary. If you want to engage with the PvE content in PvP zones, you should accept the consequences of your choice. You can and will be attacked by other players once you enter a PvP zone. That is the nature of the zone. Survival in PvP, like anything else, can be built toward. You just need to practice, know what you are doing, and there are many guides available to help people who are interested in learning about it. There are also a few very friendly, helpful players who are willing to help others. The rewards like the nuke temps in Warburg are as good as they are because of the higher risk in obtaining them. If by some miracle these zones were made PvE only, I would expect rather enormous nerfs to those temps to coincide with that change.

I am quite impressed with what you can create with Gemini with very little in the way of prompts! I wanted to try something a little different to see what this thing can do. I used my Nature/Elec Defender Trixie Pixie as the starting point. I asked Google Gemini to put her into an image fighting trolls and goblins, but with a Ukiyo-e style, and wow did it deliver! I liked this art style so much, I asked Gemini to use Shard in the same style. Then I asked Gemini for Ukiyo-e with a Manga twist!

Some variant comic book covers. I asked Google Gemini to do a retro 1960s and retro 1980s style.

My collectible action figure!

I found it curious as the AI did not change any other logo, nor did I prompt it to do that. It did it all on its own.

More action figures courtesy of Google Gemini! Jade Star Statesmini Opposite sides of the same coin - The heroic Superia Prime and the villainous Ultra Prime Ultra Prime \ Superia Prime For some reason, Google Gemini tossed the Superman logo on the box for this one!

The action figure toy pics are so much fun to create! My Funko Pop figure!

SG bases have no construction cost. I do like the idea of more Day Jobs though. As you mentioned, there are various construction sites that could be used as a "builder/engineer" day job. Perhaps earning that can reduce some of the crafting costs for recipes.

I would very much like an option to disable all buff VFX cast upon my characters. Power customization was a lovely and wonderful addition, but it does have its drawbacks in that you can become completely buried under layer upon layer upon layer upon layer of VFX and colors to the point where it becomes difficult to see what is going on in a team setting. Ice shields in specific are one of the more awful and annoying examples because even toggling VFX off does not remove them as it does with other VFX. P.S. Handy VFX toggle macro for those who might need it /macro_image "DayJob_AoEBlind" "Toggle VFX" "++noparticles"

I am not sure what you mean by "non-comic audience". I would think (hope) most people, regardless of being a comic fan or not, would understand that a man who imprisons people he does not like against their will and without any sort of trial is a bad person. As far as Metamorpho, you would think that being put in a cell along with your infant son would be enough to realize Lex is a bad person and would enlist Superman's help. I just find this part of the script a little on the weak side.

You are certainly welcome to your opinion, however we already knew Lex is the bad guy and I understand his motivations just fine. He has people illegally imprisoned against their will and without any trial in his own personal prison, including children. Not to mention his willingness to murder tens of thousands (if not more) by allowing the dimensional rift to continue growing. This scene in particular did not have any emotional impact to me as a viewer. It would have had a far greater impact if it were a character that I as a viewer were invested in. I think it was more to have Metamorpho see the light and help Superman, but I think that murdering falafel guy was not necessary for that to happen. You are of course welcome to disagree.

I found Jimmy to be utterly annoying in this movie if I am being honest, nor could I take him seriously as a "ladies man" with women literally throwing themselves at him for some bizarre reason. I do agree he would have fit perfectly in a GoTG film, as would Superman in many scenes. As some have mentioned, at times I felt like I was watching SuperQuill instead of Superman. I get that Gunn wanted to be more lighthearted than the brooding Superman from Man of Steel and BvS, however there were a few times here where I personally felt the pendulum swung a little too far on the eye rolling silly side. We can agree to disagree on the impact. I understand that and I understand it affected Superman. To me as a viewer, I have no investment in a random character with less than 30 seconds of screen time, so their demise has no impact on me the viewer. It did not add any sense of urgency to the story. I was not referencing BvS at all.

I would not at all mind if Synapse and Citadel had one or two defeat all missions removed. I think their respective stories would not suffer greatly if that were to happen. With that said, not every TF/SF needs to be a quick 4 mission and done template. It is still there, just in a different form. The advent of the various P2W and Day Job temps that allow for instant/near instant door to door missions were an acceptable replacement.

I agree and felt it did not have any real emotional impact. This would have been much more compelling a scene if it were Jimmy Olsen instead.

I am not surprised by this at all, especially given how popular manga is. Manga outsells Marvel and DC in the United States alone by a significantly wide margin and has for quite some time. Internationally manga has an even greater audience.

This is basically what the Heldenjaeger mission already has.

Setting aside that badges and accolades are optional, something that may work would be to reduce the requirements for defeat badges once one character on an account has completed a defeat badge. Cryptic added this sort of thing to their Reputation System in STO to alleviate some of the grind. When one character completes a reputation and reaches Tier V, that reputation becomes "sponsored" for every other character on the account. Sponsored Reputation projects reward double the Reputation XP, halving the time and resources required to complete. So as an example here, once one character on the account completes the Unveiler badge by defeating the full 100 Fake Nemesis, subsequent characters on the account would be required to only defeat 50 Fake Nemesis to earn Unveiler. This still requires some work to obtain, but it does lessen the grind somewhat. I am not sure how you could work this for other badges and accolades, and I imagine something like this would be very difficult to implement here given the number of badges in game.

First time players can get the Fast Travel accolade and unlock every zone without cost. First timers can get the Oro portal without any cost. First timers can also create their own SG and build their own base for fast travel without cost, with on of the SG base portals obtained without cost simply by logging out in their base. XP boosters at the P2W vendor are totally free of charge and new players can grab them right in the tutorial zone if they like. This is still not interacting with the game to unlock the accolades. Where does this line of thinking end? If we are going to allow accolades to be unlocked just by logging out, why not allow those with short amounts of time to play to log out in a certain place and auto level to 50? Maybe they can log out for a little longer and have all Incarnates unlocked, all accolades and badges unlocked and 2 billion inf so they can buy whatever they need as far as enhancements. I understand and empathize that some people do not enjoy the grind and it gets old doing so on every alt. This is a player issue though, not a game issue as the player can choose to either grind or not grind out rewards. Accolades are not mandatory or required.

This is only exacerbating the disparity. Those that can afford it will buy their way out whereas others who cannot afford it will have to "grind" out the accolades. Right now, everyone is on equal footing having to do the work necessary to get the accolade reward. That is true whether someone is a multi-billionaire or a brand new player starting out. Adding this a a P2W option only affects those without the inf.

Again, all this would do is make it that much easier for those with the means to buy these items while making them unattainable for those without. Even 20 million inf per passive accolade is cheap. This is pocket change for the wealthy in this game with billions upon billions upon billions of influence.