cranebump

Public school teacher. We’re trying to make it work with distance learning, with mixed results at present. My wife is support staff at a nursing home, so she’s still going in.

I’m not sure why a PUG would be less patient with a story arc, especially now that we can cosmic base so quickly from zone to zone. Maybe that’s part and parcel of the rush from one thing to another. That said, I agree that story content tends to be solo. I have this grand scheme to take my next toon from 1 to 50 solo, starting red, then running tips to get to hero status. Without the XP buff. I prefer teaming, though, so, it’s a tall order. I’ve never actually heard of anyone running a team from 1-50 all through story arcs. Considering that I’m quarantined till May, I’d be up for it, though.:-)

Correct. I was responding to an earlier observation about the lack of commensurate merits from story arcs redside v. Blue. I should have prefaced my statements with that. That said, if you run vigilante both sides, all the way through, you can cash in for over 200 merits. Gotta be lvl 40+ to run them all at once, though.

Citadel and Synapse at 1 and 1A. Quarterhell as well. My beard has 3 days growth by the time it’s done. That said, if you have a fun team, any of them can be okay. It’s those “put you’re head down and run like hell through every mission” teams that make the experience suck.

Regards the original topic... Today I ran with a good old-fashioned TP’ing Stone Tank. Haven’t seen many of these since reboot. For awhile, I thought Bio arrmor had replaced it entirely. On the flip side: lots of water slingers. The color combos make me feel like I’m teaming with a crazed Jackson Pollock.

I’ve always envisioned my main, Acrobattle, as being a denizen of King’s Row. Owns a bakery. Married, with a kid following in his footsteps (Acrobattery). His wife is an ex-villain turned Vig, turned Hero (I intend on playing her in the near future). Now, Gym Beam? Well, he ain’t from Paragon, but he got here as fast as he could. He’s based in Skyway, cause the rents cheap! Never got married, but came close a couple times. He’s mainly attached to his hat and his BFG these days. Glogre? He’s got a place in Faultline, sprucing up an entire floor of one of the abandoned buildings. He’s a loner who spends a lot of time patrolling the city. Friends with Acrobattle, so you’ll find him in Kings a lot. What about you? Where do your toons call home?

Red side signature WWD and Pandora’s Box give 4X merit rewards (or 20 merits) each.

Nothing about the game really irks me. It’s the speed buggies that fly through Task Forces who didn’t announce it was a speed run in the first place. A close second—teams where nobody ever chats with each other (but rattles off build discussion in other channels that pop up as bubbles during our mission). Not an irk, but makes me a bit sad-not enough story arc teams running. So much content skipped these days. It’s all Task Forces and farms. But, really, these are all pretty minor peeves in the grand scheme of things. Great game, still the greatest community.

Just wrapped up a first publication or 2 Arcs of a planned 3-Arc series called “Ordinary People.” The series are King’s Row centered and capped at level 20. Custom content, but uses well-known contacts Freitag and Becktrees. Full dialog, story-oriented, with foundation in established lore (it won’t seem so early on, but will definitely when all dots connect). Still polishing but hoping for some feedback on difficulty. Been soloing it with my capped 50, so not sure how accurate that is. In any case, have created an entirely new faction for the Arc 3 finale, which I hope to get first draft up next week. Will submit to scrapbot at some point. In the meantime, hope to get some reviews! Keep the torch burning, @cranebump Common toons: Acrobattle Major Viktory Gym Beam Glogre Acrobattery