Oklahoman

I don't not want that title.

I appreciate the sentiment, while also acknowledging that @Laucianna and several others do a lot more for the community than I do. I just have a good PR team here at Oklahoman, Inc. I agree with incentivizing leadership, and over the years I've suggested several things related to that. I think it should be stuff that happens automatically and objectively, and doesn't rely on some vague process including subjective criteria. We can have special temp powers, inspirations, or titles that are purchasable from Luna once you hit vet level "X", or after you've led a certain number of things, or whatever. We seem to be pretty good about counting stuff that happens in the game, why can't we count that you've led Posi 1 twenty times and thereby unlock a temp power you can get that? And, we can make those special things only work if you are a team or league leader at that moment, or for at least 5 minutes, or whatever. Heck, we seem to like creating new currencies, so why not create "Leadership Coins" or whatever? If you lead a team at Mission Complete, you get 1 Leadership Coin. If you are the league leader at mission complete, you get 5. Whatever that looks like, then you can spend those Leadership Coins on stuff like a standardized gold title, special temp powers, special inspirations, etc. Personally, I think we need to be shedding currencies rather than creating new ones, but if we're going to create new currencies I think doing so to incentivize leadership in the game is a good investment in the community.

A lot of people have been asking for Empathy to get looked at again since Live, and at this point I'd be happy for it to get any attention whatsoever. I don't disagree with anything you suggested, but I've always wanted Empathy's Resurrect to be AoE (targeted or PB, whatever). And while I like your idea for Healing Hands I've always thought a cool new Empathy power would be a pet that's basically the opposite of a Dark Servant (a Light Servant?). But seriously, at this point if a patch note just said they removed a comma from an Empathy power description I'd be happy someone looked at the powerset.

Just FYI, this apparently also requires the Stargazer badge - in Night Ward (178, 944, -227)

Thanks, not sure why but I never could find that page. I was probably making my search too complicated or something.

Just checked: Server: Excelsior Zone/Mission: 'The Abyss' 2 Position: [1407.9 -512.0 -2710.2]

We've got $loc and $target, and maybe some others that my Google-fu is not strong enough to find. I'd love a few more: $team1leader through $team8leader So I can /say "Pass [Pacification Grenade]s to $team1leader and [Molecular Acid]s to $team2leader" $zone So I can /lfg "Forming Hami in $zone" And not have to worry about whether I am in Abyss 1 or Abyss 2 or (because it's happened once) Abyss 3. No clue what $zone should return if you are on a mission map or in a base. Smarter people than me can figure that out.

Should be [-1990.8 43.7 -2426.4] - was missing the negative on the first number

Great idea, so probably the answer is no. But, it would save this conversation: Oklahoman: "Who got the Triple Threat badge?" Player 1: "Thanks everyone!" Player 2: "gg" Player 3: "woah, that was fun" Player 4: {some nonsense about pandas} ... Player 24: "Got the badge!"

Do they summon ALL lores each round?

I don't know the answer, but I'm going to weigh in anyway because that's sort of what I do. You can earn a Master of BAF badge through 2 runs (Keep em Separated and then Strong & Pretty), or you can do it all through 1 run. Obviously, the 1 run is preferable time-wise, but it is riskier. Just 1 misstep here or there and you miss one or more badges. We're at a point where the vast majority of the time a single run approach is successful, but I still run it both ways so everyone can choose what works best for them. The zerg approach is a little quicker (as you mention), but riskier. I know we get complacent sometimes, but those of us who lead it know all too well how easily things can go south. It may look easy, but trust me - just a few disengaged people, or a few people bringing in low damage, and things can get uglier than truck stop sushi. And, we all dread the annual Trick or Treat event and people showing up with their brand new 50s to do a zerg - that's when we tend to see more failures than normal. I rarely attend the Hive raids, but that's mostly because I'm old and decrepit and need to be in bed by that time. But I am glad that - much like Master of BAF - we have people offering the player base some different options. I'm told a diversified portfolio (whatever that is) is a good thing.

Speed LAM MSR Dilemma Diabolique and lastly, a BAF. I had hoped to do a TPN today too but need to save that for another Monday. FWIW I think I enjoyed the DD the most. 😀

I guess it depends… is your Sentinel a Mastermind? 😂 im sure you get similar stuff with a Kheld only MSR. But maybe not, I haven’t run one of these in a few years now.

Lord willing and the creek don't rise, I'm planning to run a few Mastermind ONLY things on Labor Day. We're gonna try a Mastermind ONLY MSR at noon central time. Keep in mind that a MM only MSR generally does not net a lot of rewards. Level 50s can help pull by running to the top, dropping a JUDGEMENT, and running back into the bowl. FOLD SPACE helps. Beyond that, we're mostly complaining about the fps and making jokes. A common question I get for MM only MSRs is "Can I bring my {archetype that's not a mastermind}?" The answer is NO. Hence, mastermind ONLY. After (and possibly before) I hope to run MM only BAFs, LAMs, and TPNs. No badge runs.

I did a Twitch today and talked a lot about the different team 1 roles, so if it helps you can check the video here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2231195483 I think the video will roll off after 7 days or something like that.

I'm famously anti-Discord, though we do have one primarily for the league leaders and regulars to coordinate who is running which raid on which day. In-game, everything is coordinated on the /team channel. The good news is that really, once you know your role, there's not a lot of communicating to be done. For instance, if you are assigned Hami Taunt, there's really just a couple of times you need to type on the /team channel: Confirming your role - for example "<- Hami Taunt" or "I got it" or "I'm on it like white on rice" or whatever During the phase where we hunt GMs, announcing when your herd is clear - for example "Clear" or "Go {next taunter in the rotation}" The trick is really that very first run when you are doing a role for the first time and may have questions. That's why I posted this to maybe answer some of those questions up front. There's other chatter that happens on the /team channel, as well, but it's not necessarily required for the raid to be successful. If you are curious I can try plugging you into that observer role for a raid so you can see how it goes down. I may even try doing a Twitch stream and save it, just for educational purposes.

I'm taking the week off work, so the likelihood of a daily MSR at High Noon (Central time) and early Hami in Abyss (3pm Central time) went WAY up. BTW - been great to have some new people in the Team 1 Hami lately, and there will be a greater need for taunters and incanners in the early run as the week goes on. If that's something you want to help out with, be sure to read this thread and let me know in-game you are ready to go if needed.

I don't support server consolidation right now, but shortguy did make me think - what if on the server select screen it had a live window under each server name showing LFG on that server? If you were flexible with moving characters around and you might see that something is forming you want to join and transfer a toon to that server. My luck it will be full before I complete the transfer.

I'm all for adding to the incarnate stuff, but I don't want to create any more items I need to click, which I think is what you are suggesting. I think what I would prefer to see is something like each power getting bushed out more at the top level, possibly unlocking at certain vet levels. Just as an example (pardon the crude Microsoft Paint mockup): So, maybe the new item at the yellow arrow level unlocks at vet level 50, and the red at vet level 100 - whatever, pick a number. Maybe they require Transcendents rather than components because who wants to chase components at this stage in the game. As for what they do? No clue - maybe one of them carries a minor, scaling version of the power when you are exemped? Anyway, just a thought.

Probably an unpopular opinion, but I'd like to see us get rid of TOs (are those still around?) and DOs, and the simple act of adding a slot to a power will inherently boost the power a little. For example, if you 2 slot Fly but don't put any enhancements in it, you get a small boost in flight speed and endurance reduction to help offset the absence of TOs and DOs to fill it. That boost gets overridden when you put an enhancement in it.

I'm not super interested in playing the game on my phone. However, it'd be cool if I could get tells, monitor LFG, etc. from a cell phone app. I don't have a clue what that would looks like, and I bet it'd be a PITA to create, but I think that'd be cool.

It looks like a statement of fact, so maybe it should be moved to the wiki page.

Someone commented in a Hami run yesterday that you have it down to a science already. I was going to join your run yesterday but was at the tail end of an MSR and by the time I got out, you were gone. Hopefully I'll catch one of your runs soon.

If nothing else, if I could send stacks of items (up to 10) in a single email, that would help A LOT.

The whole thing shouldn't work anymore, as OP pointed out, "emailsendattachment" was removed with the Page released yesterday.