Scarlet Shocker

Interesting point. some good comments in this thread too. I guess it all depends on what you want your AT to be. The OPs toon will be largely keep everything away and murder everything that's not EB/AV. But it's not really got the debuffs to take the big buggers down. One of the things I lovelovelove about Trollers is their variety. Different power combos give a totally different feel to the character, far more so than with other ATs I find and their strengths and weaknesses will very much depend on what sets you've chosen and your playstyle with that toon. Personally I find I play best with debuffs and lockdowns - my Earth/Ice is a case in point, but you can do lots of damage with Illusion or Fire when paired with other complimentary sets. I had a lot of fun with a Fire/TA without following the typical Fire/Kin or Fire/Rad methodology. I also find I make a massive impact on smaller teams. Don't forget the game is significantly easier with the introduction of Incarnates, and even tough TFs pre I23 are relatively simple now. But if you get a smaller team, say 3, 4 or 5 you'll notice your magic working much more obviously. I'd suggest the OPs toon as it stands is to provide a protective barrier for his team - nothing gets to them if he's on the ball but I'd also urge him/her? to experiment with other types and see where they go.

Did I mention Reservoir Frog?

Continuation of the story. New content, new powers etc. Continuous updates.

Amongst my other punnish names I have a Warshade. It was a concept after a thread on the old live forums when Back Alley Brawler was still around. Somebody complained about casually playing on his purpled out Warshade. BABs called him on that, in an amusing way and "Purple Doubt" was born.

Nice dig. I love how you managed to slag off a small team of unpaid volunteers who kept the dream alive with minimal funding and few resources in just one sentence. That's classy. Well done. Give yourself a medal I wonder how much better you'd have done.

I love some of the "trash" S/HOs. They offer great flexibility and help complete a build. I am really against this idea because they would suddenly become ultra rare and get stupidly expensive when right now they have value /jranger

Razer Naga Chroma I also use an orbweaver which is a dogpile compared to my much beloved and dearly missed Nostromo n52

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SCORE servers ran in secret for a number of years with pretty good numbers. Sure, some of the new servers will fall by the wayside. Darwin predicted this. Indeed some already have for varying reasons. The game will continue for as long as people are prepared to keep it going. It's a collective effort.

My take on the game is perhaps not the same as most. I find the game solo is fundamentally less satisfying than many other games designed for the solo experience. I love this game, but it's much better in a team. I also find that although there's a lot of "entry level" content, some of it's pretty difficult to access, again, doubly so, solo. And many players want to get to 50 as quick as they can, just because they can. I won't say I've never done that (mostly with concept characters I want to use in high level experiences) but I find it pretty frustrating. I love the "normal speed" journey to 50, if I have a character I'm enjoying. If not I will PL through some levels just to see if it changes/improves. But my typical experience is to play it to 50, learn its quirks, foibles and interesting abilities, then IOs and Incarnate. Sometimes it takes getting to 50 to realise it's a bucket of puke and then it'll get deleted. But I'll have given myself time to make an informed decision. If I could get more prople interested in content runners, I'd be very happy but I tried doing a thing in Praetoria, and got a few people who said they'd join but nobody showed so, meh. Apathy is dull.

You might guess from my name that Scarlet is Elec/Elec/Elec. That's not the best combo and /EM does encourage you to melee a great deal, and some of the Elec Blast powers are PBAoEs. It's difficult not to blap. I also have an Ice/Energy blaster who's an absolute monster, called Snowfreak. I mean she's a real beast and does a shed-load of damage, hits like a truck but not too many AoEs (though the T9 is a big AoE) One thing Elec does quite well for a blaster is control so if you're soloing a lot, especially at higher levels you've got three solid holds and some good mitigation - if they can't move, they can't hit you. Why not play both and see which one you like most?

ok there's a lot of posts already and I've not read everything in detail, so apologies if I'm repeating a question. what is the status of the Euro forums in this project? For many years the game suffered from a dev-inflicted trans-atlantic divide and we were very much the poor relations for a very long time. I hope if you're going to bring back the US forums, you'd also consider bringing the EU forums too, though I'd understand if it took a bit longer.

the problem I find is that if I leave out some busy groups, I miss lots of into but if I have it in more than one window it swamps

I found that zoning or entering a mission resets it. It was a bug on live I think too.

Well it seems this is a bit of a bust. If you're still interested, please post here again and let's see if we can revive it.

Sonic/Rad Blaster Mine: Human Resources Scarlet is Elec/Elec/Elec Blaster - my 2nd ever toon from 2006 Human Resources is... Thugs/Pain/Mace MM

Water armour destroys paper armour very fast, but it does give paper armour huge +def bonuses against fire!

So you post a character name here, and then the following poster has to identify your AT and your Power Sets, including A/PPP. One guess per name. 4 points maximum. If you don't get max points, next correct guess gets 1 point for following on with a correct answer. Following entries (assuming there are still discrepancies) get the pleasure of playing. Obviously don't be a dick and type; Character Name: Bob. There has to be a clue in it to make it fair for others. Post your global too. I'll start Global: @Riff Character: Scarlet Shocker over to you

It's just a police box. That's all. Move along, nothing to see here... ;-)

So I'm in a distinct number of chat groups in games, and finding keeping tab [sic] of all the potential places to have a conversation with my fellow players is proving to be somewhat confusing. How do you guys tend to arrange yours in the most efficient and user friendly manner? I'd love to see and maybe crib some ideas from you.

One set I've not seen mentioned here is /thermal. That goes brilliantly with Earth, but a team build. Not great solo but it helps Rocky a lot with shields, has slows that stack and some good debuffs. It's a monster at controlling a room, while the rest of the team go kill/maim/disfigure

I MUCH prefer Dark to Ill. I guess it depends on play style. Try both. (And plant) and let us know what you think.

I've played a LOT of controllers to 50 (and even deleted a few) as well as other ATs. I do notice that some are less effective at the point of turning 50, but regain that and more once slotted and built right. It's very rare that I have a toon built the way I want it as I ding 50 (read: Never) so usually a good couple of hours in Mids/Pine, then a critique on the forums, then a few missions collecting the stuffs I need to make it go right and then look out world. I think that one thing you've not taken into account is that a full team of anything can make each individual seem a bit superfluous, so not surprising you're not quite ready but the beauty of this game is trying to do things differently. I've had a lot of fun doing duos and trios of major TFs, which make it much more challenging, and that's when you see your worth really shine. I'm not going to shout down Sovera but I do disagree with their point. I think s/he has drawn the wrong conclusion to a perceived problem. Any 8 man team of any ATs pretty well can stomp any content lower than incarnates. Here's a really important question that only you can answer: Are you enjoying playing your character?

ok just checking in for tonight, hope you chaps can make it.

You are tying three together that don't have to be connected... As a human, we can feel conflicting emotions...I can be excited about getting a free steak dinner, find out the restaurant is out of steak, and I get free hamburger instead...Is getting free hamburger bad? No. Am I negatively impacted? Not really. Am I disappointed? Yes Again, that being said...Why do people ever say "No" to things then in this forum? It seems hypocritical to say in this thread - let the dev's do what they want, but in a Damage Meter thread it's no no no you can't do that. I love your analogy, but I think you're doing the Devs a disservice. In my experience, they've kept a pretty close eye on what goes on and then there's the tossing around of cost/reward thing. In this case that metric is slightly different as in profit isn't the motive it's simply an equation of [man hours/benefit] Resources are finite. They pay attention. You/We have our game. Suggest away but don't be disgruntled* when your project doesn't see the light of day. You can still play! *have you ever met anyone who was actually gruntled?