Scarlet Shocker

If you hear anything of consequence, you'll find out soon enough. Don't take it to heart.

We are where we are. I would imagine it's very unlikely that we'll get any retconning of existing arcs or ATs just to make them "better." Agreed that all (V)EAT stories are less than totally satisfactory but they exist and work. Our volunteer dev team probably have more pressing things to consider and personally speaking I'm glad if that's where their focus is.

You can argue that Longbow already do that. They have a significant presence across the Rogue Isles despite the fact that they are (notionally) meant to be autonomous and under Arachnos control almost as a sovereign state. The reason there is no specific foe for VEATs is because when Kheldians first appeared players would cry like babies seeing void stalkers and quantums and stopped playing them. The specific foes had an overall negative impact on the EATs so Devs gave us a crappy clip show pastiche for VEATs instead.

So sorry Dad!

Do you add the +2 Mag proc to your holds?

All I did was open a door and you walked through it 🤣 I didn't specify location, period or mention any law suits, pending or otherwise. Nor indeed body or organization. Any inference you make here is your own

the more I think about OP's rant, the more it pisses me off. Here's a rant in return. It pisses me off because of his ignorant entitlement. His willing flaunting of the EULA and the conditions under which we play the game, which have been pretty consistent since I started in 2006. We have never ever ever been able to play copyrighted or trademark characters, and that's a given amongst 99% of the community. Now, especially, the one thing that can kill the game for us, and having it taken away forever is some wilful penicheese deciding that he can do what he likes despite what the rules say. That's formerpresident levels of entitlement. And it's dangerous because getting slapped with a lawsuit is probably pretty nail in the coffin for the HC team and our game goes away very suddenly. I'm gonna make a confession here: I do, have, and will, report copyright infringements to HC if I see them in game. Read above if you fail to understand why. I don't do it to "be a dick." I do it to stop dicks being a bigger dick to the community. If I have earned your opprobrium in the doing thereof, you almost certainly deserve to be put in the dick corner. If your singular lack of imagination requires you to make a wolverine clone rather the claws of wrath (you can have that name if you want it) then you need to consider why you're playing this game instead of trying to unstick the pages of your favourite Julie Strain comic anthology.

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I started playing a few months before I7 and Scarlet Shocker had all the debt badges before lvl 20

I have mixed feelings about this. I'm a big fan of KB as a great mitigator, as a player that typically plays squishy characters. It's a great tool to prevent me getting punched in the face by somebody with a big heavy punchintheface weapon. It's a very good way of keeping myself safe. The issue is not really about the KB itself - it's the basic disrespect somebody who doesn't take the team's skills and powers into account and respects other play styles. I have little time for somebody who knowing uses powers that bork the team's capacity deliberately. Everyone with a big slice of KB has other powers to choose from and it's not necessary to spam AoE KBs constantly.

At home he has a barrel, a Wurlitzer and his pride and joy an original Hammond B3

Thanks. That's what I needed to know. I am familiar with Contagious Confusion proc since I really enjoy plant as a power set and it turns Seeds of Confusion into something wonderful. It was mostly TPK. I've never heard that - I'm far more familiar with Team Wipe Also very impressive run by Kanil. Leads me on to my next question - do I mix and match powers from the Fortunata pools and the Training & Teamwork poos. It seems there's some useful powers in Widow Training and Teamwork

I actually wondered what you meant by TPK. That is not a TLA I'm familiar with!

I don't understand this part. Please elaborate

I guess that prompts the next question which is how does that differ from other forms of Widow?

Got her to 24 and just respecced Mostly range at the moment. It's confusing to know what to take. I discovered I've got a 50 widow too so I will compare and contrast as they say. Since I'm going for a Fortunata, what should I be looking for? What makes a good one as opposed to a mediocre one? I'm not thinking here necessarily about specific slotting of specific powers but more "general principles". I have no doubt I will respec her before she is put away for good

It's not the consequence of the NcSoft thing already. It is the consequence of stupidity. Just because it didn't happen before doesn't mean it won't happen again but I can say with a high degree of certainty you're going to log in tomorrow to find a few more character changes. What part of "don't do it" do you not understand?

I don't know how it's possible to get so upset about something so non-specific.

I often take Lev on my controllers. I just love the character of the powers and usually they have a useful "oh shit" button, but seems not here

I first used a Belkin Nostromo n52, many years ago. I've always loved the thumb jump and the movement rocker switch - I won't say it makes me a good player but it allows me to keep up with the better twitch players even in my dotage. I play a fair bit of MWO which is 100% PVP and some of those guys are very good so it gives me just enough of an edge to keep in the game. The Orbweaver isn't as good as the Nostromo (I had to replace my Belkin with a Razer Nostromo) but since those aren't available it's the best option. Sadly it seems nobody's really making anything like that any longer. I should also add that I use a razer Naga mouse so I have two sets of powers handy. I will typically use tray 1 as range powers triggered by Naga, tray 2 as toggles & travel and Tray 3 as melee/misc attacks on the Orb. It's a reasonable combo. I almost always have 7 trays in my UI and some ATs need pretty well every damned slot - especially with temps! This is typical; Doll's Eyes is my Plant/Poison troller.

Thanks that's useful @twozerofoxtrot I think what I want is something between a blapper and a troller, good controls but enough damage to be worth noticing. I'm gonna need Dominate and Total Domination, but the rest I'm a bit confused about. But given I've got effectively two sets of powers to choose from... it's a puzzle. What pools and PPP work well? Do I need a Patron pool or would I be better getting an APP? (Can I actually get one?) Any advice gratefully received.

And all this time I'd been thinking Radii were the offspring of Radio and would inherit his hatred of Television

I've been thinking a bit about this. I'm wondering (in a very inexpert way) if there's some value in maybe doing more with the Kheldian arcs - they seem to have changed significantly since their creation and they are far less popular than they were. Their story sounds interesting though I've not followed it in detail. They seem to run PPD (which I find extremely odd) and have little or no interaction otherwise, aside from PCs

I use an Orbweaver