Snarky

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I need the name "The Coon" but some fat kid that never plays has parked on it

Patience sucks. Sort of like weightlifting. To be better at it requires much pain and failure update on that Mortimer Kal I needed… my SG (Cosmic Council) ran one last night completely randomly. Then I asked them to run a Treespec 1 and they did. Last two Trail/TF/SF badges i needed 1-29. 739 badges at 29 and doing Ouro for Goldside now. Still a bit of work left to close out 25-29 content but making progress. Patience. Sigh

When badging the river rat keep the closest to completion tab open and wait for the progress tracker to increment upwards. Most of those badges are real close to the vidiotmaps marker. I have done one complete arc (of 6?) in Ouro. Not enjoying it. Too many missions where you have to do X to do Y to do Z. Trying to stealth/speed and not knowing the mechanics can F one of those runs hard. Also working (like everyone) and trying to move this week. Praetoria was never going to make me happy, and this week is perfect for the feeling. Just grind this BS. I am hoping to pick one alignment 5 times and one alignment once while doing every story arc in Ouro 1-20 Praetoria and hope that completes it. If not I will be here to whine/seek advice. Thanks everyone.

You could spend a bit more if you boost all the purples to +5 This thread topic reminds me of a Dolly Parton quote. "It costs a lot of money to look this cheap."

So rarely do I get called easygoing. I must be going soft... The stinky fart faced doodoo head is more common. I'm a villain. I got standards! But yeah, this stuff is just not worth it. What homicidal sociopath bent on world destruction will throw a fit because they miss out on a bank robbery? Okay, maybe one or two will get bent on that, but really. There is more to world conquering than one job. I have experienced a bit of pain related to this recently. On my "badge everything I can before 50!" project. At 29 and missing two Task Forces. in LFG "Any interest in a Mortimer Kal?" "I would do a Mortimer Kal!" I post in LFG. I was badging Blueside so I transport to Sharkhead. I post in Sharkhead Broadcast and send a tell. This has taken less than a minutes. Get a response. "Team filled." Grrrrrrr. I send back "I was literally the only one to respond to your question in LFG" and get back "I don't read LFG" *facepalm. .....you F-ing posted in a channel you dont read.... So frustrating. Still need that damn badge too. But I am running Ouro right now, so maybe it will happen this weekend. Easygoing? I would throw that villain under a train in a heartbeat. But not worth tracking him down to get a grip on his worthless carcass. Okay, yeah, easygoing. I can see that.

Soul Mastery brings Night fall and Soul Tentacles. Adds more -Acc and immob and rounds you out at 4 cones. This is my answer to AoE on my high level Dark Dark. I can sit at a comfortable range and fire hose the enemies I go in for Blackstar and Soul Drain and sometimes Dark Consumption but i live at cone range or further 3 of my 4 cones are slotted with artillery for + Acc and range def the other gets bombardment and a sudden accel KB->KD

how can you kill that which has no life?

Most Freaks are susceptible to controls. A Snipe followed bu a hold or stun or fear or knockdown is very effective

I have a naming convention that puts 99% of my character names into stuff no one is remotely interested in. There is ONE name i would like. “Snark” on Excelsior. Never sent a message to who owns it. I am relatively happy with what i got. Just would love it for an active alt. (I have “Snarky” on all but one server.) This post is really just about wanting some common sense in the world. It is like looking at a bunch of people trying to move things around a warehouse when half the place is blocked by crates that have mot moved in 70 years. MOVE THE CRATES. Then you will have room

And to be clear i am not saying log into every character. One log in on any character for a few seconds preserves your entire accounts 1000s of names for two years. That is a 50 minute investment for 100 years of character name safety. Work with me here.

Your statement actually solidifies the argument against “protecting deployed military”. 3 months. No problem. We are talking two years. Were you deployed into a situation with no access to the outside world for two years? Has any American (other than PoWs and incarcerated service members) been without some access to the real world in two+ years?

being a prisoner of war. Military get 30 days paid vacation a year.It is not available "any old time you want it" being subject to the needs of the command. But 30 days a year to do whatever. including logging into the game. That is if your assignments have you under non computer access situations the other 11 months. (non stop nuclear submarine parking lot drills?)

Thanks. Been practicing (a lot!) with Dark/Dark. I chose it for the theme but it is a solid set. When forced into PB range you do get stronger with Soul Drain and Dark Consumption available. The sustain is good, and at low levels helps complete story arcs. Snipe main (usually kills), hold flunky 1, fear flunky 2, kill flunky 2, kill flunky 1....done. Of course as the missions get tougher or on a team you have to adjust. But once you realize that Touch of the Beyond can incapacitate and get into the habit of using it that way the world gets easier.

In discord “invite Clowny” one minute later “i cant find clowny” ”it has a zero in it i think” one minute later “ have clowny send me a tell” after another minute and resolution “oh i see it has a one and a zero in the name. Okay” net result 3 minutes lost for 20+ people. Thats one hour of gaming gone

Actually i have 95% of the names i want/need. But i see SG mates struggle with names. Or league leaders trying to invite someone and struggle. Because clowny is spelled c10wny but it takes three minutes to figure this out

So… I need to do everything in Ouro to get all Praetorian badges. Cool. Can do Now there is the alignment badge I still have a question on. I seem to remember from live that you choose one alignment in your first morality choice. Then in the next (5?) you choose the oposite and that nets you the rest of the badges. Does that work the same in Ouro?

I build a bit. I shop really good builders products like i am planning for Black Friday months in advance A top notch Farmer tends to be expensive due to use of Winter sets A Dominator tends to be expensive due to use of Purple Sets chasing Global Recharge after that it depends on AT/build goals etc. Hyperstrike built me a SS/Invul Brute when I found Homecoming. It is bulletproof. It uses a LOT of really expensive pieces to achieve a nearly seamless build. It is great. You could achieve 75% of the effect pretty cheap because SS/Invul doesnt have a lot of seams right out of the box Most builds are a mix of expensive and cheaper sets. I slap cheap sets in about 50% of most of my builds because they work best at what i am trying to do.

“Wherefore art thou my moniker?” - Will I Am 5I-I/\K35I*3/\R3

There have been a great number of folks who have wandered through Homecoming servers. Many creat dozens, even hundreds of characters. Glad to have all of you. For those who stopped in but have mot logged in for two tears or so…. Do we really need to save their character names for them? Really? Because…..

Hmmm. Good conversation. I am still lost somewhat though i was hoping for a clear path to get all Goldside badges available for doing missions in the LEAST number of steps. Most of the responses here seem to discuss doing ALL Praetorian content 1-20 that is in Ouro. Is that necessary?

Do some crimes.

I badged Goldside a couple (three tops) times on live. Long ago. Doing the weird alignment badges and stuff. It was long ago. My memory is not great on it. Now I have a level 29 that I want to badge 1-20 Praetoria in Ourro with. Then fo First Ward. Experience is shut off. Does anyone have a guide or suggestions on how to go about this? What contacts/choices etc? I have all the location/plawues/river rat etc. Just need the mission and alignment badges. errr, i think. Thanks.

you love the auction? your suggestion was to delete the auction... you only delete the ones you love.

You can do this. It is called console gaming. You obviously are not enjoying the mmorpg experience seriously though. Find a crew, start running activity you enjoy and soon you will be swimming in Inf. Then this entire thread will seem like arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin