Aliana Blue

Have you considered creating a custom group of recolored Lanaruu (sp?) elementals? I have no idea if they can be fully recolored though (and can the name be changed?) but it may be worth considering!

You know, when comparing with the old low level stuff, I'm sure many of us could name a number of MiA arcs that top them, easily.

I remember they hinted sometime that making player created arcs part of the "outside world" was something they did contemplate. This is probably a great reason to do it. Not like "hold a contest for best Posi TF remake" hasn't been suggested before...

Seriously, they could plunder the MiA and fill Atlas, Galaxy, Steel Canyon, Mercy Island, all the lower level zones to the brim with contacts and arcs for all levels - all reviewers in the MiA forum have found some stuff they'll qualify as good, or even great. It still needs time to go through arcs, testing, and selecting, and of course it'd be their responsibility to maintain them after that, but I'm sure it'd save them a lot of work. And it's not like they can't be editors and change arcs when moving them outside the MiA building to fit their gameworld (hopefully, NOT to add travel time!).

Hehehe. I still remember the crazies of the heroic instances during the burning crusade launch. One of my favourite were the coilfang... ****, was it champions? The ones that were "guarding" passageways down in the reservoir instances and came in pairs. They hit so hard that the encounter was sometimes harder than the bosses depending on the team The fact that most of my guildies (and I) we were fresh at 70 and likely a bit on the undergeared side didn't help... probably...

"The sheep broke!! THE SHEEEEEP!!

*SPLAT*"

Good times. I was a bit sad when they went and toned down all those mobs, but only because I enjoy human suffering. Well, that, and I no longer woke up in a cold sweat dreaming of a sheep suddenly turning into a giant scaly serpent and cutting me in half.

I love the new difficulty slider of CoH though, now if only they would add different rewards for using the enemy buffed/player debuffed settings, it'd be awesome.

Ironically, publishing an origin story as a player tends to go up like a lead balloon.

Maybe I'm biased (well, okay, I'm hugely biased), but Actin, my DM/Inv, stands at 56.5% S/L and 51.5% E/N defense when 10 enemies are in range, i.e., after a bane summon by Recluse, and is without a doubt ahead in terms of self-healing (Dull Pain + Siphon Life). I think I could probably cram a bit more defense for those two categories in the build if I ignore Fire/Cold def and/or remove a bit of recharge (or drop a fortune in a PvP IO). Plus the alleged Shielders with grant cover and/or manoeuvres, I don't see a /SR scrapper tanking Recluse much better than her.

As far as GW goes, Unyielding + Unstoppable puts one at 27.6 mez protection, an Escape gives 20 for 90 seconds (so you'd need four), and with 8 scrappers at the softcap beating the snot out of her at full tilt I believe it should be possible to drop her before unstoppable runs out. Why bother with Stimulants?

They're more of a guideline...

That aside, I'm likely to have two MMO subscriptions going once SW:ToR is released. Other than that, I am finding myself playing less and less videogames lately, recent Elec/Shield scrapper madness notwithstanding... <_< >_>

I think I'm burned out of fantasy games, so Aion isn't really tempting me at all. Shame, looks shiny, but I know I'll be bored before the startup month would be up.

Yep. EDIT: Hm, I may have gotten the name wrong? It should look something like this:

The idea is to promote specialization by requiring non-trivial investment to reach the highest returns, so as to limit the minmax of being able to combine several skills that give a large return just for a few points. Spreading the points to have several abilities would have a higher cost that way. The exact shape (or the steepness/shallowness of the different parts of the curve) is not as important as the general idea.

I always thought it would be better to use a sigmoid for returns, start with increasing returns for investment in a single skill, then diminishing after certain point.

The proc's not there to recharge Thunder Strike.

It's there to recharge Lightning Rod and Shield Charge, which should already be at 90%+ recharge

Best way to keep an eye on it is to get Dropstats:

http://www.glasspaw.com/dropstats/

It'll run through the logs, analyze the drops and tell you what you should expect and what you're actually getting. Very handy tool!

Yep. BaB & Co. have been doing an outstanding job with all the customization stuff. Mad props to them.

Well, one thing it does is explain why the Bronze Rolls in AE are priced as they are. Some people couldn't stop complaining about how cheap they were. Apparently, they were priced just about right if recipes outside AE had been dropping as they were supposed to.

That's always smelled like a load of horsecrap to me.

why? Well, take a look at what it says at the top:

Either they believe that whatever they put in the conditions applies (in which case the "void where prohibited" will cover them), or they think that all the legalese posted somewhere in a website isn't worth its weight in excreta.

Even worse, they ARE selling the product in Europe - as in, it's officially supported. It's beyond idiotic that they're not willing to look at the European directives and adjust the conditions to them too.