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As far as we know. I22 had new maps for AE, but they weren't included in any patch notes or overview pages. We just had to find them. So they may sneak in more stuff this time around, too.

Do you mean these?

Stop whining, please. They can't bust out a new powerset or costume pack every week. Not only that, if these items are gonna be in the market permanently now (since I'm not seeing a time limit on the forums, at least), then it's a very successful week IMO.

Whatever helps you sleep at night, dude.

Apex and Tin Mage's TFs destroy Kings Row and Skyway City. But they're okay once the TF is over. Magisterium nukes Nova Praetoria, but you can still visit it and hang out with newly created Praetorian characters. Just sayin'.


Phasing only screws with zone events when it's a portion of an entire zone being phased. But if it's just a contact, it's fine. Otherwise there wouldn't be ToTing or Holiday events in any of the Praetorian zones, or those Protest/Syndicate/Ghouls zone events.

It raises further questions when they retcon'd States and Psyche out of RV, even though that was just a possible future, too.

It still can't. Not in a public zone, anyway. What the Doppelganger tech does is check whoever goes into the map and makes a duplicate of Person A. Everyone on the map sees a doppelganger of Person A, not of themselves. So if they used this in a zone, it'd only be a statue of Person A and not of yourself.

Plus this "statue" has what looks like an Invinicibility aura. So I don't think it is a statue after all. But we'll just have to wait and see on what it officially is.

That's a lot of cool opinion, man.

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This.

Might want to loosen that tinfoil hat, buddy.

Not really. Sure, you won't see any Rikti celebrities being worshipped by the masses (IMO a step up from humanity), but looking at certain arcs such as the RWZ ones or Angus McQueen's, Rikti are capable of individual thought along with being in their hivemind.

The lack of a want to kill each other makes them non competitive? Just because they coexist much better than we do doesn't make them worse. Plus they still keep a military strictly for ceremonial purposes. Therefore, they have ceremonies, which are usually for celebrating something, like incredible achievements.

The Rikti War and studying Rikti tech is what lead to the average tech hero being so strong. Teleportation (which is something we still can't achieve in the real world and is no small marvel in and of itself), mass produced advanced weaponry and power suits used by the PPD, Crey, etc., medical breakthroughs, and so on were only made possible because of recovered Rikti items. Even Arachnos became far more powerful from it, creating their Arachnos Fliers based on stolen Rikti designs and tech. Remember, Rikti tech was so advanced and powerful that they managed to nearly annihilate us in the first war, and would have had it not been for us going on a suicide gambit and exploiting a weakness of their's we managed to discover.

Considering Nemesis was a mastermind that managed to conquer the entire continent of America for a brief time by exploiting WW2, and has had his hands in so many simultaneous plots all throughout the world through clever infiltration and robotic duplicates? He's not a common Skull thug, you know.

Nemesis brutally rampaged through a peaceful society under humanity's banner, all while using the image of the Freedom Phalanx specifically. Combine that with the fact that he manipulated the current Lineage of War, someone who was incredibly motivated even by Rikti standards, and gave him a reason to fight and an enemy to go after, and it's pretty easy to see why they became motivated to strike back. I mean, look at what Pearl Harbor or 9/11 did to the U.S. public.

Honestly, I recommend you run Angus McQueen's arc and the RWZ arcs and really pay attention to the story and clues. Maybe do a little research on Paragon Wiki, as well, 'cause there are some pretty interesting things to read that pertain to backstory, lore, and the Rikti's place in it.

No. They communicate telepathically via a hive mind network, are naturally peaceful with one another, have incredibly advanced technology, and tend to be very intelligent. If anything I'd say they transcended past humanity's flaws rather than fell behind and became weaker.

That's a matter of personal opinion on the part of the one wielding the power. One may want to look like Galactus, another may want to look like a guy in a suit and nothing more. It all depends.

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It's not about luck or reflexes.

Keep this in mind. If an AV just used their big attack that gives you the big warning, you're guaranteed to be safe from that kind of attack for a set period of time. That period of time varies based on the AV, but I don't think any of them are shorter than, like, 30 seconds. During that time, use your big, slow activating stuff, since you'll be safe. After some time has passed, start using the quicker animating attacks and be ready to move once they trigger the massive attack again. Rinse, repeat.

They don't spam those massive attacks every 3 seconds, so it's all a matter of just being prepared and paying attention. Mostly paying attention. You can't expect to just run in blind and mash keys for 30 minutes.

An otherwordly, omnipotent, incredible being that's more cosmic in appearance than actually god-like, yeah. I always loved that about him. He reminds me of someone Silver Surfer would encounter. And considering the appearance of the new Shivans vs. the old, I have high hopes the Battalion will give us a legit cosmic threat that isn't religious or just humans from another dimension.

Also still waiting on a citation for the whole Rikti-destroying-their-Well thing. Not surprised, tbh.