WittyLibrarian

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Witty has it all.

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Burp.

I'm willing to share. It's just those damn Nerva Pirates stole all the rum and are hording it aboard a smuggler cargo ship in Mission Architect. You can recover all the rum and defeat Gaspar the Pirate King in Arc miss 3691- Rum Runners of Bloody Bay.
P.S. for a challenge, try keeping Wittypirate alive!

We're gonna try every pirate-themed TF on the books! Lessee, that would be... um... well there's S... ah, there's always Num... urm, how about Manti... no... this... this is sad, folks. Not only do we need Pirate Masterminds, we need Pirate TFs.

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It's the only way to get rid of them.

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Okay, lemme report some farms:
Maggie's
Max Yasgur's
San Gorgonio Pass Wind
Auntie Em's
Fruitlands
oh, and Animal Farm

All I can say on the matter is that when the time comes we are gonna have teammates on future PuG lineups that SQUIRREL! (pauses) Sorry. Just saw UP again and SQUIRREL! Damn my dog-like short attention span...

In honor of the Swedish Pirate Party securing two seats in the European Parliament, I hearby call all krewe of the Bloody Bay Buccaneers to consider TF runs every Saturday afternoon this coming July 2009.

Lemme know, ye seadogs of doom, if this be a pleasing option fer ye.

Last night I finally got I'Exile to Level 50.

He came into existence back in May 2005. It has been 4 years getting my Peacebringer to 50.

By comparison, my Crab Soldier Gecarcinus came into existence back in June 2008. He hit 50 by January of this year.

The problems I had with working on my Epic Kheldian build:
1) Added difficulties of Voids and Quants. Throwing these guys (and the occasional exploding Cyst) into door missions made it that much harder to solo missions, and more often than not I had problems finding teams. Without teammates I'Exile faced a lot of wipeouts. I noticed Villain Epics didn't get special enemies that could cause 3/4ths damage on them with a single shot. No other AT has this problem.
2) Difficulties with Enhancement slotting due to Nova and Dwarf forms. Take Nova and you have to slot 4 additional attacks: Take Dwarf and you have 5 additional powers. Take both and you really have to gimp yourself with regards to making either form feasible.
And the whole point of a Kheld build is the ability to shift into other forms: Nova and Dwarf may be choices and you could avoid getting them, but that would defeat the purpose of those powers being on your build in the first place. You'd be better off building a Blaster or Scrapper anyway if you ignore them.
And it's hard to ignore either form: Nova gives you decent damage dealing; Dwarf gives you psuedo Tankage survival and aggro control. You could roll with a Dual-Form (Nova/Human or Dwarf/Human), but you're still adding powersets that will require more enhancement slotting than normal. That hurts building your Human Form into any effective capability. And this is even with Invention Enhancements or Hami-Os to share slots with multiple boosts.
3) The inability to select Teleport pool. While the Warshade gets Teleport and Recall Friend inherent, Peacebringers are unable to aid teammates in need of a TP if and when needed. While this is a minor quibble, again compare this situation with the Villain Epics who don't get any common pools locked off. Blocking Flight and Teleport from the Hero Epics is unduly nerfing the PBs and WSs. This is nothing compared to:
4) Having NO Epic Power Pools at the 41-50 range. This is again in comparison to Villain Epics, who get to add Patron Epic powers that can provide additional variety to a high-level build. At 41 for my Peacebringer, I have to go back either to Primary or Secondary powersets I didn't want the first (or second or third or fifth or ninth) time around. Or look at additional common power pools that I might not have gotten yet. Nothing that could for example give my Kheld additional powers that could mimic Controllers some more (whereas most primary and secondary powers mimic Blasters and Scrappers).
I had, long time ago, argued that the Game Devs could create three Epic Pools for the 41-50 levels: one for each available Form (Human, Nova, or Dwarf) so that people who prefer one form over another could boost that form's performance with specific powersets. Got into a few heated arguments over that. I've come to think perhaps of maybe two Kheld Epic pools: a Defensive and an Active. Defensive Epics could have 6 possible powers to choose (2 Human, 2 Nova, 2 Dwarf) that could supplement your Kheld to act more Tank-ish or Defender-ish (giving a team heal aura to a Nova or Human form, for example; a Stun PbAoE attack for Dwarf for another). Active Epics could also provide 6 powers that could supplement your Kheld to act more Controller-ish or Scrapper-ish (a ranged Group Stun/Hold attack for a Nova, Mass Confusion aura for a Human, a coned melee attack for Dwarf, stuff like that).
The point is by Level 41, without the Epic pools to add more variety, you're stuck with adding powers you didn't want early on in your gameplay, which doesn't make you feel like you're earning any additional powers you want. Ergo, you lose interest in playing.

There were earlier arguments about the difficulties of the Kheldian build, but that was fixed with recent Issues where the inherent team-up boosts are now permanently active regardless of Form, which helps. There were also arguments regarding the limited additional storyarcs the Epic builds got to supplement their gameplay: personally I have no qualms about storyarcs, my problems were mostly with the Voids and Quants thrown into my Kheld's path gimping my funzorz.
Otherwise, the four complaints I've listed above explain why and how it took me 4 years to level up what ought to have been an AT that I could have leveled in 7 months. If only...

Congratz to the winners. None of whom were me. No, I promised I wouldn't cry... sniff... whimper...

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My SoA, Crab Twitchy is now lvl 50, Dinged on LRSF

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Gratz. My PB I'Exile finally reached 50 last night after 4 years of languishing, during a Sara Moore TF (Actually after the mission had completed, the team was kind enough to finish off a few remaining mobs to ensure dingage).

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Last TF I was on with witty was a ITF that he supprized me, He was willing to lead everyone to there deaths. Granted we got the abridge version of the Classic Witty Battle Cry "NNnoooo Team"

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I only cry out NOOOOOOOO when I see a teammate fall. Normally on a TF, I'M the one who dies early and often...

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LOL I remember doing an ITF with Witty and he had never seen anyone pull the entire platform to Rom.
Did you guys do this again for this run? or did you take the slow way of killing everyone on the platform?

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Heck no. Mass herd to Rom, roofs, win!

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I made the decision to follow Amygdala to the ends of the Earth. Into the gaping maw of DOOM ITSELF... which was fine for me because my Peacebringer's Dwarf form is slotted for massive Resist Damage.

Oh, and SQUIRREL!


The only problem? I had created a F10 Battlecry to flash during the uberboring I AM NICTUS scene, but I was caught in mid-chat tab and couldn't use it. DAMMIT.

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We were discussing your run on Ventrillo last night, and were amazed that you guys won a speed TF with Witty on the team

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And I only died three times the whole tf! Wait, four times.

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but then we saw Amygdala was part of it, and decided that she more than makes up for Witty's penchant for getting distracted by shiny things!


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SQUIRREL!
What?

I'm not sure but Wynterwylde might be there.

Looks like we got only one team to run a speed ITF. But we did it in 26 minutes, which was the fastest I've ever been on any TF. Great job guys!

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Gratz on 50 dom... how many dayz?

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For Dark Witty... more like years.

Rolled him, oh, maybe 4 years ago, originally as a Controller... a clone of my early Witty Blaster... but I tired of him as a Troller, and CoV came out and a few months after that I re-rolled him as a Grav/Eng Dom. And he languished ever since. Three characters that came way after he re-rolled got to 50 before he did. Two characters I created near to his original Controller origin made 50 before he did. Sometimes it felt like he would suffer forever... but that's apparently my PB build now... for I'Exile it's been 4 years and he's only Level 44. Wow.

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Oh no you're not! Youse guys aren't makin' me the murder!

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Where were you on the night in question? What were those Hami-Os doing in your possession? ANSWER ME.

The long twilit struggle of my Grav/Energy Dominator, Dark Witty, is over. He dinged 50 this morning running a time management mish for Pither.

Dark Witty is still quite mad, however, as he still does not have his revenge against both Countess Crey and his clone progenitor WittyLibrarian...

Oh, and I need 4 more Arc slots on Mission Architect!!! >

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If you've spent any time on BMT of champion, you will know how whacked out, bizarre, and incredibly insane its conversations can get. This thread is dedicated to those conversations.

However, I ask that you keep it (mostly) clean.

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Mr Squid: I know exactly what you are thinking taz. And no. It would not work. it would be incredibly painful.

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Cobalt would like us to move this to another thread.

If you read the blog Websnark then you know the guy is a CoH'er and he has an arc already made a Devs Choice. ID 1006, Ripping Out Reform. It's tough to solo so I figure teams should do well against it...

There is of course the possibility that any of these tidbits are coming. But being a clueless bastid means I don't know if that's so...

1) Pirate Masterminds. And more Pirate Masterminds. What, you were expecting CEO Masterminds? (complete with bailout inherent!)
2) More Strike Forces for Villains. There's no SF between 30-35 and 40-45 (lest you count Imperious, but that's not in a traditional zone). Respec trials don't count.
3) More high-end content for Villains. If Heroes has its own Shard realms, why not Villains?
4) More Epic power pools for Scrappers, especially fitting some of the newer Scrapper primary and secondary sets. Not everyone can take Dark, or Weaponry, or Energy epics to fit their build's theme.
5) What part of PIRATE MASTERMINDS do ye not get?
6) Radiant Tankers. Because sometimes finding a debuffing Def/Con for your TF takes forever.
7) Another weekend of Prestige Bonuses for SGs/VGs. There's been newly-formed supergroups since the bonus doubling of Prestige awhile back, and some SGs didn't have people logging in back then as well to ensure the increased Prestige count...
8) Day job badges for standing in front of the pizzarias: Delivery Job, which gives you 30 minutes of 5 percent travel speed boost or your pizza's free!
9) Three rings for the elves, seven for dwarves, nine for the race of Men. And one ring to rule them all! What, what? It's been done??? Sigh.

Turnout was okay, got at least 3 teams out of it didn't we?

Now we gotta focus on starting up some tankers in Infinity server.

I know OSHA_ over there, I'll drop him a line...

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Okay, TTT '09 will be pulling into Guardian server this Tuesday at 9pm in King's Row near the IP gate.

Hope to see some champion tanks there for the fun.

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:salute: will report for duty SIR

Alert! Thread Murderer spotted on the corner of Madison and 7th! Send all units! REPEAT SEND ALL... AAAACCKKK!

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Thats the spirit! Positive thinking :P LOL

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I just KNOW I'm gonna win the Most Gratuitous Use of the Word Nom category!!!

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See, BA, you didn't kill this thread... Not yet..

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My God! This thread's been wounded! Check these knife scars! Medic!