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Pretty much what Rosen said.
Now, if only they'd add the damn Warshade powers to AE
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Theres something about girls and GBFG's (Great-Big-Fragging-Guns) that really works well, eh?
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/Signed. I'd love to see more done with the place. There are so many utterly wasted zones (yes, wasted) that, Praetoria excused, I'll be incredibly hacked off if I see anymore more new zones until some of the older ones get a much needed revamp. Stuff like the SS is screaming and begging for some actual content and people actually using it.
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Nightwalker is fairly sociable. Hell, if you work for him, (and dont try to double cross him) he can be postively warm and welcoming.
Cross him? Oh, you're in real trouble. Never cross a Nictus scientist with an agenda
But he's generous with his rewards for those who work for him. After all, it's only logical to give incentives that people will talk about, thus creating more oportunities for people to work for you. -
The low quality Praet star in the background lets it down.
Still, it looks really nice =] Keep 'em coming, GG. -
Quote:What? Where?Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
Personally, I'm happy they gave us a few missions that require more strategy than "run in and punch the big bad until he falls over". And I hope they continue to give us such missions.
I must have missed those ones. Seriously, theres next to nothing different. Trapdoor? Spanked about with Bots/Traps, so much so that the hardest point was getting to him after because he fell in the lava
Honoree and Holtz? Holtz held me up long enough to make the Portal Rikti an actual problem, one not easily solved by tactics, other than...you guess it; Pull Honoree out, punch (shoot) until he falls over! -
Quote:Heh, I had planned to do more of the starter origins one, but I ran into AE problems with Rick Davies one. Wish we had the tools the Devs have, would make life a lot easier...Originally Posted by JonScott
Oh, that's perfect! I've been digging through MA, hunting for a starting Hellions arc for my Magical characters. I'll play it and rate it next chance I get (which should be this weekend). No guarantees I'll like it, of course, but if I don't, I'll at least tell you why.
I really need to start hanging out on the MA forum more.
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Quote:PvP what now?Originally Posted by Bright Shadow
Do you also complain about how you can't slot PvP IOs on your character because you don't PvP?[/FONT]
No, seriously, you've lost me...
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Quote:*Hiiiiissss!*Originally Posted by SkarmoryThePG
I paritally disagree -- however, 5 minutes is too long for a debuff of such potency.
Now, if it was, say, -20%, and could stack up to 3 times...
Stack nothing. 20% for 2 minutes or less with its current recharge. That would at least make it less horrendously onourus. -
Quote:Exactly. Shards are anything but grindy. Just mowing down normal missions, TFs and SFs at 50 drop pretty decent numbers of shards.Originally Posted by Aura_Familia
Seriously, that idea would make shard gathering even more grindy that it is. (Not that I think it's grindy at all, but some have said it is.)
VG merit levels, though? Hell to the hell No! Those things drop about once in a damn blue moon... -
Fullmetal Alchemist?
The Elric Brothers, Edward and Alphonse. Ed is the titular Fullmetal Alchemist (although most people assume his little brother, the hulking suit of armour, is actually him Ed hates that) Due to an alchemical experiment gone wrong, where they attempted the one taboo of alchemy, the brothers are now searching for a way to give Ed back his right arm and left leg, and to get Al his real body back. But the odds they have to go up against seem endless, even with help from other alchemists and members of the Amestrian military...will the brothers ever find what they are looking for, and discover the truth behind the legendary Philosophers stone?
And no one has mentioned this psycho why?;
Hellsing is definitely worth a shot, in my opinion. Fairly short, but well done and, really, theres something about a headcase like Alucard that always makes me smile
The Hellsing Organisation is the ultimate weapon of the British Crown when it comes to hunting the undeda and other freaks. The secret to their success? One of the most powerful living weapons in the known world; the rogue Vampire Alucard.
But have even Hellsing met their match when forced up against the last remnants of a long dead organisation, the mysterious and terrifying Millenium Group and their Last Battalion? -
Yeah, my pets have started vanishing again. Damn that bug...
Also;
Quote:So much winOriginally Posted by all_hell
Yes, yes it is back.
Funny how long it takes me to notice it. Was on a ITF the other day with good buffs. We had almost finished a mish when we, the brutes and scrapper, noticed we didn't have our toggles up. lol.
GJ buffers ty
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*Hauls back onto the front page*
It's not dead or dying! I've just not quite made time that I should have!
I've also been practiscing digital sketching and, suffice to say, the final 6 may get a slight upgrade due to the wait
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Quote:Sadly...I know that, for free, I'd re-design the low level blueside content that they seem insistent on leaving as a big, smouldering pile of fail. I even managed Azuria's arc which seems to have gone down well so far (shameless plug in signature)Originally Posted by je_saist
CookieCake! http://www.greatamericancookies.com/cookieCakes.html
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As kind of a side note / edit, getting players into canon-lore or events was one of the (unspoken long-term) goals of the AE system. Fearghas, for example, is now Dr. Aeon, largely because of his extensive work through Mission Architecture.
What the developers probably did not expect was the rise of A.E. Exploiters, and the flood of abusive cliques who work to up-rate stories of the clique's creation, and down-rate stories of other players. The very short-term effect has been that Mission Architecture, as a tool for Paragon Studios to filter out genuine content creation talent and then use that talent to produce officially published content, has largely been marginalized. -
Quote:Wait, what?Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
I actually like the idea of Incarnate Shards dropping with the commonality of Vanguard merits, with Incarnate boosts having costs comparable to those of Vanguard costumes or temp powers.
Who the hell are you and what the smeg have you done with Samuel Tow?! O_o -
I only have the one 50 at the moment; Alpha, my global.
So, by the time I get the next of my way-too-many alts to 50, yeah, I think I'll be taking them Incarnate. Then it'll take ages to get the next one to 50 and...so on and so forth. So I won't get too burned out on it
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Quote:Originally Posted by EvilGeko
He/She uses it on you.
There is absolutely no reason that any encounter needs to be completable on the first try.Quote:Originally Posted by Stogieman
Ahem.....
"You should have a Power Analyser."
*waits for the carnage*
Quote:Originally Posted by SwellGuy
Techbot Alpha, want to help me kill some humans?
Why yes, yes indeed;
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You, sir, have won
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Quote:And I'm supposed to know he/she has that power how exactly?Originally Posted by Rush_Bolt
My apologies on that point.
In either case, as you've said you had played through the RWZ content before and had faced off against Curse-wielding foes before... this still brings up the point of why didn't you stop to prepare the moment you saw Holtz.
Missions are not things that must be completed immediately. If I see something in a mission that I'm not prepared to handle, I back out, get set, THEN I come back and deal with it.
(If anyone says I should have a power analyser or w/e I swear I am going to murder people...) -
Quote:From; http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Vanguard_SwordOriginally Posted by RemusShepherd
I've now soloed this arc with my Plant/TA Scraptroller. If she can solo Honoree then anyone can. I ended up not scrapping much -- I threw slows and immobilizes until the EBs stopped moving, then hit them with resistance debuffs and whittled them to death.
Still haven't been hit with this 'Curse' everyone's talking about. I'm beginning to think that it's mythical.
Thats -50 endurance. Not -50% recover; -50 Endurance from your actual Endurance bar.Quote:
Curse of Weariness (Ranged, Lethal, Foe -Defense) Cursed
You are tired. Your endurance total has been reduced.
All the people banging on about +recovery stuff; it doesnt matter. You still have 50 less endurance. Thats a huge ammount, for five minutes. Especailly on stuff like MMs, where recovering downed pets takes a crapton of end. -
Quote:Time Taken=!DifficultyOriginally Posted by Fiery-Enforcer
I agree with the OP, if anything they should make them harder. I've heard in beta that these new TF's were hard, but yeah not really. The first time running Tin Mage and Apex took a combined time of under an hour to complete.
Would you say the SSTFs are 'harder' than any others? Or just, y'know...time consuming and mind numbingly dull?
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Quote:If by one person you mean me, then no. Although the forced downtime as I reloaded my bots after downing Holtz, waited for the two-petbuffs-equals-end crash to end, re-toggled, waited for the curse to end...yeah, that resulted in the Room of a Hundred Rikti that I've been griping about.Originally Posted by Doctor_Gemini
I think only one person is claiming the Curse makes the mission impossible. The rest of us simply think that a 5 minute duration is insane. I got hit with the thing twice on one character when I did this in beta and it just meant running away and sitting there twiddling my thumbs for 5 minutes waiting for it to wear off. That's not fun for a pretty much pointless ability. That curse ended up being the only thing I disliked about the arc.
I'm with Sam, the Curse is not a fun move. At least stuff like Malta and Carnies, while short term potentially lethal, do have coutners. The Curse? You either have the breaker, or your sat there waiting for 5 mins. -
Aside from the one annoying mission (Rikti portal spawn spam and the damn Curse of Weariness) Ramiels arc wasnt too hard. I'd have been in a better mood with it if 1)I'd had more sleep, 2)The first mission wasnt bugged for MM pets, in that you can ONLY buff them outside the mission, something I tend not to do out of habit and 3)The afore mentioned lucking out with the Rikti Portals.
Overall, though, it was well written and very much a fun play through. I'll be better prepped next time.
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Quote:This. Thank you.Originally Posted by Diggis
He wasn't saying he was. He was saying that people who say you should go in prepared with the curse breaker were full of it cos he didn't want external notice of what was going to happen. Lady Grey didn't tell you so you can't know without reading it here.
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Quote:Thank you for the patronising, from everyone.Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
He has, I'm assuming, played the RWZ content before.
He's thus been exposed to the Rogue Vanguard and some of the tricks they have, including the curse breaker. The Curse is used even on lower difficulties.
He's told in the briefing that there's a rogue Vanguard operative in there. And to bring friends.
It's not a stretch to think "Hey, I don't know exactly what TYPE of Rogue Vanguard is in there, but it's supposed to be a tough one. Maybe I should grab blues/that curse breaker/etc."
Now, someone that's at 50 without having played the RWZ stuff? They'd have an excuse. It would be a completely new power being used on them.
Yes, I've played the RWZ content, on Alpha and other characters. Yes, I knew about the Curse already. However, I also knew from overhearing/reading about the Honoree cropping up in the new arcs. When I saw the 'Bring Friends' part, I automatically assumed, correctly, that it was the Honoree.
Holtz is an EB with powers from BOTH the VG Wizard and Colonel. I'm sorry I obviously don't have the amazing and impeccable foresight of people in this thread, but anyone claiming I "Should have known" is frankly talking BS. If Lady Grey had explicitly said 'Holtz is one of out top operatives, You should make sure to take some extra equipement to counter what he/she is capable of throwing at you." then I would only have myself to blame for not heeding the advice.
As it is, The Curse has no counter measure outside of the Cursebreaker (No, chomping blues does NOT work because 1) they are finite 2) I have pets to resummon, which takes a huge ammount of end which I no longer have) so, yes, its a cheap trick to pull in my opinion, especially with Holtz's already impressive arsenal and powers.