Ynaught

My home server is Pinnacle, though I do play on pretty much every English speaking server from time to time. Altitis, yeah, I got it.

I'm one of those people who "complain" about the timing of the itrials. Though to be honest, it's more observation than complaint. Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and most Saturdays I am usually not online after 8pm eastern. Sunday there is the Talsorian Guard sponsored/lead Rikti Mothership Raid at 9:30pm eastern that I try and make sure I'm a part of every week. Sometimes itrials start up afterward, but the last few weeks they haven't been happening.

Anyway, I'm usually on more in the afternoon so would I like to see more itrials happen then? Of course I would.

Only real problem is that the server population (seemingly) can not support it. I won't use numbers to say how many people are on and playing when I'm on, simply because I don't have exact numbers and without them, anything I say is speculation.

So, on that note, do I welcome a solo Incarnate path even if that path is slower and not as rewarding as doing itrials? Yes, I welcome it with open arms. The solo path should be slower, but how much slower is what is being questioned.

I trust Bill and his observations. If I would have to hardcore farm the solo incarnate content for a month to equal what I could do in a weekend with itrials, that sounds too slow to me as well.

Considering I'm not likely to become a hardcore farmer, nor are a lot of other players, that would probably mean the solo incarnate path for an "average" player would be more equal to several months of the solo incarnate path to equal what could be done in a weekend on itrials. That is way too slow.

I haven't touched Beta to see for myself all the new content that's coming our way. I decided after the last issue that I tend to play the Beta too much and when it hits live I'm burned out since nothing is new to me and start looking forward to the next issue.

I think that what I will do is take a level 50 character that hasn't done ANY incarnate work yet and see how far along I get before I give up. Apparently the Alpha slot can be unlocked with the solo path so I want to start at ground zero to get a good indication. I may even keep a journal of my progress just so I have a record.

Something tells me though that I will be giving up on this little test rather quickly as not only am I working on getting one of my older 50's incarnated, but I know I'll be making a few alts, what with Darkness control and new changes to Stalkers and of course 2xp weekend coming up.

I agree, though I do have a low level Shield/EM tank I'm enjoying right now.

I'd tried multiple combinations on Stalkers and had virtually given up on them until I heard someone mention how surprisingly good an EM/Ninjitsu Stalker was. This was back well before the Energy Transfer nerf and I rolled one up. It was the first time I'd enjoyed playing a Stalker and made it to 50 just after the ET nerf. And really, the way I played it, I didn't notice the nerf as much as others.

Of course, I don't PvP at all, so I doubt I would.

I have a lvl 33 EM/Invul Brute that the ET nerf made unenjoyable for my play style and I just haven't brought myself to delete it yet.

So I can see EM being one of those power sets that may mesh well with certain AT's and/or play styles while being horrid for others. It's all personal opinion for the most part, though I'd be willing to bet that even the number crunchers would say that EM is near the bottom in terms of performance.

Improvements being made to Energy Melee at some point in the future could be possible IF the conditions are right in the Devs eyes.

I was hoping that the Magic Carpet would be an optional "skin" for the Rocket Board power. You'd still need to have bought the Rocket Board initially to buy the FC skin. Or if you didn't you could buy the FC for full price and then buy the RB skin at a reduced "skin price".

But instead, it seems that Paragon Studios is going to make you pay for what is essentially the same thing twice (or likely more), just with some cosmetic changes.

Now that I see how things are seemingly going to work, I don't know if I'll buy the [Wolf] non-combat pet that will likely be coming, since the German Shepard pet is already here. It won't be a new skin for the GS pet but an entirely new power.

Which sucks.

I have 1 character that the Wolf Pet would be awesome for but it wouldn't make much sense with any of my other characters. The GS may work with several other characters, but I haven't bought it yet because I want the Wolf more. And since the GS pet would probably see more use than the Wolf pet, I'd prefer to just have skins that I could change for individual characters. Give my character that could use the Wolf pet that choice and then maybe start using the GS pet on other characters.

Basically, the Wolf pet isn't going to be worth it for one character and the German Shepard pet, while nice, would probably just not get used much. But if it were a stepping stone of sorts to getting the Wolf pet, I'd buy it just so I could get the Wolf skin cheaper.

Buy the base power, then purchase new skins as they come out, if I want them, and then change at the tailor.

Maybe that's the problem. Perhaps there is no way to get these powers recognized by the tailor as "simple skins" and need to be different powers. If that's the case, I understand.

However, it doesn't change the fact that what are simply cosmetic changes are being sold at full price.

And as a result, I probably won't be buying any of these now.

I would like this question answered as well. If I could say spend $5, get me 5 'new accounts' that'd be VIP for a month and get not only 500 PP's on each of them (in addition to 2500 PP's on my main account), but tells and the ability to invite them to SG's...

Well, I had a response all typed out and ready to hit submit when I noticed a mistake I made. Being the somewhat OCD person I am, I reloaded the page after seeing said mistake and wanted to give the whole post another once over after correcting it and low and behold I see this post from Zwill.

Looks like my prediction was wrong, and I couldn't be happier!

Plenty of time to work out the bugs before Halloween! My favorite time of year (in CoH, not in RL) just got a jumpstart.

I have my own idea of why this would be more or less the date of i21 going live, so bear with me.

They won't release a new issue during an event, and the Halloween event usually runs for about 10 days, give or take. With Halloween being on Monday this year, I could see the Halloween event starting up on the Thursday before, the 27th, and having it end on or around the 7th of November.

Figure they would want at least 2 weeks of live time for i21 to work out the bugs before the event starts up and that gives an approximate i21 launch date of October 13th. I say the 11th since that would be the closest Tuesday and the VIP head-start would probably be the weekend before that so with any luck, i21 will be on the live servers for us on or around the 7th of October.

Am I right? Time will tell, but if i21 isn't live by mid October, figure the next window would be early/mid November and I really doubt they want to push it THAT far off.