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But Carp is horrible with waffles. Why would you put those together? Seriously man, think!

We can create a fourth class, just for you.



Also, in before the "people just want a solo incarnate path that's as fast as the trial path." Because that's not the case at all. I think a third of the pace is more than fair, and it's not what we have now.

People want a reasonable pace. Yes, the rate today will be better than it was yesterday, but it's not at all reasonable in comparison to the trial rate.

People were asking for a solo path to incarnate that wouldn't take them a year to do.

But you're asking for powersets to be proliferated to an AT that doesn't get those sets. And it's not so simple to just change the AT mods to port these sets in. This would affect all of the melee attacks that these ATs already get. Also, this can create some REALLY gimped characters.

Take Storm Summoning, where your best hope of staying alive in melee range is Hurricane - which would knock enemies away from you meaning that you'd have to chase them to hit them with your attacks.

Or how about Thermal, which has no sort of PBAoE debuff to keep you alive in melee range?



Basically, there are some sets that work well for this type of character, and others where it would be horrible. Which is why it makes more sense to make this a new AT, and only bring over the sets where you'd have some sort of synergy.

But each one gets only one, maybe two melee attacks. And they're about 75% as effective as Tanker attacks. Except for Thunderstrike, which for some reason does more damage than the Tanker version.

If you play at off-times, you will make progress on incarnate stuff. However, you will make it at a SIGNIFICANTLY slower pace than running even a single iTrial that week.

Then you have better Facebook friends than mine. Mine overused this meme to an extraordinary degree.

THAT'S what it is! Thanks! Couldn't remember that for the life of me.

I want to say that it's part of HeroStats, but am not confident in that, since I don't use it.


The avatar is actually SeriousBLiz's drawing of what I look like when I'm mischievous, and arranging for Traegus to get a sombrero and birthday song in public.

I did say "likely".

The point is more that you're going to have three basic groups running the solo incarnate content.

1) "Hardcore" runners, who will be running it as much as possible, even so much as going through only the easiest content that gives the best rewards/time.

2) "Normal" players that don't have the time or inclination to do the trials, but will be running through all of the content, regardless of reward speed.

3) "Casual" players who may occasionally go into Dark Astoria, but won't do it every day or even week.


Now, the "Normal" faction is a tough one to define, since you're going to have players that only play a few days a week, or also have people that play every day, but probably wouldn't be considered hardcore players. But that is the group that you should be looking to balance it around.

If that group is taking months to achieve what trial runners can do in a day, then the progress rate is too slow. If the hardcore farmers can do it in a week, then it's still slower than the trials, though.

If you're creative enough, and can get the right angles/coloring, the jar is effectively invisible. But that is what is going on in the pic.

Hardcore farmers should not be used to determine a speed for content meant for normal players. Hardcore farmers will likely still be using the trials, anyways. I do think that starting a little low, and then bumping up is better than the other way around. My problem is that the Devs tend to be a lot slower to bump things up when they need it than they should be.

Well, I was thinking that they'd be the zone that the vendor is in.

Thanks to Thirty-Seven for looking into getting these:

All of the numbers are:

Nova: 56-925, 73-783, 87-878
UG Nova: 878-84
Imperial: 25-378, 53-276, 62-397
UG Imp.: 844-45
Neutropolis: 36-287, 48-273, 73-223
UG Neu.: 583-43, 782-63


Removing the UG ones, that leaves use with three vendors in each zone, each one containing 5 digits. Now, it could just be the last three digits, or maybe it's something like 925-56 = 869 for the first one. Not sure.

But if I have to make assumptions like that, then what's the point of having the number there in the first place? Why not just make the assumption up front of how much my character weighs?

If I want to roleplay the character as a 4-foot tall girl who weighs 800 pounds because she's made of some superdense material, there's nothing stopping me from saying that in the bio.


Basically, right now you can make a character weigh whatever you want, and the game doesn't disagree. If this suggestion were implemented, I could make the character weigh whatever I want, but it might be in direct contrast to what the game is telling me. Why would that system be better?

How would the character creator know if my character is supposed to be made out of granite or lead, or if I have hollow bones like a bird, affecting the total?

Wouldn't it just be easier to put in your own weight for what you THINK it should be?

Yes, Controllers are a support AT, but that was CLEARLY not what the OP was asking for, which you would have seen if you had read the actual OP.

You don't LIKE the stuff, and WON'T use it. Not CAN'T...WON'T.