UberGuy

This isn't really a question. At best, it's a rhetorical one - no player can be expected to answer it except by expounding their opinions.

I look forward to the recipe slots especially and the salvage slots to a lesser degree, but I look forward to both. Then again I play 50s most of the time and getting drops is a big part of how I play the game. Apparently, this reward is aimed at players like me. Some previous ones have not been. You win some and you lose some - welcome to being part of community diverse enough that the devs can only satisfy some of its members at a time.

More to the point, though, even though you personally do race to 50, and maybe even race to purples for those 50s, you seem to have other goals that keep you going. Maybe it's creating a lot of different characters. Maybe it's something completely not goal-driven - you might completely space on what the game is like if you play with friends every night. The important lesson in the quote's message is that if you race to the end of your personal journey, you won't have anything else to do.

And here's the part so many posters don't seem to get. The devs intended attaining multiple purples sets was to require a journey.

Just like we aren't supposed to *poof* and hit 50, they wanted us to have to take time to attain purples. Now, there are people who race to 50 likely faster than the dev's target speed for that, and there are people who attain purples more quickly than others. Both undertake various specific strategies to achieve those rapid attainments. Everyone is welcome (within some dev-imposed restrictions) to emulate those strategies. No one should expect the devs to make the same rewards available at the same speed to people who do nothing special.

What?

Seriously, do you realize what this power does now?

One-cap? Kind of like one shot, but different.

Without commenting on the quality one way or another, that was the explanation for it given on the official site at the time.

Defenders have not only soloed GMs, but Lusca, which is effectively a whole cluster of GMs. GMs are much harder to solo than AVs.

Massive -Regen for the win when solo. Stacking strong -DR on top of it for bonus points.

It will show you what's on your foe, yes.

However, this has been tested, and we actually understand the mechanics as well. It does not stack.

The IO's proc grants your target a temporary power that it uses on itself. The temp power is tagged "can have only one" and the self DR debuff is flagged "does not stack from same caster". So the target can only be running one copy of the power, and that power can never stack with itself. Thus, no matter how many different targets apply the effect, it does not self stac.

The PvP -DR proc works the same way, but is considered a different temp power, so the two effects can stack with one another, from the same or different sources.

You know, I read that, and at the time it never really seeped into my brain. He says it right here.

They always intended it to work this way.

Wow.

Fulmens is going to need to hire help destroying influence.

The problem is, that's not everyone's idea of fun. I'm not specifically promoting that it should or shouldn't be everyone's idea of fun, but I know for a fact that it's not. Having every spawn be a nail-biting risk of defeat takes a level of attention and focus that, honestly, I know not everyone wants. I have seen many players express over the years that a certain degree of being able to autopilot through spawns is relaxing for them.

I don't think it's good for the entire game to be that way, but I think it makes sense that, if we have no direct control over whether it happens at all, not every spawn be that way on small team sizes. I propose that having a boss in every spawn for teams of less than three is probably excessive if the bosses themselves are not jokes.

Part of the problem with perception here is that a given rank of entity, like "boss" is a radically inconsistent challenge. You can go from a boss type that's not especially frightening to one that is a serious threat to a wide array of characters, and sometimes this can happen within the same mob faction. (Carnies are a fine example, actually.) While I don't suggest we should have completely homogeneous challenges across the game, I do think the swing is sometimes too radical, especially given that the rewards rarely seem to match the challenge. I have always maintained that Master Illusionists should be worth significantly more XP than other bosses, simply on the basis of their auto-phase and uninterruptable summons abilities.

Carnies just seem to represent a very unfortunate confluence of the boss spawns rates' per-faction inconsistency and some especially obnoxious bosses.

Edit: I meant to add - if there was some way we could control the ramp up of bosses in our missions, that would be a fantastic addition for those folks who want lots of bosses while leaving those who don't the option to have some dev-approved minimum ratio.

That sounds like an outright oversight in the combination of critters that summon a replacement and the "no boss" setting. I'm betting there's a good chance he would have done that even on the old settings, but I'm not sure.

Yeah. This bugged me too.

How are the specs of your computer? The only times I have a problem with the market interfaces is if my machine is under load - like when I'm running two copies of the game. My older machine, which I don't use much any more since my new machine can run two copies of the game, has a significant delay when I click on the interface.

The interface isn't very resource friendly. It seems to load up every market item for the initial list, and it does so in a way that consumes pretty much all your CPU time until it's complete. If your machine is slow or bogged down, this can cause your game client to stop communicating with the server for so long that it counts it as a lost connection.

I notice it when I have to plink down the last couple of things that my cones didn't destroy, and I notice it probably more because I lack scourge on the Defender than anything else. But the rest of the time I don't really notice much.

They only stack individually. This is true in general, not just for Mitos. Holds only stack with holds, disorients with disorients, etc.

For purposes of Hamidon raids, holds are fare more widely accessible across powersets and ATs, and tend to be a focus even in Controller/Dominator powersets, so that's what the strategies focus on. As far as I know they could try to use disorients, but they'd probably have a hard time getting enough people who could stack enough of it.

There are other examples, too. Kismet uniques slotted in Invincibility end up giving a buff that scales with mob level, which isn't nearly as useful as users probably hope for.

I'm probably a little confused here, but why would they all be in different SGs? You just form an SG with one of the characters, and invite the others to it.

Edit: Ah, you're going to need some help to do that, though. TopDoc (and I) have multiple accounts, which makes that a no-brainer. If you're on one account, you'll probably need to invite a friendly assistant to help you get the other alts in.