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This would be a good addition. We have some of these (I just did one on my new level 5 FF/Dual Defender in AP) adn they make sense thematically.

But chaining them otherwise can be quite annoying, as with the Doc Buzzsaw set of missions mentioned by T_A. Especially in the lower levels where you could easily outlevel parts of the chain just by playing thru them. Doc Buzzsaw is a chain you hit in your 20s, and depending on things like difficulty settings, I could see someone levelling a time or two while playing thru it (although I have never had that happen to a character of mine because I mainly solo on normal settings). Throw in a few missions elsewhere for whatever reason (joining a team for a bit perhaps) and it becomes even more easy to do unwittingly.

Eliminating the irritating "take this to Crimson", "no, take it back to Indigo" missions would be greeted with great shouts of joy, so perhaps adding a few at higher levels would be an interesting change.

I love Italian Greyhounds!

Have you tried to "course" any of them? You set up a course with a continuous loop around various pulleys and tie something onto the string (a plastic grocery bag works just fine), then pull the loop thru the pulleys.

Any dog will chase the moving target, but the Italian Greyhounds are wicked fast!

Yay!

I hope you got the contact info for that tank - sounds like someone to team with again sometime!

They are indeed the same thing. KD is KB with a Mag of 0.75 or less.

As for whether the popularity of Energy rising if there were such a thing - I doubt it.

What would happen would be team leaders who require that the Energy blaster MUST have such enhancements or be kicked from the team. Not all team leaders, just the ones who are taking shortcuts (avoiding calling them lazy because it could just be they haven't learned enough about mechanics).

Note that the only way to know if such enhancements were in place would be to observe the effects of blasts on the spawns, since no one has access to what enhancements are slotted on another player's character. Also, some spawns (Clockwork) are vulnerable to KB, so even slotting for KD might still KB the spawn.

Having those enhancements in my powers would mean that I lose my best mitigation in solo play - I want the bad guys way the heck over there, not at my feet - unless I spend the Infl to fully set up my Dual Builds as one for Solo and one for Teaming. For an IO'd Blaster, that gets a bit pricy.

Finally, as I said above, the Energy Blaster/Defender/Corruptor almost always gets the blame for KB even though there are other powersets that do KB, even a few Melee powersets have a KB or two in them. I don't think having enhancements would change that, because as I said above, there are Team Leaders who don't know enough about the mechanics of the game to understand anything more than "All KB is the Energy Blast character's fault".

P.S. Claws - thanks. Good to know I'm not a retarded monkey!

I can't tell whether this is supposed to be sarcasm or just downright insulting.

How would following this prescription make my experience playing on Freedom "Having my cake and eat it too"?

I am part of communities on a couple of servers (so-called low-pop servers) where the interaction takes place thru globals while people are <gasp!> soloing. I enjoy those communities.

As an experiment of sorts, I transferred one fairly high-level character to Freedom during these free transfers. Admittedly, I haven't joined any globals, but I haven't really found teaming all that more prevalent there than on my "low pop" servers. Lots and lots more broadcast, of course, just not necessarily more teaming invites.

Why the hate towards people who do not want to team as much as you do?

BTW, although it's anecdotal evidence, I have also seen people transferring off Freedom (going by various posts here in the forums) as well as those transferring to Freedom - in fact, I have also heard a few complaints here & there that Freedom may have lost population. I don't have any of them bookmarked, nor am I going to search for them since I am not relying on them to present any kind of position about the direction of transfers other than to say it's not been all one-wat TO Freedom & Virtue.

I wasn't aiming the resentment over being called "lazy" at you Necro. Your post is correct in my view.

I was more peeved at OP over his naked comment "Lazy people"without the "most" qualifier.

This is pretty much what I do.

I don't think I appreciate being called "lazy" for not taking the next step of actually setting the flag each & every time the silly thing resets itself.

Not exactly the best way to make friends and influence people. Many react to it the same way BaBs does.

Others have answered your IO questions, although you may want to hunt up Fulmens Guide to Frankenslotting (it's linked in his sig) because that's a pretty valuable method of getting performance on the cheap.


Regarding "End Game" -

In addition to what Posi is working on, the End Game in City is really the mass of content that is 45-50, including the Imperius TF, Statesman TF, Lady Grey TF, Lord Recluse SF, Kahn TF and Barracuda SF. as well as the 45-50 contact story arcs like Maria Jenkins & Unai Keman.

It's not the "traditional" big raids & stuff, but it is what we currently have as End Game in this game.

Welcome Back!

I wasn't trying to give him a hard time. It's just that my perception is that fast ITFs are all that are being discussed here on the boards when the subject comes up - not levelling ITFs or ITFs for drops or whatever. That may very well have skewed my feeling that these superfast ITFs were predominant and possibly might affect the datamining.

I moved one character to Freedom for the month of February, but she's moving back to Triumph tomorrow. I just wanted to see what Freedom was like these days.

This.

Honestly it's not something I see myself using all that much (I only moved 3-4 characters to free up space on one server), but as long as it doesn't break anything, I don't much care either way.

Hmm, that reminds me - I moved one villain to Freedom to soak in that experience of being on Freedom - better move her back soon before the free transfers go away.

Ultima Online has been around since 1997 and Everquest has been around since 1999.

If you aren't here in 30 months to get the badge, it's likely because you have chosen to leave.

BTW, I do have the 60 month badge and 80% of my alts (over 40) still have the pre-requisite for their travel power in their builds. Most commonly, it's Hover for utility or Air Superiority for the extra attack (controllers & defenders), occasionally it is Combat Jumping for defense (and to hold a Defense IO). So I would bet that you would find the badge/reward of less use than it looks like to you now.