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If I'd known I woulda brought a team, and a ton of insps...but hey, there ya go...

The glory of hindsight....
Why haven't that and the lvl 40 in a 35 TF PPs been fixed yet? Pretty major bugs, dontcha think?

This would be feasible if:

-There was any indication there would be a Ballista. There was none. Most missions at least hint heavily.
-That assumes everyone has Shivans. All the time. Not a way to balance a game.
-Same with the temp powers.
-The AV didn't die, resulting in mission fail. An AV, Ghost Widow herself, for pity sake, got beaten up by a Longbow mob and an EB? Tell me THAT isn't broken.

Normal EBs are solable, yes. Ballista's are no normal EBs. Rikti Magi only spawn on the ship raid, when there are massed teams, and the CoT Archmages are on specifi missions.
Ballista's are randomised 'Tank Mages' who are on the same level as the RV Heavies and Vanguard HVAS'. I wouldn't bet on one of them beating a Ballista, either.

For Solo play, they are horrible. But +3? Broken.

Nothing short of...no that wouldn't work either. Nothing in the known universe could have made me go to School on a Sunday.
We Brits are more civilised (and less likely to get mauled by children ) than that.

Mission: Deliver the Tabula Scuta from Sister Airlia
AT: Stalker, Claws/Ninjitsu
Level: 37
Diff settings: +0/X1 No Bosses, No AV (Standard Diff)

The end ambush was a ******* level 40 spawn. LVL 40! And, if that wasn't enough, guess what they brought with them? A Ballista. A ******* BALLISTA! With NO warning, NO decent help, seeing as Ghost Widow got obliterated despite being a level 40 AV herself, and NO chance of completion once I died, because the ambush attacked and killed her.

What the hell, man, what the hell?!

T'be honest, I think Ballista's themselves need looking at. They are unsoloable, unless you stock up just on purples and greens, and even then your in for a horrible fight. They don't downscale, and they do rediculous damage even with the likes of [Force Bolt] for pity sake.

(Why is God-damn with no - censored?)

Now that's insulting.
To us Masterminds

It's forcing something on a canon pairing, where we don't really have any right to tread.
It's like re-writing the past between Stefan and Marcus (Recluse and States).

The general tone is...well, adolescent. They don't sound like soldiers.
There's also some real need for capitilisation in 'i' and general grammar checking.

Sorry, but I'm a huge fiction and story fan, but, as with games, that means I'm brutal and honest when it comes to feedback and critiscism. Pretty much what I ask and expect of my own work, too.

We like you too, Eiko ^^
And yes, grammar and spelling do help, lots =]

Translation: It's not as hard as it used to be, so EVERYONE should suffer for it.

That's like saying remove the hospiral AND the stores AND the Trainer from the Hollows. It really is.

Hell, I'd be happy with them simply allowing the stores (tech, mutant etc.) to BUY and SELL Inspirations. It makes as much logical sense, after all. Some little trick or gizmo you can use in tough spot.

This is hardly a game breaking request. I really cannot see any logical reason from Blue or GS about why this should be stopped, other than 'Back in the day we-' yaddayadda...

In case your wondering, I still run the Hollows without first going to Kings Row most of the time, I tend not to get the Ouro portal until I remember when a SG friend uses it or something...the point is just because YOU don't want a QoL change doesnt mean everyone else should be penalised for it. You can keep buying them from the contacts you get, as much as you want. The rest of us can use them when we need em and get on with enjoying the game.

/Opinion and Vocalisation

C_D. I could slap you for that. I really could.
That statement is exactly the same as 'Ignore Bullies and they go away'. Its a bigger pile of doos than an elephant who just ate a man sized laxative tablet.
Tripe, BS, carp and poppycock.

I say add names to the comments. I'd be amused to see how many actually come from people IN a thread, or wether it just comes from drifters who like to -rep people out of some self indulgent spite.
There is a 'proper' use for the system, it'd be nice to see it stuck to.

I call absolute and utter BS on this.

Me and all the players I know and hang out with all play regular content. We do missions, mission Arcs, TFs/SFs and all that.
And you know what?

Trying to find inspirations really, really sucks hard.
I ended up facing down a Ballista a while ago on my DB/Dark Brute. Now, normally I don't get to phased by challenges, but this was something I badly needed a fix on. Massive damage and stuff I simply couldn't dodge, that pummeled me every time.

So, what did I do? Well, I went looking for Inspirations, naturally.
Ye GODS I hate how hard it is to find them. So, you HAVE to have a contact who gives you them? In that zone, in the right range who you've unlocked?
BS. BS I say!

There are plenty of ways they can incorporate them into the game without making it 'stupid', like the Merit Vendors. The Street Vendors in Cap, smugglers in the Oakes and Nerva docks, redside at least.
It's NOT a game breaking issue, it's a QoL one. And it IS important. It's a matter of enjoyment. Fun. What the game is about. People are going to and DO get the Insps anyway, as M Bill and Sam have pointed out already.

Your argument makes no sense.

Except in RL it's incerdibly hard to be anything other than what you are.
That's kinda the whole point of a game. To do things and be something you can't be IRL.
IRL, I'm a middle height, pretty average unnoticeable sorta student.
In game I can be my shorter, smarter and evil counterpart, commanding an army of robots, or my towering, noble alter ego who can hold off the tide of villainy with one hand.
Or anything.

Games =/= RL. Never have done, never will do.

^ This

As far as I can make out, the OP is simply wondering wether there might be a way to have AE be on line with the stadard part of the game without being an nerf-herding farmers heaven.

I also get the distinct feeling that his red rep is solely to people repping in this thread. I might well be wrong, but it's one of those things.

He is anti-farm. Pro-AE. As am I, for that matter. AE is a great bit of kit which, yes, has a few bugs (******* customising standard mobs and all the horror that brings with it...) but so does the normal game.

So, cutting some slack would be nice. He's hardly like the trolls we've had round and about.

True, although no idea either on the increase.

Rikti EAT.
Restructurists and Traditionalist sides.
That is all.

Well, then make that the defence option set, then. Def with some res, and some other tricks.
Invul is mostly res with a few tricks (Dull Pain) and some def (tough Hide, Invincible)

It doesn't take a huge leap of imagination (only decent and thorough testing and balancing, which is more the issue) to see a possibility.