Ad Astra

Level Pact doesn't prevent you from being on a team of 8. Just sayin'.

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I don't see anything about KB Defense in there. Is it wrapped up in "Melee Defense"?

Now I'm confused.

Agreed entirely.

I haven't really bothered to check, but I wonder at whether some of those people who keep making statements that Khelds are so "difficult" because you have to have keybinds, etc., are some of the same people who suggest Masterminds to someone looking for an easy beginning Villains character. I find a MM also potentially very non-intuitive to play (it you want to do it "right" with all the keybinds that have been recommended) and also an AT that has a shifting role depending on the team.

Of course, I play neither my few Khelds nor my few MMs with the binds - so I solo a lot so as not to inflict my non-optimized playstyle on others. And soloing on a Kheld is not much fun at all.

I'm looking forward to finally getting my SoA, though. My highest villain is only level 46. Five years plus, including pre-start weekend for CoV on that character. I *think* I might be able to handle the VEAT.

Yeah, I just refreshed and saw them myself.

What I did not see was an "Open Beta Announcement".

Huh?

Energy Manipulation has Build Up in its Tier 3, one of the earliest available.

Not every character can solo a TF, especially in the 20s.

See - here is another problem. I know the game has parts which are "all about" teaming. But there are large parts which really aren't. And there are lots of players who are attracted to exactly that aspect of the game - its "solo friendliness".

I for one would not find it "that much more satisfying to fight someone of (hopefully) equal power". Not every player out there wants to compete against a live person.

I'm glad you find it fun - but please understand I don't, no matter how much you urge me to take part. And truly "no thanks" should be the end of it.

If a "PvP solution" can be devised that doesn't effect me (open world PvP would) without taking too many resources away from what I enjoy like more content and powersets - great! But it isn't very high on my personal priority list for the game. And I don't think I am alone in my stand.

And I think here is a huge reason not to do this.

Not a slam against P_P, because I have absolutely zero problems with dual or triple boxing if you have the setup to handle it - but to grant even more rewards to it in the form of extra XP seems wrong.

You may be on to something. Pity that the diatribes are so long that most people (OK, other than Hyperstrike) can't make it thru them. (not really a pity, BTW, just in case someone thinks that was serious).

I *think* it's that Uruare is a "true believer" that his/her ethics are the only correct way to believe and/or play this game (which I believe is sometimes about robbing folks of their stuff and selling homeless to mad scientists for testing, occasionally about taking over the world, so ironic).

And is about "championing" the downtrodden new player and that mythical "casual player".

Note that a "casual player" apparently can't have *any* 50s at all if you look at Uruare's last diatribe in response to my posts calling him/her long-winded, condescending and "holier than thou" - but if that's the case, that would be just another reason this "casual player" doesn't need purples, right?

Oh, well, I guess I'm just not that ethical or moral. I just don't see that much need to change player behavior because I don't see the big ethical issue. If that makes me a bad person, I guess I will live with it.

Edit: Oh, and I have to agree that Uruare's obsession with RMT sites seems unhealthy.

Uruare - Your posts in this thread have been the most condescending "holier than thou" claptrap and paranoid meanderings accusing almost everyone who has purple enhancements of engaging in morally reprehensible behavior of either purchasing Inf from RMT sites or (gasp!) taking advantage of facets of the Market system to indulge their regrettable thirst for Market PvP. (Not you, of course - you are clearly above such things, since you told us so yourself).

They are also eye-glazing-over and long-winded. How many times do you need to tell us in a single post just how morally bankrupt others are while your point of view is the only true way to regard the game?

Your paranoia over RMT sites almost raises the suspicion that you are more familiar with them than you let on, but I specifically do not accuse you of using them yourself.

See? i haz a big vocabulary, too!

OK, my bad. So they could have been introduced that way since Striga and Moonfire were there, but they weren't.

I wasn't high level in that issue (read out of Atlas Park yet) so the intro of Khelds was just meaningless on the Patch Notes.

This is me, except I have over 5 years of playing.

It always irks me when I see people claiming to "champion" the casual player on the boards as some sort of downtrodden sad sack who is being persecuted by "the Man"/ebil marketeers. Those people invariably come off as presenting this mythical casual player as someone not being given the choiceor the chance to play market PvP due to time constraints.

The chance is there, the choice is there. I have freely chosen not to worry about so much. I don't enjoy marketeering, but I don't begrudge those who do.