Xanatos

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The Rogues Gallery is recruiting, you say?!?

Where have all the costumed bad guys gone?

What we're about:

The Rogues are a concept-driven RP-Lite to RP-Friendly VG looking for intelligent, creative players that enjoy concepts, masks, monologues, machiavellian schemes, and a good old fashioned bank robbery or two. We are a costumed bunch of burglars involved with everything from mad science, magic, one-liners, gimmicks, disgruntled super-men, rogue mutants, high-tech capers... whatever blows your hair back. Unless it's that kinky stuff. If that's your bag, shoot me a private tell.

Ahem.

There's this thing we're all familiar with called "comic-book-evil". If slaughter, [censored], mistreating kittens, [censored], [censored], [censored] and all of that stuff is your bag, this isn't the VG for you. The good guys and the bad guys always get away for future episodes.

Activity:

The nature of any MMO is that folks come and go as life's pressures dictate. If you're lucky, you find a place your character can call home and make some great and memorable friends along the way. We have at least a dozen unique members, but honestly, this is what recruiting is about. We're looking to expand our operations and are keeping an eye open for some goal oriented go-getters to get things back in the swing. There is always someone lurking in the global channel, across a span of time zones. Prime time, 8pm EST 5pm PST to the wee hours is typically when you'll find us cavorting about. Most of us are blue-collar working villains looking to unwind after a hard day slaving away at the DMV.

We're in there in the top 100 VG's. I don't know where as we don't keep count, but... we aren't small beans. We've been around for a while and the base (Warehouse 13) is so immersively rp-awesome that you'll be monologing in no time.

We don't "enforce policies" or have any prestige requirements.

This is a game! Don't take it too seriously. If you're having fun and no one is mad at you (or me for inviting you) then carry on! We encourage individuality, so there are no mandatory uniforms. Keep your grubby fingers offa mah juice boxes, though.

Requirements?

A costume and a concept. We have fun and I'm all about shenanigans, but... let's be fair. "xXx Fr3ak N45ty xXx" and "Kevin Bacon" probably aren't going to fit in no matter how much street cred they have.

No shirt, no shoes, no service. You know the drill.

Our current Crimelords are:

@Mindswipe
@Mr. Mud
@Nimrod

If you want to set up a meeting or just shoot the breeze, please contact either @Nimrod or @Mindswipe. (@Mr. Mud is concentrating on his studies.) We might be villains but we value education. If the evil-doer thing doesn't work out, the world needs politicians and lawyers, right? Bother @Nimrod first. He isn't doing anything important with his life, trust me.

While we do have coalitions with other productive and well-dressed reprobates, we have a global channel and a global coalition with several other groups and friends spanning Virtue. There is always an SF or some sort of farming, badging, or teaming going on there. Speak up. Don't be shy. Sit up straight.

Recap:

Masks! Costumes! Disguises!

You don't have to RP but I stay in character while running missions and such even when everyone else doesn't. Sometimes I break the "fourth wall" for a laugh. Do what you like. Have fun.

Our forums can be found at www.roguesgallery.ca

We're a well-rounded VG! If it's in the game, we take advantage of it. We like IOs, badges, and XP as much as the next bunch. We have a home for any heroes if you part-time it there, as well.

We have veteran players that know how to run a team and we don't drop out and leave our mates hanging or fail SFs.

We can stay in-character and chew gum at the same time. Don't pretend you aren't impressed.

But we stress most of all... have fun... or else.

Just listed one level 50 redside for 800 million.

Enjoy

@Xanatos

Don't worry about going for +recharge set bonuses if you're just building for support in RV. Heal Decay makes it worthless outside of arena IMO. Aim for 1500 HP, 41 KB protection, and 75% resists.

Enjoy shouting at your monitor as your best heal eventually heals 85 HP.

If the rez power recharges in less than two minutes then you should not be teleported to the hospital. (I think?) But as rez powers have a base recharge of 300 seconds this is next to impossible without significant +recharge bonuses. You need about 40% recharge bonus, which means DR shouldn't affect it too much. Oh and you also need to 6 slot the rez power with recharge IOs. This should let the rez power recharge within two minutes of it being used.

So I'd have to spend 1 billion outfitting a character with 5 LOTG & 5 sets of crushing impact. Theoretically i'd make that back in a week. It might be worth it. I suppose Arena spawncamps are another way. But they can only last for 30 minutes & I'd hardly consider them "AFK".

How to work around being ported to hospital in zones after two minutes of being dead?

Please tell me a +recharge build w/ 6 slotted rez isn't the answer.

1500 Hp
41 KB Prot
40% Recharge
75% Resists

Do I need to slot for anything else?

IOs are a MASSIVE timesink. Nerf them and you might as well nerf your subscriptions too.

A very small part of the game's population are able to use IOs & become godlike. Give the regular players something to aspire to. Aspiration keeps them subscribed.

MMORPG marketing 101.

It doesn't detoggle when the defender takes damage.

Dolphin & Dopplegang are awesome!