Agent White

I think they were fairly correct, just not in the way they made their argument. "You have to read the book" should only apply to minor stuff. When you leave things like important plot details or character development in the source material it makes for poor cinema unless you've read the book. obviously there are time and budget constraints so not everything can be hit, but in general a movie should be fairly self contained and at least somewhat self explanatory so that most people won't be lost when watching. Viewers shouldn't be left asking questions like "Who is that?" or "Why did that happen?" and have the answer be "it was in the book". if you put it in the movie it needs to be there for good reason and needs to be justified, otherwise it's poor story telling.

There's a difference between "you understand things -better-" with the source material and "you -need- to read it to understand it". It's ok if you can appreciate it more for a fuller experience having read it, but it shouldn't be -required-, the movie shouldn't be lacking if you haven't read it. That was their point, but they didn't argue it very well.

Lord it over the poorer folk.

Yeah screw the 4 leg rig. Give us a no leg rig.

Mini-hamidon vanity pet!

I'm sorry, the liger pet is god awful ugly. I think it belongs with the april fool jokes >>

Also, lions with manes? ok, color me slightly disappointed we didn't get -1- male lion with Beast Mastery. Oh well.

Yeah just another week I don't have to spend points. Which is great since I blew my stipend on Beast Mastery

Well they've implied there will be higher level praet content and the story is nearing towards wrapping up now that most of the major Praetorians have been taken down. I'm thinking there'll be at least 1 more praetorian zone like we had First Ward.

Really I'd -loooove- a Devouring Earth infested area. I mean First Ward had some of it, the giant stone tentacles, the fallen seed with the blooming mushrooms, etc. I'd like to see an area that's totally corrupted and converted.

We -do- know that a lot of the issue will be overhauling everything that involved Statesman and Sister Psyche. First and foremost in my mind that means yet another revamp of the Maria Jenkins arc. And whoever will be the placeholders for the Statesman and Sister Psyche Task Forces.

Actually its all part of an effort to phase out PvP altogether and the zones will be revamped to become normal hazard zones with their own story arcs. Bloody bay will be updated into a new 10-20 zone branching off from Atlas park's arcs involving the Shivan invasion and Warburg will be turned into a new 30-40 zone as a new lower level introduction to Malta as it battles it out with the returned Rogue Arachnos.

I'm fine with both. Not everything should be about the PC. We're already Mary Sues that can do anything, get out of any jam, loved by all, we're 'the chosen one' etc. It can be nice when done right like Dark Astoria, but at the same time it doesn't always move the plot forward properly. Even with DA we had non-PC related stuff with the personal story arcs.

I'm 100% fine with them developing the Signature characters. I mean, they're the Signature Characters. As much as we're awesome, it's cool to be playing around, beside, and against characters we actually care about. They're just not interesting if they're just cardboard cutouts. I want to play in a Superhero -world-, so its nice to have plots going on around me that don't just star 'me me me'.

I'd guess within a week or two honestly. Doesn't seem like there's going to be a 22.5. If it isn't just down for the weekend.

One of the ideas the devs tossed around which seem spretty feasible is just making it so you can trade them in for one as an account item on a one for one basis.

That is, you'd go to say Astral Christie and give her a catalyst and poof, you'd have 1 sitting in your 'account items' e-mail box.

Yeah I've had it happen a fair amount too. It seems like any time I come to DA via Base Portal (pops you out at the Bulwark) or 'teleport to contact' via Ouroboros (Heather) the glyphs won't load. In fact it seems like the extraneous NPCs in the spot don't load either, whenever I teleport to Heather it's just her by herself.

I'm thinking its a bug.

It is kind of curious how he was able to summon aspects like Rudalak yet is unaware of the info Faathim has. Then again Rudalak is pretty insane so he probably wanted to subsume Wade.

I still love Hami-Os as the only source in the game where I can get mez boost + damage in 1 enhancement. Seriously, all this time in the game, there's no single IO set that boosts both atrributes. What's up with that? Sooo many control powers have damage baked in, yet -all- mezz sets (EVEN THE ATOS!) don't enhance damage. So weird.

I giggled.

So, Statesman gets his death spoiled, it happens, he gets a big funeral piece, commentary from the designers, etc.

Next episode, mums the word from anyone. Psyche bites it. Nothing. oh and Penelope Yin makes mention of her. Everyone else says nothing or talks about Statesman.

May as well just be a footnote in the game. ;p