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The Mission Architect version of the Nictus enemy group is lacking Lesser Unbound Nictus, Unbound Nictus, and Greater Unbound Nictus.

You might want to both post to the forums and have an off-site section. It would be interesting (if unlikely) if you could get it posted on a separate MMO site.

This one is quite enjoyable. Glad to see it got added to Dev's Choice.

DS is a novel concept for Gravity Control but generally tends to be problematic rather than helpful. I have a few proposals which should help its performance without breaking the cottage rule.

• Allow the immobility effect to ignore immob resistance. This should prevent the cases of enemies that still run around despite being shifted. Also, it seems like the enemies that ignore the immob are the ones that the visual effect is not applied to.
  
  
• Apply a Placate, Sleep, and/or Blind effect to enemies hit by Dimension Shift. This should greatly reduce the cases where enemies keep attacking the player despite being unable to harm them. In turn, it would lower the confusion this move brings about.
  
  
• Allow the immob and placate/blind to last 5 seconds longer than the amount of time the enemy is phased. This will give players the ability to react to the enemies coming out of phase without being instantly overwhelmed yet not be too powerful.
  
  
• Allow one of the ST attacks from Gravity Control to pull a DSed enemy out of phase. Probably the most optional out of these here but this would help with the control aspects of the move. Only allowing the one who activated DS to pull enemies back to regular space would help reduce mistakes and allow a player to bite off smaller targets from a spawn.

Thing is, for the sake of safety for the lowbies, spawning at Mercy may be needed. As stated, higher level toons can easily Ouro out, plus there's connections to PO and Cap. My question is where in Mercy do people spawn? Due to the above mentioned things, people should spawn in the Mercy neighboorhood near the Black Market, port, or flyer as opposed to spawning at the starting area near the SG portal.

I'd say they should tweak the formula so that enemies take slightly more falling damage and then add more environmental hazards like lava to instanced missions. Would make a valid tactical advantage and would probably be as close as the gameplay engine will allow us to smash enemies through stuff.

Yeah if we get zombies, my lvl 43 Stalker has the salvage available too. I actually think I have 3 toons worth and three or four toons lacking costume slots. Though I wanted to spring a banner later in the year so I hope we don't only get stuck with only zombies.

Two different questions for two different Stalkers:

• Does Moonbeam from Soul Mastery crit from Hide?
• How do you use/setup Chain Induction for the best use? This is on a elec/dark that's more of a fun toon than for anything serious but I'm new so this is my first time with the move..

At least one version of the Thorn Tree map is available. I ran someone's arc a while back and they used it for the final mission.

Question for people that had the problem exiting Lord Winter’s realm and arriving outside the map:

• Was it Heroes only, or did any Villains experience it?
  
  Only played villains and I never experienced it. Everyone on our team seemed fine.
  
• Did you exit by clicking on the portal, or did you wait for the timeout to kick you from the zone?
  
  First time I clicked, second time I waited.
  
• Did you just enter the first instance and stay there, enter the second and stay there, or enter the first and then transfer to the second?
  
  Unable to enter the dual instance at all.
  
• There was a short period when entry to the second did not work at the white present. Did you try and enter the second zone during this period and fail?
  
  Yes, I was among the one's who couldn't enter the second instance.

I'm wondering if some of the volunteers could post faction preferences so we can better choose what we want to do.

Alright, sort of planning this for Thanksgiving Day starting at 9:30 PM EST. Hopefully that's not too late for the fellow East Coasters yet late enough for those on the West Coast to be available. I'll try to tighten things up the closer we get to it. I guess we'll meet in Cap near the SG portal and then plan from there as I go turn in the salvage. I will probably be on a lowbie so someone with a lvl 50 will have to be the actual team leader. Also, if anyone's interested we could run a Virgil afterwards since Bat-Zul = giant turkey :P

As noted during the event, my original attempts to enter Lord Winter's Realm 2 failed. However, I did NOT get spawned under the map in the later runs so perhaps that was a blueside only problem. Getting a Winter Lord to even spawn was a major headache redside after the first run. Might also be good to do an Event announcement when one spawns so it is more obvious to everyone in the zone.

While next to nobody has Dimension Shift, it's nice that you can use it to get the Northen Lights out of your hair for a few seconds. The debuffs on the Northen Lights scare me almost as much as Lord Winter himself. It's depresingly easy to get killed simply by trying to get from the hospital back to your team. Lord Winter may need tweaks to his hold magnitude because it could not be broken by Domination and the hold was an AOE. If the hold mag has to stay, it might be less maddening as ST with high accuracy. It might be a good idea to place the phasing warning from LW in the Event HUD itself so it won't get lost amongst all the battle text.

LW seems to have annoying scaling issues that will make this a nightmare for people redside and/or on smaller servers. One idea is to weaken LW's strength but as a tradeoff, limit the maximum number of people per instance to around 24 or so players. This way it can be planned for how his absolute maximum and minimum strength will be for teams. It should also help reduce lag if the instances are smaller.

LW looks dull. Almost anything to make him stand out from his minions is a plus. Arguably, you could use a Huge body type with a white/pale blue suit and top hat (Wedding Pack tuxedo + Magic Pack skull & tophat combo? maybe even with Cyborg pack laser eyes) to have someone who looks like, well... he would lord over winter instead of just another snowman.

An NPC somewhere needs to have info about this event to help clear up the confusion for players who weren't on Test.

Due to difficulty getting players redside an interesting idea arose. Why not allow present spawning in RWZ and Cimerora? The coop nature of the event allows people to override some of the problems of lower populations.

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My first two times were on a lvl 23 Elec/Dark Stalker and the third was on a lvl 18 Grav/Earth Dominator. I was on Killbot's team when it took forever and a day to spawn a WL and I was getting a large number of Frostling spawns.

Cool. I'm in Simulation & Game Development and I did one of my course finals using the MA. What is your project's deadline?