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Well, at least we're still getting the new content. Not too crazy about Ultra Mode, but I'm am curious...(When it comes to games, I'm more for the enjoyable game play and story, rather than the graphics...)

That's how I feel about badging in general... I use to be obsessive compulsive "gotta have 'em all!" about badges, but after some of the more recent badges introduced have had such ridiculous requirements to earn,(I have to spend how much to get the crafting badges?! ) I've since given up worrying about it.


And I'm happier for it, dagnabbit!


Seriously though, congrats man! It's been a long time coming. Now go outside...

A multi-part event, which gives out awards to the best of each event, and at the end there'd be awards to the best overall? Which could include several of the events listed in the OP, spread out over a pre-determined period of time...(TF Race on Day X, Swimsuit contest on Day Y, Karaoke contest on Day Z, exc....)

At least, that's what popped into my head when I read it...


*Imagines half the forumites attempting to sing through the game's chat channels*

Maybe you should explain it to me now then, since I'm still working on the pic I'm drawin' for ya, and would much rather get it right than wrong...


And since I'm here, I might as well post some art that was done for me...

My characters, Shenku and Saphire Nova, done by an SG mate's(Flame Bailador) daughter.



I'd post more, but I have never really bothered to commission anyone to draw my characters, since I usually try and do that myself...(The above picture having been more or less a complete surprise...)

Yeah, they actually can do enough DPS,(so long as you stay out of range of their AoE heals, and spam Hasten to keep them recharging as fast as possible) especially paired with the Nemesis staff/Blackwand. Took about 3-5 minutes or so to take each one down, but they did go down.

As for the crystals, we were trying to blitz through it, and for the most part, it was unlucky rolls, and the number of mobs aggroed onto any one person, since they tended to ignore those who were still hidden. For any of my deaths, it was either the above mentioned bad rolls, or simply forgetting to pop Shadow Meld before ASing the crystals, as I had only just respeced into it for the TF...

Only real tricks, were the many repeated deaths while destroying the crystals in the, what is that, second mission? And of course, when we got to the AVs in the third mission, we had some issues pulling, as someone thought it a good idea to pull Rommy and Requiem from right in front of the mobs on the edge of the platform... But we discovered it's quite possible to take out AVs with only stalkers, and quite quickly too.

Our tactic for Romulus in the final mission was simple... Clear the platform and surrounding area as per normal, then stand about 100yrds away from Rommy, and pick off the Nictus 1 at a time from range,(starting with the healing one) then running like mad when the Nictus died, as Rommy and the remaining Nictus weren't too happy when we killed their buddies... Once we broke aggro, we gathered up, and repeated on the next Nictus... Anyways, once the Nictus were all down, we dropped a buff Nuke from Warburg on ourselves, then dropped Shivans and Nukes on Rommy's head, and jumped him all at once... Fastest I've ever seen the sucker go down...

All in all, it wasn't too difficult to pull off.

Quoted for truth.

Like the prompt popping up every time you zone to ask if you want your level adjusted to that of your current team, which only goes away if you set the sliders in your options to max...


In lighter news, I've already created a rainbow costume for my blaster, with multi-colored powers to go with it. It's kinda cool looking...

Who's Mr. Fish? I could swear Posi was a Mr. Miller... Or did Manticore get sick too?