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Originally Posted by Nericus

CORRECTION: They became emoticons when things were migrated to this board as they did work on the previous board.

Originally Posted by Smite_King

Necro posting..... i know >_>.... but i tried to import the DM/stone builds to mids but i keep etting something saying the databuild is incompleate

Originally Posted by GarfieldZ

This for the uber vets! I class these as players who have like a 48 month badge and higher!

for these uber vets, i have 3 question! what toons have you been playing for all this time? have you played one from when you started till now? whats your favourite build?

Originally Posted by Lemur Lad

It's not about money. It's about playing and being part of the community. They can't control how often and how you play, but they can reward you after the time you've been active on the assumption that you did play.

Originally Posted by Mr. NoPants

Entrance to zone has an NPC whose dialog says "If you aren't able to survive for prolonged periods underwater our mages will enchant you when you enter".

Now we can all be buoyant and water breathing!

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

Sam please forgive me if I find your position humerous. I will agree with you 100 percent about the sci-fi perspective because there we want to believe it could actually happen, but when you apply it to the super hero genre it's funny. The natural laws of physics don't apply in this genre, and I'm not talking about the powers themselves but how they get used. We've seen comics/cartoons/etc. where a hero rescues/lifts/carries/flies an ocean liner, super tanker, toppling building and they don't collapse/tear apart at the stress points like they would in the real world. Or a giant crevasse appears during an earthquake and the hero grabs the ground and pushes the earth back together then welds the ground shut with his heat vision.

Just look at that recent Superman movie. Lex caused massive portions of the ocean floor to suddenly rise to the surface, and we saw giant crevasses open up underwater using supermans vision, and we saw Superman lift millions of tons of rock and fly it into space yet those siesmic events caused no massive tidal waves. What happened in the movie was at least as massive a siesmic event as the earthquake that occurred in the Indian Ocean in 2004 and killed 240,000 people in 11 countries.

Originally Posted by Leo_G

So apparently you think Stalkers are wet tissue paper?

Fair enough, I suppose considering how they set up the secondaries for them. It's at least a good deal better than slapping protection toggles on a Dom. But with the exception of Ninjutsu, Stalker secondaries are geared to 'tanking' rather than their specialty.



Playing a Scrapper like a Tank is difficult but possible with the build and team make-up but playing it like anything else is pointless because he lacks the abilities to do so. You're not going to magically do more damage from acting like a fool and aggroing stuff and you can pretend all you want but just attacking from stealth isn't going to give you any burst.

Playing a Brute like a tanker is only effective if you provide mutual attention to your offense. Because a taunting brute is useless but a taunting brute that is laying on the SMASH thick for doing so is not. Playing a brute like anything but a brute is a disservice to the AT itself, like playing a dominator but never using domination.

Playing a Tanker like anything but a Tanker is similarly a disservice to the AT. With your HP, resist/def numbers and caps and the lvl you have access to your shields, it's rather unsatisfying *not* to try and take a lot of hits to see your HP move at least a little.

Playing a Stalker like a scrapper ain't hard. In fact, that's exactly how you play them if, in fact, playing like a scrapper is simply running around killing stuff. Gah, are people so egotistical about their scrappers that they think they have something *special*? Hell, even a Blaster can play like a scrapper. My dominator can play like a scrapper. Scrappers are the *least* specialized AT in the game and practically anyone can emulate one. Stalkers probably come the closest to their outright DPS with the advantage of more burst. Playing a Stalker like any other melee AT is rather pointless as they either lack the tools to do it consistently or lose effectiveness.

tl;dr ver: Playing a Tanker like anything but a tanker is pointless.
Playing a Brute like anything but a brute is pointless.
Playing a Stalker like anything but a stalker is pointless.
Playing a Scrapper entails doing anything you effing want so stfu and play!

Originally Posted by JJDrakken

Who The F... Cares?


JJ

Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan

Well Mercy's never empty. And if the high-levels are hanging out in the starter zones, then any actual new players are going to see a game that has an apparently high population, not to mention snazzy animations and - gasp - FLYING - etc . I think an MMO design team should be wanting their high-level players still showing themselves in the starter zones. When i was a new player, I remember seeing someone with a singularity out, and thinking 'what's that? I want one of those!'.

Come to think of it, I still haven't got a toon high enough to get one lol.

Eco.

Originally Posted by Mr. NoPants

I only see the number in the first one myself...

Originally Posted by GOTerpsPvP

I'm not trying to fix pvp in this thread, just throwing in my two cents on the hibernate power. (you're right that "throwing sharks" for stalkers is also stupid)


If you think that clicking hibernate = leet evasion skills, then I understand why we disagree about the skill required to evade an enemy.

Oh well, whatever. People supporting hibernate admit that it's "broken" and an "automatic" escape, but get all buthurt at the mear mention of making a change to the power. Hilarious. Deep breaths guys.

Originally Posted by BlueRaptor

Whoa.
That is hard. Never happened to me, guess my system is pretty decent after all or I got very lucky.
That should of course never ever happen. Bad devs!

But then that is the problem, not attacks near the door, is it?

edit: On the other hand, whenever I enter a mission at the same time someone I know has a slow system does, they only arrived inside when they were done loading. Often for like half of a minute. I was standing alone there until they had finished, and when I then talked to them they right upon seeing them enter they immediately replied, so were clearly there and not loading any more.
So this bug cant be happening ALL the time. Or its new.

Originally Posted by Dz131

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Originally Posted by BlueRaptor

I find the number of tickets you get is insanely high to start with. They should rather lower that, then the limits will be fine.
Ever compared AE tickets amounts to normal content's Reward Merits?

Originally Posted by KaliMagdalene

What does mating have to do with what she said?

Originally Posted by Captain_Photon

I guess I did. Which is good, I guess, because I rather like being able to hear myself think as I look through the list of playable arcs, and move around at a frame rate greater than about 5 FPS, neither of which really works out when a huge mob of player characters is about.



See, it's funny how different players' experiences will differ. What you just described is kind of the ideal way something like this should work from my perspective - so what you think of as AE being "murdered", I'm seeing as AE being made worthwhile. I can't abide great teeming mobs of PCs and being invited to team up with strangers every 36 seconds. It's one of the several reasons I'm not enamored of that "invasion" business. If the Architect buildings were still like that, I'd never go near the damn things. Actually, I wouldn't be able to go near them, on account of the aforementioned framerate issue, but I digress.

(This is where someone - maybe the OP, maybe just someone who can't resist putting the boot in - will look at me archly and go, "You do know you signed up to play a massively multiplayer online game, yes?" If you are that person, then, in advance, kindly go soak your head. A desire to be one of the extras in the stock exchange scenes from Wall Street is not a prerequisite for MMO gaming and you know it.)

Originally Posted by Zombie Man

I will say: "I'm not in GR Closed Beta anymore; I was kicked out for intentionally spreading false information about GR. What would you like to know?"

Originally Posted by HeroJunkie

I like the original suggestion.

Also, a free server transfer, or access to a special trial mission to earn a free server transfer, would be a great reward for a level 50 character. Then you can move your retired characters off your active server if you wish.

Originally Posted by Vicar

IMO plenty of people have demonstrated problems with the at. That however is my opinion.

Lackluster damage paired with survieability that is only slightly better than a brutes (while the damage does not even come remotely close) coupled with endurance issues and an outdated agro mechanic that with a agro cap at 17 means in my opinion that the tanker archtype is a dinosaur that is only still alive because brutes are not yet on hero side.

Originally Posted by DarkGob

I had thought that Stone Mallet was technically a power effect, not a weapon like War Mace, Axe, etc.