Auroxis

SD isn't as godlike as you make it out to be, considering its dependency on having multiple targets around for maximum DPS and its powerset limitations. Also, I'm quite confident my SR scrapper could give any FA Brute or SD Scrapper a run for their money once I finish building him.

Yeah, well, that's just like uh, your opinion man.

I don't find active debuffing any more fun than active buffing, and just blasting all the time isn't that fun either. Fun is quite subjective in this case and shouldn't be a factor.

You don't think there are solo players who use global channels and other forms of in-game communication to keep their interest in the game? Just because they aren't vocal in your global channels doesn't mean much.

I only ran a total of 6 pylon runs to test it out, 3 with AB on Vicky and 3 without. The times were consistently better with AB by around 50%, but with only that small number of tests it's not definite.

Though looking at this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lDETnhPs1o

You can definitely see a difference with AB on and off.

If you think that people not expecting you to main tank is a benefit, you might as well roll a brute.

Letting us convert Notices into Rare components would solve that problem.

Certainly easier than what I do!

I just alt+tab out and back into the game, fixes that for me.

Lore pets don't ignore recharge buffs, unless it was changed in a recent patch.

Look at the video in my signature and compare the time it takes for Vicky's attacks to recharge with the time they are supposed to recharge(8s for lasers, 6s for cross cut, 4s for swipe).

Applying Adrenalin Boost to Vicky made my time about 50% faster.

What are you saying exactly? No one's raging over your idea so that makes it a good idea?

Reward or no reward, fact remains that it's really difficult to coordinate due to contact restrictions("you must talk to x contact before you can talk to y"), level restrictions("you can't talk to me ever again"), and arc advancement issues("I'm way back on the second mish guys please help"). Even if people flock to the old zones it will be a coordination nightmare.

The restrictions are so annoying that the good content effectively loses its flare and becomes bad content, and if you put a shiny reward in it people will just experience bad content more often.

This is partially why Ouroboros and the Reward Merit system was introduced, to make people run the good mission arcs and TF's. Ouroboros did away with all the restrictions and made things streamlined with the TF model. The only problem is that the rewards suck and people don't know how long certain arcs take(unlike TF's), so maybe that's something to consider.

Montegue's arc is a special case because the end-reward(access to the midnight club) doesn't rely on everyone starting at the same time. When you have a mission arc that takes a while to complete, you will likely stop at the middle(whole point of the story arc system as opposed to TF's). Good luck finding anyone else except the ones you started out with that are in the same location as you are within the arc. And if you want to start a new arc, in many cases others wouldn't have access to the contact. This is all assuming a situation that doesn't involve close friends or a superteam.


If it was possible to make the old content(and its rewards) more accessible out of ouroboros for PUG's, then yes I would be all for it. But as it stands it's quite difficult to have this coordinated with multiple people.

I thought you were talking about OP's suggestion as the post you quoted was referring to that.

Account one: Powerleveler.
Account two: Main account.

1. Main account creates a character.
2. Powerleveler makes Main account's character ding 50.
3. Main account gets a lot of PP's.
4. Main account deletes the character.
5. Repeat.

Free players potentially quitting over this is bad enough. It is a big loss when a potential customer doesn't get to enjoy what your game offers before quitting.

But that's not the only problem. People will use dual accounts to farm PP's.

Badge hunting isn't my cup of tea, either. It doesn't reward players for challenging content, it rewards them for content I, personally, find tedious(exploration badges in particular). That isn't saying badge hunting shouldn't be rewarded more, but making it the center of a new PP reward system isn't something I would like.

Phantoms have a lot of fire damage, and Nemesis have those flamethrower attacks.

I've never found Mo teams very alienating, and "even greater rewards" implies that a badge that does nothing is a great reward in the first place. That said I wouldn't want anything close to what the OP wants in terms of the number of PP's. 5-10 per Mo badge seems reasonable.

Mo teams might be too picky at times, but that's the only trade-off. If they fail the Mo run they rarely stop and start over unless they've just started out, so it's not that frustrating. If you fail you still get rewards for completion.

Still this isn't something I would really like to have in the game, just something nice to put on the long list of nice things that could be added. There are much more important things the devs could do.

The only groups of people who will ever run the same arc together on a regular basis are Superteams, the occasional close friend team, and Task Forces. Anything else is wishful thinking with how non-ouroboros mission arcs currently work.

To be honest, I don't see any great content in this game worth encouraging with PP's. TF's are already giving not only merits but also shards, potential accolades, and the occasional WST.

I could see giving PP's for a "Master of" badge, but some of those can be too easy to get. EDIT: Actually, that wouldn't be too bad. Hmm.

But you can soon buy it for 401 paragon points.

Except that method encourages doing the challenging content, and doesn't lend itself to repetitiveness as you cannot get points from the same quest more than once, and there are i'm assuming lots of quests to get points from.

Rewarding people for reaching 50 will encourage powerleveling, the worst form of content in the game.