Black Zot

I remember that franchise. I played Gauntlet Legends in the arcades and loved it, other than the quarter-eating thing. Then I found a version for the N64 - same crazy action, without the constant damage tick. Put a lot of hours into that sucker. Multiple maxed-out characters, all the goodies unlocked, even got my sister hooked on it for a while.

Oddly enough, this bug only happens to me when I'm logged into the forums.

Oh wait ....

On the flipside of this, remember that any buff to sleep or any other mez will also fire back at PCs whenever there's a mezzing enemy on the map (and there are already far too many of those).

In descending order of priority:

1. Invulnerability

2. Regeneration

3. Reality Manipulation

4. Psychic powers

5. Whatever else


The first 4 in tandem would make me all but untouchable, anything beyond that is gravy.

Thanks for clearing that up.

Instances where a credit card would be of any use to me are few and far between; and I don't much care for the interest and fees attached to one. Unfortunately that tends to leave my options for buying stuff online somewhere between "slim" and "zero".

Then I noticed some stores selling Visa "prepaid" cards that come loaded with a certain amount of money, and once that's used up, you pitch the card.

I don't want to shell out for one of these cards and find out I wasted the money. Since it's not entirely clear from the NCSoft store's description, are these cards accepted? Can I use one to buy costume boosters (up to the value of the card)?

(Oh, and are taxes applied to the transaction?)

"Spam" also refers to any sort of unwelcome marketing email, or emails sent to an entire mailing list regardless of its relevance to the recipients.

Ah, so I'm not the only one who's been gnashing his teeth over that stuff.

Even with the lower damage output and survivability, I'd be satisfied with some mechanical edits (in descending order of priority):

1 - AS and Placate need to be uninterruptible. Full stop. The AT is designed around these effects going off reliably. RNG failure is not an option.

2 - Placate mag needs to be higher. As noted, EBs and some AVs (which is utterly backwards, but that's another discussion) can basically ignore one of the Stalker's core abilities as things are now.

3 - AS should autohit from hide. Long cooldown is acceptable as long as the darn thing connects. If the opening strike misses, you either stand there like an idiot waiting for it to recharge or play a weak scrapper for the duration of the battle.

As a guy with two tankers, a brute, and a stalker, I have no issues with knockback. If they're on their backs, they're not hurting me - or anyone else. Which is the whole point, last I checked.

To me, "challenge" is something that can be overcome with effort and tactics: well-placed controls, proper use of AoE, focus down the hardest hitter. It's also something you can take or leave, by fiddling with the difficulty slider.

"Difficulty" or "frustration" generally lies in creating situations where player effort means nothing. Endurance depletion (Malta sapper, Freakshow in general), stacking debuffs (Nerva ghosts), mez-spamming (too many offenders to list). I cringe every time I see the above, because I know my options are to either down the pull FAST or find myself packed in a barrel with a magnet to attract the bullets. Characters with debuff/mez resists aren't immune - even a tanker's mez protection can be overwhelmed (been there, done that, been rezzed from the inevitable splat). The fact that the devs had to include entries in their RNG consumable drops specifically to deal with these effects means there's too damn many of them.