Black Zot

What I didn't like about GR:

Praetoria 1-20. Just about everything they possibly could've done wrong about this place, they did. Laggy, glitch-prone maps was just the start. Then there's the enemy factions you face - all way overtuned. Mez protection before control ATs even get their best mezzing powers? Damage types you have no defense against till you've nearly leveled out of the zones? Raw numbers that eclipse anything in 1-20 Paragon or Rogue Isles? Honestly, I think someone at NCSoft was TRYING to drive people away. I will never start a character goldside again.

What I did like:

Pretty much everything else. Faction swaps were long overdue, and while the raid content still needs some work, it's not too bad for a first effort -other than Keyes, which is a shining example of what never to do when designing content. As with pre-GR stuff, the newer content is pretty much all puggable without much worry as to group composition, which other MMOs could learn a thing or two from.

About the only time cutscene bombing is funny is when the whole crew does it.

I have Asperger's Syndrome, an autism-spectrum disorder that carries some of the same symptoms as ADHD - particularly the nervous energy bit. I get excercise when I'm at the computer whether I mean to or not.

Wait wait wait ... did someone just accuse Dechs Kaison of having no game experience?

Did I fall into an alternate universe or something?

Yeah, I'm sure Rikti popping up all over and slaughtering lowbies is a great way to celebrate. /sarcasm

The servers are borked enough as-is without spamming zone events. Don't pile more blocks on a Jenga tower that's already on the verge of collapse.

Did I read the above statement correctly, that global bonuses from IOs/sets help temp powers?

If so, I may be convinced to roll up a Determinator of my own. (I'm paranoid about missing.)

Icy_J, I play on Virtue pretty much exclusively, and my global handle is my forum name if you want to add me.

Personally, I avoid escort missions whenever possible, and will continue to do so until the devs allow me to attach a LITERAL leash to whomever I'm escorting. As in "stay within 15 feet of me or get strangled".

It only took a couple months of being broke most of the time to realize I really really REALLY wanted to be able to sling some IO power around, and to do that, I needed a whole lotta inf. So, like many players, I rolled myself up a fire farmer. Yeah yeah, boo hiss and all that. The end justifies the means.

Initially I thought that this would just be a grind-it-out AE moneymaker for my real toons. Then I realized how freaking hilarious it is to dive into a huge pile of enemies and mow them down. It got even more fun when I started IOing the guy and became able to contribute outside of fire farms. (My Elec/Fire brute is now my first 50 and first Incarnate, in addition to being my farmer.)

Anyhoo, when I was on yet another trip through AE, I found myself fighting for my life against enemies I'd previously had no problems with. I finished the run without dying, barely. I was thoroughly befuddled till I looked at the tray I keep all my toggles on - and discovered only two were running out of the half-dozen I usually have active while farming. DERP.

Thus I learned: always check your toggles at mission start.

So what secondary did you go with?

This'll be an interesting character to watch in action once he hits 10 and starts tossing temp attacks every which way.

Heck, if he's on Virtue I might actually get to see him.

Two changes would have to happen for me to touch Keyes.

1. The pulse has to go. Period. That's not "challenge", it's fake difficulty - making the game arbitrarily hard by adding the biggest DoT effect in any MMO on the market. This leads to a lot of RNG deaths when coupled with all the other damage effects flying around throughout the trial, which go directly against any concept of "fun".

2. The timefreeze and Keyes' other gimmicks need to lock each other out. Again, RNG deaths and no fun to be had. The number of mechanics in the fight is fine, IMO, but randomly screwing people out of badges and whatnot by combining them in unsurvivable chains is anything but.

If I can't read it on the first pass, it usually means the person on the other end couldn't be bothered to use proper English to type it and the message wasn't all that important. So I'm not likely to give it a second pass. Occasionally if there's others around I may ask for a translation from someone who speaks better Intarwebz0rz than me, but don't count on it.

Heil Grammarhitler!

/signed for pure mechanical common sense.

For me, it depends on my mood at the time, and the nature of the story I'm writing. Sometimes I go with the guy who's interested in gaining power above all else, and doesn't much care who he tramples to get there. Sometimes I go for the manipulative type who turns the heroes against each other. Sometimes I run with the zealot who's gone too far. And quite fankly, sometimes I do play the one who does stuff because he's a sadistic monster who likes seeing the world burn.

And no, I don't lose any sleep over any of that. It's just a story. (And GG is delusional.)

5 posts in less than 2 hours? Message boards are not chat rooms, don't try to treat them as such.