Black_Light

The 20th I'm afraid, and we finished on Saturday evening.

Thank you Psiphon, and again a thank you to Cynic. All the points are valueble to me, but one of them would have been enough all by itself. That SoC causes agro on a miss is given my play style a big disadvantage. So I will keep it on, and might even get it to 50 one of these days.

Thank you to all those that helped me keep a toon that otherwise might have been discarded, which I probably would later have regretted.

To False_Fiction and Cynic, thank you. Your answers was helpful.

To Knightly, since you obviously didn't intend to be helpful I would be grateful if you kept your superior attitude away from this thread until you have changed it. If you want to help you could make suggestions, like describing scenarios where a Mind 'troller would be more effective than a Plant 'troller.

To Shannon, what you are talking about is play style which varies from player to player and not one is any better than any other. Mine is closer to yours than you might think, but I want my toons to be effective as well. The knowledge that TK was gimped might be true, but it's not really any help for me.

This seems a bit strange to me, the shortest replies was to the people that tried to help, thanks again guys.

Can someone tell me what are left that makes Mind 'trollers special when Plant 'trollers get mass confusion at level 8 (and a pet at level 32).

So why shouldn't I delete my level 41 Mind 'troller, and roll a Plant 'troller? I don't want to, but I just can't see a reason not to, and I can see loads of reason to reuse the character slot.

Someone in here might be interested in a a thread in the Union- Heroes the SSTF1 with a twist

[u]Shadow shard TF one, with only controllers[u]

Start on Friday, end Saturday (we hope) I guess talk about times when we have the team.

Contact @Double or @Black Light to join.

Two computer restarts, an hour apart yesterday evening after I logged out for dinner and one this morning all to no avail.

I hope it works when I get home this evening.

The cake is a lie! Happy womb expulsion day!

[u]Edit:[u] Someone who knows what they are doing should move this into the QoL thread which I totally missed until after I posted. A *DOH* moment

[u]Reordering[u]
I would very much like to be able to reorder stuff, so it suits my tastes, items include but are not limited to, and in no special order.
<ul type="square">[*]Reordering the costume slots, since I hardly ever use the leftmost costume after get a couple but I wouldn't want to delete my first costume for a toon.[*]The slots in Wentworth's. It would be nice to be able to sort them, so that for example salvage is next to salvage, or item up for sale is next to each other.[*]Reordering the enhancement slots for powers, so that I can put my accuracy enhancements to the left, the the damage, then the endurance reductions.[/list]
[u]Costumes[u]
<ul type="square">[*]Being able to turn on (and off) powers while designing a costume would be nice. I mean, if I have a Fire tank, I will most probably use Fire Shield and most likely Blazing Aura all the time, so it would be nice to see how the costume looked with them turned on.[*]Possibilty to save/load the costume as a local file, without the "personal" stuff (like skin colour, height, etc etc). This would make it much easier to create SG-costumes and such.[*]Possibility to save/load a costume while in the editor, so that I can save the "This looks good, I'll just tinker a bit more" from the ten minutes later when you can't remember what you did. Also useful if you want use an other costume as the start, and not the default one.[/list]
[u]Shopping[u]
<ul type="square">[*]Buy back, to be able to buy back something you sold by mistake. The sell back/buy back needn't to be active for long, for example only for as long as you have the shop window open. It would still save me some *DOH* moments [*]Value at shops, when I bid/sell stuff in Wentwort's it would be nice to be able to see what the stuff is going for/you can get for it in the normal shops. I know this would reduce the income of people that actually keep track, but I would profit from it and it's my wish list[*]Make it so, when I'm in a shop and is slotting SOs it would be nice to be able to put all the enhancements in place without having to go back and forth, buy them and place them. Just to place them all, then click on a button "Make it so" and everything is done for you (or you run out of money).[*]Filtering, to be able to filter so that only stuff I can use is visible. It would be even better if I could filter out the type of enhancements "Magic SOs, level 35".[/list]
[u]Bases[u]
<ul type="square">[*]Filtering at tables, when I'm looking through an enhancement table (for example) it would be nice to be able to filter out everything but "Magic SOs", "Level 32-35". That would save at least me a lot of time when I'm slotting. This would of course not be limited to slotting, it would be equally useful for the other types of tables. [*]Base global tables, the possibility to join several table into a virtual one, especially combined with the above mentioned filtering it would speed up base use considerably. I would not want this automatically, since if you have an SG where everyone has their own tables, and is using an honor system to not borrow from each other, I rather keep it as is than have all the enhancement tables combined.[*]Private storage, to be able to rent/have a part of a table in a base for your own stuff.[/list]
[u]Account stuff[u]
<ul type="square">[*]Account global transfer of stuff, the ability to move for example recipes and salvage between toons. This would probably easiest be implemented as an extra part of the private savage storage.[*]Global inventory, to be able to get an inventory of all the enhancements, salvage, recipes, and maybe even Wentworth's slots for all the toons connected to an account to a text file on your computer.[/list]

Ill/Rad
Earth/Emp
Grav/kin
Mind/storm
Ice/Thermal

The trouble I see as a TA/Archey is the same as I had with my /Devices blaster, to shine even a little bit you need for the fight to be stationary.

It's actully worse for the TA since you have to fire all your arrows (like 6 powers or so) before the spawn has been defeated. You can't set it up in advance, so the tank can pull into it since most of the powers are targeted stationary AoEs.

Of course if I play with my friends, they will try to accomodate me which only make it feel worse, since they are not playing their best so I can be useful.

I was really hopeing someone here could tell me how to play a TA defender as a defender not a damage dealer, which I guess Shannon tried but all you said (or at least all I read) was to skip all teams that didn't allow you do play a defender. Which isn't at all what I was looking for. I want to play a TA-defender that any team would enjoy as an asset not suffer as a liabilty. I guess that won't happen until TA gets a major rewamp.

If the powers had worked as Lingering Effects from Radiation it would work much better. Then I can keep shooting at people and it doesn't matter if they move around afterwards.

I have a TA/Archery at level 31, is there any reason to keep playing that except for the (Oil Slick/Burning Arrow/Rain of Arrows) combo?

No one in a team ever seem to notice the debuffs (not even me, except for the FX). As soon as I have set up the debuff area, the fight moves away from it. It feels a bit like my /Devices blaster, you need time to set to be useful and somewhere around 30-40 teams never need to stop.

So if someone here could tell me how to play a TA/Archery who is not a damage dealer mainly, but a defender, I might actually play it again.

Congratulations!

YEY! Yesterday was Jester day, at least the first time I saw you in game. Welcome back mate.

If you want me to, I'm willing to take White Knight and teleport everyone around. Makes a boring but fast trial.

Gratulations Globey!

I did my respec yesterday, and Okton I kept Siphon Speed, I tossed out Teleport and Dimension Shift and got Hasten and Super Speed.

I also moved the powers around about a bit on the power tray. Speed Boost, Transfusion, and Increase Density moved up to the alternate tray. The self buffs moved to left of the primary tray, followed by the holds and to the far right the attacks. Super speed, Hasten and Stealth moved up the the alternate tray to the right.

When I hit 24 I took Repel which was fun, but probably will be respeced out sooner or later since it killed my End all by itself

I'm not sure if it was the respec or the fact that I moved the powers around on the tray, but it was much more fun to play yesterday.

Thank you all for the advice, and enough encouragment to make me invest the time to make it a fun toon to play.

Thanks Okton, I think I will do a respec tonight. Drop Siphon speed and Dimension Shift and get Hasten and Super speed that should give me enough stealth to ghost missions (with Recall friend, which is an essensial power for me, the reason I kicked out my PB was that I it couldn't get it).

I will try and get by without the Fitness pool, It hasn't been needed on any other higher 'troller I have (level 50 Ill/Rad or level 39 Earth/Emp).

Is there an fun way to play Gravity/Kinetics? Most team doesn't like me using Dimension shift. At least person in each team usually screams for Speed Boost as soon as it runs out, Density Increase sounds like a great power from the description but it doesn't seem to do much. The whole Grav/Kin seems to set my up as bad kinetics defender with some holds thrown in for good measure. Oh and there is at least one attack too many in the primary set.

My grav/kin is only level 22, and am seriously giving thoughts to deleting her, but thought that someone might give me some hint if this feeling of being bad at what I'm supposed to be good at will go away.

Before you answer this, I'm not trying to build an über toon or anything. Fairly effient and fun to play if much more to liking.

I don't like the fitness pool and my opinion is that it should only be used if you a) Really need it, slotting wth End Reds and removing your Hasten isn't enough. b) You're unable to find any other power that is more fun. So if you planning to show a plan of a Grav/Kin, please don't include it.

Is it going to be planned or spur of the moment? If the later send a tell to @Black Light and I'll help if I can.

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Trying tommorow at 6pm BST, hope servers stay up this time

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Noooooo!!! I didn't read this until now. *Sigh*

I have noticed that I don't play my main as much as I used to, I might not even play her every week. I think it's because I feel that sometime after about level 40 Devices got boring. Does anyone else feel the same way, you need to time to set up your minefields, your turrets and high level teams doesn't need to stop.

The only powers I use, with any regularity is TD, Smoke grenade, Caltrops, CD and Time bomb.

Would shifting Auto-turret for Voltaic sentinel change much? I hardly ever miss, would Aim still make a difference?

Anyone out there that could help me getting the fun back into Black Light?

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Don't bother going there. I will be there and I plan to win, which will much easier if you don't show up

For people whos joke's meter are severly uncalibrated, that means "Welcome and I hope I see you there."

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I didn't win, in fat I didn't make it to the second round (that is given that the everyone is welcome line was the first), but I had fun and saw a lot of nice costumes.

Gratulations to Glowbug for winning, it was a really good costume!

Not if the attack is Decive

Don't bother going there. I will be there and I plan to win, which will much easier if you don't show up

For people whos joke's meter are severly uncalibrated, that means "Welcome and I hope I see you there."

Welcome! Hope you enjoy it. I think the EU servers are a bit low population compared to the US server.