Blood Spectre

If you want to that's fine. It doesn't really do anything to help us, with Golgothan already having given us access to his base we can use, but if that's what you want, then I don't care.

93.94%. I have no idea off the top of my head what the aggro cap is.

I just know I've gone over it when some of my herd stops attacking and starts wandering away from me. But in those moments I am not usually counting heads.

Fire Melee and Fire Armor Stalkers, Ice Melee and Ice Armor Stalkers, Stone Stalkers of some kind (not with Granite, think something more like Marvel's Sandman).
Ice Melee and Ice Armor Brutes, Broadsword Brutes, Martial Arts Brutes.
Psychic Blast Corruptors
Dark Miasma Controllers
Illusionist Masterminds. Or Dominators, I don't care. Both if you can swing it.
Dark/Dark Dominators.
Super Strength Scrappers
Energy Aura Tanks and Scrappers. Not because I think they will be good, but because giving these powers to hero ATs will cause them to be re-evaluated and made good, finally.
Martial Arts or something very like it for Blasters.

Archery Corruptors made me very happy, so I am content to wait, but there's still a lot of PP that could be done.

I never even saw her. I saw her dialogue and started firing arrows, but before I got her in my sights she was already dead.

Er, moreso, anyway.

A little bummed that there doesn't seem to be any way to get a black ice effect, but that's just a nitpick.

as for double xp weekend, I have all day Thursday and Friday, but work Saturday and Sunday. If you want to do something when I'm around, holla'.

Good work last night guys! Team 1 had a pretty straight run through the Mayhem and into Krylov's first arc. We hit level 15 so we wont be getting the second one right now.

Next week I want to run Willy Wheeler, so anyone who wants merits should get him unlocked before Tuesday!

We definately ran two paper missions in Cap last week. I have one to go on Sphinx.

Regarding mayhem tactics. All good advice. My group didn't have as much trouble with our Mayhem on week 1 as Golgothans did, and the main reason is we stayed together.

I hadn't considered that we might outlevel Krylov. If we do, I would rather start working on a higher level contact like Willy Wheeler or whoever introduces Wellman. I certainly am not going to suggest we turn off xp just to get Krylov's merits. There are merits out there we can get without turning off xp and extending the pre-stamina grind.

For clarity's sake I am not calling for across the board buffs. I'm just saying that would be preferable to what was suggested earlier, which was reworking the entire defense system we have. If we were starting from zero, maybe it could be done better. But take a long hard look at PVP if you want to see what happens when we decide to build anew something that basically works already. Not that I mind new PvP. I didn't mind old PvP either. But I can't find anyone who thinks the changes have grown the PvP audiance. I'm not looking to repeat that sort of thing in regulal game play.

I'm just saying look, we enjoy a wonderful diversity of options in this game. I can't think of an MMO that has such variety in it's classes. But if you start smashing down the outliers, then you sort of push people who want to perform at the peak of the game's challenges down very narrow roads. It's a path just as harmful to our wonderfully diverse game as power creep would be.

Obviously, the decisions about Defense were well thought out, and have been for a long time. If they weren't, there is just no way they would have made VEATS the way they are, for example. A couple of them can soft cap an entire team without even using IOs. Clearly, defense is working the way they want it to. And again, there are more than a few enemies that just utterly ignore it, so I think it's okay if it is very good aside from those kryptonite mobs.

The real problem is that it's so much easier to cover yourself when only dealing with three positions for defense, rather than having to use typed resistance, which requires a much broader amount of protection, and has less options. I agree with people's assesments that in general, resistance is undervalued. I'd like to see it made better regardless of what happens to defense. I think that way back when this was all designed there was the thought that since resistance was less vulnerable to the vagaries of the RNG, that it's consistancy would balance it out against the randomness that defense offers. I don't believe however that it played out that way, just that someone thought it would.

I really think in this specific scenario a boost to resistance is called for. Or at least far more called for than a nerf to defense. And I should point out that I have and play characters at the far outliers of both types of protection, and I do enjoy and do well with both of them.

That's what Super Sidekicking is for!

Okay Legends, tonight we leave our mark on King's Row! We have one more paper mission to run first, then we strike at the heart of Paragon City. Regarding the mayhem, this is the general plan. We will move directly to the bank, not using travel powers, but not stopping to fight if we can avoid it. We will gather in the lobby of the bank to put down the ambushes we trigger along the way. From there we will fight our way into the vault as a group, grab the loot, and defeat whatever hero thinks they can stop us. Once that is done, we will swing around and grab the badge for whoever wants it.

Then we'll rendevous with Dimitri Krylov. We'll try to run his arc all at the same time, so that Auto-Complete will allow us all to get merits. Therefor, if any members of the team do not get his arc right off the bat, we will try to help them clear those side missions first, so we can all run the arc together. Or as many of as possible, at least.

See you in Cap Au Diable, at 8 o clock!