Bloodspeaker

Meh, this is no longer even moderately entertaining. After seeing the fantastically dismal "trailer" for i21 that was shown at SDCC, frivolous quibbles like this... are frivolous.

Everyone has a right to an opinion, even if that opinion amounts to "Why do I have to wait for my toy when someone else got theirs today?" We also have the right to keep out opinions to ourselves. Or the right to express them in a rational and adult manner, and move on. We have the right to form and express opinions about other people's opinions, up to and including "Grow up."

However, when it comes to this game, we really only have two rights: to continue paying for it, and play, or stop paying for it, and leave. You can go away mad, but you can't take the ball with you. It's not yours.

So... I watched the i21 trailer for the first time, today.

I really have only one question: Why did they forget (at least) 4 years of slow evolution in their advertising style to make... this?..

Okay, TWO questions: Does someone over there not LET you make interesting ads?

Not wanting to seem insulting. I'm just terribly frustrated when, on the one hand, you say you want to draw more people into the game, and on the other...

Let me say it a different way:

You have to grab people's attention!

This is an amazing game. Make something amazing. Put it in front of people. Let them be amazed.

I still have one saved, more or less patiently waiting for them to fix and restore certain maps to the AE, specifically the "Floating Ziggurat", in this case.

The story that ended there centered around the player(s) looking for the clues needed to prevent a cosmic avatar of destruction from destroying/devouring all reality. The last mission occurred "outside" the Universe, and previously mentioned map is the ONLY one that ever conveyed this for me.

Just 4-5 missions of short to medium length, some complex dialog, an insanely powerful "godling" to thwart at the end, even some "help" to recruit along the way.

Personally, I felt that one of the arcs charms would have been that the contact, another cosmic avatar, actually communicates with you via the AE system, superseding whatever "fictional mission you were planning on playing", as a reasonably safe way to reach you without damaging the timestream. My own little nod in the general direction of the 4th wall.

Meh, I have such a stellar record for not winning contests that I think I'll just buy it when it goes live. Even the RL RNG hates me, probably more than any in-game one.

Quite aside from the fact that a protest of one ≠ "strong"...

Heh, well, look at it this way: once it triggers on a given attack roll, it won't STOP, either.

Nope. In my experience with AR (several attacks), Dark Blast (Gloom) and Fire Blast (several attacks), Scourge will never kick in part way through a DoT. If it triggers on the first tick (essentially, on the initial to hit roll) then it affects the entire damage flow. Otherwise, there is no added damage.

What the?.. Are you people TRYing to kill the hissy fit and actually have a reasonable discussion, here?!? Where's the fun in THAT?..

Personally, I *do* play a lot of Doms, and have been lobbying to get Dark Control/Domination and Dark Assault (mostly the latter) for a long time. And while I'm disappointed it's not here with this round of proliferation, I've gotten the sense that Paragon is working on it. As such, I'm content to wait til it's ready to go, rather than getting released with a "throw it in the pool and see if it swims" attitude.

As for what "rights" being a paying player entitles one to, some folks may want to go back and read the EULA that we all have to click "accept" on when we log in, but I can easily sum it up:

1) You have the right to play the game.
2) You have the right to stop paying for it, and quit playing the game.

There. That's it. Nothing about updates, graphic improvements, new content of any kind, bug fixes, anything. Granted, if all of this never happened, a lot of folks would be exercising right #2, but that's really all there is to it.