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Originally Posted by je_saist

On the servers I play on, several SG's and Global channels have AE nights. There's also an active contingent of people actually creating stories in the AE system. The implication of #3 is well, factually wrong. The implication you try to make is that nobody uses AE, which simply isn't true.

What is true is that the exploiters, those who used the AE system, knowingly used the AE system, to bypass risk / reward ratios and achieve high levels with little to no actual gameplay experience... have gone back to the older farms. Some of them still work the system, trying to figure out the next big exploit, the next big enemy group or combination that the developers overlooked, or the right combination of IO buffs, damage, recharge time, and powers to get the most out of a mission.

It's those players who are directly responsible for the changes being made to AE, but each change better fulfills the goal of AE to be a way for players to share stories with each other. Too many players, and from your post you are one of them, get hung up on the phrase alternate Level Path. The developers have been over that phrase more times than I care to count: Alternate does not mean equivalent or superior.

It's not really that hard a concept to comprehend. Yes. You can use AE to level from 1 to 50. No, it was never supposed to be as fast as playing Developer Created content. It was never supposed to be used for farming. It was never supposed to be used to bypass risk reward. Everybody who actually cared, and paid attention, knew anvils would be dropping from "Day-1."

Now, I know this is going to go straight over your head. I know that you don't care one bit about playing the game or having fun. I know that all you care about is getting maximum xp's for littlest time spent.

I do have to ask these questions: Why? What's the goal? Why the rush to get to 50? What's the point of rushing through the game and not doing anything?

No, I'm not exactly expecting an intelligent response except maybe another "lolwhut" since these questions require elementary school comprehension skills... but maybe it will serve as food for thought for new players researching the history of AE, or looking into using AE to tell their own stories.

Originally Posted by Panzerwaffen

Maybe I'm misreading, but I don't think that is what the OP is asking. It sounds like he is saying that even after logging off for 10 days, he is not getting a full 10 bars (1 full level) of patrol XP.

Originally Posted by NeoSporin

World of Pain confuses me.
The description reads that it is Ally, with no Self buff.

Combat window seems to support this since I don't see heal buffs from myself to myself from it.

But the Attribute window shows a clear jump in regen when I turn it on. From 3. something to 8.something.

However, when I turn it on, and take damage, I can't say I see much of a difference, if any in healing up. Even when no more damage is coming in.

So, is World of Pain solely Ally, or is it both a buff to me and my allies?

Originally Posted by Redoubtable

I think I'm safe in saying that this change would not have been put forward if the majority of the mods didn't agree that a problem existed.

Originally Posted by Liliaceae

I, and other moderators, regularly receive complaints about the level and nature of chat in the channel. Particularly when things become too sexually explicit, or people are flinging insults.