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Not in my experience.

I'm a very active, "lead from the front"-style MM player, as anyone who's teamed with Hanano or the Unquiet Bride could tell you. I both have and make extensive use of my primary attacks, as well as picking up the additional ones from Epics. I've never seen the point of just standing back and leaving the guys on Bodyguard.

Nuwisha has her dire wolf.
I know how Pack Mentality works, and I use Fortify.

... and I stll find the Beast Mastery set to be an absolute pain in the rear to play, and considerably less enjoyable than any of the other MM sets I've run. (Ninja, Necro and Demons, to date-)

I'm glad someone likes it... but I doubt I'm ever going to.

I've already had two versions of Nuwisha... The first (which I deleted early-) was Beast/Thermal. The current version is Beast/FF.

Those secondaries were great with the Bride's guys (she's Necro/Thermal) and Han's pajama-wearing maniacs (Ninja/FF), but have done jack-all as far as I can see for the durability of the traveling circus. The wolves in particular also seem to ignore command changes more often than the other sets I've played. Even spamming bodyguard or putting them on full passive doesn't always keep them from running off to the far corners of creation.

I've had to make a dismiss key to keep them from aggroing entire maps. Even my ninja at their worst never drove me to do that. <_<

This.

FCM and I were running these with a couple of friends last night and more than once it picked the person who was the slowest zoner (and thus had the character farthest from the door-)

That said, it's still a very cool scene. XD



"No worries," Palrah the tank says. "I got this."

He was even dressed the part.

This particular problem (Kheldians being unable to use ANY of their pets while in forms... Vanity, vet *or* purchased... It's not just the Leprechaun-) only cropped up when pets were switched from one-click summons to toggles, so I suspect you're right. It's a new expression of an age-old complaint.

I still bugged it in-game and mentioned it on the forums at the time, and have brought it up again several times since then, but thus far the only dev response to the issue has been complete silence.

I suspect that either means they don't know how to fix the problem, or they're unwilling to. It's not like there are all that many of us who play multi-form Kheldians...

'Still miss having Sola's little blue whisp around, though.

I can tell you haven't tried soloing a stalker through First Ward yet...

In all seriousness, while Praetoria in general (and First Ward in particular-) aren't *impossible* for stalkers, they're not exactly what I'd call fun, either. A ton of character-targeted ambushes involving larger-than-average groups, escort allies that can't see through Hide, critter factions that make Assassin's attacks utterly useless... It's a real pain in the butt, and problematic in ways that just don't hit other ATs.

Sure, it CAN be done... I ought to know. I've gone through the whole Praetorian song and dance with three now... but at this point I really am convinced that the devs who designed First Ward had something against sneaky folk.

Agreed.

I'd love to have it eventually on my badge collector for completeness' sake, but being one of those more casual types, I know Palrah wouldn't come close to passing the "gear check" a serious attempt would require... not to mention the whole issue of his pilot not exactly being "pro" to begin with.

So... Yeah. I'll give it some time.
It's not like the badge is going to go anywhere in the meantime.

That's what I do, too. I just feel like it's better to help someone new get through their own stuff than to bring them along as a side-kick on mine.

Since Freedom went live and we got a good-sized influx of new players over on Liberty, I've made a point of keeping Help turned on, talking to and playing with them. I typically do most of that on Anigan, my hero-side SJ/WP brute, because he was started around the same time as many of them and is still mid-level with a mostly-SO build. That keeps him on a more or less level playing field with his team-mates, since most of the new players he's run with are Freems or low-tier Preems. I think it's just more fun when we're all in the same boat.

I do still get questions about things like paid power sets and vet rewards... I've lost count of the number of times I've been asked how I got Ani's angelic wings, in particular... as well as the usual ones re: How Things Work. But simply having vet powers or running on a paid-for AT or with a purchased power-set alone isn't really showing off. Especially not if you're all in there together, equally up to your struggling-lowbie eyes in Vahz.

Agreed... But that's mostly because I'd hate to have to "start over" and re-roll my own siren character (a Sonic defender, and one of the toons I've done the whole full-slotted +3 Incarnate-thing with... ie: a character who would be a real pain in the butt to re-build from scratch <_<).

There's no tip or actual contact for this one red-side. Just click the Signature Arc box on you contacts list and select SSA2 to start.

If we're thinking of the same arc, that's Paolo Marino. His Primal counterpart is Wretch.

The Captain has always been like that...
It's just the way that particular character is. He's a flamboyant, theatrical goof-ball with questionable taste and an ego the size of Detroit.

I had a great time with him, and suspect that even if they revamped the character with a 100% new model, he'd still have a costume that involved loud colors and a flame job. XD