Chad Gulzow-Man

Are you positive they weren't talking about a beta for a different game (such as Star Trek Online)?

Actually, I'm a little curious. I just started farming for the final 3 damage sustained badges via a vicious CoT beating, and despite the fact that my character has about +370 Max HP from Accolades and other set bonuses, the badge status bar seems to be adding about 1200 damage (roughly the damage value of each attack) for every strike. Now, it's not an exact number every time, but it's generally adding between 1200 and 1250 per hit for a strike that's doing 1220.31 damage...

Did they maybe stealth-fix the damage badge counter in i16 or later without a patch note?

Cuz I'm not gonna complain in the least if it's true.

Edit: Oh, frikken duh, I skipped right past this post...

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Where's that dude with the sig about the dollar bills not being in sequential order?

Avatar images? Don't mind if I do!

You just keep that team rocking out, WW.

Gotta give Zyphoid props for that last post. I admit that I've felt the same way while playing the game, thinking "Why the hell is every individual member of the Freedom Phalanx so much more powerful than my character?" While it's still pretty fun to wreak havoc on a group of minions, AV and Hero-class enemies always make me a little frustrated from a roleplaying standpoint.

And while I fully accept that most builds/players should never be able to solo one of the big bads (after all, this is an MMO), anything that juices up the characters I feel should be more powerful via a gameplay experience is a very welcome addition.

And for my characters I don't feel require a "power up," I can simply choose to not partake of the system with them. Like Zyphoid said...

To copy the tone of Rod's post:

Why would you want to leave Victory in the first place? We're awesome.

*reads OP*

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*head desk*

*reads Sailboat's link*

*head desk* *head desk* *head desk* *head desk* *head desk*

Oooowwwwwwww...

(Edit: The point of this post is that the people mentioned are missing the point of the system. As with anything else in the game, it's optional. If you don't like it, ignore it, and play the game just like you always have. Your existing characters won't be any weaker for skipping it.)

I kind of recall that early last year there was a pretty large shipment of 1TB hard drives that had some sort of manufacturing defect. I know that for a while the desktop system supplier I go through at work had to jump through a few hoops to get drives from a "clean" shipment instead to fulfill my open orders.

The tech person you spoke with might be thinking of this temporary halt on terrabyte drives when he says they cause issues with Win 7. If so, we're supposedly well past that issue now.

Anyway... Like many others in the thread, I also have a 1TB drive installed in my Win 7 machine at home, and I've had no problems with it other than a power cord that came loose when I moved the system.

Happy belated birthday, Death! You'd better get you some more badges before I'm the first one on the server to get them all.

Nope, you don't have to buy any additional products or packages to use the Mission Architect. Just for subscribing to the game, you can publish up to 3 story arcs, each of which can be up to 100K in size and have up to five missions.

There are several enemy groups, maps, and costume pieces you can unlock for your arcs by playing published MA arcs and spending the reward tickets dropped within, but these don't (and can't) require purchase with actual money.

The only Mission Architect add-on you can actually purchase with real money is extra publishing slots, giving you the option to publish up to 8 arcs if you want to spend the cash. Alternately, if your arcs become very popular with other players or the developers, your arcs can become marked as "Hall of Fame" or "Developer's Choice," and you get that publishing slot back to post another arc as a reward.

There are several guides with tips and tricks to make your missions more fun and accessible to your fellow players in this section, so please read through them as you have time. If you have any questions afterwards, feel free to ask, and someone will assuredly be happy to answer.

I made a point of playing mostly solo with my first CoV character... a Katana/SR Stalker. If you don't try to play them like a Scrapper (aka, "kill everything in sight, pronto!") and don't mind playing slowly and methodically in combat, they're incredibly strong solo characters.

I've also had fantastic luck recently with my Elec/Shield Brute, once he was levelled up enough to get SOs. He is a damage fiend... just walk into a room and spam attacks at everyone who looks at you funny until they stop twitching. I also had a pretty decent experience with my Energy/Energy Aura Brute, and that was before the set got buffed last year.

(I had significantly less luck on my SS/Invuln Brute from the pre-IO days, though it's entirely possible that I built or slotted him poorly.)

I've personally found Masterminds to be even slower-going than my Stalker, but I'm not a huge fan of robots so haven't bothered with that primary before. I have played a Necro/Poison and Thugs/Poison into the high 20s... while they didn't die often, Poison does tend to be pretty heavy on endurance usage and is notably better on a team than solo. I'd certainly go with /Dark instead if you're interested in a fast solo experience, with either Thugs or Bots as the primary.

(Sidenote: I also have plans to make both a Demon/Dark and Demon/Thermal MM when Going Rogue launches.)

As far as Dominators and Corruptors go, I unfortunately cannot give any real input. I'm not a huge fan of ranged damage classes and have yet to level either class out of the teens. The reason I mention this is to say the following:

Everyone has their own play style, and every AT has their own strengths and weaknesses. The above classes fit my play style, so I'm comfortable with them. You might not like the slowness and cautiousness required to play most Stalker builds, or the fact that you'll almost never have endurance in combat when playing a /Poison MM. They work for me. So take everyone else's suggestions with a grain of salt and figure out what works for you.

Technically, they haven't said that Praetoria only goes to 20... just that a character that starts in Praetoria has to leave to go to Paragon City or the Rogue Isles once they hit level 20.

I'm not saying you're wrong... I'm just saying we don't know one way or the other yet.

Thanks guys!

It's Rikti-speak. The board admins have all been acting like Rikti for the last week or so.

In a nutshell, Arcanaville said:
"Hey Ocho, I'm not sure you're up for fighting. I recommend you retire so we don't have to hurt you."

Whew, what a long but satisfying day.

Woke up this morning, logged in Evil G, got his last Day Job badge, then went to work (which unfortunately sucked today). Got home this evening, took the dog for a run, went to meet some friends for dinner and was treated to an awesome pirate-themed surprise birthday party! Then I came home, logged in on Chad, and got his last Day Job badge.

Full of "treasure map" cake, and no more Day Jobs! Wooooo!