Chad Gulzow-Man

I love you, Turg. (In a totally hetero platonic bro way.)

I am honestly quite in favor of this suggestion. I'd pay 50 A-Merits for Bug Hunter.

Minor correction. There may be more in the future if the first ten go well.

I'd be extremely surprised if we didn't see those things in the future. Just... not in Issue 20.
I don't even know how that would work... Or exactly what you're asking for there, to be honest.

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*snrk* *giggle* *chortle* BWAHAHAHAHA...

No no, just the first two really. Impossible and time consuming, with a dash of requiring some programming time and not just animating time, as you seem to be assuming.

Alas, this particular issue is not one that can be animated away. It's tied in to the combat stance, and is thus locked by programming. Furthermore, it would need code that makes it so you can't choose the open handed animations if you have weapon claws (or, more easily, using the open hand animations would block the weapons from rendering). And then you'd have people complaining that they want extendable finger claws that are only out when they're attacking, and more complaints about mitten hands, et cetera ad infinitum.

In all likelihood, this is far more feasible now than it was prior to Issue 16, but it would require more resources than they can probably spare with the new Incarnate systems being added to the game in the upcoming issues.

That took me a minute. Genius.

Actually, we got an extended double XP weekend, not one out of the blue, because the server outtage occurred during the double XP weekend.

(Not gonna argue that extending the ski slope part of the winter event isn't really any sort of fair trade for the players who were affected by the most recent outtage, though.)

Someone making sense and seeing both sides on the internet... oh noes!

No, Blue's right. They should (and almost certainly will) implement an option available to soloers and those who can't run or find large teams due to whatever reason.

Here's my suggestion:
You know how the Strike Pack creates a "target TF" for a week, where you get (the option at(?)) a Notice of the Well for running it? I've already seen people suggest they do the same with an Ouroboros arc, but what I'd do is make that arc last a whole month. That'd give teamers a shot at up to 5 Notices per month, while still giving soloers and what-not a shot at one.

Soloers and those others who hate the team-based rewards for whatever reason will receive their rewards at a maximum 1/5 the pace of those who team, while still being able to steadily work towards a goal.

You're awesome, Blue.

(And I'm not going to bother quoting the rest, even though it's pretty much dead-on, because it's just two posts above this one--look up!)

I missed no such point. I do plenty of soloing AND teaming, depending on what I want to do at the time.
You got that right. Y'all're ridiculous. ... Right. And the devs have said they're aware of the subsection of players that feel strongly about it, and they will try to find a solution that will please everyone, but that it won't be available right away... right?

So... if you've made your point... and the devs are listening... then why is this thread still going exactly?

Not sure which way you're going with this. I see Katie Hannon TFs starting up almost every time I'm logged in.

The regular game is the car. The Incarnate Content is the carpool lane. You're required to bring others, or else you're going to get yourself in trouble.

A valid option. I've only got Alpha on 4 of my 50s, and don't plan to get it on the others, at least not as things stand right now.

'Tis true. If you're fine playing and paying for the game the way it is now, it's not like the stuff you enjoy is going to be removed to make room for the team-based Incarnate content that you refuse to play.

That's pretty much how filler works, yes. The same goes for popular currently-airing shows like Naruto and Bleach. (I'm honestly amazed that One Piece has so little filler, and when there is filler, it's short and surprisingly good.) I liked the filler that dealt with the Great Saiyaman (though not so much the English dubs of it... ewwww...)

As for watching DragonBall Kai, I already know the story, and like I said, I moved on to bigger and better things about ten years ago. :P

(But the Gohan SSJ2 episode is the BEST G.D. EPISODE EVER.)

How many times were you watching a Blaster solo? Snipe attacks are still pretty handy to open a solo (or small team/low damage team) fight.

But yeah, totally, if you use snipe in the middle of a fight, you either have a terrible attack chain or are still learning the ropes (likely both).

I take--and use--the Stun power in Energy Melee.

... of course, at this point, that entire powerset needs to be reworked, so take that with a grain of salt.

But then you'll NEVER get all those vet rewards!

Yup. I had Moonbeam on my Stalker for over a year.

Then I actually looked at the numbers, and realized that Dark Blast outperformed the hell out of it for damage (you can cast it like 6 times in the time it takes to fire Moonbeam once and wait for it to recharge--Stalker snipes have a ridiculous activation time of something like 8 seconds). I respecced and put a single Range IO enhancement in Dark Blast, and it works far better than Moonbeam in every situation.