Daemodand

That's mah Smurphy!
*studio audience laughs and cheers*

I thought I17 had the fix, but, this is good to hear. After that fix is in I'm going to take a serious look at MA and give it a fair second chance.

Some MArcs really are good ("Sea City" for example). When you find a MArc like that, just randomly like I did, you see what the MA could be. Then you stumble into one of the "completes on zone in" MArcs some joker put together for lolz and you see what the MA can also be.

P.S. I'm reminded I would at least like to play Arcanaville's and Eva Destruction's MArcs because I can expect those to be competent at worst and excellent at best. Hmmm. Market's down anyway, so why not?

I solved this problem by having a Bane and a Crab instead of "cheating" it with a dual build. Hey, if 1 VEAT is good, 2 are better and 4 are best.

You and me both, Bill. A one-man SG with all my alts would be great!

This would turn zone PvP around completely. And I think it'll happen sometime in the next year or so, too.

I heart Venture.

You agree the Extreme boss is much more difficult, so if the author of the MArc uses an Extreme boss, why shouldn't it give rewards proportionate to that? Because difficult standard critters don't? Even though Extreme customs are an order of magnitude more difficult than any standard critter?

I didn't know that and I wonder how many authors know about that? And I don't believe there is a way to filter out MArcs that don't use it, so MA will still be pot-luck as to whether a MArc gives 100% XP or nearly none.

It's all a big frustration when I can just go to any given standard storyarc and do that instead.

I will have to play around with that as you suggest though. Who knows? I may find it "good enough".

P.S. They're going to have to do something about reducing XP for non-buffing "allies" like destructable objects and hostages before I take a serious look at MA again though (unless that's been corrected, but based on posts here, it hasn't).

OK, fair enough. But custom critters are generally so much more difficult than any standard critter, that giving the same or reduced rewards seems like more of a penalty (ie, you can go and defeat standard critters in non-MA missions that are much easier to defeat, but give the same XP as those Extreme bosses in MA, making MA a very unappealing option).

Issue 20: New PvP Feature!

Added an NPC that when clicked, adds negative reputation to The_Coming_Storm.

Added additional NPC that when cliced, sends unblockable email to black_barrier that states: "duel meh! No pills, no moving!"

pl210

Double stacked Followup is less than half the +Damage of Double Stacked Rage. It's less than the +Damage of single-stacked Rage even. And it has to hit. You speak of Followup and Rage as if they are equals when they're not. Rage is far and away better.

As if those IOs weren't expensive enough? Lots of them are going off market even.

Oh, well!

That's why I like Super Reflexes. Put a SR in the same scenario and his defense will never drop more than a few points, and it will never see negative numbers. At 50? Your Defense might go from 30.5% to 30%. 29% if you're really getting hammered with -Defense.

Super Reflexes truly is the Golden Fox of powersets.

But don't worry. I'm sure you'll console yourself with Sheid Charge, +HPs, +Damage, -Damage and your team buff (as if you need a team, but hey, they're good for showing off what you can do ).