Eiko-chan

The funny thing here, for me, is that the Gorilla has moved largely towards 5- and 10-person content; the 20- and 40-person days are long past.

Abyss. Her arc is too short. Needs to be longer, with more heroes to beat up.

Something that involves running up against the individual members of the Vindicators and Freedom Phalanx would be ideal. Constantly having to fight bad guys with my bad guy breaks my sense of immersion (and that's generally what's involved in most of the Patron Arcs.)

Redside needs an arc like Maria Jenkins.

They would, of course, have to link the one-time to all three choices. Otherwise, the only sensible thing to do is craft the 2-for-1, then buy a notice with your extra.

Black Scorpion covered this:
Since we can build abilities from stuff that come from Trials, and can get everything in Trials from shards, we can get Notices from shards.

You know what's epic? The "Save The World" mission at the end of Dark Watcher's arc. That final room full of Rikti, and just you, a couple silly young kids from Faultline, and a renegade Rikti to stop them. And just when you think you've won, BAM, Nemesis shows up. The real one. And there's only you (and maybe Jimmy; Fusionette and the Rikti are almost always down by now) between him and victory.

That is epic.

My chutzpah is a 6!

That does make me feel better. Thanks for taking the time to come back and clarify.

I can see how you can see the letter saying that. Is it possible for you to admit that you can see how I don't see it saying that?

That is the best argument in favour I have ever heard. I think I might be convinced!

I'm really not sure why some people consider it unreasonable for other players to expect the end game - the "stuff to do with your level 50 characters" - to resemble the rest of the game. Seriously, why is this unreasonable?

This isn't like just adding a few TFs and giving team players things to do on the side. This is shifting a 99% solo game into a 100% team game just because it's "end game".

I merely pointed out that "8" was not a "small group". I said nothing about whether the content should be balanced for groups smaller than 8 or not. Some of the issues between what's being delivered and what a subsection of the playerbase was hoping for might be explained by the fact that Developers consider "8 to 12" to be "not a big group".

I consider those numbers big. From some of the other posts seen, I'm not alone here. "Not a big group" would be more along the lines of 2-4.
Most MMOs I am aware of have this functionality. While it can be viewed as a good thing from the point of view of functionality - it is a useful system that makes finding a team easier - it doesn't really buy you points on the "something different" meter.
Has there been updates to this system since its implementation in the Praetorian events? Because quite frankly, the way you don't count the contribution of pets from ATs that have pets (and considering that one of those ATs is built expressly around the idea of "having pets") does not accurately reflect how much help these ATs provide to the effort.
I really wish you would find some other model to follow. This is the model that makes me not play other MMOs. Is this really what people have been clamouring for?

This is very nice. This is a good addition. I'm very glad that I don't have to be entirely negative - this is a very, very good choice. It certainly removes some of the added pain of exemplaring that the Incarnate system introduced.

I hope you continue to look at how the Incarnate System interacts with the exemplar system in the future.
And after I just said something so nice, this idea that you're pushing out the Incarnate Trials as the end game, and that it will be the end game for the foreseeable future, really dashes a lot of my hopes. You've already outlined explicitly (finally quashing the rumours otherwise) that Incarnate Trials are not a "solo option" - indeed, they are now clearly much closer to what would be called a "raid" than anything else.

It's really sad that City of... has decided that "end game" here really does mean the same thing as any other MMO.

Yes, yes, we get it. You're awesome. You can stop bragging now.

That just makes enemies run around corners looking for you. Not the same thing as a tether.

A tether isn't really a "tool" to be used. It's actually supposed to be an anti-exploit tool itself, and using it to make Recluse "easy" doesn't seem to be "good gaming". It's taking advantage of poor coding (if I were coding a tether, the tethered mob would clear all threat (and probably most other effects) when pulled back.)

Scrapyarder Summoning.

Scrapyarder Foremen already have most of a summon set - attacks based around Super Strength and bottom-tier summons. Just need to add two more ranks (and we have Demolitionists for one of those ranks, probably the "Boss" pet; need some sort of passive buffer for the Lieutenant rank) and a pet-support power (too bad Gang War already exists, because that effect would probably be perfect.)

It is for me. Not that I think I could do an STF in an hour and a half (never done an STF. Don't really play blueside.) I don't think I've done a run of the LRSF in less than two hours ever (often, it's about at the 2:30 or 3 hour mark that we give up and go to bed.)