Eva Destruction

Have you ever had an SG member do something so amazingly, unbelievably stupid and thoughtless, with a few clicks of a few buttons, after you had repeatedly asked them to NOT TOUCH THE BASE years ago (and had assumed they had gotten the message since they hadn't touched the base in years), that you are now looking at hours of work in order to fix it? Is kicking every single one of this person's alts and putting them on global ignore overreacting?

In case you're wondering what they did, they deleted a room. It was an empty chokepoint that currently leads to nowhere but is going to lead to somewhere. Needless to say, there is a ton of crap blocking the door, including "stairs" embedded in the floor.

It all began with a 50. A Blaster 50, to be precise. And once that Blaster hit 50, I thought, what now? Well I'd never gotten a Scrapper past level 10, so I decided to take another crack at it.

I picked MA because it looked so freaking cool, and Regen because of Quick Recovery. This was right after i5, so IH had just become a click, and the rage was legendary. Cranked up the leg slider, put on a bikini and heels, and thus Steel Rose, my very first real Scrapper, was born. A few hours later, I was level 14. A few weeks later, I was 50. After the Blaster, this was easy mode.

Fast forward a few months. Dawnrazor, Katana/Dark Armor. I still remember a comment made on the forum around that time: Dark Armor is Australian for "dude, where did all my end go?" Well I dragged her up into the late 20s, when my husband pointed out that he had a Fire/Kin Controller (before they were cool) around that level. SB meh! A friend of ours grabbed his bubbler, a bunch of other friends grabbed whatever, and I Scrap-tanked that group all the way to 50. It was the first character I did an IO build for...wow, did I mess that one up.

Fast forward a few more months, and we get Dual Blades. Flashy. Finally I can do that one character I've had kicking around in my head properly. And so I create Viper Calhoun, DB/SR. Once I got around the late 30s, and started building up some IO sets....I think that was the beginning of the end. By this point I knew what "softcap" meant. So awesome, and so much fun to play. It didn't help that the devs gave me a mission where I was ambushed by hordes and hordes of nazis (for a character whose backstory involved a dedication to exterminating the Council, and by extension the 5th from existence) that I could repeat as many times as I liked...if you don't love that mission I think you should have your Scrapper card revoked. It was the beginning of the end.

And then I rolled Darkfire Avenger, a DM/SD. See, the custom shields were really freaking awesome, but some of my friends who had spent time on test said Shields was a bit underwhelming and squishy. But the custom shields were really freaking awesome, and I wanted one. So I thought, "hey, I know! I'll pick the set with the self heal and to-hit debuffs, that's help me not get squished!" Right.

Anyway, there wasn't much more to her than that, I put her in a gothy costume but never came up with much of a backstory or characterization or anything, so she didn't get played much. And then came AE. And I wrote an arc. And I needed an NPC noob hero who would hang out with reformed Freakshow, and then I realized, hey, I have a noobish hero who....yeah, it would make sense, one shameless author insert coming up. And now I had a character. I played a ton of arcs with her, got her to 50 mostly through AE, and at some point found out that DM/SD was actually really awesome and great for Stupid Scrapper Tricks. I was only level 47, but I'd hit the softcap so I took a crack at a pylon anyway. I did not die. And then I hit 50 and took a crack at Hrod'tohz, because he was there. I did not die. He did. And it was then that I realized I was going to have a problem.

Hello, my name is Eva Destruction and I am a Scrapper.

I ran it about two weeks ago, and it was still broken.

I ran one last night with 16 people and two Masterminds, and while laggy, it was still doable. Then one of the Masterminds left and we went to 18, and it was pretty much as lag-free as I've ever seen the BaF.

I don't think the inclusion of a Mastermind or two will make it unbearable. It's just when the Masterminds and everybody else is popping pets, that's when it gets stupid. The only advice I can take away from this is to limit the use of pets, unless you are a Mastermind. And stick to two teams.

Edit: It's not just the BaF either. I went for a MOLambda attempt last night and the lag got insane when the reinforcements started piling up. Annoying, because we almost had it, and probably would have if not for the lag.

First you have to manually set the level of the mission to the level you want it to be (if you're using Hellions, you'd set the minimum level to 1 and the maximum to 15 I think). It's under "mission properties." Then it'll allow you to place critters of any level, although using a Fir Bolg, even as a non-combatant, will place the "Higher level enemies appearing at a lower level than design intent" message in your arc description.