Feycat

No, it's like 2 per contact, and there's like 3 contacts per level bracket. The brackets go 1-9, 10-14, 15-20, and I was doing both the Resistance threads, so I stopped my xp gain at 9, 14 and 20 until I'd gotten the morality mission that ends each arc. It took a little juggling and checking Paragonwiki to make sure the levels of the contacts I was playing so I wouldn't go past them.

Basically, that's the one thing I feel the devs really effed up about Praetoria - you outlevel contacts and they just stop giving you the next step, and you level way too fast in Praetoria. As it was, I have to solo there if I want any chance of looking at the storylines and getting badges/merits. That same character also got every single Praetorian badge, so I was enjoying taking my time in the zone.

Aside from that though, things are pretty much the same outside of Praetoria, and the only zone that gives you any kind of structured arc pre-20 is Faultline, and I don't even know how many merits that gives. I was super sad to bring that character out of Praetoria and find that Jim Temblor won't give you anything if you're over 19 so I had to skip that zone.

Craptoria, huh? The merits per-story might be small, but since they pile up every time you complete an arc of 4-5 missions, they add up.

My latest praetorian ran Resistance and came out with 187 merits at level 20. That's not crappy to me!

Yeah you can. I've added people to my AE teams while the arc is still running. They say TF but they don't restrict the team.

I personally use AE for both - farming tickets for IOs (mostly that I use on my own huge stable of alts, but also to sell the excess) and to play through and write stories.

The biggest problem is the difficulty, imo. It's almost impossible to judge what kind of difficulty you're going to be up against, and most of the mobs are way tougher than equivalent mobs of the same level found in the outside world. Sometimes that's fun, but sometimes I just want to play through the story and can't because someone made mobs that are just too hard for the particular character I'm playing.

They wouldn't have to let US customize the minions. Most of us would be happy with:

1. 2-4 different skins to choose from, per minion type
2. Abillity to lock in minions so the minion with that name always has that skin.

If they don't want a herd of strippers or crazy grandmas with guns following us, fine. But the single set of randomizing appearances we currently have sucks

well, and here I thought that was pretty much the perfect deterrant, too! Use it all you want, they'll just take it away when it gets fixed!

I have no idea, like I said, I'd read it in several articles about fixing the exploits in MA when it went live.

Here's one: http://www.eldergame.com/2009/05/use...ruby-slippers/ - there's others, but I don't want to go searching for a bunch of old articles just to prove I'd heard of it, lol

I really didn't miss any of that, Techbot.

My point is that it's already possible to make an extremely powerful character in this game, in every AT, without a ton of difficulty. I personally have no head for math, farming bores me to death, and I don't min/max very well. That being said, most of my characters feel and play very powerful, are perfectly able to solo above the default difficulty setting, and enjoy team play with competent teams without excessive difficulty. Many of them are close to softcapped when their build plays out, most of them have a ton of recharge, and all of them do competent damage.

And that is within ED.

My point is that I don't see it being such a gamebreaking boost that they're going to be able to build content specifically around it. It's a moderate boost, and we're allowed to pick and choose between which boosts we want. How do you build content around "maybe having x% more recharge, maybe having x more magnitude holds, maybe having x% more damage" in a way that doesn't penalize people who choose different powers? And how could you possibly tune content in such a specific demographic?

The level boost is something I hadn't seen and I do see how that could indeed let them build content that would only be completable with Incarnates, simply because you wouldn't be able to hit things that are enough levels above you. But in the end, that's just raising the level cap without giving us more xp to earn, and it seems like the system wants to be more than that.

I just don't see any content currently in the game that NEEDS us to be more powerful for it, and I have a hard time seeing how they're going to tune content that DOES need us to be more powerful, but only in a very specific window, see?

And no, I'm not complaining. I think the game is fine as is, I have no need for everything to be SUPER NINTENDO HARD. This is not some leet min/maxer complaining the game is too easy. This is me being honestly curious what the need for the power levels is, and what they're going to actually accomplish.

Basically this, yes!

It seems to me like the Incarnate system will be most beneficial to people who don't use the invention system already, but will those people really want to use the Incarnate system when it uses inventions? I guess we'll see!

THIS.

I'd forego pool customization almost entirely (though the pink circles and scribbles on everything psi still makes me a sad kitty) if they'd simply give us a "no FX" option for Hasten. Especially if it includes that stupid sound.

I have Hasten on almost all my characters, and it's set to autofire. *sighs*

Me too! I'm so glad the Origins pack is so enjoyable, it's tiding me over, lol

They do have a Ghost Widow.







It's just that she's not dead there.

You guys rule! Thank you so very much for putting in the effort to making this happen!

I19 is in beta.

I usually don't, actually - I don't want to give more clues than necessary that it's a costume change. If I could get it to happen without resetting all her toggles, that would be awesome - I'd like it to just organically happen where she's suddenly sparking.

I usually have an "/e twitches and buzzes." when it happens though. So far, the thing that sets her off without fail is being TP'd, but there have been a few other triggers as well.

Me too!

Yeah, you can't add anything that doesn't "belong" to the widow set in the uniform slot. I wasn't aware you could use *any* auras with slot 1, that's probably a bug.

I for one am THRILLED they're finally giving something for the rest of us. Not ALL characters are about martial arts and guns, and there's at least three powersets that rely heavily on the whole "power of nature" theme.

If you're using Firefox with NoScript, be sure you set all the pages to "temporarily allow all this page" (or permanently, if you want to) when you're trying to buy something in the NCSoft store. It's a problem for me every single time I buy there.