FreckledAvenger

Ditto, ditto!

Ooh, seconded!

In other news, the Pope is Catholic and water has been found to be wet.

Also, the point of knockback is to amuse me. As I back mobs into corners with hurricane and force-bolt them off buildings. Who needs ~precision builds~ when you've managed to stick a DE Quartz into the ceiling of an office building? I ask you!

It's awesome when you run into a big group of Lost and cure one...the rest of the group immediately turns and begins attacking them. Of course, then you have to chase the rest of the Lost around and cure/turn them on each other.

Cure worse than the disease?

/drool...

And I forgot Acid Mortar was -res as well as -def (I only see the big upside-down purple shields). I just know I kill stuff faster when it's up!

I am so planning on using caltrops as a proc mule (chance for knockdown? OH YES).

My playstyle is similar (less laying traps/pulling and more running in guns a'blazing) on my 31 bots/traps. But I have (and LOVE) both acid mortar and poison trap.

With Acid Mortar, I'll get the fight started with my bots and lay it in the middle of either my bots (if surrounded) or the enemy mobs (if they're grouped up nicely) and it goes to town with AoE -def goodness. Plus it grabs some aggro as well; nice with large groups of mobs.

I tend to use poison trap on large mobs and bosses/AVs/EBs. With bosses (Longbow Wardens, Carnie Ring Mistresses), I'll spam web grenade to immob them, throw caltrops underneath, then run in and toe-bomb with Poison Trap, hitting them with that lovely cloud of -regen (soooo helpful for anything boss-level and above) among other things. FFG and my bubble from the prot bot (and if I'm really in trouble, my seeker drones) keep me nice and safe.

What changes in particular detract from the enjoyment? Nothing was taken away from last year's event (as far as I can tell) so you can do exactly the same things you did last year with the same results. Enjoyment!

There are also *new* things. Which you might not enjoy. As far as the cost of the candy cane respec...of course it's expensive. Have you seen the costs of respec recipes on WW? You don't want to buy one? Run a respec TF.

Best part: the word 'Snaptooth' does not appear in any of that.

I dunno. I'd rather the errors be in the patch notes than the patch itself. If there are errors. Which should be rare.

*shrug*

Hahaha, that's hilarious! Wait, you were joking, right?

Alright, I will! I think I'll paint it...chartreuse!

So, just for clarification, you think it's totally cool for the people who made the off-topic whine posts to have done that, then? I don't, so I see the retaliation as deserved and not at all inappropriate.

Except, he didn't say "meh, I would have liked something else" (which, by the way, is hardly constructive). He said:

Okay, I see your point. The main point of his post was not to request base improvements, but to question in general why this Walk toggle is important enough to include in the game.

Answer: Because they had time between other things to do it, and because it has been requested by many, many players since the game launched. Proving (once again) that the devs do listen, and they do try to make us shinies that we want when they can.

I'm not an RPer, and I probably won't use Walk much after playing with it for a week or so, but I know there are people for whom this is as big a QoL change as power customization. Which had also been requested practically since launch.

That said, this is not the place to ask, "What about X?" if X wasn't supposed to be in this patch. This is the place to give *constructive* feedback on the current patch notes. Do they work properly? Are there bugs? Amid all the doomcrying and whining, a bug has already come up with Walk and players have helped zero in on the likely culprit. That's what this thread is for.

Also, this?

Not true. Players and REDNAME put on the sarcastic hats and made fun of the people who seem to think that BABs and the animation team somehow cost them fixes for things that are not in their department. Read the thread. You'll see lots of "We got Walk instead of a fix for the TF difficulty/Mac mouse cursor issue/base improvements?!" It's the "instead of" that we're taking issue with. There is no "instead of". That's why BABs is joking about animating TF fixes and base improvements. Because people are implying that the time spent on the Walk toggle could/should have been spent on doing something completely non-animation-related. Different departments. Different priorities. Different tasks.

Whew...I think I'm done for the night after that one.

What if they don't want that? Do you even care what other people might want?

Why would two completely unrelated SGs want to merge? Whose base would they get? I know! Just erase everything from both bases and give them a plot that's twice as big! That wouldn't cause any problems, right?

Nobody wants a server merge. It would be bad (putting it mildly). If you want a higher-pop server, move to one. Period.

First of all, I didn't neg-rep you.

Second of all, the reason the walk animation is being given "so much hoopdaloola" from the players is because this is something that has been asked for for a very long time. People have wanted this since before bases existed in the game. Since before PvP existed in the game. So if you're frustrated because it got done first? Well, it was asked for first, when you think about it. And it still took 5 years to do. Piecemeal, between important things, like BAB said.

I understand the base-builder frustration. I really do. I'm just trying to explain that the existence of this Walk toggle is not proof that it was prioritized over base upgrades. It was just easier and quicker to do and someone had time to do it. A "quick win", as it were. Base upgrades are not "further back on the burner", so to speak. They're in the same place they were before.

Ok, imagine your SG is on a server that is merged with another server with an SG with the same name. Who gets to keep it? Do you? Do they? Does it go to the person who registered first? Do they just merge the member list and you're all in one giant SG now?

Do you understand why server merges are a bad bad idea? If not, go read Bill's copypasta again. If you want to be on a high-pop server, go to one. Either roll a new character, or pony up the $10 and transfer. Ta-da!

This is what I'm hoping for. Specifically, new EATs that anyone can unlock, and Praetorians would be able to unlock the existing EATs by either going all the way heroside and hitting 50 there, or the reverse. You'd either unlock HEATs or VEATs depending on your alignment when you hit 50. At least, that's what I'd like to see.

Right, but you're still making the assumption that we get one or the other. That because we got a Walk toggle, we won't get base improvements or that time was somehow taken away from working on base improvements (by whoever does that). This is the part that is wrong.

Saying "the time spent on the walk toggle could have been better spent on base improvements" is ridiculous. Because it's time spent simultaneously by different departments. Time taken from one does not go to the other. Implying or assuming that because we got a Walk toggle, base improvements are further down the road than they were, is just silly. And wrong. And /em facepalm worthy.

Adding to the speculation, since vigilantes and rogues still use their home contacts/market, my speculation would be that they would not be kicked out of a SG/VG that they're currently in. Only when they go all the way to the other side would that happen.

The answer is: "They're working on it. They know it's an issue, they're working on a solution."

I'm sure we'll get more info between now and Q2 2010.

I'm sorry if I came off too sarcastic, but the amount of anger/frustration/entitlement over how much we don't know at least 5 months away from release...

I think some people expected the "sneak peek" to be a bound copy of the final patch notes for Going Rogue, regardless of how much work still needs to be done.

Sigh. This question [about SG status if you go rogue] was asked at HeroCon at least twice, and I've read it on the forums about a dozen times.

Every time the devs have answered it (which they did, at least both times it was asked at HeroCon), they said that they are working on a solution that will make the greatest number of people as happy as they can make them.

Just because it's not a definitive answer doesn't mean they haven't given one. Patience, grasshopper.

QFT.

It boggles my mind that some people seem to be under the impression that the entire dev team works on every single thing that gets done, in lockstep, ignoring everything else.

So if a Walk toggle was created, that must mean that time was taken away from something else, something ~more important~. This is patently false. It means that in their spare time, while other people were working on different things, rather than slack off, they tinkered with the Walk animation and now it's done. Yay!

I'm going to choose to believe that the people who don't understand this are still young and haven't been in the workplace yet.