GavinRuneblade

Did you just use a direct merit purchase to show that direct merit purchases are a bad investment? Doesn't that only show that the recipes he wants are worth less than Luck of the Gambler, and that in general direct merit purchases (of LotG) ARE actually a really good investment?

Or, as stated above, if you use nukes or otherwise hit recovery debuffs which the proc gleefully ignores, but the third IO is shut down by.

Both true and not true. Yes Nemesis provoked them (run Dark Watcher's arc, especially the final mission for details, and then the Lady Grey Task Force for the full story).

However, the fact that there is no Praetorian Nemesis is irrelevant. Both Rikti world and Praetorian world are alternate Earths. I've often wondered what happened to Rikti Nemesis, for example, and Rikti Hamidon.

Yup crafted, they've been used by 6 of my characters so far, I respec out of them in the 30s put 'em in the bin at my base and the next one picks them up. Do you want the 16 and 17s? or just the one 18 Dam/Rech?

which by hte way, you should have when next you log in =)

If he solo'd a blaster it was probably a demon farm with a bajillion Empath, and Kinetic hostage/allies. You get all the exp since they don't attack for damage and they take hits, buff your damage, and heal. I think a few are running the choking cloud aura too. I've seen a few squishies running that AE mission alot since anyone can farm it.

the enemies are normal, so you get full exp rewards but it is almost impossible to lose once you have two or three hostages out.

The spec ops do actually attack plenty, the problem is their powers. They cycle between their snipe (long recharge and activation), and some of their controls like the flashbangs etc. Actually using their gun to kill the enemy they aren't as fond of.

Weird question, wouldn't a single kin defender or controller help out a lot with endurance and recharge? Never tried the fire/rad but especially early on, while the attacks may be autohit for gobs of damage, the endurance and recharge are still issues.

the other question is would a corrupter be the redside equivalent?

Definitely a link of some kind. Bunch of villains showed up to a Lord of Winter fight I entered from Atlas Park last night. I think the Winter Realm is secretly a co-op zone. Either that or a Nemesis Plot.

This gets exactly at what Brynstar also said about the Genre being flexible. Comics is one of the few genre's where a hero will take on a large organzation that spans the globe, a street gang with 30 or so members, or one superpowered enemy within the same week. In that vein City is the only game I know where the design allows us to make characters that can stand toe-to-toe with the top enemies solo. Some builds have even managed to solo up to 6 AVs with no inspirations. As far as I'm concerned, that means the designers let US be on that power level. And the stories back it up, such as the climax of Recluse's Project Destiny in all of the Patron Arcs, where we get to be #1. I've never seen anything like that elsewhere and I've looked in a lot of places. Only single-player games do this sort of thing.

And <3 the Devs and all the behind the scenes people, since Posi and Jay were already called out, I'll add that BABs is both hilarious and awesome, Mod8 keeps these forums much cleaner and more pleasant than any other MMO I've seen, the OCR team are fantastic and very receptive. I don't think I've seen such a positive corporate to fanbase relationship anywhere. Kudos to all the people on both sides (corporate and player) for making it work.

Exemplaring shuts off enhancement drops doesn't it? Could have been a bug related to that if the team was at 49, but I can't imagine why they would be at 49 on a raid.

You can try taking your Elec/Shield into Unai Kemen's Banished Pantheon mission. They are vulnerable to energy damage.

Not the amount, but the login list is organized with the one you used last on top, then all the rest sorted from lowest current population to highest. But that is current logged in population.

And as far as the high population of Freedom, I think it might help draw people in. With a high activity server like that you're bound to have more people testing PvP. When they find it active, they might stick around or come back for another try. You're doing double duty there, kickign tail and being good PvP recruiters. =)

Doesn't really make sense and unless I'm mistaken, doesn't answer the question. So, pretend I earn 398 rep in one day and then log in the next day (I will have lost two so my total is now 396). Do I need 4 more or 2 more to get the badge?

4 more means I need 400 "at one time".

2 more means I need 400 "over the course of my career". Which is it?