Golden_Avariel

Yay! I got my paragon points on my billing date this month instead of the 10th-ish. My vet awards always came 10 days earlier on the anniversary of when I started the game as opposed to the anniversary of when I started paying and that seems to be the same with my tokens.

But I still think they should try to merge times for tokens and points and give both out on the billing date for the upcoming subscription month. Keeping track of time played pre-Freedom for tokens vs time paid for points no longer makes sense in a game where anyone can play for free. Once the two are merged to the same day it should be simpler to start awarding tokens in advance when time is paid in advance and then we'll have everything we were originally promised.

I like all the new content as well, including First Ward (well, I don't like what they did with Katie Douglas but that's another story). However...

All the Praetorian arcs from level 1 through FW need to get assigned a real reward merit value and not just the 2-merit place holder. It's pretty bad when you can almost double your merit total there by getting the exploration badges. I'm not running the stories for the merit reward but I have a lot of choices at level 20-29 and the lack of merit reward is going to influence that decision.

The devs have forgotten that co-op zones do not erase alignment. Cimmerora and Midnighters managed to have both hero and villain content (Midnighters club did it in the same contact) but not RWZ and now not FW. Judging from the answer to a question I made on FB about DA, it won't have separate hero and villain story arcs either. FW should have had a branch someplace that took heroes and villains in different directions even if they had the same ultimate result. It's how you accomplish something that makes the difference between the hero and villain in situations like that. That or at the very least give the contacts different dialog depending on their alignment (hero, villain, resistance, or loyalist) to make me feel better about bringing a villain there.

I'd like to poke the mods to think about getting the WST list for January up today or tomorrow since the first business day next week happens to be the first Tuesday in January.

Wouldn't want the list to get updated after it goes live that morning after all!

Please?

I have some of all of the non-epic classes with the exception of the corruptor and I play and enjoy all of them. It keeps the game fresh to be able to play different roles all the time depending on my mood.

I probably play my melee types more often and have more of them but that has more to do with what my friends like to play than me. I have some that prefer melee (mostly for the survivability), some that dislike melee, and the rest have at least some variety. I just seem to hook up with the non-melee friends more often.

I don't understand. If you dropped the skirt off entirely she'd be in a one-piece bathing suit-type outfit... pretty classic female superheroine look. I've seen the ninja robes without pants many times in-game and not thought too much about it. The drawn image is much cuter, even without hair, but she isn't a mature (the rating beyond T-for-Teen) image by any stretch I can imagine. Heck, I wouldn't care if my 5-year old grandson saw that image.

Maybe I just don't have enough imagination.

The Bolero works the same way. Match colors globally then turn it off and fix everything else.

That menu option is dim which is why I was trying to buy it but using /e throwsnowflake worked so I guess I did get it last year after all. Sorry.

Am I just missing it or is the snowflake emote missing from the Candyman's menu this year?

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I'm with Claws 100%. I've played all the hero arcs multiple times and all of the villain arcs at least once. I'm really enjoying them so far on both sides. I actually think the players come out on top on both sides in all the arcs. Even #3 is a pyrrhic victory for the pc-hero since they get to arrest both Blitz and Malaise.

"Heroes" versus the "Mastermind" is definitely a little lopsided in the mastermind's favor but not because he wins each time but because he doesn't really lose anything in the first or second arc and wins big in the 3rd. In the 4th arc though, the BIG thing he loses is his identity. I'm assuming he realizes that though and planned for it.

So going into #5 the Phalanx now recognizes the danger, knows who is responsible, and has a plan even if they are down to five able-bodied heroes - six as they recruit the pc-hero to help them. Darrin has managed to whittle away 2 FP members but he better have a REALLY good plan or he's toast and my villain will simply abandon him to avoid the massive retaliation.

Of course we know that Darrin does have something planned since Stateman dies... somehow.

I can't wait. I'm really enjoying the story.

I'm digging the style on all these pieces. Very playful and colorful. Perfect for my first husband/wife team commission I'm considering. Thanks for posting!

Story arcs from regular contacts. Tips and SSA's between contacts. Task Forces once or twice a week.

That's my normal line-up... the next two weeks of course I'll be running a lot of holiday missions.

The slopes were always fun for a laugh and a bit of frustration but until I got ninja run I had never been able to get more than a bronze on the beginner slope. Now I have to slow myself down to get the silver and bronze on the beginner and the silver is fairly easy on the expert. Expert gold... yeah, that's still a problem for me. I think I got it on one character when someone gave me IR but I rarely see kin's on the platform, not that I blame them.

Do you think the devs intended my hero to earn the Bloody Hands badge by running the 4th SSA? Has anyone else encountered this?

The only time I've seen him "despawn" while fighting him, we were close the trainer or the black market and he was actually zapped by a drone or the market bubble. It wasn't always obvious except after taking stock of where we were standing when it happened.