Golden_Avariel

This is what I'm thinking but most of my male characters already have goatees... hmm... which universe ARE we in?

Oh oh... can we have thigh-high boots with dagger sheaths for our gals then? Rawwwrrr... Uhura never looked better.

This. To me the main difference is the attack chain which pretty much requires you to wait. Even if you use Ball Lightning in your chain, which you need to, it still requires several seconds of standing around doing nothing unless you have a lot of recharge. The damage is comparable or better per shot but the total damage output seems less because of this.

I love my electric (my namesake) but the PBAOE Short Circuit and an attack that comes in the form of a pet takes some getting used to. I do love the hold though.

Ok... now I have to go clean the coke out of my keyboard. Thanks a LOT!!

They implemented this feature by killing off your old pets and creating duplicates for you in the new zone. That's why they lose buffs. However, I've noticed that *most* of the time they do the upgrade animation all over again on exit so they have upgrades but lose secondary buffs (helmets and gear but no bubbles in my case).

I'm going to take a programmer's-educated guess that the bug in the OP is because the pet was re-created before you were fully in-zone. If I'm right then slow-zoners will have it happen a lot more often than those of us that zone quickly. For those directly connected to the servers (like in-house QA) this bug probably never happens.

The exemplar thing happens for the same reason you have to re-accept an examplar with each area change - you become your normal level for a fraction of a second during zoning (perhaps so they can check level requirements for those zones that still require it?). Since you can't have pets more powerful than yourself, the newly created pets immediately die when your exemplar status kicks back in.

But I'm only guessing.

LOL Indeed!

[Edit] Oh, and it worked great. My wife was much happier playing tonight.

No, but if you are in the middle of trying to switch targets or fighting in a tight space (like the blue caves or a corner of a stairway) and suddenly your screen is completely filled up with a giant metal globe or a car sitting on its side it slows you down at the least and can be completely disoreinting at the worst.

To me it's a little annoyance in certain rare circumstances that doesn't especially bother me. My wife, for various reasons, finds it frustrating to the point of quitting the team.

Could be. My DB/SR is my latest SR and she's 40th now. I think I created her this past fall when my wife asked me to create a character for Protector to join her SG. But she went 1-28 (my wife's highest level character on Protector) in a month or so. That's pretty good considering I rarely solo except on weekends. I don't remember ever having any question about her ability to solo, but then at my age memory is a tenuous thing.

I'm really enjoying MA so far, and that's the real reason I've held on to her so long. The only thing that irritates me is how often 85% misses, but that's a game-wide thing.

I have 2 scrappers with super reflexes, one of which was also solo, and they never had any problems from day 1. I have a couple of other scrappers too (shield and fire) and up until I rolled this new gal, I'd always thought scrappers had it easy the first 10-14 levels (endurance being their downfall after that and before 20).

Not that the /regen has been impossible. I just have to be more careful with her than I ever was with my others. To me, the "blapper" comment was right on target.

Because it is a lot easier to quit a toon at level 10 than level 27? If I'm not having fun why continue? In my frustration I posted asking for reassurance. I'm sorry if I've confused you.

BTW - the comment about Integration making things better confused me until I looked it up in Wiki and found it also has a +Regen component. I was happy to see that. I guess I had overlooked that in my review of the powers in-game and thought all it did was provide my status protection.

A bug list generated by customers can become unmanagable very quickly. I bet their bug list has literally thousands of items on it and I also bet a lot of them are duplications. It can be hard for anyone to find anything in a list like that and I know from experience that trying to tackle such a list after-the-fact is daunting. It is frequently better to trash the list and start over with an eye toward keeping it lean in the future. There are ways to organize bug maintenance to do that but it requires a concerted effort by the programming team, preferrably a team that does nothing but bug maintenance. Paragon Studios would do well to make that a high priority if they haven't already with their new bug czar. Putting off bug fixes until "you have time" means bug fixes never get done.

My pet peeve right now is the inability to get a contact via my broker on the villain side if my level happens to be divisible by 5 (10, 15, 20, etc). The broker gives me a contact who is invariably already expired (5-9, 10-14, 15-19, etc) and refuses to talk to me or pass me on to a new contact even if they are part of a chain.

It is probably a problem hero-side as well but their contact system isn't dependent on radio/safeguards so it's isn't as noticeable.

I feel like I'm the only person aware of this effect but I'm sick of having to refill the bar on my brokers just to prove one more circumstance to someone else. I'll do anything now to make sure I'm not an even 5th level when I go to the broker for the mayhem mission, even if it means street sweeping to get over the hump or turning off Exp for the last newspaper and mayhem to avoid the hump.

In the category of working-as-intended but I wish they would change... contacts with story arcs that don't give out the missions of the arc in a set sequence. Yes, I'm looking at you Striga contacts. Luckily that isn't very common but I wish they'd go back and tweak those to do that. I have to believe it is a flag or something in the data that causes that to happen, not a programming change.

I normally take Swift if I'm doing Fly and Hurdle if I'm doing anything else. Being within 2mph of the fly cap is fine with most of my characters, I just wanted my winged elf to be able to outfly most anyone else (it's a RP thing) so I put in an extra slot. When I slotted the enhancement and got zero good out of it I started looking into why and this thread was born.

I love the idea of using the arrow keys that way. Mind sharing? How do you keep the bind from overriding WASD?