Grae Knight

Originally Posted by Smersh

Ouro is your friend.

Originally Posted by Caulderone

I've been taking my L50 Elec/DM through First Ward (at L29 obviously) on +2x4. I ran into these Awakened mobs and hit a brick wall. Here is there info at City of Data:

http://tomax.cohtitan.com/data/power...p?cat=Awakened

I was trying to figure out what was giving me such a hard time. I have 50% Psi resistance and 17.6% Psi defense. I carry lots of medium Purple inspirations, and use them generously. That puts me at 43.85% Psi defense (and ranged/melee are both over 45% then, for any attacks so typed).

I'd still get toasted. So, I dropped down to +2x2 and got through the missions.

Now, I finally know what caused me the issues. It's a buff cast by one of the Lieutenants (Conduit) called Psychic Battery. Here's it's info on City of Data:

http://tomax.cohtitan.com/data/power...sychic_Battery

Notice it has a damage buff (approx. +25%), but that's not the issue. It has +40% To-Hit. The AoE is 40 feet. It buffs everything in the spawn by +40% To-Hit, possibly even adjacent spawns. Oh, and in a decent sized spawn, you can have 2 Conduits.

There are also Confuse and Fear effects in the group, which is annoying but Break Frees work wonders (for those of us without fear/confuse protection).

So, if you have issues with these, remember that the Conduit(s) must die, die, die!

Originally Posted by Venture

No, we don't. We don't have enough 40-50 material and we never will. The endgame is where everyone ends up and we will always want more things to do at it.

Originally Posted by Talen Lee

You don't. Soulburn Sands was DA/Fire, and his subsequent reroll is DA/MA.

Why not claws?

Originally Posted by Dante

My honest, unmitigated opinion: a disaster.

I expect a tedious path that's designed to be so slow, it will shunt players towards iTrials if they want to make any significant progress.

I expect it to be based around Praetoria yet again, a place I couldn't care less about if it got wiped out by a Shivan meteor strike.

I expect it to use a new currency of Loner Merits which will need to be exchanged for Incarnate components for an exorbitant fee as punishment for us daring to dislike the Devs' new obsession with Trials.

I expect absolutely no plot progression apart from further railroading of my characters and their motives.

EDIT: (And of course, forgot about this one) I expect it to be entirely alignment neutral i.e. 'heroic' so that villains once again have to pretend to be heroes in order to use the system. Contacts will cite the usual 'greater threat' baloney that's been way overused as of late.


I wish I could have a more positive expectation but the fact this path wasn't considered from the outset and the ridiculous currencies, conversions and grind that is the Incarnate 'path' lead me to believe that the Devs barely grasp the desires of their playerbase anymore or any of the things that makes this MMO a success. If I'm wrong, I will happily eat my hat.

Originally Posted by Mr_True_Shot

Hey All!



I'm back! (Sort of....my life is crazy, but I can at least log on again!)

You may all remember me leaving due to my computer blowing up and the recession punching me square in the face sometime around February 2009....I had to leave due to dire financial strains....due in part from the recession and in part from being in college.

Well, i've somewhat recovered. Graduated from college....working full time....and, while I don't have a computer of my own yet....I'm able to use my roommate's. (Which it seriously chugs along at the lowest settings >.< )

So, i'm back.....and since I've been gone....I see we now have incarnates, a holodeck, VIP status, morality choices....another world to start and explore in....re-vamped character creations....villians on hero side, heroes on villian side and cats sleeping with dogs! I LEAVE THIS GAME FOR 2.5 YEARS AND Y'ALL LET OUR WORLD TURN UPSIDE DOWN??! =D


(Are the weekly MoSTFs still going on? Have they turned into weekly "Masters of" runs for any and all TFs? (As I predicted when I heard the news?) )


Oh my, so much to process....I've been taking it slow. I'm still woozy over the fact that I need to respec all my characters to get the fitness line to become innate =D New powers for True Shot.....mmmmm.



Well, at least I can roll up a new guy and start in Galaxy City and get my head wrapped around the new world order.....




Mr. True Shot.

Originally Posted by Infernus_Hades

My issue with Preatoria and First Ward is - they are completely path locked.

You do this and get this contact - do that and get that contact and you don't get to choose what happens. It is exactly like a first person shooter where you must move in a certain path.

In Paragon City I have many contacts and can do many various things from TF's to normal arcs. In Praetoria I can do one thing - missions chosen for me.

The entire Zone is completely developed wrong. It should have been the Incarnate playground where you can enter and find that in this dimension the Powers of the Well are possible to acquire.

Then you run the Trials to unlock each aspect,.
Then you follow my earlier rules on how to progress with Incarnates.
Then if you return to Paragon you have no extra powers. This makes people WANT to head to Praetoria and start basically a new game.

It is not too late - it would be very easy to revamp Praetoria to become exactly this - look Galaxy City was destroyed and now you could say Cole's use of the Well's power has altered the balance of the Planes. Now you not only fight to save the planet but to save the very fabric of time.

Thiis would be fairly straight forward to convert and in a word - FUN.