Grey Pilgrim

Sounds good. Though you're probably going to make me want to pre-order for the whole night, and that is just eveel. Who else wants to join the fun that is Positron? Or, ummm, at least 2XP?

I'd really like to see your build, because pretty much all of your statements about Dual Blades do not match up with my WP/DB Tanker's experience playing 1-50 and then after. I found him to be a bit slower until the last three attacks, and then he really took off.

Vengeful Slice rounded of his ST damage well, and then Sweeping Strike and 1K Cuts were gravy of fine AOE damage over that. SSK makes it even better for him, as he can slice up hordes of foes solo or teamed now, and Attack Vitals plus the Sweep combo are a big part of that. I pretty much use those when mobs come in on me, and bosses are really all that's left after those are used.

Sure, Lethal resistant mobs are more of a pain, but most sets in this game have some Lethal or Smashing in them. You roll with it.

Not sure what your accuracy could be, either... besides the accuracy I have in my powers, I also get a decent amount from bonuses. I haven't had my Tank miss much.

No maybes about it! Join in the fun!

I'll try to sync up contacts as best I can if you're there from the start. We probably won't get many merits, but we can level fast and try to hit the mayhems for each range as well.

Anybody else? I'd like to get a good team going from the start.

Yeah, I remember being teamed with you and buffing you with Sonic's powers, and you were still having issues (heck, you might have had a double stack from sonic). So I'm guessing the revamp helped a bit. Glad to know it's running better for you.

Used 2XP to get my VEAT to Stamina, finally. Can't wait for the respec at 24, either. I'm going for a Huntsman build, but at 24, he may be capable of doing a bit of AOE without completely draining his end bar. What a concept!

Oh, good. I'll have to try and remember to do that, since I will be at school and teaching at that time.

Kind of depends on your point of view. To me, saving $10-$15 helps a lot.

I think the set holds up okay, though going by the numbers, some of the debuffing is a bit too weak, and some of the animations are a bit too long (Executioner's Shot is the same length as Shout, which is also too long for that power, I would say... other similar short blasts are about 2 seconds, other than Blaze).

Even so, it should be a decent set just going by the numbers. I was surprised there wasn't a bit more tweaking done after the open beta, but oh well (might happen after it gets a lot more playtime). Most of the people thinking it's too weak are the absolute min/maxxers, even though it's about the middle to low end of the pack for damage. Going by that and style, it looks good to me, though I'd still love a bit more tweaking to be done.

Or they have been shamed into silence by not uber Psychic Blasters are... just on par with the others.

A lot of the devs just have good track records. Castle has shown he cares about the game, thinks his decisions through, and is willing (to a reasonable extent) to discuss them with players. He doesn't have a "my way or the highway" approach, and most people respond to that pretty well.

To bring it back to what this thread is about, the problem with Jack wasn't any one thing... it was a whole lot of things that he kept doing. With the current set, I know we disagree about things and they may not do things we want sometimes, but they do overall have a good track record. And that helps.

I have "Gunnerist" camped out, as a replacement for that thugs MM of mine that just didn't work out. I'm probably going to make him an alternate version of my VEAT and AR Blaster, though, so use a variation on that name. And I highly doubt anyone is going to use that name.

If nothing else, it'll be nice to play Dual Pistols when GR comes out, as there will hopefully be a few less of them running around thanks to them releasing it early.

I may put up a separate thread, but I'm thinking of leveling up a lowbie villain this weekend if anyone is starting up something redside. Definitely going to aim for above Stamina levels. I started a Plant/Thorn Dominator a few weeks ago (may sideswitch him eventually) and figured I'd move him up quick.

Yeah, I'm feeling a little miffed that they made the collector's edition not available for pre-purchase at all, leaving those of us that can't throw money at everything they put out to wait. Oh well. I'm not giving in, and my dual pistols concept was a Praetorian, anyway.

Still wish they had a way of including everyone in the pre-order fun.

Praetorian PD and Resistance look pretty sweet. I know we don't get the glowie armor bits, but I hope they have some nice costume bits to throw our way along with the NPCs.

Heh, we did pretty well after that first death. And yeah, I suppose we were running more for fun than anything, with some attention paid to time. With most TFs, I'm fine trying to drop just about everything, just to get more XP/Inf/Drops, and because I find it fun. I enjoyed our pace, and 55 minutes was pretty good for not trying to shave the time off on every thing.

Two characters to take aggro definitely seems to help with runs that call for fewer defeats (especially with Ham on the team ). Hami and the rest of the TF was easier when you were on a Brute and I was on GP.

Yeah, I was happy about the turnout as well, especially since not much posting happened on it here in the forums until the very end. Go Victory!