Grey Pilgrim

I think you just made Escher's day.

In complete agreement with you on this. They're able to set it in all of two seconds... maybe less. I know that an engineer can be signaled I am about by one tick of my damage aura on my Dark Scrapper, and get it out before the next hits (or maybe there is a miss in there)... the time is not long, whatever it is. The requirement to be on the ground is silly as well, but I'd at least take a change to the activation time.

Its suicidal need (along with every pet now) to get into melee makes it even worse. That's an arguably even bigger issue that the devs have to fix: some pets are made for melee, others are not. Gun Drone, by definition, should not want to get up close. Why this obvious issue with pet AI has been allowed to continue baffles me, especially since people now have more pets!

If you're a DP/Devices, you can perma stun a boss just by using Taser and Stunning Shot (or whatever the mez is called for DP... you just have to use it with standard ammo). Can't recall the levels on those, but you should be able to get them both by the 20s, and that should work well enough with a little slotting. Worked great for my Archery/Devices.

They have commented on it. They haven't been able to do it yet, as it's a lot more work and time. It is something they would like to do, but last I heard (from some meet and greet info), it's in the future... somewhere.

MOST of the rest. Nem Staff and some other things (Jack, Rikti Bombs, etc.) will still knock you on your end... I have three and know it, alas. It doesn't happen often, so you tend to remember the times it happens.

Especially on a smaller server, hopefully you'll be playing with people you know (or at least some of them), and be okay. If you're not playing with people you know, I suppose a quick explanation wouldn't hurt, though.

The only real thing I've seen people get annoyed about is going AFK for no reason. I don't 1 star people very often, but I did so for one guy that was AFK and faceplanted for an entire BAF run. I knew he hadn't DC'd, and he didn't say anything about needing to get the door or something. I know real life is more important than a game, though, so I'm always fine if someone has to head out for a few minutes and say so (though if it's a long stretch, you would hope they wouldn't have hopped into a trial in the first place).

I'd agree with the shapeshifting. I doubt you're ever going to see that kind of mez protection in human form, outside of maybe a solo only buff to Cosmic Balance (which I think is a good idea, especially with the precedence of Defender's inherent).

Anyway, as I have said plenty of other places, I'd just like to see the adjustments Peacebringers (and Khelds, to a lesser extent) need to get balanced. Frankly, even costume adjustments to the forms goes behind those needs.

Okay, there is a disconnect for statements I've seen like that here on the forums for the seventh book. It's necessary but tedious is rather contradictory. For me, that last book's opening starts you out hoping that things might work out okay, and then quite literally throws you in the pit of despair (with no Princess Bride, rasping voiced Albino to make you grin about it... slightly). The three are entirely alone and lonely, and Ron leaving is about ten times worse than the other issues he has occasionally had with Harry in previous books.

That's not tedious, that's as sad and hopeless as life can get... a powerful statement, especially for many kids books and Hollywood stories these days, which have difficulty making things dark in a worthwhile way (other than being "gritty"). Getting to that point is depressing, yes (I was feeling like things were even more hopeless than after Dumbledore died), but something that makes the book work so well. When the Horcrux is destroyed, things feel like they are going up even when a certain important someone dies. The heights and hope that the seventh book has are not possible without those depths of despair we have to go through. Despair is not fun to go through, I know, but it is needed for the story, and not tedious. Tedious =/= not wanting to go through something.

As far as construction and pacing goes, I think the sixth and the seventh books are probably the best of the series. Books four and five were nice, but felt a little bloated and meandering, even if I liked a lot of the details they had. The last two books are quite driven despite having a lot going on in them, and I would say are the best of the lot.

Definitely... when I saw that bit about Brass Monday, I was honestly wondering WHY they hadn't implemented this in all the years since then. They should do this now... I would love to see that. Heck, make it a new task force with Orobouros, or something. The idea is a good one and should be implemented.

I know I would love that.

Well, unless you're worried about levels lower than 50, of course. If you plan to never exemp, I guess you could rely only on your incarnate stuff, but I still don't think I would like to.

Heck, I have a Cardiac on my Fire Tank, and there are mobs out there that are draining me enough in the trials that I need Consume: and I have a fair amount of end and end recovery bonuses.

Getting a decent IO build doesn't require farming or an SG or grinding. Sell what drops to vendors and spend a few minutes at Wentworth's once in awhile to see if you have any recipes that sell well. Pretty good guarantee that any rare or uncommon salvage will be worth a little cash, especially in mid to later levels.

Even better, just gather merits as you are playing things you like to play. I am able to slot a Numina's or Miracle Unique on each character, plus some other more rare IOs, just because I play story arcs with characters, as well as TFs. The merits really do add up. You can also do tip missions once in awhile when you feel like it and add up hero or villain merits that way. I hate farming those, so I just play them once in awhile and let my hero merits build up (usually when I don't have time for much else than one mission).

IOs are more of an investment than just buying a slew of SOs (though not that much when you consider you have to buy those every 5 levels, and you can get away with only creating and slotting once for IOs), but you shouldn't see it as a required farming or grinding thing. Play what you want to play, have fun, and you'll get enough inf to make a decent build.