Grey Pilgrim

Reading through the extras stuff. Someone was mentioning some of the changes to Tanks and Martial Arts last night, so I'll have to see if they have actual patch notes somewhere, as I am really interested in those.

Debating how I should get Going Rogue. Finally getting paid tomorrow for my summer work, so I can pre-order. I'm reluctant to pay shipping just to make sure I get it the day of, but there's no guarantee the Gamestop up here will get it on time. Maybe I'll see how much Amazon will charge me for pre-ordering there, as the marginal bonus from those Gamestop enhancements doesn't draw me that much.

Anyone have a link to the stances and auras the complete edition is supposed to give us? I haven't seen anything official, and I've been kind of annoyed about that, as that's part of the reason to wait, supposedly. Ugh.

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Ryxx, is there a post somewhere with all the power change stuff? I love tanks and am trying brutes, so I want to see what is happening there... same for Martial Arts. Did Castle make any tweaks to Fiera Aura?

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Here's a link to some changes. Wow, he went in and changed Fiery Aura a lot... going to have to fit Burn back in, woohoo!

Anyone else running into an issue like this? Saturday night I was on a Sister Psyche TF, and the leader said she wouldn't talk to him once we had completed the TF (he was trying to "call it in"). On the Moonfire last night, it go even weirder. The leader couldn't call it in, and the last mission kept coming back up for us (we defeated the AV again to see how far the bug went, but we didn't get more merits... the mission came back up once we all exited). Once the leader quit out, I was able to call in the TF (I was second on the list). We did have one team member DC and not return during that last mission, though, so maybe the repeat mission was due to that?

Anyone else running into issues like this? It's not debilitating to the TF, mind, but it does speak to something being incorrect, and worth passing on.

Yeah... he impales people, you know?

Might also have been one of the entrances in the parking garage area. If you follow the road to the west when you enter Faultline (which should be to the right, as you are facing south when you enter Fautline), that road will go down to the parking garages. Good to know when you're looking for Vahzilok for the Numina Task Force, too.

You should go to the Scrapper forums and discuss your build, as they can help you out more. It will also hepl you if you get Mid's Hero Designer or use the online build planner you can find at the paragonwiki, as that will give you a better idea of things (and give them more ways to help you).

In general, Tough can help characters survive longer, as Smash/Lethal damage is prevalent in the game, and present in most attacks enemies will hit you with. Tough can help a Shield Defense scrapper survive longer, as your primary provides you mostly with +defense and +hp, so this offers you another layer of survivability.

I dunno. Seems like it's more of a genre than anything, and sometimes they get more in vogue than at other times. Westerns haven't been around as much as they used to, but they still get made, and there are good ones out there. There have been superhero movies off and on for a long time now, with a current upsurge. We'll see how that keeps going.

Also, Thunderstrike doesn't do much damage as an AOE. It mostly just knocks back surrounding foes (chance for it), with some paltry damage thrown in. My E^3 Blaster has to have a closeby minion about dead if Thunderstrike's splash damage is going to drop them. I think of it more as an ST attack with benefits to the surrounding area.

On topic, the verdict on War Mace is that it is now awesome. It used to have a lot of issues, and those have been removed thanks to BAB and Castle's work. It does good ST and AOE damage, as well as having decent mitigation from its stuns and KD. The animations are faster than they used to be, though it still feels like you are swinging around something heavy (set looks better with a Mace than a baseball bat, imo). I would highly recommend the set. I enjoyed it before the buffs, and it is fantastic now.

No need to go to the Brute forums for that. We had a massive "Buff War Mace!" thread that had its dreams come true here on the Tanker forums, after all.

I don't recall if they did, but if so... double ugh. Nothing against Leia, mind, but that would take a little something away from Luke's character and what he did, to my mind. It would also make one wonder why Vader and the Emperor ignored her so much.

What's your playstyle? Do you like standing out of melee, or do you like being able to mix it up a bit? I would think you're fine with the latter, given your En/En, but I don't want to assume.

Elec/Elec/Elec was pretty fun and different for me. You could hold a lot of stuff, end drain, blast, and scrap. Pretty versatile and played different from my AR/En even (who also used Hurdle and Combat Jumping to leap in and out of melee), and especially my Archery/Devices (who hovers out of melee or uses cal trops to stay that way). I'd also recommend Archery a lot. Very fun set: love the "thwip! thwip!" sound it makes, too.

Hey all, I'm a little ways out from the Ancillaries on my DM/WP Scrapper, but I'm wondering if I should grab Night Fall or Tenebrous Tentacles. Just as an fyi, I'm trying to diversity this build's approach from my usual grabbing of Tough and Weave, so I'm trying to utilize fears and as many to-hit debuffs as possible for mitigation (almost all of my other Tanks and Scrappers have these).

I'm further confused by powers listings on City of Data and Mid's. Mid's says Tenebrous does more damage, but CoD says that Night Fall does more. Both seem to do the same to hit debuff, but Tenebrous immobilizes its targets, which may or may not be a good thing. I'm thinking either would be better at the start to cut down on return fire, so the immobilize might not be good if they're spread out. But if it does do more damage, Tenebrous might be a better choice all the same.

Any thoughts out there on the subject?

Eh, I recall her not having been training in that novel trilogy. Still. That was silly, too, I thought, but to have her disarm Luke... Oy. Not good still.

I like fighting Dr. Vahz. I dislike being debuffed and having flies about me, however, so I tend to skip it. I found it fun when I played it through as Grey Pilgrim way back at the game start, but I have no desire to do it again (I got annoyed when I accidentally had a character go through it again recently just to see the map, heh).

That's... weird. UAC is User Account Control, is it not? Seems like I should be counted as an admin that way with anything I open up. Oh well, good to remember.

I don't really get it either, and I thought we used to have the option to not do the cape mission and do the aura mission if we so chose. I seem to remember doing it, as this new setup is odd to me. I find it annoying as well, and rather wish they would change it.

A bit heavy on the angst from everyone on the issue in this thread, though. Can't we all get along?

Wow... tough ones. Not sure how quickly I would have gotten some of those.

Heh, I rather like the Sam's Video Games one. Would have been tough to figure out, but it's quite funny.