Grouchybeast

Are you having the problem in the new DA content?

Knockback/knockdown mag increases against mobs that are of relatively lower-level to the character, turning KD into KB. I noticed in the new DA that when I was running a +3 character against level 50 mobs, there was some KB going on from the KD proc in my Fireball.

That isn't really a bug per se, but it is a side effect of the ability to run against grey-conning mobs for full rewards.

Aww. I was expecting some lithe sexy toyboy lying sprawled on a bed of silk, and instead I get the usual freakishly muscled guy with a badly drawn sword. I feel cheated.

I think that's definitely a part of it. My monitor is raised up, and State's crotch is pretty much smack where my eye line naturally rests. Plus, it's level with the log-in fields, which is where most people will be looking when they're logging in.

Yes. Yes, it's clearly my male privilege.

Or, you know. Probably not.

I wouldn't necessarily say divided. I mean, my personal reaction was more a combination "My goodness, that's an eyecatching composition...wait, there's something missing here."

How much would the company have to pay writers and programmers to create and update the content?

How much does the company have to pay the fans who maintain the wiki?

There's your answer.

This!

The new DA arcs were the first time I've actually felt like being an incarnate meant something.

(By a strange coincidence, also on a blaster. Huh. You know, someone should come up with some ideas for making Blasters more awesome in general.)

Anyway. Because I was badging on my main, I ran through everything at +0x1, on a +3 character, and it felt AWESOME. Not only did the NPCs go out of their way to tell me I was the only one who could handle things, but the GAME was warning me that this was going to be a super hard mission and it would be really tough to handle if I told the NPC helpers to stay back and let me save the day. And then I soloed a mini-ITF lag hill and I had a pile of EB corpses at my feet and, and as I might have mentioned in global chat a couple of times, I really felt like I HAD THE POWER OF A GODDESS.

Also, Ellie had her shiny shiny Incarnate armour costume that I only use for incarnate content, and she looked pretty darned amazing in the cut-scenes, if I do say so myself.

So, yeah. Of all the content in the game, DA felt like some the most 'It's ALL ABOUT ME' that I've played.


(Mind you, I enjoyed the solo missions, too. I don't think I would've wanted them to be long, but they aren't, and I thought it was a more engaging way of fleshing out the story than cut-scenes full of NPC dialogue and weirdly unconnected emotes.)

'There is no such thing as overkill. There is only "open fire" and "time to reload".'

To add another small sample to your data:

Archie stopped playing in September 2009. When he came back a few weeks ago and fired up his big spreadsheet o' marketeering, prices were broadly unchanged across his niches -- some had gone up a little, some had gone down a little. So while prices have definitely gone up at the very high end, recipes in that sample of level-50-IOs-which-are-popular-enough-to-have-decent-margin haven't changed all that much in the last two years.

And, really, even then only a tiny handful of IOs are actually expensive. The vast majority of IO sets are cheap, and can still deliver enormous performance gains over SOs.

Anyone dropping a billion on a single IO is already way, way out on the far end of the curve for slotting up a character.

You have to respec to take advantage of the inherent fitness (unless you use a second build), but you can make exporting and tinkering with the build a lot easier with these tools:

Mids Hero Designer from Titan Network lets you play with your build, and will also print out your build in various formats, which makes the respec a lot easier.

Titan Sentinel, also from Titan Network, will allow you to export a current build from the game and put it into Mids.

Did you ask for an escalation to a more senior GM? Sometimes that can get a more helpful result.

Yes, although only on a duo team where we both had taken the mission. We were sent into separate instances.

They're doing it because they don't want you to play for free, they want you to give them money. So they've carefully gated off a selection of different aspects of the game, while leaving a fully functional core, in the hope that every player will find one thing locked off that will make them pay up, even if it's only for a license not a full sub. If you don't care about IOs, you might care about AE. If you don't care about AE, maybe you'll care about the Incarnate system. If you aren't interested in Incarnates, maybe you'll pay to play with the Controller that was your favourite character.

The fact that there is one part of the VIP game that you feel is critical for a satisfying playing experience is exactly what Freedom is aiming for.

That's fantastic! Thank you!

ETA: Does that include the three robotic arms? If so, you are even more fantastic than that :-)

Oh, I think you'll find that they can.