GuyPerfect

This may seem like an odd bit of advice, but if you want AoE from your epic set, you're much better off with Tanker than Scrapper.

I'm afraid all 11 of my characters are on Triumph. And 10 of them are level 50! (-:

I'd like to see "Most streak breakers with a 95% hit chance" I'd win out every time.

Er, to clarify, this isn't a "teaming versus solo" thing. This is a "get help for hard stuff" thing. I mean, if your car breaks down on the interstate in the middle of the dessert...

The stress/phobia thing can be overcome, and I wouldn't say that it gives reason to bark at the devs for making content that can't be easily soloed.

You know, Lord Recluse has always been pretty tough to solo. And Widdershins on my Elec/Pain Corruptor? Yeah, can't be done. I don't think I've ever soloed Nosferatu, except maybe with my Peacebringer running Light Form. Envoy of Shadow took more Inspirations than you can shake Nurse Francine at.

My response in these situations, at least from my perspective, was quite reasonable: I acknowledged that some foes or missions are too difficult to solo, so I asked for help. Apparently what I was supposed to do was come to the forums and complain about how the entire game isn't easy for all my characters... or something?

Look, I know people like to be able to accomplish things on their own, but let's think about this realistically for a moment. Some enemies are, by design, so hard that you can't take them down by yourself, and no matter what server you play on, there are always hundreds of other players online who can help you...

I mean, not to put two and two together or anything, but doesn't it seem a bit unreasonable to refuse to ask for help?

Yeah, Trapdoor's kinda rough. As is fighting Holtz and the Honoree at once with all those Rikti coming out of the portals. And the Minotaur at the end, what with that Endurance debuff it has. So if you can't do it alone, is it really something the devs have done wrong and they are for some reason at fault for making a terrible game? Be honest, now: is it?

Where does this idea come from, that every mission must be soloable with all characters? To me, that's the unreasonable part in all of this. There's no sense in spurning all the other players in the game with you when you find yourself up against something that you can't overcome all alone. Doing that in real life is a major disservice to oneself; I don't see why it should be expected to be any different in this game.

It's okay to ask for help, it really is. The game was designed with the specific purpose of allowing players to work together, so I would hope that we as players can recognize that as a core feature of the game and make use of it when appropriate. I really don't think we're entitled to talk down to the devs just because they do something differently than we would have.

I say go with Fire Blast because there are too many Demon Summoning Masterminds and we need somthing to balance them out.

You know, when I ran Tin Mage we had, what, 30 or some defeats namely because of the ambushes in the first mission where people failed to realize that only one person can click any given glowy?

I've seen lots of reports of people dying a LOT on this Task Force, but for the life of me I can't figure out why. Sure it's a lot of +4s, but unless you're a sloppy, haphazarded build running on DOs and six-slotting your Inherent Powers, you're not going to be terribly lacking in the combat department.

Snap, smooth going for like a week and a half and just got logged out. Guess they didn't fix it after all. )-:

• When Mr. T first used the internet, he saw so many fools to pity that he needed to delegate some of the workload. That's when Guy Perfect entered the picture.

Solo a zone event to crash the server by making it try to divide by zero. That'll show 'em.

It used to be a much grander island, too, before a volcano erupted. What we currently know as Grandville, Port Oakes/Cap au Diable and Bloody Bay all used to be part of the same island.

And yeah, it's not like Lord Recluse picked a spot in the open ocean and decided to construct an archipelago there. The Rogue Isles considerably predate the founding of Arachnos.

Personally, I always thought of the temporally-accelerated missions as being in real-time. That is to say, a full day takes only 30 minutes. When not in those missions, I suspend reality and the 30-minute day cycle in the game is just artistic flair.

I need a global handle to send my millions to. Could someone post it for me? Make sure you post the right one and not your own, 'cause I don't want my millions to go to a less noble cause!

Noxious Gas stacks with Envenom and Weaken too, which makes Poison one of the strongest debuff sets in the game.

The screenshot I posted was from an ordinary Borea mission in Rikti War Zone. We weren't running a Task Force. (-:

The Random Number God, who chooses those he adores and those he despises, has smiled upon me today with a blessing. He bestowed on me two Incarnate Shards, with not so much time between them that the "Incarnate Shard Bonded" message from the first could tarry away before the second one was placed in the queue. For these Shards were not merely close together, but came from consecutive enemies.