Heulengeist

Pretty decent weekend here for me.
Scrap 2-33
Fender 18-28 (1-18 the day before 2xp)
Dom 4-11
Stalker 43-44
MM 37-38

Wanted to thank Jade, the PoO folks and MadVilliany for some fun and crazy teams.

E: 80%
A: 53%
S: 47%
K: 20%

"No stone unturned!"

I've soloed it a few times with my DM/Reg scrapper. The Jade Spider can be a pain in the butt, but at least it's a consistent pain in the butt(for me it has been). I end up with problems with the hostages and their takers. Sometimes it's not easy aggroing only one....or two...or three at a time.

A long time ago I got really bored (back in I4, don't think there was any way to get a raptor pack for a hero back then) and spent a couple hours trying to get my tank from the Storm Palace to that useless island to the west of it. I finally gave up and convinced a friend to fly there and recall me to it.

Cool? Probably not, but it is interesting to see an area that might have had a purpose, but then was made completely useless(there's no normal way to get there and it has vents that launch you into nowhere).

Mainly, I love the Storm Palace zone and it's just nice to dink around in there.

If they put 2xp into the MA missions, then you can expect another round of serious complaining, banning and complete idiocy.
Since we just went through something like this, a repeat would rank so high on the stupid meter Chuck Norris and Blue Steel couldn't calculate it.

Here's a guide that a friend of mine made based on his stone/stone tanker.
It's older than the guide listed before, but it still works.

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Okay, who necro-rezzed this and then deleted their post?

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Oh sure, nice try. I only see your post here...but if you want to blame some kind of "invisible necro post", then so be it.



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This seems familiar to me KRM.....

Both cause redraw.

IMO, Kick is funnier when you knockback something.

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I'm not even 30 yet, and my hair's already starting to look like Mr. Fantastic.

I got screwed on the genetic lottery, and I'm not happy, one bit.

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Consider yourself lucky. I'm 29 and will soon be a sufferer of full-on male pattern baldness thanks to my genetics. I've shaved my head for years, though, so it is only sometimes an issue.

(Interesting note: I only started to go bald after I shaved my head for the first time.)

Oh, and count me in the "intelligence is sexy" camp. Smart chicks are awesome.

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Back when I was first starting high school, I knew a guy named Bob. He was considered lucky by his family because he had kept his hair longer than any other male in his family. He was 14. From what they told me, they all had gone bald by the age of 12. Bob's hair was thinning out, so he decided to shave it and it never came back.

Bad, but funny at the time, story to go with it. Bob was a skinny, almost albino white kid with glasses. After he shaved his head, he was selling candy bars for school. Nobody was buying any, so he came up with a new idea. He started telling people he was selling candy bars to pay for his chemo.
He ended up setting a record for selling candy bars at his school.

Can't believe I haven't /signed this before.
/signed. I want a ball!

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Your Statesman is in another castle. :P

Seriously though, a lot of the old higher level content ranges from Dull to plain bad. The Malta arcs are an exception.

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I'll agree with this. I think Maria Jenkins suffers from a whole crap ton of boring. I feel that most of her missions (including the arc) were designed to draw interest from players from two things; The new portal missions (people gotta love alternate dimensions, right?) and lots of AVs.

After a while the whole "go to dimension x and kick this guys butt" loses it's meaning and it's just "kick this guys butt" which we've done a few hundred times. The AV thing is kinda cool, but we know how to fight them now and the challenge isn't enough when compared to newer content.

OK, kinda went on tangent there. Anyways, Shadowhunter is a pest. I've been caught by the whole no timer, no mention of an AV in the description before. Then you go in and find you have a problem. First time that happened I was on a tanker and was playing around 4 in the morning. Cleared most of the map then ran into AV. Couldn't put together enough of a team that late and ended up faling it. I made sure to rememebr that mission and never grab it unless I have a team ready to go. In fact, I haven't had a character take a mission from Maria since Issue 5.

I decided to stop reading after a few pages, so if it was mentioned, sorry to repeat.

I remember when the log out to password was added. It annoyed me at the time, but currently I could really give a crap that I have to re-enter my password to change characters. I couldn't tell you the exact date or anything, but I know it happened when the game was live.

To find out if the log out to the log in screen had any purpose, should try and find out from someone in the company(if they keep records of such a thing for this long) if the change had an effect on petitions and complaints about wrongfully deleted characters.

Whatever the results are, unless there is a really good reason other than "other games do it", I don't foresee developers spending any time changing this when it's obvious not eveyone is finding this something that needs to change.

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"Littlest thing"?

You understand this is a pretty noticeable screw-up, that adversely affects the performance of any buff powerset in the game? I mean, I'm definitely willing to give the devs the benefit of the doubt on this one -- I can see what they wanted to do, and I even consider it worth doing -- but they really need to reverse this, and quick, until they can restrict it to the intended target. It is absolutely not worth the gain if it's going to apply to the huge number of unintended situations it presently covers.

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I think by "Littlest thing" Fixxer is responding to the OPs unhappiness with having to walk slowly across Studio B to do the MA Tutorial, not the issue Luminara highlighted.

/signed!

I think this would be helpful to everybody.

I had one yesterday redside. Tsoo cave(the bad ones) mish. Every spawn was a Sorc and an Ancestor Spirit. That got really annoying and really old fast.

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The more PBAoEs, (toggle buffs, or offense clicks/toggles), the more useful TTP actually becomes. As you say, though, the team needs some coordination to use it. You can't just whip it out on a PuG and expect it to work.

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That's how you find yourself booted. I've kicked way too many people who did the "Hey! Check out my new power! How'd we all die?!?!" as the waiting team was suddenly and unexpectedly TP'd into an enemy spawn.

It is beautiful when it's done right, though. I've seen it a couple times in person, seen it more in videos.

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How did this thread avoid FOUR YEARS of purging?

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Same way they all do. Red Name post means purging ist verboten!!

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Seems hover/flight needs re-re-tweaking. Flew into the train and upon exiting the train in a new zone Cerebrawl is vibrating like he's having siezures.

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Flight or Hover on?

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Same for both. (I'm not the OP, but I'm having the same issue.) It stops if you move, but starts again if you stop moving but still have Flight or Hover on. Shutting off Flight/Hover ends it.

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Had it with regular flight on.

KRM tricked me into posting here.
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Will old Trial Accounts be reactivated, too?

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Never. Only standard accounts AFAIK.

Also: I hear Triumph has a low population, semi-competent playerbase >.>

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Not during my couple days back!!

Yay! It's back!

Holy Bat Crap Batman! Another thread sees the light of day again!

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Y'know what I don't want to see? The Babbage buffed to the point where a Synapse team can't be expected to beat him, leaving him to rampage through Skyway at will.

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And thus prevent TF completion.

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You don't need to defeat Babbage to complete the Synapse TF.

I'd just like to say that if the assassin strike for DM looks like the MA and EM one, I'm gonna be mad.