ImpulseKing

Well I'm even later, but I have some tidbits to add based on feedback at the last Pride event. While Pride is a GLBTQ channel, allies are also perfectly welcome. I should know. I'm a str8 male and they were crazy enough to make me a channel mod too.

Pride is a very social channel. You will find many members willing to alt over, even across servers, to help someone that asks. In addition to the expected large amounts of up to date game info available, there is almost always someone on willing to discuss whatever topics are on your mind. Religion, politics, food, and ancient languages are recent examples of topics I have seen. Naturally we like to mind the game's T rating of course.

So if you've a mind to, come on and join us.

Also be sure to talk to Prometheus some more for the Avid Reader badge.

Yes Trials are hard to come by on 'ol Vic. But for what it's worth forming and leading them aren't that hard technically. Assuming you can get folks, and THAT'S the hard part on our server, expand the League UI using the 2 arrows on the right of the league window. This allows you to drag and drop players onto different teams as needed. Once you are set up and ready to start, you do indeed use the LFG tab at the top of your chat window to start the trial.

I want to do more trials on Victory because I WANTS MY SHINEYS!! I have lead several trials on Virtue, but I only have one 50 there, so can only earn 2 Emps per day there. Whereas if I could run trials with my 8 50s on Vic too I would have shineys and extra lore pets to spare.

For the record I'm also willing to run trials. I ain't perfect, but I haven't run a failed one yet.

Always a good idea to check out a major power selection in advance of course. I've been a fan of Group Fly on my MMs for years. But yeah, it's NOT as fire and forget as you might expect. The technique I use to keep them together is quite simple. I simply pause about every 4 seconds. If a pet falls out for some reason, I use Recall Friend to get them back in the field.

As an aside, I use the same technique on mothership raids to get dead teammates back into the fray quickly. Just loiter above the fracas at a safe distance, petless, and TP them back.

Other than that, I wouldn't expect Group Fly to be used everyday. I've kept it, indeed respecced into it, on my Merc/Dark for years and gone many stretches of several months without using it. I've kept it for use in PvP and the odd GM that tries to run away from being my team's next shiney badge. (Ok yeah, PvP's reduced base accuracy along with the to-hit debuff of Group Fly? Mercs toss out -Def like candy at Halloween and it cascades to where hitting is a non-issue.)

Apologies in advance if this is off the intended topic, but I think we might also look at how Freedom could impact bases.

Some of the last items that I recall being added for bases were in the vet rewards. As we know Freedom will rework/replace the vet rewards, and I suspect, but do not "know", some of the stuff will be purchasable.

So here's where I'm going with this. If we want more stuff for bases, we should use our Paragon Points at the ingame store to purchase the base stuff that we can. At last we have the chance to show that working on bases is what the players want with the thing that any for-profit business will listen to, our money.

Heck, I'd be happy to get a decorative pinball machine in my bases.

That being the case, you will likely be able to get answers quicker by posting in the technical issues forum in the development section.

Hope you are able to play with us all soon.

Just as a quick aside. SOs are perfectly playable. Even in the iTrials. I use them myself and found myself invited to a 10-man Lambda run last night. 1st run on that toon and no real problems.

As for the inf concerns, I might recommend heading down to the market forums, but the obvious advice is to focus on selling just now. Oh and remeber you have multiple builds now to experiment with.

And lastly, since I don't IO my toons, cruise on down to the archetype forums and see what appeals to you most. This approach will likely bring you more satisfaction than random folks telling you to pick A over B and C.

Best advice there is to keep playing and making friends as the opportunity presents itself. You can even make your OWN global channel if you see a need that's not being sufficiently met. I occasionally play on Virt red so I know there is teaming that goes on there even without being on that server's channels (Victory is my home server). If you are just looking for random conversation, globals can help there too. I often use Pride, the GLBT channel, for that purpose myself.

Just another reason why Steelclaw is a valued member of our community.

Eden top and Bikini 3 eh? I see the issue. That person had installed a patch that recolors those parts. They are at fault for modifying their client and being offended by what they chose to see.

Studio what?

Got one from a LGTF run, and I'll admit right off a little more questioning may have nipped it in the bud. So I'm on my Ice/Traps Corrupter and the team mix seems reasonable although we have only one melee, a tanker.

We are discussing difficulty and agreeing this will be a shard run when the tanker chimes in that he wants +2s. In my head I'm thinking "..wha.. why? Oh well it's an easy TF, so why not?" We set it to +2 without arguing over it. Forgetting that while many of us had, in fact, played together before this was still an untested PUG.

While in general it being +2 was a slowdown and many deaths happened with regularity, it wasn't until Hami that it went REALLY wrong...

Now as I said, many of us were earning debt badge credit already so we knew Hami would be more challenging than normal. In fact 2 of us alted out and emailed in EoEs (Yes I was one of them.) Although not until a teamwipe or 2. So we have by now gone through the whole recital of which Mitos are vulnerable to what a few times. We gather, set a target, pop the EoEs and charge a yellow, except for the tanker. He is off trudging slowly toward a green. We took down that yellow but wiped before we could take a 2nd. Tanker then complains that his shields aren't doing anything. I swear over the internet I could just HEAR 6 other facepalms happening. So we repeated to him that Hami damage will indeedy render him about as squishy as the rest of us.

So his response? He goes off and hides behind a rock and stops talking to us for the remainder of the mish. With 4 yellows still up we have lost our melee. Oh yeah, fun times..

Now eventually we take Hami down, but you can imagine the carnage. We lose a Defender due to time, as we are over 2 hours into this by now. And my fiancee, who laughs when I die (unrelated story) is complaining her sides are hurting every time my Cor leads the charge at a yellow with only ghost slaying ax as a melee attack. But we DO get through it.

Now as we enter the final mish it seems we are at the 4 hour mark and it unanimously converts to a speed run. Thanked everyone upon completion and logged for about 3 hours of sleep before work, to tired to even use playernotes to 1-star that tank..