Ironblade

errr.. what stores? I thought Yin's Market was the only place that sold 'off level' SO's. The normal stores only carry regular increments of 5 (25, 30, 35, etc).

Why should the Well be different from any other noob?
"We can't start until we find a tank!"

The join date displayed refers ONLY to signing up for the forums. I was playing the game for nearly a year before I signed up on the forums.

I'll second this (or third or fourth, at this point).

On most toons, I slot for +recovery and on tanks I like +regen. However, WP starts with so much regen and you get Quick Recovery. So, on my WP tank, I focused on +HP and defense (mostly smashing/lethal since that's what my favorite IO sets have).

"Until it's time not to be nice."
Is it that time yet?


er, no. Having 3 employees tied up for 2 days to benefit such a TINY number of people is an absurd waste of resources.


Yeah, if by "good portion" you mean "tiny portion".
As with most things in the game that have a bunch of people screaming bloody murder, most really don't care.


So, they're giving away something inconsequential while I'm at work, then they extended it but it's on Twitter and I don't have an account and don't feel like creating one.
BFD! It's a game! It's a trivial item in a game! Yikes.

eh, I didn't bother since I could type it from memory.
I DID cut and paste Asgardian's post, since it listed two toons.

He's a 'bonus' enemy and awards a badge.
He only shows up if you manage to get... 'public opinion'.. whatever it's called to hit 500. Every kill boosts it (ninjas or monkeys a little, bosses a lot more). Using the temp power 'Incite the Crowd' gives a significant boost. But it degrades over time so you need to kill fast to hit 500.

Nope. Haven't been able to exploit like that in a LONG time.

Sure they do. For example, my scrapper uses Assault. He has a damage buff at all times, noted in combat attributes and denoted by a power icon. When I toggle the power on, he gets ANOTHER icon and ANOTHER boost to damage.

As I see it, the problem there is not the task force system. The problem is that you're playing with jerks.


Firstly, the sub-50 task forces are mostly cakewalks. Two or three players can take down any of those AV's.
Secondly, "less dps, & therefore less xp / min." I don't follow that part. You know the task force will scale to number of players, right? So you'll get through them just as fast and hit the mission bonuses where the big XP are.


hmm.. so what? Just finish the one mission, THEN change the difficulty. You CAN change the difficulty between missions.


And task forces have some advantages that I think outweigh these negatives.
1) No dithering. No "What mission do you want to do next?" No "Whose mission should we do?" That slows down regular teams. On a task force it's mission, mission, mission. No delays.
2) No extra recruiting. You see that as a problem. I see it as an advantage. I've been on plenty of teams where someone drops and leader insists we stand around getting zero XP so he can recruit an 8th person to 'maximize' our xp.
3) End bonus. Just like any other arc, you get a bonus at the end, even if it's not the weekly strike target.

Well, of course there are a limited number of missions, since we don't have an infinite number of devs sitting at an infinite number of computers. They can all be repeated forever.

Are you talking about clicking the little triangle next to each thread title, to take you to the first post since your last time online? If so, works perfectly for me.

And I routinely log in from two different computers.

Clearly, you have no freaking clue.
The knee-jerk reaction to the word "healer" is in the context of a team leader saying, "We can't start until we get a healer." This is the mark of an idiot, just like "We can't start until we get a tank." No single AT or powerset is ever vital to the success of a team.

* With the possible exception of stuff like the Really Hard Way badge in the Magisterium trial, which was explicitly stated (by Positron) as one of the toughest tasks in the game which he did not even think was POSSIBLE to achieve until further Incarnate powers were released.

What you seem to still not understand is that your BUILD was the problem IN THIS SITUATION. No one is telling you how to build or play your toon (well, most of us aren't). But you came here and said "I have this problem and here's the background (including my build)." And we advised the build was the problem FOR THAT BADGE SITUATION. And guess what, you changed your build for it and that solved the problem instantly.

Now, to generalize a bit, I will tell you that your original build is sub-optimal for this game. You will run into other situations where a more versatile build will be demonstrably better than your narrowly focused one. Okay, you have a concept for your build. Cool. But that means it's not going to work well for SOME content. And this was one of those bits of content. That's all we're saying.

Right off, you're talking about a SOLO situation. Well DUH the incarnate and purpled toon is going to be way the hell more powerful and the difference is immediately apparent.

But that's a bogus comparison. A better question is: Can a toon with SO's survive on and contribute to the average team. The answer is yes. If someone is level 50 and using SO's and teamed with a bunch of incarnates, guess what - the incarnate guys powers improve the survivability of EVERYONE.

For example: my emp has amazing heal boosts and recharge. Furthermore, his AoE heal boosts allies endurance (due to the PvP Panacea proc). This helps EVERYONE. His huge recharge lets him keep Fortitude on more teammates. His Incarnate Destiny power is an AOE BUFF.


No one is denying that toons with IO's and/or incarnate powers are more powerful. The question was: Are characters with only SO's *VIABLE*? The answer is yes.

Right off, the best (for XP) one to run changes each week. Every week there is a Weekly Strike Target (either one hero and one villain one, or a co-op that both sides can run). Upon completion, the TF gives an XP bonus between 1/3 and 1/2 OF A FULL LEVEL (the bonus size depends on the TF length).

You can run the WST only once per character each week. Well, you can run it repeatedly, but you can only get the bonus once a week. The WST is announced in advance in this thread.

After that, I would say the Imperious TF has always been (and continues to be) pretty popular for XP due to the large numbers of bosses and elite bosses in it. The Imperious TF is co-op and the level range is 35-50.

Just to be clear to everyone else, you're posting those links to admit it's inferior compared to NoScript, right?

I mean, he states flat-out:
No one is denying that this add-on exists. But even the AUTHOR admits it's not as good as NoScript.

Just noticed your message. When I'm scanning for new posts, I don't always catch ones in the 'stickied' threads at the top of the list.
Have you found someone to help you with stuff?
Also, have you managed to join the channel? You have to be "Tier 3" in the Paragon Rewards system to be able to join global channels. Full details can be found on this page on ParagonWiki. It's a tremendous resource.

I would have just sent you a private message here but, if I recall correctly, Premium players can't sent PM's so you would not be able to reply.


Can't help you with a group on Pinnacle (I don't play there any more). If you have questions, there's the help channel and the Mentor Project channel (N P C). To join it, you need to put the name in quotes due to the spaces, i.e.
/chanjoin "N P C"
I have the channel on both my accounts: Ironblade One and Ironblade Too

Well, your quote is that you were told: "To maintain the continuity and accuracy of the user database, NCsoft master accounts and game accounts cannot be deleted once created."

I guess you're reading that as, "We can't delete the account or we might mess up the database."
I read it as, "Our policy is not to delete accounts." This gives them the "continuity" of records being permanent and the "accuracy" of having a record of every account ever created.

Montague Catoblepas, right?

Again, no, we are not. We are talking about a build that is OBJECTIVELY and DEMONSTRABLY sub-optimal for the game you have chosen to play. True, SOMEONE made some value judgements as to what build is 'good', but that was the devs who created the game.

The game is what it is. If you are failing because your build is inconsistent with the design intentions of the game, work around it. If you actually want that badge, make the effort to get it rather than defending the build THAT IS FAILING YOU.

You didn't get the memo? It was my understanding that a memo was circulated.