Ironik

With my sub-optimal level 32 Grav/Rad Controller I couldn't take her below 25% health. Eventually I threw as many of the Tuatha at her that I could, but even healing them while attacking her I couldn't make enough of a dent to win. She killed me three times, so I just joined a team and completed it that way.

On the team I didn't even fight her, actually. I just hung around the Tuatha and pulled mobs of snowmen into them and watched them fight. That was immensely entertaining. By using my AoEs I ensured that everyone on the team got credit for all the snowmen the Tuatha melted, if not a lot of xp.

am or pm?

I'm still getting this error message. It's a drag, man.

Also having this issue as of right now, 10:33 pm EST, 12/18.

Just put them all in AE. Dr. Aeon can't dress himself, so why should his employees be any better?

Nothing gets me to quit a game faster than #8. Open-world quests where you have to compete against other players in order to achieve your ends are a terrible idea. First and foremost because you're competing against your fellow players in order to succeed. Even if you're on a team, your team is competing against other teams. That's not fun. Second because it underscores the unchanging nature of MMOs. Since open quests depend on static spawn areas where enemies continually respawn out of thin air, it feels like using a broom to try to sweep out the tide. Nothing you do has any effect on an MMO world, but you don't have to be so *obvious* about it. (I'm looking at you, nearly every MMO ever made.) CoH disguises it better than most, at least.

A lot of cool designs. I didn't realize almost all of yours were based on NPC groups.

You know what kills me? 1990 was 20 years ago. Man.

I finally got around to reading the first 3 issues of the recent Amazing Spider-man arc, "Big Time." I stopped buying Spider-man back when Straczynski made the terrible decision to bring Gwen back and creepify her. I was like, "Yeah, I'm out." Then Brand New Day's wrongheadedness happened, so....

These were given to me because the writing is good, I was told. And it is. Dan Slott is firing on all cylinders and except for a bad panel here and there Humberto Ramos' art isn't as goofy as I remember it. The Hobgoblin is completely badass, Kingpin is appropriately Machiavellian and Peter is all genius-y. The story is snappy and moves right along and whenever I got to the end of an issue I thought, "Was that only 5 pages long?" The introduction of the black suit actually makes sense, and Slott spent two entire issues setting up the reason for its existence. Of course, there's no real story reason for the suit to look any different, it's mostly just to remind the reader that Peter is switching things up. It's always nice to see him using his brains as well as his brawn. The arc starts with Spider-Man leading the Avengers into battle against Dr. Octopus' giant octopus robots -- 40 of them! -- rampaging through NYC, and Slott has little mysterious introductions which pay off later. I really like it when writers clearly have a master plan and reveal hints as they go along.

Really good stuff. 5 stars.

This looks like they watched American Dad and said, "Hey, let's do that!"

The thing a lot of people don't understand about this game is that it sometimes just comes down to luck. You can stack the deck in your favor all you want but ultimately it comes down to a dice roll. My Fire Blaster has a number of IO sets which boost his Accuracy, and he has Accuracy slotted into his snipe. Before I snipe someone, I hit Build Up. So one would think that with massive accuracy out the wazoo snipe would hit every time. Yet it doesn't. It misses enough times to be noticeable. It's not a case of "Man, my snipe missed once back in July" but rather a case of it misses at least once in every other mission. Sometimes it misses twice in a row.

Trapdoor killed my AR Blaster with two hits, repeatedly. On top of that, his bifurcations spawned at an increased rate. That mission was a slogging hell of death after death without making any headway. So I asked a friend to help me. Based on what others have said and the video UberGuy put up, what happened to my Blaster was just bad luck. However, what the "LRN2PLY" crowd utterly fails to grasp is that some of these cakewalk encounters with him are people getting lucky. (For the pedants out there, notice that I said "some" and not "all.") In UberGuy's video, Trapdoor is whiffing shot after shot. Even on my easiest missions against him such as with the aforementioned Fire Blaster and my Brute, he definitely hit me a lot despite using purples and oranges. Nothing like that extraordinary string of misses displayed there.

And just as my snipe missing twice in a row, sometimes people can have a string of luck. If that's all you've seen, then I can understand how you would think that's how the encounter operates. Me, I did the mission four times and had it easy in three of them. However, in two of the four I saw the fast respawn rate.

No! Bad hyper! Bad!

In what order are those supposed to be read? It seems completely random.

Ah, good point. It's always the little things that get ya.