JKCarrier

While I agree that people ought to be able to lock leagues if they want to, I think the reason most people are pre-forming their leagues is because it's the only way to guarantee that you'll get a FULL league. Every time I've tried to use the queue "as intended", it's thrown me into the trial with a minimum- or near-minimum-sized league. I know that the trials are supposed to scale to the size of the league, but in practical terms, covering the spawn points in BAF or gathering temp powers in Lambda is a lot easier if you have more bodies (plus more players means more buffs and debuffs stacking). If the queue filled leagues to the maximum instead of the minimum, I would be more willing to use it.

Will anything be happening in Praetoria itself? If all the dimensional barriers are weak, maybe the Rikti or Rularuu could show up over there for a change.

Wow, I thought I was the only one who remembered Noctropolis -- awesome game. Now I want to make a Stiletto homage who's battle-cry is "Don't look at me, you're the city's new hero."

The LFG would be awesome for things like zone events, where you need to get a team together quickly, and don't much care who you end up with. But it's too much of a crap shoot for something as tricky as the incarnate trials.

Not long after I started playing, I was in a PUG going through an office map. The leader decided he wanted to change the difficulty, and told everyone to exit. Everyone else dashed for the door, but I somehow got turned around, and for the life of me, could not figure out how to get to the exit. I was running around in circles, while team chat filled up with polite but firm "Please exit so we can reset" messages. Too embarrassed to admit my dilemma, I finally just said, "Sorry, gotta go!" and quit the team.

I haven't had any crashes during the trials. But the last two BAFs I did, after the trial was completed, and I zoned back into Pocket D, I got a "lost connection to mapserver" message and got kicked back to the login screen. Judging by the Broadcast chatter I saw when I logged back in, the same thing happened to the entire League I was in.

Not a "comic book movie" per se, but Jack Lemmon did play a cartoonist in "How to Murder Your Wife".

Salvage - If you're not in the mood to mess with the market, it's ok to just dump stuff at the nearest vendor. Yes, you might sometimes be missing out on a big payday, but there's plenty more salvage where that came from.

Enhancements - Common IOs are a good compromise between convenience and power. They don't expire, and you can buy the recipes directly from the Invention Table, so all you have to worry about it the salvage. This will make you plenty powerful enough for any ordinary task in the game. After a while, you might notice particular weaknesses in your build, and then you can think about maybe slotting in some Set IOs to cover what you lack. But it's entirely optional.

Basically, don't worry about being "bestest with the mostest" right out of the gate. You can keep up just fine with minimal time/inf investment. You don't have to dive headfirst into every aspect of the game at once. Explore the more complicated options at your own pace.

It's not a big deal to me, but I am a little surprised at how often a teammate will stop to read your fortune in the middle of a fight. I always think, "Really? Is that the most useful thing you could be doing at this moment?"

I admit, I hardly ever cast the fortune myself. I don't play a lot of support characters, so I'm not in the habit of buffing teammates, and half the time I forget the power is even there.

I'm guessing this is a problem with a particular office map, not the Ice Mistral SF per se. It's probably happening in other office missions too, it's just that we don't notice a missing enemy unless it's a "defeat all" mission.

...realized that it's not true that the Devs hate villains. They just hate me, personally.