Justice Blues

Speed demon. I have managed to get 1 level 50 in 6 1/2 years. I really need to see about getting one of my villains up there, so I can start a couple VEATs and let them languish at low levels with the rest of my alts.

I used to work hard trying to figure out when contacts to take when, so I could hit the unlocked contacts and stuff redside. Then they added Ouroborous, so I could go back and get the missed stuff later, and finally they add in the ability to just stop at a level and finish everything. Both features would have saved me much frustration with doing villain content if they had existed years ago.

Resist Elements? Who the heck takes Res...


Oh yeah, I do.



Never mind.

I don't know about PvP anymore, haven't done anything in there since the changes in I13. But Tough and Weave? I don't use them on my Inv tank, and I have tanked the ITF with him. (He is getting IOed out though. Not finished, but getting there. It does make a difference in his abilities, which is good, because I am not a very experienced team tanker. )

Sorry, wrong answer. Dull Pain does not have and has never had Toxic resists. Healing Flame does, Reconstruction does, but Dull Pain does not. The only Toxic resists that Invulnerability has come in Unyielding and Unstoppable.
Which are more than enough when taken together.

I didn't check yesterday because I was downloading the newest updates to LOTRO. Such is life.

That is what is great about the game. We can do both. My main is the second character I created and I enjoy adding to his abilities and history, even after more than 5 years of playing him. But I also have alternate versions of him on different servers, different powers, ATs, etc. but almost the same back story. So I get to play the same guy up from 1-50 multiple times, but I also get to keep making him better.

As for the OP, yes I would. Not sure I could bring myself to giving up JB, but I have a couple of others that I could easily get to level 35 with stories that would fit. And actually, the MM JB would work very well and is almost 35 right now.

Got it. Weeks ago.

I met the Vanguard for the first time on my Inv/SS tank. He is pretty tough, with some nice IO set bonuses (although more now then he had then) and I ran into the first spawn, then hit the floor. That was how I found out about their very strong anti-melee set up. Made for some slow missions while soloing, but I actually had to think about what I was doing rather then jumping in the middle and laying waste. The new difficulty system has done the same thing to a lot of other groups I didn't used to need to worry about. (Size 8 gives you a boatload of bosses on Arachnos missions. Add in the Lts and they strip your end and recharge, even with set bonuses.)

Frankly, the group I always lowered my difficulty on was the Carnival. I use too much end taking them down, so the Dark Ring Mistress' -Recovery, along with the end sucking from the defeats, was way too likely to drop my toggles before I beat a spawn with an actual boss in it.

Yes, you can do that. My account has all of them also. But you can't buy a second Mac Pack or AE Edition and put it on the same account a second time.

You haven't missed much believe me. Readers complaining about how much time, space, and money conventions waste on stuff like movies, anime, and actors, while the media fans complain about the fuddy-duddies stuck in their books. And people that like all of it wanting both sides to shut up. Most folks I know are actually in the middle group, but the most vocal ones seem to be in one of the two more extreme sides.

I have met people that hate the fact that the Hugos are given to movies and even ::shudder:: TV shows! Come to think of it, I had a conversation with someone like that at Interaction a couple of years ago. But he was from NA by his accent. For a genre that is supposed to be about expanding and exploring the universe, there are some very close-minded people that like it.

Believe me, in SF/F fandom, media and books are two very different things. While I understand that most of the world doesn't see a difference, after enough years in fandom I think that way. So yes, I am in a different universe.

I really enjoy it now also, especially with some of the improvements that have been made since it launched, but it really does not fit on that list. The best it could do would be "Successful transition of a non-media source to a MMO." And even that is sort of suspect since it definitely feeds off of the LOTR films as well as the books.

Then G1 has a macro that causes it is hit the numpad1, then h. G2 is set to select numpad2, then h, etc. G9 is set up to heal non-team members, so it uses lctrl+p, then h. G10-17 are set up for resurrection, so they use the appropriate numpad then lalt+h, with G18 for rezzing non-teammates in things like Mother Ship or zombie raids.

Setting up the forcefields is basically the same, unless you have a MM with FF and use your numpad for controlling the pets. I do, but none of them are FF, so I avoided that conflict.

Using these binds:
I can use the G keys on the M2 setting for my kinetics when they are buffing, G1-G9 doing Speed Boost and G10-G18 doing Increase Density.

When my alts are not teaming, I stay on the M1 setting, which also has the various non-team heals, rezzes and shields, to I can help out or buff passerby's when needed.

1) I was on a hero when it happened to me.
2) I was killing Frostlings and such until the timer kicked me out.
3) I entered the first instance during the coordinated attack, stayed until we got the LW down, then entered the second instance and stayed there until kicked out by the timer.
4) N/A

What she said. That is one of the things about the Skulls that really downplays them in the game. There are arcs about Baron Zoria and the history of the CoT, the Warriors have a boss and real backstory, even the Hellions have an EB. But the Skull founders are basically only given "Also Appearing" credits in the only arc that has the Skulls really doing anything. Talk about losers.

Put a space at the end for the first duplicate, then 2 at the end for the 2nd, 3 for the 3rd, etc. etc. Same way works to have multiple glowies with the same name that shows, but only some are actually required for mission completion.

When you place objectives, there are two lines. Top one is plural, bottom one is singular. For your bombs, in the top one you would write "Bombs Left to Place" (It automatically adds the number in front) then in the bottom one for singular you write "Place the Last Bomb". If you are using 5 instances of the same bomb, that is all there is to it. If you are placing glowie objectives, with the player searching for clues, you can do the same thing, even if the glowies are all different. Just place the exact same thing in the Plural Navbar section for each glowie and they will be combined.

Yeah, that one is a bug. Escort and captive rescues are kind of wonky. You might get it to work by playing with the settings, but I doubt it.

Did you choose the Single option? That is the one that prevents enemies around the ally. Or it may be that the ally and a regular spawn happened to be near each other.

You pretty much need to test each map for glowie and other objective placement. Some work correctly, other place things marked Back in the Middle and things marked Middle in the Back. Others do the same kind of thing with Boss objectives. And some do it with both. This pretty much means you need to pick a map and use it specifically if the order of encounters is important to your story. Random maps are bad.

The good news is, once you have the way the map works figured out, it stays that way. But testing is required.

No, you didn't miss anything. The space there is smaller. I didn't notice it until right before I made my first arc Final for the Herocon contest and had to re-write the contact info.

I hate to say it, but I never thought about making it a hostile captive. Which might solve the level differences in the arc and having to use a boss for the encounter. A prime example of getting stuck in a mindset and not looking at other options.

These are actually related. Bonesnap wasn't getting out of the way, he was heading for the Rogue Isles to aid in the take over of the Legacy Chain. If they actually manage to give us the ability to have more than one outcome from a mission, I will add a mission where if he escapes in the 2nd mission, he shows up in the 3rd.

And while it isn't really important to the story, when Mirror Spirit was elsewhere in the second arc, it was at that Legacy Chain base. Which is how she know the people there. If it was just in the Hollows, there would be no real reason for her to not appear in the second arc.

One other thing, the evil Legacy Chain are not a long term thing. Part of what Mirror Spirit is doing is dealing with casting fortunes, trying to determine where you should be to find the needed information. So when you arrive in the warehouse, the entire situation has only been going on for a few minutes. If Bonesnap was there, it would have been much worse, if you were a few hours later, also much worse. No Bonesnap, early arrival, easier to stop the process. I apparently need to make that clearer.

I actually know the answers to most of these questions, the problem is getting them into the story without mass amounts of exposition that people will skip over. e.g. the bad Legacy are not just following orders, they are being corrupted by the summoned spirit, the good Legacy are quite sure there is evil magic behind the behavior of their brethren and leader (They are the Legacy Chain, they look for evil magic in everything.), but they are having problems getting to the source of the problem (especially since they don't know the ultimate source, the Future Skulls)

The problem with the dialogue is there are 2 people speaking from one person with no way to indicate that in the output. You do not deliberately kill him, but his body can not handle the strain of the simultaneous physical and psychic struggle that is going on.

No idea about the spawn issue. Believe me I know about the problems taking on 2 Death Skulls at once. They were originally minions, which did not last beyond the first outside playtest. And if they do come up with the branching tech, the Legacy Chain mission will be very different, with more Future Skulls and Legacy Chain members in stages of transformation, because Bonesnap will be there to help more spirits get through.

Yeah, I really wanted a climactic final confrontation at the Midnighter Club, but it is very small with few spawn points. I had a timer on it, to give it some urgency, but the hostage leaving/mission fail with timers made me take it out. I really need to put it back in, and keep trying to convince Dr. Aeon to add more spawn points to the Midnighter Club map.

Some questions were deliberately not answered, especially the winged allies. I have the beginnings of the arc to answer those questions (No Future Skulls, they are done.), but the spawning issues created by I16 made it really hard to test a couple of the missions, so I set it aside until they were fixed. And the last few weeks, RL has really cut into my play time, most of which I have been devoting to the Halloween event and not MA stuff.

When I can get the time to look at the arc again, will definitely keep your feedback in mind. I know it is the roughest arc of the three and definitely needs more work. If I can use a Lt. for a captive objective (Not sure if I can, need to check that.) then the current Madness Mage will be gone and the level difference will be gone. But if I am stuck with a boss, there is nothing I can do except decide between 5-10 and 11-15 for level ranges. That is the only boss in the CoT at that level and there is nothing that spans the range. I can set the mission levels to 5-14, but believe me, you don't want to meet a level 11 Madness Mage at level 5.

One thing. You ask:
Because until this arc, no one knew he had those powers to block them? It is kind of like asking why the Japanese didn't stop the Manhattan Project so we couldn't drop atomic bombs on them.

Thanks again for the play through and the nice feedback. Very helpful and informative.

Well, technically, BOB was Kenny, and Kenny is now dead.