Knightslayer

Since someone mentioned villainous MA arcs... this one should be to the liking of anyone who likes Phipps' arcs and such stuff: The Burning of Hearts Arc ID#2260
(And nope, not a creation of mine! Credit goes entirely to someone else!)

I LOVE Redside! I think my level 50's Heroes to villains Ratio is 5-1 in favor of the villains
My overall characters ratio is probably 10-1, with my 3 char pages on Virtue being almost completely red >.>
Phippsy is one of the better villain contacts out there when it comes to being petty and cruel, Peter Temari's arc is sorta nasty too - especially if you see the results later in game when doing Von Grun's arcs.
I've seen the "inability" to play villains before though, i know several people who feel horrible if they were to run these arcs.
I understand the part that you're talking about in Dragon Age, when I passed through with my villainous Blood Mage the only reason the person survived is because I was getting something out of it (permanent power!) and even then my Mage IC would be planning for them to suffer an accident later because obviously in a few years from now they'd form a threat to his power.
My villains tend to be either selfish or mercenary (with a couple of misguided fools among them ), it's all about THEM and in some cases the people THEY care about - the rest be damned.

Sadly i'm guessing this won't be happening until either the beta is well on it's way or there is another big gaming convention.

Ah cool, welcome back! And goodluck starting those RP teams, I should do that again some time too, always nice to meet people outside of the VG circle.

On the topic (since my other post was brief and rather random ):
I believe that some characters are the equals of the signatures yes, but not ALL should be - of my zillion alts there are very few who i would call as powerful as Recluse or Statesman in game (IC THEY however might disagree, damn egotrippers ).
Which characters are the equals is up to whoever plays them however, it's a personal pet peeve of mine to roll my eyes at EVERYONE being as powerful as the "legendary" heroes/villains.
I don't think everyone wants to be either, i suspect Agonus' characters will mostly be below that scale in power, Chaos Red's are most likely stronger or simply avoid them because they are the main character in their stories.

Ah ok cool, so it would give everyone stamina when it hits? Or only me?

Hey folks, i'm wondering if the above makes a good combination.
And how does it work with the proc? Does it have a chance to trigger on all healed allies separately? Or is it checked only while hitting the opponent?

Hah, i was just playing Scirocco's patron arc and the ending made me think of this thread

LOL! That was so awesome! I loved the emotes you matched with the lyrics

Did that duoing with a buddy, mine an Ill/Sonic Controller and his a DM/Will Scrapper.
We managed to smoke all those Ouro TFs

Basically yeah, the Villains are screwed merits wise JJ.
The time spent on them looks to be a fairly weak excuse to me, lets take the Positron or Synapse TF's for example, a good team takes how long to finish these, 2 or 3 hours? For a 50-60-ish merits reward? (can't be bothered to look up the exact number )
Now compare that to the Cap SF that's worth 12 merits (13 since i16?), which probably can be run in an hour with a decent team (yes, speedrunners probably do it in half an hour or less, but they probably do the other two faster than 2 or 3 hours as well).
Even if you were to run it six times in the same time it takes one Posi/Synapse you wouldn't have the same amount of merits thanks to the diminishing returns (and even without them, barely), although i doubt it could be run six times in the timeframe it takes to do one Posi.
Story arcs are much better designed redside though, and filler missions from contacts aren't nearly as common as they are on Blue.
TF wise the only ones with a decent reward that villainside gets are the ones they have to share with the heroes
But ah well, on with the show /rant

That's a pretty cool idea Metroid

How many months is considered a Veteran?

You can probably still get that, there's just a lack of people starting them

Also congratulations on winning that code!

Yup.
In case you want to read her background/origin http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Vanessa_DeVore

When i first migrated to Virtue (October 2008-ish) i spent some time looking through VV as well, and just as i had decided on an RP VG i came across another post here on the forums and went with that one instead - which i'm still part of today.
Activity tends to go up and down, there is a coregroup that runs it made up of people that have been around for as long as the game has and several close to it.
I generally don't advertise but here's the link to the website anyway http://www.guildportal.com/Guild.asp...7&TabID=462067 (or alternately www.sinenterprises.com it has music! )
Pocket D serves well in the function it was designed for; it's a nightclub - though occasionally you come across more serious RP as well and meet people you like. (It's very much a hit and miss thing, when i was new to the server i didn't like it. Then after a return visit to the D a good half year later i started to have fun there. Though i'm still not a regular by a longshot.)

Yep, you get those everywhere.
So far i haven't run into that exact situation on CoX yet though, then again i don't hang out in Pocket D much (usually when i don't feel like grinding and no VG or global buddies are around).
Sorry to hear that happened to you though Irnee, don't let it get you down!