Lazarillo

Actually, it's more of a "dammit, got armor, but not melee!" thing, really. But I've waited for my dang Ice Stalker since the very first day of CoV, so all I can hope is that they (probably) won't leave it half-done for long.

That sounds like the argument for why there would be proliferation in i20, too. And i19. And, well, pretty much every issue that hasn't had "X" feature, there've been people saying "well they didn't say it wasn't coming!"

I'm not saying it wouldn't be nice, but it's not a realistic assumption.

"This isn't X game" is still a perfectly valid argument. I got into CoX entirely because it was like it was, not because it was like any other games. I had a friend try to hook me on PSO...and there's a notable reason I didn't play that for any notable amount of time. The advantage with that game is that it is an entertaining game that also happens to be an online game. Of course, of late, it's become a less entertaining game, in an attempt to emulate all those other games I didn't like.

I've seen many have been suggested, but the devs have been basically silent on such. Another way we are starting to emulate everyone else in ways we shouldn't be.

We're playing a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game, and yet I don't see people clamoring for rewards based around hour clocked hitting on catgirls in Pocket D, do you? If teaming is vital, then I say the Incarnate system should be similarly barred to people who have not written up an appropriate bio for their characters as well!

A writer. He's collecting research for his new book on witty comebacks. She, of course, has agreed to help.

I'm tellin' ya, nobody's time would end up that "monopolized" by anything other than their own free will. Pocket D's huge, local chat has limited range, and she's always in that same spot. It's not like she's just waiting for a BAF to form or anything, either. I totally tried inviting her to a League once, but apparently she wasn't accepting invites.

No. It's obvious she's there because she wants to be. And she wants to be because she and Desperate Guy are really a completely lovey-dovey pair.





...or, alternatively, I suppose, we've discovered what happens to people who earn the ire of DJ Zero. Next time you think about breaking that "no fighting" rule, consider why two people so clearly incompatible would be stuck sharing drinks like that for all eternity.

Given that Praetoria will still likely have the more interesting story content for 5-20 (possibly even 25), I still see myself headed there, often as not.

And Coyote's Praetorian mirror is already a contact there, if you do the Crusader arc.

I'd expect nothing less, to be honest.

To be fair, you can both accept reality, and vent about it on the forums, really.

I liked the one Arbiter who got uppity with me and was like "This is an attack on Recluse himself!", so I hit him with Vengeful Slice and was all "Then let's see him bring it."

No, I'm saying that while the slow path sounds good on paper, in practice, at least for me, it was just as tedious, but it was tedious without accomplishing anything, so if I'm going to be unhappy either way, I'd rather be unhappy with Incarnate Powers than be unhappy without them. Of course, I'd rather not have to be unhappy at all, but I've not been left that option.

See, that's not an unreasonable thing to believe. In fact, it's what I believed, when I first started. I figgered, do one maybe every few days, work at it a little at a time, I won't burn myself out. But the exact opposite happened. When you've been working at something slowly for a couple of weeks, and even though you know it's the slow path, you realize you have nothing to show for that couple weeks of work, it kills is just as dead. So if it's a matter of burning myself out either way, it's nicer to have some results from it.

Grinding raids is grinding raids. It doesn't matter if that grind is the result of doing 20 raids in two days, or two weeks, or two years.

Each character took that time, but yeah. I went from No Judgement unlocked to Rare/Vary Rare powers in everything on a given character in under ten hours time. And yes it was a grind. But the time had nothing to do with that fact. Each of those characters probably ran each raid around 10 times or thereabouts. But it was only because they were crammed together that it was even achievable.

Long term goals work in a game like this because there are mid-way goals that are easy to achieve which can give a sense of accomplishment. Getting to 50 is a long term goal. But if you had to play your way to 50 as a level 1 character, and then suddenly got everything, people would lose interest. The raids are the same way. Until you do many, you've shown no notable progress. I've tried the "slow path" a couple times, and I end up barely doing anything because it ends up feeling like a colossal waste of time.

So, instead, I burned through them quickly before my brain realized how mind numbing it was. It's like how by eating more slowly, you get full more easily, but since "full" in this case was a bad thing, the only alternative was to do as many as possible as fast as possible so that I could go back to ignoring them.

In my experience, by the time I was ready to unlock a slot, I already had everything I needed to make a Rare power for it. This wasn't a good way to balance the rate of reward, in my mind. The "long term" time it takes to earn a VR is pretty fair as well, assuming you're reasonably lucky. But it shouldn't take more than one raid, in my mind, to unlock and slot a common. Basically, I feel like it should be possible to earn commons quickly, but then should take longer to get the Uncommons and Rares, with the total amount of time to the endpoint about where it is.

...granted, what I think is meaningless, since it won't change from what it is, but, eh, you asked.

The whole source of the problem is that they aren't more flashy. People are unhappy with auras arbitrarily being locked behind the Incarnate system without rhyme or reason. The "sign of power" for what it's worth, doesn't really work anyway, since once they are unlocked, you can put them on any character, even one at level 1.

That said, if they were Incarnate themed, I doubt many people would have such a beef. Most people are okay with the Ascension Armor and UltimatePower emote being Incarnate-locked, it seems to me.

Eeeeentehresting. Still, if it does work, you might want to speak too loudly about it unless/until a dev says that it's WAI, because I'm pretty sure the idea originally was to turn off recharge buffs on all pets (granted, Lore didn't exist then, so it could be an exception, but I think they'd advertise it as such if it was intentionally built in that way).

As I understand it, they inherit it, they aren't buffed by it. All pets' powers got the Strength of Will treatment. This is the first I've heard, for that matter, that Lore pets are an exception to that.