Lemur Lad

Technically you can, you just have to leave the reward window open and not pick anything until the timer expires.

I'll also note that even though they're not re-colorable, Dominators get a Fire Mastery APP (soon to be available at level 35) that has 2 fantastic powers in it. Fireball and Rain of Fire are like the cherries on top of the sundae when it comes to building an AoE machine of terror.

As for getting the Thorns of Plant/Thorns to look good, yes I can see that as an issue. My main dom is Plant Thorn, and in his case I use a wide variety of the thorns available to me to get cool looks. His base costume has recolored Thorns, and they match well. His evil Scientist look has the black metal spikes. His incarnate look with the Ascension armor uses the crystal spines and they ended up matching nicely with the sweeping bladed look of the armor.

That's because it isn't. Test isn't Beta. As I said in another thread:

At least one maintenance was cleanup from DXP. Another was probably "normal" maintenance. This one is seemingly the most recent patch coming from Test Server.

Truthfully though, people ought to think about it a bit before they get huffy and complain. The devs have clearly been in the process of ramping things up and implementing fixes since the Anniversary event/stress test in May.

They seem to be working hard to finally fix several long standing issues/complaints. Lag Valley on the ITF is gone. Last night I was on a 24man BAF that had less slowdown and lag than I have ever seen. Basically, for all the times people begged them to take a serious look at this stuff, they're finally doing it. I for one say bring it on.

Since they've scheduled Weekly Stress Tests on the test server, I think it's fair to say you can probably expect a patch at least every other week if not ever week, in addition to regular maintenance.

At least one maintenance was cleanup from DXP. Another was probably "normal" maintenance. This one is seemingly the most recent patch coming from Test Server.

Truthfully though, people ought to think about it a bit before they get huffy and complain. The devs have clearly been in the process of ramping things up and implementing fixes since the Anniversary event/stress test in May.

They seem to be working hard to finally fix several long standing issues/complaints. Lag Valley on the ITF is gone. Last night I was on a 24man BAF that had less slowdown and lag than I have ever seen. Basically, for all the times people begged them to take a serious look at this stuff, they're finally doing it. I for one say bring it on.

And as usual when this complaint comes up, I'd like to note that even if it were daily, this game ends up with less downtime than any other MMO I've seen, including the big bad 800lb gorilla.

Whoever told you that was misinformed. There was a time when Controller powers had a higher target cap and longer durations, but most of that has been removed. Even if Doms have shorter durations without Domination, they more than make up for it with higher damage.

Storm Summoning gets great damage.... eventually. For the most part it's the last couple powers in the set that give it that damage, and I've never been a huge fan of waiting that long for it.

Actually I didn't. I said Plant and whichever set you like best. My point was though that even for Plant/Fire there's strong character concepts out there, you just have to come up with them.

It's not halves of the same arc. It's 2 different arcs. Patrons all have 4 arcs total. 2 unique to them that run from 40-50, and 2 that complete the story of Project: Destiny that are the same for everyone.

So technically speaking, you unlock Patron powers after doing 1/4 of the arcs they have for you.

Agreed, they said their goal was to impart a sense of doing good for a specific zone/neighborhood, and it works. I can't wait to see similar treatment applied to other zones. Red Side this already tends to happen so there's less need, but it will be nice to see some more area specific arcs that broaden the storyline of particular areas.

Congratulations!

And to address this, you are pretty much correct. People complain about TF minimums a lot, but without them the devs can design harder encounters like this one.

Think of it this way: Modern TFs have a level range and a min max of players. The closer to the bottom of the level range your team is, the closer to the max you want to be. The entire balancing act between damage, survivability, regeneration, etc is actually pretty forgiving, but on a team nearer the low end than the level cap, more people is always going to be the simplest solution.

I'm glad you guys pulled it out, and hope you had fun. Keep these lessons in mind and go back for future runs as you level up. It's fun to have a broad range task like this that you can use as a test bed to see how your skills and abilities are improving.

It's a simple matter of finding someone with an operator star and asking them. If you happen to play in the early mornings most often, I apologize, that's when most of us are sleeping or working. Send me an offline message @Lemur Lad, and I can unsilence you even if we're not on at the same time.

As for why we do things that way, we have solid reasons. I know it's a pain, but it's worth it to us as ops and our members so that we can have a useful channel and still have fun playing even when someone decides to make a complete pancake of themselves.

If you don't have them unlocked by Paragon Reward status (veteran time), then you can pay to unlock the Archetype at the store.

As DarkGob said to the OP I recommend making the character's look and holding onto the name now. Save the costume to a file and park it. When i21 hits, delete the name holder, start a new character, put in the name and click the checkmark (this checks the name AND reserves it until your character is complete). From there, load in the costume file and take some time to look over the new hotness costume parts that come with i21! Then start up in the new tutorial and head to Mercy Isle.