LightShadow

Tanked him with my Stone/Stone tank a few nights ago and he 2 shotted me through Granite and Rooted!

It was using his massive stun, he used it twice during the fight though I just managed to survive the second time!

NOTHING is immune to dying in this game, if it was it would be no fun!

Thanks for the replies guys, sorry I did post again sooner but got sent away with work.

So, things not sounding great then, no probs. I not quite given up hope yet and have another question if anyone can answer.

Are the procs, Dark Watchers Despair: Chance for Recharge Slow and Deflated Ego: Chance for Recovery Debuff any use?

Was thinking of slotting one of each in both Dark Blast and Gloom. Do they have a noticable effect on players?

I have a reasonable build worked out, not sure if it will be right for PvP but looks like it could be fun to play even if it is not ubber. Will post it when I figure out how to use mids properly

Thanks again for any help!

I am looking for some advice on a few powers, pretty experienced PvE but not so much with PvP. This my main char and badging toon and I would love to be able to use him in PvP.

I know a Dark/Dark Def is not an optimal char for PvP but I have a decent stock pile of enhances so most slotting is possible, except purps.

My main questions are about what powers work well for PvP and what do I need to drop?
1. Is fluffy just a waste due to all the movement?
2. Is Tar Patch a waste due to all the movement?
3. Does Black Hole have any use in PvP?
4. Is Moonbeam likely to get much use?
5. What epic is best? Guessing Psi though interested in dark just for the stun aura and armour, does it work in PvP?
6. Am I just wasting my time with this toon?

Will work on a build and see what I can come up with in the next few days, thanks for any help or pointers you can throw my way!

I have obviously misunderstood what you were saying.

If you are actually getting tells/emails being insulting or hatemail of any kind I hope you are reporting it. That is not appropriate in this game and I have no doubt the moderators/GM's would take action on this.

However, you have posted you want a healthy exchange of ideas yet you are swearing and being hugely over defensive. That will not promote a great exchange of ideas.

I think you are being a bit over the top with the whole 'no one likes my arc!' I mean, you got Dev Choiced! Someone obviously liked it! How many plays has it had? What is its star rating after all those plays?

I bet its more than most of us have.

As for meeting and interacting with more people, well thats gonna be hard to do if you are on global hide all the time! Could that have something to do with the not getting feedback? Have you bugged that you are not getting any?

Don't mean to sound harsh but come on!

I have played almost exclusively SFMA and played alot of good ones. I have played NO Dev's choice Arcs and the main reason is they are ALL 5 missions long and nearly all seem chock full of kill all enemies missions which is an instant turn off for me!

Also the lack of tickets in Dev's choice missions means I would rather play something unknown and get them than something already rated and not. Lets be honest for getting salvage alone Tickets are worth much much more than regular drops.

That being said, I would love to have my arcs get Dev choiced or into the Hall of Fame! Getting in to these should be all the recognition you could want, certainly would be for me, though I have no ambition to be a writer, just doing it for fun in here.

Never gonna happen though as even though both have been up since a few days after launch neither has more than 10 plays total!

Thanks for the replies Posi!

Everything you said made perfect sense, I HATE finding an AV/EB without notice! However, one thing still confuses me.

Why have there been NO new dev's choices at all? I do not expect hundreds, that would defeat the point of it but why none?

Ahh.. that makes more sense I guess. Was not aware of any issues with it, care to expand as to what the problem is?

I am actually finding it a little odd that no new Dev's choices have been awarded, I can't imagine that they are too busy to do it as I would assume (always dangerous!) that most of the arcs being played by devs will happen on their free time as opposed to devs sitting in work playing arcs rather than doing 'real' work.

Now I could be wrong but I very much doubt they are gonna suddenly have time to play our arcs as well as doing their proper jobs as well.

The fact that the Hall of Fame does not work properly may mean they want to fix this first just so that there are both available but I still think it seems a little weird. After all the longer they leave it to start looking/awarding the more content there is to sift through.

How come we have not seen any new devs choices getting picked yet?

Any thing ever been said as to how they will get released? I kinda assumed with the target of 1% dev choice (I think thats right) that we would be getting a steady stream of missions pinged for us to try out.

With the search facility annoying alot of people some new Dev's choices would also help bring more good missions to the fore. Anyone got any info?

Just finished and published "Rise of the Shadows" arc No55603.
Its meant for lvls 1-20 though will play at any lvl if highers want to try it as well. It says it is only custom mobs but it is almost completely normal 5th Column troops reorganised to spawns as I wanted them. Have tested it with 50's as well as my lvl 8 ma only brute. Hope you enjoy!

Would like to second Hearts on Fire and Soul Trains Origin story, these are both great for lowbies!

The only down side to searching by enemies group is that if people are using all standard enemies but putting them into new groups to ensure the correct types spawn for the mission then you will cut them out.

I am nearly finished a lowbie arc, 3 missions all 5th Column designed for solo or team in the 1-20 range but as I dont want any vampires or wolves I just picked the guys I did want and called them a new name. This means I know exactly what you will be fighting throughout the arc but it shows up as custom mobs.

I will post details when I get a chance to finish it!

I just have to chime in here with the idea that anyone can get HO's easily, that simply aint true. I have been playing for about 30 months and have not been able to take part in a single raid, cause the raids are scheduled for 9pm EST and I am 6 hrs ahead of that. As much as I love this game and cannot wait to do a raid once they are available anytime there are the numbers to do one I am not starting a 2-3 hr task at 3 o'clock in the morning.

As for Villain side I have attempted the Recluse SF a number of times but have NEVER completed it, now maybe I just suck or am unlucky with the teams I have had, not really sure but it is certainly not something I will EVER be farming to completly SHO out a character and I expect States will be the same.

For me IO's look like a way for 'Normal' players to get HO/SHO type stats without being in the VERY small minority of players that can farm/replay the endgame SF/Raids.

All my own opinion of course.

Lol these recipies are the craziest thing I have ever seen! I have been running a fairly large Vill SG since about 2 weeks after launch and we are still struggling for Tier 2 Components and have not even moved up to Tier 3 at all yet! With these prices we simply will not be able to put a station into the base, or we would never be able to build anything ever again!

And also, I assume these buffs are to help with things like AV battles etc, if so, is it the devs intention that you should go to the mission, fight all the way through to the AV, stop, run back to your base, use the buff, run like crazy back to the AV and proceed to kick his/her/its [censored]?

That sounds a little silly to me.