Liz Bathory

Nightseye was almost passing out. The gas really did a number on her senses. Then she heard the voice of her goddess in her head... "Relax Falin... rely on our jump skills!"

Without hasitating Nightseye jumped as high and fast as she could. Not really looking where se was going... as long as it was away from the gas. She never even saw the figure emerging from the green clouds that so much resembled her physique.

Her jump brought her a good bit away too... but not directing it she landed fully on Saffron hitting her hard enough to drop her to the ground. Or was it Saffron?! She had a weird red glow on her head.

"Couch, couch... I am ok Amber... I hope I didn't hit you too hard."

Nightseye had the feeling her head would explode... The sound had a terrible effect on her heightened senses. She pressed her ears closed and staggered back wards. A small drop of blood already appeared at her nose.

When the gas hit her it was even harder to get back...

"No... get off me! GET OF ME!", she screamed... trying hard not to panic.

nightseye should be there.. its Militia and magic based.

In a special redecorated room within the Dugout Feline Surbast was in deep prayer. Sitting on her knees and touching the floor with her shoulders. In front of her a statue of the cat goddess Bast stood. Incense burning at the base… candles where alit alongside the walls. Her white dress was reflecting the light in an mysterious way. The make-shift temple Feline had hallowed within this technological base since she and the Militia had recovered the Eyes of the Huntress had come a long way indeed.

Almost fifteen minutes ago her body had felt the tremors in the floor. But she didn’t let that break her trance. Deep in her mind a voice rose up… “Falin… Falin… innocents are in danger. Our help will be needed outside.”*

The young woman raised her head looking straight into the emerald stones that made up the eyes of the idol… and her own eyes turned yellow… fur was forming on her skin and her tail reappeared. When her goddess would call, Nightseye would be there. Leaving her dress behind in front of the altar she rushed out.

She jumped around the corner only to hit something enormous and moving. It was the father of Saffron… the Amber Banshee. “Watch it kitty lady!!!”, he called out. Not that he felt anything at all. Nightseye her body mass was waay to light to even be able to get him staggering.

“My excuses Mr. Mackenzie… there is an emergency outside I have to be.”, Nightseye explained fast while running towards the elevator.

Reaching the Kings Row exit she was looking at the chaos the meteor, which was obviously the cause of the tremors she had felt, had left. Police was running around keeping civilians away. The press was already setting up cameras. Her sharp eyes also noticed several heroes on rooftops or in the sky arriving. Then she saw Amber.

Three fast and high jumps made her land softly and silently right behind the Militia’s leader. “What is that… red thing Amber?”, she asked without warning.

*Translated from ancient Egyptian

Saterday I am unsure off.. but friday I could make.. Lvl 49 dark/sr scrapper Nightseye. She is coming out of the shadows now that she joined the Militia. And I am getting her close to 50 now.

The thing that annoys me the most is the immature attitude that is often in PVP.

Excample...

I am with my mm in RV. A blaster lvl 45 uber pvp build tries to one-shot me... He prob. thought "mm is low hit points, I dont need to use that many reds."

He shoots me in the back.. I am left alive with 1/10 th hit points... do a fear (he was obviously to close)... an Howling Twilight stun and kill him withing 15 seconds flat...

Now the mature reaction would be... "Wow.. you survived. Nice build." or "Cool.. usually I one-shot mm's." or even "Damn... how did you do that?". Instead he looks at my power set and level and I get "He.. you're lvl 50 with lots of IO set bonuses... not fair. I am only 45."

What would he have set if he managed to one-shot me in the back?

Other way around...

If I am one-shotted several times by the same ganker... in such a way I can't move about. The build is so uber I can't win it. I am in my complete right to call in help. If I want to I can get two full teams of 8 hunt the ganker down within 20 min.. Having him die so many times he flees the pvp zone crying "Not fair!" I find that un-humane and will not do that unless it's an utter insensitive ego-maniac. So I will not do it. But it is within my rights.

My coolest pvp was where I was hunting a blaster pvp built and we where pm-ing each other about it after each kill. I would tp him from the shadows and kill him... he would shoot me in the back. And both where having fun getting the other first. THAT's mature PVP! But this is very very rare...

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Stalkers aint hard to get around, just dont stand still, i dont know how many times thats been said.

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And it's still rubbish.

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Also.. I noticed its damn hard to be hidden these days.. As hide is nerved in all ways. Anyone with a +perception power can see a stalker when he combines it with anything else +perception he can even see invisible. Making AS a complete useless power.

And every pvp hero build will have this.

And how do villains survive uber blasters then? Once fully initiated a sniper attack will always hit.

If you want to pvp... and youre afraid to get ganked by these builds/At's... bring a team that will keep you alive. And stay together! I have seen so many teams that where [censored] in team play the moment they where in a pvp zone...

To me it seems a lack of knowing how to play and the feeling of knowing how to lose...

- I am not a pvp-er and will not build my toon for that. But this is a team based game. If you find an uber pvp build killing everyone... Consider him an arch villain/hero and get a team in. That is what you would do in pve. So why not in pvp.

- Stop moaning about stalkers! It's the same for villains with the blasters. Both heroes and villains have an uber pvp build. A dominator vs. a blaster will stand NO chance at all and will be one-shotted from afar long before even having seen the blaster.

This requeres skill to avoid. The stalker is even easier to avoid then the blaster. Just move around a lot. As AS can't initiate if youre on the move constantly.

- Last, but not least, I am not pvp-ing so much because for my toon advancing there is nothing aside of 2-4 hour wasite of time. Even the kill point list isnt permanent. Otherwise you would be able to make an to all available list of highest kill rates in pvp. The temp powers available isnt a good reason to kill / hunt the other side at all. They just get you in the one. If/when you need you do it at a time you will not be disturbed.

Do something with the kills!

I check who's online / available tonight.. Otherwise i reschedule

((I have the same mission with Liz.. ic.. on the ic team thread. Was planning tonight but can easily be done later. ))

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Personally i sell all salvage gained throughout the game to lvl 50 and then worry about IO's. Saying this I always seem to end up with loads of Luck Charms from fighting Hellions at low level!

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Yup.. some exceptional IO's not mentioned I will do the same... at 47 you can slot lvl 50 IO's. 49 respec all reds out and then get some temp SO's lvl 50 to be playable and start to throw all inf towards the prebuild sets.

Small but fun start...

Elizabeth has learned of a powerful ancient artifact that can enhance her dark abilities. It was found on the Rikti homeworld and brought to their Chief Historian who now wears it himself. His name is Hro'Dtohz. She and a few of her Court will go and grab it of his body tonight (you're in Eleven with Tower?).

But Hro'Dtohz also became the Rikti war leader... she will learn during her attack that he is working on getting to full rikti army to Earth. Vanguard has send some of the roaming recruits (heroes/villains) to him in order to investigate what Hro'Dtohz is doing.

The Court and these recruits meet in front of the facility...

lvl 45-50 Rikti War Zone... One big mission on Relentless/Invulnerable.
time: 19:00-19:30 GMT

That wayt the diversity will be a bit lacking. Isn't it better to make the adds a bit more global... If behind Vin Diesel would be mentioned 'In UK' then it would be ok to have them randomize all over the world.

Still.. if more and more adds come... the diversity will grow.

I gather that non time related adds will help a lot too. Movie premieres can only run a short time. The movie adds as billboard above the cinema's would be a real smart move though. This also count for the theater.

Me too.. totally love ic rp if the missions are right..

Elizabeth is now having the RWZ 'Safe the World' mission. Anyone feels like making that a RP one.. Would be way cool on Relentless with a team of 8.

Only in co-op zones... the ability to give inspirations to an enemy... Next to the already suggested expanded search list showing enemies.

If we are co-op... make it a real co-op...

ok.. one of the things making combat more special and in need of higher intelligence in Age of Conan is this feature.

This would allow the tanker to jump in the line of sight and take the blast. This would stop the once-targetted-it-never-misses effect we have now which is often killibg the super speeders while they are far away already.

So what if you hit the one in front... this would then also work the other way around. It forces us to think as a real team again instead of almost blindly fire at will.

It gets my vote...

I usually end up looking around wikipedia for this kind of thing. Relate them with mythology and culture.

For instance.. and archer with mystical items like this can be native american. Sacred items from several tribes handed to him. Throw in names of tribes... and show some indepth knowledge of the way they lived. Mythological names and such.

And youre having a nice toon to roleplay too.

Ofcourse there are more archers over the ages... The Huns where famous archers for instance.

Or.. check roman mythology...

Diana, godess of the hunt is an archer. Strenghth could be from Gauntlets by Atlas... Speed from Mercury sandals.

Would give you a good excuse to later on implement some Roman clothing parts...

or...

Oh well you get the way I think.

Now to think what these acolades would give for the members... Some advantage not much higher then the artifacts from the Cathedral of Pain would do nice...

Also it can be part of an attack chain when youre recharging and youre a brute... keep hiting wil build up fury.

Or last power to attack is brawl... and you want to keep aggro... a nice old fashioned hit will keep his attention on you too.

Sometimes its nice. But the apprentice powers are better.

Soooo agreeing on all of this...

More world wars... remember that the WWII period was called the Golden Agen of comics! This kind of stuff makes great enemies. Epic fights.

The stats mentioned are easily possible for an active sg.. As I understand that it is kills by everyone in sg in sg mode.

I like this... It gives a new extra feature to being in a sg. With the accolade deserved working for all members.

If done right I am ok with the moral system as posted here... Would be cool to keep my totally dark villains real villains and some other shady at least.

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Are they saying when you change alignment you continue with your existing AT so we can end up with Hero Stalkers and Villian defenders? That might sound good on one level but it removes one of the very few distinctions between the two classes and as so much of the villian missioning experience is IDENTICAL to the hero's identity and immersion will go out the window.. Stalkers and Brutes are a typipcal Villian class whereas Defenders are really Heroic in their philanthropic support, wouldn't like to see those cross over tbh.

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Well.. as there are many anti-heroes (and villains) in comics I don't see why not.

The Hulk is a brute AT
Kitty Pryde of the X-Men could be considered a stalker... or Batman... Although both are good scrappers too

Same counts for villains...
I am sure there are villain tankers in comics for instance.

10+ years of system administrator and on-site support here...

Agreed on Vista being good... but heavy in the system use. Of old I know that if you want a stable system read the specs Microsoft gives and go higher then that. You will do youreself a favor.

Back to the crashing problem... I think I got rid of it!

These are the steps taken. Steps I could do because my system was new and within warranty.

- 4x 1066mhz Kingston RAM + 8800 GST 512mb + ASUS 5PE Formula
Crashes.. black to grey screen nvidia driver crash and blue screens.

Installed Omega drivers which helped some but the problem wasn't removed. Hardware test revealed memory problems even though ASUS tells on the motherboard box it can use the fast RAM. Retour with system...

- 4x 1066mhz Kingston RAM + 8800 GST 512mb + ASUS 5PE
Crashes.. black to grey screen nvidia driver crash and blue screens.

Again Omega drivers made it more stable but didnt remove the problem. NVIDIA test tools installed. When trying to run the exe there I got blue screen everytime. NCSOFT support (where I had a ticket running) told me again memory failure. Which I had to agree upon. Extensive RAM test using 3rd party software and one using the Vista RAM test on the install disc also showed hardware errors. Tested the memore modules. They seemed ok. But the motherboard was not! Retour with system...

- 4x 1066mhz Kingston RAM + 8800 GST 512mb + ASUS 5PQ Deluxe
A friend of mine was running this board without problems. I am still running the Omega drivers but I haven't got any crash sofar. Not on drivers, not on IRQ (blue screen) or the black to grey screen. I have gamed continuasly for over 4 hours yesterday.

I will test a few days more then run the NVIDIA drivers.

Logic indicates that even though ASUS claims it can use 1066mhz RAM in fact often it will have problems. The new tech on the 5PQ Deluxe will actually run it smoothly though.

For now I would advice a direct RAM test using memtest and/or the Vistal install disc RAM test. Just to see if all is oke there.

I think this game can have some extra challenge. Force people to think in combat.

Even my squishies can handle easy on Heroic.

or... try it to make it that the AI gets better when the level of npc gets higher. It makes sense that they learn how to use their abilities well.