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Quote:As is your right, and it doesn't offend me in the slightest
I agree that the way this was handled ended up pretty hamfisted. That said, the current status quo resulting from that (no Red Lips for Steampunk Victoria) pleases me greatly. Even so, I am all for there being two faces (one red lips, one not)
Devs, /signed to keeping current Steampunk Vickie and also giving back the original one.
See?
Still, I do not want the original back at the expense of the current, despite the somewhat distasteful way it got that way.
Hugs. I admire you for standing up for what you want, and you have every right to do so.
The solution is probably being worked on right now, but with the art assets tied up, we might not see a solution for quite a while.
I just wish the Devs would tell us what is what with this bruhahah, so we can go back to happily anticipating the upcoming issue.
Mayhaps the saloon girl has red lips..I have not gone to Barnes&Noble yet.
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Quote:I have been quiet on this topic because I am so 100% wanting a solo path for Incarnate goodness that I feel if I react negatively about anything else I will appear to be a Negative Nellie..but, but, I did like the red lips. It was different from anything else we have, and we cannot use the lip colors we currently have to get that sharpness...if we did, I would remain quiet, but we don't....and so....Honestly...because I really, really, REALLY like the 'plain jane' Victorian Steampunk face, and I have a slight worry that, instead of making two faces (1 for you, 1 for me), they might just change it back to the red lips to placate request like yours. I don't want that to happen, sorry. Your loss is my gain.
I truly am all in favor of two faces (or makeup to faithfully reproduce what you once had), but if that isn't an option, I want the face to stay as it is, and will voice that any time this topic comes up. Bring it up again and see...
What brought me into expressing my opinion was your challenge. So, I fear that everytime you express your wants..I will do the same.
The red lips and beauty mark were part of advertised goods that we spent real life money for.
It is not good business practice to advertise one thing, and give the paying customers another...I am not sure about the Virtual Market, but in real life this sort of thing would have the BBB knocking on one's doors.
So, we need to be issued two faces..one red lipped and one freshface, or have the red-lipped face but with an option to wash off the makeup, or give us the ability to recreate those red lips in the CC.
They put up a red-lipped, beauty marked face for sale, and by Jingo, lawfully, we should have what they sold us.
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New corsets, Rocketboards, COT stuffz...Lisa falls into an old fashion swoon only to be revived by her cats who drag in the smelling salts.
Is this issue for sale yet?
If so, I am going to dash out and buy two.
One for Mark and I, and the other to put in my company's breakroom.
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Quote:The devs have said several times on the UStream chats that bitter tears taste the sweetest to them.
Mmmm....my tears about wanting a way to solo my way into some incarnate goodness probably taste like this piece of Black Forest Cheesecake I am about to eat..or maybe like this Sweet Lemon Tea I have been sipping on
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Quote:Lisa eyes the above text, and clears throat....Then shrugs and walks away. Currently this true.sorry this is a raid game now, the "GAME" now starts once you reach 50 and start incarnate stuff
In the future though, I am hoping with all my soul that there will be a solo path to the incarnate goodies. It might be rocky, and full of thorns, but that would be ok as long as there is such a path...sorry, just had to plead my heartfelt wishes before leaving this thread
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Quote:Hee. hee..On this topic, I wonder how many toons have been deleted because they were "Too Easy?"Bull Manure.
To be clear Jay, you and every other player that wants to remove the cottage rule so you can run about making your Bloody Tank Mages and have the absolutely most perfect character ever with no flaws...
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To me, playing a toon that survives EVERYTHING would be horribad boring...unless you were a farmer of course...but when you are farming you are just defeating the same enemy type over,and over, and over, again which really is not "Playing."
Being perfect in this game, to me, is a flaw
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Quote:Grin. I give this a thumbs up. If the reason we can't solo them is because Devs are afraid everyone will solo them, and not team them, well then, soloing is what people want to do, and people who are allowed to do what they want to do, within reason of course, keep their subs active, which is good for the game.This. 1000 times this.
LET US START AND FAIL WHATEVER CONTENT YOU CREATE.
Minimum teams sizes have always been stupid. They are stupid now. They will always be stupid.
LET YOUR PLAYERS FAIL AND MAKE BAD DECISIONS. Losers don't deserve trophies.
I still grimace whenever I hear that teaming gets higher rewards..why do you think that is....because people have to be bribed to team, meaning if given a choice, the Devs fear the player base would choose soloing, leaving the squishies and folks who like to team hard pressed to find a team.
*Sigh*..I think the day we get cross server teaming, and have all the bugs chased out of the process, will be the day we will be allowed to solo taskforces and such critters.
And not until then.
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And in the early levels at least Teleport Foe can be your best friend.
Target a baddie, bring him to you, Sleep, hold, or confuse him so he won't hurt you while you destroy him...you can target, then go around a corner and down the hall a bit before bringing him to you. this gives you enough time to put the hurt on him before his buddies come looking...if they come looking. Sometimes they don't
By the time I am level 25 or so though I usually have enough crowd control powers in my Primary/Secondary and respec out of Teleport Foe..or not as I usually have a good time in the Winter Event bringing the Redcaps down from their Ice Ledges to me..
And Teleport Foe also makes getting the Sorcerer badge a snap. Bring the sorcerer to you, Hold him, and kill. Rinse and repeat.
I have gotten three Doms out of Praetoria solo, one being a Mind/Thorns and my hubby got a Mind/Psi out pretty fast...So it can indeed be done.
Good luck
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Quote:Don't forget that /Elec has good psi resistance, is sapper proof, and handles well in Praetoria and wherever there is energy damageWhy make a (insert different AT) over (Insert current AT) when (Insert current AT) isn't as fun?
(Sorry, I couldn't help it. I can't tell you how many times I've seen that in various threads about any AT.)
All kidding aside, consider WM/Electric. While the dmg aura isn't quite as good as Fire's, it's still a damage aura. You will have higher resist numbers then Fire, a boost to speed/recharge in Lightning Reflexes, and great endurance management tools in both Energize and Power Sink. Energize isn't as good a heal as Fiery Embrace, but paired with War Mace I think you'd be fine.
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Quote:Gaah..then give us people who cannot, or do not want, to team for a multiple of reasons, a way of continuing down the Incarnate Path solo.Again, new costumes and auras signify gain of power through continuing down the path of the Incarnate.
That is all I want.
I am not asking for the Devs to stop the trials...not at all. My better half loves them, and I love him, so whatever he enjoys gets my stamp of approval.
I am not asking to do this fast/easy, all I want is a path that will take me to the heights in a semi reasonable amount of time.
Is wanting this so bad?
This new issue is called Freedom.
Locking all the ways of improving your level 50 toon behind mandatory teaming is not Freedom by a long shot. The word Freedom implies we have the ability/freedom to make choices. Where is the choice here?
But, Freedom issue is not here yet.
Could be there is a system going into place for folks like me.
Could be.
On the basis of this seemingly slim hope, I am going to try my darndest not to respond to the posts which make my bloodpressure rise, and rage spew out of every pore of me.
I do not want to be treated like a special little snowflake...not at all, I just want another route to the greatness that is The Incarnates
A route I can happily follow. Longer, harder, it might be, yes...but one I can do.
Lisa-Wishes Black Pebble would relent a bit, and allow the Devs to assure us that there is another route to glory being put into place...better yet, let Black Pebble himself write a post and do the reassuring. I feel that such an assurance would be great for the moral of everyone
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I know this sounds stupid, but I made a Mace/Fire Brute.
I may live to regret it, but right now, at level 20, I am fine as frog's hair
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Quote:LOL!!!!!!!I do wish we knew which Dev went "You know our soloable, alt friendly MMO that we've had up and running for six years? Let's have an end game system that is nothing like that. I know lets call the issue City of Warcraft just to make things clear where our focus is now." because he or she deserves a smack.
Know something CactusBrawler, I agree with you 100%
But, I think he/she deserves more than a smack..I think this person who detests solo players deserves a Texas sized whooping...and detest solo players he/she does, because, this end game from a soloer's point of view is...uggg.
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Quote:Thanks Winterminal.Hi Pacur!
Enter the Trials and the content (costumes, auras, etc.) now locked behind their Merits. If you want this stuff, there is only one way to get it, and it is going to take a LOT longer than 30 seconds. The player is left with one option of game-play-mechanic by which to get this new stuff: play the trials. Suddenly, the player's experience has been diminished; to get what they want, they can no longer choose what avenue of game-play they wish to pursue. Thus, you have your "force."
You summed it up nicely.
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Quote:...could we please get rid of the "You're level 5 and you must go to The Hollows and speak to Lt. Wincott. Oh, and then you have to trudge all the way back across Atlas Park and then zone into here and come speak to me because I still don't trust you with my cell number." drudgery???
I know you want players to play through The Hollows story arc, but I tried it once - not knowing that I didn't have to run it - and found it to be a total nightmare. The worst was trying to run between all those large groups of trolls in order to get to the mission door, often on the FAR side of the zone, only to often get killed and have to go back to the hospital in the middle of AP and come back and do it all over again. (Yes, the new mobile hospital in the zone now makes that obsolete, but it is still a chore to do.)
Please please please, drop this, and find another way to offer us the option of visiting The Hollows.
I quickly learned to go to the Hollows the instant I turned level 5. I talk to Wincott, then leave and report to my contact who would have sent me to talk to Wincott had I not beaten him/or her to the punch and who now has no choice but to give me a more advancing mission.
But, I am confused...when I do choose to run the missions, I have had no problems at all getting to them. I did have major headaches before they revamped the Hollows, but now...nope. Is there a bad mission location still in their rotation?
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Quote:When servers come back up, I will do this, probably with Cinderwatt my Fire/Elec Brute. If it is a good mix of XP/Tickets/Challenge, and, to me, most importantly, interesting story, I will probably end up wanting to give you a rewardRegarding "Dead by Midnight" #502584 by @SupaFreak
There's now a password on final mission pop-up to leave in comments.
From now until July 3rd, 2011 at midnight EST:
1 lucky winner will receive a Respec Recipe
Up to 4 will receive 20 million INF each
Up to 5 will receive 10 million INF each
As my way of saying thanx for taking the time to give it a try.
Hey, if the system can't reward you properly... I will! (or at least up to 10 of ya)
Be warned... it is Villainous!
(and it shouldn't take more than an hour even if you read)
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Quote:You have a point about the paying real money for influence. If people are going to buy Influence with cash, they might as well buy it from this company, and not from a Gold Farmer. That said, with the Fire Farms being in the game now, I don't see why players feel they have to buy Influence when they can roll a /Fire Brute of some sort, go into the AE building, and whack out tickets...and is that why Fire Farms are allowed to exist? If so, good call DevsI10. I'd pay for Inf. Yep, I said it, I'd pay real money for fake money. Or maybe Points for Inf anyway. Cya gold-farmers!
That's all I have right now.
So what would YOU use your hard-earned Points/Merits/Certificates/Vouchers/Tokens for?
What would I buy?
Server transfers and respecs...and I think I did read something about XP Boosts. I would buy that in a heartbeat
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Lisa raises hand. I have bought them and I can see myself doing so again.
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I would pay for whatever there is to buy
Seriously though, I am hoping for respecs and server transfers. If those two things are available, I will be a happy camper
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Quote:Well darn, that is not fair...your voices are as important as theirs.We were not cheering on the grind fest of the Itrials and the fact that most players were not asking for another Itrial but for more story arcs and taskforces for access for A and E merits and threads. Alot folks who voiced what we voiced found ourselves shadowbanned.
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Quote:One problem I see with a level 50-54 zone is some players have all their Alpha Tiers on their 50s, and others have not even unlocked their slot.Extremely disappointed.... I was really looking forward to finally having a new zone that was level 50-54 only. Yes praetorias storyline needs more zones but we also need some there for level 50s. We currently don't have enough level 50 zones and most of them are 45 - 50 anyway excluding part of the shadow shard and northern rwz.
Because of this unequality in strengths, how would you make content which would challenge the elite, and still be survivable by the not-yet-unlocked?
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Yeah,the thirties are slow...when you hit 35 though you can go to RWZ.
Typing on my phone is not fun. I will write more when I get home.
I have soloed four scraps and one brute to 50, so I do have ideas on what you can do.
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Grin. My Katana/Elec loves fighting her.
She gives Shock Treatment the Shock treatment
My Toons that are not/Elec usually just wait her out such as they do with Paragon Protectors.
Lisa.