Memphis_Bill

Did you read past the first paragraph?

The intro is the same to each, yes. Each is covering a different topic, however. I don't necessarily agree that it needed to be done, but I would not call this "Creating 6 different threads on the same subject."

(As far as the OP... no.

Given that you take no damage after defeat, you don't need to. As far as taking a green - no, you take an Awaken.

The rest of this one just sounds *annoying,* quite honestly, not fun or a worthwhile enhancement to the game.

/unsigned.)

Yes, I know Tielekku banished the BP. I'm referring to the dialog throughout DA at most of the COT spawn points about reinforcing the bindings and the like.

If it's something THEY're worried about, it's likely big enough of a threat (y'know, something you'd learn about via story arc or in the progress of a TF) that you *might want to help.*

You do realize they merge with other beings, right? Sort of like they show in the ITF? Or like, oh, Warshade forms?

See BP comments in DA. And, apparently, the reason for the ritual that darkened DA (this time... I still think it's cyclical.)

See "EAT at WW's" in sig. Egyptian based, shapeshifting, apparently a mix of tech and magic. (I'm starting to play with an idea that they're an "experiment" the Nictus lost, given their bit of time travel and that we know Shadowstar has been around since ancient Egyptian times at least.)

Point. I don't run Khan enough to have remembered that... actually, haven't run it since release, I think. Should do so again.

/this.

Though seeing the zombie horde/crowd/etc in Atlanta... I've been playing too much L4D. I was thinking, "pipe bomb! Wonder if there's something nice and explosive nearby."

(Though I do have to agree with the "Think about what you're seeing/what's going on, man!" Never head to the hospital - that's where they take the sick ones first. Avoid the city. And you're going to a city that's a combination of both, with the CDC?!?)

Until they hit AP, then get smacked, die because THEY can't be healed, and can't help anyone else. Not so much "win" then.

I've skipped AP for years. Nobody's been able to tell the difference. AP is the Empath's version of the Tanker's decision over taking Taunt - try it, decide if it's for you. If so, great. If not, skip it and take another power.

You have to run the Kheldian arcs to see what the Nictus had planned. (Though you do get a "what might have been" glimpse into what happens if the Kheldians don't stop them via Unai.)


Besides trying to upload his mind into the Rikti mental network?
Lughebu is not the Sleeper. Lughebu is one of the Banished Pantheon's... er, pantheon. The initial Prima guide mentioned it was Mot, I'm not 100% sure that's corroborated elsewhere.

That said,
DA needs refreshing. Siding with the COT (who were the ones, apparently, who *bound* "The Sleeper" and are trying to counter-ritual the BP to keep him asleep,) as well as finding out JUST what Tub Ci sent his people into DA to find, would be interesting.

(As for the Shivans - yes, listed as scouts for the Coming Storm.)

I'd see those plans as "Locked up with the Countess." Countess Crey has been involved with several wannabe-hero schemes. Reading through the Faultline (consistent through old and new) arcs, she's the one who had Hero Corps attacked... which, by showing support for them then and presumably helping them back into the city after the first Rikti invasion, only landed them more in her pocket.

Threw an MA arc together touching on that some time ago (Hero Corpse,) actually. I still think it'd be interesting to see officially.

The Battalion were initially tied to the Invention system, IIRC, unless my lore is getting twisted around - part of what had initially mutated the Rikti in their world, and supposed to be "strong enough you'd need the invention system to defeat them." That (fortunately, IMHO) got dropped, though it appears the idea's returned with what they've told us of the Incarnate slots.

"Just" a Nictus? The race that quite happily drains the life of Kheldians in an entire system at once from interstellar distances? The race that was working to set up Earth as a new Nictus homeworld?

Back it up.

What *I* see is concern - quite valid, given some of my experiences with Defenders, primarily - that if that "option" becomes available, there are those that will DEMAND you use it, and kick you if you don't... even without finding out that, yes, you DO know how to use it to the benefit of the team.

And there are plenty here who don't seem to get that, yes, you CAN KB into taunt auras/AOE patches/etc, or seem to think that absolutely every KB-enabled power is an AOE that will send the entire map scattering from one side of IP to the other, even if you used it in Atlas.

And some of them seem determined to refuse to accept that that's not the case.

So, you'll just have to excuse me if I don't want my playstyle nerfed. Yes, I *have* changed peoples' minds on knockback use. And repel. And Telekenesis. AOE immobilizes. And other "ZOMG so horrible, team unfriendly, nobody uses them right, they should be nerfed" powers. How? *By using them in ways that benefit the team.* Proper targeting, Working WITH the team instead of treating it as 2-8 soloists.

You don't know me very well. And, frankly, that's fine with me.

Which itself would be fine with me - but I wonder if there are others that have each sprint slotted some specific way - though unless they're *really* into the running and leaping sets I can't think of what they'd do.

Wasn't how I read the OP, though.

Mire and, more importantly, Eclipse. And every corpse-based power in the set. (Quasar and Extraction most specifically.) Stygian Circle, too, but that does well even off a very few enemies.

No thank you. I like having options between my stealth-IO-fitted and non-stealth-IO-fitted sprints, for instance.

Added color.

*stares at the space until it gets uncomfortable and leaves. Follows space. Stares through the space's windows at it.*

I don't think it likes this, for some reason.

No. I happen to find that mission reasonably easy. You can't see Jocasta? Look at your map. And you don't have to see her for her to follow you.

So here's a wild thought. Let them dump the caltrops on you, then *TP OUT OF THEM.* Gather the pets to you, put them in bodyguard, watch them kill everything while the caltrops sit uselessly on the floor.

The mission location is *random.*

Look at your slotting, and/or carry blues.

The Knives of Artemis predate Ninjitsu stalkers, or *any* stalker for that matter. Generally they're called the "Hand of Artemis."

Opinion: PEBKAC.

This, many times over. M'thoughts go out for her and her family.