Memphis_Bill

IOW: Perfect example of meaning misconstrued thanks to a pure text medium. Though if multiple people are reading it that way, TJ, you may want to pay closer attention to your wording.

I want an IO that will transfer other peoples KB to *my* powers! >.> And then one that will let me transfer the extra KB over to whatever EvilGeko is playing, just to see if I can get him to do a Kirk-esque "Khaaaaaaaaaaannn!" in response.

(OK, serious question though... putting the IO on the shade where, gravitic? Or one of the Nova blasts? Just out of curiosity, since KB is usually a PB complaint, not a shade complaint.)

When I ran my 'shade a little earlier today, it looked like a power tray sandwich - Nova powers on top, Nova powers on bottom (firing off at the same time, of course,) everything else in the middle...

It's actually rather distracting.

It's a valid point, though, if one of your arguments for not playing the AT is a skippable power. Thus my (rather extreme, admittedly) counterexample.

To put it another way, what would you say to someone who said they wouldn't play scrappers because they didn't want to have to take Confront? Probably the same thing I said - "Then don't take it."

And I'm not trying to pick on you (or anyone else putting their arguments for why they don't play them forward.) But if I see reasons for not playing what I consider to be a fun pair of ATs that are fixable or perception issues, I'm going to try to correct that.

For instance, your other comment about it being some "alien thing and not your character," while right after it you follow up with "I can ignore the uniform on SOAs." (Which unless you've purchased slots you can't for the first 10 levels.) If you think about it, what's the difference? Don't take the forms, ignore the story line, and there's nothing keeping you from saying you're - say - an entity from anti-paragon who fell into this world and strengthens themselves from their enemies. For the SOA, ignore the uniform, ignore the story and do your own thing.

I have heard people make the same complaint, by the way, about "having" to take nova. They quite honestly thought they would be forced into taking the form(s.) When they found out they didn't (and I had to log in a humanform PB for one of them before they'd believe me,) some decided to go ahead and try them.

Basically, I don't want people ignoring what can be a fun pair of ATs because of incorrect information. Or ignoring one because they think the other's just a differently colored version and there's no other changes.

Try a Warshade. The powers *are* different in most cases. Gravitic Emanation is the big (humanform) knockback - along with the nuke, of course - and it's generally looked at as a useful positioning and stunning tool. There's nothing like Dawn Strike, Radiant Strike, or Photon Seekers - instead, you get damaging self-buffing PBAOEs and ranged pets.

There's more difference between the two than just color. Give a 'shade a try.

Don't take it. Try human or human/dwarf. Also perfectly viable.

Not really. Though I suppose it depends what you want to do. I pretty much completely reslotted my 50 triform 'shade "on the cheap." Anything that looked expensive - merits or hero merits took care of. (Primarily the recharge intensive pets for extracted essence, as I recall.)

Now, if you wanted to say *difficult* to slot, I'd agree they can be, especially if you go triform. Triform on SOs/commons can be very difficult - but it's a heck of a learning experience that can only help with your other characters. And if you don't do IOs before, learning about frankenslotting, then set bonuses (both of which help, *especially* frankenslotting) to help offset that slot crunch - again is something that you can carry through to your other characters.

This, I'll grant can be an issue - triform Khelds, along with masterminds, tend to insist on binds to get the most out of them. Then again, with the new temp power tray, you don't *have* to worry about that if you don't mind clicking the bar that pops up. Plus, there's the slot crunch issue on a triform.

Fortunately you can also run other things in between. Or just ignore it, or space it out more.

OK, it's council heavy, I'll grant, and that can get to be a bit much for some people. Understandable. Then again, there's reason for that, given the Nictus hiding behind the Council and their plans for both the Kheldians and for Earth. (Of course, you get some unique Freakshow, too....)

How often? From who?

If it were common behaviour - and note, I don't go through and advertise "Hey, I play a Kheld, too!" or anything that would get someone to shut up - I'd expect to see it and hear about it with SOME sort of frequency over the last 19 issues I've played them. Either from the people complaining or the people that were denied/kicked from a team because someone told them "I don't play with khelds because of voids/q/cysts."

I haven't. At all. Ever. In globals, in PUGs, ever. I see people get kicked for not being a "healer," or complaining the leader picked up (for instance) my Controller (ice/emp) instead of a "healer," more often (averaging about once a year over the last several years.)

Maybe you run with the same people frequently and there's one person there who has that hangup, I don't know, but when I say I have never seen that behaviour, I literally mean *never.* And I play pretty much everywhere, with plenty of alts at all levels, so I'd have to have run across that bias expressed at *some* point.

Soooo.... don't take nova or dwarf. They are optional. Otherwise it's like saying "I don't take any travel powers because I hate how Jump Kick looks."

So don't get hung up on the backstory. People ignore it to be angels (for instance) and the like. You just get your own extra contact with arcs from 1-50. You don't *have* to do them. And as mentioned above, you don't have to use the forms. Come up with your own explanation, type it into the bio area - there, done.

I'm sorry, but that's just flat out not true. I've been playing Khelds since issue 4. I have never had a team have an issue with Voids or Cysts. (Especially now with people used to them from Cimerora/the ITF.) I have never, while on another AT, had a team make any comment like "OMG, don't take the Kheldian, they have Voids/Quants/ysts." And the Voids and Quantums were nerfed long ago. The bosses can be a threat, sure. But the rest are basically just different looking bags of XP.

If anything, I've seen teams volunteer to *protect* the Kheldian, calling out the enemy in case the Kheld doesn't see them and taking them out first unless there's something that's a bigger threat to everyone. I've had to tell teams I didn't need protecting - and to not worry that I'm running in and tackling the Void (I tend to make it a point to hunt them on my Khelds anyway.)

Play a Kheld. I use binds for mine, like most multiformers seem to.

We can't *not* use the tray at this point - it pops up regardless. And unlike temp powers, it doesn't appear you can remove the form powers from it. After all, the only way you can delete those is to get rid of the form.(And yes, I did just log in and try a few ways to remove the powers - including "remove from tray" in the powers window. No go.)

I wouldn't go that far. I see it as being *really* nice for new bi or triform Khelds, quite honestly. They won't *have* to learn about keybinds and such. They should, IMHO, but they won't have to - which will make the AT more accessible.

This, however, I agree with - or setting it to "just temporary powers" as someone else mentions, as it'll make trials a bit nicer.

Or ignore it for a while until the devs finally push out some solo/small team stuff or antoher way to get Advanced iXP. Just in time for Superadvanced iXP, then iXP DeLuxe....

This was, if you're familiar with game systems, the Tri-Stat version of Silver Age Sentinels. (They went to D20 later.)

I think I had upward of 20 dice of various sorts in for that one attack. The killer is it wasn't even "combat." It was sort of a tournament for new hero groups to make a name for themselves.

I had to be fairly careful of that when we finally got up to a space station... and couldn't stand in one area or near an outside wall for very long.

>.> If you think that's bad... well, this list is missing a few.

See if everyone is willing to just use the team up teleporter - those that don't have the slots unlocked won't have the trial showing in their LFG iTrial queue selection. (Just verified on a 50 that just has alpha - nothing higher than MoM/DD showing. ) If that's the issue, that should avoid it.

OK, *that* would be bad. Can get on and verify as well in a bit, if needed.

Gemini, did you /bug this in game?

She took the Psi APP.

*shrug*

Your first swap is instant. After that, 1 second!

Have to admit that's been the case for me for a while now, too. I just like it non-busy looking.

Multiboxing is not (typically) playing on multiple servers at once. It's having two (or more) accounts on the same server and running them at the same time.

As far as why take it on other servers?
- It's "your" signature character. And you don't want to use transfers to move it.

- Defensively, so someone has to alter the name if they're trying to make you look bad - don't think it's ever happened that I can recall, but who knows.

- Kind of related to the first, but different versions of the same character, treating each server as a different dimension or timeline. Or just trying different powersets.


For instance, I've got Memphis Bill pretty much everywhere. I've talked about where the character came from before - inspired by Scuzz in DP7 (basically "sweats" acid,) I created a character for a Silver Age Sentinels game with the same issue, but strong - and yeah, borrowed the firing "spitballs" that I managed to blow up a bunker with. >.> (Epic die roll.)

COH came out, I figured, what the heck, that's who I'm making. First character. The strength was easy - Superstrength. The second powerset, though... there was no dark armor for tanks at the time, and nothing but fire fit. So, Fire/SS tank. Later, I rolled up a Spines/DA scrapper. Friends started a SG on another server - Fire/EM, just because. COV came out - alternate universe where he was initially a gang member, got too successful, was betrayed, ambushed and dumped in an industrial waste dump (which triggered the area damage and other effects) - SS/Dark Brute. Tanks finally got dark armor - Dark/SS tank. Kinetic Combat comes out - Fire/Kin tank (which, yes, was the other reason for that, as "tank" is not normally what people think of when they hear "fire/kin.") Have another that's Street Justice. Another that's a Warshade - all different ways of expressing the same character.