Memphis_Bill

Every 5 levels, specifically.

/this, many times over (like every other thread it comes up in.)

Sorry, it's just *not* that big a deal to cast buffs. I say that having run multiple bubblers of various types, yes, including masterminds. If it's too big a chore for you, pick a different set.

This phrase is quite amusing out of context.

Sums it up nicely, unfortunately. And I actually agree with adding the filters, and have for some time. I just strongly suspect that the system may as well be removed with the "accept none/turn off" option.

We were told so?

/seconded, quite honestly. Plus, if the levels were going to be dropped - well, at least put some content in there. I've been wanting actual story-based arcs and TFs in DA for years.

I'm somewhat on the fence about some of these. I'm wondering if the email system itself will still be in game three issues from now, for starters. Yes, I found it useful and helped people out with it - now I might as well pick up my old cell phone (that hasn't worked in years) and try to tell them whatever, as I expect to see "does not accept emails" pretty continuously.

Plus, honestly, while the super-sidekicking will undoubtedly be useful - there are times I found it nice to have a much-higher-level come in and clear out a mission, without having to drop them from the team when they got inside.

I suppose this is a "We'll see" for me. I'm just not jumping up and down over the feeling I get reading all this.

Did their bio cover it? I can whip up a bio in a matter of seconds to cover that precise combination. How did that quote go - "Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic?"

He'd worked on the device for years, convinced he could gain not just the effects he wanted, but that he could miniaturize it to fit in a locket. Finally - success! With his daughter standing by, he put on the pendant. Its crystal focus glowed as it attuned itself to him for the test. Arm outstretched, he lifted a crate on the other side of the room. Smiling at his success, he pushed another box. He grinned at his daughter's question. "How'd you do that, daddy?"

With a wink he told her, "It's magic."

She remembered that when they came for him, when he gave her the pendant and told her to run far and fast.


= It's tech, she believes it's magic, and thus would claim to use magic only.


All that aside, the non-respeccability of origin is, I *believe,* a holdover from the very early builds of the game when origin *did* have more of an impact. We've been told it's one of the four things that "defines" a character to the devs (along with primary, secondary and archetype.) Everything else is changeable to one extent or another. It may actually *not* be able to be changed. I wouldn't argue if it were possible, though.

Issue 4, I believe. Mine's the character I was primarily playing at the time, who hit 50 in that issue.

It was a non issue before, all you need is the installer.

Depends on what you mean by overrated. "Godmode?" Don't expect it. "Fun?" Heroside, I think so.

That said, you're stopping at 39 and missing some fun or interesting content. Sometimes aggravating, yes, but others (especially villainside) quite amusing, like the Television and Vernon von Grunn.

There are exactly two times you'll see the Kheldian 'special' mobs with a normal AT (and no Kheld around)

1. Cimerora. They spawn as part of the storyline there.
2. If your team has recently teamed with a Kheldian, they can still hold the "flag" for having a Kheld on the team, spawning Voids.

Just logging in to, say, a Blaster and playing? You'll never have them spawn.

I can say there are people who can't stand the invasions as they are now. Not many, though as they go on the number of people who get burnt out on them tends to increase (by "go on" I mean during scheduled invasion weeks - I even get a bit tired of them by that point TBH.) I have a hunch that number would go up if they couldn't train during that period. (Yes, I actually *do* stop to train if I hit a significant level, depending on character/powerset - think my Kinetics characters wouldn't want to grab Transferrence or Fulcrum Shift right away, mid invasion?)

Frequent, no, but it does happen.

Now, there is a way to do this that would "make sense" - one I'm borrowing from a little smartalec story I put into the RP section a while back.
When the trainer "goes live," have the animation have them kneel down, put a box on the ground, and have it "project a hologram." That, of course, doesn't move, and the NPC can run around within a specific range. They despawn when the event ends, the "trainer" never having moved.

Doable, I don't know, but it would give "logical" reason for the NPC to be fighting while still standing around as a trainer.

Non AE reasons that a 40-50 has been in Atlas:

- Recluse's Victory
- Finally doing the Midnighter introduction arc (Cure the lost sends you to speak to Azuria and the one Rikti.)
- Rikti War Zone (Vanguard base)
- Paying base rent.
- Starting a SG base.
- Missions (just finished up World Wide Red again. Three guesses what zones I ended up in at the end of that.)
- Hosting costume contests.
- SG recruiting
- Giving random awards/buffs/healing to lowbies.
- Using Wentworth's in between all of the above (not to mention crafting and adding IOs to the base bin, it's more convenient than Steel and only slightly less so than Talos.)

If anything, even before AE we've had more and more reasons added for high level characters to be in Atlas - and that's not counting zombie and rikti raids. I know my 50s have found themselves there frequently.

Edit: Drop it to "Over 15" and you can add the cape and aura missions, too.

/this.

Several of mine have their real name as their only name, or as part of their "heroic" name (such as my forum handle.) Those that don't tend to have it in the bio. Others, also, have only one "name" for whatever reason. My SG mates may refer to the "regular" names of the ones with hero names, but I'd be a bit disappointed if, say, a contact or someone's AE mission said "Well, it's so-and-so" when they'd have no reason to know that. (Not to mention the possible "breakage" if that field's not filled in - "Oh, no, it's $realname!" would look silly.)

I'd suspect PVP flagging, in general, is zone (or in this case, base) wide. Putting in a room may require going through a "door" to zone into a PVP-flagged base "zone."

Just a guess on my part. Something like this may also be (or have to be) separate from marking a base as raidable or not, as well.

Comic books don't require gameplay balance. I really wish people who would try to use "It's this way in comics" type arguments would understand that. (As well as those who point out PnP RPG techniques.)

A comic book is written, issue by issue, volume by volume, with every character gaining or losing abilities, power, and effectiveness by what that writer needs at that moment. (And it's not just powers - how many times have various heroes "shockingly revealed their identity!" only to have everyone forget two issues later, and "shockingly reveal their identity!" a year later, then two years after that, etc?) A traditional pen and paper RPG gets tweaked throughout a campaign by the GM - if someone's too powerful, or gets the X weapon of Y and that's making the rest of the game too easy, it gets "lost" or otherwise nullified. And if it's a problem overall, it's removed by the publisher - but those rules can be ignored ("house rules," for instance) by a GM.

That doesn't occur in an MMO. There's no writer or GM changing the story (or, fortunately, the powers and abilities of our character) storyarc to storyarc, buffing or nerfing enemies minute by minute to play to our strengths or weaknesses.

TL;DR version:

While the game is in a comic book setting, it is not a comic book.