Memphis_Bill

/this.

Really, these guys *deserve* the name Nightmare. The "normal size" ones are more... Undead Roadie looking at that scale.

CEBR ("Claws/Electric Brutes Rule") - check the thread, if it still exists, in the brute forum.

Formerly:
Get your AOEs (damage aura and spin)
Load on insps
Trigger ambushes on bosses
Go to town on ambushes and rezzers.

The rezzing got hit a patch or two ago. The bosses (I don't think minions/lts did anything) would spawn ambushes - I *believe* at each quarter-health increment. (I've honestly not looked.) There would also be destructable items that spawned ambushes. (Or it's an either/or thing.)

So, yeah. They did rely on the mechanic, just to get a horde of enemies in range for AOEs.

What I find sadly amusing about this is, as I write that description, I think of Praetorian ambushes (and, recently, one in SSA #2 heroside) that piled several ambushes worth of enemies on me at once, when I was at a level and on an AT that certainly couldn't handle it.

I'd *really* love to see some patch notes about things actually fixed in AE. Or see some old arc cleanup. Or UI updates. Something other than nerfs.

It's part of it - that's what sparked the comment during discussion with my friend. I mean, pick a power and say "Nobody takes it," and you can almost always add "... except MB" to the end of it.

Except in Sonic Repulsion's case.

I mean, I can't really see that change as a *buff* to the power, y'know?

But yeah. I *am* curious to see if someone actually has a (non-griefing, non-set-mule) use for it.

.... But I know that I'll be coming back some day
I'll be playing this part 'till I'm old and gray

The long-term contract I had to sign
Says I'll be making these movies till the end of time
Oh with my Yoda
Yo-yo-yo-yo Yoda Yo-yo-yo-yo Yoda...


(OK, so no yoda, but still, first thing that came to mind on reading that.)

That would work for me.

95% (or more) of my characters are never changing alignment. They started hero (or villain) and are staying that way. A few that had Rogue/Vig fit them (I can think of... hmm... two? Three?) have done that. Two or three have done a complete change. The rest? I'd do exactly the above to "maintain" my alignment with no other reward and be perfectly happy with it.

It's not the "benefit," it's the fact I'm locked out of it if I don't have the time or am not available when my server does the "Right, let's get 24 people together for this and waste a bunch of time doing so before we can start."

With a solo path, I can make progress even if everyone's concentrating on the new-shiny (say, the holiday event) or is burned out on the latest trial, or I only have X amount of time and want to go through it at my own pace (as opposed to "OK, everyone, rush around and hope you know what you're doing.")

MMO does not mean YOU MUST TEAM. You *can* play with other people. MMO means nothing more than you share a persistent world with a large number of other people (as opposed to, say, L4D, Dead Island, etc. where you're severely limited.) That is ALL "MMO" means.

Besides, the *majority* of content in this game is soloable. Or they can be done with *small* teams - note how the old TFs tend to be ignored, and the new (or redone) ones have smaller requirements, no more "Must have 8 people (and keep them throughout - hello, Cavern)" for the most part. No other system locks you out of it completely if you don't have 30 people with you. (And no, shard conversion is not in the *slightest* bit a 'realistic' alternative.) AE? Find something soloable. Inventions? Can get them solo. There's no "need to team" to get from 40-50, for instance... and then we hit the Incarnate system, the Puddle of Annoyance, and the "Must team, must grind raids" design.

Besides, this is supposed to be your character reaching their ultimate power. I SHOULD be facing off against gods and such solo. It just seems a bit *ridiculous* to say "Yes, you've soloed archvillains, you've fought against the worst odds and come out ahead, you're now going to be even more powerful - but you can't do jack without at least 15 other people as powerful as you are." Eh? Sure, there are a few threats I could see taking that sort of power ("Defeat Ruularu, once and for all" for instance,) but not "That's the only way you have open to you."

It's in the store, I do believe.

/this

Last time I went looking, admittedly a few years back now, they had several at $10 - snagged what I could for some of my friends (as well as a second account.)

There are some like that in the game.

SOME home in on you. And *Some* go to where whatever the trigger was. (Stepping down a side corridor to watch an ambush run past was not unusual.)

... which, again. 300 characters. I don't have that in the tray on all the ones I have run it on. I don't run the tip missions on all my characters - especially older ones that started and are staying an alignment.

/seconded. I've got 300-odd characters. Got that same message on one I was fairly sure I *had* run the alignment mission on to begin with. So... dig through your badges/powers, I guess, before running it if you want the merit.

(Seriously, can't we just keep it as a default - you started a hero, you're staying that way, you're good?)