Mirai

I beat that mission once. I don't think I've ever failed it, because between the generators and Silver Mantis, it's a mission I normally drop. But I did do the mission at least once, and I managed to save one generator, but that's only because I spotted it right away and flew right to it.

I also normally drop the mission against the Positron and Manticore automatons. I completed it with my Fire/Fire brute, but I don't like non-climactic missions against one EB, let alone two.

Frankly, I don't care for Dark Watcher's arc much at all. But I do enjoy Levantera's and Serpent Drummer's arcs.

Personally, I'd like options to have AVs and EBs scale down to bosses.

But I'm greedy that way.

I played my DB/Regen Scrapper a while, with my mission team size set to two. I did indeed get spurts of boss spawns. I went into one Sky Raider mission, and the first three spawns I saw all included a boss. That doesn't really bother me, since the bosses downgrade to lieutenants for me.

I really like being able to add bosses if I want without increasing other difficulty settings, or increasing team size while still having bosses bump down to lieutenants. I never changed the difficulty settings before I16, and now I'm changing it for a number of my characters.

For some of my slower and squishier characters (such as my Dark/Electric Defender and Electric/Energy Brute), I set the enemy level to -1. Makes things go a lot faster.

Objective Feedback (trick-or-treat)
A number of times my tricks consisted of a boss (Vampire Lord or Crone) paired with a lieutenant. In fact, this occurred more often than not when getting boss spawns. (At other times, I would get a lone boss or a boss with a couple minions.)

Subjective Feedback
These particular bosses are bad enough for soloing players, but adding in a lieutenant makes it quite a bit worse, especially in the lower levels. I think all the paired lieutenants and lone boss spawns are challenging enough without throwing in the boss+lieutenant spawns. Could that be adjusted at all before things go live?

Hmm. I recently set the difficulty for my DB/Regen Scrapper for a team of two, but I haven't done much of anything with her since then. I'll have to see how often the (downgraded) bosses show up for me.

I agree that getting too many boss fights can really drag things down. You can turn them all into lieutenants (like I do), but you probably enjoy fighting a boss in a mission now and then, just not every couple spawns.

5th Column giant robots marching down the streets?

Message on the test server:

"Unfortunately, we do not have sufficient villain players to conduct testing on villain maps."

Really? You think?

With a dwindling population all spread out, why make new raid-oriented events? New events should be geared towards small groups and solo players (like me), IMO. Or perhaps I'm just being selfish. It may be a much more popular event than I think.

(Sorry I didn't join in with the villain I was playing, but I don't do raids. Besides, there should be players trying to do other things while raids are going on just to make sure nothing else is busted.)

Even the trick-or-treat monsters are tougher these days, with paired lieutenants and bosses showing up very frequently for solo characters. Deadhead used to be the first hunting badge I'd get during the Halloween event, because zombies were so plentiful. Now it's the last, with all the vampires and werewolves and spirits showing up. (At least no one can complain about having problems picking up the Buster badge this year...)

I'm not sure I'll do much on the live servers for this event. I have one lower level character who needs the extra costume slot, but a number of my characters will just be a bit too squishy for all the Vampire Lords and Crones.

My favorite character, Yukihime, is never done.

My other characters are pretty much done when they reach level 50 and finish up any open story arcs. I'll play them every long now and then, but I consider them to be retired.

Vandread +1
Neon Genesis Evangelion +1
Martian Sucessor Nadesico +1
Fullmetal Panic +1

Trigun +1
Kiddy Grade +1
Ghost in the Shell +1
Stellvia of the Universe +1

Urusei Yatsura +1
Slayers +1
Galaxy Angel +1
Ghost Sweeper Mikami +1
Maho Tsukai Tai +1

Ranma 1/2 +1
Tenchi Muyo +1
Love Hina +1

Card Captor Sakura +1
Sailor Moon +1
Magic Knight Rayearth +1

Ah My Goddess +1


Nausicaa of the Vally of the Winds +1
Kiki's Delivery Service +1



Claymore +1
X +1
Big O +1
Nadia +1
Fruits Basket +1
Banner of the Stars+1
Crest of the Stars +1
Fate/Stay Night +1
Outlaw Star +1
Lost Universe +1
Angel Links +1
Solty Rei +1
Birdy the Mighty +1
Original Dirty Pair +1
Bubblegum Crisis (first series) +1
Project A-ko +1
Read or Die +1
Chobits +1

Hmph. 87.88%. I'm disappointed at my poor performance.

I've been playing nearly since launch, and I've put a huge number of hours in the game. I still play the game heavily. Still, I consider myself to be a casual player.

I enjoy collecting badges, but I'm not going to make an attempt to collect all the badges. I don't fight AVs. I've never increased the difficulty. (In fact, I recently decreased the difficulty for a few of my characters, thanks to the I16 changes.) I have seven level 50 characters, but I could have had quite a few more if I had concentrated on leveling rather than playing a wide variety of alts. I've never fought Hamidon, I've never done a trial (including respec trials), and I've only completed two TFs. I use the market a little (mainly to sell items I know will be worth a lot), but not much. I don't fill up on IO sets, although I do frequently use the Invention system to craft IOs from recipes and salvage that drop. I dabble a bit in Ouroboros and the Mission Architect, but not a lot.

Excuse me, but I have the sudden urge to go do some missions.

Fun: Ice/Ice/Cold Blaster. Fast and versatile, great both solo and on teams.

Capable: Ill/Rad/Psi Controller. Able to take on anything I find in a mission without hesitation. Not quite as fast as my blasters and scrappers, but more capable of crushing the opposition.

My Fire/Fire Brute used to be my fastest character (when it comes to tearing through missions), but that character no longer has knockback protection. I think my Claws/Regen/Dark scrapper is probably my fastest on average now.

My weakest character is my Warshade.

Me too please. I finally met all the requirements with my level 50 Fire/Fire brute, the progress bar is full, but no Demonic.

I finally met all the requirements for the Demonic accolade with my level 50 Fire/Fire brute, thanks to the change to Coldhearted... but the Demonic badge is broken, as others have noted. Darn.

On the bright side, I got the Force of Nature accolade on logging with that character, thanks to the change to the Hero Slayer badge.

"We don't want to spook them."

"Watch out for booby traps."

Yes, I've been having problems with that filter too lately...