MrCaptainMan

Originally Posted by Vicious Circle

One of the characters listed in his sig has Echo in the name, so I'm guessing that 'Eco.' may be him signing his post? Maybe?

Originally Posted by je_saist

The Warden and Responsibility arcs can be started by cold contacting the zone first contact NPC for each arc, regardless of what side you are on.

The Power Arc can be started by cold contacting the zone First contact for each arc, but only if you are a loyalist.

The Crusader arc can be started by cold contacting the zone First contact for each arc, but only if you are a member of the resistance.

You do not have to be introduced to any particular zone first contact as long as you are within the starting and ending level ranges for each first contact NPC, and the correct alignment.

You will need to be introduced to any particular zone's second and third contacts providing you are still within the level range for each second and third contact NPC, as well as maintaining alignment for the second and third contacts.

Is it possible to go from 1 to 20 and only doing one single storyline, such as ONLY doing the Power Arc, or ONLY doing the Warden arc?

If you kill everything in every map, then yes.

If you do not kill everything and only complete mission objectives, then no.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

The rest of the time when he's roaming the lands, he's basically solo doing Lord know what. I gave up on trying to figure out that game's questing system.

Originally Posted by NuclearToast

And when did you have to start clicking on characters twice to actually get missions? I was all, "That's nice, but no missions? Now what?" until informed otherwise by someone.

Marcian's girlfriend notwithstanding, I'm not sure many vets realize what new players (especially casual ones this game seems to draw) are going through.

--NT

Originally Posted by Dark_Respite

I've wondered if the ambushes are a bit overpowered (and not just coz I was on a stalker at the time - this happened with other ATs)...

I was doing the last mission of Seer 1381's arc (where you fight Seer 001), and an ambush gets triggered...

... of TWENTY-SIX PPD AND SEERS.

On a +0/+0 character.

Kid you not... I was so astounded I was killed before I'd realized what happened, then went back, turned on Hide, and took screenshots.



I knew I was a threat to Cole's regime, but DAMN, guys!

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Originally Posted by Slashman

Ok...no more issues with my dominator so far.

My stalked, on the other hand, had an interesting time with the Cleopatra storyline. (Spoilers Ahead!)

The morality missions where she sets you up to get chomped by the Resistance was frustrating due to ambushes. Now it's not that I disliked the ambushes exactly, its that playing a stalker and having mobs know where you are and able to shoot you even when hid kind of puts the AT at a disadvantage that other ATs would not have been facing.

If I can't hide, I can't use my assassin strike or get criticals when I attack from a hidden state.

Originally Posted by Eislor

I've played in Praetoria quite a bit now on several different characters and I've come to the conclusion that, in Praetoria, one of our common game play assumptions is wrong, "clearing the map on the way to your objective is a good thing."

In a lot of the Praetorian missions clearing your way to the objective is just plain stupid, you weaken your resources (inspirations, HP, End) and give more time for ambushes to find you and gang up on you. Race through the map, don't attack anything, find your objective and get the H**L out. The 5 minute timer on one Praetorian/Arachnos mission made me rethink my approach to the missions in Praetoria.

If you don't attack any MOBs in a spawn as you run by them, they'll take a potshot or two, but they won't follow more than a few feet (excluding ambushes). I take advantage of that and just get to the objective. If the objective is a boss, take him out quick, if ambushes spawn while you are fighting that boss, ignore them and concentrate on that boss and finish the mission.

The horrible ambush while fighting Seer 0001? If you ignore it and push through and drop her the mission ends. You don't need to defeat the rest of her spawn or the ambush, just hit that little blue button, you did your job.

Those missions through Ghoul infested sewers to meet someone or find something? Most of them you can just race through till you find your objective, you don't have to fight the ghouls (the mission where you have to rescue some PPD is an exception, you HAVE to clear to the PPD if you want to lead them out alive).

Meeting Steve Sheridan? Let the ghoul ambushes follow you to Steve and let Longbow deal with them, they're not your problem.

Could the Devs have designed these missions with this strategy in mind? I wonder if one of the factors in the Devs decision to make Sprint faster was to make avoiding the MOBs in the Praetorian missions easier.

Just do all your missions in Praetoria like you're doing a speed run, I'm finding that it makes life a lot easier. It cuts down on the frustration and the deaths. Besides, I'm a busy person, I have things to do, I don't have time to deal with all those clueless minions, and thankfully, I don't have to.

Originally Posted by Silver Gale

I counted five subsequent waves of those at four points in the mission. It seems like a bit much, but then, I am one of those dreaded casual players and the expansion may not be *for* me.

Originally Posted by Rooster_Rampage

I bought a bunch in preparation for today, but now they are unavailible due to the store being down!

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

I think it's my favorite screenshot I've taken so far - because it shows off the lighting, shadows and reflections of ulta mode pretty well, plus it makes me look quite badass

Originally Posted by Olantern

This face-slapping is a slap in the face.

Originally Posted by Comfort

I see you advertising your SG in general chat, spamming it over and over. You're the top X guild on the server or world or who knows. I don't even know why your guild is the top X guild. Did you get a bajillion prestige? More randomly placed items in your base than anyone else? Did you kill something that required more than everyone on the team doing all the damage they could while someone else healed?

From what I've gathered it's because some book in some office somewhere in the game says you are in the top guild. I'm sure some intelligent forum goers know exactly why this is, but I don't care enough to search it out.

Perhaps it's WoW mentality, I'm a returning player after all. In WoW when you said you were the top guild you actually had done something no one else had before everyone else did. Not having a life so I could be in the top guild was something I hated, looking back on it. I hate most of the people in the top guilds.

So I tentatively join one of these so called top super groups. There must be some reason for the popularity, right? It turns out it's one of these offshoots from some other supergroup. There's no one in this super group that talks but in some other super group they're spamming 4chan memes as hard as they can via something called coalition chat. The chat where people who are in worthless super groups can get together and SPAM HOLY HELL THE SPAM

I shouldn't say no one talks. There's one level 50 player who immediately tells me to get into SG mode. Farm prestige for the super group. I know as a lowbie this really doesn't hurt but the idea of giving to some nameless entity because somebody I don't know (but is higher rank than me in the grand scheme of supergroup pyramids) tells me to. I figure he'll give me a few minutes before he kicks me for my lack of constant flow of prestige so I go check out the superbase. After all, the superbase is what joining a SG is all about really, isn't it?

Inside the superbase is a bowling alley, some sort of maze of trees, endless piles of workshops and labs. It looks like super walmart met disneyland and I wonder to myself what's so super about it. I got lost inside this base in the maze of corridors. This must be to what all my prestige I haven't yet earned is going to, this massive bloated sprawling nightmare complex.

Oh this guy is telling me I'm not in SG mode yet. Demanding now that I switch. /sgquit
He would've kicked me when I wasn't on anyway in the next few days.

I understand I can teleport around the city at certain locations... I can do that anyway, it's called a train, oroboros, wentworths teleporter, vangard, pocket D, midnighter club, or possibly other ways I can't think of.
I have friends, great friends, they're on my friend list and they don't spam me, but they do help me find teams and I help them where I can.
I like having tons of influence and not giving a percentage away so some yahoo can practice landscaping some virtual garden.

I almost feel like the whole concept of a super base needs to be examined again by the devs, to make it something more than a creepy customizable rat maze. To the point, we have these great little packs for mutation, magic, science, etc. Why not breathe a little life into super bases with a pack like that? Exterior superbases? Superbases in caves!

Is there anything else I really need a SG for? I can't seem to understand the point of them in City of Heroes. I feel like I must be missing out on something great since everyone I know is in a SG, but every time I join one it's either completely dead or it's the same scenario as above.

These are just my thoughts as I declined to join the #1 guild again.