Myddie

Untrue. I've been locked out of Facebook before because they claimed I had 2 instances of unauthorized access from the UK. I've -never, ever, ever- logged in to Facebook from anywhere but here at home, and very infrequently even when I do log in, and I've sure never been to the UK.

My daughter and husband have also been locked out of FB for the same reasons. They, on the other hand, do log in from other locations than home frequently, such as work, school, cell phone, etc.

Even NCSoft's main site has a similar security protocol. My daughter had to reconfirm her account ownership after logging into the main NCSoft site from her father's house in the States while she was down there for summer vacation.

There were only a handful of people who genuinely were hacked through the authenticator via the use of a Man in the Middle attack and a real-time trojan. (See emcor.dll) This is extremely rare and extremely difficult to pull off and is simply not worth a hacker's time. They literally have to sit there and wait for you to try an log in. Time is valuable as they need to get into your account and get out quickly before being detected. As soon as it was verified that emcor.dll was indeed a viable threat, they upped security at the login level to make it difficult for it to work.

Those others claiming to have been hacked through an Auth.? It came to light that the good majority of them had taken the authenticator off for one reason or the other and the compromise came in that window where it was off. Others were using the far less secure dial-in authenticator and didn't realize that it was not the same as the dongle/mobile version. Others were using the mobile version on a jailbroken phone, which allowed SMS hackers access via a backdoor.

My guess is that BAB's had a positive presence on the forum most of the time and was truly well liked and approachable. He also was a frequent presence in the game, popping into BG's, Pocket D and Zones to chat with players. I've seen a whole lot of screenies floating around showing those times.

To me, that does make a difference in perception of a character itself.

This.

People pop in and out of games all the time, even those that love said games. Breaks can be something much needed at times before burnout and the inevitable apathy that comes with it sets in.

I took a 3 year break myself to play the Big MMO with my family and in fact am still playing and subbed for the next year there. I appreciate and love both games, each for very different reasons. (Frustrates me to no end to see people on either game acting childish and insulting other games and people that actually enjoy them. What this does is gives a bad impression of the community and players and fosters others to start acting in the same way. Cuz it's cool these days to hate things, ya know? )

I'm not as enamored of the Holidays this year. The raid style trials really don't appeal to me, sadly. It's just not my thing at all, so I haven't been really into either Halloween or Christmas stuff.

Doesn't mean I'm quitting though. Just means I'll log on and do the same stuff I do on non-holiday logins. Puttering around solo and having fun.

People who will quit to play the Far Away game will do so anyway, either to see how it is, or because they love the franchise/games. I know my husband is going to play it along with the Big MMO.

This would be me as well. I also like States despite his coming off as an untouchable jerk at times.

That said, I figured from the beginning that he was going to die just based on his association with Jack. I'm with others in wondering why it took them so long. The spoiler doesn't ruin it for me in the least. I often look up books and movies in advance as it helps me decide if I want to waste money or not. =p

Despite the "Darrin Wade...? Wut?" moment I had, I'm enjoying the arc so far.

Because new players shouldn't -ever- be on the forums to get help, to report bugs, to chat with like minded veteran players, to get advice on a build or class, or just chat about superhero-y things?

That's a pretty narrow minded statement, on the whole.

So, when does a player become 'veteran' enough that they are justified in coming to the forum?

Hey, I love my authenticator. They can get my game pass and login all they want, but without my keyfob, they can't do a thing to my account.

Glad to hear things are being worked on though.

I'm about 75/25 on putting stuff up for sale on the AH these days. Salvage all goes up, usually at cheapo prices since the salvage markets tend to jump around so much.

Recipes, I've mostly given up on selling 100%. If it's not a huge seller, nor is the crafted IO, it gets vendored. I vendor most of the temp powers recipes as well unless they're the more sought after ones that go for a decent price.

Trying to game the market really isn't my thing since we only get to see the last five sales and nothing else.

My attempts at putting in lowball bids for salvage have been pretty much a failure recently. Some salvage bids have been sitting there for days, taking up AH slots I can't afford to have taken up, so I usually cave and buy for the high prices when I need to craft. Bouncing emails around and using unplayed alts as impromptu storage for recipes I want to craft has gotten old. :P

Never said I want easy.

There is challenging, and then there is chipping away slowly at a granite block while the enemy drops you to 1/10th your health in one hit. Honoree is little more than an example of the bag of HP's that does massive damage and there's nothing you can do about it to mitigate short of popping insps and praying for the best. That type of boss is a nod back to the old school triad of tank, healer, dps where someone soaks up damage, gets healed back up and the rest dps.

IMO, challenging in a solo setting would be finding what works to avoid said damage while still being effective against him. Finding a weakness, so to speak. Honoree has no such weakness that I saw. He can even fly quickly to close if you try to kite and he seems to break CC so quickly, it's ridiculous. For every advantage an AT has, he seems to have an 'I win' counter to it. Those type of encounters feel like slamming your head against a brick wall over and over to knock it down because you have no tools.

Thanks to the ridiculous amount of portals that start out active in the room, as noted by those above me, you often cannot even pull him without dragging multiple Rikti. So now, you have a whole bunch of highly damage resistant mobs pinging you in addition to the EB and since Rikti all have highly dangerous ranged attacks with stuns and melee knockdowns, even if you manage to CC some of them, you're still screwed in many cases because some AT's have little or no way to handle such a barrage.

If you're going to throw massive amounts of adds at us, then make the EB a bit on the squishy side to accommodate, and vice versa. Honoree is so difficult on his own that Rikti pouring out of active portals feels downright sadistic and overkill. I'm talking from the solo perspective, mind you. A team has many tools in the form of varied AT powers to handle boss + adds. A soloist has much fewer options so a challenge to them is another animal entirely.

I really don't feel 'kill a few adds and die, buy more insps then rezone and kill a few more adds and die, buy more insps and rezone and then try to down the boss' is much of a strategy, is it? It is a strategy, granted, but it's not a good one and I just feel grateful the encounter is over and done once it's finished and that's not really a good feeling to me.