Nalrok_AthZim

Please no. We've all had enough of the greater good.

My favorite are the Talons of Vengeance and their headache-inducing wash-out-your-entire-screen-for-ten-seconds placed AoE sandfall/earthpuke powers. What's that? -Def, -Res, -Rec, -ToHit, -Dam and -Speed all in the same attack INCLUDING the inability to see anything on your screen other than baby-vomit brown and random stones shooting upwards? Sounds great, sign me up two days after NEVER.

And that whole shtick never held water to begin with, considering the Resistance still existed in Praetoria's storyline.

I'm still convinced the G-Man has gathered enough power to swap games, and the devs didn't put him in Praetoria at all.

Your generalization is far too broad. I have a Dark/Dark that could be considered a 'purpled out DPS monster' with Hecatomb, Absolute Amazement and some Armageddon slotted, but that level of IO worth came over years of playing him and patiently getting drops. I do enjoy making my builds the best I can but I am by no means a power-mongering minmaxer. I left those days behind in Big Blizzard Fantasy MMO.

Let's see if I have enough room in my signature for this.

Edit: Dammit, I don't.

Yep. I know that feeling. Earth/Earth/Ice Dominator.

Quicksand. Earthquake. Volcanic Gasses. Sleet. Ice Storm. Move in with Mud Pots and hit Tremor to open.


............................. Force Field Mastermind runs over with Force Bubble on and slides the entire spawn out of my death patch. Spawn loses debuffs and proceeds to take me apart at the seams.

When I angrily told the Mastermind to NOT knock things out of my 5-power debuff pit, he told me that Force Bubble was a power (no ****), that he took it (no ****) and that he was going to use it whether I liked it or not. The team leader kicked him.

Actually it's more like numerous experiences with numerous bad-to-average players.

Like the time our Blaster kept spawning bonfire in the middle of our WP Tanker's spawn and getting him killed due to no RTTC. How is that ever a good thing? If a melee AT needs enemies to survive and you knock enemies away from them, that is not a good thing. Nothing irks me more than going to hit Dark Regeneration and, a split second before my finger hits the key, a Stormy Gale's my entire enemy cluster out of range of it and I trade my endurance for nothing. Same goes for Soul Drain and Dark Consumption.

I'll watch Earthquake after work tonight.

The second paragraph of your post is untrue; Bonfire has a max target cap of 16, and I found that out the hard way trying to herd on my MM last night.

... that's exactly what Earthquake does on my Earth/Earth Dominator. If I put it down, people fall. Earthquake also ticks with a 7% chance every .45s with another 5% chance every .45s, so it happens A LOT. Bonfire ticks every 3 seconds, so it really isn't a whole lot different. If I drop Earthquake on my Dominator, things don't stop falling down until it goes away. And I have enough recharge to chain it together indefinitely.

EDIT: It also looks like part of the knockback of Bonfire suppresses once a KB effect has been applied, something Earthquake doesn't do. Enemies fully stand up in Bonfire, enemies will fall mid-fall in Earthquake.

SSHshhsHShshHSshHShsHShsHSH!

>:[

If I had to venture a guess, they might have fixed the Blockbuster teleport glitch and the fact that the new IO set wasn't able to be traded/sold on the AH.

I do have to wonder why the $himher, $heshe, $sirmaam and other gender text tags weren't used here.

That question kind of answers itself, actually. It works in the same way the other roles work if the Hitter, the Thief, or the Hacker are female avatars. Are you going to only criticize the Grifter for that?

This stupidity has to stop. NO ONE at Paragon designed this event to be blatantly sexist. It's not like Matt and Aeon sat down and said "Alright, what can we do to marginalize female players?"

They only do that to villain players.







Yes, I'm bitter.

I hit 50 on a Dark/Dark Brute before I9 and IO's, foolishly not taking Acrobatics.

I think I've earned the right to feel proud of what that Brute is today, especially since I did things The Really Hard Way.

Did you read the event clue bubbles? In the first phase, the text box for The Grifter reads "Then, The Grifter met Sylvia Rexston and used her cunning skills to distract her from going to the office of Ted Dubois." (Or something similar, I haven't had my coffee.)

The game CLEARLY points out that the Grifter is female in more ways than one.

This may be a discussion for another time and forum, but the above quote speaks volumes about your judgement and tolerance.

Yeah, I was about to say, the Grifter poster has a woman on it.

I'm getting really sick of hearing 'power creep' lately. Like, I kind of want to vomit every time I hear it.

That said, I think you've taken your point of view to a very serious extreme. If the game is such a problem, why are you posting? Why are you using Blizzard-game terms like 'faceroll' to judge this community's skill? You want class homogenization? Might want to look at your own purview first.


Ever stop to think that we're responding so bluntly because your first post in this thread was:

1. Not constructive?
2. Blatantly false?
3. Snarky?
4. Arrogant?

You can't come into a thread and proclaim how the game stinks and things are terrible and you're leaving and good riddance, and then expect people to give you more civility than you've given them.

That's funny. My game experience hasn't changed at all and I'm not using paid content aside from what my small bout of costume-piece snagging with Super Packs has given me.

You mean how we're getting new issues every 2-3 months with open beta, new content every week in the store, and a noticeable spike in developer activity/involvement? Wow. That is sad to see. /not

Right, because it's soooo hard to level as it is.

In my POV, the two notions kind of clash with each other, as the real-money items are used by other people, which is a form of doing. It's a cyclical argument, if you ask me. "I don't like these items." "Well stop caring what people do with them." "But I don't like the items." "So what if they're being used?"

Etc.