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Maybe if they could code it so that you can do any of the arcs, but once you have one of the four badges you can't get a badge from doing any of the arcs. Sort of like not awarding a badge that you already have, but making it any of the 4 excludes the others.

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Furthermore, make it like the missions to unlock the origin stores on blueside in Brickstown and Founder's Falls. Anyone can buy/sell from those origin contacts, even characters who aren't that origin, as long as they do that contact's mission(s). Let people go back and respec into another Patron arc, but only if they do that arc as well. Doing each Patron arc would unlock that arc for respeccing into.

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Either way she is still the worst npc in the game to ever have as a hostage/ally. Its like she is intentionally given AI to get you killed. So far I am like 5 for 20 on this arc on getting her out alive. Someday they will fix her.

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The easiest way I have found by far to keep her alive is to solo this mission. The one time I didn't manage to keep her alive solo was the one time I screwed up and got myself whacked. I'm like 0 for 20 when doing this with a team.

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All games make a fatal Mistake,and this is one of those moments when a fatal mistake has been struck.AE will kill the game.Take it out like a splinter,and the game will start to go back to normal.none of the changes iv seen that have occured in this game before AE,have had this huge of a impact.

I have enjoyed this game over some time,i cant always play it,and i just want my favorite video game back.....and im not the only person that feels this way.There are tons more problems happening becuase of AE,other then what iv just listed.So here is the bottom line...

TAKE AE OUT OF THE GAME!!

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Reading this, it struck me...

What if "The Coming Storm" the Menders are warning us about is AE? Yes, it all makes sense now...

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Hi Guys,

Returning player, haven't been around since around I7 or so.

I'm trying to level a fire/fire scrapper, mostly solo (I play quite a bit at work), and I'm not sure what the best approach is now.

Should I spend most of my time in the AE? or is it still faster leveling to go around the city?

I have experienced most of the content under lvl 30 so many times that it bores me, I really want to reach 30 ASAP.

What do you guys think?

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Faster, faster, faster. This seems to be the modern mantra. Each character you roll is different (at least mine are, I don't roll 5 scrappers in a row, for example, and even if I did, they wouldn't be the same powerset, so different), and their approach to the standard content is different. I'm talking about quality over quantity. Most of my characters are played solo for that very reason.

My fire/fire scrapper is still the one character I had the most fun with leveling her up. Faster, faster was not what she was about. I loved playing her so much I was sad to see her hit 50. So please, enjoy the trip, and don't worry about taking the express. Take the scenic route, especially with this character, and you won't regret a minute of it.

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Here is the basis of the argument: "We know the badge means this. But we WANT it to mean THIS." What is the benefit of changing the badge's intent? What is it you're "looking" for? It's not the original intent of the badge, because you're saying "that's unfair because a toon wasn't there to get it".

So, what is it? What's driving the need?

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"Because I want ALL my characters to have ALL the badges NAO, whether they deserve to have them or not... WAAAH!"

That's all it is, Turg.

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When teams had no problem zone hopping from mission to mission

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Yes, when superheroes (yeah, SUPERheroes!) didn't cry and whine and stomp their feet and throw tantrums when a contact had the temerity to send them to another zone ("ZOMG! We gotta take the train one zone over for this mish? WTH?").

I just don't get it. Someone actually told me the other day that the reason he now does AE exclusively is because he can do it all in one place, no "running all over hell and back"... c'mon, people! Other MMOs have you gallivanting all over the PLANET doing a quest. Make a SUPER(yeah, right)hero take the train one zone over (a 20 second train ride) to a mission and all of a sudden it's like junior spit out his binkie! Is the next big thing level 50 heroes with no travel powers??

(okay, okay, /rant off...)

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I don't hate AE, i do play some mission from it. but i hate the ideal that some players end up cheating them self out of the rest of the game because they don't know there is a bigger world out there than atlas.

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This is a direct result of placing the AE in Atlas, where 90% of new players enter Paragon City. The AE spam is so relentless that no wonder the new player gets sucked in and he soon believes this is all the game is.

Take the AE out of Atlas and Mercy and the new player will actually have to see SOME content before getting sucked into the AE farms. Even if King's Row became the new AE spam fest zone, it would give new players that small buffer of normality before getting sucked in. Maybe then they'd get it that AE is not the entire game.

Yeah, I know... And maybe pigs will grow wings.

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Global: This enhancement functions as a set bonus and is always on, even if in a toggle that is turned off or even if the power is greyed out because of exemplaring. However, the bonus of this Special IO is turned off if one exemplars more than three levels below the level of the Special IO itself.

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Hmmm, this explains why mine is level 12 and is in Focused Accuracy.

What? You never did something and then months later wonder why?

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And it does seem like something to be proud of, having one emote pull from a list of random objects in game for a player to turn into is pretty cool and probably difficult to setup.

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Not really. From what I've seen, it pulls from exactly the same random items as the Propel power in the Gravity Control set. In fact, it works just the same way - the object is determined client-side. So you may see yourself change into a lamp, but your two friends standing nearby will see you change into a chair and a pool table.

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I believe it works this way to reduce lag. If it was determined server-side, then there would be extra band-width taken in communicating what the item is, whereas if it's determined by each client separately, then there is no need to send packets describing what object it is.

I'm not connected to the computer or gaming industries in any way, so I thought this was kind of an ingenious way to handle it when I first figured Propel out. I made the connection with /e alakazamreact just yesterday at an SG meeting when someone mentioned that the items were different for everybody viewing them, and I immediately thought of Propel.

So yeah, even after 4 years, this game still amazes me.

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I've run into that as well. I only seem to get it consistently at the Atlas building, it's less common at the others. I wonder if it's in some way related to many people using the same door at or around the same time.

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The other day, I was in Atlas going to a mission from a regular contact. When I got there, I got the "You cannot enter..." pop-up. Twice in a row. On the third attempt, I enter the mission, but I find myself in an AE maniac boss farm mission along with an 8 man team who also had just entered. I asked in broadcast what was going on and got no response from any of the team members I could see buffing each other. It was like they didn't know I was there. I eventually exited and was able to enter my mission no problem on the next attempt.

There's all kinds of monkey business going on with AE these days.

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I rarely if ever fort a tank. Waste of the buff as long as there are other defender/controllers/blasters/khelds around.

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Most emp defs know this already, or they soon learn that it's true (usually a polite /tell from the tank or another teammate is all that is needed).

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How do you get to Crey's Folly?

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You know that if you pull up the in-game map and click the Zones tab, there is a map of Paragon City showing where the zones are and what other zones border them, right?

It's the same map that is plastered all over the front of every train station, only labeled for clarity.

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How do you get to Crey's Folly to find the Rikti?

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You click your heels together three times while typing "there's no place like home" three times.

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To elaborate- At level 30, you go talk to the City Hall Representative (for heroes) or your beginning contact (for villains)

Right? I think?

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Correct. From them you will receive a series of missions. Once you complete the missions you are awarded an Aura. Hoorah!

Good luck and welcome to the game!



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Just to clarify: Once you complete the missions you are awarded the ability to use an Aura. You still have to go to a tailor and choose a specific Aura in order to actually get the Aura.


EDIT: Curses! Beaten again!

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Is there any in-game way of checking your current numbers for defense/hit points/etc.? I've met players who can tell the exact numbers a buff gave them and their current numbers of defense or hit points. Are they using a seperate program? What is the cmd for that?

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It's called Combat Attributes. It's a button on the Powers window. No clue if there is a command to activate it.

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Soooo...

What was this about the opening of the Omega Team time capsule? I heard something about this in passing, and have not heard a peep since.

Thing is, in the text in the cape mission, it says the time capsule is supposed to be opened in SEVEN years, not five.

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Ghost Falcon:

I'm going to suggest you put all chat-related bugs into the *critical* category.

Why?

Because chat-related bugs are the single most visble category of bugs in the game. EVERYONE sees them. EVERYONE deals with them.

Seeing your most basic social interface bugged, in an established MMORPG, presents a very unpolished and unprofessional product.

I strongly urge you to put all reported chat interface bugs on the "critical - do not release until fixed" list.

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*cough*

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Take a cough drop and let me know when it's live. It doesn't count when it's just on Test.

Attache

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Can anyone tell me if this made it to the Live servers?

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I have been trying to set my costume emotes, so they activate when i hit the key I set for costume change, how do I do this, I have gotten 3 different suggestions while in the game, and none of them work, the only time my emeote activates is if i go into the menu, and change my costume there. Any help would be appreciated...thx!

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Shamelessly lifted from a post by Zombie_Man in another thread in this forum:

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Emotes#C..._Change_Emotes

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Cce_(Slash_Command)

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Has anyone besides me noticed the interesting new "defeat animation" on the Council Zenith Hoverbots?

Go check it out if you want a good laugh... I already bugged it, but more reports couldn't hurt.

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Hi, i have two questions, I'm sure any MA specialist will be able to answer those :

- What is the command to put the name of the player running the arc in the text ?

- I'm looking for a specific map : the warehouse one that looks like a nightclub inside with all the spotlights. Could you tell me which one it is in the list ?

Thanks in advance

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The variable (not a command) representing the character's name is $name, as in "You're probably wondering why I called you here today, $name."

Can't help you with the map, even though I know which one you mean...

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I wanted to make an /SR scrapper to solo AVs with, and having already tried out Martial Arts and Broadsword, wanted another thematic pairing with /SR. I settled on claws as "feeling fast like someone with super reflexes might be", and then decided that a cat-theme would be a good concept for Claws/SR.

Only later did I find out about the reputation of catgirls, and even though I wasn't on Virtue or even RPing at all, I'm too embarrassed to play lvl 50 Claws/SR on teams anymore, even if she can solo pretty much any AV that's not hugely lethal resistant or has auto-hitting attacks. *sigh* I should just stick with cyborgs and wizards and such.

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This just seems sad. You would let someone else's perception and prejudice stand in the way of having fun the way you want? I don't, because I have many catgirls. Granted, Virtue is not my main server, but I do have one catgirl there so far, out of 2 characters on Virtue. If anyone wants to try to stick a label on me and assume things about me that are not true, then that is their problem, not mine. I can only hope that the experience that my 48 month vet status brings to a team can disavow them of their foolish notions. Like the person back on page six who said he kicks them from his team automatically. His loss.

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I have between one and three of every other AT Red or Blue side, so I figure it's time to try out Scrappers.

I thought Fire/Fire might be good for the following reasons:

-Fire yields extra DoT
-Not only do I get BU, but I get Fiery Embrace

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Never turn down more damage

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-Healing Flames has an unholy healing rate I remeber from my Fire/Fire brute.

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And it has quick recharge right out of the box too.

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-Consume can refill my End (at level 20), making Stam perhaps not necessary

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As someone else said, Consume has a long recharge time and you can use up all your End long before it comes back. You're better off with Stamina and Consume both.

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-Add a Web Grenade at level 41 and Burn can really be effective

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Instead of Weapon Mastery, I would suggest Dark Mastery. Tentacles + Burn is a beautiful thing. (You even get Petrifying Gaze at 41 for the nitpickers.)

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-I like magic/glowy looking powers with lots of visually dramatic oomph

I would probably get SuperSpeed/Hasten. Will certainly drop a Stealth IO in Superpeed. Will find a place to drop a KB io or two in. Not sure I need any other Pool Powers, though some could be interesting. Maybe Combat Jumping might add some good maneuverability.

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I know it comes as a shock to most people (and practically blasphemy to suggest in the scrapper forum) but I think Hasten is overrated. Also, I don't know if you meant +KB (wildly overrated for scrappers) or -KB, but you'd do well to pick up the Steadfast Protection: Knockback Protection IO and the Karma: Knockback Protection IO for that big hole in your defenses.

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So two questions: is Fire/Fire a good scrapper set? Comparatively?

And two, where can I find some Fire/Fire guides? All I found was a Fire/SR guide.

Thanks.

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As someone else said, I found Fire/Fire to be an extremely fun time (who doesn't like the pure fun of burning stuff up?) and my fastest 50 so far because I ended up playing her all the time.

As to damage, I was once in FF and heard the call go out for help with the Kronos Class Titan and zipped over to lend a hand. After standing there yelling "Invite me!" many times and being ignored, I just waded right in against him without a team and was surprised to find I earned the badge (need +10% of his health in damage for that) even without a team. I was pretty stoked about that.

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I have all the chat bubble control I could ever want or need: Disable chat bubbles

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This. Srsly.

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I only wish such a GM were available red-side...my toons over there could probably wreck Lusca without a problem solo (or needing a permanent supply line of Inspirations).

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I could probably pull a similar statement out of my butt too, especially if, like this, I'd never have to back it up.

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Awesome. Thanks for that. I found that site but didn't pick up on the "print-out" option. That should help me.

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Also, you can download their "map pack" and it will replace the maps in-game with a map that shows you badge locations, enemy levels, etc.