Neuronia

Yeah, I have a Fire Tanker in Rikti War Zone...and he has a mission there to collect Kora Fruit (don't ask...) so we can all use mission teleporter to get there.
The Rikti there still drop loot/purples by the way.

Wayback Machine eh?
Hmm...most of my good memories are of massive exploits:

Architect Exploits (all fixed):

Mastermind bug, you got your pets outside, were maled to 5 or 6 and made 100,000,000 per run and about 4-5 levels too.
Mitos, just stood there and let you punch them.
Arachnobombs, just run around and tag them, they blow up and you get 2-3 levels per run.
Rikti Portals, kinda ho-hum but still nice.
Rikti Monkeys, they were underlings out of a level range and gave oodles of XP.

Other shenanigans:

Failing mission 1 of Katie TF, setting speed records or trying to (We got a 13 minute one once with 4 Fire/Rads, my Mind/Bubble (built for stealthing) and 3 /Colds.
Aforementioned Sewer Trial exploit, was handy when recipes came out.
SpeEdens, was a map glitch in the first wall that you could avoid, just tp everyone to the end and finish in 8-10 minutes for a recipe
Map glitch in States Task Force, you could go under the Aeon City map, assemble and fight the AVs without retribution.
Map glitch in Hive, could go under and fire on Hamidon with impunity.
Reportedly some maps gave the same rare salvage every run, Arachnos maps.
Recipe rolls triple or multiple rewarding off one click at Merit vendors.
Auction house glitch with IOs, say you had a Miracle proc in a slot, if you multi-clicked "Get" you could find yourself getting four or five back because of server lag.
SHO/HO exploit, you finished RSF and left window up, went to Warburg and clicked to get a 52. Heroside you asked a level 3 to mal you and clicked to get a 52-53.
Veng stacking outside of Arena before matches.
Using teleport to get inside Tiki Room in Pocket D.
Using Fly to go over war walls and into University to get the Inventor badge before that was even live.
TP Foe on Mitos during Master LGTF runs.
Solo spawning maps for TF, 1 person spawn for LRSF/STF for the win.
Snake Egg farm in Mercy and Psypunk totally losing in on the Beta forums when it got reported, lolz.
Contact missions infinite rewarding if you were in Cathedral of Pain mode, basically you needed to be in a sg, the CoP suspended all active contacts and so if you had a delivery, it would keep rewarding FOREVER, giving you infinite money.
Some goof getting Admin mode and asking people for their passwords.

It's all good in the hood, just lrn2red and saw you could edit widgets on the front page to include videos.

Also, tcfvpvp.guildportal.com if you all want to ally/shoutbox spam/etc.

I was just thinking this when making the guildportal...you can't beat Peril when it comes to that stuff.

I expect PvP IOs to be brisk prior to the first weekend of September, new league and all.

Yep, I moved a handful of purples, a ton of PvP IOs (especially Glad Javs, made a mint there) and Kismet +6% sold briskly too.

Not so.

I direct you to the study on the use of Blasphemy in Lovecraftiana, by Robert M. Price at http://crypt-of-cthulhu.com/lovecraftsblasphemy.htm .

Simply put, Lovecraft was adressing extra-spatial entities and their effect on the environs. A tangle of bones is eerie, but perhaps they were arranged as in The Blair Witch Project, or warped to a degree. When HPL refers to "blasphemous" or "insane" or such, he merely tries to communicate the protagonist's rejection of normalcy for the eldritch. Amorphous entity could be "blob", but it leaves more to the suggestion of the mind. The Black Goat of the Woods With a Thousand Young could well be a mother-beast, but instead conveys Pan, Magna Mater, corruption of fertility cycles and so on.

However, if HPL is too wordy at times (and even I, an avowed fangirl, admit as much) then try some of the modern writers. Ramsey Campbell is...passable. Chambers is of Lovecraft's era and focused more on the King in Yellow (yellow being a flag of insanity at the time, not obvious today), and even Robert Price or heck Robert E. Howard transposed some of the Lovecraft mythos into his own places of work and haunts. The point of the Mythos is after all not to tell us about the blaspehmous, squalid, nethermost horror in the Ghooric Zone, but rather to expose the nullity of our human power (relative to the Ourter Gods or Great Old Ones) toward the cosmos. The omnipresence of external dread and our responses to it are what make the stories fun. Now, you aren't going to win any prizes for this stuff, but it is passable pulp fiction and some of the stories are gems.

In the end, it might not be your thing and that is TOTALLY cool!

Cats of Ulthar are noisy around there I hear.

Too bad about that one, had the untimed one until they changed the Unai/Maria arcs...Fire/Fire Tanker friend still had a ball with it. Ah well, gameplay may change and all that, plenty of farm setups out there still.

At least that setup wasn't as mindnumbing as speed Katies for Pool C rolls...those were the absolute worst.

Or bring Electric Armor Brutes/Scrappers, who will suffer a lot less at the hands of the end drain.

Did this Task Force twice this weekend and it was bearable. One hour and a half per run, lots of Fire/Dark Corruptors, Electric Brutes/Scrappers and so on and ghosting the appropriate missions made it somewhat less tedious. It could really stand to lose a delivery, a patrol and about three defeat alls though.

As for Citadel, it's pretty lackluster but at least the Council bases make for neatly packed mobs...and if you're lucky you'll get the pool room only once or twice.

Synapse should he handing out the Crey Task Force in Brickstown since they, you know, MADE him this way. Manticore is already introduced to young'uns in Atlas so shunt him to Steel Canyon and have him give out a much, much shorter Clockwork task force.

I don't fear much but the calorie count from this team is outstanding.
Cannot wait to see you all in action.

This.

My Fire/MM should be even wackier now.
My Fire/Dark Corr is still alive only because of the snipe change and the absurdity of Corrs in general.

I really liked my DP/Traps and will still play it but it's...mehish at the moment.
Maybe if they buffed the secondary effects enough to make it worth it I'd dust it off more frequently.

Hasn't changed mine. It's pretty easy getting 44 points of KB protect and that stops virtually anything in PvP and MOST stuff in PvE (outside Encounter-specific events). Now, I see it's a Force of Nature clone too, but I'm still not sold on this until it has MORE BROKEN STUFFZ than what we have.

Now, if this had a Hasten that gave 100% recharge, Superspeed that instantly put you at speed cap or Burnout that cost only 10 endurance and recharged in two minutes...we may have needed to check it out on the Paragon Market.

As it is, maybe if it goes on sale. None of my characters (very few anyway) use magic, so it's out of theme and meh.

And while we're at it, I'll admit it. I'm a little peeved Corruptor Rain of Fire got set back to intended levels. [/pique]

You can just farm for Demonic and that accepts global recharge. Knockback hole plugged via IOs. This power is going to have to make me immune to all magic-oriented damage (Circle of Thorns, Midnighters) or be a lot more Win More, meh. I see how this might be good for Freemiums though.

Invulnerability or Willpower (more of a defense set) or if you want to go really clunky, Stone Armor.

L as in Look, it's Robert Loggia
O as in O my God, it's Robert Loggia
G as in Great, Robert Loggia has arrived....



Changes are nice and best of all I won't have to respec many of toons as most (all?) of them have Tactics, the +6% ToHit IO and Veng/PowerBoost (where available), so insta-snipes here we come!

The IO changes will take time to absorb, but if Arbiter "Looks way too young and has way too nice hair to be a Developer" Hawk REALLY wants to shake things up..Battallion needs some IO bonus resistance, or at least make SOd characters level shifted when fighting them.