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So SSA #1 where "heroes" get to kill off a number of their own through sheer incompetence.

It's not just stalkers. My TW/Energy Aura scrapper apparently bathes too regularly for Coyote to follow him while cloaked so I just left him at the start of the mission, cleared to the end, went back, turned off energy cloak and then slogged back the the end of the mission again.

With Energy Cloak and a stealth proc he should be able to tap dance on anything short of an eyeball or drone. (They didn't give stalkers TW so I made a TW stalker out of a scrapper.) I also have a DP/Dev blaster with cloaking device and a proc that should be as invisible but lately content has been saying no stealth for you. Marshal Blitz seeing my DP/Dev with 65' of stealth before being able to get into smoke grenade range was sorta the last straw for that character.

Run on SOs and your wish will be granted for greater difficulty.

We've got raids now and raids attract raiders.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...&postcount=135 has Coulomb2's most recent summary with over a 1000 rolls recorded.

You can get a component roll the each time you complete each arc in DA for the first time. Note that being on a team without your Alpha slot unlocked that completes an arc will give you a reward table that will count for your "free" table for the arc even though you can't pick the component. After that you can get a component every 20 hours after choosing that reward, which arc doesn't matter at that point just the time since that reward was last chosen on the timer. Approximately 74/20/5/1 common/uncommon/rare/very rare.

And DA is to iXP as glaciers are to speed.

On the upside you'll be able to run all of Heather's maps in your sleep.

The Incarnate system is about as alt-unfriendly (or even alt-hostile) as you can get in this game.

Accolade powers are about the only thing close, they have to be obtained with the character you want them on. The big difference is the tasks for accolade powers don't require you to have at least three purple sets on that character that were obtained solely by farming them on that character.

As we reach Omega the extreme effort required to stay current will mean there will be only "mains". Other games with raids have gear resets and alternate gear progression for a reason.

Basically endgame raids are bad game design.

That other game has the advantage of being able to dangle gear with minimal increases over the last raid in front of the players and gear resets to get people caught up. With the Incarnate system the devs will have a Gurren Lagon power spread, from comically small to throwing galaxies around.

Can't stand iTrials, if I want a raid grind I still have my sub to the one that has the money and manpower to do it, and grinding DA burned me out after just T3 Alpha, Interface, and Judgment with a whopping 30% into the next two on one character.

A NotW is worth a rare component, it'd need to be 8 Empyreans to keep its value.

Anything that's in a UStream for one if you count only official sources and not fan submissions/transcriptions to these boards. The i23 preview on that funky powerpoint site is another.

Yes.

Just don't push it too hard or the social media addicts will spam you with image macros. $DIETY forbid they use one of their unpaid interns to make up a text version of those way too long and undirected videos.

Heather, Heather, Heather, Ephram, change character, repeat was the implication I assumed.

Are you doing that on SOs or with permadom and def softcaps?

I won't argue that the players have gotten more savvy and the new powersets stronger because they have but most of what makes the game boring is being able to turn anything into a tankmage with IOs and now Incarnate powers, and that is each player's choice to do so. Game too easy for you? Don't use Set IOs.

Unfortunately that is as far as any particular player can control the difficulty without avoiding content. I don't enjoy Judgement and Barrier spam so I must either avoid content above level 44 or put up with Gundam level power spam. Even if they put in a challenge setting to disable incarnate clickies it wouldn't be something that'd ever get pugged.

I have actually tried the presentation, far clunkier to use than text.

The swooping around is cool the first couple of clicks but then it doesn't make up for the tiny amount of information displayed at once. Hero_of_Steel's summary is much more readable. Also text doesn't need a plugin to be installed.

KB is the bane of AoE, KD is the BFF of AoE.

The proc is a weak statement that KB isn't the right way to play because it doesn't cause more or bigger numbers.

As for AoE centric design when you only have to spam one power on trash or bosses, alone or in groups, something has gone horribly awry.

It's more trying to salvage SSA2+ than trying to destroy people's excitement. If the Devs learn (the right things) from SSA1 then States and crew won't have been lost for nothing.