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Seriously though, I would like to have these as well. But they know we want it so many times over that there's not much point in asking anymore.

You forgot to bash CoV.

I had just gotten on a team for one of those.

Ah well.

Yep. It's like they had several ideas for different trials, couldn't (or didn't have the time to) figure out how to flesh each out indvidually, and then said, "screw it" and just mashed them together.

Crusts or no crusts? Diagonal cut or no?

By itself? No. For me that would mean I subscribe simply to find out what happens next. And I don't. I like the story, but if I couldn't stand the game itself I'd be gone.

Not fundamentally so. There are plenty of examples of poor writing, but overall the story is sound. I think all things considered they've done fairly well at avoiding outright contradictions, or at least ones that can't be handwaved away. And it's no messier than I would expect from multiple authors over years of writing.

Off the top of my head there's only two contacts I have to pretend don't exist for my sanity: Daedalus and Sister Airlia. They're just terrible and pointless.

And one scene that's terrible: Tyrant telling my character off for leaving Praetoria even after I've proven more loyal to him than his own Praetor. It's rather jarring. I understand why from a game-play perspective you need to leave Praetoria, but it seems strange to continue allowing me to be so loyal up until he apparently decides to tell me off for no reason.

The Sutter TF is a mess of timeline snarls. The new starting zone seems to be an attempt to make it so we've always been at war with Eastasia, which will at least help clean up the Sutter timeline.

I don't know what the Crucible/Fort Trident are in game lore. But honestly whoever designed those zones needs to never be allowed to create anything to be added to the game ever again. They can program, they can work on other people's ideas, they can fetch coffee. But when ideas are called for in a design meeting they should not be allowed to talk.

[censored] Praetoria and its goatee universe. I like many of the Going Rogue arcs and think it's a great idea as a stand alone-ish starting area, but I think tying Incarnate content to it was a huge mistake. Rularuu and the Shadow Shard would have been much better in my opinion. I'm also sick of getting yet another version of Statesman.

Marcus Cole is:

The best modern hero ever as Statesman.

The best ancient hero ever as Imperious. (Technically not named Marcus Cole, but c'mon.)

The best (worst?) Nazi ever as Reichsman.

The best (worst?) autocratic warlord ever as Tyrant.

I half-expect to someday meet the leader of the Rikti: M'Rcus Kol

If we are moving away from this with First Ward and the Coming Storm, then I suppose I'm thrilled with current direction of the game. And maybe someday we can visit a dimension or world where Marcus Cole isn't already the best.


There are things I wish they would scrap and redo, namely Crucible/Fort Trident, ASAP. The game needs to move forward though. It's been rather slow paced content-wise with the focus on incarnates already. So much as it pains me I'd rather not see an issue devoted entirely to rewriting old content. If say each issue contained two new story arcs, one brand new and one rewritten I wouldn't complain.

I understand that rewriting older stories does not pay the bills like new content does and I can't fault Paragon Studios with keeping the lights on at the office. No matter how much I want them to fix my pet peeves.

I think 300 days means you left after Shades of Gray/Going Rogue was released? So you missed issues 19-20.5.

Content-wise for non-incarnates not a whole lot has changed.

I19.5 saw the creation of Weekly Strike Targets (commonly know as WTF) which is a select task force and strike force that come with a very nice xp bonus for non-level 50s and a Notice of the Well for incarnates.

I20 brought a new TF and a new SF. The TF is okay, to be honest I've never run it again after the first time. Beautiful maps, poor writing, and rehashed fights. (It's the Apex TF for non-incarnates, so if you haven't done that one you might want to try it out.) YMMV, of course. The new SF, Mortimer Kal in Sharkhead is very well done. Short, fun fights, and with an awesome bonus for non-50's at the end that turns into a reward for incarnates after you hit 50.

There's more, including several QoL improvements, but those would be the content highlights. Obviously there's been a lot of additions to the incarnate system since then.

Sell it on eBay.

I don't think there is a setting to lock it out; you'll just have to know that you won't be able to take it then.

I believe they tried but the programming was getting too complicated for a free, volunteer project.

I don't think Freitag is going to be the one fixing anything, especially since he's something like 1500 miles from the servers.

Hey! I was right! Just for a different question. Rereading medic57's post I'm betting you got it, um, more right.

First off, here's a link to more info on Enhancements
I'm guessing you mean slotting more of the same type in one power? (Say you have 3 slots in an attack and you put one accuracy and two damage)

Then yes, they will work together. Due to diminishing returns however it's not worthwhile to slot more than three of any one type. There are things such as frankenslotting and with the incarnate powers you can get around the ED to some extent, but they aren't really important to just learning the game. For specific advice on how best to slot your character you'll want to head down to the appropriate AT subforum and ask there.

In this example, yes. Assuming you have sprint on then the both will increase your runspeed until you hit the speed cap (which you can't do using those two powers alone anyway).

Multiple powers or buffs work together until you hit a hard cap, at which point they still "work", you just don't get any benefit.

To get the bonus from Set IOs they will need to be slotted in the same power, yes.

Again, the subforum for the AT you're interested will be the best place to get slotting advice. If you're going to be playing with builds you'll want to check out Mid's, if you haven't already.

They could just repurpose one of the current servers by removing the vowels from the name.

Thanks a ton for posting this.

Slight correction. Those in Warburg are Rogue Arachnos, which is a seperate enemy group from Arachnos. They do not count towards badge credit.