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EVERY time. Yep. Every single time. "It's the worst trail ever! It's impossible to complete!" Blah blah blah. One week later... everyone's content.

Almost everything here applies to me. My WS is 50 and fun to play. My PB is 42 and not fun to play... feels like a weak/inadequate blapper/scrapper. Though I am quite certain that I could rebuild my PB with better IOs and in the end I might have a character who is not entirely annoying to play. Maybe.

The person who complained was a whiner.

I say that as someone who was on the TF with you and thought, "What a whiner," when they complained. And then they exited the mission without finishing off the last ambush anyway... I think some people didn't understand how you phrased the instruction to stay to clean up the last ambush, because you phrased it as "exit after last ambush" instead of "wait until last ambush is cleared to exit". Just a syntax thing that some people read as "exit right away, we're not clearing the ambush".

But I generally think anyone that complains about not killing every single mob for "max experience" on a TF is a whiner, and especially when it's a shard/steamroll ITF where we're destroying virtually everything we see anyway. But in general, I'd rather run 2 TFs in 2 hours than grind 1 TF for 2 hours to "maximize" my xp. I'll get the same amount of xp doing it my way, and more merits into the bargain.

Just tonight... we did a Statesman TF in an hour, then a Citadel in about another hour, then a speed Manticore that, I forget, was probably about 45 minutes or so... probably not as speedy as we'd originally intended. But 3 TFs inside 3 hours, that's how I like to spend an evening. ^_^

It does help to be specific though. I was on a run a month ago where one person who I won't name *cough*MG*cough* formed it, and another person i won't name *cough*Hen*cough* decided to speed everything, including porting the entire team to Rommy at the end.

Now, what was annoying about this was that MG... er, I mean mysterious person #1... likes to run shard/steamroll/kill everything you see ITFs, and on the final map on a decent enough team likes to send most of the team down the left path while clearing the right path at the same time with 2-3 big-AoE characters. But on this particular run, MG didn't spell anything out. Likewise, Hen did not ask if it was okay to speed things... instead one did one thing and one did the other, and it was like they were annoyed at each other but neither would actually say, "I'd rather run it *this* way." So... yeah. Spelling out how you want to run things avoids problems like that.

But I would also say... you don't run TFs often enough to realize that you just run into problems like that on occasion, don't worry about it!

Yes.

But... recently I've maxed out at 48 slots on Virtue. On two accounts. Plus 2 premium accounts and 2 free accounts. Well, actually, three premium accounts... I bought another one when there was a sale several weeks ago.

I now have 6 solo SGs on Virtue for all of my toons... and one solo VG. And I'm nominally in charge of a Hero Force division, and a villain Force division. Oh, and I have several toons in MG's Taskforce Runners SG too.

I need to make more toons!

Weird, people still form trials in zones other than Dark Astoria? Why?

This, pretty much. I have NEVER made my money by selling purple or PvP IOs, so as you might expect, what converters have allowed me to do is hoard hundreds of purple and PvP IOs for future characters. I made no actual money from converters, but I used them a lot.

I've been making a lot of money from ATOs though.

I have two high-end Night Widows and they are indeed awesome. They play a lot like a claws/SR scrapper with less hit points but inherent stealth and great team buffs, and are easy to softcap defensively. One of my favorite ATs to play, which is why I have two now. ^_^

Stalkers are indeed awesome, for the first time ever. My scrappers don't feel threatened. In part, because amazingly enough I'm able to play whatever AT I want to.

It never occurred to me that watching Magmaman123 or xXxBeast MasterxXx take their first steps into the world was like watching a sunset.



Okay, I'm kidding. Mostly.

Moonfire gets into the rotation. It was the WST during DXP weekend

Note that large servers like Virtue have multiple channels, and a popular channel can easily max out on the number of people allowed in it. The taskforces channel mentioned above is just one... there's a VirtueUnited which has filled up in the past and spun off into channels like "VU2012" (I'm assuming that's the current alt VU channel).

I'm not even in the TF channel mentioned above... I'm in VirtueUnited, and also one of the older badge channels, and also an old redside SF channel... and four large private TF channels. But usually anyone that forms regular teams/task forces is in at least one of these or often several of them.

I guess if you're on a team that can't handle Rommy, that would be a useful exploit. But most teams I'm on, Rommy is a very routine bang-bang-bang-bang he's finally dead encounter. Doing this would not shorten the encounter by much, and would cheat you out of the AV experience.

Not that I'm saying that doesn't need to be fixed... I just don't see how that's an actual advantage to the typical ITF team.

No he's not. Because Honey Badger don't care.

But that does make me wonder when the honey badger vanity pet is due out.

I haven't bought any of the vanity pets. If they actually implemented the "vanity" vanity pet... I just might buy that one.