Paladin

I suppose the only remaining question is: Now that we have a Punching Blast Set, when will we be seeing Sword Blast announced?

I need to know, for reasons.

In all seriousness, this is fantastic. Continuing to impress, guys. Thanks for your hard work, creativity, and continuing investment into the game. It's got a lot more life than games half its age.

Burst of Speed sounds like a Nightcrawler-esque bamf attack. Pretty awesome, and I can't wait to see it in action!

Zone Revamp: Steel Canyon. Make its buildings even more brilliant, add in optional phasing tech to clear out the trash mobs so that there's an actual "cleared" section of the city thanks to your hard work. Leave in the fire events.

Story Arc: King's Row. Make it a level 20-30 something task force that deals with street level crimes and street level thugs. Put in faux detective work by talking to various NPCs about shake downs, etc. Stress the slum and in the end, highlight a point that though you've carved out a piece of hope in that section of the city the battle is seemingly never-ending. Focus on getting the player to feel for those who are still in this section of the city, and channel their inner Sisyphos with the perpetual state of things. Street level vigilante type stuff.

Task Force: Steel Canyon. Bring home the Freakshow as dangerous anarchists, not the l33t silly guys we've come to expect. If Steel Canyon lives up to its analogue as Metropolis then it would make a wonderfully juicy target for people who are so destructively insane. Use it to tell the story of both the Freakshow and the Canyon's role in Paragon.

I'll come and help. Do you have a specific time in mind, including time zone? I'll be providing team/league teleports every 2 minutes if needed, otherwise I'll swap to another destiny to give some cover.

Snagged a code on the first try (third code in Batch 5), probably 1 minute from the time it was posted. If you're able to monitor Twitter and making it a priority it doesn't seem difficult to get at all.

Changing into the costume aura and posting screenshots to twitter once I get home. Thanks again Devs for taking the extra time to run this.

Looks like the account's working again. Good luck to everyone here, and a big thanks to the development team for extending the giveaway hours to a crazy 14 hour time period. As hard as we're working to get a code, they're going to be working even harder to give those codes out.

Base building has always intimidated me. I crafted my first functional but not-very-pretty base back when they were first released. The clunky building designs and lack of perfect item pieces were a barrier I couldn't cross. Then I joined various other SGs over the years and was consistently impressed with the creativity, beauty and form of what a proper base builder can do.

Now I'm back in my own solo SG with a lot of prestige and a general idea, but not much know how. I've browsed through the great threads for sufficient inspiration, and taken some tours with some great people. But the bottom line is, where to start?

I'd like to form a base that's fit for my namesake character, the Paladin. A shining castle in the sky or in a mystic land like Asgard in the Thor film. So far all I've done is switch the base's walls to castle walls and hit a, pardon the pun, wall. There's not many straight forward pieces for castles and palaces without being specifically arcane.

Has anyone taken on a similar project? Or more generally, how do you get started when the idea seems overwhelming?

I appreciate the help. Bases are the last part of the game I have left to invest in, and there seems a lot to making it happen.

Most of those holes can be filled with incarnate abilities.

Judgement: Void provides -50% damage for 30 seconds.
Lore: Longbow provides -Regen. Cimmerorans provide Single Target damage. Storms provide invincible Hurricanes.
Destinies: Barrier provides +Defense, +Res. Rebirth provides +Regen. Clarion provides Mez. Ageless provides Endurance/Debuff Res.

I don't have experience outside of my Regeneration scrapper on Incarnate trials. However, he has vengeance (someone will always be KOed on the league so it's always active), several emergency powers, self healing, and self revives. Since there is usually irresistible attacks his heals come into play, and he can mitigate surprise things like Lethal Force Authorized or other announced, resistible powers by using his Moment of Glory power.

Outside of one challenge in Incarnate Trials (The Really Hard Way) the AT/debuffs won't make enough difference to roll something specifically for a trial that can't be replaced with proper Incarnate ability use.

Placing mobs where you want them to be is an important part of successful, quick Incarnate Trials. Because of that an auto-hit taunt is very valuable.

It's also useful for hover taunting difficult mobs like the War Walkers and the Avatar of the Hamidon in the Underground trial; by hover taunting, you'll keep the league from being hit by Lethal Force.

It's a pro tool for Incarnate Trial leaders.

Just reading about this now. I'm glad you're okay, Chaz. If I were there I would probably have thought it was a prank and part of the theater trying to add to the show.

Terrible and tragic.

I consider myself fairly easygoing, but there's one pet peeve that graves on my nerves when I see it:

Using characters as strawmen to insult political or religious views. I can appreciate roleplaying a character that has specific beliefs - That's part of the character and not used with some message in mind. But when a character is created to satirize someone else's beliefs it crosses the line into activism, and that's just uncomfortable to be around. If you want to make a difference in something that you see as wrong in the world, go rally your local political office and channel that energy into real change - Please don't subject those of us in the game to political warfare.

With the new mobs in Dark Astoria we've seen the developers ramp up the difficulty and powers in mobs without raising their levels. The debuffs provided by the Banished Pantheon and Talons of Vengeance make them a threat in numbers to most builds, even being +3 to them.

It wouldn't surprise me if we see more of the powerful strategies used by players moved towards use in mobs and coupled with a few level shifts here and there. With a name like the Battalion, I can see the forces being numerous. If they play them like the Talons then there won't be much need to increase the level shifts for most players.

I entered this thread prepared to defend the roleplayers on Virtue. Then I saw..