PowerLeveler

Ayup. This comes down to a really questionable design decision with regards to mezzes. All of them, outside of slows, are binary. An NPC is either held, or not. Stunned, or not. Immobilized, or not, etc. This isn't really a problem against minions, lieuts and bosses, since any decent team will mow through those, and is kind of expected to mow through those. But AVs and GMs are supposed to be the big guns, so a fight where a single mezzer can shut them down entirely is a bigger design issue. With the current binary system, the only way to keep such a big gun from being locked town totally is to make it so they can't be locked down at all. Which is lame.

What's your paypal, I'll send you the 31 cents you're due.

The origin of the Hamidon is one of the oldest arcs in the game, and the DE creation story is part of it.

The Coralax backstory has been taken care of in the new Vincent Ross arc.

The possessed scientists are scientists that the CoT have taken over. That's...that's about it.

And the important part you cut off was:
You are trying to use analogies without justifying that they actually fit this situation. Sure the game is adding more group content. It does that every time it launches a new Task Force. Sure the new group content is on the front page of the website. All the new stuff goes onto the front page of the website. The front page of the website is there in order to advertise the new stuff that's coming. None of this means that the solo player is getting thrown under the bus.

Now, I'm going to go ahead and point out that Positron mentioned that soloability was a goal of the Incarnate System. I'll also point out that Black Scorpion mentioned specifically that they are looking for ways to fully experience the alpha slot even if you solo. I'll point out that second measure mentioned accessibility to everyone as a goal of the new system. I'll also point out that it has been mentioned repeatedly that the fallout from the "skills system" taught the entire staff that mentioning specifics that weren't well underway is a great way to get the community all up in their grill.

Look at the flashback system. Back when people were begging for it, people expected some contact to have a level slider that you could set and then run to contacts in that range, which is boring. Instead we got Ouroboros, which was a hugely popular gameplay AND story expansion with its own narrative, badges, and place in the lore. People wanted a way to switch sides, "like a task force or something." Instead of a single, repeatable-and-thus-quickly-growing-dull task force, we got the very expandable tip system and an entire new world to pop around in, both of which have some of the best content this game has seen, which is very interesting. This team is establishing a history of letting things stew until they are actually interesting, instead of some boring "oh fine 100 shards equals a notice whatever." Maybe they're working on a new arc, maybe some kind of tie-in with ouro where you have to jaunt around different level ranges to assemble a notice or track one down, maybe something like the solo morality missions in Praetoria, combining tips and incarnates for the solo player...who knows.

But what's being suggested is that after they have said, repeatedly, that they are looking to implement ways for solo characters to participate in the Incarnate system they really mean "hahahah eat it soloers!" instead of "we want interesting things to do whenever possible, not just systems shoehorned in all awkward."

I would call that a stunt staged by Disney filmmakers. Now we all get to play "what do you call someone who wings around analogies that are known to be fake in a failed attempt to disprove the point he doesn't understand to start with?" I'm not sure Disney has done much with that.

There are 10 Incarnate Slots in total to be unlocked. If you consider each one "a level," then someone with all 10 slotted up and ready to go would be "level 60."

Actually putting in 10 more levels would be a nightmare, since everything about the game, IOs, purples, the number of powers you have, the number of slots you have, everything is all based on capping you at 50. Plus designing enough content to get you from 50-60, while making the level cap be something to strive for, not just something to have, would take a huuuuuge amount of time. It would also immediately invalidate all the level 50 stuff (ITF, RSF, STF, etc etc) they have in the game now, much like the Eden and Sewer trials got ignored after the 40-50 game launched.

So the Incarnate system is a way to get you more powers and more things to do after 50 while maintaining a lot of the things in the game that work really well right now.

They actually moved them into their own drop pool. I've gotten a temp power and a generic IO off the same kill before.


That's why the drop rate skews so high.

The problem is that even after stating outright that Blueside ATs will never get poison, and all the reasons why not, people still make threads and send PMs and emails asking why blueside can't have poison.

Look at this thread right here. A redname has already posted on the boards stating outright that there are design problems with a dark control/assault powerset which mean those powersets won't be forthcoming any time soon. And yet here is this thread, asking why we can't have dark control or assault.

It's a case of giving the playerbase an inch and them demanding a mile.