Schismatrix

Oh, i know. i was at the last one, and i have a 49 Tanker i will be bringing to the next. The fact remains that a team of all Tankers (or even Scrappers) cannot come close to the speed of a team with Buff/Debuff capabilities well represented. An all Defender team easily outpaces an all Tanker team.

Give me a team with 4 moderately skilled level 8+ VEAT players and you can keep your tank and heals. Hell, give me 4 or more Defenders and Controllers with no heals who know how to play and we'll bring the tank along just so we don't have to lug the cooler. He can stay in the back and make sure the potato salad is fresh.

(Just joking, sort of. Any combination ATs or powersets is welcome if the playesr know how to use them, but a team of mostly tankers does tend to be a bit slower paced. Heals can be a (borderline) useful stop-gap if buffs and debuffs aren't readily available.)

Well, yes. That occurred to me as well. Actually i was thinking of the similar saying: "Tragedy is when it happens to me. Comedy is when it happens to you." Regardless it was not intended as a serious assertion. And i knew full well in advance that the irony (literary irony, not that watered down pop culture stuff) was likely to be missed since that is the nature of ironic statements. If the irony is obvious to everyone it's not really irony.

Another somewhat ironic statement. i know full well how much of a sore subject the rules changes were. i even made posts opposing them. So when i posted hilarity ensued i was thinking of the more ironic version. Again, i knew full well that my intent would not be obvious to all reading it literally. At least i don't end each post with Stroke Victim Smiley. (Um, i guess it's actually the Wink Smiley. Still looks more like it's having a stroke to me. That reminds me of a joke, but i think i've already typed too much. ACH, THEY'RE COMINGGSGegawseqaqag zhfgvfgnfc

Well, if someone canceled their subscription to the game because of a change in forums policies then i suspect they were one of the rare people who only subscribes for the forum pvp. Which seems a bit excessive to me, but then the forums could vanish entirely tomorrow and i'd still continue playing the game. Posting in other forums, of course, but i'd still be playing.

i guess i'm strange like that.

Give it a little longer. Humor=tragedy+time.

For over six years i have not capitalized the personal pronoun on these forums when referring to myself, and i'm not about to give up that affectation now.

However, when quoting others i do in fact use proper capitalization. i make absolutely no apologies for this idiosyncrasy.

Hilarity ensued.

Don't make me go get the speculum.

He explicitly said he did not. Total reading comprehension fail on your part despite the fact he went out of his way to explicitly state it. With that level of fail i suspect you didn't even read the post beyond skimming it before reinventing it in your head into something completely different. Quoting it when your reply makes it obvious you didn't read it is a rather absurd move.

i think i've been seeing "the latest issue sucks, i'm quitting" posts from you for over three years now. Which is fine and dandy if it makes you feel good, but saying you're taking a break would be more believable at this point. Announcing that you're quitting for the nth time (where n>5) won't get you taken seriously.* Instead it inspires a severe lack of credibility.





*i've known people who quit smoking at least a few dozen times. Eventually i started complimenting them on how much better their quitting skills were. They've quit dozens of times, but i only managed to quit smoking once.

i'm guessing it's not this song. Although i'd suggest it if the (speculative) TF is tied to The Coming Storm.

Keep? What makes you think they have any to keep after all these years?

You're all wrong. Just look at that picture. It's obvious what is being announced.

The Moon Base.

Well tanned gents don't need leg accessories.
i, however, do.

The tentacles are to hold the weaker foes in place so you can continue beating the hell out of them.

Eh, i prefer to think of it as being somewhere around Louisiana or Florida. Or possibly the general vicinity of where DC was.

The aggro on you through Hide is intended, but i still think there's something out of whack with the ambush spawning mechanics. Sometimes it gets hilariously over the top. Especially if you have a character with no AoE capability.

i know the distinction isn't that widely known, but it is a long-standing one, which is why i thought it was worth mentioning just to make things clear. Using "begs the question" where "raises the question" is more correct has also become more common in the last several years. Saying that someone is begging the question can be offensive if they're aware of the difference.

Yeah, and i'm also working on my admission thesis for the League of Pedants.

There a number of blueside factions where possessing anti-Kheldian weaponry doesn't make much sense. In the cases where there is no "Quantum Blah" to spawn the game adds a Void Seeker/Void Hunter/Void Stalker/Shadow Cyst to the group.

i've seen this in the Rogue Isles as well with the zone spawns as recently as yesterday. Void Seekers milling about with Scrapyarders and Mooks. Few things look as out of place as a Void Seeker chilling with a bunch of guys in flannel and jeans.

Based on my own personal experiences and the testimonials in the rest of this thread i humbly submit that the fault may not lie entirely with the new sets.

Orbital laser/particle/pocky cannons make anything better.

Actually, begging the question is a type of logical fallacy. <.< i suspect you meant that it raises a question.

The ambushes, whether by grammar fascists or not, are the only difficulty increase of any significance that i've noticed. Praetorian enemies are more difficult than average to lower difficulty factions, but not more difficult than all other groups in the same level ranges.

All things i tend to look for in the early levels anyway. Well, except for Vahz, they don't carry much that i want in their pockets. Oh and Arachnos are good too.

My only complaints about recent greater difficulty is with regards to (hopefully not WAI) buggy ambush mechanics.