Schismatrix

And yet somehow my Scrappers, Brutes and Tankers have run that content both solo and on teams. When it's my arc i tend to solo it, but i have also joined teams running that arc with all of the above.

This thread has given me a fair number of literal facepalms. Every time Heraclea posts about how certain content is unfair to certain AT's or just plain too hard i have to wonder how her experiences running the same content that i've done many, many times can be so different.

When i form/join teams for anything, unless it's for a "Master of" badge, i only look for willing teammates regardless of AT. Even for "Master of" attempts my personal criteria only extend to preferring to find at least one teammate with one of a handful of powersets. Not even any specific set or AT, just as long as it's one of those that helps make it easier. i'll even give it a shot without a desired set as long as the rest of the team indicates that they're okay with a high chance of not getting the badge in that run.

The fact that at least half the time i play characters with a buff/debuff set does make SF/TF recruiting easier. Ran a Numina TF once on my Earth/TA Controller where the Empathy healer quit after the third mission for no apparent* reason leaving me as the only support on a team of Blasters and Scrappers. We completed it without incident or even any teamwipes. No specific AT/powerset is required for any content as long as the players cooperate and coordinate.


*The healer did complain a couple times that they didn't have anything to do most of the time, but that's hardly a reason to quit. True, if they'd had more than one attack it probably would have been less boring, but that wasn't the team's fault.

Okay, i actually did laugh out loud at that.

Is this a good time to point out that all Blaster teams have beaten the Statesman Task Force? Or is that irrelevant to your issue with the late game task forces?

The only time specific powersets or AT's are mostly required for certain content is when you're trying for "Master of" badges. No specific team composition is required to complete any of the content in the game.

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What does "Mytery" mean? It's a mystery to me.

i have a four year old, almost never logged in Earth/Rad Controller on some server i rarely play on named "Der Buck Futter". (His civilian name is Con Seannery.) Sometimes i consider deleting him as an unfunny joke, but he's not really doing any harm as the occasional name in the character select list and i still have unused slots on that server.

i was going to suggest Rad/Sonic Defenders, but on second thought i seem to recall they're used more to solo GM's.

So April 1st is the loneliest, cruelest day of the year?

Yes, but only if the bonus has the same name. Two bonuses can have the same value and not count towards stacking when named differently. Just chiming in trying to make sure that it's clear how this works. It definitely can be a bit confusing at times.

i expect it won't be that much different than exemping down for a TF when the other teammates are in the TF level range. Access to more powers, but same combat level.

Are they a mixture of smashing and psi damage?

Yep.

i don't know... one of the most widely rquested new powersets was psi melee and with the whole Tai Chi look of the set it does make it seem likely that it could be a mix of smashing and psi damage.

i'm thinking that's a fairly good description. To me it sounds like an Incarnate basically unlocks a secondary Archetype on the character that has ten levels of progression that don't directly affect security/threat level. The real question being whether you advance through the normal xp sources or if it requires specific Incarnate xp/content to advance. There are so many ways i can think of that this could be handled that i think i'm going to have to wait for more information.

*heh* People will still complain anyway for all the same reasons they're complaining now. Some of those nerdraging in the BotZ change thread do that every single time anything gets "nerfed" in any way, complete with screeds about how it makes their character unplayable, they're quitting, every single player will leave over this change, etcetera. i suspect that as children they would throw tantrums at the grocery store whenever mom didn't buy them the sugared crap they demanded and spent the rest of the time screaming at the top of their lungs until mom caved in or they left the store.

Excellent. Any time you upgrade/add a code that includes a free month it will be added to your game time. i'd picked up a few of the old editions for the goodies that came with them and the extra month has always been added as well.

Most of the time i wait until 22.

i usually go through a couple respecs on the way to 50, and then i normally only use one or two a year for an alt after that. i do have several 50 alts i'm considering redoing the builds on pretty extensively since they were done fairly soon after inventions were introduced and i've gotten much better at designing builds and several good sets have been added since then. Overall i will respec on a whim. For alts that have been idle for long while i will use a freespec when i start playing them again if i've found new build strategies in the meantime even if they're only level 12.

Amusingly enough SSK now makes that possible.

Somewhere i have screenies from a couple years ago or so of my PB in Dwarf form sitting on a car.

Dispersion Bubble and Sonic Dispersion being the most obvious two. i'm pretty confident non-cone AoE effects in the game come in two flavors: cylinders and spheres, with all buff AoE's that i know of being listed as spheres. Of course the graphical effects can be any shape, thus the ellipsoid shape of the graphics for the Dispersion twins. (Fraternal, not identical.)

Considering how long he's been making posts along these lines i suspect you're looking at it.

Did the Soldier version already have the cap? Only took Mako's pool on my soldiers...

As i recall the one widow AoE was fixed a while ago, so which one was it?
It makes sense to set all AoE's to just below the aggro cap as a maximum, but i still didn't complain when the cap was missing.

i will. (And not mean a word of it.)
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Been playing mostly redside on Champion recently. DP/DM Corruptor. Not the most powerful primary, but i'm having fun with it. Besides, Dark Miasma makes anything better.

i don't follow. So, if something appears on a marketing survey people are not allowed to disagree with it from then on?

i think i need to start making some targeted marketing surveys.