Serva_Obscura

How many people on either side of this are thinking something like:

Seeing as the other side seem content with simple declarations, I'll just add my vote:

I've been getting this singe GR closed beta. No anount of verifying/reinstalling gfx driver updating would fix it. Support were useless so I just avoid Praetoria. The flashing is much reduced with ambient occlusion and ultra-shadows off.

Ok, I've had my rants, constructive suggestions time:

• Make the disintegration FX _much_ bigger like a big sprite ring with a vertical spike to give people a chance to notice. Also its a signature power, it deserves to look impressive.
• Set up a "no other special abilities" flag or self-buff power that fires at the start of Disintegration and Obliteration beam that last for the duration of the power to prevent them overlapping with each other and with the time-freeze, when these overlap you get potentially unavoidable deaths which is not fun at all
• Put FX on the terminals, blue aura when uncharged, red when locked, have the blue stack x3 with uncharged so that one layer is removed per charge
• Make the Gamma pulse FX fade in and out a little slower, there have been time I've blinked and missed it not realising that my heath is now <50%
• Make Anti-Matters regeneration either pause a little before it starts or ramp up (then level off) to give people time to scramble over there
• I'd scrap the entanglement schtick, it penalises Melee too much (Oh just thought, alternate option: if there was something other than AM that the players could wail on that would help in the battle, like if the regen terminals could be pre-damaged a bit (before the timestops happened), that would give one of the entanglement halves something to do rather than just move away from their opposites)

Regardless of the current complexity of the pet AI, adding "Do not move at all" as a stance option _should be easy_, worst case scenario (They don't let any real programmers near the AI code, just the game devs who are are, pretty much, just tweaking text files) You should be able to give MM's a PBAOE My-pet only immobilise and a matching "free" ability (Would it really be a big deal if MM's got a free unroot for their pets? And that's only if the unroot can't be selective).

But in the underlying code adding "Only fire when target is in range, do not move" should be easy and would help no _end_

And yes, I write software for a living

So here's my opinion:

This trial tips the balance from:
"As long as I do my part, we can't go that far wrong"
To
"If anyone screws up even a little bit we're back to square one"

This is the sort of thing that has people screaming "FIFTY DKP MINUS" down teamspeak/vent.

And that is too annoying for me to devote my game time to. I'll run quick BAF/Lambs if I need parts, It's not that the trial is hard, it's just annoying.

What I don't understand is:
"Why would I want to do it"
BAF/Lamb provide the same rewards for less investiture and less frustration. IMHO is seems to shift the effort required further into herding other players and away from just doing your job.

Oooh, imagine a hellfire whip melee set... I like the idea of using the MM pet upgrade animation as a hold/DOT attack that has a root time as long as the hold/DOT (though it would have to be a big DOT)

Well maybe we, as the community, need to set a low-water line so the Devs know how much stuff we expect to be able to get for our subscription (However it comes, either just as VIP only or with accumulated points.

How about we pick a year as a base and enumerate costumes/powersets/zones/arcs/[T/S]Fs/Weapons/features that we'd expect?

Even if Paragon don't want to talk about costs yet, we might get a "Yes you'll get more than that" out of them.

I mean we can't claim "You must give VIPs all the new power sets without points cost" if they produce a powerset every month but if we're expecting 2-ish a year and some proliferation then I think we should get those whole cloth without points, again, depending on the cost of the other stuff.

Personally I see the points as the most valuable for discrete costume parts, I'm sick of getting those in bundles as there are lots of parts in the boosters I have no interest in. This also encourages the gfx artist to not take shortcuts with costume options as each piece would have to stand up well on their own.

Well it was Ninja run that finally freed me from that annoying design decision, but I see your point.

Seriously, it's a terrible layout, I'm almost grateful I can't play in Praetoria for more than 10 mins without crashing, due to shadows/ambient occlusion (yeah that still isn't fixed).
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Sometime the client fails to load the map collision data, hence the client thinks you're in freefall but the server (and anyone looking at your character) thinks you're stationary. As you fall the client sends your position to the server and the server replies with "no you're not, you're here" which pops you back up, but without a floor to collide with you start falling again, and again and again.

Something to remember regarding River's genetics.

The Doctor is Gallifreyan, and also a Time Lord, there is no indication that you must become a Time Lord if you are a Gallifreyan (There is non-cannon info about this but it's best to ignore that)

Its unclear what extras come with becoming a Time Lord (Regeneration is the most obvious and likely candidate, using the Rassilon imprimatur to symbioticly bind to a TARDIS is another. Some unreliable sources suggest the second heart only comes after the first regeneration)

However, the point is that the Doctor is a Gallifreyan Time Lord and River is (at least close to being) a Human Time Lord. And that any one genetic feature that we know of from the Doctor may be either due to him being Gallifreyan or may be due to him being a Time Lord, only the latter would be possible to apply to River.

Farming daemons on my incarnate Warshade is just beautiful and IMHO a lot of fun. I run at +0x8 as that is the quickest and easiest for me:

Eclipse, Mire, Well, Unchain, Quasar, Blue, Stygian, Nova and pick off stragglers
Next group, Mire, Judgement, Nova and pick off stragglers
Extract Essence as available. Rinse, repeat.

My Crabs are great farmers but only in a pair, on their own they are a little anaemic.

The new waistcoats would have been nice for the ladies, ladies in waistcoats is pretty darn steampunk.

And yes... long coats with shoulders that don't look awful: many of the shoulder pads are shifted oddly on the female rig, the worst offender is the armoured body, I can't use any shoulder-pads with that mesh, they look terrible, the female crab outfit messes up the shoulder positioning as well.

Yep the lack of PP/APP customisation bugs me but the one case that bugged me the most was actually the other way around:

My man-about-town Emp/Dark defender who's concept was all about manipulating life force went undercover in the rogue isles for a number of reasons (not the least of which was to see if he could melt the cold heart of the Ghost Widow) and with the eventual upgrade to Soul Mastery it all seemed to fit very well (Rimshot!).

Except that I couldn't re-colour the dark powers white to (mostly) match soul mastery, a "Bright-soul mastery" using the additive shader would be _so_ nice and not without precedent (soul mastery is pretty much the dark power set, but white. Or what about "The Deadlights" from Steven Kings "It". Bright can be scary too)

Incarnate abilities have let me run +0x8 on most of my characters, and I freakin's _love_ the mayhem that ensues.

Run through 2 x8 spawns, and they are leaping over each other to get to me, the bosses are causing some real problems and my health is dropping... Boom! Judgement, focus on bosses, pop a green and anything I've just got from the mass death. Wait for Barrier and pop out the pets when freeing a hostage because of the extra bosses... beautiful.

Just wish the sound FX for Ion judgement were better, the "poit" sound is really getting to me now "I was expecting an earth shattering kaboom!" </marvin>.

Please _Please_ can we get a "Bright" option for dark powers I know that you may feel this violates a VFX version of the "cottage" rule but, there is _already_ a light-coloured darkness power: Soul mastery.

Please let Dark:Soul based players match up their VFX