Shred_Monkey

I agree with part or your suggestino... IMHO if you need to clear a spawn/ambush as a mission objective... making them run away and not want to come back ever should count toward your mission objective as essentually you've completed the task of defeating the opponents. If the plot line says "capture/kill/bring them to justice" then it should be the boss only.

Hunting for badguys who run away and hide/get stuck, etc. is as unfun as spending 15 minutes playing "find the invisible maelstrom" in that stupid level 50 Hero tip mission.

For my solo SG, I would go to Atlas Park and run tip missions every night, just advertising to invite whoever wanted to join me. I'd nearly always pick up 2-3 people with 1 broadcast and would get a 30-40 minutes of leader time doing my normal nightly run of tip missions. I did choose to kill all in each mission rather then stealth them since most of the people joining were looking for some XP.

As mentioned earlier, to earn progress toward the badge you must be leader of a team in SG mode.

No FX hasten is so commonly asked for, they really should find a way to make it available.

I file this whole concept into the "well... if it makes money for the game, I'm ok with it" catagory. I do, however, find myself using this logic an awful lot lately.

I agree.... I've scrapped concepts altogether because the costume didn't color the way I wanted it to.

I actually don't mind this bug... I like the idea of EB's?AV's showing up randomly in missions with their villian groups. This is a far less annoying bug then the interface reset bug.

I have a lot of fun on my MA/Fire toon tricked out for tons of recharge. In my very brief experience of farming AE tickets, I was hitting my ticket max (on a 1500 max map) in 2 minutes (just as the 2nd set of +defense insperations wears off, so that's not an exagerated estimate). I really don't know what SS/FA brutes do in that scenario, but that felt very fast.

Granted my survivability isn't rock solid like a lot of scrapper forumites would prefer, but I do jump into 4x8 spawns solo all the time using shadow meld... the trick is that if i don't kill everything in 15 seconds (I usually do) I may have to scramble for a few seconds while shadowmeld recharges or use my self rez to get back into the fight.

Keep in mind... nobody is important in the incarnate trials... you just need numbers and some organization. So while in one respect, you're correct in fearing that you powers are not particularly needed in the trials... you'd also be correct if you had that fear for every other AT in the game as well, not just dominators.

If my understanding of the badge requirements is correct...we missed getting avatar assassin by killing him 1 second to early.

It's a shame this new content isn't particularly rewarding/popular. It's well done and very uniquely styled. I'm looking foward to more.

They need to add a full service vendor to Pocket D and call it good.

how are we meeting up?

I'll try to make this with Tiger Dragon Monkey - scrapper... i'll pick up as much clarion tree as I can tonight.

update: teir 3 clarion available.

Here's the issue:

I hit enter or / to start typing in chat or to start typing a command... the chat box is highlighted or the "/" shows up and the box is highlighted, but I can't type anything. No letters or numbers will appear. If my sound is on, I'll get a beeping after typing a bunch of letters. I can hit enter to get out of the chat interface without sending anything. (it seems like I have to hit it more then once, though). I can switch windows and type something into notepad then cut and paste it into the interface to send a command or line of chat. Everything works fine with typing outside of the game. Changing channels doesn't help. When I'm not in the chat interface all my binds work ok, so the keyboard is working properly. It's only when I go to chat that i won't let me type anything.

This problem doesn't happen all the time. I can fix the problem by quitting and restarting the game. Logging out a charictor then coming back doesn't fix the problem.

I can't tell you what triggers the issue. I suspected this is some kind of windows or keyboard setting, but I've been looking for a long time and can't find anything.

I run Windows 7. It happens maybe 3-4 times per week, so not even every time I play. I'm not sure what other information may help, but it's pretty annoying to be on a team and not even be able to chat. It's really annoying to not be able to use the handy shortcuts like /auctionhoue or /quit.

Any suggestions or questions that would help diagnose the issue are appreciated. Thanks.

Surivival is binary. You don't get extra credit for living more easily... you do, however get more reward by killing faster.

In my opinion, scrappers kill faster and can live long enough. I feel no reason to reduce my damage output to get more survivabilty.

It feels like my loading times since last week's patch have been really quick. Did they do something that might affect that? If so, well... someone noticed. If not, then nevermind.

Soft capped electric which is whay you have now, is pretty darn close to as good as you'll get on survivability. I think your concern that claws does too little damage do to resistance to lethal is really not warrented. If you're looking at incarnate trials as your gage, you're still -3 to those badguys. Once you have all your level shifts and are -1, you'll notice a huge boost in damage. The amount of lethal resistsance isn't really that big of a deal. I think a lot of people see themselves killing badguys in 2-3 hits at level 35 and expect that to continue to level 50, but what happens is around level 40 the badguy's hitpoints start going up a lot faster then your attack damage and it takes a few more hits per target to finish them off. You also tend to start fighting more +2s +3s and +4s and your damage per attack gets reduced significantly regardless of the type of damage.

And yes... this is a big problem with damage auras on scrappers in general. Wish they would address this because it's a very common complaint.

If nobody has any taunt going, the agro is going to be on the guy who starts the fights and on anyone who throws out AoEs... If you're running lighting field and/or always starting the fights, that may be why you're taking more damage then them. I'm guessing that somewhere in the teens-20s the willpower toon will start dieing a lot, because their taunt aura is going to kick in and draw all the agro if you 3 are teamed together.

Sure, a scrapper CAN solo... but if you do play solo, who will be there to witness your awsomeness? ...if a tree falls in the woods....