Silver Gale

I didn't suffer at all, I just brought in friends.

Tell the other 8 people in your Master run: "If you guys want me to bring in Nukes, you're going to need to come with me and cover my *** while I'm running around getting the codes". Have some stacked Tactics or yellows to keep an eye out for Stalkers, and just dogpile on any badger hunters.

There's a badge for defeating 20 of them, btw.

You don't need to do that - gaining progress on Day Jobs doesn't prevent you from accumulating Patrol XP.

As to particular powers, Time Lord/Lady is nice, although you have to be 25 before you access Ouroborous and 35 before you access Cimerora. And of course Physician with the rechargable rez, for when you get one of *those* teams.

Spreading misinformation erodes the confidence of players and makes it harder for them to learn. Maybe we failed the Terra Volta respec because that one Scrapper kept rounding up all the spawns and dragging them onto the unprotected bubbler... or maybe we failed because I clicked one of those glowies? Did we fail the STF because both Tanks were in melee with Ghost Widow, or was it because the Controller was using Blackwand, which heals her?

Misinformation has a way of leaking out of game. City of Heroes? Yeah, I played that, but I quit. One endgame raid had this bit where you had to take down eight identical pylons in a very specific order or you failed, and unless you had someone who knew the right order or looked it up on the Wiki you were basically wasting four hours of gameplay up to that point.

Making arbitrary pronouncements and then kicking people from the team for questioning them is the sign of a bad leader, one who wants to intimidate the team and make them feel stupid rather than work on their own skill at the game and at leading.

And finally... maybe some of us just prefer the truth.

Blizzard has tons more money and programmers to throw at new systems... just saying.

What happened was that they made a design for City Vault that worked quite well when they tested it on the internal test server with 20 dev characters, but when they tried scaling it up they found on 11 servers with hundreds of thousands of characters it would cause so much lag it made the game unplayable.

At this point their options were "start back at square one", which means programmers who were supposed to be free by then would still be working on City Vault, which means other planned features would have to be delayed or scrapped, or "put the whole City Vault on ice until someone comes up with a better way to make it work".

The point is, this was something they were working on when it was mentioned in the State of the Game, and they didn't know they'd have to scrap it eventually.

Yes, shame on them for mentioning they were working on something that several months later turned out to have unsolvable problems. How dare they get our hopes up like that.

Essentially, if you're *under* Domination, the bar is "filled". It doesn't empty out (and need building up again) until after Domination wears off.

It's probably working as intended, since one of the stated goals of the Dominator revamp a while back was not to mess too much with permaDom characters.

EDIT: The main buff of Domination is that all mezzes are stronger. You know how you need to put two Holds at a time on a Boss before it's held? For a Dominator under Domination, a single Hold mezzes a Boss. There used to be a major damage buff as well, but since the aforementioned Dominator revamp, there's less of a difference between damage in and out of Domination.

Given that any mentions of plans and/or schedules will be taken to be a legally binding promise, and trumpeted as a LIE if it falls through... I'd say "not saying a damn thing until you're 100% sure" would be a far better strategy.

Man, I hate this lack of communication over the *real* issues. I'm quitting.

IIRC, I only got two replies and couldn't really make much of either, so I kind of forgot about it.

It's cynical to think that a State of the Game address will mostly be about the current state of the game?

The presents don't do that either. They scale to zone level. Atlas is a 1-6 zone, you will never see level 8 snowmen there. And there are absolutely places where level 1 Hellions are next to level 6 Hellions - just look south of the Atlas statue.

If you are a level 1 in Atlas, or a level 20 in Talos, or a level 30 in Brickstown, there are things in this zone that can kill you. There is no excuse for not paying attention and rushing through to your target like you're level 50. It is not someone else's responsibility to remove any obstacles in your way so you are not unduly inconvenienced, no matter what your culture tells you.

This is a very "damned if they do, damned if they don't" situation.

1) Hundreds of minions swarm you and you get a "can't touch this" power. For some people, it's a "I'm the god, I'M THE GOD!" moment. For others, it's a "yawn, can I go back to doing the same thing except with good rewards?" moment.

2) Hundreds of -1 Underlings swarm you. For some, it's a "pathetic humans, COWER BEFORE ME" moment. For others, it's a "I'm only winning 'cause the deck is stacked, boring" moment.

3) Hundreds of regular minions swarm you. For some, it's a "the odds were against me, but through judicious use of my talents, I came out ahead and it was AWESOME" moment. For others, it's a "I died like twenty times on this. why do I feel *less* powerful now? /drop_mission forever" moment.

Obviously this thread is about the new To Insure Prompt Service missions. Don't you read the patch notes?

How is it so much *worse* to run into a spawn of level 6 snowmen in Atlas than to run into a spawn of level 6 Hellions? Is it because the Hellions are spawned by the cold, unfeeling RNG while you *know* a player is behind the snowmen, so you have an actual person you can blame?

If there was, even less people would play villains than are playing now.

Even if they write entirely new code with all the existing and future systems in mind, with helpful comments on every section, there will *still* be "oops, changing that seems to have broken something in a completely unrelated place". It's unavoidable in a project of this size.

This worked for me! Delete the checksum, flush the DNS, and reverse the polarity of the taychon flow, and it's fixed.

And that's *all* that defines a real hero..