Steel_Shaman

Difficulty can't be adjusted in Praetoria (yet, anyway). What you are seeing is the standard difficulty of those missions. Scary, huh?

Solo.
I play pretty much the same way as you, but in Praetoria it doesn't much matter if you're a squishy soloing. For example, it's not uncommon for a single destroyer spawn when solo to have 4 mobs, 3 of them the ones that sling dynamite (sorry I'm tired and can't recall their proper name right now). How exactly is a squishy supposed to deal (at level 10) with multiple burn patches, explosions, and KB? Inspirations aren't the answer, because their supply is finite. And I would argue that needing inspirations to finish the majority of the spawns is indicative of a problem.

1-5? No.
After that? Yes.
I keep seeing people say things like, "well what you need to do is pull right, use LOS, use Hover blasting." Honestly the lowbie levels shouldn't be that hard, and they aren't in the other two 1-20 areas of the game.

Every single spawn shouldn't be a life or death struggle.

I agree. If I'm not mistaken trial accounts are now forced to start in Praetoria. In light of that making the content more challenging than the original lowbie zones makes no sense at all to me.

Out of curiosity, did the Devs ever respond to these observations in beta? I'm curious as to what their stance is, because frankly I'm having trouble understanding how they thought it was a good idea.

Thanks for the info.

If he's too stupidly difficult I'll do what I always do with such obnoxious game design: auto complete the mission and move on. No fuss, no muss.

I filed a petition on the support site a few minutes ago (can't do anything in game right now since I'm at work). I don't know if Ocho has been PM'd, I haven't noticed anyone saying they have sent him anything.

In response to your other post, I first noticed the issue Sunday. I had deleted a character to make slots available before GR launch and the little bugger just wouldn't stay dead.

I'm wondering how many of these threads we'll have to make to get a response? This is getting really frustrating for me as Liberty is my home server. I had plans for what I was going to do with the free character moves, deleting and re-creating some characters as Praetorians, and I can't do any of it right now because of this very odd (and seemingly server-specific) bug.

Solo I honestly can't tell a difference in how fast the fury bar empties out. If I go too long between spawns it's practically zero again and it doesn't "feel" any different than before in that regard. I can, however, definitely tell a difference in where it appears to stop building. It's a plain and simple fact that it just doesn't go as high when solo as it used to.

Is it a huge nerf? No, I don't think so. But it is a nerf, which is annoying. I can't say I care for it.

My first 50 was a Plant/Fire dom. The combo is really good. Just the other day I had a friend tell me "your Dom is just ridiculous." Coming from a person that speed runs and puts together highly tricked-out builds, I took it as a compliment.

I had to explain to someone how to get a travel power last night. First time in YEARS I've had to do that. It felt good. At least it did until he accused me of lying because he saw a 5 year vet go flying by at level 6. <sigh>

Agreed. The part that really confuses me: how does the game know which costume pieces we have access to if the online store is down? Obviously the game tracks the availability of things like the booster pack costume sets differently than it tracks character slots. I guess the big question is why should it? Change it to using a similar system, tie the slots to the account not the store.

To answer your question I'll give you the short form of my favorite MM's bio:

He was an expert in robotics that (unknown to him) was one of the millions of Mu descendants in the world today. The Circle of Thorns kidnapped him since they could detect the Mu power in his blood. They imprisoned him, along with an Arachnos Mu Mystic they had also captured.

Arachnos came calling to get back their mystic. All the magic being flung around in the fight awoke the dormant power of the Mu in my MM and gave him the power to control "the spirits of the air" (Storm Summoning). He used these powers to escape.

Which part of that story makes him evil, irredeemable, not allowed to do good works? That's right, not one bit. Which is why I'm going to have a blast finally getting him over to the hero side. He's not evil, never has been. I've just been forced to play him in the Rogue Isles up until now.

MM's are like any other AT. It just takes some imagination to place them in the framework of the blue side. Oh, and as for the OP's comments about Demon Summoning not being heroic at all? I have one word: Desdemona.

From the Forum Rules and Guidelines (in the Announcements section):

Mods can and will lock threads that have been necro'd. They don't always do it, but they do it enough that I would rather just make a new post than risk my question being unanswered because the thread got zapped.

For shame Klaatu, necro-ing threads is verboten. Don't encourage the young ones to misbehave.

On to the topic at hand:

My namesake Steel Shaman (robotics/storm) has the following pets:

Ohms, Amps,Volts
AC, DC
Tesla

Well, the easy answer is that's just the way it was set up when the game launched and it's never been changed. I'm not tech-savvy enough to know how hard it would be for the Devs to change it either. I can see the potential benefits, but I have no idea the cost involved. I will admit if the devs did enable non-unique character names I think I'd be a little more open to moving characters.

Out of curiosity, what powersets/AT's did you solo with in Praetoria?

You bet we are.
I'm really looking forward to it.

You completely missed the point I was trying to make earlier.
Here we go:
1) My first 50 was a Dom, doms are the AT I play the most. I think I "get" the AT and play it well.
2) I have solo'd many PToD EB's on my Doms.
3) Here's the part you have apparently misunderstood: I DON'T LIKE DOING SO. I find it annoying. Not impossible, annoying. And since I've been playing this game for a long time, that annoyance has been picking at me for a long time. I passed the point of being willing to put up with it literally years ago.

Combine #3 above with all the little annoyances Doms have to put up with (like Arachnos Lt's with Boss level (or higher) mez resistance) and I will be mighty glad to get the heck out of the Rogue Isles on every single one of my Dom's come GR launch. And I will never create another Dom there again.

If any of the above came off as too strong, my apologies. Slashman, you jumped straight to the "you don't know how to play a Dom" schtick in your first reply to me, and to be frank that's one of my hot buttons. I hope I remained civil in my attempt to clarify my feelings on the matter.