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Even though I'm not a big fan of this type of art ( 3D renderings like this tend to veer to far into Uncanny Valley territory for me) I quite enjoyed the comic. Despite the Uncanny thing the facial expressions were overall pretty well done. I liked the writing, it read easy and had a natural flow to it. I also enjoyed the subtle humor throughout.

Very good job GG!

I absolutely love that costume and the idea for the rotting stages.

Don't let whiners bring you down.

I like.

Except the title that's just dumb.

The last Airbender? She's a waterbender...
Why not call it just Avatar: Legend of Korra? It's more consistent with the previous series.

Just took me 27 seconds from double clicking the NCsoft launcher icon to the login screen. I have a 2 year old rig with an i7 920 and 6 gigs of ram.

... ran it a couple more times. Even at half merits the reward is not bad for 30 minutes of the most fun TF in game.

I've never heard of the "no flying rule" before, and I've been running a lot of ATFs. All my squichy 50s have fly as a travel power. It's a great mechanic to avoid the flying-swords-that-can't-fly. Flying high has also saved my life on 2 occasions where I was slow dodging the blue patches. They have a -fly component, so it actually knocks you out of the air and underneath the patch to safety. Well, as long as you don't land in a group of swords anyway.

The only glaring omission I really want to see adressed is the animal fur texture being made available for *flat* feet. It makes no sense whatsoever for a catpersons bare feet to have HIGH HEELS.

Nope, not at all. It's a far more interesting place than the boring, flat Paragon City with it's one dimensional villains and boring missions. The only arcs I actually like in Paragon are the Faultline ones and the new mid level arcs they released since I18 (The Hollows is okay, though it gets dragged down by overly long and filler missions). The Rogue Isles, even though it has plenty of one dimensional villains, has far better story and arcs than Paragon City.

Also, are you serious suggesting micro transactions for actual content? That'll go over well with the playerbase.

Also, considering they charge us €8.99 for a couple of dozen costume pieces and some emotes (I think the price is on the high side of fair personally) do you honestly think they're going to charge us just €1 for a whole TF, that has original maps, designs, enemy groups, multiple paths (effectivly increasing the amount of missions needed) and new tech?

I think you need to stay a bit more realistic about things.

This is shaping up to be the best issue since, well, Issue 19.

Looking forward to it.

/dark.

All the -tohit stacks to rediculous numbers. Between that, fearsome stare, tarpatch and the selfheal (which is also a slight -regen debuff among other things) you'll have a hard time dying. Especially if you slot for some defense.

Fluffy is awesome. Doesn't do much dmg, but with all its -tohit (which stacks nicely with your own) and selfheal it can tank a fair bit for you when soloing.

Shadowfall has a stealth component, which is handy for ghosting overly long missions.

And then there's Howling Twilight. It's advertised as a aoe rez, but it does much more than that. It is also an AoE stun, and has a huge single target -regen debuff.

My fire/pain corruptor is awesome. She can switch between being a damage monster or a healbot in a heartbeat. Whichever the team needs at the moment. Add to that a decent aoe debuff, a very good aoe buff and the awesome that is Painbringer.

Imo paindom > thermal (the set it resembles most) for the sole reason that you don't have 2 single target shields to apply every 2 seconds (slight hyperbole). Instead it's just the 1 aoe.

I thought you Firefly fans (never seen it myself) might find this awesome/entertaining/hilarious:

It's from Patrick Rothfuss' blog. He is a succesful fantasy writer (The Name of the Wind and The Wise man's Fear) and a huge fan of everything by Josh Whedon.

http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2011/02/an-open-letter-to-nathan-fillion/

And yes, the guy's really serious.

Objective feedback:
The download speed for updating the testserver is slower. Definitely not faster.

Since a few weeks I had an error which didn't allow me to update the EU test server. I hadn't gotten around to trying to fix it yet, but now I wont have to since the NCsoft launcher fixed it automaticly for me. Very good!

Subjective feedback: I like the look and feel of the updater. The news and various links are presented much cleaner and clearer than on the current EU one.
I love how all the different servers are in one updater now.