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Minor? Apex gives 40 merits and 2 shards. That's pretty decent for something that takes under an hour to complete imo.

Dark/dark really is awesome. By far my favourite powersets.

My dark/dark/soul corruptor is usually faster than the team tank with getting to groups, taking them out with fearsome stare, tarpatch and darkest night. I could clear whole maps set for x8 safely with her, were it not that it would take forever to actually kill all of it.

The only synapse I ever did was recently with that character (I'm a villain at heart and that character is my main and badger). We started with 7, were left with 4 by the second mission and me as the 'tank' and pacesetter over the 2 scrappers we had. Whole thing still took almost 3 hours though. I hate clockwork.

As for characters I dislike. Dissonant, my energy/sonic corruptor, springs to mind. I love her concept, her costume, her name ... but she's just really tedious to play solo or in small groups. Firstly she sucks end like mad, even with an end red in every attack. I love energy blast on my blaster, but it's rather sub par on corruptors as far as damage output is concerned. But mostly I dislike is that she doesn't have a reliable way to defend herself. No reliable crowd control, no massive damage and no heals. All she has is a stack of resistance which isn't all that usefull without the HP to back it up and KB, which I like, but always fails to work at the worst moments. I leveled her to 50 in Strike Forces and Double xp weekend teams mostly. I like her well enough in large teams.

Maybe I should just IO her out and see how she does then. But even without IO's I already loved my dark/dark, ice/kin, fire/pain, ice/storm and rad/rad. They never felt tedious.

That's the whole concept any MMORPG, or cRPG for that matter, is based on you know.

People already solo high end TF's and people already 'cake walk' solo through farm maps set for x8.

The -4 debuff only happens when you don't have an alpha booster slotted.
Also the idea that every buff gets countered by a nerf is just ridiculous.
Where was the nerf when lowbe accuracy got buffed? (or was it tohit?)
Where is the nerf now with inherent stamina?
Also over the past few years buffs to powers and powersets as a whole have been far, FAR more common than nerfs. Invul, claws, martial arts, mace, dark melee, energy aura, elec armor, archery, katana, stalkers, blasters, defenders solo, tanker tier 1 attacks, plentymorethatIcan'tthinkofrightnow. Nerfs? energy melee, the ridiculously broken shield charge, and you could call the rebalancing of Psionic assault as a nerf overall. The fury rebalancing and changes to domination were a nerf to top end players, but most players are better for it.

There aren't any for my brute's secondary either. But just like with your empath he can slot a bunch of them in his attacks.

If I wanted to that is. I don't bother with slotting purples personally. I enjoy the ridiculous profits I can make off of them too much.

Also, I hate tankers that agro a whole room, far over their agro cap, and then let everything run amok, and then dare to call that 'herding'. Piss poor playing is what I call it.

I know the timer starts the moment you enter the door to the ground floor. And it stops once BM herself dies (duh). But I hear conflicting things about how it exactly works, so I'm not really sure.

Some say, that the timer halts for the second phase (the one where BM leaves and you have to fight off the ambushes.) and continues once she returns for the third phase.

Others say you need to complete all 3 phases in the 15 mins.

All I know for sure is that we did the whole BM fight thing in 13 minutes based on the 1 hour timer set at the start of the TF.

I think ATF is the best thing in this game since the RWZ, but I hope the devs are a bit more creative than that.

I think Ramiel's arc isn't all that bad really. It has a variety of enemy types, the maps aren't to big and the EB fights have a few fun twists to it, compared to other, older boss fights. It's a heck of a lot better than the villainside arc to unlock Cimerora anyway.

That's all fine. You enjoy yourself with the game and that's all that's needed.

It's still not a good reason to make *everything* soloable imo. I'm glad the Devs seem to agree on that.

Yep, got it yesterday. There's 2 teams on Union I know off that completed MoATF, which means there's probably a lot more than just 2.

I'm fairly sure you can get special chairs for that.

This.

Add to it that I'm really excited by the design of the new TF's (and the new midlevel arcs aswell! the hero arc is especially great imo.) It givs me high hopes for the rest of the 'end game' content.

It also helps that it brought a lot of old players I haven't seen in a while out of the woodworks.

Yea, the OP is amusing, but BI's ranting on the subject is just plain absurd.

Could you show me on the doll where the bad RNG touched you?

I did it on a SO'd energy/sonic corr with endurance problems. Knocked him back in the lava and let it wittle him away. It more than makes up for his regen.

Did you kill his clones he summons? They give him his regen. Take them out and he's a pushover. If all else fails toss him in the lava. It more than counters his regen.

Think a little. It helps.

Your perception. Because they really aren't. They're said to be as rare as orange salvage, personally I get the feeling they drop a lot more often.

Lol

No, I don't have anything usefull to add. I don't see how I could.

Had this same thing the otherday. Tried it twice, but it didn't help. Dropped the mission and bugged it ingame.