docbuzzard

It certainly is possible. I'd say it was unlikely, but possible. If could be that the hash table in the database was purloined along with the rest of the data, and hence you could say the password data got out, but effectively, not really.

Nonetheless, it would be prudent for people who re-use their PS-3 password elsewhere to change it.

I really don't have trouble finding TFs on my server(not freedom or virtue). Yes, the new incarnate trials are certainly the rage, but I've been running TFs regularly since they appeared, and will continue to do so. These are PUG TFs, not specific to a SG or coalition. Maybe you need to watch the active channel particular to your server.

I'm not overly concerned with the opinions of Emmert as I don't consider his views on game design particularly smart. Posi may well have said such a thing, and then learned that trying to repress such things would be like the punishment of Sisyphus.

Certain people play MMOs in certain ways, and trying to suppress those play styles is a waste of resources.

Who cares?

No, but you certainly have an issue with facts and history. You are all of a sudden focused on farms, ignoring the concept of gated advancement which was the core of your crusade a minute ago.

Remember this:

That is the claim I was responding to, and it was patently false as I clearly demonstrated.

I would commend you for your agility in switching focus of your rant, but I've seen the trick before enough times not to be impressed. Farming has always been present in the game, and always will. The devs did try to suppress it for a while to no avail and gave up. Heck they gave us the ability to make any mission run at x8 which is pretty much a license to farm.

Is your reading comprehension so bad that you missed where I said you run it again the next day? Trying to point out facts as if to look knowledgeable when the fact is already on the table doesn't make you look good.

But farming is farming, no matter the duration of the cool down. If I'm farming for hero merits, yes I can get one every 2 days (slightly faster with conversion). I'm still farming nonetheless since I am re-running the same content in pursuit of a prize.

You apparently have no idea of either what your point is, or how to prove it (which given its shifting nature is likely impossible).

If you want to rant about farming, so be it, but nobody will care. You're playing an MMO, and like all other MMOs, it will have farming. If you're trying to play some nonsense card about the devs radically changing the game on us with gated advancement, you're utterly blowing smoke as I've already demonstrated.

For someone with a registration date like yours, your recollection is rather poor. Could be CRS I suppose. I've been known to get that.

Let me point out some history for you. Let's set the way back machine to, oh, say i1-6. Back in those days there was exactly one way to advance a level 50 character. Wait for it- yes, you got it- farming Hamidon. That was your sole course of advancement. It was the only way the character could improve. You would join a huge raid, and get your Hami-Os for the advancement that would provide.

You wanted another way to advance? Tough noogies. Suck it up.

Oh, does that burst your bubble and quaint history? Sorry, facts are facts.

A single Hami raid got you a single Hami O (barring the days when you could scam multiple buds, luckily that didn't last very long). You want another? Do it again - and that will be the next day since Hami won't respawn for a while.

Or how about we call you on the fact that you make claims about the history of the game that don't happen to line up with reality.

Heck, I could also bring up inventions. Rare inventions initially required doing task forces (or hoping someone would sell you want you wanted eventually). That's more gated advancement. Now granted this is somewhat different because of the market and the ability to trade, but fundamentally it is about advancement being provided the way the devs want it to be provided not "doing whatever you want".

You have created a narrative which suits your argument, but which doesn't agree with the facts. It's certainly your right to complain about content you don't like. It's fine to ask for something different. But if you are going to make arguments, don't distort history in search of facts to make your case.

Last night, I can assure you fighting that pile of Longbow Nullifiers on my dark tanker sure as hell felt like cascade failure. I monitor my resistance values in a window, and seeing them all go red surely had be alarmed.

Though back to the OP, I would say the real reason (as someone has probably pointed out), the main reason for there being cascading defense failure while there isn't such for resistance, is that only some sets have decent defense debuff resistance(as mentioned above, resistance always resists debuff). In fact in most cases users of defense get it without and debuff resistance at all. Hence once hits start landing defense crashes in a rush. While SR users will resist getting debuffed to a good extent, my crab has his defense come down like a house of cards one the wrong sorts of hits start landing.

Though if you leave out some of the stuff, fire/dark corrupters are pretty sick in practice.

He is right about corner pulling into tar patch. You will slaughter things with that trick if you fireball them, breath of fire and then rain of fire on top of them (rain of fire is my preference for clean up since it gets so many chances to scourge).

Yes, but now they can rationalize it more conveniently. </sarc>

Once I got my rare in Lore, I tried to solo a Rikti Pylon on my crab. I'd tried this before, and would always run into trouble when my envenomed daggers ran out at about 50% through.

Vicky didn't last terribly long on the job though, getting blown away before I was 25% into the pylon. I did manage to take the pylon down to about 25% health before my daggers ran out, so that is progress.

Oddly enough that odd quest of mine is likely the only reason I will attempt to get lore to the ultra rare.

Is this a walker or tracked/wheeled? Generally, the slight mobility advantage of legs is overcome by advantages of the other options.

I do get a lot of that ("dammit! judgement fire you bloody thing!"). Then again I run on a Mac and the interpretation business doesn't help my cause. I don't imagine my performance will ever be top notch.

OK, fair enough, I didn't get your point and misinterpreted. I don't believe the devs have that kind of thing in mind (given the inclusiveness of the current trials as my basis). But of course we will see.

OK, in game hurdle. Feh.

I suppose they are similar. I just don't expect them to make that error again. I still think giving an option to feel useless is an error. Better to flat out exclude the person until they manage to overcome the hurdle.

Considering that the trials don't have any hurdles to jump on board, (other than level 50) I would say they learned a lesson.

I wonder if they had level shift on critters if they would make it follow the purple patch (ie the hard wall)? If it did not, then I would consider threats past +5 possible.

Castle is gone, and was speculating. Positron is in charge of the endgame content. I'll take his word on it.

As for the hypothetical, it's not exactly germane. You are comparing an obvious act of exclusion to content (Apex or Tin Mage without alpha slotted is excluded, and that is merely common sense), to exclusivity on the part of the players.

Again, I really don't think they should have created the debuff playing option for the TFs since it just makes people paranoid about things. A strict limitation of no alpha, no enter, would have been wiser.

IIRC it was stated by Positron we'll see 4 level shifts total. Any speculation past that flies in the face of evidence. Thus it would be tantamount to doom crying. Hence I wouldn't expect to see any threats which get higher than +5 (maybe +6, but unlikely since the devs prefer to be inclusive).

Honestly, they should just have made those require a filled slot rather than allow the debuff farce. I suppose an emp or bubbler who stealths the whole time might be useful, but that's about it.

This is based on idle speculation which assumes the devs get a completely different design philosophy in the interim. While I suppose it is possible, I consider it highly unlikely.

Yes, don't let previous experience in any way be a guide. Just because we've never really seen that sort of behavior in this game (only in initial runs of STF and LRSF before they were figured out) doesn't mean the player base won't morph into a bunch of rabid jagoffs.

Yes, of course. Everyone I've ever played with on my server will suddenly change. Why didn't I see that coming?