gameboy1234

2.25% is not high. Which power is saying that?

Ditto, I have the badges on my main, but if you need a filler I'll bring the Fort or whatever is needed. Don't want to displace someone who needs the badge so I'll leave my name off the list for now.

No. I thought: "How will I kill the wabbit? Wid my Awachnos cap and magwick helmet!"

This.

The devs have said explicitly that new mastermind sets are expensive to produce, and can't be proliferated to other ATs, so it's pretty much a one shot deal. That means a lot of development time and money, for somewhat smaller player reward and payoff.

I'd love to see some female and mixed gender MM sets as well as power customization for MM primaries, but I think the financials are just that we are going to wait a long time, if it ever happens at all.

Just pointing out that the VIP subscription is cheapest BY FAR. I'm paying about $11 per month right now for VIP. For that I get the Incarnate stuff, Signature Story Arcs, 400 free points per month, and a reward point each month, plus any other "VIP Free" doodads they toss my way. It's an incredibly efficient way to earn rewards.

Yes, you miss out on one shiny (the current Tier 9). But I believe the devs have said that any Tier 9 reward that goes away will be made available again at some point in the future. Either as a store/point item, or as a rotating Tier 9 reward. (I think they said that; I'm not going to double check.)

So if you're just patient you'll get all the rewards eventually. It's really only if you need the current Tier 9 that you have to drop a couple of bills in the Paragon Store.

I use Follow for this. Follow has a gap of about 10 seconds or so before pets revert to "normal" behavior. Your pets will *just* follow you, and not do anything else. However, if you use Defensive *and* Follow, you'll get both: bodyguard mode *and* pets that follow you around and ignore attacks by enemies.

Then just make a key-bind and spam it while pulling. Works super excellent, I use it all the time.



Nope, you're using Defensive Follow, not just Defensive. Edit the macro you're using (you can even edit the ones that the game gives you to start) and remove the Follow command. See if that changes the behavior (it will).

It's Follow that gives that pause, not Defensive. You can switch pets to Defensive right in the middle of a fight and gain bodyguard mode immediately and your pets will NOT pause, as long as you don't also issue a Follow command.

Good enough. If they're actually working on this, then good on them. I didn't know the devs were considering improving the LFG this way.

Almost: the pets just require defensive, not follow. Also they need to be "close" to you--actually they need to be in Supremacy range, which is 80 feet. That's quite a ways, but Supremacy is also blocked by Line of Sight, so small objects around you can take one or more pets out of bodyguard mode quite easily.

Hint: Flight and Hover are your friends. Get a bit above the battlefield, and there are fewer objects to break Line of Sight.

Also you can watch the icons on your pets, if you have them enabled. Supremacy is visible, and you can also see Tactics, Maneuvers, etc. If your pets don't have other AoE buffs on them, they don't have Supremacy.

Lastly, use the Combat window if you are unsure. Bodyguard mode is visible there. It will tell you how much damage your pets are absorbing.

Yes, this would be massive big huge improvement. Do you know if this is actually being worked on for 22 or are you just speculating?

Whenever I see the "Inspirations Full" message. That means to use them, because none are dropping until you do. Usually that means I use a yellow and a red and either a purple or an orange. Then I try to combine a couple into something useful. In a pinch delete anything I can't use or don't use often, because they're just taking up space.

Other times to use them: about to soak an alpha from a big spawn; have some buffs already and want to be even more awesome; about to do something stupid; about to do something awesome; it's Tuesday; or just anytime I feel the need to keep the XP and fun flowing.

So I'd turn down the settings to performance, and reduce the resolution to less than 1,280 by 1,024. Your graphics card probably isn't capable of much more no matter what game you're playing.

This, of course. Whether the restrictions are necessary or effective I suppose is open to debate, but please be polite when discussing the issue. The devs didn't do it thoughtlessly or without a plan.

Personally, I think we should continue on a while as things are, then see about opening up more forums if things go well. I think the archetypes forums should be the next set of forums to open up, as new folks and F2P would probably find them the most useful.

You mean like Placate? That's an interesting idea. Would be a good Tier 3 power imo.