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Try clicking the trashcan again, but this time make sure you are looking at everything. There may be an option in the bottom right corner of the window to hide things for which you are missing ingredients.

You should be able to see the wide variety of things you can buy with a villain merits, and that will answer one of your questions.

Why would you do villainous tip missions? To get villain alignment merits.
Why would you do rogue tip missions? To become a rogue, so you can leave the rogue isles and visit paragon city.

I don't know about a clear and simple guide, but there is a lot of info, as usual, on paragonwiki:

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Alignment

I made a spines/dark before spines/fire was an option. Lots of AoE there. Even the self-heal is an AoE attack.

I wouldn't say anyone did anything terribly wrong, but people could have done some things better. Think of how differently the OP would feel now if that team leader had said something like, "We could really use your help with this mission. We're near the end but we're struggling." Then when you joined the team people might have said, "Thanks for joining us! What a hero!" And afterwards, even if everyone had immediately quit, you still would have been left feeling pretty good about your evening. Often times it's not the time or the xp or the debt that matter, it's how people treat people. It would have been nice if they had treated you better.

On the other hand, the team leader might have tried that approach three times before and had three people in a row refuse to join a team under those circumstances. I understand why you're feeling used, but I wouldn't rush to judgement without knowing what that team had gone through before you arrived.

I had a good time. The new Haunted House is great, but I wish there was more flexibility on the team size. I normally play with a group of friends, and there are five of us. That was awkward.

Trick or treating is always fun. It's a nice casual thing that you can do while waiting for someone to get a drink of water or whatever. How did it interact with the iTrial LFG tool? I seemed to have mixed results on that. Sometimes I could trick or treat while in the queue and sometimes I couldn't. I'm not sure what was up with that. When it worked it was great, because otherwise waiting in the queue is pretty lame. I like finding odd locations to trick or treat, like the helicopter in the front yard of the Vanguard base (but not the one on the roof for some reason).

I only ever saw the GMs when I was solo in the Shadow Shard. Just odd luck, I guess.

I also like the zombie invasions. Again, it's something you can do while waiting in the LFG queue, and it's pretty easy to get people together spontaneously, and it scales based on participants just fine. I did get killed while AFK once, but that's no big deal. And the xp seems pretty miserable. I loved the huge zombies, though I can see how that was just a bug and won't be repeated. I'm still glad I got to see it. It seems to me the event works better in some zones than others. Talos is perfect because of that hill. It's a natural gathering spot that's close to the T but not close to the police drones. In other zones it's hard to get together a big enough group to spawn the bigger baddies. That hill is my favorite thing about Talos and I think every zone should have a similar spot.

I didn't do the Banner event this year. I'm sure the leagues did help, but I wasn't on all that much during the event and I just didn't have an opportunity. I like the design of the event, but I think the problem is the spontaneity. It really does require some coordination and a decent volume of players. In a way, I think this sort of mechanic would be much better in an iTrial. Since you have multiple teams, you ought to be giving them multiple jobs, or simultaneous jobs in different spots. That's a great use of the league mechanic. It hardly matters that you have three teams working together if every player is zerging BAB. I wonder if for next year the Banner event could be tweaked to be less spontaneous. Maybe players could choose to enter it the same way they can queue up and choose to enter the haunted house or the iTrials. Give players control over when the event happens instead of having it be random. Just a thought.

If you're really concerned about how often you miss, it might be worthwhile to get that hero stats program that parses your combat log. It's pretty common for people to believe that they only hit 1 time in 10, and then they actually track the data and find that they only miss 1 time in 10, but that one miss leaves a big impression in their memories.

I don't think the tracker is available right at the moment, due to some problems on the Titan Network website, but it should be available eventually at http://cit.cohtitan.com/

I have to say I'm surprised by all the negativity. I mean, I'm not planning to buy it either, but it never crossed my mind to complain about it. I think it's a fun idea to have a pack of things for sale that are tied in to an in-game event like that. Unfortunately, they missed the event...

Maybe it's a question of expectation. I'm expecting at least 75% of the stuff they add to the market will be silly junk that I'm not going to buy. In fact, I hope it is, because I won't get any more points for a few weeks. Other people seem to expect that there will be enormous, game-changing, mind-boggling additions every week for 100 points.

But this zombie pack does make me wonder what they might offer for the next event. What if, right at the beginning of the winter event, they offered a bundle with a bunch of candy canes, a permanent santa hat, a temporary jingle jet, and a temp power to boost your speed or help with mid-air steering like combat jumping or inertial reduction (to help with the ski slopes). And a few presents that you could give to other people. Or something like that. I think that would be fun (although I probably wouldn't buy it). But it might stomp too much on the stuff that you can unlock through the event. I dunno. I hope they're thinking about it though.

I'm sorry you didn't come to the forums sooner. If you had asked for help when you first ran into trouble instead of waiting until you were sick of the game and then coming here to explain why you are quitting, we would have been willing and able to help. Now it sounds like it is too late.



P.S. I don't think you're allowed to complain that there is nothing to learn about strategy, tactics, and combat mechanics and complain about how often you are defeated, both in the same post.

Because I don't say it often enough: Thank you, Tony.

I'm pretty sure there's something screwy with the trigger to mark you as a hero. I have one character who started in Praetoria, became a hero, did SSA#1, got the hero merit, then did SSA#2 and was not given the option of taking a hero merit because it said I needed to do a morality mission. I even have that little hero power, the pbaoe ally buff thing.

I've had the same problem. I sometimes hit Moment of Glory just so I can read the text without being killed, but that's not an option for most characters. In the Incarnate Trials I just give up. So much text, so much story, but all so hard to read with everything else going on. Storytelling in the context of a game is tough. I've tried to do it using the AE, so I have a lot of sympathy for the devs. It's a very hard thing to do. I think they're doing it better now than they used to, but I think there is still room for improvement.