plainguy

Pretty much doing the same as cristelmoon1 and reporting in after the new incarnate stuff.

Alpha I currently have Cardiac T4 but I am just a few shards short of picking up Musculature T4. Once I have the shards I will slot it up all the way. I have ZERO endurance issues with Cardiac on. I have NOT tested with having Cardiac off and I should just to see the difference between the End Ratio. But as I mentioned Endurance is of no concern for me. I don't even bother looking at my bar for that status.

I picked up the ION ranged AOE since it works either at range or PBAOE. I have it T3 slotted to do damage to minions.

I have the T4 for the Pets, went with IDF. Thematically I thought it went well. T4 gives me the Incarnate only level shift as well.

I have not unlocked Destiny yet I will probably go with Rebirth for the Healing aspect.

I have the T3 in Interface Reactive to do extra fire damage.

For test purposes I use the fire crey cyborg farm everyone is familiar with. I also did a few others I see people talk about. Nutshell I was able to do them at 4/8 setting. Without a doubt the ability to hover is super great. What I do is go to the elevator area were there is more ceiling height to stay out of melee range. The pets are useful but ION is the big help.

My next step is working towards getting the Ragnarok IOs for Full auto.

If the guy wants to leave and you can't convince him otherwise what is someone else gonna say. Did you expect to post and have 100 people say don't go we love you.. And then tell him to look how many people love him and want him to stay ?..

See here is the issue as I see it. This guy isn't a friend. He is an acquaintance. Someone you play an MMO with or have an MMO in common with him. Once you get that then you can move on. Beyond that I think either you have too much time on your hands to care so much or this person is like a drama queen, or at a minimum someone who has some real issues. If you can't see that, then I have no clue what to say.

Just keep reading and re-reading your comment about him making friends or allow new friends into your little circle. It just isn't normal. Caring if this person you never meet or have a real clue about stays or goes isn't normal. Having a thread 5 pages about someone leaving or not isn't normal.

I say everyone pays for their own buff endurance wise. I buff you and it is always on you pay for it with endurance cost. Consider it a leeching type power. Only time you need to rebuff someone is if they die or they get drained of endurance. Or how about the option to either have the temp versions as it is now or the Leeching type effect.

Just like MB mentioned the new powers I can say if you have endurance issues then you can always pick up the cardiac incarnate for those times you want buffs but cant afford the endurance cost for it.

I'm glad though there are players like you MB that have no issues buffing everyone every 4 minutes. I have a Robot FF MM and I only solo with him because it can such a pain in the backside to keep buffing everyone. It was my first and last buffer. On top of they boring to play since 40% of your powers work on someone else and offer you no benefits.

Wow I didn't know about the pets. I actually was Tanking Darkstar at one point and I got one of those super inspirations choices. I really, really just have zero clue about what the rewards are and if they are good or bad. Still trying to wrap my head around this whole new system.

But I am big on follow Defensive and then force my pets to attack after provoking mobs onto me. Basically my pets are reacting to me getting attacked. Which means that sucks for me.

No wonder I wasn't getting too many reward with my defender and such..

Well I can say this. I have an AR Device Blaster, Traps AR Defender and I am working on a DP Traps Corruptor at 31 atm.

My Blaster is doing 30 points of damage with Full Auto.
My Defender with Full Auto is doing 1/2 at about 15 points of damage. It is actually a bit less maybe 13 even.
Between the Corruptor and the Defender it was much easier to obtain full positional Defense Cap with the Defender.

I have not yet tried my blaster on the fire cyborg farm to see what he can handle. I do not think that my blaster though can handle the 4/8 setting or even 3/8 setting that my defender can. I do think just looking at the DPS though that my blaster will probably kill mob much faster and I might have some safety in the sense if I kill them faster I will have less to contend with in return. But I don't think there is much wiggle room if things go bad as there is with my Defender. I think with the defender I can literally turtle up waiting for my endurance to come back to do something, where as on my blaster I do not have that kind of luck. Of course I think all of that is because of secondaries.

The difference I think comes between obtaining defense a bit faster and less slotting with a Defender compared to a Corruptor. I think with a defender your giving up DPS but your gaining in other areas for example you can slot a power to gain you some regen or recovery or maybe a bit more hit points.

With a Corruptor your getting a semi nifty advantage of Scourge that kicks in below 50% health. But I see it being a bit more effective against big bosses, EB and AV then just regular rank and file. At lower levels I think Scourge does more to piss off a bunch of baddies and directs them at you and that sucks because at lower levels you don't have access to all the controls you would like and the tank / brute also is lacking so it does nothing but make you dead sometimes. It becomes an issue when you fire off an AOE and you scourge mobs at 50% mark. They are just enough alive to take there vengeance out on you.

As I mentioned and you somewhat commented on.. It really does depend on the secondaries. I think you could make your statement just within blasters persay. My Archery Energy Manipulation blaster is much better then my AR Device. Both have Range Defense cap but boost range and the ability to obtain range defense cap much easier with my Arch EM allows me the ability to pick up Aid Self. So I can run away and heal myself, where as my AR Device has no such luck. He can run away but still needs a green inspiration regardless. I do not think they can ever make it where everything is a good as the other set.

I don't know I really think i20 screwed up this game. People have been getting so pissed off because teams are failing these new Trials. I've been on only 2 days because I'm on a MAC ( Mac client was down since i20 came out ) and I have to tell you as the time goes by people are just getting worse.

You have a new player who never did a Trial as the league leader who has no clue how to move players around. Does not know how to use the new UI. So you have players cursing at the guy as he tries to figure it out. Even when I say I'm explaining it to the person, players are just going nuts. I've had players say I would kick that guy in the face. You guys all F'ing suck and should die.. It's like over the top insane.

Basically these Trials have done nothing but foster much more hate against other players. One BAF Trial we had one tank having a slight issue and as usual once the team wipes pretty much everything goes out of control. But it got so crazy during the last part one person cursed out the Tank, again way over the top and of course the tank split.

I even jumped on a team I though the guy knew what he was doing and he was picking certain players.. Had 3 teams and even that fell apart. He never did the Trial before. He was just winging it..

On top I don't know I sort of feel like a hamster on a wheel. Pretty much about 90% of the teams are through the auto pick up method. So your doing the mission even though you know you can't complete it for drops.

I think these missions are nice, but bad concept. Your just running to get the new powers so you can solo other content much faster or better.

Its 2 missions with 10 new widgets. They really don't explain how to use them or where to go to read up on it. Am I doing a bad idea by down converting some of those astral thingy ? Who knows. I understand they didn't want players farming the old stuff and have the new powers the moment this stuff went live, but this stuff is a bit silly. And 100 million ? Wow yea I have it, but even for me it's a lot. I surely cannot do this on all my characters. I could do it on maybe 1 or 2 even 3, but that is it. It would take me some time or a bit of luck to get it for anymore of my toons slotted with these powers.

It is as if they are assuming everyone is farming and can do this without even a thought.

I might not be getting my point across very well. But I hope I am making some sense. I am much better at public speaker then I am at writing.

Didn't know about the confusion aura. I noticed it on my Traps. My caltrops were giving my Trip mine damage.

For the most part a */ DM mastermind is a */DM mastermind. No one is going to show you something that would be considered ground breaking. The wheel is already invented.

I would do a search for dark and look at what powers regardless of what the primary are that dark players are picking. I am pretty sure they are almost on par with a Dark Defender even. That would give you a feel for what players are playing. As an example I know Thugs / Dark is somewhat popular for thematic reasons.
"The bad guy with dark mysterious powers that leads a bunch of Thugs"

I would also post maybe your current build. What build your looking at to go to. What your money situation is. I am sure someone can post a 15 Billion IO build for you but if you can't even afford DO's whats the point. Right ?

The more you give the players to look at in this forum the more you will get out of them.

Do you also understand Defense Cap. How -ToHit buff works with Defense Cap. Basically some of the game mechanics that will relate to what your doing. If not say so I am sure someone will post links of stuff to read up so you understand that. The sooner you figure that stuff out the better off you will be.

So you know I pretty much told support flat out I wasn't going to help unless compensated prior to posting my last post.

They replied back with a link to the test mac client. They also mentioned they are looking into compensation. So I would expect something for everyone eventually.

Further if you didn't guess by now they monitor IP addresses so they knew the moment I logged in with the test client and sent me an email. Just something to be aware of for future reference and keep in the back of your mind.

@ Baba_Kanoosh

Are you in yet. The impression I am getting is your in but under safe mode..

The only thing they sent me is the link to the mac us test client. So nothing else I can pass along to you beyond that if your still stuck.

Just would hate that your still down. I know if I was still down by today I was gonna go back to MoM ( see what I did there ). I'm just looking to pass sometime and have a bit of fun. I don't care what game I am really playing.

Completely talking off the cuff here..

Synthetic something that has 33% Accuracy and 33% Damage I think. I have a Travel power one that gives increase speed and endurance redux.

I could have missed it in mids but when I was doing a build I was looking at what I had in storage and what mids had listed and just could not find it..

I think all the hamis in mids are offer 3 benefits instead of 2..

I know the Hami is old though. I just recently converted my base salvage as well. I was keeping as a momento for some retarded reason.

I would work on getting your level shift. That helps out tons

Make sure you and the pets are defense soft capped or somewhere in that vein.

I would just start a pick up group for Fire cyborgs or whatever farm mish is big atm. Collect the tickets and roll for random bronze rolls. Sell them on AH.

Doing regular Portal farms is good as you can get lucky with some purple drops. But your sort of governed by the number of recipes you can hold. Tickets you can hold 9999 and you can drop recipes on the WW next to AE in Atlas or Cap.

I Pretty much picked up all my purples from TF and believe it or not running a radio mission at max to get my tip missions.

If your into the BM/WW market mini game, then you can play the market and do it that way. I have no patience for it and thinking about even doing it pisses me off. That how much I hate the market.

And finally Tip missions. 2 hero/villain merits gets you a LOTG +Recharge which can sell for 100 million or more depending on the market. Or collect 30 and buy a PvP +3 Def IO and make 2.5 to 3 billion. That would take you 60 days to do.

I have read this twice so far. I don't get how you upgrade a hami from 51 to 53. From what I read it was old defunct hami's and somehow converting them to newer ones.

Further I didn't know they changed the Hami's I happen to have some 50s and I tried to find them on mids and they weren't listed.

Can I upgrade the 50s to 51 or 52 ?

I'm a bit confused and I am probably missing something. But I am Tier 4 incarnate and I am Defense capped but I notice that the incarnate mobs still are hitting me A LOT. I'm a Traps AR Defender so I have some hit debuffs as well. I just notice I take much more of a beating from them.

Is it that they just have a higher chance to hit above and beyond the norm for their levels ?

When I am getting hit I look over at my defenses to see if I am debuffed and I am not debuffed.

I have had less issues fighting an AV solo then I do fighting regular incarnate mobs.

So anyone know and can explain what I'm missing.

I only did Lambdas with my Traps AR Defender so far. I just ran first available and at most had 1 or 2 teams.. So I don't need to tell you we never completed.

The first part running out side the building killing mobs seems easy enough for a mastermind. Enough room to move around no worry of extra aggro.

The second part going inside and killing the mobs in the yard seems the same. Enough room to move around without getting aggro.

The third part can be an issue if your team decided not to clear out the mobs in the yard. Getting the Gun Turrets seems easy enough if the yard is clear. There are 2 sets of mobs on the back of the building that will aggro with masterminds because I know for sure the pet AI will get all screwy and make the pets run past these 2 sets of mobs.. It just the nature of the beast with this class. If something is gonna go wrong its a mastermind pet that makes it go wrong. But assuming you killed those 2 mobs on top of building in the back you can clear the guns without issue.

The Forth part you go into the building and kill a EB.

The Fifth part.. Okay Issue. Your timed and you need to get Acid Grenades and Pacifying Grenades. Acid Grenades to close the teleport portals around the yard. And Pacify Grenades to calm down Mauraders Rage. After killing the EB in the Forth part you have 2 ways to go. To the right is the vators to the Acid Grenades. Down the hall past the EB is another set of vators that take you to the Pacify Grenades. Pacify Grenades are in Crates and Acid Grenades are in these Orange / Yellow cylinder tubes. Both items are guarded and must be destroyed for a random person to get the drop.

THE TIMER STARTS AS SOON AS SOMEONE ENTERS THE ELEVATORS.

This part is pretty much kill the glowy and move on. Try to ignore the mobs guarding the object. Non capped players will have issues. Pets will be useless as they will be killed just running to the next object to destroy. It pretty much is fast paced get what you can. Once the timer ends you will be teleported back to spot 4 where you fought the EB before going up.. Again this is where I seen the issues. Anyone that is not defense capped just kept dying. I think pet bubble players should be fine here. So summon the pet bubble up and run off without them.

The sixth part. Hardest part without a full set of teams. Some words of caution first. You cannot have Maurader go out of the court yard. The opening is right behind him but he will not go out on his own. But he will chase you out. But if he goes out the gate mish over..

What you need to do here is close down the teleporters or mobs will keep coming in. 1 acid grenade closes 1 portal, so make sure you don't have 2 players doing the same portal. To the right when you go back out there is a spot where acid grenades will spawn every so often.. You will get a message of it spawning. You can kill the mobs there to get whatever your short. You really need to close the portals. Basically the whole concept is close the portals kill the mobs around Maurader and then take on Maurader solo. Again this is all TIMED. Basically we failed because we ran out of time.

The last part fighting in the yard can be an issue as players run through the gate after going to the hospital and aggro all the mobs there including the AV. Do not run through the main gate unless you have some stealth EG Steath IO and SS. You can ride along the walls as the war walls and and get to the top and jump over. But do not go through the main gate they really have a long aggro range and will chase you down. What usually happens is player runs through main gate. Runs to Acid grenade drop where everyone is trying to get more grenades to close portals. Drags the mobs from entrance and kills off 3 to 5 more players.

So part 5 and 6 will be issues for masterminds. But even if not completing you still get drops so its all good.

Over all I find this Meh.... I would have much rather seens a Croatoa or Chimora type TF... This is one mish and done. And for sure this is a mission where you will have less success with a pick up team. You will need 3 players looking to get the right mix of players together to get 3 teams going for the mission.

Honestly with so much going on I just do not see Melee pets fairing well. They have too many AOE themselves that really add up. My weakness with my Traps AR Defender was I am lacking the resistance numbers that body guard offers. So even though I was still capped hits were getting in and when they did they dwindled me down fast enough. Of course the mobs are not doing smash lethal damage which is what my resistance shield is gear towards.

OH here is another thing I didn't think of until I read about it. You can do these missions if your not incarnate slotted which an issue.

If you modified the test client or did anything which modified a Plist and your not sure how revert back or what not, I would suggest you just delete the test client and re-download it again fresh and clean.

If for some strange reason the download hangs just stop it and then click the app again to restart the game. It seems to get it by the hanging part. It literally took me 7 hours to down load the test client because I just let it go and didn't notice it was hanging.

IF your still not in after a fresh test client install then post up so the pros can maybe guild you in the right direction.

Once you install and the test client updates you should have to do NOTHING to get into the game. No Plist modification, NOTHING...


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Finally, again I thank players like Cuppa and the rest for helping out where this game company failed to do. I get the issue and I've been an online gamer for 20+ years. I have beta tested games when requested and invited. But I really, really do feel it is not my job to mess around with Plist though I do computer forensics for a living and am comfortable around different OS. I really felt I was beta testing this for them. Basically they are saying I have no clue so lets have them ( the customer ) do stuff and see what screws up their machines.

Another thing that upset me ( I wanted to use another set of words ) was common sense should tell them that some people barely understand the basics let alone trying to figure out how to do stuff like modify a Plist.

I cannot tell you how many people use windows and then jump on a Mac because they heard it was cool. But then ask me how to get a windows program working on Mac or I tried to install my old music player and it won't install on the Mac. I don't even bother trying to tell them about WINE. I just say it won't work, because he next question out of their mouths is can you do it for me.

So this is how I see the Devs here. They want you to do a bunch of stuff and can't even come into the forums and help out. I sent them in only part of my System Profiler because after looking through it I didn't feel it was their business what other apps I had on my system or what other wireless networks my wifi was able to pick up in my area, I think its beyond there scope to know info like that. So removed certain stuff like that and my name from the profiler. They deemed it as I didn't send it in because it was redacted. Though I have sent mail saying otherwise.

And finally after all of this nonsense you would think they would just quickly come out and say hey guys and gals we completely understand your plight so we are going to credit you a week of play time or we are very sorry as we still know some players are still down today. We are going to give every Mac client player a voucher for a free Pack of your choice. Something to show they appreciate that you took the time and effort to help THEM out.

Instead you get nothing from them. This is why I refused to help them out beyond the profile stuff. I came to these forums instead and listened to what you guys had to say. regardless if it came from them. Because they should have posted the same stuff here. Again at a minimum faint an interest in your players having problems. In the grand scheme of things it would cost nothing. Plus you never, never know who is playing and who can't get in.

I really, really would like to know what these guys ( The Devs ) would do without Cuppa helping them out.

So thanks again to everyone