And that is how I learned...

Arcanaville · 09-07-2011 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Zortel

Sprint detoggles Granite Form and Rooted. This is a Bad Thing.

And every Granite Tanker has probably done it at least once. For those that don't play Stone, protip: when the game says Granite is "exclusive" of powers like the other Stone armors or travel powers, that doesn't mean you cannot use them while Granite is up. What that means is if you activate any of those toggles Granite will turn off.

The instinct to turn on sprint when you're moving around in a mission and you're slow can be overpowering, and it only takes a moment of forgetfulness to make life suddenly very interesting.

As to the Nova one, when the very first Winter event happened and the lakes froze, I invented a goofy stunt I posted onto the forums where I would superspeed towards a group of hydra in perez, jump over them, and as I passed overhead I would activate Nova. I would land, keep on going, and as I turned to look behind if I timed it right the hydra would explode behind me apparently from nothing.

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Aipaloovik · 09-07-2011 12:33 PM

And another one from last night...

I was showing off a bit for my kids and running a tip mission against some pretty nasty spawns of Freakshow. I was running solo +0x6 with bosses. I had just finished a group with a couple of tanks and was end and health drained and waiting for soul drain, dark consumption and shield charge to recharge. I was standing just out of aggro range of a double spawn going over my tray of candy to decide if I could take both spawns at the same time. The conversation went something like this.

S: Dad, that was a cool battle, I can't believe you killed all those guys, even that huge one that came back to life.
D: Yeah, that was a pretty epic battle, and Freaks can self res. Wait until you see the next one against the double spawn.
S: What are you waiting for?
D: Waiting on powers to recharge and to get a little health back.
S: That guy is cool looking (Son touches the named Freak boss tank on the screen)
D: Yeah and look at his crazy name.
S: Oh yeah, that's funny. Hey, what does this power do? (Touches some ranged temp attack. Daggers I think)

... and suddenly I am descended upon by a full implement of double spawned Freakshow pain. Now Alfa Stryke fought valiantly for the pride of family, but sadly ended up in the hospital.

And that's how I learned not to let my kids watch me play on the TOUCHSCREEN computer!

He was actually very apologetic, but I was laughing. Good times! A scrapper that has no debt is hardly a scrapper at all. And whats with this patrol xp crap? A self respecting hero can't even sit on the debt cap overnight anymore.