I have no idea what you guys are talking about LOL, but I just wanted to let every one know, AION RULZ!

think of it this way Wraith... are all priestly type characters healers (to use an everquest comparison, do you play a druid, cleric, and shaman the same?) the answer is no you don't. many people in City of Heroes seem to have the opinion that if you are playing as a defender (the "support" class of city of heroes) your job is to heal. period. nevermind that two of the defender specialisations don't even have healing abilities. (then again, people seem to think that those two are worthless because they can't heal)

My character in City of heroes is a defender who's primary abilities are debuffing enemy accuracy (making it so that the enemies have a harder time hitting your party) with one ability that allows some healing, but is more often used to lower enemy accuracy.


a good example of different playstyles would be the difference between Corwin and Silvea. Corwin is more of the "in the thick of things beating his enemies into submission. from what i've read of silvea so far I just don't picture her in that role.

LOL, I keep forgetting that Corwin is a Cleric

you aren't the only one Wraith.


and i don't know if i'm gonna pick up more levels as a fighter yet.. maybe later...

you know, in a few years when we get the devil of tides up to current LOL

Oh, shush, you. I'm getting back up to speed again.

No one in my family has yet explained why my cousin Jason (or whatever my aunt's grandson would be...second cousin once removed or whatever) came from Mississippi to live with us a week ago, but Jason and his wife and son are living in our other bedroom now. They were using my computer for job hunting and such before their computers finally got shipped in yesterday, so after one router hook-up I finally have my computer back now.

Jason's friend Josh was living here too, believe it or not, but he got a construction job out in California three days ago and away he went. We'll see how long it is before Jason and Family find a new place, but they're all right for now. At least he's an ex-Marine and a decent guy, and not one of those horrifying roommates like I had back in my post-Air Force days in St. Louis....

Wraith's post is the oldest, so I'll see about getting Sylvea running, then work my way through Karnoz and Corwin from there.

I also bought a 1 GB RAM chip for my computer, which puts my RAM at 2 GB now. I still can't Gametable 2 to run, though. I'll try to find a solution on the Galactanet forums; wish me luck.

In the meantime, go play in the Fun Room. I revived the Rolly-Polly Deathmatch, SEAMUS! Debate and go crazy.

I'm off to work the graveyard shift now. Cheers.

sorry ainsley... i'm impatient to get to some "new" corwin stuff.. i've been reading and rereading the devil of tides over on guru about 20 times over the past year, and just want to get to brustaag to sell off those novelty skull goblets. it's only good manners and fear of retribution that are keeping me from just copy/pasting the whole thing as back to back posts from guru to here so we can get cracking

If you want, as an admin I can access your accounts and copy/paste stuff for you. I'll have to reset your password but you can reset it back to whatever you want when I'm done. I prolly can't get all of it done at once, but I can have massive copy/pasting sessions.

Of course, that would also pose another problem when Corwin reaches the end of Chapter Zero and has to wait for everyone else to catch up. Hmm.

I could probably just shorten everyone else's prologue chapters and award similar amounts of XP, though...if SEAMUS wouldn't take umbrage at having to do more work (if work it could be called... ) for the same rewards, that is....

And seriously, am I the only one who sees all these red X's where avatar pics should be? That's so odd.

it's not just you ainsley, but wraith seems unaffected... and i don't mind having to "do more work" (if you count playing corwin as a chore)remember? Corwin started on guru as level one, and everyone else who were slackers started out at 5 Corwin was just a little slow lol not to mention that corwins prologue ain't over til it's over, he's been lucky enough so far. Just don't be in too big of a hurry to finish his out, remember, there's stuff that i'd like to happen before the prelude is over. (more on this in a pm)

i'll get started with the postyness to get the 250 posts caught up. honestly i'm going out of my gourd with waiting to get to copy/paste stuff. it would be more restful to get to wait to actually post a response that i havn't already read 20 times

EDIT and it is done... and with less posts since i condensed many of my single line posts and the combat posts into single posts, and removend non game related postings.

and lo and behold... the devil of tides is now caught up to the "present"


*is waiting for the hammer to drop now*

oh, FYI, the avatar issue seems to be fixed by reloading your avatar.

Yes, I've addressed this issue in the Portal. If people would read it, that would be great.

actually it wasn't the loading times... some of those pictures break the viewing plane because of the resolution settings that i have to have at work for me, so it was a real pain to read them. that's the reason for the spoiler tags

Hmm. What screen resolution do you have at work?

And weren't you playing Left 4 Dead just a moment ago?

i was playing l4d. at work i'm not sure what it is set at, but... corwins(and gwenlyns house) were breaking the table

There is a function to disable all smiley tags - or this is also a function to disable your post's smiley tags, so when you do a dice roll you can just scroll to the bottom of the page and disable the smileys. This will only happen for that specific post. I can't imagine you doing smileys in IC posts anyway LOL

i can see it now....


Corwin: CAST INFLICT LIGHT WOUNDS (verbal componant OMG Kil ths dood)
Preist of Lathander: OW!
Corwin: I'm in ur tempal killin ur mans!
Priest of Lathander:




also i've been reading through the "time of troubles" novels. i need to find someone who is running a forgotten realms time of troubles campaign.

What if the priest of Lathander's undead? Oh...right. Lathander.

But I'll look around for that clickie, Wraith. Like you said, smileys don't really have much place in IC chatter, what little OOC chatter I throw out is reserved for the little parentheses-clad snippets of cyan-colored text and I try to keep that to a minimum anyway...well, that and the yellow text, which is where I give you d00dz ur phat lewts....

...and the lime green text, which is for Our (Not-Quite-) Heroes and other (questionably) good stuff.

...and the red text, which is for bad dudes and bad stuff.

...and the almost-black dim gray text, which is for when someone keels over dead. Like that wolf who thought it would be a good idea to take a good running start and throw itself at Corwin's trident, for example.

...and for...yeah, you get the idea.