City of Villains

seems red-side is still pretty much on the 'co-op only' for new content; but hey, i guess shared content is better than no content at all.

HOWEVER, i have to say that i am immensely enjoying playing my soldier (and widow) moreso than i've enjoyed playing a shade or pb.

was on a pug last night (lvl 20); the brute was big-headed and thought he could tank everything.  we did two tsoo cave missions back-to-back.  4 soldiers, 1 widow, 2 brutes and a corr.  we soa types just tore thru ink men, ancestor spirits and sorcerors.  the brutes had it very rough.  it helped everyone that all the soas (widow included) had taken their team buffs; but still, the one brute seemed intent on trying to aggro the entire map, which kept ending badly for him; but it was just such fun playing the soldier.  i'm not feeling the mega aoe love that i would be feeling on a kheld by this point; but i'm also not looking for mobs that can one shot me, nor am i worried at all about soloing effectively AND having fun.

the soa storyline + midnighter arc are great fun so far.  i'm finally where red-side doesn't have me dreading hitting the 35+ range any more (thanks to - rwz, ouroborous, cimerora, recluse's victory).  the pre-35 red side is still frightfully the same as when released; but hey, at least i have something new to do higher level.  kinda a reason to PL to 35.  not sure if that's what they intended; but it's how it feels.

anywho, just wanted to say that i, for one, am enjoying the new epic ATs.  from reading posts and talking to folks, looks like i'm going to enjoy the next 30 levels as well.  the only (cosmetic) change i'd want is that i could have arachnos armor on more than one costume slot.  doesn't matter if it's unmodifiable (like the 1st slot); i think having multiple arachnos armors/outfits would be pretty nice.

Yeah I am happy with my Widow too.  Very glad they took their time to work on the VEAT and didn't rush them like they did the Khelds. 

Also good they gave me more slots to handle all the new things I have to play with now.

Also have you seen the new stalker changes!? :)

the midnight arc i had participated in was the pre-30 one, where you go against the midnighters, as a villain.

now, i could see instances where we villains would want to work together with the midnighters.

ancient rome is not one of them.  so far, this is totally hero content that villains can play in and go do lots of good and be reformed and such.

after getting a crab to lvl 39 and having played the new content quite a bit more, i will say that i've enjoyed the few veat story arcs; but aside from the pre-30 mish against the midnighters -- the rest of the new stuff seems to just be hero-side content that (in order to pretend to give villains content) they have allowed villains access to.