Intermipants

Four tanks and three controllers on every team! Fling fire with reckless abandon my friends! What a time to be alive!

Reactive regeneration works better the more often you get hit and so I’ve gone with a secondary that allows me to get hit often but softly - kinetic melee. I also like the thematic synergy where the healthy regen primary is complemented by a secondary that looks like a morning yoga class.

It’s gotta be Dr. Aeon for me - noisy, untrustworthy, and hilarious, a bit like my trousers after a curry. Shoutout to Frostfire too for being a legend.

I’m in the same boat. I was absolutely devastated when I used the Wedding Band in the final AV fight on an ITF and realized I hadn’t switched it off while I was selling my stuff at Wents afterwards. I had used up at least four minutes of it in the shops. Devastated.

I love that the game allows me to be creative by providing a vast array of power set combos, costumes, and different ways to play. It’s a blank canvas that can bring to life some of the things that I imagine. I love that it satiates my apparent need to create superheroes with stupid names like Disorient Express and Careless Crisper. I love that it also feeds my analytical side where I can plan for hours about things like getting an extra 0.75 ranged defense without sacrificing recharge. I love that I can meet people who make me laugh and have fun on PUGs (I more or less play exclusively on PUGs on excelsior). I love that the game I started playing before my kids were born I now play with them. Thanks Scarlet Shocker for a brilliant post - too often I take the things I love for granted, it’s great to have an opportunity to say thanks to the devs for bringing this game back and looking after it and the community so well.

Thinking of the very starting game in 2004.

Ahoy everyone. I was on a few PUGs tonight and there were lots of new players - which I love and think is a brilliant thing. I always try to encourage new players as much as possible and compliment their costumes etc. because it’s great to add new people to the game and I don’t want them to disappear, and also because it’s dawning on me that this is probably quite a difficult game/world to jump into the first time around. I think it’s much more intimidating than it was when I first started on live. When I first started playing ages ago on live I didn’t even know what an MMO was and it blew my mind that the players with blue names were real people (that’s really quite embarrassing to admit – I think I was in my late 20s at the time!) Needless to say, with that starting point it took me a long time to learn a lot of nuances of the game. I play loads and got back on in 2019 and even today I’m still learning new things – I did a 100 badge run challenge thing recently and learned two weeks ago that blarf is something in Pocket D! Who knew?! Today I can’t imagine what it must be like to jump into this where lots of us know all the travel tricks, have fifty different TPs, understand IOs, can race through TFs etc…and where it’s easy to get overwhelmed. Having said all that, although the pace has changed I think the one thing that’s stayed the same is the kindness and generosity of this community and I’m pretty sure that’ll keep anyone new hanging in once they get into it. So anyway, just a bit of random musing tonight.

Apologies for hijacking the thread but I’d like to announce that I’ve decided to take my appetite to the Outback Steakhouse.

Thanks for the tip with the open gift! I got a 19:29 with my stalker. Used SG buffs on run speed and flight speed to move things along a bit. Also experimented with the invisibility buff on the warshade but was killed in Perez. Perez is so good though, that cluster of 6 badges - I just can't leave it alone. I also sold all my salvage for the Wentworth badges while I was flying around Cap, which saved a bit of time. Need to change my route a bit though because I'm still wasting time.

loved that run! The ski runs were inspired and when you told me you were doing it with a ws the other night I was blown away, great to see it in action. Quick question - what’s with all the Christmas packages? im still stuck at 20:25 with my stalker approach. I think I can get a minute off that but now im tempted to go warshade. also how do you get the timer on your screen? again, well done! That was brilliant.

Brutally dull conference call at work almost interrupted a blistering 22:45 run! My friend on the same call ran a 27 even.

Couldn't resist another go and I smashed it: 25:57. Sub 25 is possible.

This sounds great to me. I’d be up for it. I can definitely help with the first 100! 😉

So I gave it one last go and got it down to 28:06 thanks to Blarf and his nutrient rich goodness. 101 badges: 58 explorer, 20 AE badges, 11 achievement, 7 accolades, 1 day job, 1 ouro, 1 event, 2 gladiator. (Forgot to do the Wentworths ones which would probably have shaved off 30 seconds). That'll be my last go, I don't think I can go much faster. But where one door closes another opens - I now have a level 1 character with 101 badges which is the perfect starting point for the Snarky inspired how many badges can a lvl 1 toon get challenge. I'll be doing a few zones a day with this little fella if anyone's interested in joining. I spent a lot of time working on the build for it in mids and I'm pretty satisfied where things ended up but if anyone has any build advice or guidance it'd be much appreciated. Thanks again everyone for the great tips on blarfing, stalking etc. (it's not every day I get to say that).

Done! 28:48. Trick is to get explorations near to trains and SG bases, sell salvage, do AE badge arcs, and flip to red side as a vigilante. Echo explores are great and being a stalker is a must.