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Oh yea, that's on my wish list to pick up.

I have been enjoying my ice/ice tanker. Good survivabilty and surprisingly good offense. Pretty sure i got a build off the forums for it. A friend has an ice blaster, though dev for secondary that has worked well.

I've played since Beta and this is my view. Though I have never been that good at PvP. Heck, I usually got wiped in streetfighter. 😉

My own experience, YMMV. I've leveled a bunch of brutes, scrappers, stalkers, and tankers. They all work very well while doing solo stuff, even though played differently. I tend to base the build more on concept than "best". I also don't tend to frankenslot for procs. Tankers I lean into survivability, Scrappers into damage and being a bit more dynamic in their fighting. Brutes I work toward being able to do either, just not quite as well. (Stalkers I like doing a bunch of solo stuff with them, but sorta like a more fragile scrapper) I'll say that the ATOs for each are with the exception for Brute's Fury, good. The boost to Fury is usually wasted. I think they could be tuned a little up, there's a large gap between a very well built brute and a tossed together one. Tankers on the other hand, you can be sloppy in the build and still do pretty well on survival. I do like where the tankers are currently.

Probably a communication issue between server functions since the friends list was affected and that's a cross server function. And while in a base, you don't have as much interaction with the world.

I don't remember the error message, but that might have been it!

it might be similar to when you click "get All inf" from the auction house from sold items. It's fine with X number, but if you dumped a ton of salvage, you get swamped with a busy message spammed at you. It's something in the original design that wasn't scalable.

I had just exited a mission with a team on Excelsior I was working with, we all hung on the loading screen. My alt that was hanging in the base didn't notice a problem, but the friends list was non-functional for him

Dark Astoria "Cold Hand of Death" and First Ward's "Scavenger" are the most likely to not show the icon. There are some spots in Striga where it will show the icon for mortician, but won't actually count. If you log out in the Pocket D Bank Vault far enough to the left, you wind up not getting credit, and when you log back in, you pop out the door on the other side of the wall. I'm pretty CDO about my dayjob collections, but they are fairly infrequent issues.

I ran thru the Halloween drops on all my chars, so got a decent amount. Still think the top tiers are a bit spendy, but I'm fine with the lower tiers. And I think sub-50s should get them on WSTs. For accumalting, the 2% drop from random mission end and with the WST is good. The seasonals are I think a good place for extra, especially with the extra costumes then.

There are a couple mods that can up the sound of the glowie sound. I think both are available via the CoH Modder. One is an annoying submarine ping and the other is just the sound turned up.

My do all the content with a Bio/EM Tank is up to level 19. Currently doing the blue side and will then do the red. then level up, do that red stuff, then back to blue. One thing I have noticed, more of the pointless, hunt a bunch of mobs on the blue side so far.

Bah I say! Plus you can turn off movement portion via Gull.

Yes. If all a Kin does is speed boost, I don't care what else they do. I was on an ITF once with a Kin that didn't even have Speed Boost in their power list. I checked because I figured I was just missing out by playing a scrapper who was being semi-insane, but then looked at the team buffs and noticed NO ONE had a boost. They didn't take it because it was "worthless to them"

It's just a short drop!

When I downsized, my Tick comics were one of the few runs I kept. “Isn't sanity really just a one trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!” "I'm here to fight crime, not stop it!" - this one may be paraphrased.

A friend asked me to join a PI radio team. I was playing my fairly uber tank and join near the end of the mission. We exit, leader says they're done for the night and I find myself in lead. Not really what I wanted to do, but OK. I do a couple of the usual roll over the council +4s, but then do the Arachnos in a bank mission. Total team wipe. To the team's credit, everyone came back and we did it more intelligently. So maybe a learning experience for all. We did a couple more missions before I called it a night.

Only buff I can think of off the top of my head is that fury builds faster

I mean if you're offering @Lemming, currently outfitting one of my chars with that. (Though I'm also pretty sure if I went thru my parked chars, I'd find enough purples...)

I had, but forgotten that that breakdown was there. This did give me a chance to brush off some old perl scripts

The roundhouse kick thing looks like Vorpol Judgement? Nice to see them building stories as well.

I started my new char with the same reasoning, though the last winter mission is the Lady Winter one? I got that by hitching along with another char. Started a bit earlier on Christmas Eve and got my 200 presents open by just running around, but they're going blue & red, so more opportunity for presents. I didn't bother with the ones you needed to buy. I'm OK with most of the winter event going away, but I do wish the Snow Beast costume was available a bit longer, and they could leave Atlas Park all snowbound for longer.

Discounting rarity and just adding each unique: (next pass will collate enhancements & inspirations) Avalanche : 23 Blistering Cold : 28 Brain Storm Ideas : 1740 Candy Canes : 410 Character Respec : 3 Endurance Imbuement : 3 Enhancement Booster : 22 Enhancement Catalyst : 23 Enhancement Converter : 99 Enhancement Unslotter : 58 Entomb : 21 Experienced : 34 Focused Rage Imbuement : 10 Free Tailor Session : 8 Frost Bite : 2 Frosty Aegis : 7 Frozen Blast : 15 Good Luck Imbuement : 3 Greater Endurance Imbuement : 3 Greater Health Imbuement : 2 Greater Protection Imbuement : 1 Guarded : 1 Guarding Imbuement : 3 Health Imbuement : 4 Insight Imbuement : 1 Invigorate : 4 Invigorating Imbuement : 2 Keen Insight Imbuement : 6 Luck Imbuement : 3 Precise : 5 Precise Imbuement : 5 Protected : 5 Protecting Imbuement : 4 Protection Imbuement : 4 Rage Imbuement : 9 Rejuvenating Imbuement : 3 Reward Merits : 925 Rugged Imbuement : 4 Snow Beast : 36 Sturdy Imbuement : 1 Tactical : 4 Tactical Imbuement : 4 Windfall : 6 Winter Ward : 3 Winter's Bite : 24 Total Enh: 113 Total Insp: 94

Since I posted, there hasn't been any code updates, so I would not be surprised to see it still happening.

Increasing the number of merits given would probably make farming less lucrative, at least via AE. They'd probably turn to some other activity that rewards merits, and there are some arcs that can be completed quickly. On the worry that prices would drop across the board, I think that's the point.