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We're never more dangerous than when we're dead! #yellowbeard

I'd prefer the MT to refuse to activate if a mission is not selected. I certainly don't want a mission auto-selected unless it's the only one in the team leaders list.

My SR didn't. 😄 darn eyeballs.

Beta here too. It happened enough and not just vs Kins. Maybe it was more prevalent on Justice. And at some point, people seemed to have more experience with the different powersets and got more flexible. Nowadays, most pugs seem to figure things out with what winds up joining though an occasional AT swap will happen.

Yea, this wasn't a challenge mode, but since there are usually a stream of them starting, I wasn't too put off at the time. And I have taken advantage of the leveling up via ITF enough that I did run +4/x8 for others with my tougher characters. Need to start those up again

Somewhere in the ancient past, Empathy was king and if you were a Kinetic, you were looked down on and sometimes wouldn't be picked up for a team.

Not so much #1, #2 occasionally, #3 rarely, #4 just me muttering to myself when I misclick... On commenting on other player's characters, I did get booted from consideration on an ITF with a level 50 since I didn't have any set bonuses... One time joined a TF with a char that had a ton of dayjob buffs going. (I had just finished their dayjobs, but hadn't really played them for awhile) Occasional vet levels and badges are remarked on. However, I agree that grumpy pants are a rare breed.

I have blasters that have a pretty good survivability rating though I've seen others being run like tanks. That being said, my favorite blaster tactics are mass destruction since the best way to survive, is kill everything first. Or have enough recharge that "Rise of the Phoenix" is just a part of the attack chain...

I'm pretty sure the difficulty is +0/x1 as default when someone else enters. At least that's been my experience. On TFs, if you look at difficulty, it's just going to show your own. Yes, it's annoying and one reason I don't like leading TFs if we're going to run at plus difficulty since my comp zones slowly. (As a plus, I miss out on a lot of cut scenes...)

I have occasionally edited, but it takes a bit of oomph for me to do so. It's a handy reference, but with the caveat in that not everything is there. I'm very grateful it exists though.

I don't think you can leave Dr. Kane normally, so it was easier to just quit and reform. I think that may be true of most of the trials. I have often used Pocket D P2W during TFs though.

So far, in a dozen runs, once had to quit and reform after picking up envenomed daggers. Every other time, we've worn him down. Sometimes faster, sometimes slower.

I don't know if the developers here do what I used to do when I was developing for a different game. I'd read the forums and see what people were talking about and even if something was technically not possible, or some discussion went off in a different direction, I could get an idea of what might be a neat thing to put into the game.

Duplicates just make the counter go up, but it's often the last badge gotten. Odd thing is, a char I decided to get the Halloween badges on actually got all the different costumes save one after finishing Dr. Kane which was the final bit of badging for him

Ah. We had so much area effect including a blaster nuke that his pets were never up long enough to do much. And the merits were a nice surprise since I was just in it for the badge.

I did note that I could have Stealth on and a costume now. They used to be non-compatible.

Yep. I'll have to run a non tricked to the gill char thru it, but he mainly just took more time to take down. His damage seems lower than the AV at the end though. (Single data point, so wildly different results most likely)

You can do the other Max missions via Oro, but you're stuck with him in your contact list. It's a bug, annoying but low priority

We're 1/2 right. ToT works in First Ward, not Night Ward. So all the way up to level 29...

Note: Oro via a base and you can do First Ward and Night Ward missions as well. (For that matter, you could join some appropriate level chars and exemplar down to them)

A few of my characters have split off from the main to do a quick stress test of my build. Though normally I won't do that until I have a feel for the team and never with a char with support powers. And that's not an option with most of the iTrials or other events where one needs to follow protocols to succeed. All in all, if the leader puts down some rules, then follow them. If no stated rules, then just don't be a jerk.

Semi-related, you can get to Cimerora without having access to the Midnight Club, though you have to get to 50 without it. Then use the Oro in base to start Sister Solaris' arc and port to her. You can start the ITF and go into the midnight club via the crystal. Fairly useless, but semi-interesting. If you get introduced to Sister Solaris via Dark Astoria, that does auto award the Midnight badge.

Same. I think my first was Ether Bunny On the topic, I haven't done any PvP except as a consequence of badge hunting. And I suck at it. There are a few iTrials I have not run. (Keyes, Lamda, UG, MoM, Magesterium) I haven't hardcored a character to 50 yet, but have tried a couple times. I haven't finished running a char to 50 doing all content at level. (minus praetoria, but will do that before I hit 25. It's a low priority project) I haven't made a complicated SG base. I have four that have all the basics and a little flavor.

If I'm starting up a character, I tend to think, is this character more a Tank, Brute, Scrapper, or Stalker? Though that's usually the most RP I do around here. 😉 Looking at my AT numbers, I do have more tanks and brutes, but my main is a scrapper.

This is my usual setup. I don't have a fancy mouse setup, so most stuff I do is via keyboard or clicking, though my TP chars have the middle mouse key setup for that.