HairyLou

Quick edit: Solution found: Microsoft Power Toys will let you remap the keys. https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys I have one of those really old Zboard Merc Keyboards (same problem sort of with Steelseries Merc Stealth) that is no more supported by Windows 10. (Apparently it's even worse with the zboard than stealth.) I know these are very much loved and treasured not just by me, and many of us played this and other games for a long time on them and struggle (sadly, yes) to play on other keyboards... ...So I wonder if anyone found a working solution or any similar product on the market. I know there's unsupported, unlicenced drivers but they seem to run int o problems with some software that look for "cheats". To be honest, if you have one of these wonderful keyboards and haven't upgraded to win10 yet for some reason, there's now a good reason to not do it. 🙂

Hero side level 1-14 I'd go for Twinshot's arc for most of the debuff stuff. It's long, it's boring and you do have to travel (so not for that one) but there's mostly "talk to" stuff going on. The fighting you have to do is mostly supported by (very annoying, slow) mission pets so it's a really good one for most of the different limitation badges. And scheses it's annoying how vague the badges are about what ouro missions count and doesn't count. For that alone I'm very grateful for this guide. Good job! Edit: One major problem is that most older guides rely on old information. A lot of content was added since then, including some really great story arcs. At level 15 hero side I've got an alt now that does everything in the game (hero side). A lot of XP OFF for that and I'm going a bit insane over the "Kill X something" hunt missions, but 1-14 I've found several contacts and special map missions I've never seen before.

Just ran in to this shitty stinking problem myself... Ran a ton of 1-10 missions and only got the bronze medal and refrained form the first arc. Just ran another arc (twinshot thingy) to see if a story arc would give me the damn badges... Nope.. Did count for the "5 missions done" badge, but nothing else. This reminded me of 1. why I left the game 2 years before shutdown and 2. never ever bothered about achievements in any other game ever again, until this game dragged me back in. I now feel like the stereotype of an emo kid; I hate life, myself, the game and everyone around me.

I posted a similar thing on the badges thread: I've done a bunch of Ouroboros missions today on Don Corr Lou on Ice (hero side, level 15) on Torchbearer. The first one I did dropped Bronze medalist and Refrained. After that I got no badges at all, no matter what mission I select from the lowest level range (1-9) or the second tier (10-14). I've tried a combination of different limits, silver and gold time limits, no death limits etc and they're all "successful" when I'm done but no badges. Not even the badge for doing 5 ouro missions go up every time. I've only had 4 of them count for that one.

Are the Ouroboros badges broken? Been doing a bunch of them checking the time limits and 1. no timers and 2. no badges even if I clear them well within the time limits. I got the bronze medal from the first one I did, as well as Refrained. After that, nothing. (Also ran into some really bugged Praetorian missions, but that's another story.) Been going through the lowest level missions one by one, trying different settings to get other badges as well, nothing... Only thing "moving" is the "Do five missions" ouro badge (and since I've done more than 5, well... sigh..)

Well, you have to spend you merits (not inf) on something, but yeah.. it's not a very good system that way. To be honest I'm probably more interested in the general idea of how can you get a build with as many sorts of powers as possible (and how many purples (which would be a waste) you could slot). More like a fun though. I think I have to do a mind/psi build in hero designer.

Just so there's no doubt: I do know that all enh (lvl/attuned or not) are equal on the market. I'm talking about actually making the huge amounts of 50s I get, attuning them and using them on lowbie alts. I like leveling up, not much of a fan of the grindy, repetitive "end game" and very much not enjoying PLing. But I very much do like to level up something with attuned sets asap for that "super" powered feeling. Sure I can just sell the recipes and/or whatever I make and "buy it back" and save that one merit an unslotter costs, but... It's just wrooong. Sort of...

Now here's a weird question for you, and some of you might have thought about this before. I'm thinking about leveling up an "unslotter" to 50. That is, I want a character I can slot with my invented enhancements, attune then, unslot them and pass them on to my lowbie alts. For that to work efficiently I need a 50 alt with as many different types of powers as possible. So my question is: What build would have the most different kinds of powers? Sure, def, res, heal, range, melee, target aoe and PBAOE are stock powers of most build and most important, but if you also want to cram in immob, hold, perhaps even fear, confuse etc, so you can slot - and unslot - as many different recipes/enh as possible. What AT and sets would you go with? (Yes, of course we can just grind inf and buy what we want, and just sell the l50 recipes, but... That's not what I'm asking for.)

The one problem I have with Mez build is that he went for patrons. I'm not going villain for a while, not even to unlock that, so IF I do a farm build, I'd probably do a hybrid of these + Mez, but mostly because the Spines/Fire is such a fantastically entertaining AoE machine with or without farming. (Not sure what the poor sucker can do against single target AVs though, but given how over powered almost all sets always are I guess it would be ok, just annoying.)

I've played a lot of Fire/Rad and Fire/kins in my days, but that was 10 years ago, before GR even. Some of the builds I've seen here mostly seems to be for farming purposes but I'd be interested in seeing a good general build mostly focused on team play but still soloable. Just hit 31 with my first alt sicne I came back and there's so many changes my old school knowledge is sort of useless. (Changes to SB, Bonfire etc, new enh sets, heck even incarnate is new to me.) So what's you're take on it? What route do I take with the incarnate? Do I really beef up def and/or res with fight pool for team play? (I took leadership pool instead for the team buffs.)

I started playing yesterday on my dual monitor setup. Worked fine. Today, the second monitor completely loses (flickers on/off sort of) it when I start up the game. Running windowed mode at the moment, but that's not really ideal. Have not updated my drivers or anything like that. Worth noting is tat it also slows down the game itself a lot.