Frozen Burn

Ice/fire/fire Blaster was my first toon ever and I just love Ice blast, so it's closest to my heart. /Ice Manipulation was "meh" back on live and I just made a toon with it to try here on HC. I am sure (and hoping) it's better now. Cold is a wonderful set too, although I prefer it on a Defender. I haven't tried ice melee yet - it's on my to do list. But I also have to give a shoutout to Ice Control. The recent changes with a fear component to the cone and damage added to Ice slick really help. And the Artic Fog confuse is just great as well. My Ice/Cold Controller is one of my favorites. On live I had a Ice/Ice Dom that I enjoyed - I may have to remake that too. So, in answer to the OP - "it depends on what you want to do." I think all ATs do Ice really well. You can't go wrong with any Ice set whether you're ranged, melee, damage, support, or control.

Most certainly Blasters can solo. Blasters are my preferred and favorite AT and mostly play solo except for TFs/SFs/Trials, and even some of those, I solo. Of course, lower-level blasters will have a harder time with soloing +4x8 as you don't have all your powers, slots, or IO sets to help out - even decreased size of inspiration tray impacts your survivability early on. But soloing can be done. At level 50, I solo all my Blasters at +4x8 through the incarnate and regular content that I haven't completed yet. My namesake, an Ice/Fire/Fire Blaster I even farm with at +4x8. Taking and using those CC and utility powers in your secondary, kiting, prioritizing target selection, using inspirations, using IO set bonuses, layering pool and epic powers, maneuvering and positioning yourself - all play a part in your survivability. 🙂

Besides the above old TFs/SFs/trials that USED to be started there, this was - and still is - a way to get the the tip missions that give out badges. Sometimes, people just have bad luck or have no sacrificed enough to the RNG gods to get the badge tip missions to drop. Now, you pay one reward merit and boom - badge mish. 🙂

I love the Galaxy City tutorial. And I like the voiceover too - no issue with it. I much prefer this over the Outbreak tutorial, although I will give Outbreak this... it goes more in depth with explaining things, which can be good for very new players - provided they have the patience to read and learn. But what new excited player wants to do that? 😄

I'm surprised I haven't commented on this thread yet. lol Despite the suckiness of Kin Melee... I do enjoy playing my KM/SR Scrapper (more so solo). I also enjoy her MA/SR sister and the classic Claws/Regen. But my absolute favs so far are Katana/Dark and War Mace/Invuln. Both are beasts and survive practically anything. SO much fun play.

Higher regen rates are dependent on higher max HPs - the more Max HP you have, the more you regen. So, a brute who has inherently (and significantly) more HPs than a Sentinel, will regen better. So, not sure a Sentinel is what you really want to do here. Additionally, Sentinels have a shorter range than blasters, so they could still out damage and kill you if they can stay at their max range and beyond yours.

Any of the main hero TFs: Posi 1&2, Synapse, Yin, Numina, however Manti might be trickier. Could easily do a Dr Q in 1.5 - 1.75 hrs. Or a Justine Augustine in 30-45 mins. No AVs in those. JA is a bunch of hunts and fighting CoT in a few door mishes.

I love my Fire x3 Dom! So much fun! "Burn it - burn it all!" @Snarky if it helps and gives you ideas, here is my build. While I am sure can go without Hasten, I do have it. I already have 1 of Leadership in and you can drop combat TP to pick up your 2nd required Leadership. Miss Blazepassion - Dominator (Fire Control - Fiery Assault).mbd

I too want a mini-mode without a huge bobblehead. I was so excited for this feature for my fairy / pixie toons, but then I saw the bobblehead and was hugely disappointed. At least I made money of the aethers I saved up for it! lol

My DB on live was also a DB/WP scrapper. Loved it. Lots of fun. I currently have a DB/SR Brute. Still lots of fun. Really, if you're avoiding Stalker for now since you're leveling up another... that leaves Scrapper, Brute, or Tanker. Tanker, you'll have bigger AOEs which is really nice, but your attack powers come later. So if you really want to dive back into DB and enjoy it, I would go Scrapper or Brute so you get the attack powers quicker in your build.

Door knocking in a league for the Halloween Event does not produce anywhere near the same amount of the spawns at one time like an invasion event does. So comparing it to the MS event, Rikti invasion, Zombie apocalypse, or Nemesis invasion is not an accurate comparison. You can get heavy lag with all the invasion types, it's just that there are more people who participate in the MS event since it's still relatively new and high XP rewards are really high and draw them in. The other invasion types are not as heavily participated in anymore like they used to since most people already have the badges they offer. I don't think there is really anything the Devs can do about the lag for the MS event. The spawns do not produce any extra particles or graphics that would add to it. It's jut there are SO many people participating in it at one time and you are inherently going to get lag. The best thing to do is to fight on the outskirts / edge of the league where the lag is minimal and you can still function instead of standing in the middle of the group where the lag is the heaviest.

This is a total fallacy and misinformation that started ages ago with the Mothership raid. The event code (and in mothership raids) is ambush code and spawns see through stealth auras and will still spawn / "ambush" accordingly. Turning off those AOE stealth auras is doing people a disservice as they typically provide Res & Def buffs for the teams. Mobs see through whatever stealth is there.

As people stated, FF is just buff and go. You cast your shields, and then blast away. That is beauty of FF - it doesn't take constant management leaving you to blast and fight too. Given this, it's sort of ideal for a Corruptor vs a Defender, although Defender buff values are higher. But in your case of casual gameplay to keep your friend's kid alive - a Corruptor is perfect. As a Corruptor, you'll also do more damage than a Defender. Just lean into your attacks. As for fragility, focus on getting yourself more defense set bonuses since you cannot give yourself shields, but you do get some from your big bubble. Picking up a def shield from your epic, Combat Jumping, Maneuvers, and even if you want to go Fighting with tough and weave, will all help your survivability, but for casual gameplay, that may be overkill. But these are some things you can do to help. And yeah, it's probably just you not being used to a powerset that's cast and leave it alone for a little while. I wouldn't toss your character at all, but lean into. 🙂

HC has also seeded the market with Rares like they have with Common and Uncommon salvage. we typically do not get to the price point at which they are seeded (1M inf).

I have heard this rumor floating around and I will wager this is a false perception. It is not supposed to work like that. Notariety has no impact on the open world or the events. Spawns are levelless and always spawn even con no matter your level or whether you SK'd up or Ex'd down. So, the +4 does not matter. As for team size, even spawning is based on number of people in an area. You can be solo working an event set to x8 team size and still only get your 2-3 minion spawns instead of an entire 16 mob group with bosses like you would in a mission. Only by having other characters around you (not even have to be on your team) do you get increased #s and then eventually boss level, EB level, and GM level spawns. If by chance notariety is beefing up spawns, then this is a bug. A true bug with the event. Although, this is the Mapserver event which is all about bugs, so... maybe that is "working as intended." 😄