Amarsir

I did the vigilante arc for the Avenger badge and rouge for the Diamond in the Rough badge. The difficulty seemed in line to me. (Although I was exemplared so it's harder to say.) Blue side, the tone felt exactly right. It's exactly what separates a vigilante from a hero. And the inclusion of Chain of Custody was a smart detail I never expected to see in a superhero story. Unfortunately I felt the overall story was obvious and cliche. Frankly I don't know why an office building was supposed to be so valuable when even the Clockwork can afford to rent dozens of them. ;) The cutscene at the end made up for any weaknesses though. Appropriately epic. Over on the red side, the conversation I picked with Amphitryon had me laugh out loud. Which does not come easily. I did feel the casino dialogue was a little disjointed. I went there because someone mentioned the name "Bronte", but in the conversation Rancid didn't mention Bronte at all and only mentioned "Arc Flash". So how did the name Bronte get to my contact? It didn't line up. (Small detail though. Stories do that all the time.) This plot was better than the previous one. The premise was very simple, but that works for a rogue. And then it took an unexpected path such that I was interested in the outcome. Plus a variety of enemies is always appreciated.

Good timing. I'm currently working up a build for my own Plant/Storm. I should probably follow your lead and build for resistances but I'm not yet smart enough to have that much caution.

Well that makes a lot of sense. Thanks!

So I've learned that Set IOs share a pool and made use of that (buying only Attuned). I believe I've read that Hami-Os are the same, and that Synth HOs are in that same pool. How about Hydra-Os? Can someone sell a 37 Neutrino Exposure and it comes out the other side to someone buying a 50?

Disregard. It got worse to the point where no character could load hero side, but then I re-validated and it's fine now.

This started occurring yesterday afternoon. I have two characters that are offline in Steel Canyon. When I pick either of them from character selection, the loading screen gets halfway and then the whole client crashes. I have tried running the game in safe mode and the problem was exactly the same. Characters in other locations can load and play, and I didn't have a problem traveling into Steel Canyon once already online. (Certainly I haven't exhaustively tried all locations, but these are the only problems so far.) Is there anything I can try to improve this? (Issue is on Torchbearer.)

Good to know I'm not alone at least. It seems to work about 10-20% of the time. Both in my own attempts and when I wind up on a team where 6 of 8 people vanished.