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My point is that I'm pretty sure they can't do it.

Maybe they thought the team was wiping out spawns faster than the added click to debuff would matter. (Edit: I know that's why I don't typically bother with my mezzes on my Dominator when teamed with my friends. By the time I've finished animating the Hold on the boss, the boss has already died. Why bother doing anything other than just attacking at that point?)

It's been a while since I last played through gold side, but I'm pretty sure that isn't the case. While yes, there are missions that launch through the contact as if the contact was a door, which red side and blue side also get, most missions have you go to an actual door. (Edit: And gold side doesn't have TFs anyway.)

Depending on what you are asking for, we won't be getting any whip attacks because they don't work in the game. That's why Demon Summoning's whip attacks are whip blasts instead.

I think it's a general Confuse not always working thing. I managed to confuse Silver Mantis in a mission, purple spots and all, and she still killed me. (Edit: I should clarify that she did turn and kill her escorts, she just also killed me. And I know it wasn't the escorts that did because the 1st thing I did was a mass Hold, and I got all the supporting mobs with it.)

They're found pretty much everywhere you find level 36+ Council. I've been fighting them in paper missions as I try for the next mayhem mission badge.

I don't think any other KB protection power has enhance-able KB protection.

As per the screenshot in the OP, what it is enhancing is the 2 points of enhance-able KB protection. So the KB enhancement enhanced the 2 points of KB protection to 2.66 points of KB protection. Edit: As for why it doesn't take KB sets? (Because it does take KB IOs.) My guess is because the sets also enhance damage and accuracy, two things that don't apply to Acrobatics. Edit again: And as for why it accepts KB enhancements at all? Because it has 2 points of KB protection that can be enhanced and there isn't a separate enhancement type for KB protection. So yes, it does have a KB component to enhance, it just happens to be a negative value component.

To the best of my knowledge, that can't work. You have to be in the same zone to teleport anything. (Edit: Especially from inside an instance. It's the same problem of trying to access the AH from in an instance. You aren't even on the same server.)

Hate to tell you, but support types use this, because they can't heal themselves, at least not all the support types, and yes some melee like scrappers needs because their secondary are not strong enough and need the self heal to supplement their defenses. Think of shied for example, you do take damage and wear out, the self heal is glorious for this secondary That doesn't change my post. Any character in any AT can take the Medicine pool. That does not make the Medicine pool the Insta-Support Character pool. It is supposed to give your character supplemental heals, just like I said. And like you said, support ATs can take it to supplement their heals. That's what pool powers are, supplementary powers available to all ATs. Not the Make This Character A Support AT or anything else set.

Because the origin contacts of a given level range give the exact same arc (if they have an arc in that level range). So only 1 such contact in each level range is available for players, and they vary so players can have a (semi-)different experience even on the same origin on a different play through.

Actually, it does. Click Opportunity and select Detailed Info. It even gives the +100% recharge rate, it just fails to say it is the recharge rate or how long it takes since it says "+100% Attr(null) on self". And when you click the Vulnerability power and select Detailed Info, it gives the debuffs Vulnerability applies as well as the Opportunity cost, though it calls the Opportunity cost a Rage cost.

Our characters can start with auras. So if an aura is missing from the costume creator that is part of a character's concept, it helps to get that aura in the costume creator so the character can have it at start rather than having to wait until they get the requisite number of rare random drop Prismatic Aethers or build up the millions of inf' required to buy them from the AH to complete the character's look.

It would have a different name.

Looking through the rezzes, all the ones I've seen so far that are single target have the same range.

I have to disagree with this sentiment. Yes, Crey Juggernauts popping their force fields are annoying. Fake Nemesi popping their force fields are annoying. MIs and Illusionists going intangible every however many seconds it is is annoying. Freakshow self-rezzing because their chance to do so triggered is annoying. Super Stunners self-rezzing because any ally unit is within however many feet of them is annoying. Paragon Protectors popping old MoG and basically being untouchable until it crashes is annoying. The various AVs/Heroes with their own T9s to save them using them is annoying. However, it makes sense. Each faction has their quirks/abilities that players have to figure out and work around. It is annoying having to wait to be able to defeat an enemy or having to do so twice, or even thrice in the case of a specific Freak Tank who has both the standard Freakshow rez plus the Super Stunner rez, but I personally think that helps balance out the mobs against the players. Otherwise every faction is just a generic group with different names that can just be mowed down without so much as a second thought about what they can do, either to your character or for themselves. It gives the different factions a hook that compels players to figure out or overpower. So it takes a couple seconds longer to clear out spawns. Oh well. I've fought the new Council. Except for the Freem! surprise, they weren't anything different to me. Their explosions can actually do KB now? Okay. Their Galaxies can actually fight with more than one power as far as I could tell they had before? Good. And I'm still mowing down Council without seeing any of them get back up. They try to transform into War Wolves of any tier? They can't if they're dead. (Stopped several conversions by killing them off when they start their transformation animation.) I'm not seeing anything the improved Council do that are any significant problems. (Freem! notwithstanding so far.)

Yes, but the person that killed Statesman had to use a ritual that was specifically designed to kill someone with Imperious'/Statesman's incarnate nature. And you don't actually take the person that killed Statesman down alone. You can choose to fight him without direct assistance, but you are getting help. If only from Penelope Yin at the final fight, against a person that has not fully assimilated the powers he was taking yet. And as that person states when you fight him at the ritual where he kills Statesman, he wishes he knew the ritual that killed your incarnate nature too. Because he knew you were going to be able to stop him before he could achieve his full transformation.

But he is nigh indestructible. He is actually just a normal man that is quite insane. He has no powers. He's locked away in an institute where he and his fellow delusional patients are (not successfully) being treated.

Pretty sure I have been called that in more than one surveillance conversation. Who told?! Where are the tapes?! Whoever leaked to @Snarky is in a heap of trouble! The entire case has been compromised! *ahem* I mean, I'm sure you're just imagining things. 😛

There is the gold side mission where you destroy the Destroyer's Fixadine supply and they attack in the last mission in repeated swarms in a weakened state.

Suspect or suspicious.

@Greycat beat me to it.

Do you have an actual argument for or against the OP or are you content with simply bashing other forum posters?

Again, other than the KB, let me point you to Malta who has Sappers that nuke END bars with a single hit while also holding you, Stuns that never seem to end even when you're only hit by 1 of them and your pets or friends wipe out the spawn immediately after. Their lieutenants stun, immobilize, and hold. All of them as far as I can tell. Their bosses stun, immobilize, and hold. Again, all of them as far as I can tell. Their Hercules Titans merge into a Zeus Titan when one of them is sufficiently damaged, making them even more dangerous than when the fight started. I've watched Tankers get eaten by them because we missed the Sapper in the mix and the Tanker was suddenly less protected than the Corruptor with no available attacks. So no, I have a very hard time accepting that now the Council is more dangerous with their control abilities than Malta. They may be for your character, so you may need to turn down the difficulty, but between Arachnos, Malta, and the Council? There is a way to deal with the improved Council. Even staying at x8. It just may no longer be that anyone and everyone can solo them at x8 any more. Which puts them on par with other high level factions at the end game. Edit: Basically you are running into the original problems players encountered when the game first came out and they face planted into Malta et al. The Council have a new bag of tricks, so there is a new learning curve as players figure out how the improved Council work and how they can best defeat them.

I'm going to get a whole lot of thumbs downs for this, but I don't see that as a problem. You can solo everything at x8, but now one group gives you pause? They don't stop you, they are just a hassle for you? At full team size spawns? That is a good thing in my book. You yourself said you still cleared them. So there isn't a problem then. It's like fighting Malta as say a Corruptor. You decided to fight them at x8 and now there are 3 Operation Engineers, 2 Tactical Operatives, and 2 Sappers in the spawn backing up the 2 boss Gunslingers and the 2 Hercules Titans, and either you can't deal with them or they are problematic to deal with? Then turn down the difficulty when going into Malta missions. I have characters that can solo +2/x8 or +3/x8 or even +4/x8 that when I get a mission with a known enemy group in it, the first thing I do is turn the difficulty to a lower setting because I know that character has problems with that faction. Turning down the difficulty when you need to is not a bad thing.