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Further investigation tells me it's Anaconda. And she doesn't want your help unless you've got Cole's back.

As to Katie, she just has one reaction for all praetorians: She doesn't remember you. At some point since you've helped her (or stopped her) she's had to deal with mother again and has lost all memories of the arc you shared with her. It's easier that way, you get the choice of telling her you helped her or hurt her no matter which you actually did, and it it's just another point to hammer home how awful mother is.

At least for the doorman, I recall the dialogue being praetorian specific.

The guy in a white suit with the big brim hat is the villain contact, but will also give missions to loyalists. Then there's... Angela Hu? (I'd have to log in to check) who is actually a loyalist.

I don't think they're gone? You can go and talk to the doorman as a praetorian and I'm resistance and can get missions from Vickers, Roadflare, Trina Furst, and Nadia.

Deutsche Demokratische Republik. Dark Armour is solidly ant-communist. DDR can also mean Defense Debuff Resistance, which is the reduces the amount of defense you lose to defense debuffs, or Dance Dance Revolution. Dark Armour gets better at Dance Dance revolution if you take Acrobatics.

It has an "in mission hospital" which is nice, except it's apparently a valid spawn point for Nemesis troops, so if you get defeated, you can be attacked at the spawn point.

For only one of the four arcs, in my experience: Nova Praetoria: You have to be careful not to outlevel the final contact. I've used this to my advantage to skip having to do the final Responsibility mission where you choose between Loyalist and Resistance. Imperial City: I've outleveled Katie before I could start her missions a couple of times, but I usually manage to get all the contacts for one arc. Neutropolis: At this point, I usually find that finishing just one faction isn't enough. I need to do either some pick-up missions or start a second faction.

You might ask yourself "Well, that makes no sense, chasing down one enemy is a lot less annoying than scattering an entire cluster to the wind. Why did they do that?" But then you remember that 1) Invulnerability/Super Strength is an iconic combo and Unyielding Stance didn't allow for chasing down single targets. 2) Target caps didn't exist yet, if you could foot stomp and not knock enemies back, you didn't have to dumpster dive. Twenty seconds stun... I don't remember the range crash lasting that long. It might have. It might have very well been the exact same crash.

When Phantom Army was designed you could six slot for recharge and six slot hasten for recharge. The duration is 60 seconds, the recharge is 240 seconds, so you just need +300% recharge to get it perma. You can get 200% from six slotting Phantom Army with Single Origin Recharge Enhancements, you could get 70% from Hasten, you could get 30% from Accelerate Metabolism. When Hamidon launched, you could get 50% recharge reduction from a Hamidon Enhancement. So you could slot six membranes and get perma Phantom Army, but it probably made more sense to keep hasten and add a couple Nucleolus. Edit: Okay, patch notes of September 18th, 2004 say "Increased lifetime, Aggro and perception (aggressiveness) of Phantom Army." I don't know how long the duration was before then, but nothing after that point seems to have changed the duration.

I just want to be able to make as many manifestations of myself as possible.

Yeah, my Electric/Electric tank is only level 45 and not working from a complete build, it's also a build that I skipped the fighting pool on because I hate taking the same pools on all my characters. I can run +0x8, but those Elite bosses are no schlubs. I was able to solo a mummy on my 29 Dual Pistols/Invulnerability sentinel, but only after it dropped me first because I had no clue how hard those things hit. And even then, it was kind of a skittles driven fight.

That is not my experience. My Electric/Electric tank had his regeneration floored and he followed shortly after. My Bane Spider wasn't happy with the one she had to fight either.

A lot of the gloom and doom is because of previous changes that have been reverted.

Cool. I wasn't aware it had a visual effect. That will probably cost less endurance than running Stealth too, but it'd be nice to have a zero endurance option that didn't turn off when unconscious.

I will, at this time, echo the sentiment that I wish I could make the Phantasm look like me the way the Decoys do. Actually, I go a little further, I want the Spectral Terror to look like me too. Edit: The Phantasm moves really slowly?

I understand the restriction of that specific ghost look because of particle counts, but would it perhaps be possible to have transparency as a aura option so people can make ghosts and other transparent characters without needing to devote a level 4 power to stealth or infiltration?

The rare salvage shouldn't exceed 1,000,000 information except by typo. If you pay more than 1,000,000 information, you bur right from the server and the information is removed from the system. It's a counter-inflationary practice. New recipes enter the system through drops and merit purchases. If it's too expensive to buy a recipe with information, you can just buy with merits.

Yeah. Maestro also took almost exactly one Phantom Army duration. It's very different from playing mind. Whereas on my mind/savage, I feel like I have control of the situation; Everything is asleep or cowering, I have picked my target, I defeat it, I move on. Illusion is chaos. It's like grabbing a pick-up group for one minute.

Heracles is down. Honestly, it almost feels like they calibrated Phantom Army's damage by "Okay, you should be able to defeat an elite boss jut before the duration expires" Edit: I am also attacking the elite boss, I am not just sitting around watching the Phantom Army.

Flash can stack with Blind whereas Gleam can't. (Though, if they're already blind, what is a huge flash of light accomplishing against them?)

Honestly, Terrify is an amazing cone, and while Spectral Terror is perma right out of the box, Terrify is easier to use and a more satisfying AoE. I did not do faultline on my Mind/Savage, but I did do Striga. I just ran my Mind/Savage through Mako's stuff (because a cat that can't vomit into your shoes isn't a damned cat) and Ballistas are so very annoying. I'll take the Illusion through Striga next, thanks for the suggestion.

Is there a purple triangles Elite Boss (downgraded AV) that I can encounter before Envoy of Shadows? The Envoy of Shadows is the first AV that just stomped my Mind/Savage and I want a comparison, but I don't want to level jump from 21 to 35.

I would not recommend shoving an arrow down the barrel of a pistol.

I'd be curious about immobilizes that provide knock-back resistance and protection.