Ignatz the Insane

Alice in Chains: I Stay Away

The Toadies: Possum Kingdom

I moved from North Dakota to Seattle in August of 1995. I arrived during rush hour traffic on a Friday afternoon heading north to a city called Lynnwood. I had never in my life seen so many cars, nor been in stop and go traffic. I decided to check out the local radio stations rather than my own cassettes. This was the first song I heard on 99.9 FM. After the song, the radio station had an advertisement for the upcoming Bumbershoot music festival....never heard of it. A week later, I went to Bumbershoot and watched: Deftones, No Doubt, Mudhoney, Reverend Horton Heat, Sweet Water, Parliament, Ramones, 10,000 Maniacs, and more. It. Was. A glorious weekend of music. Been going to Bumbershoot ever since. Primus: Wynona's Big Brown Beaver

Joe Satriani: Always With Me, Always With You

Gordon Lightfoot: Sundown

'Til Tuesday: Voices Carry

Breadfan: Budgie

This has been my exact experience on my latest solo project(made specifically to see how much I could accumulate starting from scratch), and I've had max XP on from level 2. By cosmic coincidence my character is also level 34. However, I'm almost certain the complaints are coming from players who powerlevel/team their way to fifty. This means far fewer merits and drops. Now, I have little sympathy for players who powerlevel to fifty and don't have enough influence to kit out their character immediately. But a player that teams exclusively could perhaps use a little help, especially casual players that have limited time to play. Maybe a modest increase in drop rates for teams? I dunno. I personally don't need it as I market enough to afford what I want.

When I'm leveling a new character with unfamiliar powers, I usually take most or all of a primary and secondary and try each power out. There are plenty of respecs available. While leveling, unless I preplan a build, I use a combination of common IOs and frankenslotting IOs I find. Again, I use respecs liberally to upgrade IOS and/or swap powers. When I get to the point I want to invest in a build and can't find the Primary/Secondary together on a thread, I look at primary and secondary individually from other threads to get an idea of useful powers and slotting. For instance, there is a Battle Axe/Ice build and an Ice/Shield Defense here on the first page. From there, I'd pick up Mids and put a build together, then post on the forum for advice. I'm sorry I can't be more specific, but I'm not very familiar with either Battle Axe or Shield. You could help us help you by being a bit more specific in what you want: budget is important, but a sample build is even more helpful.

The Crystal Method - Cherry Twist

Peter Sterling - Carousel

You're overstating the 'conversation that followed'. There was exactly one player who stated that "Hey this is good to know. Now I can report all the people in PvP zones for attacking me when I asked them to stop interacting with me! cool!", and that poster seemed to me to be mostly sarcastic as he'd just finished defending what others had pointed out WAS harrassment. No likes, and outside of a single lukewarm post in partial agreement, the few responses that followed were in disagreement with his PVP statement as well. At this point I assume you're being deliberately obtuse and I'm hoping this thread gets shut down as well.

Even after all these years I still love to fire up a Baldur's Gate-Baldur's Gate 2 run. They're available on Steam. I also do a Neverwinter Nights (or 2) run every year or two. I also still get milage out of Civ 5 and less so Civ 6. Mass Effect 2 is another I'll fire up once in a while (I also love Mass Effect but he combat is terrible). Same for Mass Effect 3 multi-player.....still have no problems finding Gold teams.

Players have every right to ask. That doesn't mean they're immune from attack and can report as far as I know. As others have mentioned, just asking has usually been enough for badge hunters. Another option is just transfer your badge hunter to Torchbearer. While doing my badging there I encountered only one player in PVP zones while spending hours badging. He/she also seemed to be a badge hunter and we left each other alone.

Pink Floyd The Great Gig in the Sky

My pet peeves: 1)People complaining about relatively benign or rare circumstances. Sometimes human nature sucks, but for the most part, people are cool. 2)Spamming chat with garbage. Fortunately we have an ignore button and can report abusers. (See 1) 3)Impatient players. Patience is a virtue. 4)Know-it-alls. This can come in many forms, from 'I represent the majority of the player base' to 'you should take such and such power or you suck'. Pardon my language but F#$@ You. 5)Forum trolls. It's one thing to post something stupid. I've done so myself and fealt ashamed enough to avoid the forums for a couple weeks. It's another to come looking for disruption and confrontation. Pro-tip: Don't post when you're drunk.

Morphine- Buena RIP Mark Sandman

Willie Nelson - Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain

I can't think of any specific powersets without being derivitive of the comics or movies, but two things come to mind. Hero and sidekick, and in your case, a married couple who are superheroes on the side. This leaves open a wide range of possibilities. You could both be scientists who derive your powers through experimentation and gadgets. You could have met in a secret magic organization and decided to team up. You could both be mutants like the Incredibles, but different powers. Lots of groovy possibilities. As far as ATs, I duoed with my best friend several times. We played a Tanker/Defender duo, Scrapper/Controller duo, and a Brute/Corrupter duo. All were great.

Two things. One, if you have a good DM it doesnt matter how you roll. Two, I hate HATE 3d6 in order no rerolls. Not because of low scores, but, especially in Advanced or 2nd Edition, you were almost never gonna play a Ranger, Bard, Druid, or Paladin. Fortunately I've always had great DMs.

I reject this. We already have a power creep problem with IO sets and incarnates. End game is trivial now, and this attitude only contributes to this. Hell, at this point, it's not even end game that's trivial. The ability to slot Attuned IO sets, especially ATOs and purples have made even lower level content trivial. I occasionaly find a task force that struggles to finish individual missions. It's becoming more and more rare these days. The notion that we shouldn't balance sets and instead buff everything else is Ludacris.

The first thing that came to mind for me was either a Mind or Illusion Controller with Dark, Time, Traps, or Trick Arrow as a secondary, although none of them would be shape shifters. A Warshade would check some boxes as well. Hope you find something that clicks, it sounds like a groovy concept.

Perhaps players that relied on influence farming started splitting their time between farming and earning merits(or just started buying converters) in order to craft and convert uncommon recipes rather than just dumping them.

I definitely play old school on some characters, especially when it comes to mission choice and leveling. Most characters do the Hollows and only a few get travel powers early. As has been stated, you can get around fine in the Hollows without a travel power. I rarely run DFBs and hardly ever use base teleporters. I like using travel powers to get around. The only time I'm in a hurry is when I'm in a Task Force, so I solo a good portion of the time. I don't want to be in a hurry. As for the current debate; I once had an argument with a flat earther. No amount of evidence, visual or otherwise, would change his mind. He seemed incapable of acknowledging logical fallacies. Mentally shake your head, chuckle, and move on. It's not worth the aggravation.

Farming and Civ are great for listening to some jams. I don't farm often, but when I do it's to zone out. Only problem with that is I also often forget to pay attention to my end bar.