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I went looking for a build and saw you'd asked this before. Here's a couple threads that might give you some ideas.

Wait....what were you running? Any story arcs or Task Forces in that 7 hours? If so you'll have reward merits you can use to make money. You also don't mention salvage or recipes, have you checked those?

Much like WoW, DPS is an important part of a tank's job. Attacking, especially with AoE powers, grabs aggro. You coulld also throw in Taunt IOS in Rise to the Challenge(your taunt aura) I suppose, but I've never needed to.

I'm currently running a Super Reflex/Staff tank solo starting from scratch(currently level 37) and it's been a breeze. I've been crafting and slotting as I go. Once I accumulated some Merits, I used them to buy converters, sold several on the Auction for seed money, and use the rest for converting IOs I can either slot or sell. One nice thing about soloing content is you get a ton of merits, you should have plenty of influence by the time you hit 50 if you spend some time converting IOs. If I were to start again, I'd probably keep SR, but change my secondary. I've been a bit underwhelmed with Staff, although I still solo easily, including Elite Bosses.

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I have one 50 that I made a badge character, did all the Incarnate content, and continue to play on a semi-regular basis doing Hami raids and joining Task Forces, no matter the level. My other level 50s don't get a lot of play. The rest of my play time is leveling alts, usually by rotating through half a dozen or so at a time.

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Okay,one more. I'll do a video game playlist in the future, but here's a prelude. Scatwerk: Electronic Go Go

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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

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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.

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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.

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