Luminara

Found a vid of a new power leaked from the closed beta server:

I can make sausage out of rectums. Let's see The Bieb do that.

Perhaps he has the impression that your nutritional conveyance aperture is visually appealing.

Martial Assault/Willpower brute. Oh, god, I'm turning into my mom.

Your set bonuses/level shifts/temp powers aren't restored instantly when you rez (even auto powers have an activation interval and duration, so when they're disabled due to defeat, they can take 0.5-10s to turn back on), which means Renewal of Light only has base hit chance (75%) and comparatively unimpressive damage (even with all three pulses, it won't defeat minions). Plus, it slows enemies, so they're actually forced to stay near you instead of giving you some breathing room if they aren't knocked away (that boss or EB with massive KB resist isn't really what you want to be still teabagging you after you rez). Return to Battle's inspiration dump is more tactically sound and immediately useful. Those inspirations make it a lot easier and faster to clean up the spawn and let you get your feet back under you. You're protected from a lot of incoming damage after the Untouchable effect expires, and you're hitting harder and less likely to miss. Return to Battle means you don't have to run away or worry about being put back down, you can just get back up and kick ass like nothing happened. Testing. Different characters, but since everything's zeroed out on defeat and not reactivated immediately, essentially a level test platform. If set bonuses, temporary powers and other effects which persist even when you're defeated were immediately applied to Renewal of Light, it'd be a better rez. Removing the Slow would also bring it closer to parity.

You're concerned by someone with the power to silence you permanently conducting secret surveillance? Nooooooooooo, that's not worrisome at all.

That mission gives you 15 pets who can defeat the Jade Spider (it's an AV, not a GM) without your assistance. I think that disqualifies this one for any extra rewards.

Group photo of the HC team:

I have a strange urge to create a futuristic space monkey character named Hominem A.D.

The bind's failing because there is no tray #0. /bind b "powexectray 0 1"

Goddamn low level archetypes. Jerks!

Damage from a fall or hidden level variance (they have a level range of 13-19).

Sitting on your ass and collecting a paycheck isn't criminal activity. It's not punishable in any way unless said paycheck is a result of fraud or theft, and players who don't participate in team activities to your satisfaction aren't engaging in fraud or theft. Don't try to equate door-sitting with criminal behavior. It isn't. And we aren't going to start treating it like criminal activity, either. There will be no "Work, comrade, or else" policies implemented, there will be no keypress quotas, there will be no thought police patrolling the servers in search of malingerers. NC is a South Korean company, South Korea is not friendly to communism and I guarantee that they'd yank the license and cram a C&D order up the HC team's collective ass so hard and fast that they wouldn't be able to sit for ten years if there was even a whiff of that kind of nonsense. You have the freedom to not play with people who don't play the way you want them to play. Take joy in knowing that you have that freedom, and exercise it. Leave everyone else's freedom alone.