DougGraves

The reason is because the content is good. You will almost certainly solo it. If you don't like to solo then you don't want to do it.

It has a large number of AoEs. The assumption is you are using IO set bonuses to make your character nearly invulnerable so all that really matters is how much damage you do.

Illusion/rad controllers. Illusion has phantom army which is literally invulernable and tanks for you. Rad gives you accelerate metabolism making it so you can make phantom army permanent. Then rad has great debuffs as well.

Blood & Treasure was a summer show on CBS. 12 episodes available on Prime Video. The show has a strong James Bond feel with some Indiana Jones. A straight arrow retired FBI agent teams up with a thief to hunt down the terrorist who killed her father. They travel around Europe and a bit in the U.S. and North Africa. A lot of fancy dress in casinos, banks, etc. But the terrorist has stolen the sarcophagus of Anthony and Cleopatra from Egypt, so they are hunting that down and there is archaeology and tombs and museums as well. The show involves a secret society, the mob, nazi's, lots of intelligence agencies and police. The heroes team with the police, go rogue, work with criminals, and do whatever it takes to track down the terrorists. Lots of changing loyalties. It's a fun show. It is very consistent in quality and tone - how you feel about the first episode will be how you feel about the whole thing. And it is totally serial but wraps up the story at the end of the season - no cliffhanger.

How do these play differently than other defense sets?

Being stuck at home I can visit exotic places on youtube with 4k walking tours. Somebody walks around at a normal pace and films what they see in 4k. It's smooth so no seasickness and it gives you a real feeling for being there. I put them on while I'm working as background. Two I really like are from different channels. The Pyramids of Giza Venice

So if I understand this correctly: You want the game balanced around IOs. Which is a meaningless statement given the flexibility of IOs. Presumably you mean you want the game balanced based around the best possible build using IOs. Then, to make it fair, you want the prices of IOs lowered so that everyone has access to them and can make characters with the best possible IO builds. Which means you want everyone to have the same builds with little effort. The easy solution is to eliminate enhancements entirely. Just give the powers the effects you want them to have with the IOs. Then everyone has the best build at no effort. Save all of the steps.

Not that many. I make characters for a certain level than turn off XP. When I join a team I pick an appropriate level character. I have 6 lvl 13s, 7 lvl 19s, 4 lvl 23s, 2 lvl 29s, 2 lvl 34s.

I'm soloing with a stalker. It plays totally different than my dominator. With my stalker I can skip most of the spawns and a fight is very quick - with some downtime between fights waiting for recharge. With my dominator (plant) I can confuse a spawn and then take them out one by one. Fights can be slow because I am safe. But I don't skip spawns. I know traps normally has a different playstyle, brute is all about maintaining momentum. What are the various playstyles that ATs and powersets inherently have?

I have Colin Larson as a contact I know, I'll start with him. Thanks

I'm half done with Striga but it doesn't excite me. I haven't done it post-snap but I did it a lot live. And I don't want to do Croatoa or First Ward with this character - it doesn't fit the theme. I want to do old school contacts. There are a lot of contacts opening up, but I don't know which ones have good story arcs or missions. Any recommendations at the level 25-30 level?

Or that is when all of your enhancements suddenly turn red. That upgrade button on enhancements is a fantastic improvement in the game. I just upgraded and continued my mission.

I've always been annoyed by travel times in game. Especially in Talos and IP. When I had a character exit a mission and have to fly to the train halfway across IP, I noticed that the temporary flight pack had a countdown timer of its duration. So I timed how long it took - under 30 seconds. I couldn't believe that I'd been so bothered by 30 seconds of travel time. Just knowing how little time it takes has made me accept it.

Looking at Nemesis, some pictures are okay but they really vary in quality. And the skulls are missing a lot of pictures. Someone must like sneaking around in game taking pictures.

I am trying out Assault Rifle. I just got the snipe. In combat it gets the circle around it, but it is not instant. It does not take full snipe time to fire but it is slow. On stalkers the assassin's strike seems instant when you are in combat. Are ranged snipes supposed to be slower to fire?

Faultline arc, Agent G. I am infiltrating an arachnos base and there is a huge room with ramps up and down and a ledge around the sides. Took me forever to figure out there was an elevator in there. Cool room. Makes me wonder what other rooms I have never seen.

I have just tried Beam Rifle vs Assault Rifle. Everyone says the numbers for Beam are better. But in play, assault rifle feels so much better. The sound, the knockdown/back.

Doing KR arc. The mission where everyone is dead and you get ambushed by the Family at the end. But we had a kheld. And in the dead spawns, the Q bosses were alive. The rest of the spawn would stand up but was inactive. The Q's were fully functional.

All ATs should be able to solo. Some will solo better than others. No ATs should be able to solo +4/x8. There should be a change above level 50. Incarnate powers and IO sets should not work below level 50. Players should never use IOs. Players who want to use IOs should have their own server. Characters who can solo +4/x8 ruin the game for others and they should not exist or be on their own server.

With electric I want to stay in melee, so they stay standing in the static field. I have a brain in a jar robot costume looking for a character, so electric/psi sounds good.

Electric puts them to sleep with static field. I want to then pick them off one by one. What are the good secondaries for single target damage?

I am playing a stalker and soloing. I do the KR arcs a lot on teams. Doing them on a solo stalker is so different. In the Hollows there are a lot of defeat alls. In KR the missions are usually defeat one boss. I ran through the entire mission and fought Chernobog and that was the mission. In another mission you get 3 skull ambushes. Then you go fight Misery. After the ambushes, I snuck up on Misery. She had 3 additional spawns standing around her facing out - watching for someone to approach. I took out Misery while her guards were looking the other direction. Which brings me to the second best thing about CoH - it lets you use your powers. If a map has a guarded bridge, you can just fly past it. You can sneak past foes. You can use your power to skip the encounter and complete the mission.

When you level you heal and get buffs. Sometimes that happens at just the right time. But often, especially at low levels, that happens when you complete your mission and get the mission bonus. Then you stand around an empty warehouse feeling super tough and wishing there was someone to fight.

I do not have characters above level 34. I find the game higher than that to be boring. It is too easy. The character power replaces player skill. I only join a Bricks team if there is nothing else going on - it's just too easy to really be fun. I have characters parked at levels 13, 19, 23, 29, and 34. Most at 13-23. When a low level team appears I choose an appropriately level character and join them. I join a Frostfire team about once a week. Run the KR story arcs with teams several times a week. Every couple of months I'll join a PI team. We get to the first spawn and it melts in a second. The second does as well. I realize there is no challenge or fun to be had at those levels and I quit the team and go back to the low levels.

I am not opposed to grimdark. I was playing warhammer 40k when it came out. I still have the original blue book and a massive collection of 40k epic armies. And Eisenhorna and Ravenor are two of my favorite series. But Marvel didn't do anything with grimdark. It just seemed to put grimdark on the screen as if grimdark=good. Grimdark does not replace characters, action, and plot.