Grouchybeast

I stop playing for a while, and wait until I get the urge to play again. I've never had much success with forcing myself to have fun with something I've got bored with. I've been playing a bunch of chill farming and farming-adjacent games instead, and now I'm just starting to miss the City.

As I understand it, the problems people have experienced with integrated graphics chips weren't related to performance per se, it was issues with OpenGL support and appropriate OpenGL drivers.

At least it's easy to get rid of the annoying sounds. When the game came back from the dead, it took about as long as it took me to stop walking around Atlas and crying with happiness to start searching my old installation for the sound-killing files.

This is all very true in larger teams. For soloing or duoing, though, Sleeps are excellent because they often get buffs like longer durations and autohit to make up for the downside that you're no longer experiencing of the mobs being woken up by team mates. Under those circumstances they're top notch control powers.

I love the Shards, they're so pretty. It would be great to see the old content revamped to give it some stories that match up in quality with the coolness of the zone. Very atmospheric Exploration Badges, too, right up there with the Eden badges.

Not with that attitude it isn't!

Debt is a counter that shows how much value you're getting out of that power pick you spent on Rise of the Phoenix.

Welcome home! In addition to all the other great advice, I'd say not to worry too much about choosing your character. You have 1000 character slots per server, and even without considering deliberate power levelling it's much faster to level up a character these days. Try out some different archetypes and power sets, see what takes your fancy. Especially if you're planning to do a lot of teaming you might find that you really enjoy something like a blaster, which can really let loose in a team.

I would definitely go for a set that when six-slotted added KB to every attack power. That would be amazing. (Every attack power on the slotting character, that is. Not every attack power on the team. Although...)

On the one hand, this seems like it would inevitably lead to thefts of funds, enormous popcorn-worthy drama, and huge amounts of work for the GMs trying to clear up the messes afterwards, so in that sense it doesn't seem worth it when there are already very easy ways to pass inf to other players. On the other hand, this seems like it would inevitably lead to thefts of funds and enormous popcorn-worthy drama...so...

The reason that relatively few MM sets were developed on Live was supposedly they they required significantly more work that other kinds of powersets, so they were an uneconomic use of dev time. Nowadays there's more driving pressure from 'a dev wants to work on this', so I'm hoping that we'll see some new sets at some point I really love the idea of an Animus Arcana set. They're look so great, it's a shame they're tucked away in Night Ward and don't get much use.

I don't use it, but I do think it's funny that the latest shiny communications tool for the kids is 'IRC but proprietary and uglier'.

I'm very happy that you've found a server that provides the experience you personally enjoy. That's the beauty of having multiple projects running their own servers these days: more player choice! In the Live days we were stuck with one game and one dev team, and our only choice was to play or not.

On the one hand, the spectre of catastrophic damage to the economy. On the other hand, possibility of shiny new badges. So I vote yes!

I like reading characters' bios, but I like reading short bios. I'm happy to read a bio in the time it takes for the monorail to arrive and my character and the character next to me to run inside, or to look at the rest of the team's bios while I'm waiting for a TF to start and I've run out of things to do on the AH. That's enough character info for me. Definitely fix the editor, though.

HC is a small, American company. Allowing children under 13 to sign up to play on the servers would require them to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA). This introduces a whole raft of rules and legal requirements that HC would have to undertake to follow or be in violation, for which there are potentially large fines. It's onerous and expensive. This is why pretty much every website or online game based in the US that isn't specifically meant for kids has a minimum age of 13 or over.

The most enjoyable duo I've played without a melee was a Dual Pistols/Martial Combat Blaster and a Thermal/Sonic Defender. The blaster can just absolutely go to town blasting everything in sight and blipping in and out of combat to stylishly kick mobs in the face, and the defender performs magic to keep them alive while debuffing the hell out of the enemies. And then every so often you pull just a little too much aggro and both faceplant. Top fun, can't recommend it highly enough. ETA: Close second would be a Storm/Energy Defender and an Illusion/Storm Controller. Total chaos, total carnage, mobs flying everywhere. Knockback is the best debuff in the game, and a duo is the perfect opportunity to enjoy it to the max. Plus, pets!

Or sometimes, both!

"THEY DIDN'T LIKE ME! THEY NEVER LIKED ME!"

So...eight Defenders, then? 😁

That profile pic doesn't fool anyone, you know,. Everyone knows that vampires these days are sad, lonely emo boys with long hair, soulful eyes, tender feelings and a tragic backstory. Blame Anne Rice.

I duoed an MM to 50 with a blaster, and I'd describe the MM as an adequately tanky experience. Less fun as we got into the 30s and the mezzing enemies showed up in force. I think it's the only character I've ever taken Acrobatics on.

I try not to repeat sets on different characters, but I have an Ice/Cold Corr and a Cold/Water Defender. Cold is just such a well-rounded versatile set with a lovely spread of buffs, debuffs and control. It has something to bring to the table at all levels.

Stealth and TP Other are a good combo for teaming. You can help stealth missions, and get your team mates where they're needed or out of trouble.

I don't think I'll be able to make it for 7pm, but I'll try to look in later.