CaptainLupis

Possibly it's just a semantcis issue, but to avoid confusion to the OP, you don't gain incarnate xp straight away when you hit 50, you have to train up first. That may be what you meant by "leveled up to 50", but I usually think of that as when you ding, rather than when you have trained to 50, so I thought it best to mention it in case the OP thinks of it that way as well.

Go redside and join in someone else's patron arc. Technically you only need to do the final mission for the badge. You still won't be able to pick the patron pool until 35 though.

I have a couple of alts on reunion, but haven't played there for a long time. It seemed pretty quiet by comparison to Everlasting, even during what would be considered peak times here. Not sure if that is still the case or not.

No, I'm on Everlasting. I'm also on UK time, which is likely a large part of the issue as things like Hami Raids and MSRs tend to be run after midnight my time, from what I have seen. So likely if the incarnate trials are being run here they will be happening then, when I am rarely on, as well. I suspect Excelsior would be much the same time wise, but I have plenty of level 50s, so there is no issue sending one over to check it out. Cheers.

People still run BAFs? Don't think I've seen anyone call for a team for those since I came to HC. I did soooo many BAFs and Lambdas on live, as they were the only way to get incarnate stuff back then, might be fun to do them again. To the OP, if you are wanting to get incarnate components the Dark Astoria arcs are another way to do it. You get a random component at the end of each arc with the option of taking another (you should) or some other rewards. Heather's arc can be repeated multiple times through Ouro, and can be done in under 20 minutes (well under if you know what you are doing) giving you 2 components each time. However, if you have some friends that have just hit 50 and opened up the DA arcs it's best do Heather's in a team, if you can, that're all running the arc on that alt for the first time as when you get to the final mission it doesn't auto complete. That means you can just do that final mission again for every person that has the arc and get the 2 components each time. However that doesn't happen if you do it through ouro, you need to do all the missions each time if you are doing that, but even then it's still one of the quickest ways to get components.

Pandora's Box part 3 I believe, just after the mission with the Malta and Mako you return to James Harvan. After the dialogue options to get his attention it says in yellow writing "Harven trials off" That should be "trails".

I'd prefer if it was not a co-op zone, but instead a co-habiting zone. Somewhere both heroes and villains can go and be heroes and villains. Maybe with some sort of metric as to who is more in control of the zone, like RV has, but without the PvP element, just whichever side is completing the most missions is on top, as it were. I know that's not likely what is going to happen, as it would double the amount of time it would take to implement missions, but it would be nice for a change not to have keep saving those stupid heroes from whatever mess they have stirred up whenever my villain goes to a co-op zone as there is nothing villainous to be had there.

I'm afraid the "they've always done that" answer you were given was right. You may not have noticed it, but they were using it.

I don't think it's been said yet, so I'll go for 6.4 billion inf.

Edit I've changed my mind. That name wouldn't really work.

I was running leadership toggles which were active before turning on EM. I tested the early implementation of EM on beta, but not the latter version, so this was new to me and didn't feel like it was how it's meant to be, but if that really is it working as intended it's a bit bonkers...

I'm not sure if this is a bug in the power or the combat attributes monitor. When toggling on EM it shows the defence value in the CAM under each individual defence type as expected, but they aren't being added to the totals for each type straight away. It takes up to 10 seconds for correct new total values to show. I'm just not sure if it is a case of the CAM isn't updating properly or, more worryingly, the defence isn't actually being applied straight away. I was doing it in Pocket D, so it wasn't a case of the defence being suppressed for combat. If however it is working as intended, and there should be a delay before the defence kicks in, the power description or detailed info should really be updated to reflect it.

As few as I can get away with, preferably none. I very much dislike the respec process as it is, although it is better than not having the option.

Why am I only finding out about this now?! Off to check it out. Maybe it will help explain why before I took Fireball on my MM it said it would do 36 damage but after actually taking it the power says it does 26... (I double checked on another MM at the same level and it is the same, so it wasn't just me misreading it.)

I'd consider dropping the slot with the freebird +stealth and just slot a celerity +stealth in one of the sprint powers. I'm sure you could find a better use for the slot somewhere else, like an unbreakable guard +7.5% health, an end red or another Lysosome in rad infection, or a miracle +recovery as just a few ideas. It would mean you don't need to turn GF off during escort missions as well, if you are planning on running with it full time.

I was having trouble deciding whether I wanted Photuris Pyralis to start adapting to the mutations and slowly begin regaining the personality they had before, or to be driven even more insane by them. So in the spirit of the thread I decided to roll for it. D100: 1-50 redemption, 51-100 full on bonkers evil mode. I got a... (is that a critical redemption?). I guess I have some tip missions in my future...

There is a cap on absorb, 100% of your base hit points, and it can make stacking them... undesireable.

I like grav/time, especially if it comes to soloing a controller. Thematically they work well for me, plus time has some powers that help your Singularity. Farsight for the defence and temporal selection for the +regen seeing as you can't heal it. You can throw spirit ward on it, if you are so inclined, to make it even more tanky. And yes, tanky is a word. I need to get back to mine, I haven't played it for a while. So many alts, so little time (no pun intended).

You can slot a couple of decent procs in your Jounin, the touch of lady grey negative damage one and the achilles heel chance for -res are probably the pick of the bunch as most of their attacks do -def, so they go off a fair amount. But, because you don't have somewhere like hell on earth or gang warfare to mule the pet uniques that give your henchies extra def and res, slots are tight. You may want to see about getting those for mitigation first, rather than going for more damage from procs.

As luck would have it they can be slotted from level 10. Check your ingame email.

Glad to hear you are enjoying that combo as well. If you haven't already try adding the Overwhelming force chance for knockdown to your Genin. It adds a lot of mitigation as most enemies are on their backs for much of the fights. I know I mentioned it before but it really is worth checking out if you didn't before. And don't discount infirgidate, it can be procced out to be a decent damage dealer to help out as well. I have mine 6 slotted, 3 shield breakers, including the chance for lethal, the achilles heel chance for -res, impeded swiftness chance for smashing and the touch of lady grey chance for negative. Only one of the shield breakers has any recharge (acc/end/rech) but you could leave that out and increase your chances of it proccing even more, I just went with it for the extra res from the set bonus. The -def aspect of it doesn't hurt either, between that and sleet even mogging paragon protectors are left crying on the floor wondering what just happened!

Wait, we were meant to roll 3 combos and pick? I thought it was 3 D100 rolls and just went with the first combo I rolled. At least it wasn't a Dom, I really struggle to get into playing those.

OK, so here is Photuris Pyralis, fire/bio stalker currently level 25. A volunteer for a medical trial, or so they thought, it was actually yet another Crey front attempting to weaponise super powers. The serum however didn't actually take. Unbeknownst to the Crey scientists, the person that would become Photuris Pyralis had already begun to develop mutations and, instead of giving them a specific power, it triggered a defence reaction that massively sped up the ongoing mutations. It also made them slightly unhinged. After escaping the facility they have gone on a bit of a rampage around the Rogue isles.

You'd need to set the min value to 100.

You could do it as a D10000 and starting from 100, and just assume the last 2 digits are the decimals. Assuming there isn't an option for decimals anyway. So I am finding, got it to level 22 so far.