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This is a pretty good take on it. You don't have melee attacks. Your range is shorter. You survive to do damage because you are armored. It's outside of the dynamics of what most MMORPG players have experienced. To me, that's a good thing. And it does fill in the important niche of the comic book genre that was not covered. The armored hero with ranged attack powers.

I know some players do. I do so as well. But I always keep my mask on, so you have to find my missions.

Why bother leveling-up and gathering influence and recipes just to sit in a single AE holosuite Mission for eternity and ignore the actual game? Sorry. I'm a never-farmer.

I'd say that the DEVs told everyone that they would ban accounts that built easy-to-kill farming missions with a 40-ton ban-hammer and then lost their nerve and deleted all their posts about banning players for abusing the AE. The AE already gives TOO MANY players TOO MUCH leeway to abuse the game. [so much so that between AE Babies, non-stop farming maniacs, and microtransactions that I quit my subscription almost exactly a year before the sunset] But this is Homecoming and, if players want to waste their time sitting at doors and killing the same mob over and over again without the need for an skill or challenge then that is their bliss, but I still think it's pretty Geordi in the Holodeck and shouldn't be worth real "City" world xp or influence. If the AE was working as it was intended to create stories and adventures to provide additional content similar to what already exists in the game, I wouldn't have a problem with the xp and influence gains.

Exactly the AV I was talking about. Just because it was around during the event doesn't mean it isn't sneaking around attacking characters when it wants to during the rest of the year.

/macro fx0 "noparticles 1" /macro fx1 "noparticles 0" ... for the win. The particles will turn off instantly with the FX0 macro. But you have to zone to really get FX1 macro to turn the particles back on fully in most cases. Oh, you can thank DoctorDitko for that. He is the one that tracked that down for me. I hate the light show that large events can cause.

What do you mean "if"?

I found what I had found before, you may not alway be able to target things are retain targets ... but pets always can. So if you target through pets, you can pretty much always have a target to attack. But, you may talking about attacks by the AV Lag that was invisible and nearly untargetable through most of the event.

What? Never played "King of the Hill"? I found it to be a natural lol

I thought it was hilariously fun to get thrown hundreds of feet into the air or across the map. Good times. Looking forward to it next year!

Attempted containment unsuccessful! (Were all the Controller sets nerfed!?!) The Dreaded Mapserver is running berserk in THE CITY!

I guess they should start moving their stuff ... I guess I should get on that. I'm assuming a PM to the DEVs could remedy that.

I was actually trying Winter's Bite : Recharge/Chance of -Speed & -Recharge along with a Devastation : Chance for Hold. I'm not sure if there is any additional impact of having both procs in the same power.