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It's a matter of perspective, experience, power choices, enhancement slotting, and game-style preferences. They are all meant to be balanced. The balance becomes increasingly obvious as you fill a team to 8. Solo, there are obvious differences especially if you are rating archetypes based on damage per second (aka DPS). In this case, there is even DPS variations within an archetype based on the powers picked and how they are enhanced to the extent that it may change their standing in regard to DPS versus other archetypes based on their powers picked and how they are enhanced. I'm a character conception player so I avoid the cookie-cutter. Overpowered or underpowered isn't really an issue to me. I just like exploring the game and the power sets and figuring out things that I can do with the powers that we have access to. We each play the game the way that we - hopefully - enjoy it the most.

If I remember correctly, 6 of the same kind is the max that will function on a character. But I would say if your END is staying up above 25% all of the time, you probably have enough Performance Shifters slotted * *Disclaimer :: you may need additional END recovery methods if you are fighting Sappers, Shockers, or those with other electrical attacks.

Not my experience. Any contact will cut you off if you outlevel them, and you can't get any more missions from them when that happens (unless it's one of those two-parter ones that you immediately get the next mission without going to the contact first). You can go to the Ouroboros and get the arc and do it all over again from scratch. The Ouro locks you to the appropriate level so that you won't out-level the arc while running it. If you run on +0, 1 settings with no XP boosters and you start a contacts arc as soon as you get it, you will be unlikely to outlevel the contact before you complete their arc. The other solution is to xp lock your character so you don't gain XP once you start an arc. I'm thinking most people won't want to do that, but it's an option. Everyone else on the team can still get XP if they want. The pretty obvious solution these days is to wait to do arcs by doing the Ouroboros version once you outlevel them. Especially, if your initial goal is to gain merits by completing arcs. But you have to take what I have to say with a grain of salt. I'm not worried about leveling other than to keep up some someone that I might have made some kind of outside of game leveling pact. I'm really not worried about merits either. I just like playing City of Heroes. As I often get in leveling pacts with a person or persons that want to use x2 XP all the time and usually running with higher difficulty settings, I'm quite frequently outleveling arcs. Like all the time.

A cheap trick! ... but ...

I don't know if it will play on Shield TV, but my big screen TV IS my computer monitor.

Sorry about the breaks, but glad to have you back in the city. Welcome home.

looks like a /jranger to me. Explain yourself. The level 1-50 content IS THE GAME. The content AFTER level 50 is the end-game. It is the stuff stuck onto the end of the game because you have completed playing THE GAME. This isn't DCUO where you have to level to 30 (playing some great old school missions from the old days of comics) before you can get into the grinding end-game of new comics that get retconned every 15-days at this point. In fact, a large amount of level 50 content is in the Ouroboros which levels you down so you can run the GAME content that was skipped over either by power-leveling past it or leveling past it by simply running parallel content. The level 1-50 content IS NOT A TUTORIAL. The game has tutorials and you already can bypass them. The tutorials happen before you actually enter THE CITY. It isn't a "mini" tutorial. Those ARE the tutorials. I tell you what. I have played this City of Heroes since Episode 1. I don't think I might have one character with a veteran level .... might. I don't have to have some flag on my character that says I'm a veteran player to be a veteran player. I am a veteran player. I know it. I have played this City of Heroes since Episode 1. Anyone can log on, get power-level in a farm and have a character that says it is a veteran in less than a day. Are they L337 or a veteran? I think the answer is obvious. AE babies. AE BABIES. AE BABIES ARE NOT VETERAN PLAYERS! They certainly aren't veteran characters. And, yeah, a got a button pushed on this. I admit it. I'm guessing a new thread to discuss it every couple of months at this rate. Obviously, this. I guess the ultimate answer is really - if this is what you want, then there are other City of Heroes servers that already offer this. So, not to be rude, but just go play on another server if you don't like Homecoming. You can also go to the beta server and level yourself up there to 50 and enhance your character for free. And I apologize for being a bit miffed about this, but I actually like to have people to game with that don't think they are "too good" to play the actual game.

It's a general thing to search the forums before you post about something, but I don't always do it. I'm against this. I guess my view of this may evolve so I'll go with where I'm at now. There are some people that like to farm and apparently like to have doorsitters. I say let the system stay the way that it is so that it doesn't ruin the way Farmers like to play the game. I'm not a farmer. I don't "hate" farmers like I used to. Who really cares at this point? But I think even in the farming experience there is probably SOME discussion about powers. What you are essentially doing is making it free because :: So why make Yomo foot the bill? Make it free if something like this MUST happen. I don't think it is necessary or any advantage to game play. In fact, I think it avoids that game entirely and puts the player directly into the end-game. I don't play end-game. I don't think it is a good idea to put new players into a position where they feel like they have to level to 50 from the get go to enjoy the game, because they don't. Leveling to 50 actually bypasses the joy of leveling with a team. I know that there are those that are jaded and don't want play the game and want to go directly to "win". At least, I'm assuming what "insta50" is to them. And, yeah, I do think that's jaded. Does it make you better than other players somehow because you bypassed playing the game? The answer from me is obviously it does not. You may just want to play the City of Heroes a different way.

Did they try /stuck?

I have over 100 characters at this point. It isn't that I'm losing interest in any of the characters. It' more that I like making new characters - like you do. I don't think there is anything wrong with making new characters and playing them until you decide something else would be fun to play. You shouldn't blame yourself for enjoying the game in that manner. You know the deal. You have two paths to 50. 1) You can play the game to 50. 2) You can get power-leveled to 50 - aka Farmed to 50. So let's start off with the basics. You are going to stay engaged faster if you have friends to team up with. If you don't have friends you know to team up with, then PUG. I PUG a lot. Like all the time when I don't game with the couple of real-life friends that I have in this game or in-game friends. Sometimes my RL/IG friends PUG but mainly they seem to like to game with a small group, so I go with the flow. Teaming - especially running task forces - seems to make the leveling quicker and more entertaining because everyone is on the go. If you are taking the game-playing path, Lead teams yourself so you can regulate the difficulty. Lead task forces yourself, and make sure to announce you are running an XP task force versus a speed task force ... I mean if you are really trying to level. Don't feel confined with that one character though or you might start to hate it ... which ruins the point of having fun playing the game to level up. If you are going to powerlevel/farm to 50, That's easy enough these days. If the goal is just to get to 50 for some reason, this is the quickest and easiest path. Just yell out in /LFG that you are looking for a farm. Maybe even move to Excelsior to powerlevel your character and then move back to the server you want to game on. I hate end-game content. I really hate the incarnate system. It's a grind. Have at it, but don't expect me to condone it. I pretty much shelf my characters when they get to 50 and only pull them out on rare occasions.

I slot 2 accs as well, and I don't have that issue with my beam rifles, but I'm often running Leadership>Tactics as well. Lot of people think that Leadership is a waste of slots, but it helps the whole team. Even if you only run with one other person it makes a big difference -- and it stacks! SIDE NOTE :: People have been known to dis on Leadership>Assault but it increase the damage of ALL attack powers for everyone on your team. (plus you don't have to worry about slotting it!)

So I will do likewise. I don't see "storyline" in the statement you posted. Thanks for clearing it up.

"The global ignore list has a maximum capacity of 100 names. When full, addition of any new entries will remove the oldest entry in the list to make room for the new addition. The following notifications are displayed: Your ignore list is full. '@OldGlobalName' was removed from your ignore list to make room for the new entry. You are ignoring @NewGlobalName" - https://archive.paragonwiki.com/wiki/Friends_Window I will neither confirm or deny that I have /gignored so many players that they have started rolling off the end of my ignore list. If someone is making the game "not fun" then put them on ignore. Most of the players here are here to "have fun" and not be disruptive, abusive, crude, or an actual stalker (DACaS). High population servers - seem to me - to be more likely to have DACaS. I think that is because there are simply more players and because players that tend to behave as DACaS are more likely to look for the biggest audience/targets they can get. Of course, "role-playing" can draw this out too. Some people use "role-playing" as an excuse to behave badly. "It wasn't me. That's just how my character would act." I'm rambling on again, but my point is that 100 names is pretty good buffer to keep those that are annoying to you away from you in chat at least. Nvidia has a great screen/video capture feature so you can get whatever evidence you need if a character is /emote'ing around your character and you are actively trying to avoid them.