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Decent article. Only kind of scratches the surface of the Halloween event ... especially on Homecoming ... but it is what I would expect out of a gaming article.

If you want a AoE taunt, use the https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Presence : https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Presence#Provoke Super Reflexes is based around avoiding attacks and not drawing them to you. It was one of the original power sets in CoH. I think all the scrapper primaries have a power to pull a single target and all (or most of them) have AoE and/or Cone powers to draw agro even if they don't have a threat component. I like Super Reflexes the way that it was designed. The scrapper archetype isn't built to be an agro magnet - that was intentionally limited to tanks up on release of the game and then given to brutes so villains would have an agro magnet in their archetype picks.. If you look a the scrapper AoE powers that have a taunt component, they are usually doing more of something else and are generally too weak to hold the agro if a blaster is AoE-ing or cone-attacking things. Scrapper taunt is nowhere near as powerful as a tank. Brute taunt isn't as powerful as a tanks, but they still have a more powerful innate taunt than scrappers. Tanks can have super reflexes at this point, but even they don't get a taunt aura, but, then again, the whole point of super reflexes is not to get hit in the first place ... so why are you trying to attract agro? That being said, unless you are just end gaming and trying to draw excessive numbers, the tanker taunt with a recharge in it does enough threat to hold the agro on most mobs continually.

Sorry.

It was even happening at before the Sunset. New characters weren't being sent to their origin contacts any more even at that point. You can still go to your origin contact and run origin missions. I have no idea the percentage breakdown on the origin of my characters. It's based on character concept. I keep track of Archetypes, but not Origins ... other than the 5 characters I have trying to follow each of the Origin contact paths on those character.

This comes up all the time. You get a level 50 PVP character - Temporal Warrior - when you make a character. That's for PVP game balance. Things against auto-50s for PVE. 1) If you really want to auto-50, just door sit in the AE for an hour to 2. 2) The renaming policy (if it ever goes into effect) means all those auto-level 50's would never have to log in again in order to keep their name. Meanwhile, lower level characters that aren't 50 - regardless of how long they have been played - have to be logged in every set number of days or their name will be free to be grabbed until they log back in. 3) Why do you need so many level 50? 4) The actual game is level 1-49. Level 50 is only the end-game. Content stuck on the end of the actual game. There is much more game content than there is end-game content. 5) Other level 50's don't like have an unslotted level 50 on a team .... let alone a level 50 that has no idea how to play their character. 6) This isn't WoW or Everquest - there are constantly people leveling up characters and, if you can't find a team, people will join you if you recruit for whatever content you want to play most of the time (this of course is server/time of day/population level dependant) This is never going to happen. This pushes it way over the shaky ground to troublesville. It is selling something. Homecoming doesn't sell anything and for good reason. Look like you found your bliss. Have fun on the Beta servers .... but ... you should know that periodically all the characters on the Beta servers are deleted.

Quite correct. I admit I was tired at the time.

I was looking up some stuff after I found out about Keith Giffen's death and found this: "DC's introduction of Jaime Reyes in 2006 retconned and expanded upon the Blue Beetle mythos. Revealed to be alien in origin, the scarab bonds with Reyes and provides him with a suit of extraterrestrial armor shortly after Kord's death." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Beetle_(Jaime_Reyes) I'll give you that it was a new character like Jason Todd taking over as Robin. But Jaime Reyes was also part of a retconning at the same time. The Blue Beetle mythos was retconned to fit him in. But really this is to point out to fans of the Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle that one the three co-creators of the character died recently.

I really figured more people would respond to this with all the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Beetle_(Jaime_Reyes) hype going on.