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After some kerfuffle my end (for some reason my ISP doesn't allow wine to open but once installed is fine) it runs really smoothly. You'll be fine.

This is exactly why I love the carnage of Excel. There is two particular accounts, I won't name them but I've never seen them on the forums, who to their credit do a lot of team running and forming. But they INSIST on taking the alpha regardless of their sets/AT/level. Feel free to take the alpha on your empathy defender my friend, I get a veng boost.

BUT WHERE I WILL GO TO ARGUE ABOUT FARMING? r/Agriculture?!

STAB ME BABY ONE MORE TIME

Welcome @Repodude. The population on red really isn't as high as blue - by any stretch. But you know what? If you build it, they will come. 90% of the time if I run a redside mission team/SF it'll fill up. Maybe a little slower than blue, yes, but people will come. Whenever I run one I say "Thanks for coming to redside everyone! I know its a pain." and maybe 1/3 of the team will say "I prefer it here!". Don't be disheartened. If I see you doing redside stuff this weekend I'll pop over, Arachnos needs a hand 🙂

The cheek of this man... He and I use our duo our doms. I'm on a plant/psi/ice and he has the gall to amp up plant/energy/soul. Heartbroken. Two years of teaming down the PAN 😭

Just did the BAF with you - cheers for running! Lovely look.

I quite like that they’ve given us all something to be united by

Clockwork are psi aren't they? And I remember reading in a Freak's info that because their tech is bad they're weak to energy?

I recently teamed with a fire/SS tank and was very impressed with how they played it. Clearly a lot of love and time went into their build. I know fire *can* be solid, just need to invest some time in it. Especially with the new buffs!

I've been thinking about doing a fire/fire tank. Any pointers? Combustion any good now?

Absolutely love this. Is that top in armoured?

If you would like to entice more people over, this also gives an optional astral for incarnates instead of merits. The arcs tend to be shorter - five to ten missions - and the rewards are lower. But it doesn't feel like such a slog. I suspect @Snarky might know which ones field more.

@Redletter have you tried PB’s since the power order changes? Light form at 32 helps a bit. I’d persevere if you can. I felt EXACTLY the same on live about PBs and now mine is my main. IOs and binds really make the difference.

Time. whenever I team with a time toon they usually blow me away. When I play it? It’s like I’m trying to play pool with spaghetti. I run out of end, I do no damage, I die, it’s quite slow… I don’t understand it! But my god do I keep making builds that look good on paper in mids.

This is true, and fair. Last night we teamed with someone who didn't know about the badge to get to Cim. Took a second for my brain to process that we needed to explain it to them. We're a bit used to muscle memory. Someone on Excel used to run "exploration badge and Cim entry mission" tours which was good. Fair - and I guess there is a "help me" thing when you make a new toon. I guess I imagine some people feel embarrassed to ask for help. Probably every 3 months I have to ask "which thing makes it a superior ATO again?" and I always feel like a melon, and I've been here for a while.

Christ just saw about 20 new ones in one burst

I don't know how I feel about the OP's initial post, or the interaction I'm quoting from, but I do agree with Zewks that this MMO - as with all MMOs - is quite overwhelming for newer players (yes, there are some) or at least players who left before certain things were introduced/changed. Just yesterday I saw someone in general saying "so is Galaxy city just gone now?!". Two days ago I teamed with a vet 35 with no IOs or incarnate powers, after chatting about their toon and things they might find helpful after they admitted to not understanding it as they'd left before, so I sent them the guide for incarnate stuff from the forums. So if we don't change boosters, what would people recommend was changed to help new/returning player re/learn the ropes?

Just tagged you in some Crumpet, sorry!

BUT NOW WHERE WILL I FIND OUT ABOUT ERECTILE DISFUNCTION TABLETS, ESCORTS, OR TAXIS IN INDIA?! HMMM?!

Ill try and get in ASAP - held up in work + life! Are you going to run tomorrow too?

Which server you on? Am also UK based and could see myself coming along 🙂

To echo Astralock, hope you're getting into a better place now Uber.

How the MIGHTY have fallen (because 3 of their PNGs haven't loaded for me) but to echo MaskedMan, Nosedive is so crisp 👌

The second saucy-stone pic isn't there!