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The Homecoming Discord server. File a /petition in-game and specifically mention that it needs to be brought to Telephone's attention.

It shouldn't be. Wouldn't hurt to change the game account password though and try that. Edit: Also make sure that your game account password is fifteen characters or less. The game is old, it can't handle more than that.

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Shards are back up.

Again, blame Excelsior.

No update today. The Homecoming staff are trying to fix the Excelsior shard, and it's taking longer than expected. Blame Excelsior for the downtime.

Seeing as that a lot of folks do not check the calendar for some reason or another, I thought I'd bring this to people's attention here as well. Saturdays are going to be shaken up a little. Starting this Saturday, June 11th: The UIT supergroup will hold its normal three Hamidon raids in The Abyss at 2 P.M. ET/11 A.M. PT/8 P.M. CET. You must be level 45+ to join. You can get to The Abyss via the Smuggler's Submarine in Peregrine Island, Kallisti Wharf, or Grandville. Please use Broadcast once in zone to obtain an invite to the league. The UIT supergroup will also hold a bi-weekly instanced Rikti mothership raid at 3:15 P.M. ET/12:15 P.M. PT/9:15 P.M. CET. You must be level 35+ and have the Member of Vanguard badge to join. There will be a 200 million INF kill shot prize on the Rikti drop ship! You can read more about the instanced Rikti mothership raid here. The instanced Rikti mothership raid will alternate every other week with a game-wide giant monster hunt at 3:15 P.M. ET/12:15 P.M. PT/9:15 P.M. CET! Never take down Caleb or the Seed of Hamidon before? Well, now is your chance! You must be on a Vigilante or Rogue aligned character to participate in all zones. Immediately following the instanced Rikti mothership raid or game-wide giant monster hunt will be three Cathedral of Pain trials and Incarnate trials hosted by the UIT supergroup in Pocket D. You must be level 50 to join. The Early Bird Hamidon raid crew will hold three Hamidon raids in The Hive at 6 P.M. ET/3 P.M. PT/12 A.M. CET, followed by Little Claw's three Hamidon raids in The Hive. You must be level 45+ to join. You can get to The Hive via Founder's Falls > Eden. Please use Broadcast once in zone to obtain an invite to the league. Hope to see y'all on Saturday!

Tell me about it. I have over 120 people on my global friends list. Never see more than about 20 now. Some days there are only a couple on.

FWIW, while thematic those power sets don't mesh well at all. Sonic Blast has a bunch of cones, so you want to stay at range. However, Sonic Manipulation wants you in melee range of enemies at all times to apply that sweet -res debuff from Disruption Aura. It's like Dark Blast/Darkness Manipulation... thematic, but extremely at odds with one another. If you want Sonic Blast, I'd recommend Devices, Energy Manipulation, Tactical Arrow, or Temporal Manipulation for secondary. If you want Sonic Manipulation, I'd recommend Dual Pistols, Fire Blast, Psychic Blast, or Radiation Blast as primary.

As far as I know, there's been no updates whatsoever.

I saw it all of the time while PUGing on Excelsior... like once a day. Have only ever seen it twice on Torchbearer in the past fourteen months. Excelsior is too large, like a big city, where you can get away with that kind of stuff without it coming back to haunt you, unlike smaller shards where most people know one another and there are reputations. I don't think it's out of malice or self-centeredness most of the time, mostly just ignorance brought on by only doing radio/newspaper missions and/or AE farms, and not realizing that teams on TFs, SFs, and trials are locked in and the team leader can't recruit someone else after you leave.

Then you run across the PUGs who demand that the leader set the mission/TF/SF at +4 because they're used to being carried and think that if there's one or two level 50 characters on the team (even if they're both Controllers), then it should be no problem, and get upset and leave if you don't set it at +4. I've had that happen quite a few times, especially on ITFs.

No, you need to know that information ahead of time to plan. If you're doing a +3 speed run MLTF, and the PUG Tanker only has three IO enhancement sets in his or her build, expect for the Tanker and you to die a lot without sufficient support to back that Tanker up... it's happened to me twice in the past three weeks. Both Tankers, coincidentally. Bad times.

Exactly. I came to Homecoming with about 40 friends and associates... all but a small handful stopped playing completely by mid-last year, so I had to start PUGing again. Even eventually switched shards and made new friends.

You need to update your Vidiotmaps. A new version was released shortly after Page Three went live.

One very minor thing you may want to mention is that you need to at least start Mr. Rodney's missions before doing a Dr. Aeon SF, or he'll completely disappear from the world. The only way you'd be able to do the cape and aura missions then would be via Ouroboros Flashback.

It gives mag -100 knockback protection, but +10,000% knockback resistance, which I just read as canceling each other out, which I thought was odd. I could be (and it looks like) that I was wrong. I could have sworn that I saw a Dark Armor Tanker get knocked around after Page Three went live, so between that and the above I just never tried it and deleted my Electric Armor characters. Hrm... May be time to power level another Electric Armor character and see. I know at least prior to Page Three, I've tried tanking Lord Recluse with 31 points of knockback protection between IOs and the Defense Amplifier, and no go. He just kept knocking me around silly. Increase Density would do it. Back on live, I always teamed with a Kin that spammed Increase Density on me, so I never got knocked back. On Homecoming, that hasn't been an option so I'd get knocked back silly.

15. Most of my Elec Armor builds have anywhere between 25 and 29 with set bonuses and KB protection IOs. For reference, here is Lord Recluse's newest addition: https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=v_arachnos.lord_recluse_ssf.web_cocoon&at=boss_archvillain

As I edited in, hovering is no longer an option. That's what I used to do, but as of Page Three, Lord Recluse now has an attack that does -fly which will immediately ground you. Then knockback city.

I want something to tank the MLTF with, and Electric Armor would need a minimum of 42 points of knockback protection (with the red tower down), to not be knocked back by Lord Recluse. And hovering is no longer an option with his new -fly power.

What is a good armor set (if any), with both decent endurance drain protection, and knockback resistance? Electrical Armor is, obviously, out.

Speed of Sound is better than Super Speed, on Brutes and Tankers. You get the speed, and keep your threat magnifier. Every Tanker I play and every Brute I intend to tank with takes it over Super Speed for that reason. I've had Tankers complain that they had to work to get the aggro off of my Brute with Speed of Sound, compared to other Brutes using Super Speed. :P I realize while speeding with Speed of Sound on a Brute or Tanker that I'm going to aggro things on the way, but honestly that's half the fun. I bring surprise aggro to my teammates in the final room.

Did someone from your team leave/quit during? If so, it's a known bug, which requires everyone on the team to log and then log back on a couple of minutes later.

He said converter, but by the end it changed to booster, which makes a lot more sense. And yeah, I've noticed that things are starting to go for absolutely outrageous prices. I've seen an Unbreakable Guard: Resistance/Endurance not sell for less than ten million INF, and Shield Walls going for 20 million INF. It's definitely still far from live prices, but it's definitely quite a bit higher than it was a year and a half ago.

I'd like the ability to dismiss contacts as well. Seeing incomplete contacts that can't be completed due to overleveling really bothers my OCD.