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As far as I know that's an Everlasting thing. None of that nonsense happens in Pocket D on Excelsior, Torchbearer, nor Indomitable.

Yeah. That point about Masterminds and Praetorian ambushes was raised during the Going Rogue beta. The developers didn’t care. Of course, it came out after sunset that the Paragon Studios developers by and large considered the Mastermind AT to be a colossal mistake and one of the worst things added to the game, so the entire AT was summarily ignored when designing later content.

Star Lord is clearly a Dual Pistols/Sonic Manipulation Blaster. The dance moves must be some pool power.

I do, actually. I wrote a Completionist’s Guide to Praetoria from the tutorial through Night Ward for some friends a few days ago, and plan to reformat it for the Homecoming Wiki this weekend.

That was added back in November with Issue 27, Page One.

I find it difficult to believe that people play blue side because it has more content, when most of it is terribly written and terribly designed. The writing and design blue side only started getting good with The Hollows in Issue 2. So that leaves The Hollows, Striga Isle, Croatoa, and Faultline. Since then, blue and red side have had content parity. For every contact added blue side, there has been one added red side.

Were you using an Ultimate inspiration at the time, per chance?

Yeah, the -Regen on my EMP Arrow has a 2/3rds up time as it is up for 45 seconds and my EMP Arrow recharges in 68 seconds. 66% uptime is enough.

I wouldn't use LFG as a metric for how often story arcs are played. I never, ever team for story arcs unless either a friend needs help with something or it's being run via Ouroboros Flashback. I prefer to solo story arcs so I can get to leisurely read everything, and because you don't get reward merits for doing story arcs on a team outside of Ouroboros Flashback. I know that I'm not the only one that vastly prefers to run story arcs solo.

Trick Arrow is now the best support set in the game, possibly tied with Cold Domination. It does not need a buff at all. EMP Arrow is great as is and is one of the best powers in the game. The mez protection and resistance buff has a 25 foot radius, which is definitely greater than melee range. I keep it up permanently in the bowl of Rikti mothership raids, where it impacts myself and everyone else in the bowl.

Hopefully @AboveTheChemist or someone will make a new VidiotMap for Pocket D.

Yeah, I get the impression that a lot of people that only play blue side play it specifically because the vast majority of blue side is face roll on keyboard easy. That’s one of the main reasons why I play red and gold sides instead.

Exactly. But they won't. It's been mentioned time and time again to try red and/or gold side, but they never do. "It's not where the people are." "I want to be a hero!" Honestly, red side and gold side players tend to be better at the game than blue side players on average because red and gold side content is more difficult, and sometimes much more so. Quality over quantity, I suppose.

Too late. I've read in a multitude of places that once Calvin Scott has you locked to his arc (which I somehow am even though I haven't even been introduced to Crow yet), that he will not introduce you to Aaron Walker, so I went up to Aaron Walker and introduced myself. It kind of stinks that I lost one breadcrumb mission, but at least it was only one this time. I can live with that. Yep.

It saddens me exactly how many people never did. There are a couple of people that I still dearly miss from the Champion server and have not yet encountered on Homecoming. Of course, it probably doesn't help that I use a different global name now.

It is fixed now. Thank you!

Ahh, okie. I see. So it was an intentional change then. It shows "Staff Digest" on my notebook computer, but on mobile there's no indication at all that it was changed, so it threw me for a loop.

Top level. It used to take you to https://forums.homecomingservers.com/discover/unread/ but now takes you to https://forums.homecomingservers.com/discover/54/

At least on my iPad as of sometime within the past couple of hours, tapping on “Unread” to bring up new unread posts is instead redirecting to “Staff Activity.” Worked just fine a couple of hours ago.

Nah. Have Hamidon spawn on the second floor of the Atlas AE building.

It was doable because it was bugged, and no other TF/SF in the game works like that. In the 30 - 40 range, you have the Admiral Sutter TF, Mortimer Kal SF, Manticore TF, Katie Hannon TF, Numina TF, and the Ice Mistral SF.

The LGTF was changed back to level 45+ because many, many players who had no idea that the Weakened Hamidon was level 50 would start the LGTF below level 45, and run into a complete brick wall and be unable to complete the LGTF. It's a waste of time for everyone on the TF, and was in essence a trap. It's not really about locking out those in the mid-level range so much as as preventing newbies and those who don't read the Homecoming Wiki from becoming stuck. It's a TF that was intentionally designed for level 45+, and was never intended for levels 35 - 44.

I'm pretty sure the reasoning is that Echo Plaza will only be available via LRT until the end of May. Once June rolls around, the only way to get to Echo Plaza will be via Pocket D. So they are adding entrances to Atlas and Mercy to make it easier for lowbies to get to Echo Plaza. But it makes no sense IMO to have two low level entrances and no mid-level entrance. Also, that's a Tequila issue ATM. The patch loads if you use the Homecoming launcher. They're working on Tequila.