Apparition

I played the Buck Rogers XXVc: Countdown to Doomsday computer game on my old 286 PC back in 1990. Inside the box was an advertisement for the Buck Rogers XXVc tabletop role-playing game by TSR that the computer game was based on. I really enjoyed the computer game. About a month later, a new comic book and tabletop gaming store opened up nearby, and a friend of mine and I went to check it out. I looked for, and found, the Buck Rogers XXVc boxed set (the very last boxed set TSR produced if I understand correctly), and my friend picked up the Robotech RPG by Palladium Books. I GMed Buck Rogers XXVc, my friend GMed Robotech. That's how it started. Eventually, our group expanded, and we alternated between Buck Rogers XXVc, Robotech, Villains & Vigilantes, DC Heroes, Heroes Unlimited, Star Wars d6, and Shadowrun. Out of those, my favorites are Buck Rogers XXVc and DC Heroes. Now, I play two tabletop RPGs a week online. Every Tuesday night, I play StarCluster 4, which is an independently published science-fiction tabletop RPG with several different settings available. Every Saturday night, I play Starfinder. They're very different from each other rules wise, but I enjoy playing both.

Was true. It was fixed with Tuesday's patch.

Fire/Rad would be your best bet. I have been farming with a Fire/Rad Tanker since late November. Since the Tanker changes, it farms very well and at about the same speed as a Spines/Fire Brute.

Can confirm. 24 teleportations within about a minute of fighting him. It's not bad if you're ranged, but I can see that being pretty danged annoying if you're melee.

I have a level 29 Fiery Melee/Energy Aura Stalker that I've been enjoying. I like that Breath of Fire has a little bit of range to it so I can set mobs that start to run on fire. I also enjoy seeing the criticals from Fire Sword Circle.

Agreed. Everyone I play with uses Super Speed while inside missions, and it makes playing a MM difficult because the pets simply do not keep up at all.

Beast/FF. A secondary with strong knockback and repel powers would not pair well with all melee pets.

Most of the hard core speed runners use Fire/Fire Blasters, but I'll take Temporal over the Fire secondary any day personally.

It's a very minor bug in the grand scheme of things, but in the red side "Lure Out Ajax" mission by Dean MacArthur, you're sent to rob a bank to lure out Ajax. There's a bunch of private security guards inside that you have to defeat. When I finally arrived at the bank vault, the nearby private security guards were attacking the bank vault instead of... you know... trying to protect it.

That's an old bug from the days that AE was first introduced. The same thing can happen with missions in Faultline.

Because something in the game needs to favor red side, and by God if it's the Hero Slayer badge, then so be it.

That's not really the case though. I know of several people that signed up in April and May and snagged a couple of hundred character names, each. Some no longer even play. IMO, allowing everyone to make 1,000 characters per server at the launch of Homecoming was a mistake, but c'est la vie.

There is an area with blue lighting which is where you should have entered after taking the elevator. The other side of Pocket D has red lighting, and has an elevator that can take you to red side zones. Look for the side of Pocket D with red lighting, then look for a box truck with a seagull on top.

You can go Rogue as a Hero. Just talk with Null the Gull on top of a box truck on the red side of Pocket D. That said, you may be better starting off as a Vigilante instead if you want to stick with mostly blue side content. Vigilante is the blue side equivalent of Rogue. They both allow you to do content on both sides.

You can get there via either Kings Row (blue side), or Port Oakes (red side). Pull up the map, and look for a small green circle. One of them will be labeled Pocket D.

Rogue is the only way to play, IMO. Then again, if you look at my avatar, you can tell that I'm biased. 😛

Would there be any possibility of adding the Unabashed exploration badge to the instanced Rikti mothership raid trial? I've run several dozen instanced MSR trials over the past few months and, IMO, it is better than the zone MSR in every way except for the missing Unabashed exploration badge. Adding the Unabashed exploration badge to the instanced MSR trials would mean that I would never have to do a zone MSR again.

Unfortunately, low level story arc teams have mostly gone to the wayside in favor of the low level trials and TFs, and AE. Your best bet for a team before level 20 is to join a DFB trial, DIB trial, or a Positron TF. I would also strongly suggest that you go to Pocket D (via either Kings Row or Port Oakes), talk with Null the Gull (a gull on top of a box truck on the red side of Pocket D), and change your character's alignment to either Rogue or Vigilante. That will expand your teaming options to include both red and blue (ugh 😛 ) content.

You and me both. I much prefer the naming convention of Champions Online and Star Trek Online. Mostly because I am terrible at names and everything I can possibly think of is taken. Now I just use "Apparition" and stick an adjective or adverb in front. "Shooting Apparition," "Diffusing Apparition," "Fiery Apparition," "Serrating Apparition," etc. The problem there is I run into the character limit.

Just a reminder that raiding of the Rikti mothership will commence in about eleven hours, y'all!

+11 Marauder hurts.

Welcome! EmperorSteele gave out some good advice. I would also recommend joining the Excelsior and Excelsior Badges global channels. /chan_join Excelsior /chan_join Excelsior Badges Between those two global channels, Broadcast, and LFG, you should be able to easily find teams.

... What other ATs eating dirt? Considering that I use my Blaster to tank ITFs with, and heck even occasionally tank with a Corruptor, I don't see it.

IMO, Brute vs. Tanker comes down to the tier 1 attack. Some power sets' tier 1 attack is well... not good, to be kind.

Yeah. I've been a DC Comics fanboy since the early 1980s. Identity Crisis in the mid-aughts began weaning me off of it. The New 52 accelerated that weaning. I briefly came back for Convergence and then Rebirth, but with the same crew running things that ran Identity Crisis and The New 52, things didn't really change. With DC Universe, I occasionally check out the newer stuff, but most of it is meh. Still, DC Universe is great for reading the huge back catalog.