GM Crumpet

A lot of it is firewall or antivirus being overly cautious and blocking the game, hence the "no internet connection" thing. Other than that it might be port blocking from your ISP. I know Spectrum and AT&T are both suspects when it comes to this kind of thing. A good proportion of the game connection issues are ISP related. We have player in the Philippines who struggle, despite their ISP swearing it's not them. It is.

For me I found the changes in playstyle as I levelled was interesting. I now have incarnate PB and WS and while I enjoy PB, I prefer WS just because it fits my playstyle better. I must admit I don't really use the human forms much any more. I use the nuke on my PB, and light form, but outside of those I get a lot of work out of the two forms. The WS gets more of a workout with eclipse, 2 mires, a nuke and the ability to drag all the enemies into my grasp, plus a pet I can summon from their cold dead corpse. Unfortunately the way slotting works you have to specialise and things have to get ignored. For me (and other people have different opinions and play styles) I found that concentrating on the nova and dwarf, plus the powers that provide immediate advantage was the only way to make a viable character. And trust me, I'm very viable. Even if I do sometimes have to rely on my self rez as part of my attack chain 😛 TP in, go human to ecl.... crap I died... No biggie.... Where was I? Oh yes, eclipse, mire., dwarf, mire , human, nuke, dwarf, slap the enemies till they fall over, strip their life force out of their body for a rather sweet pet. Repeat as necessary 🙂

Please remember there is a hard 13 age limit to the game, so don't let the little ones play. Messing about with base building on your own account is fine, but not having their own account or playing the game itself.

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Very true. Also don't underestimate the boost from other AT's when in a team. I was doing a Market Crash the other say and was absolutely owning it on my WS. So many enemies to suck dry, plus the bonuses from the other 7 players. I was tromping over the top of everything. Crimson thingy at the end was very obliging about supplying endless minions for me to feed off, though I did have to have self rez as part of the chain to get eclipse back up 😛

It sounds like you are having a double click going on. What happens if you bind it to a key? I have mine on a key and press the key, lobster. Press it again, human. Same with squid. Get too excited and hit the key twice and I swap then swap back. ZPdeqGJ - Imgur.mp4

As a player, I always found khelds really underwhelming and meh as I got overwhelmed with the vast array of options and very little knowledge of how to actually play one. Indeed, I made and deleted a WS and PB several years ago, having got to around level 20 then power levelling to 50 to see if they got better, but they didn't. Last April I made one of each during the mapserver event and once they hit level 50 I parked them up thinking I'll get round to trying them again at some point but never did. Then I met Laucianna by accident and came across her rather excellent guide, plus the fact she worked with me one to one to help me understand the mechanics, and to make a good build based on my own play style. I started with Dooms builds, then tweaked them. And you know what? They are so much fun. I'm busier than a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs and occasionally find I need my self rez as part of my attack chain, but playing a tri-form is just so enjoyable. They tank, just not as well as a tank, they blast, just not as well as a blaster, they buff and debuff, just not as well as a defender/controller. Yet somehow the combination is more than the sum of it's parts. I don't use the macros, I just have the forms on a key and a flick of the key and they swap between them. The TP is on one key, the form changes are on others. Move my little finger slightly and press. Instant form change. For me that's what makes khelds so versatile. WS teleports in, shadow slip, eclipse, mire, dwarf, mire, human, nuke, back to dwarf. Slap things till they stop moving. Dark extraction and move on. PB I find easier, light form, squid, shoot things, lobster as needed. Nuke on demand. I admit, I'm at the point where inf isn't a problem, so slotting the best enhancements is automatic, but even with less expensive enhancements a good knowledge of the mechanics of how to optimise your playstyle makes a confusing array of abilities much easier to get your head round. I've never had to spend as much inf as I have slotting my khelds. As with masterminds, you can tweak macros and binds to fine tune how you want to play, but at the risk of an outcry (No Crumpet you're an idiot!!) you don't really need much. When I play a mastermind I only use the default pet command buttons and don't see any need for anything more complicated. Same with khelds. Outside of some keybinds to make the most used powers easy access I don't feel like I'm at any great disadvantage not having a tray full of macros. Seeing the love given to some of the MM sets like Undead and Mercs to make them very playable I'll be interested to see what the devs have in mind with the khelds. Hopefully they will listen to and take feedback from the leaders of the kheld community like Laucianna before they make any final decisions. No point asking me, I just listen and pay attention, then implement the suggestions to make me better. I'll tell someone if there is a must have power like light form or self rez, or argue that I don't find a power effective, but for the most part I just follow the experts and look at how they do things and try to copy them.

You really don't need to run at -1 most of the time. I play a lot of solo and once I get some slots and SO's I run at +1 without much difficulty. I'll -1 if there is a really hard boss like Veles, but apart from that it's pretty much anything goes. If you seem to slicing through mobs with ease it's easy enough to go up a notch, if you struggle then down a notch. Early game especially you can do default with little difficulty

I'm torn. On the one hand I want to lock this thread as it seems to have run it's course, on the other hand it is making me cackle like a witch throwing reprobates into her oven 😛

As others have said, you are in the lap of the RNG gods. I've gone weeks with no purples then had three drop in one session. There is a table somewhere with drop rates and it's based on enemy rank and level. More enemies mean more chances on the table divided by number of players in the party.

I always forget that command 🙂

Just to add to what GM Widower has said, never download mods (or indeed anything) from anywhere other than official Homecoming sources. We have an excellent modding tool written By Michiyo and they check all the mods to make sure they are good and don't contain hidden nasties, and AbovetheChemist works hard to make sure Vidiotmaps is up to date, bug free and also free from anything that shouldn't be there. The people involved try their very best to make sure nothing slips past, and while it's a possibility it's a remote one. Unfortunately we can't vouch for third party mods and it's very much a buyer beware situation. If something goes horribly wrong we will try to help, but our abilities are limited.

That's very kind. I don't tend to reuse names too much though as all the alts I keep have a back story and I've often spent ages trying to find a power set that works with the name.

Sounds like very reasonable rules to me. As a team GMs try to stay out of league stuff, a league leader makes the rules and if people don't like it they are free to go make a league of their own.

love it. I also have Alty McAltface 🙂

I have Karen the Barbarian and Fairy Nuff. Do they count?

At some point, in the fullness of time, when the times right. And that's the definitive answer straight from the GM team. And you can quote me on that!!

I play MM's a lot and they are my favourite AT. My pet peeve is during Tinpex and you are on the last mission with bobcat and Neuron and your pets won't arrive so you dismiss them and they won't spawn. The workaround is to dismiss them before you enter, but if you forget you, are a petless mastermind with sub par attacks until the game decides to grudgingly allow your pets to appear. Even team TP or individual TP won't work. Apart from that, I see some valid points and some not so valid points. I've personally never been refused a team or been on a team where the MM appears and the leader kicks them for being a MM. That's just rude. A well slotted MM is a thing of beauty. You don't know if the tanker or blaster is half as well slotted. MM's can send their pets in and run away, very fast. The other day I was the only survivor on a team wipe and I legged it while my pets fought to team TP and regroup. If you don't mind the pets dying it's a perfectly sensible strategy to send them in and take the alpha strike before the rest of the team takes over.

Not yet. People are just discussing the etiquette involved. Should be live first or second week in October. It depends on when Cipher and the other yellow admins decide to flick the switch

Most of the things you ask are fine, but a lot of players specifically roll new characters to take advantage of the extra XP and the protection of large leagues. As GM's the only things we frown on are AFK masterminds leeching the rewards, and bad manners. As for location, just remember there are plenty of places to ToT. A league doesn't cause too much lag or problems, but 2 or more leagues can cause so much lag the rewards are severely reduced. If the lag is terrible consider moving your league to another location in the zone.

Go into settings and click verify then reset graphics on next run

I don't find teleport clunky to use. I bind it on a key then just hit key, click mouse. I can bop across IP really fast. As for fold space, it's situational. I have the warshade version and got shouted at by the tank for using it. For context warshades work better the more enemies they have surrounding them. When he realised it was me he forgave me as I was outperforming every other character in the team and steam rolling over the top of all the mobs, but I still went ahead of the team so I didn't disturb his nice mob collecting. And best AT and power set is the one you enjoy playing. AR and some mastermind sets have had upgrades and work a lot better than before. I'm personally not fan of the new power sets but there's nothing wrong with them, just not my beverage of choice. Mercs in particular got some love and are pretty great now.

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Catalysts turn levelled set enhancements into attuned set enhancements. As a general rule buying set enhancements attuned is the best way forward. Purple and PvP enhancements can use boosters to go to +5, as can normal level 50 IO's. Catalysts will also turn normal archetype set enhancements and winter sets into the superior version when you hit level 50. I have no idea what happens if you bought them unattuned though. I buy everything attuned, even purples and pvp because <pretty!!>