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This statement makes me question your credentials as a top scientist in COHology. A true scientist would have expressed that as "Ice/Cold has been determined within a statistically acceptable margin of error to be very structurally cohesive. " As for my own scientific credentials, I do not have a Ph.D. in CoH per your requirements, but I do sometimes sweep floors, which I assume makes me like the cleaning crew guy in Good Will Hunting - cleverer than the scientists at the institute even though all he does is sweep said institute's floors. Are those credentials sufficient to post in your thread?

Here is my take on a patriotic American look for a superhero. Maybe you can take some inspiration from that. Looking at it again, though, I realize that it needs some more stars in various places to convey the American look.

IIRC you can use this bind which answers "Accept" to the dialog box, which in turn closes the box: /bind Y "dialog_yes$$dialog_answer Accept"

Perhaps the tasks can be combined. What would be more Silver Age bizarre than *gasp* a Regen char who is not gimped? [To be continued...] [...Continued] But of course, the subsequent week's patch reverts Regen back to its previous form. 😉

Must be the tier 9 power in our long-awaited Carp Melee powerset.

Surely you meant to have a comma between the second and third words, right? Many English classrooms have posters with "Let's eat, Grandma" and "Let's eat Grandma" to emphasise the difference grammar can make 🙂

The only FP members I have seen people ragging on in in-game chat (i.e. in team/league chat or in General) are: - Statesman, because of the Jack Emmert connection - Manticore, because (a) his character is a douchebag who tries too hard, and (b) his relationship with Sister Psyche is played out as cringey ERP which we as players were forced to watch. It is like being a TTRPG player where the DM's girlfriend is one of the players and he can't separate his RL relationship from the game. - Synapse, but only because of his tedious TF, not because of anything to do with his personality.

Has anyone managed to replicate the costume parts from Soldier of Arachnos costumes on non-SoA characters? And by "replicate" I mean finding costume parts in the character creator which are somewhat similar in style/appearance to the costume parts which SoS's are allowed to use on the first costume slot. It seems like such an obvious idea that surely someone would have had a go at this already, but I have not seen it brought up in these forums so far. Which, of course, might just mean that I am overlooking it 🙂 I have a Soldier of Arachnos costume which I quite like, and it would be nice to be able to use a similar-looking costume on some of my non-Soldiers. I started to toy around in the character creator to find costume pieces in a similar style to the SoA pieces, but then it dawned on me that someone else might have already done it and might also be willing to share the result of their efforts with me and save me a bit of time. Hence this post. Costume file and pic are attached, but to be clear: I am not necessarily asking anyone to replicate it for me - I am lazy in general but not that lazy, so I can do my own gruntwork. But if you have already done something similar, I would appreciate it if you can give me some tips on where in the costume creator to find SoA-looking costume parts. T.I.A.! costume creator HopeCrusher 2e c1 v2.costume HopeCrusher 2e c1 v2.costume

On Reunion, a lot of itrials are started in Echo Plaza. Several of the people who frequently lead itrial leagues were kind enough to make that change a few years ago in order to accomodate myself and the (few but loud) other 24-karat goldsider geeks, and now it has been done that way for so long that it is muscle memory for a lot of players 🙂 These trials usually take place Fridays and Sundays at 20:00 central Euro time, though, so for you Yanks that probably won't help much.

Yes, please do. We need more people to join the 24-Karat Goldsiders club - lvl 50 characters who never crossed to Primal Earth and thus still have the Loyalist or Resistance next to their name on the character list. 😉

My main spreadsheet is very similar to the one in @lobster's second post in this thread. So similar that I won't even bother posting a screenie of it here. The columns are in a different order, and I use a few more columns to track things things like reward merits, Empyreans etc,, but that is minor details. There are also a bunch of subsheets for various details and calculations, but the main sheet is what I use 98% of the time. One thing that makes me curious: Looking at all the spreadsheets that people have generously shared in this thread, I notice that none of you use the Filter function in the headings line. I do, and I use it A LOT. It helps me search for subsets of characters, e.g. if I want to see only scrappers, or only villains, or only chars that don't have the TFC accolade, or whatever it might be. Who else uses the Filter tool in their spreadsheet?

Pretty much the same here. I have done solo Praetoria runs on brute, tanker, dominator, mastermind, scrapper and stalker - in that chronological order. For me, the stalker was definitely the easiest one and the domi was the most difficult. For comparison purposes, note that I am not a particularly skilled player and I played on +0/x1 difficulty most of the time. As others have mentioned, having a melee armor set makes a noticeable difference in goldside content, but on the other hand you want a pretty good damage output, as a lot of the goldside mobs are more robust than their Prime counterparts. For me, the stalker struck the best balance between survivability and damage. Domi has less survivability and less DPS, and the low levels in Praetoria one does not have Domination up often enough to use in all the boss/EB fights. Brute, while the concept of "enhancement-less damage boost from Fury" sounds compelling, suffers from the problem that at the sub-15 levels a brute doesn't have enough EndRed slotting to keep battling without taking breaks - which means losing the Fury bonus. In fairness, though, I am particularly bad a playing brutes in general, so I am not a reliable commentator in this regard.

Just popping in to say Thanks! to everyone who has pitched in with information in this thread. You guys have given me a lot to think on, and I really appreciate it; planning a new character is sometimes as much fun as actually making that char. Hopefully others can benefit from reading this thread as well.

I hope this question makes sense, but if not, another way to phrase it would be: If you have ever told someone "hey, if you only play [insert name of powerset here] once in your lifetime, you should play it on a brute, they get the best version of it" - what powerset(s) was that? A bit of clarification: It seems to be generally agreed that where the same powerset can be played on several different AT's, it is better on some of those AT's than on others. Regen and elec melee are the only two I really know about, but I assume the same holds true for most if not all powersets, primary as well as secondary. For myself, I haven't done very well with the few brutes I have played (eng/eng back on Live, elec/elec, kin/elec and db/fire on HC). That is a me problem, not the AT's fault; for whatever reason, brute is one of the AT's that just I just can't seem to gel with. I wonder, though, if the lack of gellling is because I was playing powersets which are more difficult to play, especially for someone like me for whom the brute playstyle is not intuitive. And before anyone says "don't follow the meta, just play what you enjoy", the problem is that I have tried that 4 times already and failed to enjoy it, so maybe it is time to see if "the wisdom of the crowd" is better at picking brutes for me than I myself am 🙂 Oh, and this would be intended for PvE only, an even mix of solo and PUG teams, levelling on story arcs and TFs, maybe some itrials but no starred content or other hard content. So, what powersets live their best life on a brute? 😉 As usual, many thanks in advance.

Lots of good advice already in this thread! A few things I have not seen mentioned and which might be relevant and/or useful to you, OP: 1) You mentioned preferring Praetorian content. I happen to agree that goldside (i.e. Praetoria) has some of the best storytelling in the game, but it is also tougher content than blueside or redside.(*) What this means to you is that levelling takes a bit longer than it would if you played in Paragon City or the Rogue Isles instead. So if you really want to make it to higher levels, you will find it easier on blue- or redside. You will also find more teams to play with there than in Praetoria, and teaming makes the levels fly by. (*) Admittedly, not everyone agrees that goldside is generally tougher, but at least a non-zero percentage of the game's population think so. So take that statement for what it's worth. 2) Which server do you play on? At the risk of stating the obvious, you will level much more quickly if you are on one of the servers which have double exp. You can move your characters to a different server for free, you only have a limited number of tokes to do this but they refresh within a few days. 3) You don't need to get all the way to level 50 to feel like your character is fully matured, skill-wise. Opinions vary, but personally I usually find that a character feels woefully incomplete until the low 20s, then it gradually begins to come together, and somewhere in the mid 30s it feels pretty much complete. Yes, you get more skills and a lot more slots from the mid-30s up to 50+3, but they don't make the char significantly different, they just make it better at what it already is. YMMV, of course, but my point here is that you are closer to your goal of "sticking with a character until completion" than you might think. If you have played several of your characters to the mid-teens levels or maybe even close to lvl 20, you are only a few hours' teaming away from that 30+ level range where (according to me) you will feel like you have arrived. And just to be clear: I am not saying you HAVE to level up quickly. Most of us old-timers here will advise you to take your time and enjoy the ride. But if you are frustrated about your characters being stuck in low levels, then the above points might help you with that. Whatever you end up doing, I hope you enjoy it.