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Most groups on Homecoming, established and otherwise, tend to be quite welcoming to new or low-level players. So there is no need for a guide for that, IMHO. As long as you show a wee bit of effort to contribute to the group - socially as well as adding DPS/debuffs/buffs/orsomethingelse to the group's battles - most people will be happy to have you along. That is the benefit of being a low-population game: We kind of can't afford to be too elitist if we want someone to team with 🙂 You won't be a low-level character for very long, as the exp flows generously in this game. That being said, you can look in the Guides section for The Good Missions Guide and its redside twin The Mean Missions Guide. Those give some good suggestions for which story arcs to play when you do decide to solo instead of teaming.

I am no expert, but since none of the smart people have bothered to reply (yet), here is what I think is the top-3, based partly on the sets I have played myself and partly on anecdotal information from this forum and elsewhere (i.e. which sets get the most word-of-mouth praise by the most people): - Primary : Street Justice, Energy, Electrical - Secondary: Energy, Shield, and ... either Invuln, Psionic or Bio depending on playstyle The usual disclaimers apply, of course: This is all subjective; you should play whatever you like; none of the powersets are dramatically above or below the others, so there are no wrong answers in terms of "best" powersets; player skill > powersets and slotting. 🙂

Major changes were made to several Widow powers a couple of years ago: https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Issue_27_Page_7#Arachnos_Soldier_/_Arachnos_Widow_Updates_&_Power_Customization. I *think* @Gulbasaur has updated the build in the thread since then, but since I am not sure and in any case I won't pretend to speak for someone else, he is hereby summoned to answer 🙂 Other than that, @Warshades explained everything really well, so I don't have anything to add. Except to give a +1 to the suggestion earlier in the thread that you use your 2nd build on the Widow to make a tanky Night Widow build. Not necessarily right away, but whenever your inf situation allows. And now if you'll excuse me, I have to go think about making an ill/dark controller. "Thanks" for triggering my ever-lingering altitis, @Without_Pause 🤒

Obligatory referral to @Gulbasaur's recipe for a do-everything hybrid fortu-widow:

The title says it all, so just a few comments to explain my goals for this build: - PvE only, no PvP. - Mostly for solo play. I team a lot, but I generally prefer ranged- or support chars for that. - Should be useable when exemplared down, as I do a lot of that. Which also means that the build cannot depend on incarnate abilities to solve any problems. - Unlimited budget - I am not opposed to using procs in this build, but frankly I don't trust myself to understand procs well enough to place them in a build in a smart way (see also below re. my brute-ignorance) - Suggestions on a good (and not too complicated, if possible) attack rotation would be nice as well. Brute is one of those ATs which I have never been able to get into. Not sure why, and it is not for lack of trying (3 brutes before this one, two of which got 50'ed w/o any speedlevelling). I mention this only to make it clear that even though I have a moderate amount of experience making my own builds for other ATs, brute builds evade me and I wouldn't be able to recognize a good one even if it painted itself purple and jumped up and down in front of me while singing "Good builds are here again" 🙂 So I really would appreciate you guys' input on how to turn this into a decent SS/Stone. Many thanks in advance :) ShockStone v2b.mbd

Posted elsewhere by @Almafeta:

This would enable you to learn which strategies work best against those enemies, which in turn helps you overcome your self-imposed challenge, so I get the idea behind this. However, won't it also get tedious after a while because of repetitiveness in the mission types and -layouts? Lvl 15-50 is a loooong way, ya know.

You can have a look at this build for inspiration. I have not respecced this char in several years, so there might be room for improvement in some areas; but overall it plays very smoothly, with a good balance between attacking and debuffing. I generally never use the buffs (shields), this is a personal choice because I enjoy being a enemy-debuffer more than being a teammate-buffer. This build is good for playing on teams. I almost never play this char solo, so I can't tell you how the build performs when solo. allrounder_ice_cold_corruptor.mxd

That seems to be the general consensus regarding defenders vs. controllers AFAIK : Defender is more useful and/or enjoyable on a fast-moving team, whereas controller is more useful on a slow or struggling team. That is also my own experience with various controllers and defenders, albeit not with Dark on any of them.

Syndicate Sword Adepts. At the level you encounter them on goldside, their defense debuff is a major problem.

I thought all the other search providers still used either Google's or Bing's indexes anyway, i.e. regardless of one's choice of browser there is still an unavoidable tie-in with either Google or Bing in the background. Did this change, or have I just misunderstood all along?

You must be new to The Internet. So let me be the first to welcome you, and to explain the first rule of any online chat forum: "If other people like something in a different way than you like it, then it is your sacred duty to spend all your waking hours writing walls of text to convince them that they are wrong." 😁

It has been a while since I read the Lore AMA session transcripts with the ex-dev team, so at the risk of misremembering, I think the intended future use for Kallisti Wharf was related to the... These arcs would take place in KW and would be doable by both heroes and villians, similar to the ones in RWZ and the other co-op zones, hence KW needed to be accessible for both red- and bluesiders. If I have this wrong, I am sure someone else who has read the Lore AMA more recently can correct me.

Probably so obvious that you have already looked into it, but just in case: Is there a dedicated Discord channel for AE writers and -fans? If so, advertising in that channel might help get a few more players for each week's team.

9 posts later, and no one has mentioned creating an alt named SuperMayor yet?!