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Since the talk about Mr. Green Jeans started when I posted my Capt. Kangaroo character, so did I. :) (Thus the "joke"—barely worthy of the name—about Kangaroo's friend Green Jeans apparently switching from farming to robotics and getting gender reassignment somewhere along the way.)

Sorry to deadname ol' Green Jeans. Wouldn't 'a thought robotics would be a natural career path for a farmer, but I guess that must have been easy compared to the other transition!

Glad to see that Green Jeans got himself educated! Did he go to med school, or get a Ph.D?

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To be extra nitpicky, SSA2 is the entire Pandora's Box arc, from Part 1 through Part 5 (as distinguished from SSA1, which is Who Will Die!!!?!?!!11omgpwnies). So the "final mission" of SSA2 would be the last mission in Part 5 of SSA2. I agree that it could be clearer, but I wouldn't go so far as to say it's worded "very badly." I'm just glad we're going to be able to have Nemesis Invasion events again.

Ki Push combos so well with Dual Pistols. Go Pistols for speed, Executioner's Shot for style. And always call out "Pull!" when you do it.

It's not quite a spreadsheet, but the unofficial HC Wiki has a page counting all the ingredients needed to get the Field Crafter badge. https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Gaining_the_Field_Crafter_Badge The "Table of Salvage Requirements by Crafted Enhancement Level" should be easy enough to export into a spreadsheet if that works better for you.

1,500 badges? Time for a dance party!

Halloween (and finally testing and publishing an AE arc) just put me over the top of 1,500. I still need the Winter Event badges, but I'll probably stop short of trying to get all of 1,550 (most of the arena badges and the PvP defeats badges just aren't happening).

Slay Ride (villains only)

Yup! See the patch notes here: AFAIK, it's not global. Previous Winter Event login badges back in the live days are available from the Candy Keeper for purchase (with candy canes), so I'm guessing (hoping?) that Snowbound will also be available from the Candy Keeper when the 2021 Winter Event rolls around.

Is April 2020 still the last time this event happened? I assume there aren't any other ways to get this badge (like the giant monster fests after costume contests)?

"Reemergent" ETA: That's more of an anniversary badge title (where it has connotations of both CoX reemerging and players reemerging from the pandemic). For the Winter Event, how about: "No Longer Home Alone"

Plenty of DE in Croatoa. I think they tend to hang out on Sally's beach, for example.

That's what Mr. G claims in the Inside Information mission: So Mr. G is Doppelganger,* who is the Praetorian version of Protean. Mr. G's character model looks a lot like the model for Agent G, through, and early on, Praetoria was all about the alternate version of characters in parallel universes thing, so I think it makes sense that Mr. G was originally intended as a Praetorian version of Mr. G. Many issues later, when the fall of Praetoria storyline came around, the devs made Mr. G "Doppelganger." To further complicate things, Mr. G, as "Doppelganger," had been working with the actual (Primal Earth) Protean. I don't recall having ever heard of Doppelganger before Mr. G says the name, although it does appear in the lore, at least according to the Wiki (just as Protean killed Manticore's parents—how very Batman—Doppelganger killed Chimera's parents, but then trained him). So, yes, it's clear that at some point, Doppelganger is created as a Praetorian version of Protean. Whether Mr. G was at some point meant to be a Praetorian version of Agent G—well, CoX had lots of Issues (and issues), so it's possible both were meant to be true, at different times? * The wiki, and perhaps the game, can't seem to decide between the spellings "Doppelganger" and "Doppleganger."

I don’t know if this is official, but my headcanon is that Mr. G is the Praetorian version of Agent G. Although Praetorian Mr. G (later) says he is also Doppelganger, who is the Praetorian counterpart to Protean, who as far as I know isn’t Agent G. It’s all very complicated. The St. Martial version of Mr. G is definitely the same one as the Praetorian Mr. G, though. During the fall of Praetoria, you save Mr. G (in the Inside Information tip mission). He relocates to Primal Earth and settles in St. Martial, where the events of his (very good) arc there take place.

If you want cool, then it's a darn shame you've ruled out Martial Combat. Because Martial Combat is absolutely the most giddy, fun, "Whoa, that's cool!" secondary to go with the pistols. Just try it. If, after having punched an enemy into the air and shot them while they're still flying doesn't make you giggle with joy and want to do it again and again, go ahead and rebuild the character as something else. But IMO, the DP/MC combo is absolutely worth choosing MC again, even if you have it on another alt.

Any thoughts on how these builds would do for a Sonic/Kin Corruptor? I know (now) that the Defender version with these power sets is considered much superior. Alas, I only learned this after spending some time leveling my Corrupter to 50, which got more frustrating as she leveled (sooo squishy, partly because I didn’t know what I was doing when I was picking powers). So now I’m trying to figure out if the Sonic/Kin Corruptor can be salvaged with a respec, or if I should rebuild the character theme as a Defender. Apologies if this is a thread hijack or should go in the Corruptors forum, but every thread I’ve seen on the Kin & Sonic combination points here.

This, from another thread, got me thinking: What is the fewest number of badges a character could have at level 50? It's no lower than 5, obviously, since you get those just for leveling. I suppose you can avoid other badges, like those for milestones of doing or taking damage, by exclusively leveling up in AE. But you'd still have to get there while avoiding any exploration badges on the way. Without using AE, though, getting to level 50 with the fewest badges would be a challenge. Avoid exploration badges (no Long Range Teleporter!). Don't do the Task Force Commander task forces. Skip any other mission that awards a badge. Don't kill too many of any enemy faction. Trying to avoid all these incidental (or accidental) badges could be even tougher than getting them all.

Right. I’ve done all the content myself. But OP said they want to do all contacts. As you say, that would involve doing a lot of the story arcs multiple times because of the way heroes were originally set on origin-specific contact paths. And it used to be that you couldn’t even get missions from the initial contacts outside your origin. I don’t know if that’s still true, though. Running some of those Issue 0 arcs multiple times (soooo many kill-alls) just to do them from all the contacts who give them sounds like torture to me, but hey, everyone can play the game however makes them happy. ETA: I just checked with a level 4 hero and all the initial contacts were willing to give me missions, regardless of origin. So it looks like it's possible to do all the contacts now, if that's what you're into.

Is it even possible to do all the hero contacts? There are five level 1-4 hero liaisons in Atlas Park, one per origin, who used to be the initial contacts for new characters. It used to be that you could only get missions from the hero liaison for your origin, but I haven’t checked whether that’s still true. Although maybe the other origins can be done through Ouroborous?

BTW, the key to survivability is not the AT you choose, it’s IO enhancement sets. Outfit your toon with the right IO sets (or almost any IO sets, really) and almost any AT can kick copious amounts of butt.

This is what I'd pick for my first reasonably survivable character. Stalkers now do almost as much damage as a scrapper, with a good stealth ability that doesn't require taking another power pool. The first toon I ran through all the redside content was a Stalker; being able to stealth past most of the mobs makes a lot of the missions quicker. Or, if you choose to defeat all, then it's because you're choosing to, not because you have to (unless the mission requires it, of course). And, really, sneaking up behind an enemy without them even seeing you then taking them down in one hit? Never gets old.

I actually kind of enjoyed running all four arcs. I don't think I did them all in a row, but it was kind of interesting to see how they took basically the same story line and tailored it to each of the four patrons. In particular (spoilers in case any readers haven't done at least one of the arcs): Also, if you don't already have the Mu Guardian gladiator badge, running Scirocco's arc at x8 is a great way to farm them.

Where's that in the lore? All I see, admittedly just from the wiki, is that "Strongmen are recruited for their potential and are dominated by the Ring Mistresses" and are "promoted" after a certain amount of time. But I could easily have skipped over some big revelations in a story arc.