Ironblade

To be clear, those badges are all mutually exclusive. You can have ONE of them.

It's not an actual badge. It doesn't show up in your badge listing if anyone else looks at it and it doesn't count toward your total badge count.

The T1, 2, 3, 4 refers to the level of individual powers. There are six incarnate slots and, in each one, there are a number of options to choose from. The Lore slot, for example, is a pet summon and there are something like 25 to choose from. The Destiny slot is support powers and you can pick from a heal/regen, END/recovery, shield (DEF and resist), group teleport to your location, group status protection. Each has four 'tiers' of powers with tier 1 being the weakest and tier 4 being the most powerful. Realistically, you don't need to go past tier 3 unless you feel like it. If you're going to do any incarnate content, you probably want to get to tier 3 in the Alpha, Lore and Destiny slots because each gives you a 'level shift'. Basically, it's +1 level that only applies under certain conditions. So, when you're in Ouroboros and people are gathering for iTrials, if you look at their level, most of them will probably display as 50+3. The Alpha slot has much broader application and will allow you to be 50+1 in much of the high-level content. And all of this is not something you really need to farm or grind for. If you enjoy incarnate content, you'll get there inevitably.

Firstly, I think you're suffering from 'Good Old Days' syndrome, where everything was great and wonderful 'back in the day' but it's terrible now. I've been here since the start and people used to offer spots on farms then and they were still doing it this past week. As for the rest, certainly opinions can differ but my impression is that: The community has not 'turned' any way. There has been no increase in actual toxicity - maybe you or your friends have become more sensitive on the subject. There has been no "sudden change in the community".

This makes it sound like multiple people had unpleasant encounters and individually concluded the community was toxic. I've been here since about a month after Homecoming launched and, in my experience, that seems EXTREMELY unlikely. What seems far more likely is one of the following: 1) As a group, they encountered one toxic individual and that made a negative impression on all of them. Every community has jerks and you will run into them eventually. If they had the bad luck to run into one when just starting out, that's unfortunate. 2) ONE of them had a bad experience and conveyed it to the others and now their opinion has been affected by the one person. Having said that, I'm not sure what you're asking with your post. I mean, I understand the words but, just as different people can be more or less 'toxic' at various times, every persons IMPRESSION of toxicity is different. Does the community feel toxic TO YOU? That's what matters. Also, I think it's kind of self-evident that, as a community, we don't think it's toxic or we wouldn't be here.

Exactly. You almost always want most or all of a set in a power. Sometimes the last bonus is something you don't want so you might use only five, or put a common IO in the final slot. Frankenslotting is almost never the best way to go unless you want one effect to the exclusion of pretty much everything else. Oh, but the other benefit of frankenslotting is that it's generally REALLY CHEAP. I got that 360% regen tank for about 40 million inf back on the live servers. Sometimes. The REALLY good sets like ATO's, PvP sets and purples can only be used ONCE each. Also, you might not have enough powers that take the same type of set. I will often have three of the same set in the armor powers on a tank. I don't think I've ever used more than three of the same set in a build.

It is DRAMATICALLY noticeable when you focus on just one or two effects. Let me tell you about my invuln tank where I did a discount build, using cheap IO's and getting +regeneration bonuses - which is always the first bonus (just needing two pieces). I 'frankenslotted' the character - using multiple different sets in each power - and ended up with about 360% regen bonus. That's about what a regen scrapper has with Integration running. Picture that amount of regen on a tank's hit points, especially with Dull Pain running. Well, the math is simple. That Crushing Impact piece is giving you a total of 53% buff without boosting it, so you should compare to level 50 common IO's. (Sure, the commons can be boosted, but so can the set IO's, so non-boosted is an apples-to-apples comparison). Set IO's that buff THREE aspects will apply less to each but the total buff will be even higher. Slot a power with a full set and it will dramatically exceed what can be achieved with common IO's. This is before we take into account the set bonuses. The INHERENT enhancement is better than common IO's.

I notice no one answered this. I'm pretty sure they were referring to the Labyrinth of Fog.

True. I did not think of that. Way too much effort to test, though. On a side note, CoH is taking 1.3GB of RAM and I have 32GB. So it looks like 10 instances would be doable. CPU usage is under 5%.

This is the only one that bothers me at all. Most of my farming was to get some characters to specific levels in case I ever needed to access a mission and didn't have someone at the right level. So I have stalkers named Agent 09, Agent 014, Agent 019, Agent 024, etc with each locked at the level in their name. Currently, they have not been played in over 700 days and all have name release warnings but who cares. They're only useful based on their level. Nah. I was running three accounts at the same time back in 2005. I would guess the computer I play on now could handle ten or more accounts easily. Not gonna test, since that would be a bannable offense. I just have three accounts.

The Council guys with the big rocket launcher have it. I was soloing Citadel yesterday on a corr with 4 pts of KNB resist. When he got hit with that, he would go flying and the word 'FREEM' would appear in mid-air alongside the damage numbers.

The same can be said about Star Trek. For the rest of his life after Star Trek, James Doohan (who played Scotty) had people telling him that they had decided to become engineers because of his character. Regarding the thread topic, I checked and Alloy is still not available on Everlasting. I have him at level 50 and fully incarnate over on Excelsior. I also checked Speedfire and that is available. I decided not to bother renaming Speed-Fire (fire/kin corr) since he's also 50 and fully incarnate already. And I don't need a new one. If Alloy had been available, I would have made a new one and leveled him on Everlasting.

I think you mean "four idiots". Controllers are not a hindrance or dead weight in any way.

Whoa whoa whoa! You left out playing on the ice slides! That's the best part of that mission.

To be precise, it means *ALL* required objectives have been met, not just the first one.