Ironblade

Or a sewer treatment plant.

You're comparing two different kinds of powers here. First, you have "Stealth, Stalkers' Hide powers, Grant Invisibility, or Superior Invisibility". This all grant what I'll call 'full invisibility'. You can walk right up to most enemies, actually bump into them, and they won't know you're there. Then you have Infiltration, which is *NOT* full invisibility. Once you get close enough, ANY mob will be able to see you. So it sounds like that's what's causing an issue. Tell me, are you actually using the Combat Attributes and monitoring the 'Stealth Radius (PVE)' to see what the power is doing? That will tell you if it's actually shutting off, because the number will go to zero. Otherwise, you're just getting too close to the enemy and they can see right through the Infiltration power - which is working as intended in that regard.

Same about standing on the mausoleum. But I often see the opposite regarding the day job icon showing up - mainly in First Ward. Logging out almost anywhere in the zone gets you the Scavenger badge but the icon very often does NOT show up. But when I log back in days later, I get the badge.

The last time I paid 2 billion for an enhancement was a +3% resist unique, back on live.

Well, let me address this from a few angles. First, I find a disconnect between my experience and yours (I think). I see no reason to use Discord to organize most activities when I can easily find 7 teammates using the in-game tools. To be fair, I guess I mostly run popular content like the weeklies and the ITF. Obviously this affects the ease of recruiting. Having said that, larger activities that I participate in *ARE* organized on Discord. Everlasting TFs has a Discord channel and Cosmic Council on Excelsior. Most of the incarnate trials and Hamidon raids that I join are from one of those Discords. Finally, regarding the relentless Aeon SF - this is NOT popular content. Even on the Discords I mentioned, it's sometimes challenging for people to find a full team to run that. It's just not popular. On a side note, if you're on one of the less populated shards, it can be difficult to find enough people even for some of the more popular content.

Excellent example. All the information I include but I use better grammar and sentence structure. 🙂 I would also add that I say if there is anything unusual or noteworthy about the TF. For example, Market Crash gives a guaranteed purple on your first run. If it's the weekly, I mention that.

Same, but I don't think it's weird that I didn't notice. I use it so infrequently. I typically only need it on relatively low level characters after a long fight when my toggles are already on. If I just died, I generally come back with plenty of HP and END due to using Return to Battle or a high tier inspiration.

Then wait. This. Except my specific number is 1400. Why? I dunno. I just picked a number.

If I learned anything from 'Candy Man' and 'Beetlejuice', it's that you have to recite the name THREE times.

I think you're mixing up the cause and effect. It sounds like you're suggesting that Homecoming is popular because it's the first result on Google. I would contend that it's the first result because it is ALREADY popular.

Half BS, half accurate. "they need to take some time each week to play with players that play lower level content" That's the BS part. This isn't a job. They can play however they damn well please, at whatever level they prefer. "instead of trying to rush new players into the the end-game." And that's entirely accurate. No one should be pushing new players to play in ANY particular way. Let them figure out for themselves what they want to do.

Welcome back! Here's a useful tip for picking a shard to play on - at the top of this page, click on 'SERVER STATUS' to see how many people are on each server. Check at the times you normally play. Also, all of the shards are at the same location except Reunion, so there won't be more or less lag for one. If you're playing from Europe, the Reunion shard is in Germany. All the rest are in Canada.

I don't see a point for a 'hami only' character. Pretty much every character is useful at a raid. If you want to be extra useful, build a character that can fill two or more roles. For example, a recent raid was low on tanks so I switched to my WP/ice tank. I flew around taunting the yellow mitos off the melee team, then moved on to assist with the green mitos using my two single-target holds (one in Ice Melee and one in Arctic Mastery).

Why not? If it's good enough for the animals, it should be good enough for new players.

Sounds like they remembered the game through rose-colored glasses. They wanted their old characters back, got them and then, "eh, who cares". The game wasn't like they remembered/wanted or it WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN A GRIND. They played in a way that led to burn-out or boredom or simply lack of enjoyment. I've recreated about 18 characters from live and made 5 new ones. About 15 of them are level 50 and fully incarnate, with exactly ZERO farming/PL'ing, and I don't feel like it has been a grind at all.

It's like night and day. I don't do hard drives at all any more. The system I'm on right now has a 500GB NVMe drive on my motherboard which holds Windows and all my data (every scrap of content I ever created, from spreadsheets to code I've written to photos I've taken). Then I have a 2TB SATA SSD for games (which is about 60% full - ugh). I have a batch file that runs each day to back up all my data onto the second drive.

Well, I'm late to this thread but here's my two cents. I think the most efficient way to handle this and help you reorganize the binds would be as follows: Say you have 3 characters: Albert, Barry and Chuck. Load Albert. Do /bindsavefile c:\temp\albert.txt Load Barry. Do /bindsavefile c:\temp\barry.txt etc. This will give you a series of files, each identified by character, than you can then organize, compile into one file, whatever you want. And now, the rant I give once or twice a year about the importance of BACKING UP YOUR FILES. And don't let this be something you can forget or that requires a judgement call. Make it completely automatic and back up EVERY bit of content you ever created whether it be photos, Word documents, etc, etc. What I do, in every computer I build, is make sure I have two drives. You can get a small internal hard drive for $20-$30. You can also get an external drive. You can leave a USB drive plugged in and back up to that. It's extremely unlikely that two drives will fail at the same time - except from external events like a lightning strike or your house burning down. For that, you need to have an off-site copy. Make a copy on a USB drive once a month or so and take it to your office, your brothers house, safe deposit box, etc. Do a search on YouTube to see if you can find the call to tech support from the guy whose laptop drive crashed and lost his doctoral thesis that, in his words, was "a f***ing year of my life". Now figure out a way to not be that guy.

Resistance reduces an effect. Protection stops it completely if it has a higher number (magnitude). If you get hit with an effect and have resistance, the effect is REDUCED but never eliminated - you'll be slowed less, knocked back less distance, lose less endurance, etc. Protection will stop an effect. If you get hit by a mag 3 hold and have mag 4 protection, the hold does nothing. So, the really good sets vs knockback will have both resistance AND protection. If you get hit by a knockback attack and have even a million percent resistance, you still get knocked down (because knockback with a value of less than 1 becomes knockDOWN). Therefore, if Evasive Maneuvers only has resistance, you'll still get knocked 'down' (or do a mid-air flip). Add any amount of PROTECTION to that, like 4 points from an IO, and you'll be in good shape.

Nope. You have to be IN THE GAME and in Pocket D for one hour. Logging out in Pocket D will get you progress toward the Clubber day job but is of no help getting the Long Range Telepoter.

Top Dog by itself doesn't do anything. The easiest way (in my opinion - and which I do on EVERY character right after I create them) is to get ALL EIGHT of the exploration badges in Atlas Park. That will get you an accolade badge, 5 reward merits and the Long Range Teleporter. As for spending overnight in Pocket D, I'm not sure what you think that does. Getting the Pocket D teleporter requires you to be *IN* Pocket D - not logged out - for one hour. That would also get you the Long Range Teleporter but, like I said, it takes an hour. I can get all the exploration badges in Atlas Park in about 3 minutes (to be fair, I have the locations memorized).

I don't count my merits in my 'wealth' estimates. I track them, and I have about 35,000 sitting around, but I wasn't including them in my estimates. And I do sometimes buy purples or ATO's outright using merits because it's faster and easier. 🙂

FYI, this was changed a LONG time ago. Just go to the vendor in Atlas Park, for example, and they will sell you the correct SO's for your origin.

Once a build is finished, I consider that inf (and whatever enhancements it bought) to be gone. It's permanently installed on that character so it's no longer available. I suppose I would count enhancements sitting in my base, although there's not many now. I decided to have Ironblade on every shard so that was three purple sets and six Nucleolus Exposure for each. Since Ironblade uses melee, melee AoE and ranged (and I converted all the trash purples), I just have a couple of Ragnarok sets left. Ah, I remember the good old days on live. I created a solo SG just to have an extra dozen or so enhancement tables for my stuff. I engaged in pretty much every method of gaining inf, as a competition with myself to see how much I could get. So tedious. So, compared to live, I'm 'poor'. Currently, I've been having new characters self fund by marketeering on just that character until they've bought everything they need. I think my total inf is about 1.8 billion. There's maybe 250 mill worth of stuff in my base. Maybe more if Overwhelming Force sets are worth much. I have some from running the SBB but have no idea what they cost.

Well, if the team was being paid, maybe that would get prioritized. And if they were being paid by YOU, they'd prioritize things according to your questionable wisdom. But neither of those situations applies.

The 18th Anniversary badge, Unquenchable, is now live. Time to cycle through all your characters. 🙂 Also, please remember, if you are missing any of the previous anniversary badges, you can buy them from Luna in Ouroboros - BUT ONLY DURING THE ANNIVERSARY EVENT (i.e. NOW). Edit: Just checked Luna with a character that doesn't have all the anniversary badges - they ARE now available.