Ironblade

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.

Based on a brief count, it looks like there are 54 zones which have the full EIGHT exploration badges to grant an accolade: 28 'hero' zones (this includes Echoes of Atlas Park, Galaxy City and Faultline, plus the Sewer Network and Abandoned Sewer Network) 8 'villain' zones (this includes Monster Island) 8 Praetorian zones (3 city zones, 3 underground, plus First Ward and Night Ward) 6 co-op zones (includes Dark Astoria and Rikti War Zone plus the 'echoes' of those two zones and also The Abyss) 4 PvP zones Getting all 8 exploration badges in a zone will give an accolade badge and FIVE reward merits. (I know it's five because I track all merits received on my main character in a spreadsheet - unless it got changed since November, which is when my main finished his exploration badges.) The zones that only have a single exploration badge (like Kallisti Wharf) don't award an accolade. On a final note, whenever I make a new character, one of the first things I do is collect all the exploration badges in Atlas Park to unlock the Long Range Teleporter. Getting a jump pack or temp fly power makes it easy to reach all the badges. Edit: Just confirmed by getting the badges in First Ward; it's five merits awarded with the accolade badge.

And the 18th anniversary badge is live. I just got it when I logged in to check something unrelated. Badge name is Unquenchable.

He's entertaining live, too. I'm in an SG with him. 🙂

"likely contributed". So, you actually have no idea why he left and decided to regale us with this diatribe. Since you clearly actually care about the game population, did it occur to you to *ASK* him why he quit so you could use that information?

What? You're 55 and you care what other people think?!?!? 😛 Seriously, though, I'm going to answer this two ways: from general and personal viewpoints. General Viewpoint Video games are big business nowadays. Many many adults make their living playing, streaming and/or writing about video games. These professionals are supported by massive numbers of fans. Pro football and pro baseball generate around $10 billion a year each. The video game industry brings in over $150 billion. Personal Viewpoint I tell anyone who will listen that I play video games in my free time. Hell, I met my girlfriend in City of Heroes back in 2009 and our family and friends have all heard about it. On Saturday, we were at the PAX East gaming convention, followed by a meet-up at a bar with people we know from another game. I started gaming with Dungeons and Dragons - FORTY-THREE YEARS AGO. I've been a gamer all of my adult life.

First, let me suggest what not to play - any set with a gun. If he's used to relatively realistic gunplay from Call of Duty, adjusting to comic book guns could be annoying. If he really wants to go with a gun, beam rifle is probably the best choice. I would suggest he make two characters so he can get a feel for two extremes - a blaster and a tank. That would give him good context for discussions of damage vs survivability. For a blaster, my recommendation would depend on whether you expect to mostly duo or play on larger teams. For larger teams, fire blaster. Throwing non-stop AoE is a ton of fun. For a duo . . . maybe ice (or beam rifle if he wants a gun). Having said that, I think the first step would be a five minute monologue from you highlighting the characteristics of each AT. Since he lives on this planet, I assume he's familiar with superheroes and he might have a particular concept he's dying to play. Maybe after all that running and gunning he'd want to play some kind of defender. Who knows?

No. Your butt does that. 😛

Sadly, I have not sold any of these lately. I've only been a buyer. 😞

Back on live, one of my friends regularly ran all-defender Statesman task forces. They were a walk in the park. Conversely, I did an all-melee Kahn TF on Homecoming and it was absolute torture.

That would be my first thought.

The numbers fluctuate a lot.

Yeah, I hardly ever farm. And I don't ever PL any character that I actually intend to play. But then why would I PL at all? Oh, look. Dr Q is coming up in the rotation. (Or was. I thought of this a couple months ago.) I should PL an extra character to doorsit while I solo the TF on my main. That's an extra 244 merits at the end. Or more - I log in my main, my 2nd account, my 3rd account and my girlfriend logs in hers. Then I solo to the final mission on my main and everyone logs back in. Took me several hours (team size is set to 4 even if everyone is logged out) but that was 732 merits for me and 244 for my girlfriend for playing one mission. 🙂

Unless I'm mistaken, the current server architecture is entirely virtual so it doesn't need X hardware per shard. So there's no reason to merge shards. People who like busy shards play on the busy ones and people who like quiet shards play on the quiet ones. Please who like busy some of the time and quiet some of the time can play on both. Personally, I have at least one character on every shard. I do task forces on all shards and only do 'big content' (iTrials, Hami raids, MSR's, etc) on the busy shards.

When you are resting, you have the flag 'Only Affecting Self' and it puts this in big red letters on your screen. So, no.

No, but there's a way to simulate that (although it's probably not helpful to your situation). You can raise the floor and lower the ceiling to make that square completely solid. This would let you make odd shaped rooms or a corridor with alcoves, etc. Yep. Unless it's been changed, the limit is 18 storage items.

It would be easy enough to determine. Just monitor your PvE stealth radius in the combat monitor and test it as you described.

1) My computer that was able to run three accounts back on live was absolutely NOT a "pretty great computer". I did not play any high-end games and therefore did not have a powerful 'gaming system'. 2) I never said that all computers could handle multiple accounts. But is it definitely 'most'. Evidence? Okay, according to the Steam Hardware and Software Survey, here's what people with Steam accounts are using: 92% have Windows 10 or 11 93% have 8GB or more of RAM 95% have a CPU running at 2GHz or faster 89% have discrete video cards (i.e. not using graphics on the CPU) Obviously this isn't all gamers and I excluded Mac hardware but it's definitely representative of computer hardware currently in use by gamers.