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Any of those nights should work for me!

Phantasm dies pretty easily. I love it (especially since I got Overwhelming Force slotted to make cooperate with my traps and provide more control) but I can understand not wanting to take the effort to slot the power out and keep the thing alive. Especially here since this seems like a very tight build that is dedicated to chasing lots of +recharge and defense. Not sure how to optimize that further.

Expedient Reinforcements has the same recharge bonus for the same number of enhancements if you want to eke the most of those slots.

If I don't have hasten on auto on a character that uses it I would totally forget to use it. As far as Clarion if I am mezzed I know that's when to use it. And considering I only get mezzed on occasion I prefer to have it up on an as needed basis.

Great run tonight folks! I'm really glad we could get Sythestesiatica up to the proper level so she could join us! Here's everyone about to board the tram for our pre-TF mission sesh:

I suggested this for a wider range of zone events a month or so ago so I would definitely support this. A white conning enemy only gets easier as you level but having an enemy con white as opposed to grey makes things a little more interesting.

Oh wait I thought Citadel was the WST but its not. Sister Psyche it is then! And I am good with Friday!

So here's my crack at a classic villain. He's a fire/thermal corruptor: Also are we gonna do Citadel this week?

Team Invisibility is the most complained about power I've ever had lol. I imagine Grant Invisibility with AoE might elicit some similar responses. Still, its hard to keep up single target buff these days. I think this would be worth looking into.

I checked with the super group register redside and there's no registered "we have issues" group. Unlucky 7s is good too but "We have Issues" is also available.

Forgot about that. I pretty much copy pasted an earlier chart of issue 0 power sets and I didn't think to remove it.

Here's all the Issue 7 powersets Mastermind Dominator Corruptor Stalker Brute Primary Secondary Primary Secondary Primary Secondary Primary Secondary Primary Secondary Mercenaries Dark Miasmas Fire Control Energy Assault Assault Rifle Cold Domination Claws Energy Aura Dark Melee Dark Armor Necromancy Force Field Gravity Control Fiery Assault Dark Blast Dark Miasmas Energy Melee Ninjitsu Energy Melee Energy Aura Ninjas Poison Ice Control Icy Assault Energy Blast Kinetics Martial Arts Regeneration Fiery Melee Fiery Aura Robots Traps Mind Control Psionic Assault Fire Blast Radiation Emission Ninja Blade Super Reflexes Stone Melee Stone Armor Thugs Trick Arrow Plant Control Thorny Assault Ice Blast Sonic Resonance Spines Dark Armor Super Strength Invulnerability Sonic Blast Thermal Radiation Dark Melee Electric Melee Electric Armor Radiation Blast Traps PLUS PATRON POOLS Mace Mastery Leviathan Mastery Mu Mastery Soul Mastery

Awesome idea. It may be a lil bit of work though considering how many mission descriptions there are but this is an excellent QoL improvement.

Inherent Stamina and lvl 4 travel powers already free up a lot of choice when it comes to picking powers and I don't see any good reason to make that any easier.

I feel like if you were to modify the aggro cap you'd also have to modify how AoEs work, how defense and resistance works, spawn size and positioning and above all other things, enemy AI. Herding is pretty easy even now so unless you modify the broader game to make even a marginal change in aggro cap interesting I don't really see the point. But, if you disagree, I'd be interested in hearing your particular case.

So the full track of what starts with the villain fanfare? I found this track from Recluse's Victory that sounds close to it (https://archive.paragonwiki.com/w/images//7/76/M1_faded.ogg) the other track is the bank robbing theme which for some reason isn't under the mission themes on the paragon wiki page, even though its the quintessential one. Now that's the one I wish someone had a copy of.

I'm good with either although I'd bump the Friday time from 7pm EST to 7:30pm or 8pm EST

Hm. Sounds like the 17th would work best. Sometime in the evening like 7pm CST?

So it looks like Synapse is almost upon us, what is a good night for everyone? I should be available pretty much every night next week except for Thursday. Also is Sister Psyche a WST too? We have plenty of over +25s too to do that.

Bonus objectives would also be another way. Something like the astral merit challenges in the itrials would be a nice way to spice up taskforces and encourage more thoughtful play. I'm going to echo everyone and say trim old task forces to size. I would also definitely like the Shadow Shard ones to take place only in the shard so they could maybe be co op.

I was hoping we could do a Synapse soon. Most of everyone in the group is now level 15 (or close to) so it should be feasible. I should be pretty available next week to do it.

This is definitely a worthwhile point. MSR is 35-50, ITF is 35-50, Hami is 45-50. If we balance these to 50+1 (or higher) then we greatly limit the number of people who can participate in them. We can make people mad by either leaning into power creep or slowing its growth. Personally I think one of the best things about this game is its inclusiveness and it'd be better if more people in these forms of content had an easier time contributing than not. How would this look for Hami? I'm not entirely sure. But I would lean on the side of looking at the players more than the encounter, although anything to spice up the encounter itself would be very welcome.

Just hit level 22 on Medic. This is how many SOs I could afford: I recall when I ran Villains around i6 or i7 is could barely afford all of my SOs but I think I got a whole stack of 'em. It seems like now you can't just play missions and afford your SOs at level 22, you have to do some market stuff or use reward merits to make up the difference. While I have gotten some nice recipes, salvage and ~100 reward merits on this character I ain't using them yet. This is more interesting to me. It really makes you appreciate character progression. Even just a single SO in any one of those powers make them dramatically better.

I think Kinetics. We Siphon Speed off 2020 and use it to run far far away from it. Alternatively we Fulcrum Shift off a whole mob of 2020 and nuke it.

I uh don't play Dominators. I prefer Controllers. But even with Controllers in the span of about 90 seconds or so I will have cast a group immobilize atleast a couple of times. I will have probably cast my hold more though.