GM Impervium

So, for Ms. Lib, it's pretty much "don't die" (and temp powers/incarnates are locked). If you're playing at x0 and have your t3 or T4 Alpha slot, then most of your foes are going to be -1 to you. If you have folks on your team who have good buffs and/or debuffs, then those -1s will barely scratch you and you'll be mostly safe. Main bit of advice: STICK TOGETHER! There are a few "speed bumps": The Thorn Tree can easily kill squishies, so you have to make sure you stay behind it until the entire team is ready to engage. Don't draw extra agro from the CoT around the place, and you should be fine. In the next mission, finding the key can cause some frustration. If you defeat too many "Security Chief?"s without dealing with the ambushes (each Chief spawns two, iirc), you're gonna have a LOT of dudes chasing you through the mission map. Once you're ready for the main boss fight, do NOT engage Dr. Aeon until he has raised his fist in the air to declare his invincibility, AND, whoever got the Tree Power uses it to cancel the invincibility. If the power is used too soon or not at all, Aeon can end a Master attempt fairly easily. In the final mission, it's usually recommended to tackle the patrons one at a time. Ghost Widow has a Mag 100 hold, so make sure one of your teammates has a "clear mind" like power to stack mez protection on your tank. Black Scorpion has a taunt, which can muck things up. Scirocco can turn the battlefield into an AoE nightmare, and also has an attack that can nearly 1-shot most characters. Mako can stealth and Assassin Strike a character quite easily, as well. They also all spawn at level 54, despite how low your settings might be. That said, if enough of your teammates have Barrier or other plenty of buffs and debuffs, you can probably tackle all four at once and burn them down without too much trouble. You'll want to take down the dropship, as it can complicate matters. It respawns every 20 minutes or so, though, so keep an eye out for it. Lord Recluse has 4 towers which supercharge his stats. Take them down, and he's a mostly normal AV. Until then, have the tank kite him away from the team, while your best healer keeps the tank alive. Once the towers are down, get behind Recluse (unless you're the tank), as he has a nasty front-facing cone attack. He also likes to summon Bane spiders, especially when his HP gets low. Hit and repeat, and victory will be yours! Edit: thanks to @s.d. for the correction, I forgot we restricted Incarnate stuff in M.O. runs!

Hrrm... If you can see what you're typing, try to run dxdiag from the windows search thingamagig, and save the results to a text file. You can post it here, BUT, I recommend just DMing it to me on the off chance that the file contains personal Identifying info (like if for some reason you named your computer your real name or something like that). Though I imagine it might be tough to navigate the forums to do so. You can try removing and re-seating your graphics card (if you're comfortable opening up your computer and fiddling with the insides, at least); if you have a substantially-sized one, it may be tilting out of place due to the weight of the fan. I just saw that this was a laptop, not a desktop, nvmnd. Also, when booting up your computer, try doing so in Safe Mode (usually done by holding down F2 during startup, but different PC manufacturers sometimes set it to a different button), see if this still happens. If it does, that would point to hardware, as video drivers and other software tend not to be loaded during safe mode.

Looking at that link, it seems the only thing that's going to change is the early leveling curve, as most levels after 17 already end in *00; the few that don't end in 50, and will just make it so that you have to earn 50 more XP to level up (though by that point, that's a fraction of a minion, so, nbd).

And thus, my enemies toes are now safe; curses! =P

You'd think a content release would prevent people from engaging in this level of pedantry. But hey what do I know. Like Shin said, y'all ain't being excellent to eachother. Let's fix that going forward.

Y'all need to start chilling out. Hid one post already. Any more talk about how people aren't suited for the job will NOT be looked upon kindly.

Welcome to the forums and the game itself, @SmallBrainEnergy! @Lunar Ronin pretty much answered your questions, but I'll just expand on some of them a bit! 1) What Lunar said above, though, I probably wouldn't put "Masterminds" as a newbie-friendly class. But yes, you can go all the way to level 50 without teaming once. There are some mission arcs called "Task/Strike Forces" which are designed to be played while on a team, and will lock you out of accepting any other missions until you either complete them or quit. These quests often have a high powered Archvillain/Hero (or several) at the end who you probably won't be able to beat solo, so be aware of who you're accepting quests from (most TFs/SFs are given by NPC Heroes/Villains instead of random civilians, so you probably won't run into too many on accident). 2) Irreversibly? No. While it IS possible to make a character that's barely playable, so long as you've selected an even number of attack & armor/utility powers, and keep them enhanced (this game's version of gear), you should do fine. You'd probably have to go out of your way to make a bad character by selecting random powers you can't use (like buff powers that only affect other players if you never team, or every single travel power), and never enhancing your abilities. Anything short of that, and you should be fine! And like LR said, there are ways to earn or buy more repsecs in game. And of course, if you're ever stuck on anything else, you can always ask around; the community is generally pretty willing to help! (And for what it's worth, your English is pretty good, so, no worries there, either!)

PI is not a "raid zone" for the purpose of multiboxing rules/restrictions. All other rules/restrictions still apply (no more than 3, or none at all on a shard when it's population is at or over 1,000/thee red dots, though this rule would mainly only affect Excelsior, maaaybe Ever & Torch at peak times). As Widower said, we'll be monitoring things, so if we end up having to treat PI like a "raid zone", or make any other changes, we'll let people know as best we can.

This is a bit of a tricky situation, as afk farmers generally aren't doing anything that the base game doesn't allow them to do. However, if someone seems to be multiboxing more than three accounts, or multiboxing at ALL when the server is at three red dots, we would definitely appreciate a ticket detailing the names and globals of all involved so that we can double check, and take action if needed. As for addressing the lag, that's also a population issue. Even without the AFKers, ToT tends to attract over 100 people at a time to the Murder Motel, all activating powers and killing hundreds of entities at once all in the same place. We've aware of the issue and have been discussing methods to reduce the strain/lag.

Just a friendly reminder folks: Provide feedback to the DEVS, don't argue with each other, please. I've hidden several (but not sure if I got all) such posts. Thank you.

Just a reminder to everyone to point your feedback at the DEVS, and try not to argue amongst each other. I'll be hiding some of the argumentative posts.

All prizes and titles* should now be handed out! Anyone who was mentioned in the OP as a winner, but has not received your aether or gold title, please PM me, either here or via discord. *: except the one person who hasn't logged in in a few weeks, but we're attempting to contact them! Apologies that it took so long to dole out the prizes. We hope that everyone had fun, and that those who didn't place will be more motivated to up their game and try again next time around!

Just a note/reminder to all our winners: You have to log in after a maintenance day to be eligible to be granted your prizes! This isn't a policy thing, it's an "evil spaghetti code won't let us" thing. Thanks... and again, Congratulations!

Hey @Turnabout, sent you a message. You can view it either in your e-mail that you signed up with, or in the Support page here on the forums. tl;dr, it's either a hardware or settings issue, and hopefully we can suss out which.

We've been made aware of the situation, and hope he's able to find some help. Unfortunately, we don't/can't allow people to post their real life contact info (for safety and privacy reasons), so we've had to moderate the posts where he did so. It may seem callous to respond to a cry for help in that manner, but we've advised him to seek medical assistance if he's having an emergency. We ask that everyone respect this player's privacy. However, I'll leave this thread open so that people can offer words of encouragement and support. Hyperstrike, if you read this, we're pulling for you. If you need some real-time assistance with matters pertaining to the game, I recommend DMing/calling a trusted friend through Discord.