mistagoat

I have 3 Ice Armor Scraps and an Ice Armor Tank. The tank leveled up much better/smoother than the scraps but at 50 the scraps can do crazy things and live! The tank is fine at 50 but the Scraps really blossom at 50/higher levels, mostly due to Icy Bastion and Shadow Meld being so awesome! Battle Axe/Ice is my favorite Ice Armor toon but leveling it was rough with the high end costs of both sets, Claws/Ice was a little smoother to level and Scrapper "Spin" is a dang work of art! I also made a Broadsword/Ice Scrap that I hated... Ice/Ice Tank was very survivable but damage out was nothing to write home about.

100% agree! A simple button to click would avoid all this and be so very welcome. Fingers crossed for future upgrades! I can offer 1 weird workaround in the meantime. It's been years since I've done this so forgive me if I've forgotten the details but your character list is stored as a text file in the game folder. You can open and edit that file and move your toons around that way too. It's still very clunky and with that many toons it may just be to much of a pain but maybe worth looking into. I think I had less than 50 toons the last time I tried this so it wasn't quite as large an undertaking. Good luck fellow altoholic!

Fair point! I hadn't really thought about it like that but you're 100% correct!

I feel like the HW event really overstays its welcome and dramatically alters the way that a significant portion of the population plays the game such that it has a (slightly) negative impact on the rest of population. Don't get me wrong, I'm not claiming the sky was falling or that you couldn't fill teams to do non-HW stuff but everything was slow to fill for the duration of the event. It also doesn't help that the event has become synonymous with afk leeches. The Map Server event has a similar effect on the population but doesn't last as long so it's more palatable (imo). I loved the Vday event and had no issue with the Xmas event and I think Xmas goes for the whole month too. I think 2 weeks for HW would be the sweet spot.

Oh don't feel too bad, the search is only top of mind for me because I posted a very similar suggestion a long time ago and was educated by some friendly forumites 🙂

Ukase sums it up nicely, not worth it. Back on live I'd use them for rare salvage once in a while but it's way easier and cheaper to just buy them on the AH now.

I'm down with more sort options for any and all aspects of the game so overall I'm on board. However, the search function on the character select screen does most of what you're asking for. You can type Fire and all your fire based toons will show up, you can type tank and all you tanks will come up, you can type Stanley and all you toons named Stanley will come up, ect. Speaking for myself, I like to organize my toons by AT and even if I only had 1 Defender, I would have a Defender page and no other AT would go on that page. Occasionally I do have to move a bunch of toons if I need a second or third page for my Controllers or something but that's rare enough to not really be an issue.

Thats awesome, you've certainly got the right attitude! Also once you've got your stalker build, don't be shy about posting it in the Stalker forums and asking ppl how you may be able to improve the build (another great way to hone your build crafting skills). Posts where someone makes a build and states their goals and then asks for advice tend to be more warmly received than the posts that say "I just hit 50 on my fire/elec scrapper, who has a build for me?"

No recharge reward but a nice 15% Recovery is available. Also according to the wiki, the buffs last 1 week of in-game time or until level 22. I don't often do DFB but I may have start running them on toons with low level recovery issues!

Truth!! This was a game changer that I can't recommend enough! I keep my overall volume pretty low when I play and the blinkie sound is still very easy to hear. Huge QOL upgrade!

You can place five LotG's +7.5s and also have five 7.5% bonuses from sets in your build and they will all count.

As a new lowbie I was truly ecstatic when a kind stranger gave me 5 mill. Yeah it didn't last me to 50 but it made the ride to the 30s soooo much nicer! I think 5-10 is a great amount to gift someone.

Welcome back! There are lots of good ways to level up. At lower levels street sweeping is still plenty viable (hunt bosses for the big xp), Positron Task Force, DFB Trial, Hollows story arcs (you can start at 5 and end up around 20 if you do all 4 contacts at just +1x2 plus you get a ton of merits). Mid range there are lots of Task Forces to do, Yin, Moonfire, Citadel, Synapse plus at lvl 15 you have access to the pillars in Oro to do flashback story arcs. I like to level up in flashback arcs since you get merits at the end and your level won't change while in a flashback so your xp stays consistent. Higher levels you've got the ITF (Imperious TF, you need Midnighter badge to get there. Just go to Night Ward and enter the big mansion in the middle, then use LFG to get to Cim), Numina, Market Crash. There is a flashback arc that I love in the 30-34 range (so you have powers up to 39), The Freakshow War, It's all Freakshow and Council on good maps (no caves) and if you can take stuff at +1/2 x8 is an assload of XP (probably 4-9 levels depending how much you kill) and 55 merits at the end. I also use this arc as a merit farm, if you set it to +0x1 it can be speed ran in under 30 min. Now you have a ton of merits, turn them into something valuable to sell to fund your toon. Even the cheaper set IOs make a big difference and should help combat you feeling weaker as you level up. All through the 20s and low 30s you'll probably feel that bit though, you just don't have enough slots to really meaningfully set out your powers. Oh at level 1, go to pocket D and visit the start vendor and buy 8 of each power amplifier. At level 1 this will cost you 24k total (the cost goes up every time you level) If you need inf Email me @Slappo or @Mistagoat and I'll happily send you some inf (I'm usually on Slappo account). You can also get free xp boosters here if that's something you'd like to explore, certainly not required and they will reduce or negate inf income. All Supergroup Base stuff is free now, making a little personal base is pretty easy and offers you an unparalleled world of convenience. Check the Base Builder forums for starter guides.

I think you have to start with some goals. Are you going for capped resistance? High recharge? All in on damage procs? Once that's decided it's just a matter of adding the sets that advance those goals. There is a tool in Mids, I think it's called recipe viewer, that will help you find the sets with the bonuses you're looking for. If you're looking for ranged def, just set Def > Ranged > All and you'll see all the sets that grant ranged def bonuses and the size of that bonus and how many slots are needed to get that bonus. There's certainly more nuance to it than that but I think that's the core. Also look at all the builds you can get your hands on and try to figure out why the creator made the choice they made. A 2pc celerity in a prestige slide seems like an odd choice until you realize that was done to cap out s/l resist. Then tuck that away to use later when your Rad tank needs like 1.5% more resist. Of course not every build you look at will be good but you'll start to recognize that and eventually builds will just start making sense.