mistagoat

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.

I have a Stalker, Scrapper and a Tank, they're all good but I think the Stalker is the best. As you mentioned AS beefs up the single target damage of Elec and it's quite noticeable. The nukes don't crit but they also don't break hide. Endurance will probably be your biggest struggle while leveling.

If Psi Assault is close enough, a Dark/Psi Dom is pretty nasty!

Dam dude! This is beautiful!

Awesome! Congrats! I love to see stats like this, it's so interesting! 100 50s is a huge milestone and represents a ton of playtime and dedication! I think we have similar sensibilities in that I'd rather level a new toon than grind out t4 incarnates. Of course there are exception but usually by level 40 I'm trying to figure out what to play next and get a build worked out. I get more pleasure from the journey than the destination. When I made my spreadsheet it really exposed my bias toward Trollers and Tanks. Then I made more of an effort play those lesser used ATs (though still sprinkling in a Troller or Tank here and there). That led to run of Sents and Stalkers that I really had a blast with! It's about time I did the same with Fenders and Brutes as I have very few of those. Now that you've got totals do you think you'll make more Sents and Scraps in the future to beef up those numbers on the lesser used ATs? Whats you're next toon going to be? Looks like spines/something? Edit: Oh I see you have spines/bio lined up as 101, what comes after that?

Well, Snarky is upper, upper-class high-society, God's gift to ballroom notoriety and they always fill their ballroom, the event is never small The social pages say they've got the biggest balls of all! So this seems like the only logical move. Book the excavator!

Yeah, some map variety would do wonders for this TF! I really don't dislike any of the enemies/objectives/length, it just becomes extremely monotonous spelunking those same caves over and over.

I've also found that if you are playing on a toon with small proportions, SS feels much much faster than it does on that same toon with large proportions. Attributes say I'm going the same speed but I feel like a rocket powered speed demon when I'm 4'6", add 2 feet to my height and it feels like I'm wearing cement sneakers! It's nuts!

Welcome to the forums and you got the quoting correct! Yeah, that's fair. I analize the combat logs after a night of playing and the first 2 jumps are adding up to much more than the last jumps. That's probably a combination of stuff dying before a jump gets to them and the distance aspect you mentioned. It would be nice if the jump moved a little faster!

It's just a misunderstanding, they had this dusty book, How to cook HAMIs (wipes away dust) How to cook for HAMIs (wipes away more dust) How to cook for forty HAMIs! It's a buffet! (No Jello!)

I'm all for buffs but Elec Melee is already among the top AOE sets, adding more AOE damage seems unlikely to happen. It's shortcoming lies in it's single target damage, I'd rather see Chain Induction and Jacobs Ladder swap positions and remove the tiny cone from JL and make it a more impactful single target attack to beef up it's weak spot. Chain Inductions feels a little underwhelming but adding up the initial strike + 5 jumps, the damage seems reasonable but certainly not stellar. I wouldn't say no to a little buff there. All the attacks except for Chain Induction get 1 of the following effects: sleep/disorient/KB. I prefer the variety to everything having a sleep effect that will be immediately broken with my plethora of AOE. There are a few cases where an AOE attack does different things to the initial target vs proximity targets. Propel is the one that comes to mind, it deals damage to the initial target and KB on proximity targets. I really enjoy playing Electric Melee and don't think it's in dire need of improvement but if the Devs want to buff it I certainly won't complain.

It is, you'll get no argument from me on that point. However, my point was less about wanting to make TP better and more about wanting all travel powers to be represented equally within the context of the Empowerment Stations.

Teleportation is the only travel power that is excluded from the empowerment stations. I'd like to see a TP range buff added to the empowerment stations. All the other travel powers get +20% so that seems like a reasonable amount to give TP.