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And I have already pointed out why this would be more streamlined. I don't think we are getting anywhere so I will simply wish you a wonderful day and say goodbye.

A quick, simple, at-a-glance way to identify good teammates advertising in broadcast, local or LFG with whom you've previously played. There is nothing wrong with the system you suggest, however it's a bit cumbersome and certainly does not fill the quick, simple, at-a-glance role. I think every reasonable suggestion has included a stipulation that this all be optional or be something you have to opt-in to, as such I don't see a downside. If one would like nothing at all to change for them, simply don't select the options that would enable it and continue your virtual crime stopping blissfully unencumbered by these potential options. Options are wonderful and I'd love to have more!

I have a FF Sonic Defender with capped Resist and softcapped Def. I think it's as close as you can get to a tank while playing a defender 🙂. He doesn't kill...er...arrest... stuff super fast but he has all the time in the world to whittle down their health while laughing at the barrage of punches being hurled at his face. Very fun and unusual toon even if hes not the most practical. Full disclosure, I found the build here in the forums and only made very minor tweaks to suit my playstyle preferences.

Maybe a VEAT? All their double leadership toggles would bring awesome acc, to hit, damage, and defense plus a massive def boost if you go widow and put mind link on auto. As a bonus they are stealthy and tough so they shouldn't attract much attention and they'll be formidable enough to soak up some AOE damage without eating dirt. Otherwise, unfortunately I think most of the good buffs you'd want are click powers. Maybe run a Nature behind you with Overgrowth on auto? Or a FF or Sonic Def with their big bubble toggle running and one of the buff bubbles on auto?

Here is how I see this being very useful. Lets say Goddess Laucianna makes a new toon, shes a level 18 blaster named Betty Blaster and she is advertising a posi pt2 on the LFG channel. I'm just running solo radios in Bricks on a lvl 35 tank not necessarily looking for a Posi pt2. If I see Betty Blaster advertise I may not be enticed to leave my radios to play with an unknown variable. However if I saw Betty Blaster (@Laucianna) advertise in the LFG channel then I already know that leader is someone I've played with before and I have a reasonable idea of what to expect and that may get me to bail on my radio and go join her Posi pt2. The star rating system doesn't really fill this role. It requires that I've rated someone in the past, it requires that person to be in the same zone as me, it requires that I've clicked on the individual and it requires that this person is in my field of view in order to see the stars. This is not an "at a glance" system, it's quite useful but it fills a different role. Just give it the option to opt out, you don't want your global shown, no problem, just turn it off like we do with hiding from searches and stuff. It could even be off by default and you have to turn it on to participate. ( @Laucianna, my deepest apologies for even suggesting that you would ever be caught dead in anything but a kheldian 😄)

I haven't messed with any * content but trollers are fine on high lvl TFs and Incarnate trials. The utility you bring is top notch and while you'll never be a blaster you can put out decent damage with the right build. Dark Affinity has become my favorite troller secondary! I have a Dark/Dark and its great (Shadow Field is awesome!) but the Fire/Dark is my favorite combo. Fire control is a solid control set on it's own and it can pack a decent punch (as far as Trollers go). You can really live in melee thanks to Fade + Soul Absorption + all the -to hit you're throwing around so you get the most out of Hot Feet and spamming Cages. It feels like an unbeatable Tank Mage! Of course the ITF still neuters all your hard controls and that stinks but you can still fall back on your formidable buffs/debuffs.

I like this idea! Like you said, some folks use a theme on all their toons so it's easy to see who it is. "Oh that's Cuddlemaster, looks like they're on Cuddlemaster Apex today, last time I ran with them they were on Cuddlemaster Alpha and we had a good run, lemme snap them up for my TF!" However there are, understandably, few folks that do this and it would be nice to have a quick way of identifying folks who maybe you don't necessarily want to global after 1 good TF but would be happy to run with again, regardless of what toon they are on, if you see them LFT or starting a TF. I suspect I often run with the same folks and just don't know it.

Mainly just a difference in recharge. I ended up respecing to "C" and it feels really good! I went Night Widow and my buddy went Bane, we're 44 now and just melting +2's/+3's set for 8! The only thing that gave us trouble was a giant mob of "Living Armor" bosses in a John Houston mission. Still don't know what they hit us with but we were doing fine for a good while and then suddenly we were both face down in the dirt lol!

Thanks Bopper, I got way too hung up on recharge vs resistance, appreciate the advice! I got her respec'd last night and I'm hoping to take her for a test drive tonight!

I'm leveling a Widow, currently at 30 and she needs a respec. I've put together 4 options, they all take the same powers but moving some slots and swapping some sets make big differences so I was looking for some opinions on which one focuses on the most important stats. These are pre 50 builds so there are no purples, no superiors, no Incarnates and no plus'd out enhancers however it does have the 4 accolades enabled. The only thing worth noting that's not in the picture is that Build A loses 3 bonuses to the rule of 5 (2x accuracy and 1x hit points) while none of the others lose anything. So just going by the stats, which one looks the most appealing?

I think I land on 3. It would be an improvement for certain and I expect it would be an option that I would use but it's so far down on the list of priorities (for me) that I'd preferer dev time be spent elsewhere.

Every toon of mine starts in Mids so I have a plan right from the start. That being said, plans change and sometimes adjustments are needed. I remember not too long ago I was making something (Ice controller I think) with "World of Confusion" in the epic pool. Stacking Artic Air with WoC was the whole reason I started the toon but by the time I got up to epic pool level it was apparent that it was not going to be as beneficial as I was hoping and had to change gears. Best laid plans and all that...

Dark is such an amazing secondary! It can really turn any troller into a tank with softcapped defense and hardcapped s/l resistance. I've decided to try every primary with dark, I only have 3 and a half left (half cuz I'm currently leveling an earth/dark) Plant will be the more traditional lock em down troller set while illusion will be more of an elegant chaos build. Both would be a blast and also very safe and effective builds. I'd give the edge to Illusion for its ability to take down hard targets solo. Even when an AV has their immunity phase where you can't get any holds or stuns off, your Phantom Army is still there taking all those punches for you and laughing! Build em both! Or choose one and then pair the other primary with Storm! They both go great with Storm too and that really kicks up the damage quite a bit! You can't make a bad choice!

Electric control is functional but unimpressive. I have an elec/cold troller that gets very little playtime. It's niche (-end) is cool in theory but it doesn't seem super effective in practice. I seem to have stumbled down a path of pairing every troller primary with the dark secondary, I'm only missing 4 primaries and electric is one of them, can't say I'm super excited to run that one up but maybe it'll surprise me. At least all the -to hit in Dark should help the gremlins stay alive a little longer. Maybe....I dunno...they're very fragile.... Way back on live... you could put the contagious confusion proc in the chain and it worked great to spread confusion but that was removed. I never understood why, it was never better than seeds or total domination and it really helped the set but you know how it goes...

Speaking for myself: If Badge = Incentive Then Incentive = 0

That looks good! I don't love no damage on the immob but it's a fair tradeoff for the utility. I'd play that set, ship it!

My order: Stalker Scrapper Tank Brute Scrapper is probably my favorite but I think my Stalker outpaces him. Bottom line, you can't make a bad choice here!

The new costume parts are great! The heads are fun but any chance of more color customization on the eyeball heads? It seems like the only change you can make is to the iris. I'd like to make a big red eye with a yellow iris! The Sybil Costume may be the highlight of the whole page! Love it! The front skirt part does kinda hang at an odd angle when moving, not a huge deal but worth mentioning.

They do indeed and I certainly appreciate that, however it's extremely rare that they change the fundamental effect of the power. For example we don't see them change a blast to melee or change a buff into a debuff or a sleep to an immobilize. If the set goes live with no AoE immob, it will never receive one. You've made your position clear, you don't want an AoE immob. I respect you opinion but to my eye, the set is begging for an immob and it seems the majority in here agree with that sentiment.

The problem is that once the set enters the game it will never be fundamentally changed. This set is not done baking and needs to go back in the oven and if that means it doesn't come out in this page, so be it. I'd happily wait a page for an improved set rather than having to deal with this set as it is now for the rest the games lifespan.

When I initially built mine, I just played it normally into the 30s on SO's. Somewhere around mid 30s it was able to basically farm itself up. Obviously not at +4 x8 but maybe start at +0 x4. Eat inspirations like they're going out of style to make up for anything thats lacking and get the base buffs, I still pound F1 and F2 like crazy when farming! As Sovera says you can also just level up via normal teaming and stuff too, though in that case I'd probably gear it more toward smashing/lethal def/resist and swap once you're max level. Sovera also make an extremely good point about making it on a second account. That's top notch advise!! Also just to avoid any confusion, it's the farming builds that aren't good for standard content, Rad/Fire brutes in general are just fine for all content when built accordingly.

I'm also assuming this is for a farmer, these builds are not great for standard content. I'll never get a better return on investment than this cheap farmer build! Before I finally upgraded, this build got me 670ish vet lvls, many billions of inf, many hundreds or maybe even thousands of purples and tons of power leveling. It is absolutely not the best farmer build but it'll do what you need for a pittance of an investment and boy did it serve me well! I really like Helens approach of evolving the build but I went a different route and my upgraded version has little to nothing in common with the cheap version. The upgrade version is a slightly tweaked version of a build I found on here, I'm afraid I don't remember who to credit for it. I use AE farm 54290. Hope that helps and sorry if you were just looking for a standard content build. Brute Rad Fire Brute not Cheap Atomic SF v2.mbd Brute Rad Fire Brute Cheap Atomic SF.mbd

Okay, I gotcha! It's an interesting concept. Sorry for jumping to conclusions, I see the letters "PVP" and go red!

If you're suggesting that end game content should require participation in any amount of PVP then I could not possibly disagree more! As it stands PVP can be ignored at all levels with no detriment to my character, that should remain the standard. No PVP in my PVE please.

Huh, that's a very good point! All the more reason for these stats to finally be updated!