Triumphant

Stryker APC. Plow through the bank entrance at 60mph. Debark with my crew of 10 minions/thugs. Blow bank vault doors. Grab loot. Hop back on Stryker. Drive away at 60mph, shooting anything that tries to stop us with my MK 2 .50 Cal and MK 19 40mm grenade launcher. Has an operational range of 300 miles (easily enough to get us back to our secret headquarters).

They're pretty strong permanent buffs to your character. They're meant to be difficult to get, with the player having to strive to complete each requirement (meaning that playing organically is not likely to get it done. You need to know what each requirment is and then grind away at those tasks until you succeed to achieve the accolade. They aren't meant to be gained through casual play).

I find the Galaxy's moderately more challenging and the War Wolves a lot more challenging. I much prefer this to the boring pushovers that I used to fight at +4/8, though.

Yeah, that was going to be my question. I'm not necessarily opposed to the OP's suggestion. I run at +3 or +4 most of the time, anyway. But I can't figure out how a fully slotted, incarnate level tank is getting owned by +2 Galaxy bosses. That particular problem could also probably be alleviated by looking at their character build and offering a few suggestions to tweak it for better performance. Failing that, you can also just dial it down to +1 or 0.

Well, yes. I agree, certainly. But people don't always make sensible choices. 😄🤷‍♂️

It might depend on what difficulty the OP is trying to run at and their level of competence/experience at playing the AT. Regardless, I do think that while you could use a Dom to model Annihilus, it really wouldn't be the best choice (again, just IMO).

I like inspirations the way they are, so I have to vote no on this.

Annihilus would probably be a Sentinel, actually (a very durable villain with blasty powers). But a Tanker or Brute who grabs some ranged attack powers from ancillary/epic pools would model him fine, too. A dominator would be too squishy to make a good analog, IMO.

Not much. I'm a terrible multi-tasker and can only reliable focus on one thing at a time. I do try to keep an eye on teammates health bars in the team window, so I can fire off a timely rebirth power, when healing is needed. I play DPS characters pretty much exclusively, so I'm mostly just focused on crushing the mobs.

The only PvP zone I ever entered is Recluse's Victory (I think that was the one, at least). I spent about two hours in there smashing turrets and stuff, but I never even saw another player. With bases and LRTP, I'm not really sure why anyone would need to go into a PvP zone, unless they really wanted to.

LOL! I do this msyelf. I love taking a lvl 50 with crushing uppercut to atlas (or mercy) and see how high I can make the mobs rocket into the sky when I punch 'em. 😄

Holy crap. I've never had all the lvl 50 contacts laid out in a list like that. Makes me realize there's still so much content left to play with my lvl 50's.

It's not my thing. But for people who's thing is that thing, it seems like a great thing. Err... if that makes any sense. 🤔

Most people enjoy long, boring, grinds? I'm an outlier, I guess. I don't enjoy grinding at all. I'd like to see an RPG with tons of options for creating a character, which you can use to make hundreds of diverse combinations of interesting and effective characters, and then a game developer that puts out challenging, fun, regular content to play, without any levelling mechanic at all. This will likely not happen, because traditionalists are locked into the mindset that levels and grinding is the way that it's always been done. But plenty of tabletop RPG's don't have levelling and plenty of non-rpg computer games don't have levelling, and both are still considered very fun to play. No one want's to try an innovative approach with MMOrpg's, for some reason, though. I guess it's not just D&D that has it's grognards. 🤷‍♂️

Well, I agree with you, for the most part. It's more or less 30's era pulp serials (Flash Gordon, etc.), re-tooled for a modern audience. Still, there's good pulp and bad pulp. And there's respecting the legacy material, which the prequels do poorly (IMO) and the sequels don't do at all, except in the sense that they copy/paste certain things from the original trilogy. This is all my subjective opinion, of course. I don't want to be too dogmatic about it. Star Wars fans can be persnickety enough as it is. 😄 Rogue One was very good, I agree! It's my 4th favorite SW film after the original three. 👍

Well, it's definitely not more hackneyed that the established incarnate lore. 😄 Of course, as others have said, I think it's too late the change it, at this point. With all canon, in all entertainment media, I just ignore the things that seem stupid and retrofit it in my brain, with whatever actually makes sense. For example, I regard the Star Wars prequel trilogy as merely a vague outline of historical events, written after the fact, by someone that had access to incomplete and inaccurate information. And the sequel trilogy? Well, it just didn't happen. The New Republlic exists, yes. And there are some Imperial Remnants that still tangle with them, yes. The call themselves the 1st order, or something. But Han Solo didn't die like an two-bit extra, impaled on the end of his kid's lightsaber. Luke isn't a bitter old hermit. The Imps didn't build a 3rd, planet-sized death star weapon. So on.

This. SR is my favorite defensive set. Easy to hit all your positional caps, and as stated, you just auto-fire the mez protection power. And plenty of other great perks, besides. Easy peasy.

@Luminara I hope so. I am a pessimist, at heart, so it is hard for me to maintain your hopeful outlook. I worry for my daughter. But we have a lot on my plate right now. My wife is unemployed, due to undergoing chemotherapy and battling breast cancer. My daughter and her girlfriend and I are all working gruelling, soul-crushing, low playing jobs. We literally have over a hundred thousand dollars of school debt and other accrued debt and are barely staying afloat. At this point, we are just trying to stay the course and not succumb to exhaustion. At least we live in Minnesota. If we were still in Missouri, we would likely be homeless by now. 🤷‍♂️

Right. I'm 52. My kid doesn't have it better than I did. Neither do most of the others. Trust me on this one.

Nothing. It's nonsense. Just like the work Primemacy.

That's fair. Given my rusty old tater, I can certainly sympathize with that approach, even if the art is not my cup of tea.

Very well, then. I vote that we name the powerset Nimquiggle.

I must vote no to any suggestion that doubles down on such an egregious spelling error. Sorry. 🤷‍♂️

I don't like the art style, but then I didn't like WildSTAR's art style either. Just not my thing, I guess. 🤷‍♂️

I did not. Of course, since I come out millions of influence ahead every time I sell my inventory, there's zero reason for me to be bothered by that, so it's a bit of an irrelevant issue to my play experience. Other players may feel differently, of course, and that's just fine. We all have the freedom to set our asking price to whatever we think appropriate. 🤷‍♂️