Heraclea

Arlo Guthrie - Comin' Into Los Angeles

Katana has issues with vanishing swords, or at least the tanker version has. KM depends on how you like the revving noises it makes, or whether you choose to replace them. Its big PBAoE is quite satisfying. WP and Bio offer great sustain but work very differently. WP is a solid generalist set, set and forget. The crash from its t9 is tolerable. Bio is quite clicky, with three separate trouble buttons. Parasitic Aura is the best t9 in the game IMO. Willpower on minimal FX alters your character hardly at all. Bio on minimal FX will still cloak your character in a fog of dirt like Pig Pen.

The Rambos - The Grass is Greener

Ran a Synapse last night and I didn't notice Gears not spawning when any of the bosses were defeated. Then again I got Gearsmasher halfway through the first mish and may not have noticed if they didn't spawn. It may be an open world vs instance issue.

The Beatles - Glass Onion

There are a number of costume pieces that for some random reason will not load from saved costume files in the old game. You will have to use 'costume fix' to continue, and those costume pieces will be replaced. But once you get into the costume editor you can re-select and re-equip them.

I'm going to just leave this here....

Rather, if fighting Carnies brought faster rewards, people would roll alts tuned for fighting Carnies. My /electric armor brute doesn't mind them very much; the most annoying thing about them forthat character is their habit of spawning persistent unkillable pets. The same character laughs at Malta Sappers. All you will really achieve here is to change the flavor of the month. I have 15 level 50s now and something has to work.

None of the above. Tanker is the way to go with this combination. Lots of inherent knockdown and stun or knockdown procs for everything else turns you into a real melee controller who keeps mobs on their fnords and unable to attack anyone. With the changes to Fury you'll be at an adequate level of buffage to have satisfactory DPS output, and you'll be on a class that may be called on to tank, so that's my second choice. On a scrapper the limits of being on a set that's all smashing damage may cause annoyance in the forms of wild swings in effectiveness fighting different mob types.

Just for my own curiosity I've started levelling a Staff/Regen brute. Wanted to try out Staff Fighting anyways. Unlike the fire/regen scrapper this character gets some buffs from the primary. Making a Brute will test well whether the clickiness of Regen is a big annoyance. I probably will end up taking Tough and Weave on this one when they become available, and take Taunt as well. Do Regen Brutes get a taunting toggle? Will be levelling on redside, because that's something I haven't even done yet. My regen scrapper has a niche; will see if this character can find one.

I tend to be more cautious than many in rushing ahead to the next spawn, mostly because I dislike having travel powers on in instances, but more importantly because I don't like to leave bosses in the backfield. If a scrapper or brute wants to go their own way or eat the alpha I don't mind. I view my role as being more about shepherding the team through the instance while keeping PC defeats to a minimum. Roll back your field of view as far as the map allows. Be mindful of bosses that are slow to fall. Get a feel of who the most vulnerable teammates are and stand by them. Watch what the pets are doing, if you can see around 'em. The pets, and not the person with the star, are the real leaders of the team. Try and get as much aggro as you can, and especially try to monopolize the attention of the biggest threats. Take Taunt and lead with it, especially if you have spawns like Council with plinkers who won't come. Then save it for when needed. Break line of sight when you are able, and there will be many times you won't be able.

Released: Semiramide Claimed: Omphale

Grateful Dead - Brokedown Palace

This is what I would call a 'failure of imagination'.

The Orville achieves greatness by posing a simple question. What would life in the Trek utopia be like for messy schlubs like ourselves? If you're going to deconstruct Trek, this is how you do it.

Pete Seeger - Waist Deep in the Big Muddy

The Music Man - Trouble (Right Here in River City)

During my long medical treatments, I watch a lot of Turner Classic Movies. (It's the only commercial free station they get at the clinic, and the ads on daytime TV are just too depressing to endure.) To watch TCM consistently is to be constantly reminded that there was a time when people were uncomplicatedly patriotic, had hope for the future, believed in democracy, trusted government, and tried to do good. (There's also quite a bit of casual racism, and sexist nonsense about the scandal of divorce; so it goes.) I've worried about the constant drumbeat of paranoid themes and conspiracy theories in popular culture since the days of The X-Files and probably before. But watching TCM does help you focus on what makes Star Trek Star Trek, and what's wrong with unsatisfying versions. Good Star Trek is utopian, optimistic, and otherwise values oriented towards a vision of human and social goodness. Bad Star Trek has been tainted with conspiratorial thinking and is full of flawed characters and an untrustworthy and dishonest Federation. It's the failure to get it that makes more recent incarnations unsatisfactory.

Uriah Heep - The Wizard

If this existed, I would have received it already, many times over.

The Seeds - Can't Seem to Make You Mine

I grew up in Canada. As such I was exposed to French very early. The idea that there were languages other than English grew into a strong fondness for secret writing, hieroglyphics, codes and ciphers, archeological decipherments, and languages. I have made three reasonably successful conlangs (constructed languages), several more imperfect ones, and dozens of secret alphabets. And this in turn led to Tolkien in high school, and the rest is history.

Led Zeppelin - Tangerine

"If you build appropriately." "Additional survival tools." There's the problem right there. Yes, you can build a quite tough Regen character, in the same way that you can build a quite tough blaster or defender. But most other armor sets get to start a lot closer to the finish line.

The Dictators - Slow Death