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I solo exclusively...with many different arch types so I can say this with confidence; ALL arch types are survivable if you play smart rather than like a murder hobo laying waste to everything as soon as it's sighted. Some power combos make it a bit more challenging but out of about 30 toons over the last year plus I've only made maybe a dozen hospital visits between all of them. 😉

If by early content you mean; go to contact, get mission, go to mission entrance and blow thru per mission objectives, return to contact; rinse repeat with adding powers and enhancements as you level up...then yes. Granted it goes much faster if you're part of a team with larger groups of mobs to deal with than it does solo. But there is story-like content in with the clues, contact mission briefs/debriefs, and other things. One of the fun things for me personally is exploring the different zones though to be honest, red side and gold side are the only ones that seem like proper cities...more gold side than red even. That said, no reason to feel bad if you can't get enthused. Everyone has switches that flip for different reasons.

The traffic issues in P-town (heck, Oregon over all) are way too easy for me to get on a rant about. Suffice to say a LOT of issues related to sight and stop distances, approach grades, access management, and drainage/grading are ignored along with an overly optimistic view of driver psychology to get traffic to slow down. Think those skinny streets are bad for regular cars, EMS vehicles have it even worse and now they're all about adding bike lanes all over on already overly crowded substandard width streets. Combine all those ignored factors and it's no wonder why they have so many fatalities among bikes, peds, and vehicles.

Nice to see the Troll is alive and well...and still as shallow as a mud puddle.

I've been solo running Major Holocaust; a Fire/Rad Brute in the gold/red side on Triumph and he's been an absolute engine of destruction thru his career so far.

That's because you have everyone in city hall BUT the engineers designing the stupid things for bikes and pedestrians instead of the cars they're meant for. (road designer for nearly 40 yrs...ODOT = Oregon Department Obstructing Traffic. PBOT = Portland Bureau of Twits) The centerline strip should be a double yellow. The wide shoulder beyond the fog line stripe is likely due to the intersection being built to accommodate a future right turn lane or second lane for future development needs. The area looks like it's a business park or light industrial zone. Still, it's a major lawsuit waiting to happen for reasons that are non-relevant to the OP. :) That Swindon Traffic Circle looks to have been designed for two way traffic for some absurd reason. The number of collision points is terrifying. lol

Multi Pass is another name that should be avoided (insert free to ride jokes here). The hero guarding the bank should be named Access Denied.

I've been having some fun with an Ice/Time Blaster and Beam/EA Sentinel lately. Finding both highly effective.

How in the heck does someone get wiped in Praetoria? Did he aggro multiple groups or something? (oO) I play solo and have taken some pretty weak toons there and I might wipe once, maybe twice...usually in Neutropolis by the slums or reactors. I find Praetoria easier than blue and red zones personally even with all the psi attacks. (prefer dealing with those over the Vahz and CoT). But yeah, the highlights are amusing. Only thing that comes to mind there is 'what was the person thinking?' for most of 'em...'cause they sound more like bad choices than something wrong with the game. The tutorials and starter zones are there for a reason after all...simple common sense. Gotta agree with Doc Scorp.

I use the synonym trick as well pretty often or translate to a different language than english (who says all the heroes/villains come from english speaking countries after all?). I avoid the L33T stuff and things that would've given my grammar teacher a stroke. Ended up with some fairly good names too I'd like to think.

Fly for range attack users. Being out of melee range as much as possible leads to much better survival chances. Jump for melee most of the time though I may take Super Speed for a change of pace despite it making elevated destinations somewhat of a challenge to reach.

Yeah. I agree. At low levels the contacts really don't link up...a lot of the MI to CD seems to rely on Dr. Graves missions or you get stuck doing a lot of newspaper stuff to get introduced to contacts. And there really doesn't seem to be that many of those. At least in my experience so far. But...back to OP topic: I'm in the red zone about 50% of the time I'm playing, though I pretty much stick to solo though willing to help out if I have time. On Excelsior General Killerwatt or Cerebral Scarab are causing mayhem while on Torchbearer Major Holocaust is tearing up St. Martial while Fusillade has just started busting heads in Cap au Diable.

Yeah...the article did say they were going non-profit status...and as a volunteer group that has gone far above and beyond for the game and fan base, I think the OP is just a wee bit out of line. Kinda like calling the ocean wet though. Given the frequent nature of their posts, surprised they still even have an account.

MURPHY!

I get curious or bored and play with different combos fairly often. Within the first 10-20 levels is when I either still enjoy things or just get bored with them and end up deleting them once I lose all desire to play those particular toons.

It's all a Nemesis plot from the '20's anyhow...

Spam spam the magical fruit...the more you click the more they loot! 🎶

Just at my desk with the speakers on moderately high so I can hear the glowies over my tinnitus. I'll play for an hour or three depending on my back and attention span. Not in a hurry when I play, so I play tactically...so tend to not use a lot of inspirations outside of really tough (orange or red) fights...or more than six mobs. Due to altitis, highest level toon so far is 38 with most being in the 20's. Getting old sucks though I am looking forward to official retirement in a couple years. 😉

It can be used to 'scout' around corners for mobs blocked from sight as well giving you a few precious seconds to setup for the now aggro'd foes. IMO it's a pretty good little power for the set.

Not really. Though I did just use it to tour GC for the badges...and honestly, I think the zone is better laid out than most of the other urban zones in Paragon. They should've nuked Perez instead. :P lol

Altitis struck again... so gold-side now has Volt Rigger (Elec/Dev Blaster) flying around making sure your vote goes to Emperor Cole this coming election year. :P

The RIP and PPD are going spare with all the 'suspicious packages' reports coming in. They really want to have a word with whomever is leaving them all over the place...especially the Ordinance Disposal crews. The missing packages are probably ones they have actually got to so far. 😉 lol

Been giving my new toon a workout this weekend on red side; General Killerwatt, he's a power in his own mind and totally skipped the chewing gum.

I spend almost all of my time on red side doing paper missions trying to get contacts to do some 'real' stuff after Mercy. So yeah...I get ya. Blue side I go to the Hollows since KR is all skulls nearly all the time. >< Even the low-mid is a lot of hunts as well between TI and IP. Taken to doing alignment missions rather than contacts in those zones. A lot of the contact missions could use a real overhaul IMO both blue and red side.

I switch between blue, red, and gold as the mood hits. But I'm also solo by preference. One thing I have noted is that there are fewer transition contacts between zones, especially Mercy and Oakes unless you've joined up with Graves. That is a bit of an unwelcome headache...as well as the villain missions not really seeming all that villain-like outside of textual context. I'm mainly on Torch but never seen things totally deserted yet...I always seem to run into one or three other toons flitting about.