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Hello all! Apologies in advanced for some base-line questions. I'm pretty new to the game (again) and trying to catch up with the current balance of everything. I read through this topic here: There's lots of discussion on Ice vs Water. Seems like water has a great potential for procs. Does this mean a chance for extra damage on attacks? I've also read that procs per minute has been nerfed so is this still a viable strategy for building a character? I've leveled a Storm/Ice defender to about 26 and overall I'm not that satisfied with it. Seems like just to kill one pack I've got to use my whole blue bar and that's even before getting to Tornado and Lightning Storm (which may allow me to kill faster?). I'm worried with Water (I have a Water/Time blaster) that if I'm trying to use Tornado and LS on cooldown I won't be able to consume the Tidal Power effectively. Ice seems to have a decent single target nuke in Freeze Ray but like I said I feel like I have to toss my entire End bar at a pack to kill it. So what would you roll and why? The idea of a proc heavy build seems fun if I'm understanding it correctly. My goal would be able to be effective at soloing as well as have a noticeable difference in team performance when teaming.

That's exactly the problem, I was in a Red area. Thank you, that clears it up for me.

So I've got my Praetorian to level 20, and I chose Villain as my alignment since it fit RP wise. Question is once I got to Pocket I was able to just swap to whatever, hero, vigilante, villain, rogue. I chose rogue so I could run blueside missions since the blueside has many more players. I asked a blue to invite me to a DFB but he said I was an enemy. What did I do wrong? Also, as a Praetorian, may I be a true hero or villain at will via Pocket D? Thank you!