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If I’m choosing between an X/Y defender or a Y/X corruptor, it’s mainly going to be based on which powers I want earliest in leveling. If I were PLing to 50 or not exemplaring then I’d look deeper into the sets to choose.

Why in the hell is Samsung so slow in coming out with their new iPhone?!?

This alt is actually a leveling alt that uses what I’m calling “early blooming” techniques, which means I slot IOs early and often (kismet and panacea+ at level 7, ATOs at level 10, etc.). I’m currently at level 22 and running solo mission content at +2/x3 and it’s challenging but satisfying, especially since I don’t have any specialized macros yet. Early blooming makes things a lot easier. Right now I’ve got ?Mark of Supremacy? 2 slotted in both minions and Gang War, some spot ATOs from the other set, etc. One thing I wanted to sanity check. I’ve got the Achilles heel proc in call enforcer and it seems to trigger a fair amount. Why don’t I see this in other builds (or am I just not looking hard enough)?

Positive thoughts on their way.

Nothing stated in Page Six really appeals to me (blasters, meh, no obvious impact on the AH, and I already mostly run "underpowered" sets) but I recently started a new levelling project that led to a few new alts: Stumblebum (Bio/Energy Melee Villain Tanker) -- I wanted to see for myself how terrible Energy Melee is (spoiler: it is not terrible in the slightest) and I wanted to tweak out some Bio slotting choices. He's a former thug for a master criminal, none too bright. When his boss and his entire gang broke out of the Zig, he was injured and the gang medic used an experimental serum that caused a slow alteration in his physical state (every 10 levels, he gets a new costume). Abductor Muscle (Energy Melee/Bio Villain Stalker) -- Now I just wanted the name for a specialist in hostage missions. I may end up changing the powersets for this name, or changing the name for these powersets, but let's double down on the energy melee // bio armor theme. Also a crony of the master criminal. Has no skin. Kind of gross. Doc Zarathustra (Thugs/Time Villain Mastermind) -- The aforementioned master criminal. I modeled him after The Professor from Casa de Papel (Money Heist) on Netflix. He is a master planner, so prepared that it only *seems* like he can look forward in time to see what will happen next. His thugs are devoted to him. Unctuous Archer (Trick Arrow/Water Villain Defender) -- A recent addition, wanted to build around crude oil themed powers. The project itself is simple: slow (i.e. no accelerated xp) natural levelling, but very active slotting by level to maximize power at all points. Active use of unslotters and respecs. Pushing the envelope of +/x wherever I can.

I'm finding other examples. Gaussians has a minimum level of 21 for the recipes, but according to the tooltip for the attuned, half the set is slottable at level 17. And the other half is slottable at level 7!!! EDIT: same for Dark Watchers Despair, half at 17, half at 7. I'm gonna stop looking now.

The attuned tooltip says min level 17. But that has definitely changed -- some time in the last year or so, you could not slot an attuned Perf Shifter until level 18 (I presume the tooltip said 18 back then?). Then one day it changed to 17 and I kind of forgot about it until I started working on a project and the topic came up.

I noticed this a while ago with Performance Shifters, but never thought to say anything about it until now. The minimum level you can craft a Perf Shifter is with a level 21 recipe. The resulting level 21 IO can be slotted at character level 18. But attuned Perf Shifters are able to be slotted at 17?!? Certainly nothing game breaking, but I did notice that had changed at some point from 18 to 17. Was there some change in the set? Does this affect other sets as well? Inquiring minds want to know!

I did end up going with /time, even though I already have a mercs/time who is languishing in his 30s (another concept mastermind named Billy Pilgrim). My rationale is that he is so prepared, it's "almost as if he could look forward in time" to see what's going to happen. He uses Reveal as soon as he steps on a map (which bothers me a little, but hey, THEME!) I tried to minimize visuals, which so far means using a dark grey color and "bright" settings, but any more advice is welcomed!

I'm wildly inconsistent overall, but I have a number of soft-roleplay alts and a very small number of hard-roleplay. If someone sends me a tell though, I break the fourth wall, even on the strictest character. Because at the end of the day, I'm not the character. I'm the person behind the character.

Or, you could always dump about 1,500 of the item in question onto the market and flood him or her out. (also not me)

They were the last band I saw in concert, February pre-COVID. To bring it back to the "old" theme, it was their tour (now mostly postponed until 2021) commemorating the 30th anniversary of their album Flood. It was a great show.

To @Troo's point, it's pretty fair to say that there is nothing new under the sun, and I work under the assumption that if it appears I am the only player in a niche, it's simply because no one else is currently finding it sufficiently interesting in terms of return or entertainment value.

I can't claim to really be a tanker kind of person, but I'm REALLY liking my Bio/Energy.

Older than I've ever been.

Knock knock. Who's there? Dishes. Dishes who? Dishes Sean Connery.

This is good stuff, thank you you two. I have a handful of MMs but I'm not a good player. I tend to just use the three default settings because I'm pretty lazy. I have a Beasts/Traps who just unlocked his alpha, and I can run him pretty consistently at +3/x5 with zero problems, but I suspect that's probably one of the stronger combinations. With respect to slotting, I'm definitely getting all the special IOs in there, and for MMs I like to 3 x2 slot the ATO for recharge as well. I really hadn't thought about Hammis. For roleplaying, my original concept was that the mastermind is a genius planner, so every thing has been foreseen and accounted for. At the same time, he instills complete loyalty in his followers. Putting aside entirely how good any of the secondaries are, I'm having some trouble. I can rule out cold, electric, force field, sonic, storm, thermal. I have my traps already, and I guess I could repeat that, but I dunno. Purely thematically, I'm leaning towards pain domination (maybe time), but my play experience with that set has been pretty mixed.

Short answer is that one or both of your characters (buyer and/or seller) has both bids and offers on that item at the same time. Call it a bug, call it a feature, whatever, but it screws up the queue system. If you want to sell an item to another alt, make sure the seller is not bidding on that item as well. If you want to buy it on an alt, make sure you are not selling a copy. It's slightly more complex than that, but if you follow those rules you should be sound as a pound. I do this all the time. Also, if you know a market pretty well, it's certainly possible to sell an unattuned version into the pool and buy an attuned version from the pool and make a profit.

I was going to make some Energy Melee/Regen alts since they are so hated, but it’s too popular a combo for my tastes!

I like regeneration too. One of my 50s is a staff/regen brute and although he took some getting used to, he's quite powerful at the 50 and 50+ content. If you don't like a click-happy set, or one that really needs IOs to shine, this is not your set. I don't pay any attention at all to the inherent regeneration rate -- my play is all about setting up strong defense and resistance levels and then spot healing whenever needed. There are a lot of oh shit buttons, which I kind of enjoy. I could see adding a little something to Resilience. I use MoG as another oh shit button and occasional break free. I really don't see the hate unless you are already maxxed out on S/L/F/C/E/NE damage resist, and on a high recharge build it's up pretty often.

I recently noticed that Panacea procs are now consistently the cheapest of the set, which tells me that someone's been doing too much in-set converting...

Ooh, a market PvP thread! Fortunately, I really have not seen very much of it on Homecoming, but it is there. It's annoying, and yet there's very little anyone can do to stop it, and that's the way it should be because at the end of the day competition is going to lead to better prices and flow. I always think the worst though is when people 0.01 you by increasing bids by the bare minimum and you don't notice until the next time you check in. Some thoughts on what you can do, in no particular order: 1. Do nothing. If someone is outbidding you, you generally don't know how deep their bids are. That 2,000,001 bid may be one deep, or several hundred deep. Work on something else and check back later to see if things have gone back to normal. Maybe someone just wanted one recipe. Maybe not. 2. Compete with higher bids. I remember on Live people would keep 0.01-ing bids on purples and such hoping to snag a buy at 138,256,278 as opposed to 138,256,277. The problem is that there really isn't an end solution to that -- if the other side wants to keep on competing, the two of you can keep 0.01-ing until someone gets bored or frustrated or until it gets unprofitable. Pro tip: some people (like me) like to use "handles" or "fists" which are characteristic numbers or patterns so that they can quickly look at the history and recognize if they still have the highest outstanding bid. If you notice that, use a similar handle but higher so that they may not notice at first. Example: one of you has been buying lots and lots of rare salvage with bids that end in xxx,099. When I feel the desire to compete there, I'll bid xxx,899 and hope that it will take a while before they notice. But eventually they always do. 3. Make it unprofitable, like @AureumErrorsays. 4. Find a different path. I'm working off the assumption that you are talking about IO recipes, because that's really the only bottleneck. Look into buying IOs instead -- it may not be *as* profitable but it may be a lot easier to pick up those. Or maybe look into another path. If you want to end up with LotG 7.5%, for example, there are a lot of ways you can get there. Red Fortune recipes are one way, but far from the only one. I'm sure I'll think of more. Happy hunting, good luck, and it isn't me, because I don't 0.01 bids!

This has been an interesting thread, and I actually went on Rebirth and played about 10 levels. I think that my "long-term" future with this game, if there is one, will be something more along the lines of that version in some ways. But the real sticking point, of course, is population. And if I'm going to be essentially be playing a single player RPG, I'd want to do a lot more fine-tuning and may just be better off learning how to host my own server. But that's long-term.

All's good!

Oh certainly! In fact, I don’t think I have a gravity set alt that isn’t using wind as a concept.