Yomo Kimyata

I have no idea: can you put GMs in AE?

I like it, although some of the merit rewards might have to be tuned down.

I find this super interesting. I made my first empathy defender yesterday and I've already gotten three blind invites from different people all at levels 30+ higher than my character. I've also noticed that I get a lot of blind invites every time I play one of my alts that has "Doctor" in the name. They're PhDs, dammit!

I'm a fan of the free market, and right now the market seems to say about 150 lysosomes are worth 1 ribosome, so I'd say 150!

I've seen people post about this before, but when you start up a new alt, what do you consider to be a good amount of inf to support a fresh alt's needs? I prefer to start each one from scratch, but when I don't, my rule of thumb is 20mm. 10mm goes to the portable workbench, 8mm to converters, and the rest to raw materials and posting fees.

Oh, it's not for me. It's for my friend, Joey Jo-Jo Junior Shabbadoo. I have gotten good sapper results out of Elec/Kin or Kin/Elec as well.

Endurance drain based characters get a lot out of it.

I’ve never built a team tank, but I do find myself asking the question: what makes a tanker different from, say, a controller in terms of “tough enough”? I’d say: higher hp, higher res cap, taunt, damage scalar. I’m missing a lot, I know, but those seem like the simplest factors. It’s one of the reason I prefer res builds to def builds, since ir doesn’t matter if you are a tanker or a controller if you are soft capped defense wise. (I know, DDE, but you see my point, I hope.)

Sorry to pick two phrases rather than the whole post, but I think I see your problem here. People (including you) feel the desire/need/obsession to get certain badges, and other people (not including you) see that and get their enjoyment from picking off those people. I'm pretty open-minded, but I'm having a hard time understanding how anyone can view either of those behaviors as unfair gameplay. Thanks for your attention!

Dominators. I have a love/hate relationship with them. Either they are so mind-bendingly easy and seamless to play that I wonder why I would bother to get perma-dom, or they are so clunky and obstreperous that I don't want to go through the bother of getting them to perma-dom. I'm also not a fan of the EATs, both of the H and V variety, but I haven't tried either since Live.

Wouldn't the carp already be in the tank?

I have a, um, friend who may be idiotic enough to solo an empathy/elec/??? Defender red side to 50. My initial thoughts were to run an endurance drain build and rely on cross punch, boxing, and kick for the drain mechanic, then start using the PPP pet for buffs. Any thoughts on this?

I made one a while ago purely based on a really bad pun that I wanted to use for a name. My theme was pretty much an evil doctor who used hypnotism for nefarious and rarely medically necessary purposes.

I just rolled an empath/elec/mu defender for soloing redside. No P2W powers except travel and double xp. I named him Von Sacher-Masoch. I'm hoping the PPP pet can carry me once I hit, gulp, 44.

I read this as marital control and thought, well, this isn't going to work out well for anybody.

5 billion and a set of Entropic Chaos! Wait, isn't that how economics works?

It's in the first paragraph! Kidding aside, my opinion on the OP's post is that, yes, we all need to be make the game welcoming and as positive an experience as possible for newcomers and veterans alike. I'm good with that. People play the game for different reasons, and (in my opinion, sadly) many players care only about what is the most powerful set, the best AT. This forum and the Suggestions forum are full of posts about how to make things more powerful and easier. My takeaway is that a lot of people really like feeling overpowered, and that is why they continue to play. I continue to play because I like challenge and I like novelty, but that's just me. If this game is to last another year, much less another ten years, it needs to retain current players and hopefully attract new ones. My message, and I try to be consistent with it, is to play whatever the hell kind of character you want. You may not be able to solo an ITF on a empathy/elec defender (then again, maybe you may!). But if you are looking to have a superpowered experience, you can do it with literally every combination of AT or powerset. This game is not rocket science, although there are parts that may be a little head hurty.

Nerf regen.

I found a number of unicorns in the March data, and if I can get off my butt I'll get them all to 50 eventually. On a separate project, I recently got two corruptors into their high 30s. Their powers were entirely thematic, the play was pure solo redside, and the experience was mostly painful. Electric/Kinetics and Archery/Pain. I expect the Elec/Kin will really shine from here on out with end drain, but levelling was a chore. The archery/pain was not terrible, but there was no synergy. A solo Pain ends up choosing about three powers (or something like that) and archery with lethal damage and no special effects to proc off of is as ordinary as you get.

I’m late to the game, but I would have done the same as Troo.

I do want to say one thing before this gets locked. I personally think it’s worthwhile reading every one of everyone’s posts, even the ones I think are batshit crazy. I do believe there are correct and incorrect views on this, and on most things, but unless I try to understand why someone feels the way they do, I am not allowed to label them. Of course, once I’ve tried to understand (and really spectacularly failed, perhaps), then the labeling machine comes out!

Sounds annoying, but my email remains a solid red. Have you found anyone else this is happening to? Maybe post this in Bugs? EDIT: Sometimes On a new alt I've seen Character Items flashing. I think there is an opt out window that pops up the first time.

YOU're Thor? I'm tho thor I can barely ... Oh, nevermind.

Based on my experience with super strength and my experience with scrappers, the super strength set would probably need to be severely diminished in order to provide a balanced scrapper experience. Simply porting it to scrappers with the 1.125 damage scalar would be massively overpowered compared to every other scrapper set, in my opinion. I can't speak about the rage mechanic, since I don't min max it in my play. I want more underpowered sets!

I second this question. I haven’t put much/any thought into it, but I have no idea what it’s used for? to OPs point, if it’s useless, absolutely agree. If it’s useful, maybe move the tabs around. Special gets used every session. Legacy not so much.