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February 15, 2024

Part 2: Leveling up and collecting rewards

There is no orthodox way of playing this game. I know of some players who have done some of these low level missions so often that they'd rather just power level their characters past this content. Others bypass this content by joining a Death from Below (DFB) trial. This is a trial which is advertised frequently in the Looking for Group chat and are designed for players levels 1 to 6. There is no maximum level for this trial so many players use this to boost themselves to level 10, the minimum level needed to join the Positron Task Force in Steel Canyon. If you're interested in a DFB, join one. The trial boasts a some unique badges, provides a good amount of xp and offers a boost to accuracy, damage, defense or recovery that lasts until level 22.

I like the first series of missions. First, the missions are easy, don't require a lot of traveling to do (they all take place in Atlas Park), and yields you about nine merits at the completion of the full three series. The arc is also emotionally satisfying as you're the hero that not only prevented a larger catastrophe but also reunited a family. These arcs and the Shauna Stockwell arc you encounter later feel the most like being in a comic book, so it doesn't feel tired to me to do them.

You start by ignoring your initial contact in City Hall (in Dagmar's case, Azuria), and locate Matthew Habashy a bit northwest of Ms. Liberty. The easiest way to locate him is go to your Contacts menu, click the Find Contact button and he'll be offered as one of them. Choose the option of being teleported right next to him.

I won't illustrate this entire mission chain as it involves beating up Hellions and beating up more Hellions. Sprint + Athletic Run/Ninja Run will allow you to get to each destination point quickly. The arc also introduces you to an infiltration mission where disguised as a Hellion, you retrieve something within their hideout and then escape. It's easy and the Hellions won't attack you no matter what you do.

After completing Matthew Habashy's arc, you're offered two contacts: Officer Fields and Sondra Costel. Feel free to choose either one. I personally prefer Sondra Costel's missions as they are against the Skulls and not against the Vahzilok. During the Sondra Costel mission chain, you'll encounter your second infiltration mission as you pretend to be a reporter who is seeking to interview a member of the Skulls.

The mission arc ends when you, accompanied by a cynical hero, you take down a major crime operation run by the Skulls. The only tricky thing in this last mission is that final boss can only be reached by using a set of stacked boxes like stair to reach a floor. The boxes are stacked in an elevator and you need to jump to reach where the boss is waiting.

The last contact in the arc is Aaron Thiery, someone who feels stand-offish and a bit unsavory. His missions involves a lot of missions overland, beating up mobs nearby, deactivating bombs and taking out Arachnos Pylons.

Depending on your server, there may be quite a bit of contention for Pylons or they may be guarded by several Arachnos mobs, which may elevate the danger in taking them out. There are a couple of unguarded Pylons on one of the warehouse roofs that most players ignore. These can be taken out to fulfill the mission requirements.

The arc ends when you stop the machinations of a potential traitor and reunite the Habashy family. It's a feel good arc and I like the little touches in the mission that shows how appreciated you are.

At the end of this entry, arc, you should have 9 more merits. As with previous 5 merits, this can be quickly converted to influence by exchanging them to converters and selling them. However, I recommend holding onto these for now. After talking to Matthew for the last time, you'll get a chunk of experience as well. This should get you to level 7 or very close to that. Go ahead and level up.

Below depicts what Dagmar looks at level 7. As a general rule for melee characters, I prioritize slots in the first toggle power (usually an armor) and then the slots go into attacks. You'll ideally want to have at least four slots for each attack so you can slot one accuracy enhancement and three damage enhancements. Slot no more than three of each kind of enhancement as they will offer diminishing returns after the third of the same type.

At level 7, I will also start slotting enhancements to all powers. Despite what most players may think, your character benefits very little from enhancements from levels 1 to about 10. The mobs aren't that tough and accuracy early on determined by Beginner's Luck, which normalizes accuracy so that you'll have the standard accuracy of 75% at level 20. At low levels, your character often doesn't miss and will be less dependent on accuracy.

Dagmar has around 950k influence so I slotted her powers with SOs. At low levels, SOs, or Single Origin enhancements, are extremely effective. The Live game was balanced against characters having access to less powerful enhancements so using these is a very easy way to increase the effectiveness of your character. Below is what Dagmar looks like at level 7. Each SO offers an enhancement of 38.5% since they are three levels above character level. SOs diminish in effectiveness as you level. It is why a lot of players find IOs, or Invention Origin enhancements, more appealing since they do not diminish in power as the character gains levels.

Note that I think it's a valid choice of foregoing the accuracy enhancements in the attacks at this stage. Your accuracy, due to Beginner's Luck, is probably just fine. It's probably a mixture of old habits and an extreme dislike of missing that causes me to slot this way. Also, no need to slot endurance reduction in the Frozen Armor toggle. Frozen Armor expends .26 endurance per second and given that it is your only toggle at this point, it won't have a noticeable impact on your endurance.

After shopping, Dagmar has a bit over 793k influence remaining. It's time to head over the Hollows to really start farming those merits for even more influence-making opportunities. That will be detailed in the next post.

See you next post.

February 15, 2024

Addendum: This guide was originally written during Issue 26, Page 6. A few days after this guide was published, Issue 27, Page 7 dropped. Page 7 has significantly changed the new character experience, so I've gone back through this guide and updated it. There may be some screenshots that reflect Page 6, but I've updated the narrative to better reflect what players will see in Page 7.

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There are a lot of really good guides on what to do when starting out. If that's what you're looking for, then this may not be for you. What I will be illustrating in the next few posts is what I do when starting a new character. I start every character with nothing. No transfers, No emailing influence to myself. Nothing. Even though I have billions of influence stashed away, I will show you what I do to start a self-funded character solo.

For this experiment, I have created a new character on Everlasting. I have existing characters on Everlasting but for the purposes of this experiment, I'm going to pretend its my first character on the shard. If you're new to COH or are a returnee, this is basically your starting point.

You choose an origin, an archetype, primary/secondary powers, a costume and a name. For this tutorial, I picked what I think is the easiest AT for the early level experience, a Brute. Let me introduce Dagmar the Loud, an Battle Axe/Ice Armor Brute.

I click Next and I'm given the opportunity to choose to enter a tutorial. I advise entering the tutorial. It takes a couple of minutes and it offers you a chance to setup some things on your character. For this character, I chose Outbreak, making Dagmar a heroine who will eventually end up in Atlas Park.

In the Outbreak, I setup the following things.

Setup up power trays (changed in Issue 27, Page 7)
Setup up chat tabs (optional)
Open up the map menu and disconnect the map interface from the main navigation bar at the top.
Buy two free powers from the P2W Vendor (Athletic Run/Ninja Run and Jump Pack) (changed in Issue 27, Page 7)

New players may not be aware that the power trays are quite customizable. The power trays as of Page 7 come fully expanded as three trays. As before carets (the small triangles) on the trays allow you to compress or expand the trays and switch the trays displayed. You have 9 individual trays which can hold power icons, binds or macro functions (I won't cover binds or macros in this guide but they are easy to look up).

How you arrange your powers are up to individual tastes, but I generally put primary (attack/control) powers in Tray 1, secondary (armor/buff/debuff) powers in Tray 2 and utility/misc powers in Tray 3. In Dagmar's case, Chop goes in Tray 1 along with Brawl and Apprentice Charm, while Frozen Armor goes in Tray 2. Sprint, and Athletic Run and other travel powers goes into Tray 3. When you're happy with how your powers are arranged, right click on a tray and Lock the Powers in the Trays from keeping from inadvertently moving around. You can also drag the power tray to any position in your game interface; it doesn't have to stay in your bottom right.

As of Page 7, Athletic Run will now show up as a default temp power. Athletic Run is a great travel power and will allow you to traverse almost all the low level zones safely. Occasionally, you may need to click the Powers menu and click on the mini icons to have them display or manually move them onto your trays. Some powers don't automatically show up on your trays. Most veteran COH players know this, but this is not that intuitive.

Chop, Brawl and Apprentice Charm is your very low level attack chain and will serve you well. Apprentice charm is a free, origin-specific power that all characters get. They vary per each origin. The Technology power for example provides a very short stun along with damage. They are short-ranged attacks, but don't overlook them in the low levels. With Brute fury, it can do respectable damage. As of Page 7, Apprentice Charm has a respectable 80' range and does more damage. Neat!

The last setup thing you should do is setup monitoring for influence. Go to the Combat Attributes menu, expand base attributes and scroll to the bottom. You will see your current influence, which should be 0. Right-click influence and set to monitor influence. You should see a small influence display on your game interface.

Once you have these setup, you're ready to finish the tutorial. Just follow the instructions and the way points will guide you to the next activity. Most veterans have done this tutorial so many times that it's probably muscle memory. Still, it's relatively fast and offers two large inspirations (a Rage and a large Respite). Keep them in your inspiration tray but don't use them. They can fetch good influence once sold outside of the tutorial and its an easy way to get starting funds. The tutorial also offers two enhancements (Talisman of the Initiate). I trash these right away because they have almost no bearing on your effectiveness and you'll out-level them almost immediately.

Once you're finished finding the formula, rescue Flower Knight and beat the infected, contact Coyote again and enter Atlas Park. You'll end up right next to Ms. Liberty and you should train to level 2. This should give you the Rookie exploration badge (new in Page 7) and give you a jump jet fly power with 30 minutes of flight time.

After leveling to 2, what I do is find a nearby low-level Hellion. They're adjacent to the fenced area of Paragon City Hall. Find one and defeat it. That will net you a smallish amount of influence. You will need that influence to sell your inspirations.

Then go to your chat bar on the bottom left and type /ah. This will bring up the auction house. Drag the two inspirations you got from Outbreak, list each for 10 and get easy starting influence.

The price you will get will vary quite a bit, but with little effort, I was able to get 54k of starting funds.

54k for almost no effort isn't bad, but it won't be enough to fund your character even in the short term. The next thing I do is to collect Atlas Park exploration badges (these are little plaques that you can collect by standing near them). Exclusive to Homecoming, collecting all the exploration badges in Atlas Park will reward you with 5 merits and the Atlas Tour Guide badge. Using Athletic (or Ninja run) and your new temp flying power, you'll be able to easily collect the badges and run away from potential threats safely.

Atlas Park Exploration Badges (this link shows the location of each badge; note: wiki may need to be edited to account for the Rookie badge)

If you want to become an avid badge collector, I recommend installing Vidiotmaps, a mod for the COH client which enhances the normal in-game map with location of each badge.

If you've properly collected each badge (note: you do not need to have Tried and True or the Silent Sentinel badges in your collection), you should have 8 exploration badges. This will give you the Atlas Tourist badge and reward you with 5 merits.

Note that the in the screenshot below was taken during Page 6. During Page 6, the collection of all the Atlas exploration badges also awarded the Passport accolade and the Long Range Teleporter power. These are still obtainable in Issue 7, but to unlock them requires a character to have 10 exploration badges. It's easy enough to take the Paragon Tram to nearby King's Row, find two badges and collect this accolade. But consider this optional.

While you are collecting the Edge of Chaos badge in City Hall right next to the D.A.T.A. hall elevator, take the elevator down and click the portal to enter Recluse's Victory. Recluse's Victory is a PvP zone set in a theoretical future. As such it will award you a badge, Entrusted with the Secret and the ability to enter an Ouroboros portal. Using Ouroboros is probably one of the handiest fast travel abilities in the game, so you'll want to do this.

Don't stay in Recluse's Victory. You're a level 2 and there won't be much you will be able to there effectively. Go jump through the portal again behind you and return to Atlas Park. Time to make some influence.

Go back to the main foyer of City Hall and you'll soon spot an ATM-looking machine there. You can also find it via your map. Click the Merit vendor and exchange each of your merits for 3 enhancement converters. You'll sell those on the auction house for your starting funds.

Like you did for the inspirations, type /ah and bring up the auction house interface. Drag your enhancement converters (you should have 15) from your salvage menu into the auction house interface. List them all for 10 influence. Don't worry too much about maximizing profit or listing them for more. You could do that, but the difference at most will be a few hundred influence; not that much in the long run. Selling them for 10 will allow them to be sold instantly.

The converters sold for 65k apiece which nets 877,575 influence. Add that to the amounts earned from the inspirations and the random mob kill and Dagmar the Loud starts with 925,524 influence starting funds at level 2. Not too bad, especially considering that during Live play, 1M influence was considered quite a generous head start.

In the next post of this walkthrough, I'll detail how to level up Dagmar efficiently, collect more merits and multiply the starting funds to something more substantive.

February 14, 2024

I also vote Brute. At low levels, fury will enable you to 1 shot most minions and almost kill lieutenants. This makes leveling smooth.

You won’t need enhancements until level 10 or so, because the early missions are really easy and inspirations can get you past anything remotely hard.

February 12, 2024

Praetor Duncan walks into a bar. As she sits down, she looks up and notices three pieces of meat hanging from the ceiling. She asks the bartender "what's with the meat?"

The bartender says, "If you can jump up and slap all three pieces at once, you get free drinks for an hour. If you miss even one, you have to pay for everyone else's drinks for the rest of the night. Wanna give it a go?"

Praetor Duncan takes another look at the meat, then says, "I think I'll pass. The steaks are too high."

February 12, 2024

6 minutes ago, Troo said:

hey how's that free game going for you?

It's fine actually. Fun enough that I donate. Just because I find one part lacking doesn't mean there isn't much to love. I think TFs are fun, as is pre-level 50 teaming.

I also realize that the current Homecoming folks had nothing to do with current state, and due to dev priorities, we're likely stuck with drinking the dregs from a literal well to grow more powerful.

February 12, 2024

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name me one fictional or mythological uber powered being that is not (in essence boiled down) McGuffin powered.

Superman - empowered by Kryptonian physiology + yellow sun; early version was strong only as a basis of his Kryptonian physiology
Hulk - created by accident via gamma radiation
Dr. Manhattan - accident gives godlike powers
Thor - god
Professor X - mutant
Magneto - mutant
Scarlet Witch - mutant
Thanos - probably a god
Galactus - cosmic being

February 12, 2024

1 hour ago, Snarky said:

I do NOT see it that way, Take Lord Recluse. Tech, gadgets. Yes, the Well granted him great power. That he infused into more gadgets.

Get Robotic Drones for Lore Pets. My new Ice/Dark Corr will take Polar Lights. Yes, the Incarnate Nuke is harder to explain. But we have 50 levels of odd temp powers we have been throwing around. They really should offer weapon fired solutions for a few of those, all of those however.

Basically, in a nutshell, I saying you got no imagination. IMO

We're just going to agree to disagree. I think the lore is what lacks imagination. The Well of the Furies could have been something more euphemistic instead it's literally a Well, and it's mystical. It's the literalness of the lore which I find confining. Sure, you can hand wave a lot of this away, but at the end of day, you're a McGuffin-empowered Incarnate.

February 11, 2024

One moment that shattered some of my treasured childhood memories was learning about Midichlorians in The Phantom Menace.

Before then, the Force was a mysterious power bestowed to a very few, and was something mystical in the space opera setting of Star Wars. Explaining it as a mass of microorganisms took all the mystique out of it. I think in some ways, the reason why vampire and werewolf mythology works so well is that they represent a hidden world in our current belief of how the world works. I think you reduce it as some sort of virus infection or genetic affliction, it become less interesting. In sum, over-explaining some things makes it less interesting, not more.

I find that progressing as an Incarnate to be rather lacking from a lore standpoint. Your progress is not only not original - as Incarnates have existed before you - but dependent on a magical McGuffin. It's rather immersion breaking to have my tech-origin Bots/Trap MM have to chase vestiges of the Well to grow more powerful. It's also clear there are individuals and organizations that have power scaling equal to or beyond the Well (Ouroboros, Dream Doctor, The Battalion, etc.) Most of my post level 50 characters feel shoe-horned into a lore that doesn't really fit.

Now, I'm not complaining about the mechanics to enforce a uniform way to increasing power to post-level 50. I just wish the story/lore was more mysterious and open to more interpretation. It feels like taking away creative agency. Instead of finding enlightenment, discovering the anti-life equation, ascending to the Heavenly Realm, etc., you are Incarnate number 10,243. It's boring and I wish wasn't so.

February 11, 2024

10 hours ago, Amber Raven said:

Hi everyone,

I played for about 4 or 5 months when the game first came out (grav/ff controller) and am currently sat looking at the character creation screen where I have remade that character but this time around I don't have a group of RL friends to play with, and I remember soloing as being unbearable on that character.

I'm thinking potentially sentinel or brute this time, I need something reasonably sturdy as I can't move very well in games, since playing last I've lost an arm (or MM would have been really intriguing :D)

Are there any power combinations in those two ATs that either just don't work together or are noob traps? I'm just feeling a little overwhelmed! Should I be looking at any other AT? I hope to group at some point and would be happy on permanent buff duty, I just want to be able to do missions on my own 🙂

Thanks in advance!

A lot of people will recommend a scrapper or a brute, but I'd recommend a stalker. Stalkers can be made very sturdy, and they have mez protection in their secondary. Stalkers have a few big advantages that will be of interest to you: they can hide and dictate how each fight starts; with assassin strike, they can eliminate or heavily injure the biggest threat in each encounter; boss fights become trivial. Stalkers solo very well. If you have limitations in moving a character around, this will be a good AT for you.

February 7, 2024

I'm reminded how truly original my concept / costume really is

February 3, 2024

What level range are you looking for? There are probably a number of suitable maps, particularly villain side. For low level, some of the Praetoria missions would be honestly hard at +4/x8 (anyone game for hunting down Shen and not avoiding the ambushes?)

February 3, 2024

I don’t bother slotting IOs until level 27. That’s when the dual enhancements (acc/dam for example )start becoming greater than what you’d generally get for a single attribute enhancement (all damage for example).

Even with SOs, the game is super easy at those levels. I think twinking more is kind of silly. I will slot anything useful that is self-found or comes out of something I converted that I was going to sell. But no full sets until 27+.

I level up characters the traditional way. I do have a stable of farm characters but don’t like to PL my own heroes.

February 2, 2024

The converter economy makes self-funding characters really easy and makes farming not really necessary. It almost works too well, to the point that the abundance of IOs may contribute to balance issues.

I play some on Rebirth and soloed a Tanker to 50 there. The influence scarcity issue was as rough as I remembered it on Live. Over there, the low level market is dead so that cool orange recipe that could be sold for millions here is vendor trash.

January 31, 2024

A 20-year old MMO won't have a significant impact on a whole multi-billion genre

January 29, 2024

22 hours ago, MonteCarla said:

It's been easier to get teams together, and really nice introducing people to things like Hero Tips missions that they haven't seen before.

I played my very first Tips mission just a few months ago. And played since day 1 of live service.

I think that’s mostly related to my own experience. I think I largely ignored the morality sub system and just played either heroes or villains.

January 28, 2024

Getting all the exploration badges in a zone nets you 5 merits plus the Passport accolade and Long Distant Teleporter power. Assuming, you toured 3 zones, that’s 15 merits.

Edit: I think that tour is one of the best ways to help new players. The second best is having players switch to villains for all the mayhem badges that switches to the Task Force Commander when they return hero side.

January 28, 2024

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” - Mender Lazarus

So I'm one of those weirdos who plays through the low level contacts on each character. As I articulated in this thread, I start with Matthew Habashy, his follow-up contacts, do Twinshot's story arcs, head to the Hollows, and then head to King's Row for Shauna Stockwell and Eagle Eye. For most, I'll head to Faultline to start those story arcs unless I partake a Positron Task Force. Since I started on Homecoming back in April of last year, I've done this over 20 times, for each new character I've created.

I think it's fair to say that many people will think this is quite boring. I've done this enough to know most of the glowie locations, and where hostages are kept (even on the large Troll maps). I completely understand the perspective of someone who no longer want to see this content and use Death From Below to blitz past these levels or just power level a character into the mid-levels or even to 50. There is no orthodox way of playing this game, and I'm not suggesting that playing through the content is the official, standard or orthodox way of experiencing the game.

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" - Tub Ci

"Woah, I know kung fu!" - Nebel Elite Fist

What is interesting to me is seeing a character progress. Powers which are terrible with the default slot and at low level can change dramatically when investments in them are made. I was amazed to learn that mass immobilize powers take on a completely different dimension with the ability to supplement them with procs. This wasn't something that was considered standard practice when inventions were launched. I still remember how many players considered procs to be under-powered compared to more traditional slotting conventions.

Similarly, seeing a character start off weak and steadily grow in power by gaining new powers, new slots and enhancements is where I derive the most joy. I have power leveled a couple of characters to 50, tricked them out with the best enhancements - typically in the 500-700M range - and then been completely bored by them. I just don't have the same connection with them, and they are my least played characters.

"Do or do not, there is no try." - Lord Recluse

What Homecoming does really well is be a sandbox. Due to merit-based economy, I can quickly craft/sell to fund any variety of character I want. The same low level content poses very differing levels of challenge depending on AT and power choices. A character with ranged attacks and hover makes the Frostfire mission a cakewalk. Similarly some power sets seem just designed to overcome these easily. My level 11 Traps/AR Defender easily overcame Frostfire and then the elite bosses in Eagle Eye's missions at level 13. My level 16 Electric/Storm controller couldn't do enough damage to easily overcome the early elite bosses without resorting to prestige attack powers, lots of red inspirations and blues due to how quickly he burned through endurance.

"You're a wizard, FFFF!" - Jean Luc Picard, Circle of Thorns Ruin Mage

Seeing these differences first hand, and watching your low level character steadily gain power is what is interesting to me. Compared to some of you, I'm still a bit of neophyte in this game. Though I played quite a bit during Live service and spend quite a bit of time here and on other servers, I'm probably vastly underestimating how much some folks play this game, to the point they are quite tired of seeing some of the content. However, for me, there's quite a bit to explore. I haven't tried every power set or haven't had much experience much with certain ATs (Dominators, Arachnos Soldiers, Warshades, Stalkers).

I know that there are some of you who continue to play due to a desire of seeing concepts take to life, or because you use characters as a means of story telling. I think we are sort of similar in that we appreciate this very familiar sandbox to see our creations grow.

Anyways, thanks for reading this rather long meandering of why I play here.

"Live long and prosper" - Sp0cK, Freakshow Tank Smasher

January 26, 2024

We have found Homecoming’s Forest Gump!

January 24, 2024

I think you could get pretty far with just the Carnival of Light options in the costume creator. Combine with the Gunslinger and perhaps Barbarian options and I think you can get very close to what you want without using Aether Particles.

Here's a quick mock up.

January 24, 2024

I was on a PUG Positron 1 last night, and the team was a MM (no idea on secondary), a Traps Defender, me (on Mo'Hawk my Electric/Storm controller) and the rest melee, a mix of scrappers, brutes and tanks. It was a pretty great setup. With the FFG, Steamy Mist and various Leadership toggles, the group was above the defense soft cap. No one took any significant damage in any of the fights...as long as we stayed together.

So the TF goes absolutely flawlessly. No one is taking any damage. Acid Mortar, Freezing Rain and other debuffs were making kill speed really fast. Anything that didn't die fast was either flopping around like a fish, locked down via a hold or trying to run away.

This is when one of the brutes gets cocky. He leaps out of our huddle and dives into a big group of Clockwork. Goes to red hit points immediately and screams "heal!". Well, I'm the only "healer" on the team with an O2 Boost single-slotted with recharge. I run to the edge of the protective huddle and heroically hit him for 60 points of healing, moving him from red to dark orange. Didn't help much, and one of the Canon Princes pretty much puts him into the dirt the next hit.

Now, that of course didn't teach him any lessons, and the sheer ease of the combat encouraged a couple of the other melee to follow his lead. They all face planted pretty quickly. Meanwhile, the characters sitting in the FFG/Steamy Mist peloton pretty much were still killing fast and weren't taking any damage. This repeated a few times, and few runs from the hospital later, everybody stayed huddled up.

No one died again until we ran into the copies of ourselves. Note, kill the storm controller copy right away. He (me) used Freezing Rain on us as the opening move and we wiped.

January 22, 2024

2 hours ago, Scarlet Shocker said:

One of the great things about this game is the ability to convert inventions, both within and without their set.

But I've never worked out which ones to convert. Some just seem to give endless dross, others seem to come up with exactly what I was looking for. How do I tell which is which? Seems so very difficult to tell.

Buy the cheap rare recipes and convert those. Buy at specific breakpoints - level 20, 25, 30, etc. Because some of the valuable enhancements such as Miracle +Recovery don't show up after 40. The lower level recipes are also cheaper to craft and on the average use cheaper rare salvage.

You can convert uncommon recipes but the only ones that seem to sell are defense and resist sets.

The folks who do this seriously buy as many recipes, converters and their associated salvage as they can, log off that character and then check back after awhile. Patience can save you a huge amount.

I generally don't do that. I'm too impatient. I'll get a few cheap rare recipes, usually matching the rare salvage I have banked, use merits to buy converters and set aggressive prices to sell fast. I'm not maximizing potential profit, but I make enough to kit out any character as much as I want.

January 21, 2024

Look in Guides. This is the thread you should read:

January 20, 2024

My fave thing to do is save a low level hero who is struggling against the Hellions right outside the fences of Atlas Park proper. With the current Excelsior, there are fights that break out all over the place.

I’d never steal a kill or anything that obnoxious but may hit them with a well-timed O2 Boost just as they hit red in hit points.

January 20, 2024

Two servers above 1,000 players

Definitely exciting times. Very likely a lot of returnees mixed in with the newly curious.

January 19, 2024

2 hours ago, SeraphimKensai said:

I'd suggest do it as a Traps/AR Defender. You'll need more therapy that way.

That won't be the headache you think it will be. That's actually a strong setup. Anything Traps with large cone AoEs is a murder machine. Defender strength mortar + flame thrower. Anything that lives get a Full Auto. Snarky should stick with his blaster fantasy.

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