Lunar Ronin

Blue side privilege happened. People who played on live and never (or rarely) played red side trick-or-treated in Peregrine Island, so that's where they trick-or-treat now. FWIW, I led two days of trick-or-treating on Indomitable in Kallisti Wharf, and it went well.

A hallucinating LLM at that. "Psion Guardian's super strength or a fragment of Fortnight Star's gravity control" Really?

As said before in this thread, raising the player difficulty for Trick-or-Treating doesn't do anything anyhoo. It's all about the actual player character level, and the actual number of people on the team. So, sure, raise the difficulty to +4x8, but it won't do anything.

I learned a couple of weeks ago that some Trick-or-Treat league leaders have been advising people for years to raise their difficulty to +4x8 to spawn the maximum level mobs and spawn sizes while trick-or-treating at the Peregrine Island motel.

I'm saddened to report that @FeliciaDivine (Felecia Divine back on live), passed beyond the rim on June 24th of this year. Felicia Divine and I did not get along (to put it mildly), but she was an important person in the Champion server community and a Champion is a Champion. Felicia was a member of the Stryke Force supergroup on the Champion server back on live, and then left that supergroup to form her own supergroup called All-Out War, which lasted for years and was reborn on Homecoming's Excelsior shard. I also understand that Felicia recently made some new friends on the Everlasting shard and joined a supergroup there. Felicia actually helped make me a better gamer and a better leader, and I thank her for that. She also made the Champion server part of what it was at the end (December 1st, 2012), and I thank her for that as well. Rest in peace, champion.

Correct. You need to be level 25+ for invasion mobs to spawn at you. This was common knowledge during the first year of Homecoming, but that knowledge appears to have become lost...

You can do them using a PIllar of Ice & Flame in a supergroup base.

Yeah, all single-player story missions like that are like that. Masterminds OP.

At the end of live and at the beginning of Homecoming, Tankers were seen as a bit of a joke AT, with Brutes seen as the main tank AT. Homecoming buffed Tankers in 2020, but they buffed them too much. Tankers are now overpowered. I expect a nerf to their AoE damage at some point as they simply do too much of it. Secondly, Brutes could use a bit of help with their defenses, to make them more of a midway point between Scrappers and Tankers. Thirdly, the Brute ATOs need help compared to the ATOs of the other three melee ATs. The combination of the three is why Brutes are now seen as a bit of a joke AT these days, but again I fully expect Tankers to be nerfed at some point in the future. Brutes do slightly more single-target damage than a Tanker, and damage auras are simply better on Brutes. Unlike Scrappers, all of the Brute secondaries include a threat/taunt effect, and Brutes get punchvoke, so getting mobs to stay on you is much easier than on most Scrapper secondaries. A Claws/Rad Brute will definitely have enough damage to take out EBs. AVs are a bit more questionable, but doable. Personally, I can't help you with the Scrapper question. I honestly see no reason to play a Scrapper when I could either play a Brute or Stalker instead. But that's a bit of personal bias as I strongly preferred the red side ATs on live, and now strongly prefer the ATs that started out red side. I find Defenders and Tankers boring to play because both ATs are too safe IMO, and whenever I play a Scrapper, I think "Why am I playing this when I can just play a Brute or Stalker instead?"

LastPass is about the last password manager anyone should use, just FYI. They're about as secure as a box of Cheerios and their security reputation is shot. Stick with open source ones like Bitwarden or Proton Pass, or if you must use a closed source password manager, 1Password.

Mr. G's story arc takes place after the Minds of Mayhem Trial. Penelope Mayhem was still Penelope Yin in the trial.

I'm not aware of any password manager that simply opens to a smartphone handshake. What I will recommend though are the two password managers that I recommend to everyone. Bitwarden and Proton Pass. Both are open source, and have free versions. I'd try both and see which one you prefer.

Quite a few returning veteran players have been having issues with this. It's almost like changing the default camera movement and keybinds that people have been using for 20 years was a bad idea... Anyhoo, go to Menu > Options > Controls > Free Camera Movement. Disable it.

Bingo. The nukeball meta of teleporting mobs away to nuke them is great for ranged players, at the expense of melee players.

No. Just that I'm not sure that there's a way to make henchmen and pets stay prompted, without disabling TP for them entirely. Just conjecture on my part however. Could be entirely wrong, and I hope that I am.

I agree that it is quite annoying. However, I suspect that this is tied into the Group Fly situation. I.e., it has to be enabled or it won't work on henchmen and pets at all.

I fully agree with you, but I have encountered that. One night, I formed an Apemage. Recruited for about fifteen minutes, and only got five others for a total of six. It was late, and it was to be expected honestly. So I said, "Is everyone good with going with six?" Someone said, "NO! Tinpex is too hard for only six people." and quit on the spot. 🤣 So we just did it with a total of five players. I've encountered it a few other times as well. There are very casual players who believe that TFs/SFs can only be done with a full team, and there are good players who prefer a full team and dislike playing with a small team for whatever reason, so would rather do nothing instead. I don't get it, but whatever.

During the first year of Homecoming, I joined a PUG Numina TF with a group of people who had never played City of Heroes on live. When it came time for the hunt missions, they did them all one at a time, with everyone going to each zone together instead of splitting up. It took about a hour and 45 minutes IIRC, and was easily the worst Numina TF I had ever been on. But hey, at least we all stuck together and no one lone wolfed it.

That's how it started, over fifteen years ago. Then it was that stealth auras was causing Rikti not to spawn, period (not just lose aggro), when in fact the lack of Rikti in the bowl was because people were fighting Rikti on the mothership's ramps instead of letting them come to the bowl. Then it somehow spread to invasion mobs.

Yep. Praetorians can join the holiday trials, Incarnate trials, the instanced Rikti mothership raid, and Cathedral of Pain Trial now. They just need to be formed in a zone that Praetorians have access to. Namely, one of the eight gold side zones, Pocket D, or Echo Plaza. That's why whenever I run league content, I form it in Pocket D so as to not exclude Praetorian players. But I know that trying to form league content outside of Ouroboros was like trying to pull teeth on Excelsior years ago. Thankfully, that may have changed a bit if @lemming is accurate. This just gave me an idea of trying to form trials in one of the Praetorian underground zones... Man, if I think trying to get people to go to Pocket D for things is hard. 😅

Brute and two Masterminds. Everything would melt.

Do note that that will exclude you from Incarnate trials and holiday trials on Excelsior and I believe Everlasting. Ironically, the lower populated shards are better about Praetorian inclusion.

Fire/Trick Arrow. Fire Blast combined with Oil Slick and all of Trick Arrow's debuffs = win.

Just play red side... or gold side... or level 50 content... or pretty much anything other than low level blue side content and you will never run into him.

At level 20, you can just go to Underground Imperial and talk with the Door Man, who will then introduce you to First Ward. No need to go red nor blue first.