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Do you mean the Penelope Yin TF? Sister Psyche TF hasn't been required for over a decade. Also, do you have the Invader accolade, per chance?

Well, I mentioned that I was building an unofficial fan web forum for Stars Reach, and it's now up and operational. This will be the only time I link to it here. You can find it here if you're interested.

Because it's a granted power, not a setting.

Group Fly isn't common, but it isn't as rare these days as it used to be. If you haven't noticed, there's been a lot more complaints about it on both the forums and on the Discord server in the past couple of years compared to 2019 and 2020. Combination of Group Fly being buffed in Page 2 and made more useful, and four Mastermind primaries being buffed in Page 5. I expect usage of Group Fly to grow in the future. I actually agree with you that it would be nice for Group Fly to be disabled by default, and it was brought up during the Page 2 beta IIRC. However, it was stated by Powerhouse that doing so would also disable Group Fly for henchmen as well, making the power essentially useless. So people are just going to have to get used to talking with Null the Gull for a few extra seconds while changing alignment. I do it on every single character I make. If I can do it, so can everyone else.

It's a bit of a different situation regarding Masterminds and Group Fly. It's not just about fun. A Mastermind using Group Fly on an ITF, Hamidon raid, Rikti mothership raid, Seed of Hamidon, etc., is actually substantially more effective than one that doesn't. From a decade of experience, a Mastermind that doesn't use Group Fly during the pylon phase of a MSR will consistently lose henchmen and need to continually resummon, re-equip, and re-upgrade them because the henchmen are essentially being dragged through all of the mobs on the ground, and therefore lose DPS. A Mastermind that uses Group Fly during the pylon phase will keep their henchmen much more survivable, and therefore does much more DPS. In addition, a Mastermind needs to use Group Fly in order for their henchmen to be able to attack the Rikti drop ship. Plus, Group Fly only impacts teammates, not league mates, and can be easily turned off at Null the Gull in Pocket D. If people are too lazy to take the two minutes to do so, then that's on them.

First you said that a month ago that anyone who isn't using a meta build on a 4* advanced mode is a carry. Now you're saying that roles matter more than builds, and 4* advanced modes can be done with regular builds. Which is it?

Just because something is "meta" doesn't make it obnoxious. Fold Space on its own accord is fine, but just like knockback way too many people use it (and overuse it), without care and with wanton abandon. One player repeatedly uses an AoE attack, knocking away mobs from a Scrapper or Stalker, causing the Scrapper or Stalker to move to continue the attack. Another player Fold Spaces away a group of mobs a Scrapper or Stalker is already attacking, causing the Scrapper or Stalker to move to continue the attack. I have frequently experienced both. Just as annoying, just as obnoxious.

I heard about this yesterday. My condolences on your loss.

I strongly dislike the medieval fantasy genre. I just find it dull and boring. I know, I'm an outlier. :P But what SOE/Daybreak Games had planned for EverQuest Next as a sandbox captured my interest, and I was actually going to play it if it ever released. It took another ten years, but now we may see quite a bit of that in a science-fantasy MMORPG but on steroids, which is a win-win for me.

I've been following this for four years now (it's true), and I'm very excited. Stars Reach is a mix of Star Wars Galaxies, No Man's Sky, and what would have been EverQuest Next. They have two active and growing Discord servers, and I may or may not be building an unofficial web forum for the game as I type. Raph Koster was a top man on EverQuest II as well. Yep, EverQuest Next is a definite influence. So much so that the lead developer of EverQuest Next (Dave Georgeson), is one of the developers on Stars Reach. :) Characters will be able to fly on planets with some type of technology (not yet stated), and be able to freely fly in outer space.

You got it exactly right, Domination keeps Mind Control up. Darkness Affinity is great because it has a myriad of debuffs, including -damage, -regen, -resistance, -to-hit, and -speed, with huge +defense, +resistance, +regen, and +recovery buffs. No, it's not the same as Darkness Control (that's the CC power set), but that's good as well. Yep, understandable. City of Heroes is a 20 year-old MMORPG, and designed before World of Warcraft so it's pretty unique in some ways. Welcome aboard.

Dominator CCs are stronger thanks to Domination. The difference is that Dominators are all CC + damage with little protection (kill or be killed), while Controllers offer support and have a little more protection due to said support. However, Controllers kill slower since they don't do as much damage as Dominators. Both are not great for soloing at low levels, but they both get better for soloing at later levels, if that matters to you. Mind Control is much better on Dominators than Controllers. Illusion is good on both, just different as Phantom Army generates threat (taunt) on Controllers, but doesn't on Dominators. Both are very good for soloing at end game, again if that matters to you. Mind Control Dominators and Illusion Controllers and Illusion Dominators can solo just about every non-advanced mode TF/SF in the game, it just takes a bit of time. Generally, Dominators are seen as more useful in end game (because damage is the only thing that really matters at end game), with the possible exception of Darkness Affinity Controllers. Darkness Affinity is just so good, and it's a support power set that is limited to Controllers only. If you want to try Darkness Affinity, I'd personally pair it with Fire Control, Illusion Control, or Symphony on Controller. Those are the higher damage control power sets.

The former. Warner Bros. decided that they could make more money by selling the series to Amazon than to air it themselves.

I'm not talking about the OP. I'm talking about the post that was directly above the post I replied to, which has been deleted already by a GM.

You're replying to a bot. I have already reported it.

I led a PUG SF on a Stalker a few weeks ago, and a Defender with Fold Space joined. The Defender on the team kept repeatedly Fold Spacing mobs after the fight had already started, porting mobs away from me, forcing me to move. I had half a mind to kick him after the fourth or fifth time. I just mentally prepare myself for the possibility of a bad time whenever a PUG with Fold Space joins the team.

You need to use an Ultimate inspiration in order to use Fold Space or Wormhole on level 54 mobs. But I hear you. I can't stand Fold Space, mostly because way too many people use it indiscriminately and without care, causing time to defeat to actually go up instead of down.

As someone who has donated a substantial amount of money to Homecoming... No thank you. I got what I paid for, just by Homecoming continuing to exist.

On red side, you have newspapers. You have The Radio. You have Slot Machine. Finally, you have Television. Back in 2006 when Issue 7 launched, television was still the king of home entertainment. To the point that Television sends you out on a mission to destroy The Radio, an archenemy. It's eighteen years later, and television isn't looking so hot these days. We need a new inanimate red side contact for the 2020s. We need a red side contact based on social media. Name it TwitTok or something. It is the big new hit in the Rogue Isles, and sends you out on missions to get likes and subscribes, ultimately to defeat an ailing Television.

You necroed a five year old thread just to try to win an argument over IP law that is now completely redundant since Homecoming is now officially licensed? Really?

When The Last Jedi assassinated the character of Luke Skywalker and killed off Admiral Ackbar off screen, I was pretty much done with Star Wars.

I'm thinking of purchasing this Lenovo Legion Pro 5 Gen 8 notebook computer. AMD processor, 32 GBs of RAM, and a discrete Nvidia graphics card seem like good stuff. I know that there are issues playing City of Heroes on Dell and Alienware desktop and notebook computers. Has anyone had any issues playing on a Lenovo Legion notebook computer? I just want to double check before I pull the trigger and spend $,$$$.

Your easiest time would be on some sort of Brute or Scrapper. Primary power set wouldn't really matter. For secondary, you'd want something with good energy and psionic damages defense and/or resistance like Electric Armor or Radiation Armor, or good melee and ranged defense like Ninjitsu or Shield. Another option if you don't want to play melee would be a Dual Pistols (using cryo rounds), or Ice Blast/Time Manipulation Corruptor. Dual Pistols' cryo rounds or Ice Blast to slow all of the ambushes.

My condolences on your and your family's loss.

Not without a mechanical reason, no. Obviously the red side ATs were incentive enough to want to play red side.