Lunar Ronin

3.7.4 has quite a few bugs, but that particular one I haven't seen yet. I'd suggest joining the Mids' Reborn Discord server and posting in their bug section, it's the only way you'll get any help. Go here.

Ouroboros Flashback story arcs internally work exactly the same as Task/Strike Forces, coding wise. That's why you can't invite anyone on after you start, and it's also why you can't interact with certain NPCs.

FWIW, it was clarified later in a Massively OP interview that "consolidate our userbase with fans from other servers," specifically referred to Paragon/Resurgence and Victory only, not Rebirth, Thunderspy, New Dawn, et al.

That won't happen. There's little cooperation between Homecoming and the other servers (Rebirth, Thunderspy, New Dawn, etc.), for various reasons. And why would Rebirth developers give up one of the big draws to their own server? That'd be like asking Homecoming to give up one of their big draws (advanced mode content for instance), to the other servers. That won't happen either.

If you want pure melee, Ninjas for sure.

That is why you queue for it as a closed league by yourself, and then invite everyone in from inside the instance.

Lee Majors makes everything better. See?

Yeah, I'm at the point now where this mission will most likely fail every time I do a Moonfire TF, like back on live. People keep accidentally killing Dr. Todd now.

I'd very highly recommend viewing and taking in this table of Archetype damage modifiers. Take a look at the Dominator numbers, then take a look at Blaster numbers, Sentinel numbers, Scrapper numbers, Stalker numbers. Then take a look at Defender and Controller numbers. Do you notice anything?

Yep. "Must be on the ground" is why I will never play Seismic Blast and gave up on Electrical Armor. But that's okay, that just means that they are not for me. There are power sets that are for me but not for others, like Storm Blast.

Radiation Emission. It's one of the top solo-friendly Corruptor secondaries, along with Dark Miasma (which you don't want), and Trick Arrow. It'll allow you to solo just about everything with ease (including AVs and GMs if that interests you), and requires few actual power picks (five or six), letting you expand into power pools. As for primaries... if you want to take down AVs or GMs, you'll want something with good single target. Fire Blast, Ice Blast, Beam Rifle, Assault Rifle. If you don't care about taking down AVs and GMs, then just about any primary power set will work. Electrical Blast would have a decent mix of AoE and single target, (along with Fire Blast and Assault Rifle).

Fifteen. I may or may not have hit that before.

Yeah, just about every other MMORPG has a penalty for leaving instanced content early, which is why I would be fine with it in CoH as well.

Nope. You have to start over from scratch like everyone else, but it's fairly quick and easy these days.

A Homecoming developer said years ago that the only way to truly resolve the "everyone that loads in an instance after the 19th person is kicked out in a closed league" bug would be a complete rewrite of the LFG turnstile. Good luck with that.

There are Excelsior players on Indomitable, but they stick to AE farming. Seriously, about a quarter to a third of Indomitable's population at any time are Excelsior players AFK AE farming while they actually play on Excelsior. I wish I was joking.

From experience, this is a bigger issue on Excelsior than the other shards. Excelsior attracts newer players more so than the other shards, and most newer players are immediately introduced to either AE farms, Peregrine Island radio missions, or both. They then tend to assume everything else in the game works that way so they feel free to leave a TF/SF/trial halfway through, without realizing that it's screwing over the other people on the team.

Yep. I have been ignoring this event even though it means missing out on badges because I don't want my characters getting pets that I will never use.

Not to mention that there are easier and less dull ways to unlock both mayhem and safeguard missions now.

There is some truth to the statement. Blizzard has gone really hard into esports (bleh), including with World of Warcraft. Considering most MMORPGs released from 2005 onwards have copied World of Warcraft in some fashion or other, and with the advent of Dark Souls-type video games, yeah, I see it. There are other reasons too of course, but the esports influence and live stream influence are there.

Yep, that and Star Wars: The Old Republic are great for that. "I'm shooting you out of kindness."

Or have a few people leave the instance, buy EoEs on the auction house and/or get them from their respective supergroup bases' storage, and then come back to the instance via the LFG menu. Once back in the Hamidon raid instance, they can distribute them to everyone else.

Arachnos Widow.

I addressed it. You said that you want to be able to force raid and Incarnate trial leaders to take any and all players unless they're breaking Homecoming's ToS. Life doesn't work that way. It sucks being excluded from things, but you can form your own raids and trials with your own leagues.