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There's no unofficial red side server, although some have claimed Everlasting is. While technically true that they have the highest ratio of villains to heroes of the five shards, many of them are... otherwise occupied. You'll find villains and villain activity on all shards. I've found that it takes about the same amount of time to recruit for a PUG Strike Force on Indomitable as it does Excelsior. Excelsior has more people, but also has more lag as a result. Everlasting is the unofficial RP server. Torchbearer and Indomitable have less people than Excelsior, but also less lag. Reunion is the European shard. Just pick your poison.

IMO, Lex Luthor (since the Post-Crisis revamp), is the quintessential Mastermind. He's a businessman, but he pulls the strings and gets others to do his dirty work. That's usually my inspiration for playing Masterminds, since 2005.

That's a bug with Crey lab map elevators, it's been with the game since at least Homecoming launched and very likely back on live. Pets (including Mastermind henchmen), can get tripped up on Crey lab elevators and just wig out. Only known fix is to dismiss and resummon.

As I mentioned to you on on the Homecoming Discord earlier, there's a very slight chance that Praetor Duncan and Anti-Matter, along with Praetor White (and possibly others), can spawn in Studio 55 and dance. But that's it.

Welcome back to Paragon City and the Rogue Isles! I can attest that a Gravity/Force Field Controller is not solo friendly. I think Sentinel would be a good first character for you, as it will require less positioning. There are no traps in the Sentinel AT, everything can work well together. The only thing I would mention about the Sentinel AT is that the primarily resistance-based armors like Fiery Aura, Dark Armor, and Electric Armor don't work as well as on Tanker and Brute due to the lower resistance cap. But, play whatever you'd like. It'll work just fine. Another option would be a Brute (especially a Willpower Brute), with the Combat Teleport power, which a macro can be made to take you into melee with a single button.

I like to use travel powers, as that is a good part of the game's fun to me. So if I can avoid using it I will. But I also primarily play red side, and forming co-op teams in co-op zones like Rikti War Zone and Cimerora can get real funky. So if someone is forming something in the RWZ or Cimerora, I'll use the LFG to teleport over before requesting an invite.

I wouldn't delete them, I'd just mark them as historical and unlink them, like other outdated pages.

You can queue for anything other than Incarnate trials and holiday trials solo, which will nearly instantaneously transport you next to the contact.

He will be automatically removed on or around March 1st.

Negative. Blaster was quoted above, which mentions "hero" twice. That's one AT.

Sweet. Does that mean that the originally heroic ATs should be re-written to have their heroic descriptions removed as well, since they can be played as villains?

It's also used as a RP hotspot on Everlasting, and used for forming iTeials and holiday trials on Indomitable and a couple of other shards IIRC.

There's a Discord server for the Homecoming Wiki that you can find here. -

Willpower is one of the most new player friendly melee (and Sentinel) armor sets in the game, as it's set it and forget it. Even if the player isn't new, sometimes it just fits the character concept. It isn't always about the meta.

Indeed. I'm not a fan of crypto, but it's still the best web browser on the market at the moment, IMO.

Negative, Ghost Rider. Only certain AE-related badges are shared across the account, and Paragon Studios used an extremely janky hack to do it.

Necro/Dark and Beast/Pain are both good. If you want an even easier time, Robots and Mercenaries both with either Time or Nature would be pretty tankish.

Welcome (back?) to Paragon City and the Rogue Isles! Go to this thread here - Follow the instructions to download and set up the City Mod Installer. When done, look for "VidiotMaps for Homecoming" in the program. Install it, and you should be good to go.

Homecoming has shard maintenance every Tuesday, normally around 9 A.M. Eastern. The shards are back online as of a couple of minutes ago.

Also Sonic Manipulation's Sound Barrier at level 20 provides sleep protection. A very underrated power set.

I formed a kill most Mortimer Kal SF recently. A couple of people had never been red side before. I had to hand hold them through changing alignment to Vigilante and how to get to Sharkhead Isle. One of them, I literally had to go to Pocket D and show him where Null the Gull was, and then how to get to Sharkhead from Pocket D. It took a little bit of time. But you know, it was worth it. About two thirds of the way through the SF, one of them said, "Dang, maybe I need to play red side. None of the TFs over there are this easy to get to." In reference to how all of the missions after the first can be gotten to via ferry. So, if it took ten extra minutes to form the SF because I had to hand hold two people, but one of them decides to play red side on his or her own? More than worth it.

Honestly, Beam Rifle can be paired with just about anything. It's very versatile with very good single target damage and a lot of debuffs. Cold Domination, Dark Miasma, Sonic Resonance... anything. You can do a ton of -resistance with Beam Rifle and Cold Domination or Sonic Resonance, or a lot of -regen and a decent amount of -resistance with Dark Miasma, or a lot of everything with Radiation, etc.

IMO, it will be. Over the past five years, far too many people got it in their heads that the game is: I can be carried from level one to level 50 by joining AE farms, PI radio teams, kill most +4 ITFs, and Rikti mothership raids and I don't really have to do anything. Then at level 50, the real game begins.

For your first part, that's how VEAT costumes work. You can only have Arachnos costume parts in your first costume. Since you can't have them in any other costume, the other costume slots that you have opened are blacked out until you make a new costume in one. For the second part, IIRC the VEAT costume options were reworked a little while ago (Page 5ish?), so yeah, you'll have the invalid parts issue. Just go through the costume, make sure everything is right, and resave it.

Only Masterminds can issue commands to pets.