Jacke

I used to take the Flight Pool more often in the past. But now when I take a non-Temp non-Prestige flying Power, it's almost always the Sorcery Pool's Mystic Flight. I don't always take more from Sorcery, but I love that combo of flying and teleportation. Add an extra Slot and a 2-set of either Blessing of the Zephyr or Hypersonic and at L50 (and even some Levels Exemplared) the Toon flies at the FlightSpeed Cap.

When starting a Toon, I normally give it 40M Influence and spend around 34M of it on S.T.A.R.T. picks, leaving the 6M for the initial cost from Levelling the Toon to at least L6.

There's a lot more than 5 TFs. There's more than 5 Enemy Groups and some of them have more than one TF that involves them. Making a change to an Enemy Group: Adjusting the Enemy Group definitions. Adjusting the Missions/Arc/Task Forces to make use of the wider definitions. Those changes would have some basic checking by the devs, then expanded to Closed Alpha and later Closed Beta testing by Devs and Testers. Issues and balance and other concerns would have to be addressed and then tested more. Impacts on other parts of the game would have to be identified, adjusted, and tested. When it got well enough along, goes to Open Beta testing and adjustment. All along this process, if the Devs are satisfied with how a change is, it goes to Release, else parts get removed and put back for consideration on a later Page. What is considered in good enough shape is released as a new Page. To do that to just one Task Force to make it for all Levels, L1 to L50, would be a massive change. Because it would have to be tested at many Levels. And to do that would mean other content changes would have to be delayed, because there's only so much Dev and Tester volunteer time available. Now, there are changes done to Enemy Groups, changing them and also expanding their Level range. But often that new Level range is only used by new content, just to make changes reasonable enough to not overwhelm the Devs and the Testers. More general changes are done, but more content needs to be tested to confirm those changes.

Welp, I can think of a few reasons: Some enemy groups, generally and on a particular Mission/Task Force, are only defined for a certain range of Levels. If any are defined for L1 to L50, it's not many. Other features of Maps/Missions/Task Forces are adjusted. While these can work for a range of Levels, I don't think they can for L1 to L50. The rewards are usually fixed and don't vary that much. At the lower Level, it may be significantly easier for nearly the same rewards. This would be exploited.

Let's lean into Hardmode....hard. Let's change Task Forces Hardmode such that afterwards Players will want to tackle something easier, like a +4x8 Barracuda SF. This will require some engine changes. Stuff like much more complicated maps. And not just staying on a Task Force when logged off. But staying on a Mission Map of a Task Force when logged off or even the Servers restarted. A persistent Task Force state. Need these things to reach for that Hard Hardmode. Then recast the Task Forces, leaning into whatever Players complain about. Sometimes indirectly. For example, Synapse Hard Mode: Only 1 Defeat-All Mission. Which will need those engine changes. It's in a skyscraper. A big initial map, with an elevator far across the map. Packed with mobs. Mobs grouped together so 2 or more spawns are aggroed together. Tough mobs. Then the Team goes up the elevator. Another big map packed with mobs with the elevator up across the map. Then the Team goes up the elevator. Guess what? Another big map packed with mobs with the elevator up across the map. Then you can guess what happens on the following floors. 😺 Some floors are smaller. Still packed with mobs. With an AV like +4 Reichsmann but tougher. 😺 Can't just drop off the Task Force. Gotta go back down to the ground floor. Oh, floors respawn. 😺 Get back to the ground floor, get to the door. Whoops! Gotta queue to exit the Mission. 😺 Some more stuff yet to be determined.

The Urban Dictionary is often good for finding all sorts of definitions. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=OG

I either never heard of these controls on the Pet window or forgot about them: Switch to Advanced Mode Show Individual Pet Controls Turned them both on. Need a Pet active that has the full controls to see the "Options" item to click on. They're also saved in the standard config file options.txt.

I delete the Temporary Costume Powers as they show up. Spam fritters? Don't remember that from the menu.

I've been through a few that did that. I don't think it's done in a mission, but outside. It keeps the TF Team together and you go to the TF Contact while leaving TF Mode. Allowing Toon swaps and new members. It may be possible in a mission, but of that I'm not sure. This sounds like what went wrong.

I mean the combination of Mayhem's legs and her waist and that killer belt-buckle. Just doesn't look right.

In her legs ?!? And she must never bend at the waist, because that buckle would kill her.

That's what you get when billions of dollars are spent trying to drive a technology beyond its normal development and into things well beyond its proper current use. An industry that will need 2 Trillion Dollars per Year to break even. Won't happen. It's a bubble that's going to pop. We will suffer. The basterds who caused it won't. 😠

Because a game has to be designed from the start to have PvE and PvP play as similar as possible. Exampe: Star Wars: The Old Republic. Once a PvE game has developed a lot, to add PvP to it (as happened with City) means making the two systems very different. Why? @macskull gives a good reason: Player Toons have much longer Perception ranges than the Mobs do. If the Mobs all had the same Perception as the Toons, once you had line-of-sight to Mobs on most maps, they'd have line-of-sight to you and would ALL aggro on you. If Toons had the Perception Ranges of Mobs, everywhere would be like on the final map of the Sara Moore Task Force: Stumbling around barely able to see anything. And with different Toon and Mob Perception, comes different PvP and PvE stealth ranges. Another big difference: PvE Player Long Mez Power Durations. Don't see that in SWTOR. That's because Players being Mezzed as long as Mobs are is very very unfun. Thus the Mez Effects and Protections are different for PvP and PvE.

I was about to post that one. Mother Mayhem...there's something not human about that body.

Those are the traditional Blueside contacts. There's 5 sets of them, one for each Origin: Magic, Mutant, Natural, Science, Technology. They tend to give Missions involving the same Villain Groups. Only the first set, for Levels 1 to 5, only have 1 contact per set. Then they expand to about 3 per set. https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Category:Contacts_By_Level

AFAIK there are no plans to tinker with the current Incarnate Powers. For any future Incarnate Powers, there will need to be greater challenges to justify them. Despite creating Advanced Mode content, that's not yet considered sufficient for new Incarnate Powers. All TFs at 4* levels is tested so that teams with even some co-ordination will get through them. There is a lot to do on the current content and powers, which is the focus at this time.

I followed that and it works, thank you. That shrinking ring happens when a Control key is released from being held down.

Those early Masters aren't just no Temp Powers (except Prestige and Temp Flying Powers are allowed), no defeats. They're now also no Incarnate Powers. Which means less safety and thus...more defeats.

Sometimes the bottleneck is a bloated web browser who's current support don't seem to have been introduced to any sort of time and space efficiency in programming from any decade.

For those wanting to turn off XP for their Toon (like most times running a Completionist Toon), I suggest this macro: /macro oXP "optiontoggle noxp"

To cut down on the glare from effects, I've used this to toggle Particle Effects: /macro FX "++noparticles" However, it's rather brutal in what disappears. Like the Base Entrance Portals and Vanguard-style Teleporters disappear completely. Currently experimenting with turning down Particle Effects in the Video Settings. Still working on that. I've at least solved this one on my Ice/Cold Controller. I use the Power Customization to change the Ice Shields in Cold Domination and Ice Mastery's Frozen Armor for Controllers. Controller.Cold_Dom.Ice_Mastery.powerCust I'll just whip up some .powerCust files for just the Ice Shields with Minimal FX for all 4 ATs: Controller.Cold_Dom.MinFX_Shields.powerCustCorruptor.Cold_Dom.MinFX_Shields.powerCustDefender.Cold_Dom.MinFX_Shields.powerCustMastermind.Cold_Dom.MinFX_Shields.powerCust Drop those files in the <City Install Root>/powercust/ folder, no need to restart. You'll be able to load them in the Costume Editor. Just edit the costumes of the Toon and in the Primary+Secondary Power Customization Tab, load the appropriate file and save the changes.

As @Psyonico said, skipping Ignite and Flamethrower from Assault Rifle is skipping 2 of the best Powers from that Powerset that also provide Fire Damage. Ignite is a ST attack that takes TAoE Enhancements and like Buckshot and Flamethrower, works great with a full 6-set of Artillery; it also leaves a fire patch that will damage other mobs that move through it. Flamethrower is a great cone attack that works well with Buckshot in a BS-FT-BS cone AoE sequence. A key things to know about Traps is that besides Web Grenade, all the other Powers work through Pets. Like the vast majority of Pets, they do not benefit from the Toon's Global buffs like Global Accuracy and Global ToHit. This is a massive bug in Mids Reborn (MRB) that is so fundamental it's impossible to fix. If important Pet attacks are not autohit, here's the 2 rules I use to avoid having to re-calculate over and over again. The Pet Summons Power should be slotted with ED-capped Accuracy. If important Pet attacks don't have a Base Accuracy of less than 1.2: The build should also have Tactics or a good source of -Def. So that in +4 content (which the Pets will see as +4), the Pet final ToHit against mobs will be close to or at 95%. Traps has good -Def in AR's Burst and Traps Acid Grenade. Burst is good to apply to a main target and Acid Grenade, as soon as it fires a grenade that hits a target, will have that -Def for the succeeding grenades and other Powers. The important effects in Poison Trap are autohit so I don't bother with Accuracy in it. Here's the build for my Traps/AR Defender. Seaker Drones is actually slotted in a legal position, at L18; that's a bug in the latest MRB that will be fixed in the next release. For travel, the Toon uses Prestige Power Surge (where I put the Celerity Stealth Proc) and Athletic Run as well as Void Skiff for non-combat flying and the Holiday Rocket Pack from S.T.A.R.T. vendors for combat flying. From the Primary and Secondary Powersets, only skip Beanbag as it has the least utility with its shorter Range (and like all non-autohit attacks will miss at least 5% of the time); I use the other attacks and Traps Powers instead. Defender Traps-AR.20250520.MuM [i28p1] @Jacke - Jacke Ambush.mbd

AFAIK, Procs in Auto or Toggle Powers are checked every 10s, with their Proc chance based upon that Activate Period. That's because despite being called a Proc, it's actually a Global that provides a Proc with the funky conditions. https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Preventive_Medicine:_Absorb_Proc Found that out when I had it slotted in Spirit Ward back when that was a Click Power and I got the Absorb shield when I'd not used the Power. That one IO (which I craft at L20 to allow slotting as early as possible) has probably saved my Toons from being defeated more than any other single Enhancement. That big title from it floating up also very visibly warns me my Toon dropped below 75% MaxHealth in HP long enough for it to Proc, so it's time to shift a bit defensive. I always try to fit that into a build and as early in the Leveling process as possible, even if I will have to move the IO to another Slot later.

So I didn't have to delve into the standard Options entries, I added entries in my Commands Popmenu to quickly save and load the standard config files. Link to the Commands Popmenu topic in my signature. In that Popmenu, those options under the submenu "Config". I get my game UI the way I want it. Then I use "wdwsave", "optionsave", and "chatsave" to save the 3 standard config files. Once you get that set up, if there's a change to your UI you want to revert, you just use one of "wdwload", "optionload", or "chatload" to restore that particular set of config. Note that after doing "chatload", any chat tab that has a Global Channel as the default, you have to edit that chat tab to set up that default. These files are located in this location for the Live Shards: <City Install Root>/settings/live/ There's also "bindsave" to save the standard Keybinds. I didn't add a load as I rarely need to do that. If needed, I do that this way: Menu on the HP+End widget > Options > Options window > Keymapping tab > Load from default file There's also "buildsave" to save the current Toon's build into a text file. That file can be loaded by Mids Reborn. It's located here: <City Install Root>/accounts/<Game Account Username>/Builds/build.txt

I think if this was done, the way it would be worked is changing the Form Powers from 2 Toggles to 3 Click Powers with a shared locked. As for your problem double striking the Hybrid Power, there's a solution to that: Use a Powerexectoggleon Macro. Here's the Macros I use for Incarnate Powers. The Lore one needs customization to whatever the current Lore Power is (and watch out in the edited Macro having the dreaded Non-Breaking Space, "&nbsp;", after editing; just edit the macro again, delete the Non-Breaking Space, and put in a regular Space). I made Macros for the Hybrids I use.; others can be made or these edited for the other Hybrid Powers. INCARNATE TURNON MACROS Hybrid /macro iHa "powexectoggleon Assault Genome" /macro iHa "powexectoggleon Assault Radial Genome" /macro iHa "powexectoggleon Assault Total Radial Graft" /macro iHa "powexectoggleon Assault Radial Embodiment" /macro iHm "powexectoggleon Melee Genome" /macro iHm "powexectoggleon Melee Core Genome" /macro iHm "powexectoggleon Melee Total Core Graft" /macro iHm "powexectoggleon Melee Core Embodiment" Lore /macro vLP "powexeclocation forward:7 <powername>"