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Depends on how good Harmony's chat functions are compared to Discord.

The Winter's Gift: Slow Resistance is a pure Global: No enhancement aspects, just the Global. Should have bought a L10 Recipe. Cheaper to craft, can be slotted earlier, and will provide exactly the same things. Without needed a Catalyst.

Diantane posts something. We show up. "Let's ride!"

Beware the Pirate Vampires!

Great idea! Instead of the usual interface for Shard transfer, let's have a arc. Where you help a guy named Logan get to "Sanctuary". 😺

From what I've heard from the devs, this is painfully true.

They're saved locally as a backup. In-game appearance comes from the values saved on the servers.

This is rather significant. I remember trying out Champions Online. I found its 4-colour costume editor very interesting. I tried to recreate the costume of my main Toon in it. Was sort-of similar, but the CO costume pieces were really more reflective. Didn't know if there was a way to deal with that, I think not.

So, @Snarky, thinking of going with a moustache? 😺

Tradition!

In Black Scorpion's Patron Arc, that's the mission "Defeat Dr. Quatrexin". I've seen at least 2 different maps for it. One of them is similar to this one, but instead of having a door lobby on the far side, it had a hallway going into the centre where there's a room where Dr. Quatrexin starts.

Cool, a new Shard! Created my Victory anchor Toon, created my Victor Supergroup and SG Base, levelled the Toon to 7 via the Atlas Park arc, and now parked for Day Jobs.

From my experience with /Ninjitsu Scrappers, I agree with @Yomo Kimyata: Definitely take Seishinteki Kyoyo (and two-slot with Synapse Shock), maybe take Blinding Powder (but in the squeeze of almost-always-tight builds, perhaps drop).

Way back in the day, pre-Shutdown, in 2007 during Issue 9, I think, I was on a Positron Task Force on my main AR/Devices Blaster. Can't remember how many we started with, but by the last mission had gotten down to 3 Players including me. However, the other 2 decided to give up on the Task Force. So there I was on the finalé of the Positron TF, on a mission set for 3 Toons. (Had no knowledge of the time on how to reset TF missions.) It was brutal. I kept defeating the mobs until they defeated me. Then it was run back from the Hospital in Steel Canyon to the mission door in Perez Park to rinse and repeat. I remember this one spot in a hallway where it widened out so that there was a spawn left and right. It was particularly hard to grind down. But I persevered and won! Got a L15 Celerity: Stealth Recipe. Which started my pursuit of stealth for all my Toons. 😺

It's like +Def for 5 seconds. Click off that Green Button in MRB, it's helps a bit but isn't around much at all.

I see @Maelwys has pointed out in their big post above how to use the MRB Enemy Relative Level setting. Put that on +3 (the usual relative value in +4 Content when the Toon has a Tier 3 or Tier 4 Alpha Boost) and that's most content handled. The major exception is Pets and Pseudopets, the vast majority of who do not benefit from the Caster's Global Buffs. They see +4 in +4 Content. For them I have 2 rules to simplify things: Slot Pet Powers with ED-capped Accuracy. If the Pet has Powers with less than 1.2 Base Accuracy, needs either Tactics or a source of -Def. For most Pets that don't benefit from Tactics (Trip Mine is one), they usually have 1.2 Base Accuracy. Illusion Control's Phantom Army does need -Def and other debuffs.

Like the S.T.A.R.T. vendors outside of Pocket D, they have a dialogue, one option of which opens their listing. They do most things via the dialogue. The vendor listing can only contain items for sale that can be stored on a Toon. The fancy functions of Null the Gull are all in the dialogue. Also, the devs had said there isn't going to be more Nulls placed into the game, Pocket D is it. Null was introduced to give a way to adjust some things and determine others that would have been very difficult or impossible to put into the game in another form. Also, considering what Null does, having that in a completely non-combat neutral Zone like Pocket D likely deals with many issues by pre-establishing limits before there can be problems. Thus to give functions like Null the Gull elsewhere in the game is either: A duplicate of Null, which the devs have said they don't want to do (having more than one very special contact likely has issues all its own). A whole new UI feature, which would need engine changes, which do happen, but only for the things most vital to support other stuff in the game. Short of hearing directly from the devs with an update, there isn't going to be functions like Null the Gull has added to S.T.A.R.T. And as my post on the first page has brought up, there are better ways to deal with Group Fly's issues, now that the game is filled with temp Fly Powers. That is to redefine what Group Fly affects to remove its effects on Teammates.

I'm not a dev, but I base this on what the Devs had said in the past. A dialogue in City can invoke any command, common or special, so it can do virtually anything. A vendor listing can only provide items that can be stored on Toons.

Being able to purchase Recipes and some Enhancements via Reward Merits puts an upper price on them. I think most would consider that price to be rather high, much higher than using the Merits in other ways to get Inf to buy stuff on the Auction House.

I think the options that Null the Gull provides can't be put into a S.T.A.R.T. vendor, because they have to apply effects or hidden Powers that can only be put in a dialogue, not a vendor listing. And only the S.T.A.R.T. vendor listing can be used in Task-Force-Mode (which as @macskull points out above is vital). That's why the Pocket-D S.T.A.R.T. vendor doesn't have a dialogue before the vendor listing, so it can be used in Task-Force-Mode. And to change that means changing the game engine, which is hard and the most demanding thing to get absolutely right the first time. It's why the very skilled and focused people like @Faultline and @Number Six are the ones who do that. And I imagine there's a whole queue of work for that already suggested.

Happy New Year to you, @Snarky! How are you at jogging? 😺

I think the key problem here is that there may not be enough attacking for the Brute to push Fury high enough.

As @Snarky knows, the Dead can often draw on great self-control. 😺

I only have one build on the vast majority of my Toons. (Worst thing I ever tried was maintaining 2 builds while Levelling. Had to reroll that Toon.) The one exception is on my main, AR/Devices Blaster who has 3 with different Epic Pools, with the rest of the builds exactly the same. Multiple builds are a maintenance pain. So the same build needs to both solo and team. Putting in a great slotting of Fearsome Stare benefits the rest of build too. Don't need that deep of a softcap Defense. Which frees resources for other features of the build. On my Dark Miasma/Radiation Blast Defender, Fearsome Stare is the only cone attack in the build. I crack a spawn with it. Or if the Team is running well, don't and move into close range and use the other tools. It's similar to Cold Snap in my Ice Control/Cold Domination build, a cone to crack a spawn I only need when things are tough (Arctic Air is the big survival tool). But welcome when I do need it.

Fearsome Stare is a must-pick from Dark Miasma or Darkness Control, it's just that good.