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Here's content that ALSO will force 50's to work together that no one seems bold enough to do: *Ahem* Aeon Relentless SF Oh, and DO give the star to a 50 on Phalanx related TFs, or someone above the TF max level; here's why, they are SIGNATURE TF's, meaning enemies will be at that TF's max level regardless. You're a level 30 trying to lead a Manti? Congrats, you and your team are now fighting +5's. Guess you got your challenge at least :shrug: Also, remember redside( best side) exist, so SF's can offer a good challenge for folks not familiar with the territory, and as far as I'm aware, none(?) of them are signature, and thusly level-locked. One even gives a Notice of the Well for first-timers! But I'm dead serious; if endgame is boring, there is LITERALLY a hard-mode SF that WILL put you on your ass and keep you on your toes. May spice things up for ya! EDIT: Oh, and stop blaming farmers for all your problems. PL'ed 50's aren't the only ones who want merits. I've wanted to clear on my PL'ed 50s and a leveling toon wanted to speed. Comes across as just...blaming a group of people for self-indulged issues.

Okay this time I'm serious: They ARE nerfing witch hats. I'm sorry, but...I had to speak up. Oh and I guess we're getting frying pan melee but whatever, they're nerfing the hats!!

Is it? Neato

I've had 25+ 50's preshutdown and another 20+ post relaunch on my main account and another 30+ on my alt. Half of them don't even have bios and about 5 get playtime now lol. Oh, and of course all have completed builds from a funding 50 or two Creating backstories can be fun, and I highly recommend it to any! Doesn't even have to be for RP purposes. 😄 But AE still is useful for me. It took me several years to get all these 50s, and it'd of taken me possibly a lot more. And seeing as I don't have oodles of time like when I was a child (I assume a lot of folks), AE allows me and other vets to get 50's and still have fun with the game doing various levels of content

EDIT: A thought occurred to me. Folks will take up arms against AE fervently. What if the same had been done to those who didn't use IO's? Something along the lines of saying, "If X person doesn't have IO's/completed build with so and so, then they shouldn't be allowed to play the content they enjoy, or be forced to use IO's to join Y TF."

Pretty much this

Well, that's your fun. I've had KB'ers ruin my AoE's, which I then turn into a challenge of how many mobs can I get to em before they fold? And that, that's my fun. But only if they do it purposefully or consistenly

That's not as easy though to do. Lots of fun sets have a decent amount of KB. Energy Blast, PB's (kinda? But I find them less fun 😛 ), and WS kinda. So, to not utilize KB is to eliminate a lot of sets out of the game. I just wish there was a way to teach people how KB can be used effectively( and yes, KB is something you NEED to learn effectively. There is an objective right and wrong way to use it, no subjectivity anywhere in how it's used.)

Depending on the 50, I'll either give a novel-lite excerpt, or a spell-caster class breakdown (as in the case for Doomsinger Warlock)

I probably never noticed tbh. Then again I was considerably younger then and didn't particularly care for anything past "Get new 50 :P"

It'll be a minute, so some lucky soul may answer it before me 😛 But I will be running one. I really wanna do that secret fight successfully, at least on ONE 50.

I want to run this, but every group I’ve been in who tried fell apart unfortunately. If I could run it on some of my alts who are in SG’s with folks who would definitely make it run faster as to prevent things falling apart, I probably would run it more. EDIT: Screw it. I’ll be putting together a Relentless run sometime Soon™️

Bio or WP technically count.

I can agree with this. Tbh have no idea where that comparison to a stalker came from haha

Whats comical is using the word balance when it comes to an AT that is NOTORIOUSLy Undertuned.

You’re doing it right in my book Iron. Play whats fun! I have a lot of optimal toons and a few that just interested me. As long as it’s not dictating how others should play, or griefing, I fail to see the issue!

i see. But even theoretically it’s not. Bio andRad exist.

Aight first of all dont besmirch my fave AT. BAD blasters lean on those :P. Secondly I agree. Look, regen can be made playable…with goddamn near 800mil inf. Im not wasting that kinda inf on ‘playable’ performance

I never had a perma-dom preshutdown. I have several now. Oh and the ability to tank as a dom was just too good. It's like being a controller, but having an iota of damage outside of outliers like Illu and /Storm. And fire I guess but it's fire 😛

Bio Armor. Every other set is...existent. Rad Armor gets a special mention.

I find that getting a build with purps and such is fairly easy to do once you’ve got a toon that you stockpile things on. No unreasonableness involved. A little planning and stockpiling can and should take you a long way

Interesting question. I use AE to PL. I definitely dont owe anyone here even the SLIGHTEST reason for anything I do, but I guess I’ll play ball: I dont have the energy or time to getnew 50s through Radios( literally farming but apparently more acceptable?). I had 25+ 50’s the old fashioned way. Any new ones will be PL’ed, plain ‘n simple. I can understand the doorsitter spam. I just laugh and ignore them, since it’s actually not too difficult to just PL a farmer yourself then PL yourself with said farmer

So is it the rares that make use of Uncommon salvage causing you issue? Is it the VR/PvP IO's? I'm not sure what's got you in a fuss so much over uncommon salvage. I can understand the issue on rare salvage kinda cause of purps needing them. But uncommon not only drops like crazy, but technically isn't even needed except in very niche instances. And attuned IO's seemingly limit that niche even further.

This is a meme right? I'm trying to stay hip with the CoH meme community. 😛