Clave Dark 5

Because I don't want to play in the Rogue Isles. I want to play in Paragon City and Praetoria. But there is no Pocket D entrance in Atlas Park. There is one in Kings Row, though. Ha! Take that Atlas!! Villains win again! Yes, I haven't yet bothered to do much homework playing the game, such as memorizing every map and where things are (which is one thing red side has going for it, no trying to remember how to get to Firebase Zulu or any of those other less-traveled areas.)

I don't know or have any memory of the other points, but this one is pretty spot-on, that is something redside lacks. I mean, I don't even spend much time in Atlas on higher level toons, but I have zoomed in there for a costume contest and when in doubt I know I can find a Pocket D and Vanguard there.

The ratio of villains to heroes wasn't as lopsided, no matter how robust the population was, best I can tell (at least on the single server I currently play on). On the other hand, I believe the devs in the past publishes such numbers; have the Homecoming devs done so? Is there any way to check the ratio?

Yes, but as pointed out, it wasn't this anemic before shut-down. Something 's changed here and we should react to that, much like reacting to people doing nothing but AE farming required a nerfing of that system.

I'm not sure I understand what you are saying...I'm see any "intractable" positions here, at least not in the sense of "you are wrong, and I am right". Please clarify? (And I'm not asking you to tie it further to politics, more to understand what you are seeing that's negative in this thread). The comment just up there that ends with "They made a mistake allowing the ATs to be universal" for example - and I'm not saying it's wrong at all, just very set in stone.

That does knockback, yeah, I;ve seen it happen with my Corr.

I'm not sure I understood wqhat that was, just access to the different archetypes?

My style of play, which is subjective, yes, is button clicking rather than keyboarding, and I've never had a gaming mouse because this is the only game I play. I've taken at least two MMs to 50 that way and it seems to work well enough for me. Thanks for the advice though, it is actually appreciated.

I find it interesting how subjective a sliver of these answers are. Ask somebody a political question, and sometimes you get back answers that discuss numbers, get deep into the weeds about morality or something, but you also get some almost blank "nope, not ever ging to consider any other angle" answers. Which is fine, that's how politics work. I wouldn't have guessed that would work for red side vs. blue side, but here we are. My answer to the above would be teams, again, the pop is just way too freaking low. But I am going to be making more of an effort now to watch for redside teaming. I suspect if we, villainously, held a gun to everyone's head and made them vote, this would be the most obvious answer, because how many groups you play on are actually stopping to read anything and being offended at being a leg-breaker for the mob or whatever?

I've always considered Sharkhead - due to the Scrapyarders - a kind of purgatory that MMs have to go through for five levels until they ascend to the heaven of a full set of pets at level 26. Maybe because it's been too long, but with the MMs I've run through redside, I can't ever recall having any problem with them there, at least no more than the usual "my pets are weak, I'm too low level!" problems.

Right now, I think it's Disintegrate followed by Lancer Shot on my Beam Rifle Corr, which spreads the disintegration effect to nearby mobs - all those orange words and numbers floating up over a big group of foes!

Avoid Founders' Falls.

Seeing as how my DP/Nin is still in the low levels so far, how important/useful is Paralyzing Dart anyways? Or Blinding Powder? I can see they might be good for solo, in theory. I'm not even sure what they do, although the names give me a clue.

I know how I'm going to spend my Friday night now - gettin' trashed!

I agree with pretty much everything you've said, but again, there is a prob with reside, in that the numbers are super low, compared to where they were live. I used to play on servers with one dot at night at 3 am and still saw more folks redside than I do now at 10 pm. I don't think we'll ever have as many players as blue, but we should have more. Removing Null the Gull is an interesting idea, I mean, I know I have popped up a new toon on Mercy and then just run to Pocket D when I couldn't find anyone. But if you did so right now, with the way things are currently, I think you'd be freezing in place the imbalance. And I have to admit I like the idea of having the chance to swap at a moment's notice anyway.

I know how that feels. At times I'll pass on playing the more active ATs (Blasters and Dominators for me mostly) in favour of something less demanding. On the flipside of that the other day I went onto a Brute instead and the adrenaline rush of chasing that fury bar really perked me up. Yeah, I know that feeling. One of my first new toons was a scrapper and I quite easily fell prey to scrapperlock pretty quickly. But I haven't logged in with him in like two weeks. I do have a claws stalker though which is also rather unplayed, but did get me into the mindset. Really, what I've found is I'll have fun no matter which one I log in with, so maybe I just need to push myself with the melee folk a bit more, when I'm not so tired.

The Clave Dark 5 Foundation is currently studying ways to prevent poverty for players named Clave Dark 5. I'm sure I could compose many good policy papers with that sort of dosh. :)

Fair point. I was never much a fan of the lore behind it, but I did play it some when it was first introduced because it offered flavor variation to the usual red/blue early levels (and it looked very nice!). It was also dang hard, I know I died much more over there, which sort of kept me away. I have yet to check it out again since rebirth.

Very interesting, thanks for taking the time to look at this and post your results for us.

Gotcha. Maybe the new forum software they want to shift us to can handle picture-posting better.

Thanks for this! It's a silly question, but as someone who has yet to achieve an Incarnate pet, do we get to recolor these at all?

My only 50 so far under Homecoming is a Beam Rifle/Rad, so I'll tell you a bit about my experience in hopes it helps you out. Note I'm no big number cruncher, so some may may find my choices wildly nutzo for playing anything "but the best." I like the Beam Rifle a lot, it's just plain fun for me, I like the concept. The disintegrate function makes you feel like a God Amongst Mortals when it lands and spreads, as any good AoE should. I find this pairs well with a Corr as a double-function Scourge; the chance for Scourge kicks in when a foe's HP gets to 50% and below, and goes up the further down they are, so you really cut short their life of taking potshots at you, and adding more damage to that just rushes that a bit more. Rad has good debuffs for slapping on foes and I've had good luck on teams fighting AVs with mine. The heal is nice and I have more than once been the defacto healer (so much so that I've also taken Heal Other from the Medicine Pool). The biggest drawback I've seen for both of these power-sets is the timing it takes to set up the affects with the Rad debuffs and the Disintegrate. I usually team (come to think of it, I don't think I've soloed with her yet) and there have been times the teams has been rolling too quickly and spreading the damage all around for me to set up all the buffs or to get the disintegrate going before my chosen target has already died. It's a terrible curse to have a team doing so well, I tell you...

Seconded. We really need a good wiki. I mean, we can always pop in here and ask something for the nth time and wait for the reply, but having a database we could all check at our pleasure would be great.

I've only REcreated two from the old days, both later in my run on the game, out of the dozen or so alts I've made so far. The troller is somewhere in the 30s, and being a healer I don't play him too much. I mean, he does damage and other things, but I feel like I'm a harried MM trying to keep all my pets from dying! The other is my first new 50 and Corr, and is also the first time I've ever started messing about with Incarnate stuff as well. And so far she's the one I feel like playing past 50, it hasn't gotten old yet. In the old days my stalker was my main, although I had a lot of alts, but for some reason these days I seem to shy away from melee, not sure why. Maybe because I spend about half my life super tired these days (shift work), and adding in that "chasing down every target by foot" layer on top of everything else feels like too much work.