Clave Dark 5

Trust me though, all this is great stuff anyway! Just a wistful aside.... the one thing I really would have liked seeing was lots of AE love. I mean, something is still something, but I still feel it's an underdeveloped and utilized aspect of the game.

Trying to live by my credo of no farming these days and really meaning it, so the last few new toons have just gone around doing an occasional low level arc, a DFB or three (tops), while trying to avoid Council farming on PI "any level accepted" because that did feel too lazy. Not that I haven't done them once or twice, but definitely less. Now that the population is up, it's common enough to see someone advertise for a team that's at least nearish my level (I'll go below too), so I do those.

Standing in line to log in? Completely worth it.

Depending on what kind of "previewing" you're going for, I would recommend reading up on the power set(s) on these forums. You'll find out if people think one looks dumb, or is too slow, or is super fun and flashy, etc. Of course that might not apply 100% for you, everyone has an opinion, but it's not a bad start.

Take any toon to 50, then play the game, any part of it -- Inf will roll in. You don't need any real schemes or plans (unless you're redside ha ha) to make enough to get by on. I am the laziest person in this game when it comes to money and I still do fine.

If you don't like binds (I don't), I macro this on every new toon soon as they step into the tutorial: /macro TN "target_enemy_near" Somewhere I picked up a macro that also puts me on "follow" to that target, but I don't recall the wording off the top of my head (and I haven't used it too often). But I do use Ctrl+F fairly often, once I've picked a target, just in case they get knockbacked or start to run or something.

Whoa whoa, I wasn't finger pointing at you, I was bouncing off what you said more towards speaking to the OP instead. Apologies for that coming across differently. No need for the chapter and verse, I'm on your side here!

They were obviously so doubled over with laughter that they didn't know what they sent me. uwu

On any toon with any heal or Res power that I take.

I've heard stuff like this from a number of the "git gud" community who work to min/max everything within an inch of their lives, yet still find myself on teams not even starred hard content team, still using a heal (or even less min/maxy, a Res power) more often than you'd think. Players have found ways to really OP characters, bu that's not all players, nor even I think a majority of them. Play what you want, no cookie-cutter builds needed here.

You can find them elsewhere on these forums if you can't find yours.

The critics are raving: "Tacky Xmas exploits...sign me up!" ... "Send a comment to the author (optional)q" The Devs Must Be Mad to have given this a Devs Choice! You ever have one of those sandwiches that's like five pounds of fixins slopped into a big ol' hoagie loaf that leaves your hands wet and splatters on your shirt, table, and lap the second you pick up? That description is not hyperbole, this one is chock-a-block with all sorts of dumb stuff.

That is easier to type than /jranger

Unless I miss my guess, most old builds will still work, more or less, but now you can have fun puzzling together new ones (or just stealing them from these forums, as I do). Get a toon, any toon, to 50, keep playing that toon, and you'll soon enough have lots of Inf, no worries there.

But how were we supposed to be able to tell that from their verbose post above?! I kid, I really should try and get the time to post some of mine here. In the meantime: see my sig? Go look that mish up, then check out other ones I've published, pretty sure I have at least two comedies, and one is Dev's Choice!

If you're really against taking the time to look up stuff ("I wonder if this recipe crafted is worth anything?") then just throw it at the AH for 5. I mean, I feel that's leaving some money on the table, fairly easy money, buuuuut I'm mainly here for the pew pew pew, so the homework side of things often bores me as well.

We've suggested this one before - completely ruined the look of a controller I had!

Sir Slamalot? I find this helpful to grab handfuls of related words at a time: https://onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml It's not always perfect and some searches can really go far afield quickly, but it's better than nothing.

Somewhere on these forums, might have been Oedipus Tex? had a Ice/Sav build that I stole, and it's a monster overall. I mean, I don't try silly stuff like soloing four star hard mode stuff with it, but that's because I have no interest in such things anyway. For all I know maybe it can.

I like to think of it as "unexpected slapstick."

This. That way lies cookie-cutter builds, min/maxxers always taking Origin X to have that few percent more of something, and then telling everyone else that the other are "utter trash, insulting, really."

So first Maria ran away with Ted to Cancun to raise their mutant son in peace, then Devan flipped his car but he's OK, Candice's cancer was cured when she touched this strange asteroid, Bill discovered that he's been a clone all this time and the real one's is ruling an small Pacific island with an iron fist, and Tom's plans to build an army of attack-bots was foiled when his dog, jumping up on him out of happiness and love, made him accidentally drop the very delicate control circuit box.

A new player experience, not THE new player experience. This aint even stinging me, I'm not out here defending our beloved game from any and all critiques (ask me how I hate Incarnate stuff and how confusing that was/is, I dare you), I'm just saying this guy dove in headfirst without checking the depth of the pool.

I don't think the idea is to force anyone to play resdide, just to get some more to try it.

I hate that stuff too, so: report via Support Ticket, maybe add a Player's Note (if you feel like it), block, move on. They won't get stronger if we don't let 'em.