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😢 very sad. She should have a lot of kids it may help her feel hope for the future of herself and her people. She's the only one that can do it.

I have an ar/dev that I like, but for me dev doesn't pair well for one reason: targeting drone. You lose build up for this. TD buffs your first attack out of combat by 60% which forces you to lead with full auto. But, I would always prefer to lead with m30 or flamethrower then FA, or maybe lead with snipe. For that one reason I prefer other secondaries. Tactics + kismet gives you the full quick snipe damage bonus so that's not a consideration. I have an ar/elec that's fun but I migrated my main from /dev to /ice. A lot of people like /energy or /ta. I think they all go well with AR just don't use /mental or /dark and /fire might be annoying too (anything that forces you to use pbaoes). AR is a complete blaster in just the primary so any secondary just needs a usable sustain and damage buff, the rest is bonus.

Devices does not have a melee attack. Taser has a 20 foot range and takes ranged IO sets. https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=blaster_support.gadgets.taser&at=blaster

This is my thought on the subject too. If someone is so worried about brutes not being as strong as tanks, then just make a tank.

I use KDE and I stopped using Wayland because it sucks. Moved back to xorg for my desktop. Xorg was never broken for me and I've read the slide deck on why Xorg sucks and we should move to Wayland and it certainly didn't convince me to stick with Wayland. Issues like what you mentioned are why Wayland is not ready. If it solves a certain problem you're having then great use it, but otherwise sticking with Xorg is the right choice.

I prefer Praetoria content (always Loyalist) but I also want to play Primal Earth content with this character. I enjoy playing all levels, doing TFs and missions at appropriate level, etc so I'm glad to hear I can leave Praetoria at level 20. Thanks for the confirmation!

I'm a bit confused about Praetorian badges vs Hero badges. Since this thread has dedicated praetorians I thought it would be a good place to talk about it. On this page https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Praetorian_Accomplishment_Badges it says you have to be a praetorian who has not become a hero/villain yet to earn those badges. But, I thought people are getting loyalist, moral high ground, etc on their heroes through Ouro? This page https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Praetorian_Achievement_Badges just says you have to start as praetorian to be eligible for the badges. Is that true? I want the "Praetor" (lvl 50) badge and I'm trying figure out if I'm safe to leave praetoria at level 20 or do I need to level up to 50 before I can leave?

I was surprised to get "Fracture" and "High Impact" recently. The homecoming devs made an excellent decision with the name release policy. It's the best and most fair that I've ever seen.

I'm glad it's over. I play a lot in Praetoria and it felt like Nova and Imperial had constant MS events lagging them out.

Wine issue maybe? There was ( still is?) an issue with wine versions >9.0 so I suggest to check that first. Edit: Looks like you previously posted in the wine thread:

Wow this is really helpful! Thanks for your work on this.

Why not set difficulty to -1? I've been doing this levelling up so I finish all the contact missions and it makes it a lot easier.

It depends what the other person is playing, but I'd go empathy for a duo. Fort+Adrenalin Boost for her, RAs for you. Blaster + Empath would be nice. Edit: I quickly checked, FF gives 18.75% def whereas Empath Fort gives 11.25% def. I don't know the FF set well but if you look at all the potent buffs that empathy offers then you start feeling bad for Forcefield. Larger team is a different dynamic because keeping fortitude up and rotating AB, along with constant healing of 8 people seems like a PITA vs FF fire-and-forget shields.

Just today I was thinking about this. Normally I always take hasten in an effort to have as few attack powers as possible; it's more slot efficient (you need fewer attacks to 6 slot) and you're strongest attacks are up more often. However I thought about skipping hasten on my new character because of diminishing returns, and I noticed that hasten is only saving me 4s on Full Auto. (The power already has heavy recharge slotting, plus a good share of global recharge).

Cool! I won't be joining but seeing your group around and doing its thing will make the game a more exciting and interesting world.