Knightward

This is absolutely gorgeous! I am completely blown away.

Ok, it's not a matter of the zone being too low level (again, like how Jack of Irons doesn't spawn in Atlas Park or Kings Row in the Halloween event), it's just crappy luck. Good thing I'm not trying to badge on multiple characters anymore!

Anyone know how or why the event is being buggy? I did it 4 times this evening, in Steel, Skyway, Kings Row, and Talos. Each of those had the event message about him personally showing up, but he never did in the first 3. Apparently he actually showed up in PI at the same time, as his defeat message was in events, but I didn't make it there. Is there an unspoken zone level to it now, like getting Jack of Irons to spawn in the Halloween event?

I'm not going to claim to have much to add to the arguments here. What I will say is I like the auto-upgrade for enhancements that have already been slotted. I also _really_ like the suggestion in here that non-IOs get a floor at -2 rather than going red. Completely removing TOs and DOs.... I'm not comfortable with. But then I'm one of those rare few crazy people that doesn't DFB through the early levels, so I don't have the tantalization of getting a handful of lowbie SOs. I'm one of those insane people because I like the slowboating as it gives plenty of opportunity to get a feel for your character's build: what works, what doesn't, what's essential and what can be skipped, where the strengths and weaknesses are, etc. So once they get to the endgame I already know exactly how to kit them out. And let's be honest, going from difficulty playing a character to tearing through everything is satisfying as hell! But there's no One True Way to play the game or have fun, so I don't blame anyone for not going with my idiosyncrasies here. What I'm rambling my way to, is that having SOs from the start seems like it would make it more difficult to parse how exactly any given build ultimately works.

That's how I got it.

On the plus side it can be autocompleted, if the timing to get a DD itrial is against you.

Yeah, the Ramiel mission is pretty much only useful for Cataclysmic. For Immortal I'm working on it with CoT guides, since I don't have a 2nd account. The specific level and numbers depends on your HP and regen, so I couldn't say how you can optimize it. What I can say is farming it with a 1892 hp scrapper with 9.08% regen while resting what's working for me is having 2 +1 guides (they would be +2 if it weren't for the level shift) hitting for about 900 hp each. If you're going to have multiple guides make sure to stagger their attacks. If they attack at the same time your regen may have trouble keeping up. Regardless, Immortal takes a loooooong time to get. Farming this makes me envy every melee AT/sentinel that's regen.

Keeping the reactor alive in Terra Volta perhaps?

Well crap, looks like I need to find the time to badge some more!

Not sure if it's been mentioned elsewhere, but with the Halloween badges Trusting and Arriviste (the last option in the tip mission, the one that just gives you inf) don't replace each other when you switch alignments. They're now earned separately and permanently much as the patron badges are on Homecoming compared to how it worked on live. I assume this is working as intended, but I don't remember seeing anything said about it one way or the other. So technically it's a new badge in the sense that your collection is 1 higher than used to be possible.

Probably until November?

I'm assuming that this would allow the staff to be paid and thus able to focus on the game. So I'm fine with a subscription or, if need be, microtransactions, to support you guys at that point. Big things I'd want to see are the continuation of the storyline and other things the devs had been working on but never finished, like the rest of the origin-based power pools.

Count me in on supporting this idea.

I still want a Jaegermeister badge for killing enough Nemesis Jaegers.

I used to have a hero badge character and villain badge character back in the day, and committed to it once side switching became possible (that said, I still went for all the badges from both sides on both of them and yes it was insane). I probably won't have my villain collect everything from both sides this time though, because I don't have that kind of time anymore. Really it's a matter of what works for you: Does it break character too much to have all the badges from the other side? Is finding the time to get multiple characters to 50 difficult?