Troyusrex

Congrats!

Look, I know I should go to null gull for every character and change it so that group fly doesn't affect me, but I haven't. Your using group fly in this way would annoy me as well. That said, I would assume responsibility and take a side trip to Pocket-D instead of asking you to change your playstyle.

Gamma was indeed the problem! Thanks for the quick response!

Probably. I have it set to auto update. Assuming that's what happened, what's to be done?

Maybe it's my settings but it's impossible to play in teams anymore let alone leagues. Everything is so bright with explosions and bubbles and color everywhere that I can't see a thing. I've been playing for over a decade and it's never been like this before. Below is an extremely typical image of an average fight. Thoughts?

I'm partial to an empath because I find the Adrenalin Boost (AB) +recharge to be great. The +regen and +recovery don't hurt either, but not fully needed. When farming actively (instead of automatically) I use a fire/fire/fire blaster and AB.

My recommendation is to just let them die and not tell them how to play. If they verbally get after you first, then it’s fine to defend yourself and point out what they are doing to contribute to their own deaths.

I don’t have Mids loaded so I can’t talk specifics to this build, but the general advice from @Maelwys looks strong. Procs are very helpful. My one specific is that if you are going to do PBAOE then strongly slotting hot feet for slow makes a tremendous difference. You can’t hurt people if they run out of your radius. Without a good boost to the slow effect hot feet will simply drive everyone away. My very extensive experience in this shows that slow is far more valuable than damage on Hot Feet.

For a couple of years I was making thousands of trades a day. Even had a fair amount of automation going. But then the systems started to reject more and more transactions (with the note: "Please wait a moment."). At that point it stopped being worth it. My gig was buying packs, opening them en mass, converting the enhancements until I got saleable ones. Rinse and repeat. Quite profitable. 5% if I just dumped the cargo. 50%+ if I used converters and priced things not too aggressively. ABIG added bonus is that I ended up with a thousands of useful things like team inspirations and amplifiers. (Here's an experiment. Stock up on team damage/accuracy enhancements. Get on a team fighting AVs. See how well the team is doing. After awhile, use enough of those inspirations to max everyone's damage. I usually go with 4 larges. Then watch what happens. Struggling teams instantly turn into romping teams. Surprising numbers of players never understand what changed. Inspirations are vastly under appreciated) I got so tired of the increasing "wait a moment" notes that I stopped supplying lots of great things to the market for cheap prices.

I had the same issue with the last release. This helped and made it playable, although not 100% fixed.

I am so very, very guilty of this. I had things highly automated and would just buy, open, take from email, post to AH, rinse and repeat. Extremely profitable.

I should know this, but I don’t… is there an easy way to export a build without having to enter every last IO into mids?

I can’t speak to storm/water but my second favorite character is a storm/ice. Very tough, deals a lot of damage and mayhem. A real blast to play.

When Homecoming became known to me I rolled a Storm/Ice defender for nostalgic reasons. I choose to take three rain powers: Blizzard, Ice Storm and Freezing Rain. I LOVE this toon and those rain powers are a good part of why. I tried looking around, including at City of Data 2.0, to see if there might be a build that could fit even more rain powers, but wasn't able to find any. I figured I'd tap into the collective knowledge here. Any thoughts?

I have never participated in Hard Mode, but can't wait to!