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Thanks for the great photos, as usual! Not to be picky about it, but I am missing a solo shot of my little "Jadzia Dax"-Meg here 😉 We ran another round afterwards, sorry for those that got missed when I formed the 2nd team. It wasn't quite clear to me who would return and who wouldn't. We made room to add Jax to this round, and also added somebody from the "waiting list" who wanted to join. It was nice to see that we actually draw some more interest from new people for this! And with a few returning familar faces, it seems we are getting a good crowd together now.

This one is really short, especially if at standard difficulty. If we get through well, how about going for a second round with other toons? I still have quite a few that would... profit (wink wink)

Ah, never noticed. Just saw that there isn't an XP drop described in the chat window anymore. Good to know.

It seems like the exploration badges also don't yield any XP anymore.... 😥

I'd just like to expand a bit on that. I think at some point during your progression you absolutely HAVE TO make yourself comfortable with the enhancement system. And that can be anything from just slotting DOs or SOs to standard IOs or set IOs. But somewhere around the mid 20ies I usually notice a sharp drop-off in performance on every toon, even if you are part of a well-buffed team. I get absolutely crazy when I start to notice that I miss more than I hit anything, or continuosly run out of endurance... you all know what I am talking about. And this is where enhancements help with keeping up. DOs and SOs are the easiest way to mitigate that, just using drops or bying them from the respective vendors. +ACC, +END, +RECH, +DMG, +RES... so VERY VERY usefull. The thing with those is, of course, that you gotta maintain them and upgrade every 5 lvls or so (which is an easy click of a button in the Enhancement screen if you got the INF that is needed). And this is where standard IOs come in, which don't wear out and can keep you upright until endgame once you get into them. Which in my case is usually somewhere around lvl25... maybe lvl30 if I can drag it out a bit with some temp buffs, see below. Temp buffs can significantly help to ease things up through the early levels. Running a Death From Below at least once or twice early on can get +ACC and +END buffs. Those last until lvl20. At lvl15 you can run or join a Drowning in Blood trial, which provides the same, but those will last until lvl30. This one is also really fast, so it is easy to run it 2x or 3x... DFB and DIB buffs are cumulative, so you can actually go quite crazy if you collect them all. I usually slot the 5 prestige enhancements from the P2W/S.T.A.R.T vendor, and with a few of the temp buffs from above I am good to go until I start slotting IOs. Some additional thoughts on stuff I do with most of my toons: 14. Unlock Costume Slots: At lvl20/30/40 you can visit the Tailor in Steel/IP/Founders to get a mission which unlocks costume slots 7/8/9. And be honest: Who doesn't like new costume slots? More costumes are more better! With 1 each of the Halloween Salvages you can also buy a 10th slot from the little witch vendor next to the train station in Croatoa. If you don't have any from the event, they can be bought at around 10k or so in the Auction House. I make generous use of costume variations on basically all of my toons, just for sake of variety. And who knows how long the 1000 character slots will last, at the rate at which I am making new toons... so it's good to know that you can have up to 10 costumes on each toon, right? 😇 15. Mortimer Kal (red side): At lvl20 you can unlock Mortimer Kal as a contact. Need to hunt a few mobs in Sharkhead for the Tips mission "Wizards Weakness", which takes you briefly to the University in Cap to kidnap Morti's kidnapped (yes!) daughter. With that mission completed, you now get access to the Strike Force. It is pretty fast and can be done usually in 30-40 mins, but has some amazing reward: The Flames of Prometheus accolade, which gives you a buff of +Max HP +Regen +DMG until lvl50! And when you unlock your Alpha slot, this can be converted into a Notice of the Well, just like that! Also, make sure that you don't quit the team at the end of the SF until the leader has talked to Morti twice. There will be another XP drop after the 2nd interaction that will likely be enough for one more lvlup at the level range this is played usually. Best value for money, in my opinion!

Hey Trixie, count me in with Meg Quatermain (Kin/Beam Rifle Def) in her Lieutenant Commander Dax attire. Because when it comes to Star Trek, nothing beats Deep Space 9!

Hi Trixie, I am signing up with Divine Wind - Fire / Storm Corruptor.

Oh my... Page 7 went live tonite and I already made 2 new toons with Sybil costumes 😇

I ran on an all-storm-powersets theme team on Indom on saturday, and it was hilarious! It really felt like we were storm-sweeping the mobs through the halls 😄

Interesting... lots of useful aspects for tweaking a build. I will definitely go into Spectral for the immob. I can't remember if I have ever taken it before, but here it sounds like a good time to finally apply it.

I found it very difficult to build this for melee defense and therefore went after high S/L def. You get good numbers on ranged easily as well, although I agree that you need to be close to action with Kin. Just haven't found a way to bunker up really. Any thoughts?

I plan to bring Cyclonica - Storm / Kinetics Corruptor.

Likely not gonna make it today. Have fun.

Sorry if that came across as a bit awkward. It wasn't meant to be. Please ignore that comment. Sorry for that.

I got the icy tank lady to 43, so I roll with my other tank lady. Called her Knightess Templar for this purpose, WP/TW for the record. She has one hell of a templar sword.

Hi @TrixieKixx, I am still looking at several options here... My preferred one being a classic Sword/Shield Scrapper, actually. If we want to stick with the Brute/Tank theme, I have an Ice/Claws Tank, but would need to see if I can get her from 40 to 45 by tomorrow afternoon. If that fails, I can dig out Verdant Valkyrie again, the WP/TW Tank that I brought to the Valhalla theme... Anyway, I will probably be there with SOME toon tomorrow. Now, off to the Cirque de Soleil, which is residing in Munich right now with their show KURIOS! 👏 👏 👏

You know, this sounds like you will need that Brute for those Girl Scouts... 😄

I have to say, that run was a total hoot! Great costumes and a few very nice bios, and a fantastic fit of Theme and Powerset. Been on a few totally ridiculous Penny Yins before, but never it felt like THAT overpowered! Boy, did we(*) chainsaw those Freaks! The amount of lockdown with Holds, Fears and Knockarounds was hilarious! Ok, we did this at rather standard difficulty, I think. But still one of the funnest runs I've had in a long while. Would have been easy mode even at higher diff, I am sure. (*) or rather, you know... our duplicates... but that was the whole point, I guess 🙂

Yep, that should be it

You can find them in the Auction House under Salvage/Special... Heroes & Villains / Rogues & Vigilantes / Lord of Winter are the types. The first AT packs cost 10Mio Inf, the Winter packs 25Mio. You get goodies like Acrchetype / Winter IOs, Super-Inspirations, Brainstorm Ideas, Respecs and Tailor tokens, amongst all kinds of other things. There are 5 items in each pack, 1 of which usually would be an IO. But no guarantee, the drops are random. It was a mechanism introduced to monetize the game when it went Free2play, I think...

I had set Mirrors on mine too, so let's try and roll all with that. It will be quite a sight, I guess 🙂

Just a little thought here... Wouldn't it be a blast if all the Phantom Armies will be mirrored and not the generic ones? Or vice versa, everybody bring the standard phantoms... What do you think?

@TrixieKixx I will be showing up with Mister Mindbender (Ill/Kin Controller)

They are pretty much stand-alone enhancements that can be slotted in any slot of a power that Takes an askpect of that enhancement. You can mix hamis and d-syncs (or the synthetic versions, or any other type of enhancement) in the same power, they just need to go into different slots of course. Using those enhancements is all about slotting efficiency. So if you have powers that you don't want to spend a lot of slots on or not put any IO sets into, you get a bigger bang for your buck on single slots with these because of the higher enhance values on more aspects of a power. That really is what its all about, as far as I am concerned....

Oh thank good! Another 1000 Charakter slots! I was beginning to run dry... 😇