Captain Fabulous

I vote for Stalker. They are incredibly strong and flexible, especially at lower levels. And the built in stealth is super useful for traversing thru zones without getting ganked and speeding thru missions if you don't want to clear them.

Do you even Gale, brah?

Can I haz ur stuf?

I got this email this morning, is this in any way related to Homecoming?

Yeah, it depends upon a number of factors. Best suggestion is to try it both ways and see which feels better. Higher level will give you more XP per kill, but they also take longer to defeat and harder to hit, and obviously are going to do more damage. I'm also unsure if bosses have a higher drop rate. I don't believe they do, but not 100% sure. Personally if I solo I prefer lower level with more critters (+0/x8) because it feels more superheroey to me. When I crank it up to +2 or +3 it takes so much longer to clear maps that it feels like a slog.

No changes to the Atlas badges, at least not until the next page releases. I did it on two alts yesterday. And you have to get all 8.

Just delete the folder.

Did you try disabling auto UI scaling and set it by hand?

Are you using the actual HC launcher or Tequila? You shouldn't have to switch anything in the HC launcher. The available servers are all listed on the left side.

I got copyright generic'd once, but I fought it and was reinstated.

Try installing it to a different drive. If you don't have a different drive try running the installer as admin.

Seriously, I have a lvl 50 human-only PB and she does just fine in end game content. And she's not even fully IOd yet. Nova-only seems like it would be really dull and boring to me. For starters you have to take other powers, you can't avoid that. And to use any kind of self buffs you need to drop out of Nova. I mean, give it a go, it can be fun to try things that are outside the box. But honestly I don't think this one is gonna have any legs, no pun intended.

Won't people stop thinking only of themselves and start thinking about the poor tortured name hoarders!!!

Unpopular opinion: not everything needs to be spoon fed to new players. It's OK for them to discover how things work on their own. It's part of the beauty of MMOs, figuring out what does and doesn't work. We were all new players once, and we all did just fine. It's part of the process.

3 accuracy + 3 damage for minions as they'll at some point be -2 to you. 2 accy + 3 damage for LT pets, and 1 accy + 3 damage for your boss pet. You'll probably also want the Leadership pool for Tactics.

Yeah, I don't remember any mod that would grey out badges you got, but the fog of war on maps will show you where you've been and can often help see which remote badges you've likely obtained. Also, Vidiotmaps FTW!

The problem with most of the attitudes here is assuming the devs are idiots and what they've made isn't exactly what they intended to make. Just because you want it to be something else doesn't means you're right and the devs are wrong. They made the set exactly as they want it to be. Will it be tweaked here and there in future? Of course. Will it be significantly changed? Absolutely not. But what these devs do isn't anything different than what professional ones do, and no different than what the live devs used to do. We went thru all this with the Storm Blast beta, and apparently a lot of you didn't learn a damned thing from that shitshow. Once a set reaches open beta it's not going to change in any significant way; it's only going to get tweaks.

What am I missing? The set provides an AoE sleep, disorient, immobilize, and hold, along with a single target sleep and hold, all of which establish Containment.

So advocating for the adoption of a policy that stops people from hoarding names is an epic tantrum? You seem nice.

Sure, let me know which name you want. BWAAHAHAAAA, sorry, I'm hoarding. You can't have them.

Of the roughly a dozen times I've actually reached out to someone about getting a name not a single one has ever responded.

Except that's not what I said. Not even once. I'm advocating for ALL players, not just myself. That's the difference between us. You think "me me me mine mine mine!" and I think "hey, wouldn't it be great if everyone had access to names people are hoarding?" Check yourself. 1.) Wrong. The problem has repeatedly been documented to exist. And the devs have told us how many names are estimated to be released. Are you claiming you know better than they do? 2.) It absolutely does, except for the sociopaths who powerlevel all their camped names to 50. And that's easily solved by also including 50s in the policy. 3.) Irrelevant. There is nothing in the TOS that says you get to own names. Pick a new one. I mean, it's easy and simple, right? Just open a thesaurus. Or get Force Redux to help you. Problem solved. I should be surprised you don't see your own hypocrisy, but honestly I'm not. You can't argue that names are so important that you should be able to hold onto them forever but also so irrelevant that it doesn't matter if you can't get the name you want.

See, they're not yours or anyone else's names. Thinking they are is why we have this problem. You don't own them, you are simply being permitted to use them. And if you're not actively using them there is no reason, other than narcissism and selfishness, that anyone would feel like they are entitled to them.

I literally have spent more than an hour on more than one occasion trying to come up with a name because everything I try is taken. It's not hyperbolic at all. And I highly doubt I'm the only one. Some people actually want names that make sense. I'm sorry your standards are so low you're willing to settle for whatever random combination of letters isn't yet taken. I'm all in favor of allowing multiple people to have the same name, no matter how they implement it. But that doesn't seem likely to happen at this point. No one is entitled to a name. If you don't actively use it you should lose it if someone else wants it. It's that simple. One workaround that might be easily implemented would be to allow the use of extended character sets. But I'm sure someone would complain, just because.

It's a very real problem, as evidenced by all the people who have been begging HC to push the release policy. And this scenario you just described is exactly why the policy must also include level 50s. No developer intends for people to camp on hundreds of names and then engage in compulsive psychopathic behavior to hold onto them and openly brag about it. If people didn't do this then there wouldn't be an issue. If people freely gave up names they weren't using there wouldn't be an issue. It's weird you place importance on an existing player sitting on hundreds of names, who can't possibly play them all, who may not have even logged in in years, over a new player coming to the game for the first time who is frustrated that every conceivable permutation of the name they want is already taken. Not to mention existing players who are getting increasingly frustrated at trying to make new characters because they don't want to spend an hour or more trying to find a viable name. Why is it OK to piss off everyone BUT the name-hoarders? Hint: it's not. Something needs to be done because the current situation is not tenable. Until such a time when names can be used by more than one person they should go to the person that's going to actually use them. And that very well could mean a name frequently gets bounced around from one person to another. And that's OK. The level of entitlement and hubris and the unwillingness of HC to do anything about it is really grinding my nerves.