Captain Fabulous

I would dare say that to many players the names of their characters are VERY important and that such an improvement would be seen as quite favorable and welcome. Such a feature is more of a database issue, which is something that coders, bug fixers, costume designers, etc. generally don't deal with. Different people for different systems. Sure, it's absolutely a QoL change, but a huge one nonetheless.

I'd appreciate it if you don't put words in my mouth. I didn't say they shouldn't do it. Honestly it should have been done years ago. I said it's unlikely to be as effective as people anticipate, and that it does nothing to prevent active name squatters, as it's fairly easy to avoid the policy with minimal effort. Name squatters got in on day 1. As more and more people come to the game character names become more and more esoteric because popular ones are already used or squatted. Releasing names on abandoned accounts created months or years after day 1 isn't likely to add a significant amount of desirable names to the pool. Appeal to Ignorance Fallacy: Since no one's done it yet it must not be possible. 👍

The problem with Regen is that it's a set that was designed for a game that hasn't existed since 2005. By every conceivable metric it is demonstrably inferior to every other protection set in the game. It *could* be a fine set with some tweaks, but as it currently exists, no, it's not a fine set, for all the very same reasons you listed.

It was heavily nerfed, repeatedly, in the first year of the game (prior to ED), and it never got any significant improvements since. There have been no shortage of very good suggestions on how to improve the set without significantly changing its nature (I have made a few myself 💅), but the devs need to want to fix it. The closest we've gotten is the slightly reworked Sentinel version that most consider superior to the others. Honestly I find it just as underwhelming. Willpower is the better option if you want a set that has +regen.

It all depends upon how difficult and/or enjoyable you want your play experience to be, and how complicated a build you want. Regen is broken, plain and simple. That some people can figure out ways to make it work using set/global IOs and various pool powers doesn't mean it's not in desperate need of attention and is vastly inferior to every other protection set. If your plan is to level up solo on +4/x8 I don't think you're going to find it all that much fun. But at -1 to +1 and a team size of 1-4 you'll probably be OK. I have a Regen Scrapper and Stalker and honestly they just aren't all that fun to play at higher levels/difficulties (tho I think the Stalker fares better than the Scrapper). IMHO you should probably pick something else.

The problem is the naming policy isn't doing to do anything to stop people who literally create hundreds of characters for the sole purpose of locking down names; characters that never get played and exist solely to squat. The only thing it'll accomplish is to release names from accounts that have been abandoned. I don't know how feasible it is, but it would be great if our @ names could be added internally to character names like Cryptic did with Champions and Star Trek. Then everyone can get whatever character name they want and completely kneecap the squatters.

No space between flypose and the #, so it's flypose1, flypose2, flypose3, flypose4. They are 4 separate commands, not one command with a numerical modifier.

It has a base recharge of 10 seconds and a duration of 8-16 seconds depending upon AT (ranged characters get 8, melee get 12-16), which will scale down based upon critter level and class. I guess if you really wanted to maximize it you could do 2 recharge reductions and 2-3 taunts. It's always been my understanding that higher MAG levels also increases threat, but like you said, it's all a bit vague as to exactly how it works. I use it a lot on Scrappers and Stalkers. Feared critters don't attack unless attacked first, so it's a great alternative damage mitigator.

The Presence pool as a whole is pretty damned awesome. An underappreciated gem. But yeah, you're never gonna out-taunt a Tank or Brute (or even a Scrapper) -- it's what they do. Even tho the MAG level of Provoke is the same as Tank/Brute Taunt and Scrapper Confront (MAG 4), Tanks/Brutes get a MAG 3/4 taunt aura and Tanks get Gauntlet (aka Punchvoke) that gives them another MAG 4 AoE taunt on every attack. Slotting Provoke with taunt enhancements doesn't increase the MAG level, only the duration, so that's not gonna help. The only way you might pull critters off a Tank or Brute is if you slot it with recharges and spam it.

No sir, 1-4. Not sure what you're doing wrong, but I use them all the time so I know they work. You have to use it while you're actually moving otherwise it does nothing. IIRC there are some powers that interfere with it, but off the top of my head I can't remember which. So maybe that's what's going on? Try turning everything off, see if it works then.

/em flypose# Where # is 1-4. They work. If you take Hover it will override the default fly pose, just run both Hover and Fly at the same time and you'll be upright.

Honestly, I like the cross-faction nature of it. There should be more of this.

Slotting for secondary effects is usually a pointless endeavor, e.g., -tohit in dark powers. And before some yahoo chimes in with "ackthulllly, slotting for -end in electric powers is awesome", 1.) I said "usually", and 2.) only useful if you can fully drain them and keep them drained. There are many cases where adding a 3rd slot of something can be mostly useless, for example, low % +defense powers. That extra slot might only give you an extra 1% or so, and you'd be better off putting that slot somewhere else. Hasten is another good example. That third slot of recharge reduction only saves you ~10 seconds with level 50 IOs, which for most builds isn't worth the slot. Slotting up Fitness powers is also of questionable use if you're just gonna drop in common IOs or SOs. You get a far better return on those slots with useful global IOs.

There is a low level mission from Officer Fields (given by Matthew Habashy) called "Stop the Vahzilok plot against the Promenade". The end boss Joseph Botte takes no damage until you destroy the Life Machine near him. Create an alt on a secondary account, lock XP, set difficulty to -1 and he should be level 1. Team with your badger, have only the badger enter the mish, drop from the team and wail on him (he will run around a lot so either keep him locked down or on follow). Just don't use any AoEs cause you don't want to accidentally blow up the machine.

That's what I did, dismiss the ones I couldn't do. I don't want to switch sides just to deliver Valentines. You can definitely work around it, but it really should limit locations to your current faction.

Probably sometime that should be looked into and fixed 😉

Not sure if it's related to the DJ Zero and Scratch bug I just reported, but sometimes when you agree to deliver or misdeliver a Valentine's card it will send you to a zone of the opposite faction -- heroes being sent to villain zones and villains being sent to hero zones.

Been doing the V-day missions on various villain characters and on each one both Scratch and DJ Zero introduce me to new contacts that are blue-side. I can accept them but obviously they don't show up since I can't get to them. I would imagine they should be giving me red contacts. Not sure if this is happening because I've been teamed with a hero, haven't tried doing it solo.

Yup , bind.

Hmm, dunno. I just tried it with Translocation and it works. Oddly enough I don't have any characters with Teleport. I *assume* it also works, but I guess it's possible it doesn't. I don't know about Combat Teleport.

Hmmm. I'm gonna assume you replaced "key" with an actual key letter/name? Because it does indeed work, I just tested it to be sure something didn't break. You don't need line of sight for the bind/macro to work. You also don't need line of sight to use a reticle power. I often will drop a power from around a corner or from behind a pillar. The only requirement is that the target be within range of the power. But if it's not you should get a message saying so.

If SEGS ever gets up and running we'll be able to play I2.

Was in the original beta, but didn't really start playing regularly till just after launch. The game was very different, but great nonetheless. There was a lot more AT synergy than there is today, as soloing anything above +0 or +1 was hard for everyone, except maybe Scrappers. But yeah, no travel powers till level 14. Capes weren't in the game till later, and even then you had to do a level 20 mission to unlock them. Spent a lot of time Hovering across Kings Row and the Hollows because it was simply too dangerous to Sprint to all those missions you got at the opposite end of the zone with all the purple critters. Level cap was 40 and PI didn't exist yet. IMO, at least in terms of gameplay, I3 was perfection. I4 is when all the nerfs started, and I will die on this hill: ED broke the game. It was never the same (read: as good) after that. Jack never quite understood that playing superheroes should be a vastly different experience than playing D&D. It was a very difficult time, watching him slowly dismantle what was previously such a great game to play (I mean, it was still fun and I still played, but it just wasn't the same; you never really ever felt "super"). IOs came something like 2 years later, and one could theoretically make up for what had been taken away, but it required a LOT of grinding for INF and/or playing the market, and created a huge divide between the casual and hardcore players in terms of raw power, something the game still struggles with now.

You have to target something, either a critter, a friendly, or an object, and you'll be teleported to it as long as they're within your TP range. It basically puts the targeting reticle at their location. Useful bind for all powers that use targeting reticles, not just TP.

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