Mister Mass

I beat the OP to 58 back in January, but was reasonably certain I was not the oldest person on these boards. Good to see that at least 2 posters in this thread topped me. Now get off my lawn! 😡

It might not the best use for the proc or set, but I like to drop this into the crappy cone that so many blast sets get early on. Knocking down a chunk of your opponents is always entertaining, & -KB protection as a set bonus is welcome on squishies & certain armors. The set might not make the final level 50 build, but it makes the ride along the way more fun.

Phil, I am deeply proud of you - & deeply jealous. But I worry that your posts above may have compromised your secret identity... 😟

They know what they did. 😡

Right. Every original contact has maybe a dozen missions outside of their story arcs & badge missions. Half of those are pointless hunts, along with the Talk to Security Chief missions - which turn into pointless hunts. 😛 But most original contacts have a handful of door missions, some of which shed light on the game world or have temp powers that can be earned. These missions are not available via Ouro - although a few are. The SCORE or Homecoming devs may have added these to Ouro for player convenience. In any event, you can get almost everything by Ouroing for it. But I still shut off xp & do it at level appropriate range when I can. For me that is more fun - hardly efficient, but more fun. YMMV.

Wait, is it August 31, 2020 & there still isn't Super Strength for Scrappers? 🤨

Oedipus_Tex, are you sure the Overwhelming Force proc is an either/or on the knock-x? I just always assumed (which is dangerous) that the proc overwrites the % knock-x on a power to its own 20% chance. Has this been confirmed that a power with higher than 20% knock-x keeps that higher chance with the proc installed? Asking for a friend. 😉

Well I agree with you that Back Alley Brawler has been unfairly treated by Paragon City & deserves his rightful place in the sun, I think you will find a substantial portion of the playerbase would be up in arms if Ms. Liberty was removed from her training spot in Atlas Park. For many players she is an iconic part of the game, intrinsically tied up with being the first sight that most saw on exiting the tutorial & coming into the real game for the first time. I used BABs & Galaxy City for a good chunk of my alts, particularly those that were "down with the street" as the youngsters say (or so I am told) so I am less tied to this, & am happy to see Ms. Liberty & the game world evolve. But a lot of players think otherwise.

And no indication in game that the contacts were overcharging you compared to a vendor. I wonder how many players assumed that the contact was giving you a better deal since you had to do missions for him in order to unlock his store? Preying on the new & uninformed - hardly friendly game design!

My marketeer is whichever alt is next up on earning the Invention crafting & Marketeering badges, & keeps the job until the following character is ready to take over the mantle. My 4th marketeer is just handing the reins over the 5th now. The 1st 4 all have 1.9 billion on hand, while my other alts have about 500 million each. But I am a small operator by the standards of this forum, just looking to earn badges & to afford the (what used to be ludicrously expensive on Live) builds that I design.

This was how we did original Posi on Live. 2 SGmates & my blaster did Posi over several days. The Dark/Dark Defender was only minimum level for the TF, so he (hilariously) kept dying trying to get to a mission door in Steel Canyon, living up to the nickname of "Death's Doorman" that we had given to the player in face-to-face D&D sessions a few years earlier. So 3 of us, low level & poorly-slotted with TOs (& some DOs) worked through the TF a little at a time. The Tanker would corner pull some mobs back to the spot where the Defender would drop his Tar Pit debuff patch & my Blaster would dps like nobody's business. Even completing just one door mission took a very long time this way. And our characters leveling up actually made the slog worse in a way, as our enhancements would go red. Having to stop in order to go on a shopping spree was just part of the fun. But we eventually got it done - & the 3 of us would run all of the signature TFs together on the march to level 50. So somehow, despite how painful this whole process was, I feel nostalgic for it. Go figure.😄

A lot of people are happy to jump to 50 as fast as possible & play the powerful characters that they intended to play. And some of us are content to level slowly, level locking every 5 levels or so in order to experience as much of the leveling content as possible. I imagine there are players like the latter on every server, although I can only speak for Torchbearer, where my alts reside.

Only if you are quick! They tend to hit their donation target in a very short window. You might need to camp out if you want to make them take your money. 😉

Server transfers are easy, so don’t stress that you are making an irrevocable decision.

Right. Using the trainer in your starter zone to change your costume before level 10 is free. Ms. Liberty is happy to help you perfect your look as you begin your heroic career!

Okay, I can't let an owlbear reference go by without biting. A lot of D&D players look at the owlbear & shake their heads at the stupid monsters that old school developers came up with. I expect that the players in the group I was DMing felt much the same, when I ran an updated version of the classic Keep on the Borderlands for their low level party. When they came upon a chained owlbear, the players sniggered in amusement at this relic from simpler days, & the well-armored paladin went in to claim some easy xp & perhaps some phat lewt. Much to his surprise, he discovered that the owlbear was not as restrained by the chain as he expected, & the beast pecked & clawed at him with surprising ferocity & efficiency. Within moments, the paladin, despite having an AC that was impressive for his low level, was at Death's Door, & the party had to act swiftly to keep the owlbear from enjoying a paladin picnic. The paladin was so emotionally scarred by this incident, that he soon took to wearing an owlbear costume & terrorizing his enemies by night, figuring that since this beast inspired such fear in him, he should use it to inspire fear in his enemies. And so the legend of Owlbearman was born! And so, around the evening campfires, children would be regaled with tales of this fearsome creature of the night, the triune threat - the Owl, the Bear, & the Man - stalking the wicked & dispensing justice!

Ukase, it is times like this that make me wonder if you have no sense of humor. 😉 TraumaTrain was making a joke, son! But it is worth pointing out that the markets are shared across factions & servers. It wasn't that way originally, & not everyone knows that it changed back on Live in Issue 18, over 10 years ago. 😮

Yes. In fact coalitions now fill some of the role that SGs used to play - as a way for like-minded players to connect. Sure, each player may have his own SG & base, but these individual players can coalition together & use coalition chat to communicate & organize events just like they used to use SG chat. Double post. 😔

Yes. In fact coalitions now fill some of the role that SGs used to play - as a way for like-minded players to connect. Sure, each player may have his own SG & base, but these individual players can coalition together & use coalition chat to communicate & organize events just like they used to use SG chat.

As already noted above, they stack. You will have 65 feet of PvE stealth with this stack, which is actually better than the 55 feet you get from Invisibility. You can stand right next to most mobs & they won't notice you. And Stealth from the Concealment Pool is a nice place for a LotG +7.5% Recharge, if you are looking to fit more into your build. I find myself using the this combo on most of my characters - stealth, some +DEF, & +7.5% Recharge is a welcome tradeoff for one power (& pool) & no additional slots beyond the default one.

I have a true blue Hero that is walking this same path. Thanks for blazing the trail!

From a Freak bomb-setting boss: [NPC] Bob Fuse-y: The Black wire goes to the: [NPC] Bob Fuse-y: ground lead, [NPC] Bob Fuse-y: The Red wire goes to the [NPC] Bob Fuse-y: Plastique, [NPC] Bob Fuse-y: Now hear that word of C-4! [NPC] Bob Fuse-y: Them bombs, them bombs gonna, [NPC] Bob Fuse-y: Blow things up! [NPC] Bob Fuse-y: Them bombs, them bombs gonna, [NPC] Bob Fuse-y: I really love my work.

Hint - Faultline arcs will not help. 😉

Out of my 10 50s from Live, I have recreated 3 exactly, & 3 with power set or AT changes: Mister Mass - Inv/SS Tanker - same (but better!) Gengetsu - DM/DA Stalker - same American Aegis - MA/Shield Scrapper - same Sound Byte - Sonic/Sonic Defender - was Sonic/Sonic Corruptor Baron Wonder - Elec/Elec Brute - was SS/Elec Brute Agent Buckeye - Archery/TacArrow Blaster - was TrickArrow/Archery Defender At this point I have no plans to recreate any of my other characters from Live. My plan is to get one of each AT to 50 before I start another character with the same AT, so most of my old characters will have to wait until that project is complete. And given the fact that I level lock every 5 levels on each character in order to do all of the content on the alignment side of the character before advancing, it could be a long wait...

Of course, the raises the question - who was your favorite Wacky Racer? My siblings & I all had different favorites, & would dance in our jammies when our team won. Since I was the “smart one”, I always pretended that my favorite was the inventor Pat Pending in his Converter Car, since that is what my siblings expected. But my real favorites were the Slag Brothers. Watching cavemen beat their car with clubs to make it up faster always made me laugh. “‘s’all right” 😂