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I had accidently clicked on it one time and was trying to figure out how I had the salvage listed for a recipe. A couple weeks later I noticed the text and clicked on it. One of those "oh holy s*** moments." I never felt more like a newb as a vet.

I only self PL via dual boxing. I'm not sure when I would do it again. For a variety of reasons(burnout, real life), I haven't logged in some time. I'm not sure when I get back into the game how I will approach my characters. It might be straight PL or level them as normal. I think there are a few I would like to level normally. At this point I think it will take making a character with power sets which I haven't played before to be interested in rolling anything. I had been getting more tempted to go the Bill Z route before my break and just use test to see how much I would like a build and then go from there. The pro/con of being a 10+ year CoH vet is you know what you like and don't. There just aren't that many builds worth playing. I got borderline to the point of just wanting to log onto my badger outside of some new projects and call it good.

I had a blast running the later arcs in The Hollows during my time in HC. Doing them solo can be a challenge. Atta is just a long haul which I don't recommend to do solo. It is another XP dump similar to FF. The last mission can be rather annoying and hard for lowbies and more so depending on what version of the map you get. I did get a couple people to stick around after FF and we plowed through at least one arc if not close to the final two. The Hollows was the zone I hung out with players during my first weekend playing the game around i4-i5 time frame. It will forever have a special place in my heart because that was the time where I just feel in love with the game.

Make a character and go through the tutorial. Keep the inspirs they give you. Once you have 5 influ, you can list one of them on the market for 5 influ. Sell the other after you sell the first one. Starting buying common/white salvage at like 100 influ. Sell what you get to a vendor for 250. Do this with stacks of ten at a time. Eventually you can go on the market and start buying level 50 common IO recipes. Same thing. Eventually do it with stacks of ten. Around 2 mill or so( I haven't been on in a while), start grabbing level 41 Red Fortune recipes. Craft and use converters on them. Just convert within the same defense type so the cost is 2 converters. Sell at a profit. Rinse and repeat.

To the question in the title, no.

/bio isn't allowed when talking about worst.

Poison/beam defender would give him fits with all that -regen. WP in short hates debuffs so load up on those.

I've done +4/x8 without Granite Armor. So like I said.

Not even fully T4ed or have likely a maxed out build as I was involved in making it, but my /stone Brute isn't saddled with any of these crippling drawbacks you speak of. On a tank? (snickers)

I just want to point out there's no valid reason for Tanks to not have EA.

+1 on wondering what Scrapper you are using. Elec blasts has been improved in terms of damage, but end drain still remains a bit of "It is what it is." EA is one of the better primaries. I know it gets mentioned as one of the more ideal sets for doing some of the harder things in CoH. It is active as all can get out though. Like, I ODed on Kin and admit EA can be a lot of button smashing.

Claws Scrapper and anything which has fast cast times. or lower recharge times. Recharge can easily be added outside of Hasten and more so with Incarnates. It's mostly for long recharges, waiting to perma something, or specific attack chains.

Physical server location matters. This is why when one is dealing with AWS(Amazon Web Services) it is recommended the region you pick for the servers you use are closest to you. You might not think of it mattering, but data does truly take longer to go from let's say from me in MI to Chicago than say from me to the Far East.

Or just see if you can coalition with another SG so you are connected while having your own base. There are limits to the number of coalitions, but I can't recall the number.

It loses Rib Cracker for AS. How the hell does that lower DPS?

Stalkers often, not always, lose out in AoE in their primary. The ones which don't by default win out as being better as a Stalker, see StJ, Ice, Elec, etc.

An influx of players when peak users on a server right now is just over 1k at best. If a new server is added, how much is that is going in the news to actually attract new players? How many new players are you expecting? You do realize if 200 new players came to the server it would still make that server a rather small one? What if people left based on the removal over servers? Are the new players worth the loss? You do realize some people actually actively avoid high population servers? Or that you simply can't always keep a character's name by default when transferring to a new server? Or that people spend many many many hours building bases which can't be simply copy/pasted into a different server?

That's creating an absolute mess. It isn't like you can simply copy/paste one server to another.

To add, the overall population is decreasing so that doesn't help generating a need to add another shard.

i5 was around the time I came in. I can't recall if I was in just before it hit or not. I *think* before. I just remember seeing Croatoa previews and getting excited.

I think I log onto Discord about once a quarter. I tried to get some people in my board game group to start using Discord, and it essentially went nowhere.

I don't think I have bought yellow salvage for more than 1k, like ever.

Zero reason for the cast time.

All I'm saying is I used Fly/hover on a Kin.

Unai Kemen's missions are farm ready as just about anything in AE.