Akisan

Not to give the Devs any (bad) ideas, but that sounds like something for next year (alongside a small chance that defeating the MS immediately causes a "Lost Connection to Mapserver" crash, rolled randomly for each player defeating it)

Very much that! Archery/Ice/Fire here - Rain of Arrows wipes out the rabble, twinned Holds lock out bosses and EBs, and -90% movement speed from the sustain makes kiting any survivors laughably easy (Radial Intuition Alpha does wonders with Ice - Holds & Slows & Damage & Range). AVs generally aren't even dangerous, even at only 15 to 20% defense: most of them don't have much for ranged attacks, so they're super easy once immobilized (or slowed into oblivion, since Chilblain does both rather nicely).

It doesn't, unless you can get fully stealthed (50' or more stealth radius), or turn off your Sustain. The /Ice sustain is very effective anti-stealth, as it puts a very nasty debuff on everything within 30 feet. (-14% damage, -40% recharge, -70% movement speed). It won't affect enemies around you if you have more than 50' stealth radius, and are out of combat mode. (On a semi-related note, most enemies hate this debuff - I've pulled mobs off of people in PI with it, without ever actually activating another power. It's surprisingly easy to get and keep aggro with a /Ice, if there's no hard taunt on the team.)

You might be able to get away with dark-tinted Gravity or Kinetics powers looking like you're trapping stuff in syrup, and IIRC, they slow, too, for extra theme points. (Not sure how well Singularity will work with that theme, though!) One of the teleports (I think the one from Experimentation?) has the character covered in goop - not sure how well it'll retint though.

I generally stick to the normal inspirations, with 2 exceptions: Medium team break frees last for 180 seconds. Super regular break frees last for only 120. Well worth it against mez-happy groups, even if you only use them on yourself. On low defense builds, a single large purple doesn't quite hit the softcap, and 2 of them is way over. I usually stock both large purples and large dual def/resist inspirations on those builds, as 1 of each puts me to a little over the softcap, with some bonus resistance for whatever does hit.

Can we also have each Unique IO (including ATOs and Purples) be randomly allowed to have 0, 1, or 2 copies slotted? (That's by individual IO, not set, btw.)

Well, there is a stage by the lake. Who's to say that they don't hold regular concerts there?

Funnily enough, despite my main qualifying for this proposed accolade - I don't want it, as the reward feels rather against the spirit of the challenge. Also, you may want to pick a different alternate unlock for existing toons. Some of us aren't fans of the "advanced" content - myself included. (Specifically, I'm not a fan of the general culture around them.) Forcing players to join content they really don't want to join is never a good plan. Likewise, self-imposed challenges like this are probably best left to the honor system and/or stay rewardless - the reward is your own pride at the accomplishment.

Now that you mention it, I do recall that mission. Haven't played it since Live, so I may have to take a look. Which arc? As for Nemesis putting enemies in there, I think there's a side mission somewhere that either has you freeing a few captured heroes from inside the Warhulks, or preventing them from being placed in them in the first place. Again, I think that was a bit I stumbled into on Live, so no idea which arc/contact (or if it's even in-game, and I'm just mis-remembering!) Sorry, poor phrasing on my part. The debutants are definitely being manipulated into being Carnies, but I got the impression that there was a subtle psionic effect on them making them more suggestible and less aware, in addition to the more mundane tricks the Carnies are using to manipulate them.

Not only do Warhulks explode, they're piloted. Technically. Maybe. I seem to recall a piece of lore somewhere in-game mentioning that Nemesis puts captured enemies in the Warhulks, so they might just be autonomous prison robots that kill the prisoner when defeated. (Because that's not nightmare fuel at all, even if I can totally see Nemesis doing just that.) Oh, and the Carnies are double fun - their ranks aren't just comprised of willing souls. Between a tip mission in-game where you stop 3 already partially mind-controlled girls from joining, and the comics where Vanessa threatens to turn War Witch into one, it's pretty much a given that a not insignificant number of Carnies are their mind controlled victims. I'm actually kind of happy that this game doesn't have gore, so no thanks. Especially given how much nightmare fuel is already in the game, if you look for it.

Now, now - those just explode when the person inside is forcibly teleported away, leaving the (now empty) armor behind. Whether or not they actually end up in the upstate penitentiary is another story... About that... I totally got my hands on some of the mythical "Healing Arrows" that Trick Archers keep claiming they have. How else do you think my Heroic archer manages to safely "arrest" people? What do you mean, "you don't believe me"?!

Huh. I usually get weird invite errors when I'm inviting from tells, not from broadcast/local. And that alignment bit doesn't even make sense in the Abyss - isn't that one red-only? Perhaps there's a hidden cooldown on those commands to prevent spamming/botting of some kind, and you're just inviting people faster than the engine thinks you should be able to? I've only ever heard of one situation where that was the real-ish reason: the wifi was extended from another building, and the high winds did not nice things to the antennas that the wifi was transmitted between buildings with.

I've seen these errors as well - pretty sure they're what the game spits out when you try to invite a character that is zoning. Otherwise, yeah, this would be a nice QoL benefit!

It's very good, but I feel like it's missing something... Neon orange sparkles maybe? I thought that's what Granite Armor was for.

If you do run them, blaster sustains are generally twice as powerful as Stamina for recovering endurance. For my blasters, I usually leave only a Performance Shifter +Endurance in Stamina, as putting the End Mods in my sustains doubles slot efficiency. Also, the first 2 End Mod enhancements in a sustain give (slightly) more average endurance per second vs. the Performance Shifter proc, so the slotting priority does change somewhat. Depending on your Blaster Secondary, you can skip the hit and run on some enemies: Immobilizing mobs cripples a surprising number of them. Many low level enemies have very weak, if any ranged attacks, and immobilizing them is almost as good as holding them (and is generally better if you can break LoS or out-range them - many immobilizes are relatively cheap, fast recharging, and have long durations). You can even stand about 15-20 feet away from some bosses and just keep them immobilized while you wait for your endurance to recover (Bone Daddies are really susceptible to this, but don't try it with a Damned).