Bionic_Flea

Taunt does have a duration, so it could be expiring. You might also have aggroed more than 17 critters and exceeded the cap. Taunt is also a multiplier that is part of the Threat formula that determines critter aggro: Threat = Damage * Debuff Mod * AT Mod * AI Mod * Range Mod * (TauntDurationRemaining * 1,000) (https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Threat). The Threat formula takes multiple factors into account, including an AT mod that IS reduced by stealth. However, while threat is reduced it is not eliminated. When I want to pull into the bowl on a tank I will taunt them and then hit them with an attack- judgment if possible - and continue switching targets to taunt and attack. I'll get 17 to follow me but more will come if some of those 17 are killed before the threat wears off. The threat formula is also why toggle debuffs are almost as good as taunt for herding. Edit- Doh! Beaten to the punch by Ironblade!

Luck of the Gambler, Hasten, ATOs, Purples, yadda, yadda, yadda . . . BOOM!! Perma Dom. Oh, and you want it to be on auto because it's a vicious cycle - fire enough attacks to get perma - now you have a brief, little boost to tohit, a full blue bar, mez protection, and the bigger badder mezzes. If domination, the inherent, recharges before it expires you keep all that going. If you let it expire you have to build up your bar again and lose mez protection and all the other stuff.

Take that filthy villain's money and give it to charity! I just so happen to run a charity for orphans and widows. I'm happy to help!

Flipper's not evil. That's his evil twin, Ripper.

The Flippers Association of Paragon (FAP) love you.

Laser beam eyes can take an Achilles -resist and Energy Torrent can take an Annihilation -resist

I give you . . . PACIFIC FLEA! Ice/Ice tanker - He gives his friends invisibility, taunts, provokes, and intimidates bad guys, then lays down Ice Patch and Whirlwind to keep everyone from fighting and getting hurt! When things get bad he can Hibernate, Phase Shift, Unrelenting, and Burnout to start it all again! (PS - another full set of either Mocking Beratement for more defense and recharge, or Perfect Zinger for another psi proc goes in Pacify. Mids wouldn't let me slot it, but I think it should be able to take taunt sets. If not, just shuffle slots elsewhere.)

I'd be OK with that on a character by character basis, like other Null options.

The little rings around powers, whatever colors they may be, make me feel that I should click it. I do have the freedom to click it or not. But the ring being there makes me think that the game is telling me I'm doing it wrong if I choose not to click it. You may think that I am silly for letting little rings give me an emotional response. It's true. I am a silly little bug that has spent a large chunk of my life playing an online super-hero game with strangers. What could be sillier?

Hedge, the first paragraph of your link says you can get V-merits by killing Rikti anywhere after obtaining the Vanguard badge. "A Vanguard Merit is a special salvage awarded for completion of tasks or defeat of Rikti in the Rikti War Zone as well as Rikti spawned from portals as part of the Rikti World Invasion event. Merits can also be earned by defeating Rikti elsewhere, such as in missions from contacts Steven Sheridan in Brickstown or Angus McQueen in Founders' Falls, or in the streets of Peregrine Island."

MSR is stupid, and possibly one of the dumbest designs in MMORPG history No, U!

Playing to level 13 is just too low to make a reasoned decision on a power set. I would say it takes until 50 and a full build, but at least until you have the last power in the set with a few slots.

*Hits BillZ with Super Tranq Dart; drags him away*

Wow! This was an all-hands-on-deck situation. I hope Zelene got her/his issue resolved.

Another potential culprit could be Reactive Defenses +scaling resist proc which adds 3% resist to all at base health.

Lumi, I love you but, you are overstating the difficulty of making influence in the game. Like here, although to a lesser extent, all you had to do was play your 50s and sell your drops. Of course, we didn't have converters for most of the time on live and those allow you to spin gold from straw. But back then you could still vendor the straw and some straw still sold for a few million. When inventions came out, I had more than enough infamy to supply my characters with SOs. I then started slowly converting some old and most of my new alts to generic IOs. I didn't start with sets because of the costs, but because I had no real sense of sets and bonuses and so forth. And then I was introduced to a forefather of Mids (Lil Pips' Hero Builder, maybe) and was finally able to learn and think of builds as a whole. I made an IO set build for a dark/regen scrapper that I wanted to PvP with. It was terrible by today's standards but it was much better than either the SO or generic IO build. I then started rebuilding my namesake, Bionic Flea an Inv/SS tank, and started slotting set IOs on new characters as I leveled them. I found that many of the IOs that were terribly expensive were magnitudes cheaper as recipes and started buying stacks of 10 of whatever I wanted. Then slot one, save two, sell seven. If they were expensive, that meant that a lot of people wanted them for lots of builds. And indeed, people paid me much more than the offer price just to BUY-IT-NAO as the cool kids said. I was a billionaire within the year of my starting that buy/slot/store/sell strategy. It may have been only a few months but honestly it's all a blur. Same thing here. We all started at zero anew. It wasn't long (a few months maybe) until I had a billion, then several, and now I have somewhere between 30-50 billion. I stopped keeping track because I have more than enough. I also stopped aggressively marketing, although I do still craft/convert/sell my drops and occasionally craft or convert things I bought on /AH months ago. I know that many people have just as much and some have 100s or perhaps 1000s more than me. And yet I still meet players every day that tell me they can't afford to spend a few million to buy an IO. And that's just not people who started playing this week. It was the same in the live game. Anyone can and could make INF if they took a little time to learn and a minimum amount of effort to do it.

My take: You have entirely too much time. I disagree that you either had inf at the beginning or were locked out. One lucky drop could finance a entire character, as long as you didn't use purples and PvPIOs. Beyond that it was not hard to make decent inf either flipping (buy the same item for a little and sell for a mark-up), arbitrating (buying cheap junk and selling to vendors), or, my preferred method, buying recipes and salvage then selling the crafted item. You forgot the chapter on Gagora and all those other inf selling industries. I think you make several very good points. But you are making definitive statements of the devs' intentions. Are you making assumptions or do you have inside knowledge? If they thought that incarnates were a bridge between IO-based vs SO-based characters they were high. Yes, incarnates can provide anyone with great power, but it does nothing to close the gap -- the IO-based character started from a much higher base and went into the stratosphere where the SO-based builds couldn't go.

Clap, clap, stomp! or is it Stomp, stomp, clap?

Yes, Which gives us this lovely sentence: Resistance resists resistance reduction.

An excellent, succinct summation of the City of Heroes chat channels and forum. A+

Thanks. It is a lot of Recovery, but that's with Touch of the Beyond up. Then again, no reason for it not to be up, other than a miss or forgetfulness. I started leveling a Psi/Shield scrapper. But this Darkx3 should be my next project.

We already have AT specific defense hardcaps from 175 to 225. https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Limits

And with this, you lost me. I hope the devs punish you by not implementing your multi-Null request. You will fly and like it!

I just finished theory crafting a Dark/Dark/Soul and went a slightly different direction. I decided to skip almost all of the cones and use teleport to fold critters to me for Aim+Soul Drain+Blackstar. I tossed in Burnout at the end to double that up, but I should be able to do that combo every 45 seconds or so without Burnout or the FF +Recharge Proc. The defense/resist numbers are a little lower than I like, but I think with the -tohit in everything, heal in Life Drain, and Regen from Touch of the Beyond I may have enough.