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Leveling up a Merc/Poison MM, struggling and tired of recalling dead soldiers, then go to my 50 Beast/Nature MM and never have to resummon anything.

It really was a Godsend to have this game playable at this time in my life with Covid lockdown restrictions, whatever you want to call it. This was a great distraction, although I have put on some unnecessary girth, I am healthy and happy at home. As I am awaiting my 2nd dose, I will soon be out bike riding again trying to lose this gut that I earned fighting Freaks!

I took 15 minutes to cipher my characters. 25 character slots 2 only created as name savers, so 23 that earn influence. 171 million total liquid influence, none in email at the moment. Of the 23 alts, the "richest" has 33mm, and the "poorest" has 7K So I was correct on my ballot guesstimate, between 100mm and 1 bn.

Since I run 95% of the time with 2XP enabled, I have 1 influence farmer on 3 servers. They feed all the other alts. I have never actually calculated my total influence, but I know I have enough that I only farm when the farmer has built up enough patrol XP to get the bonus. Then I park it until it builds up again. With 3 farmers, I always have one to go to. I am proud that they are all different to keep it from being too monotonous. 3 farming tanks: One Fire/Savage; one Ice/Stone; and one Rad/WM.

On live, I played my stalker like a blaster. Dark/dark/Soul with a Moonbeam Assassin Strike

Ive never +5 level boosted an SO when you can use an IO instead. For instance, a level 50+5 EndMod IO in Stamina that with a level 50 Performance Shifter Chance for +Endurance is pretty darn sweet for 2 slots. And the Hami O change makes it so that when you combine 2 like Hami O's you dont get a 50+ Hami O, you get a level 51. you can do that two more times up to lvl 53.

Sure, I could eat croissants with the Tick and Arthur.

I cant say any zone is my favorite. There are certain sections of zones that mesh well with certain characters at certain levels. My first experience of this was on live. I loved the southern wall of Indy Port with my Rad/rad Defender when he hit level 27. My AR/Dev blaster loved sniping Trolls around the hospital in Skyway lvl 16-19 ish. On Homecoming, Ice tanker in Boomtown hunting down Lost. Then Terra Volta Trench for Lost Bosses. Fire/Savage tank at lvl 29 in Echo:DA melting the BP in the trench around where the GM spawns. Elec/Elec tank arresting Freaks in Crey's Folly. I wish there was a Badge for Super Stunners.

Beware of the zoombies!

What's this?

It's a hockey puck half hidden under a red blanket, of course.

I need a flannel shirt that tucks in.

Beast/Nature is/was a popular combo. It was my first MM on HC. Saw a lot of them on Indom. Definitely an easy mode combination, especially now that he's all incarnated out. Pretty much retired, though. Playing Bots/EA more, and Merc/Poison for a challenge.

I think it fails if your are in the middle of a respec and the server goes down for maintenance. This happened to me once on live.

How much better (to the original question posed)? ...Not much. Getting Hide as inherent? A bit better, but it would be like getting two level 1 secondary picks when all the other ATs get one. Then blasters cry about why they have to take that immob they never use.... Huge can of worms.

Much like you did with the Vahzilok, make a new mission arc with a badge that tells the story of the newly revamped "Ultra Warriors".

Yeah, but the thing is...he says it on the way out, too. Like you'll never be good enough for him.

Half as good as Tau Day

I have a Merc/Poison with Achilles proc slotted in soldiers as well. I apply Noxious Gas to the Commando and send him in first for a double whammy.

Don't get mad at your teammate that uses fold space, let the mobs get mad FOR you. Ommmmm. Thanks Buddah!

The second mission has to be run at level 50. I was attempting this on a lvl 27 SJ/WP scrapper. Could not get past the Magic EB even on easiest mode. Had to abandon, unfortunately. I even went so far as picking up a tray full of huge inspiration in the AH and retrying. Disappointing to get that far.

Mission one is awesome, feels like an accomplishment in and of itself. Taking a break after that one.

It runs fine for me on an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB. I have only 8 GB of system Ram.

Consider. You're in Bodyguard mode and you initiate attacking a group. You focus on the hardest target. A few minions are ignored and attack you and your henchies. Once the initial target is eliminated your henchmen will run back to you unless they are personally attacked. There is maybe one minion left. Decides to run. You immobilize it. Once you have control on that one target, your henchmen wont attack it unless you issue an attack order again. Is this a result of being in defensive stance? Do you switch to offensive stance at some point to stop this from happening? This is maybe the one thing that infuriates me the most. Just kill that guy! Why do I have to order you again? Grrrrrr...

War Mace is great on a tank. I really don't want to pick a worst tanker I ever played. I will say that I never played Stone Armor, Shield, or Axe, and really can't see ever doing that. I can't even remember seeing a Stone Armor tanker on Homecoming, although I am sure there are a few. The worst tank I ever saw played was a PB who thought he knew what he was doing but...nah.