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Okay.... You do not want to solo. You call that "grinding" even if every single mission and story arc is different for three months play. Okay. Do not do it. I also offered up team options. Which you did not address. I can only assume since there are maybe 10-15 "types" of things a 50 team does that would very quickly become "grinding" Your original post said there was nothing to do at 50. That you did not understand the detailed explanations people gave of what to do at 50. I offered up months of easy to find and non repeat content. "But that is grinding." I got nothing. You do not seem to WANT to play the game. But it is the game's fault because there is nothing to do. Good luck.

Null Gull add Power Button (combat stance, no combat stance) Basically that is what a shield power does, locks the thing on.

We have a test server? I test on live.

Wouldnt it be great if the weapons NEVER disappeared. Oh, but you say, they have to. If you use X power then it has an alternate animation. Solution. Costume editor. that power. Alt Animation. Hold weapon up. Shoot weapon. Hold weapon forward. Anything. with weapon. Because my OCD butt twists myself in knots with backstories that describe the animations. Disappearing weapons.... this is challenging. For NO reason. Simple alternate animation. Literally shoot gun. Hold sword up. Swing sword. W/e All of that is in game.

The simplest "guide" for 50s beyond 50? Do every contact at 50. There are a few HUNDRED contacts that are 35-50, 40-50, 45-50, and 50. These are not through Ouro. Many of them are trying to reach you in your contacts window or through messages to you. For 50 incarnate. If you just want to grind solo all of Dark Astoria was made for you. It is Incarnate. It is waiting. You like teams? level 50 kill most Imperious TF will open your Incarnate slots so fast! Any level 50 Strike Force. Task Force, or Trial is where you should be focusing. 50 teams running content at 50 are not bad either. Then do Incarnate Trials for components. I have yet to give detailed advice. I gave options for solo and teaming. Go, do, be.

As an old Brute player….the heyday is long over. Beyond the great Brute Fury nerf from live…. Tanker and Scrapper ATOs are much stronger and Tanks are getting never ending buffs and upgrades on HC. The days of Brutes being near the best at anything are long gone.

I run my Tank as I badge. Sometimes a week at a time. Sometimes there are two-three Tanks/Brutes. Funnily enough when i am on my Blaster I seem to see a lot less Heavies. Perception i am sure. But i tend to still tank on my Blaster. There are faceplants

I want one

Yeah. I have switched to Tanks on my Dark Dark heavy. Much better build and arguably better damage

Well, in edge cases Brutes were outdamaging some Scrappers on live. So they were nerfed into stupid zone. After that Scrappers always performed at least slightly and generally moderately better than Brutes. Before ATOs. Which, Brute ATOs are just an insult. Salt in the wound of the Fury nerf.

We all know that for same/similar power sets the lineup is roughly (best to worst for DPS only) Stalker, Scrapper, Brute, Tank. Some of the differences are (in my opinion) not huge. Where exactly would a Sentinel fit in there. Survivability is off the table. This is just a DPS race. Same power sets, or the Sentinel equivalent to the melee. Energy Melee to Energy Blast, Ice Melee to Ice Blast etc.

I am seriously thinking of making one of these just to grief teams. I do not normally play like that. But when the universe delivers two free pizzas to your door.... Holy Nova! Holy Nova! Holy Nova!!!

I can get a Blaster to 50 with 0 damage inflicted.... Slap their butt in AE and use my alt acct farmer to get them 0-Incarnate in a day or so grind. 🙂

I do love the many concepts we can create and the depth of personal lore we can write for our creations.

Truth in advertising. Do not mislead people. This set should be called for what it does. Completely obscure a team or league from being able to see anything. Blind Team set? Wish Your Team could See set? Hmmm, I can see where they struggled to get one or two words to describe it. But do not give up!

Well, I was just in two Red SF where the leader upped the difficulty. These are Sharkhead and there was no reason. team had no healers and light damage. i am on my Exemp'd 50 AR Blaster. We load into one mission. The team is right on top of a Longbow spawn. I dont want to waste full auto. I am fully stealthed. I hover past them and up a blacony. Full LB spawn waiting to ambush them. I drop caltrops and a mine in front of it. Line up my full auto shot. And a STORM of Longbow run towards me. targeted ambush, stealth was useless. They did the "Airplane" scene on me and then turned around and ran back through the door they came from. *blink.... really? F me.

They just toggle off then when you rez you turn it on. But here is the thing. I make an AR Dev Blaster. A little green army nan! So cool. Tiny little perfect solid green toon Blasting everything with his rifle. He dies and he is 4-5 feet tall…. I got no backstory that makes sense here. Nothing explains this concept break. For the low low price of about 500 million?

You want high damage. You said other stuff, but pretty sure you said the higher the better. Most crap after that is irrelevant The highest damage here us a Fire/something Blaster. With FireFire prob top Only thing is it is prob a nightmare for a new player. If you can stomach range (less damage but tons more safety) I would suggest a Beam aRifle or Assault Rifle. One of the main problems with Fire is it has no secondary effect to mitigate incoming damage. No stun, no to hit debuff, no knockdown, oh it does get one thing. More damage as the secondary effect. It just obliterates rooms. But if you do not know the missions, the mobs, the maps you will end up in the floor. Like, a lot of floor. You will learn the ground texture of every map we got. Still, I suggest you try a Blaster. Find a theme. We have many power sets. A Blaster is straightforward and does the highest damage in the game. It can be challenging. So maybe do not jump into the deepest end of the pool. At first If you want to take a tourist look at it jump on a Beam Rifle Willpower Sentinel. Middle of the road damage and just easy fun. Great way to learn the maps and the game. You need both knowledge and damage to get things done fast. If you have the best DPS and little knowledge it will be a rough road.

We do appreciate the attention to detail! Thank you.

That was the sentence on the Wiki I was looking for Uun! Thanks. The Set Bonuses of Purple (Very Rare) sets, PvP sets, Archetype Origin sets, and Winter Origin sets are immune to the effects of exemplaring. However, the aspects of the power that they buff (e.g., Accuracy or Damage) are affected by exemplaring just like any other enhancement.

Well, why would you like the Blueside bar? Obviously you are villains. Go RP Redside. Oh....but do not forget to insist they clean it up and gentrify it. Maybe some new paint to. Anybody? Get these shlubs painting. Maybe....oh, blue!

Thanks for all the research folks. I've spent the last chunk of time doing the MiDs, respeccing the 2nd build, buying the crap from the AH, and slotting catalyzing etc. And doing my normal studies on the side. So definitely appreciate the boots on the ground data!

Read my OP, it is a cut/paste from the Wiki

Thank you so much. I was busy building the crazy little monster in MiDs assuming this was true. Nice to know for a fact. at 9 powers up to 14 will work. Set bonus from "normal" level 10 sets will work. Globals (attuned, if the go down to 10) work in powers shut off. as do set bonuses in powers shut off....so i slapped two purple sets and a Sup Winter in greyed out powers for some bonuses. This will be my 2nd build and then after I have done ALL level 9 Ouro badges will rebuild for level 14. Here is what the little monster looks like: (ignore the random 1 pieces here and there in the greyed out stuff, was looking at options) This Hero build was built using Mids Reborn 3.4.7 https://github.com/LoadedCamel/MidsReborn Click this DataLink to open the build! Level 50 Magic Blaster Primary Power Set: Assault Rifle Secondary Power Set: Devices Power Pool: Flight Power Pool: Leadership Power Pool: Fighting Ancillary Pool: Force Mastery Hero Profile: Level 1: Slug (A) Superior Blaster's Wrath - Accuracy/Damage (3) Superior Blaster's Wrath - Damage/Recharge (3) Superior Blaster's Wrath - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge (5) Superior Blaster's Wrath - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (5) Superior Blaster's Wrath - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge (7) Superior Blaster's Wrath - Recharge/Chance for Fire Damage Level 1: Caltrops (A) Ragnarok - Chance for Knockdown (39) Ragnarok - Damage/Recharge (40) Ragnarok - Damage/Recharge/Accuracy (40) Ragnarok - Recharge/Accuracy (40) Javelin Volley - Damage/Recharge (42) Javelin Volley - Chance of Damage(Lethal) Level 2: Buckshot (A) Superior Frozen Blast - Accuracy/Damage (7) Superior Frozen Blast - Damage/Endurance (9) Superior Frozen Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (9) Superior Frozen Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge (11) Superior Frozen Blast - Damage/Endurance/Accuracy/RechargeTime (11) Superior Frozen Blast - Recharge/Chance for Immobilize Level 4: Burst (A) Superior Defiant Barrage - Accuracy/Damage (13) Superior Defiant Barrage - Damage/RechargeTime (13) Superior Defiant Barrage - Accuracy/Damage/RechargeTime (15) Superior Defiant Barrage - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (15) Superior Defiant Barrage - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime (17) Superior Defiant Barrage - RechargeTime/+Status Level 6: M30 Grenade (A) Overwhelming Force - Accuracy/Damage (17) Overwhelming Force - Endurance/Recharge (19) Overwhelming Force - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (19) Overwhelming Force - Damage/Endurance/Recharge (21) Overwhelming Force - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge (21) Overwhelming Force - Damage/Chance for Knockdown/Knockback to Knockdown Level 8: Beanbag (A) Apocalypse - Damage/Recharge (23) Apocalypse - Damage/Recharge/Accuracy (23) Apocalypse - Recharge/Accuracy (25) Apocalypse - Damage/Endurance (25) Apocalypse - Chance of Damage(Negative) (27) Absolute Amazement - Chance for ToHit Debuff Level 10: Targeting Drone Hamidon Origin:Cytoskeleton Exposure Level 12: Sniper Rifle (A) Experienced Marksman - Accuracy/Damage (27) Experienced Marksman - Damage/Interrupt/Range/Recharge (29) Gladiator's Javelin - Accuracy/Damage (29) Gladiator's Javelin - Accuracy/Damage/End/Rech (31) Gladiator's Javelin - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge (31) Gladiator's Javelin - Chance of Damage(Toxic) Level 14: Taser (A) Superior Winter's Bite - Accuracy/Damage (31) Superior Winter's Bite - Damage/RechargeTime (33) Superior Winter's Bite - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (33) Superior Winter's Bite - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge (33) Superior Winter's Bite - Damage/Endurance/Accuracy/RechargeTime (34) Superior Winter's Bite - Recharge/Chance for -Speed & -Recharge Level 16: Fly (A) Winter's Gift - Slow Resistance (20%) Level 18: Assault (A) Empty Level 20: Tactics (A) Rectified Reticle - Increased Perception Level 22: Maneuvers (A) Karma - Knockback Protection Level 24: Trip Mine (A) Armageddon - Chance for Fire Damage Level 26: Full Auto (A) Javelin Volley - Accuracy/Damage/End/Rech Level 28: Time Bomb (A) Superior Avalanche - Accuracy/Damage (45) Superior Avalanche - Damage/Endurance (46) Superior Avalanche - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (46) Superior Avalanche - Recharge/Chance for Knockdown (50) Superior Avalanche - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge (50) Superior Avalanche - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge Level 30: Gun Drone (A) Gladiator's Javelin - Damage/Endurance/Recharge Level 32: Boxing (A) Absolute Amazement - Stun (42) Absolute Amazement - Stun/Recharge (43) Absolute Amazement - Stun/Recharge/Accuracy (43) Absolute Amazement - Recharge/Accuracy (43) Absolute Amazement - Stun/Endurance Level 35: Tough (A) Impervious Skin - Status Resistance/Regeneration Level 38: Personal Force Field (A) Shield Wall - +Res (Teleportation), +5% Res (All) Level 41: Temp Invulnerability (A) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3% Level 44: Force of Nature (A) Gladiator's Armor - TP Protection +3% Def (All) Level 47: Toxic Web Grenade (A) Gravitational Anchor - 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