Snarky

I think most are probably activating the power and watching the fireworks...

Have you lost your mind? Being defeated is inevitable. And, as previously pointed out, necessary for badge progress. Devs putting timers on missions and then adding a LOT of difficulty in achieving goal.... that is infuriating. Dying? meh.

I think that was more “agree to misunderstand” lol. I prob was not clear. I was saying it does cost a billion once you start doing that. And on toons that i love this will happen, sometimes with the alt build as well

once you start boosting and combining Hami DSyncs to get +5 you really are sliding into the sockets on a carpet on Inf. So ....yes.

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Not everything is available in Ouro. But every badge is. There is a lot (a lot) of grindy filler that is not in Ouro. You will not miss it. Your plan to 50 then see the world is completely viable in the game

Do you want to invest? This is a good question. Not as important as you think in the modern game. Respecs are a pain but they are cheap (million inf a pop if not free) and infinite. So you can slap a ton of good stuff on an alt for a week and see if tou like what happens. Necessary for Dom experiments and farm builds usually. They are spendy Do you need a billion infamy build? Hmmm. My farmer has a billion inf farm build with winters and all sorts of great crap. But that build is useless in real game outside farm map. So i made an alt build for it that ran 2-3 hundred million, tops. There are a ton of solid builds out there that are in the low hundred million range. Sure, a Dom loves purple sets but there are many archetype and powersets that do fine on pretty standard builds. Seriously. Good luck and experiment as much as you want. Respecs are cheap. Get an alt base with storage for a few hundred enhancers and be the mad scientist

I looked where the stairs usually are. By the vators. The floors are mismarked somehow. Vators go 1-->2--->3--->2 So I thought maybe there was a different trick. Nice it is so confusing and different than anything else in the game. Gives that element of quality.

There appears to be no way to "get to the roof of the mission" I have killed everyone in the mission. i freed sir bedwetter. i have been up and down the elevators. i have looked for stairs. This is hours of fun. If only I could meet the Dev that wrote it.

You look funny and you are a terrible burden on your poor mother.

I think they do Ass Game in a different forum.

It does give me a serotonin boost when someone in game is like “are you Snarky from the forums?” My name i have shifted quite a few times to different characters. But every character that has worn the name for the last year is my Nosferatu. Suit cape etc. as close as I can get ( which is not far off, we could use some limb sliders to really push the oddness. ) My current project takes this concept to the Nth degree. I am soloing every contact in the game (blue red gold) for every mission they offer until they say go away. EVERYONE WILL KNOW SNARKY!!!

Ooooh that mission. Whoever designed that needs to have pliers applied to soft tissue I ran this at -1 on my storyline Brute. I hunted the mobs nearest the enemies exit goal. Then i would race back to see if there were enemies on the move. I picked off the closest group i could find then raced back. It was dicey towards the end as I had less than 30% leeway left. So glad it completed My Brute had no ranged attacks and was using P2W jet as a travel power. With a “real” toon this strategy would work far better

I think some players have a costume suppository. The things I have seen them pull out of their butt....

Its not the vet levels. At 50 (before too but 50 the nitrous kicks in ) there are a number of things that are game changers. Incarnate powers. Choose the right ones snd BAM. Archetype and powersets play a BIG role. The “build”. Having a great build is very important for speed running. Finally, understanding how to use your character and the mission goals. These factors will determine whether you are speeding along or casually strolling

In my opinion jumping to a less populated server will increase your issue not decrease it. This is due to the fact you will have even less options. If you want to team you will need to fit in there I would recommend just keep learning. You said, I believe, that you have not 50d yet. If you want to experience late game mechanics without a 50 pwning the mission jump onto any TF SF or Trial whose level cap is 45 or less. This will not solve all problems but it will help. Our SG does an ITF speed run in 10-13 minutes. After months of practice I feel useful 20-50% time depending on my map luck lol. There is a rock solid community of speed runners in the game. I am not one The SG I joined ( Cosmic Council, Excelsior) does very serious runs almost nightly. But the SG also caters to the casual crowd with “crawl through content” and “learning the lore” type events regularly. Finding a community that is interested in the things you are interested in will be key. This might not mean joining an SG. This might mean learning where the non speed run players hang out and what stuff they do. I would again suggest looking for 45 or less PUG groups advertising “not a speed run”. Good luck

I take the P2W Phase shift on many characters. It is rarely used I often forget it. Two memorable recent uses: 1) last Synapse mission, a Brute running through the mission to get to end. 2) same Brute running through Oranbega on a Treespec to get to the tree and vine room. It is literally a game changer when you need something exactly like it and nothing else will suffice.

The healing badges are easily achievable with a simple system. Get Destiny Rebirth. Join any AE arc. This is so you do not log out. Go to Mercy Island. Near the base portalmpast the nurse there is a bunch of marching soldiers. Stand in the middle of them and put rebirth on autofire. Leave all night

I am guessing (by looking at the pattern) that the Devs just ported the entire list and then populated. If there was nothing to populate it looks odd. But they did a lot of work hack and slash coding.

....unless you are burning a lot of unslotters that is a respec. respecs are not easy. but i like difficult things i guess. i enjoy MiDs craziness, and cramming a "perfect" build on a toon to test it is as fun for me as Doc Buzzsaw putting strange artifacts into Freakshow to see what happens. Difficult sure, but how else can you see how many people it will kill?

I respec because of the Purple sets and Superior versions mostly. Back on Live I had my mids build that I levelled with and just slowly "grew" into it. Unless it had purples, sigh. But now at 50 its a swapout. The regulars go back to base storage for the next toon and the Superiors come out of base storage and are slapped on.

Yeah. I am slow levelling a toon to 50. Real slow. But once i hit 50 the path (for me) will be similar to if i PL’d it 1) do the Ritki War Zone welcome to vanguard arc. Very short. Allows you to earn Vanguard Merits. Contact in RWZ in base area. (Done on the above mentioned toon at 35) 1a) i did slap in my level 50 build on a respec right? Dont forget! 2) do the Ouro arc that opens up Alpha slot. Saves a few minutes farming and knocks out a contact iff my to do list 3) farm to open incarnate slots, get one or two vet levels and incarnate threads. I do this with an alt acct. i load in that acct with a 50 farmer then invite from my main acct. main acct doorsits and farmer works. Before i had a farm acct I would run two-four ITF kill mosts or whatever level 50 pug TFs were inviting. About the same really. More exciting but slightly slower in actuality 4) start running Incarnate trials. This gets components and threads. If you do not do 3 above you can do endless BAF and sLAMBDA runs. 5) there is a story arc in OURO (burdens of the past level 50). Takes about 15 minutes to run once you figure it out. Rewards one incarnate component at end. Random common uncommon rare and very rare. Almost as good a chance to get a very rare as a common 6) oh look My 50 is all incarnated out! Run hard incarnate trials and join level 50 teams grinding hard content! 7) exemplar down and join any content with a kitted out Super ready to kick names and take ass

So that last mission has two parts. Free a few people then fend iff incoming mobs for 15 minutes that first group incoming. Kill everyone. Except one minion. The next group does not spawn until all are dead. You can mezze the little guy. You can ignore him (tanks and brutes) you can Just do not kill him. Then wait 15 minutes. Done

I rarely try to patch the Psi Hole in Invul. It starts to happen sometimes and then I play at it, but it is a fools errand imo. I walk on Hyperstrikes work pretty hard lol, so no worries there. Someone has to take the pure stuff and cut it enough for the street right? Thank you for your work. Right now everything is hypothetical, although I believe I will be finally 50ing this thing in less than 6 weeks!!!!

Any power can prove useful, some remarkably so, in the hands of a player. Any power, no matter how “good” it looks in an analysis, can be a dud. This, again, depends on the player This is actually one of the greatest strengths of City of Villains, err Heroes. I have a project on the back burner inspired by “The Midnight Bomber what Bombs at Midnight” from the Tick. AR/Dev/Munitions Blaster taking all bombs and the LRM. Meme? Sure. But will be fun and I bet I can get a ton of usefulness out of it. Efficient as a Fire/Fire??? Maybe more so for me, I have never blapped. But i will toe bomb and sit iff at range blowing crap up and laughing maniacally