Gulbasaur

I played a storm/water defender and thoroughly enjoyed it. Because of Lightning Storm and, to a lesser extent, Tornado, I will say it's worth going absolutely bananas on recharge with the Storm primary and I say that as someone who usually avoids doing so. Yes, it hammers your endurance, but you can recharge it pretty quickly as well with procs and one of the tertiary powders has a nice endurance recharge power. You're in a constant state of "if I ever stop, I'll die" because you need to push hard on the control but there's something beautiful about getting three lightning clouds out at once and just holding an area hostage. I don't use a single KB>KD IO, which will suprise nobody.

I say "Chilled out missions teams running in X at level Y, anyone welcome" or similar. People like specifics, so giving a location helps get people in because it makes the group feel organised. The words "chilled out" in an LFG description is my cheat code for nicer groups.

*shakes head* Peacebringer nonsense. Glowy eyes glow. I made about a million billion of these while in a zoom meeting and those four were about the only really good ones. It was fun twiddling about with key words, though.

Okay, I gave in. It was unexpectedly difficult to not make Bing generate images I'd describe as a bit slutty. Lots of mankini stuff going on, and it really didn't want to take inspiration from Sunstorm and Moonfire's costumes. Also, it really wanted him to have pierced ears.

It was mentioned at some point by someone on the HC team a while ago that HC are deliberately avoiding doing things that have been released on other servers and preferring to make their own content and powers. It would attract claims of copying, even if it did originate in some form pre-shutdown (Wind Control, Primalist archetype), but also it helps differentiate the servers so they each have their own unique content.

Hasten is a fairly easy slot-in so I can see the appeal. I have to admit that I almost never take it on principle; it's too powerful as a power and I'll always pick interesting over blunt force upgrades. There's also the endurance issue - I've cut it as fine as I can get it without being an endurance hog and Hasten passively makes you burn through more endurance. I do use it on some characters (my storm/water defender is an experiment in how much I can abuse recharge buffs), but it's too much of a dirty choice for my fort.

It's enough for general gameplay. As long as you don't run up to mobs, you should be absolutely fine.

Oh, absolutely. Goodwill towards your fellow players is pretty much what makes or breaks an MMO. The fact that their behaviour is notable speaks quite positively overall for the City Of Heroes/Villains community.

As someone who stopped playing originally in like issue 7, I came onto Homehoming with literally no idea about Invention Origin enhancements, Ouroboros, VEATs, or *gestures vaguely at everything*. I didn't know what I didn't know. That said, I tried not to be weird about it. I did not try to be sober about it.

Honestly? Most of them. I'd definitely run through the First Ward and Night Ward arcs if you haven't already; I really think they're about as good as it gets for storytelling in the game, outside of Dark Astoria (which is also quite good).

I take Provoke because I enjoy tanking and teleport target because it's handy for groups. If you don't want them, pick something you do want. Everyone plays differently.

I usually just stack up the damage ones, to be honest. Musculature etc. Really pick what you think looks good.

Nothing against either. Talos has some cool arcs, particularly. Definitely worth spending time in both places. This is a completely insane thing to say as it shows just how unemployed I was in 2020-2021, but Skyway's roads don't link up in any sensible way and I've never forgiven the zone for that. I think one loops back without joining onto any other roads. I tried to walk from one end of the city to another on only roads and Skyway was such a mess it didn't work.

Don't be silly. They're clearly talking about Dance Dance Revolution.

Sorry, I thought I'd replied to this a few days ago. It's unlikely now. My life is just much busier than it used to be! Redlynne's guide is pretty comprehensive, though.