Zolgar

Just to put this out there: I'm pretty well introverted and have absolutely no self confidence. If I can form a TF, almost anyone can. >.>

I did a Fire/Cold controller ages ago for a similar concept. What you're looking for though I think I would be more prone to do an Ice/Fire dom: Harnessing the cold to immobilize and shut foes down, while using the fire offensively.

It's also a useful power on a stone tank/brute. It's teleport.. WITH DAMAGE! :) Can confirm, Spring Attack is a fun AoE that does good knockdown. Great for tanks, it compliments Foot Stomp when it's on cooldown. The only thing I don't like about it is that often I end up miles away by accident because it's not PBAoE. :D This should be the right set up for that: /macroimage Jump_SpringAttack powexeclocation target Spring Attack If I have that right, it will create a macro with the Spring Attack icon, that when clicked will activate on your current target.

I don't really have a favorite AT anymore. Used to be brutes, and I do still love brutes.. I just also love pretty much all the other ATs as well. I am more or less "main"ing a scrapper right now, if I am capable of having a main, used to not be able to stand scrappers.

So much this. Even running a task force isn't hard. I do it all the damn time, even with TFs I don't really know all that well. I mean if you're trying to do like a MOITF or something, then you probably don't wanna PUG it, but otherwise, just post you're forming a TF and it WILL fill.

Yeah, this arc is great for merits. The worst part about it is Freakshow on kill-all maps, so you have to sit there and wait at a mob to make sure they don't pop back up when you leave. That, and it's an older arc so it kinda takes you on a tour of the entire freaking city for no reason, which can be vexing if you don't have multiple tools to expedite travel between zones. Still, 55 merits and personally it took me about 1.5 hours, because I wasn't stealthing most of the missions.

So, were I going to do this, I would set up binds for each toggle independently, and then set my macro to fire off those binds. So I would basically say bind ctrl+shift+z to powexectoggleon Fire Shield, ctrl+shift+x to powexectoggleon Blazing Aura, and so forth. Then set my keyboard macro so hit ctrl+shift+z, wait 1 second, ctrl+shift+x, wait one second, and so forth. One of the reasons for this is if you have a partial toggle drop, you can hit the macro and it will attempt to toggle on each power, whereas if you just used a command based off it's place in a power tray, it would activate any there weren't on, and deactivate any that were. Though honestly, my experience using a multi-power macro with a similar keyboard was that it wasn't worth the hassle due to it interrupting other commands you do. I preferred just a series of macro taps to activate each power.

Pretty sure Titan was one of the final things released on Live?

If we were talking Generic Medieval Fantasy MMO #1,005,623, I would completely agree that an American Independence Day celebration would have no place in it. If we were talking a dystopic cyberpunk MMO where the world was controlled by megacorporations, I could certainly see the arguments against such a celebration (or at least having an in-world reason why it was still being celebrated). But we're not though. This is a modern-day Superhero MMO set in, primarily, a fictional city in the state of Rhode Island. Independence Day is going to be a thing, it's going to be celebrated because the majority of the population of Paragon City (not just the heroes but also the NPCs) are going to be American. Now, whether or not there is anything planned in game, that's an entirely different matter and, if there is not, I have no issue with that.. We've got a team of volunteer devs and game masters who all have lives outside of the game, plus they have had other things to do than prep an event because this server sort of experienced explosive growth. I just think the argument that "since people in other countries play the game, an American holiday shouldn't be celebrated" is, quite frankly, silly.

Titan/WP is going to be a tough one for soloing AVs. I would recommend getting the Envenomed dagger that Jag mentioned, and going with Degenerative. Slot as many chance for -res procs as you can in your attacks, and get the Robots Lore pets. Degenerative, as you mentioned, gives -max hp The dagger and the robots will stack up a lot of -regen and -res will help you deal more damage, which against a single foe is super important on a brute.

So, if you're duoing with a tank, don't go Titan/Bio scrapper. It's not that it's not a good combo, quite the opposite, it's an amazing combo. It's a combo that kills GMs solo. It's a combo that is going to make that tank feel like they're not doing anything because the moment you hop in to a mob, everything is dead. I think I would choose something more single target focused than Titan, bio is still a good choice for self survival, just remember that it's got a taunt aura so you may pull foes off the tank occasionally. Consider for duoing with a tank instead going with a stalker, honestly. Tanks tear down lts and minions efficiently enough, so you as a stalker can focus on the bosses, and you rely on the tank to hold agro (... well you really don't, but it's easy to pretend you do), and don't pull much agro away from him.

Boosting inf wouldn't be a problem at all, since you can already get double inf if you turn XP off at level 50 or while exemplared.

Wait until your flying teammates get Afterburner. That requires 2 powers and slots to out perform me on move speed (with one power, no slots used), and even then sometimes I can still win because I am extremely adept at dodging around buildings that they, being slightly less agile will fly up and over. >.> Now make no mistake, those ground travel skills also translate to air travel skills, and my flyer with afterburner would beat my speedster to the door about 9 times in 10. I find that people who rely too much on flight become complacent and forget how to travel efficiently though.

Clarion. Hybrid is a 2 min on, 2 min off toggle. T4 clarion offers perma mez protection, though the last minute isn't super high mag, it's enough to deal with 'most' mez you'll run in to.

Rarely do I have real naming issues. If I roll a character with a name in mind, sometimes it becomes problematic if that name and everything close to it is taken, especially if their name is tied closely to their concept. When I made my semi-reformed Freakshow, an ele/rad 'troller. My first name choice was R34ct0r which was taken, my second and third choices were R34ctor and Nuk3, both available at the time. Had both been taken, I would have gone further down the line of electric and/or radiation terms until I found one that I liked the way it flowed in 1337. Sh0ck3r, F4ll0u7, etc. When things go really pear shaped, I resort to other languages and/or using a thesaurus to try and find alternatives that have a good ring. I also like to research things about said character to find something that works. When I made my bunny-girl stone brute on live, I started researching types of stone to find one that had a cool sound to it, of course when I found the mineral 'boninite' her name was set. Buninite >.>

Also, don't be afraid to explore other languages for names. "Night Dragon" is taken, is Nachtdrache? (on Everlasting it is :p )

Also, if you're used to ground travel, SS is still a damn fast travel power. I've been running around as a Speedster lately, and I'm usually the first to the door because I run without travel powers so much that I am used to covering distances like that.

You don't come across as "too hard core". You come across as one of the flavors of RPers that gives RPers a bad reputation and puts people off of ever trying to RP. Everything you have said on these forums says one thing about you to me, and that is "Elitist gatekeeper". Which is cool and all, you do you, but using /ignore on people who don't live up to your definition of "respect and love" for the game is anything but 'flexible'.

That was EXACTLY what I loved about it back then! It was called a hazard zone for a reason, now...it's just another zone to me. Yeah, well, most sane people hated when missions were placed deep in them pretty much blocking off progress because you can't reach the door... To a sane person, they just zoomed out the camera and noticed, if you go around the building and squeak along the wall, there's just enough room to slide through the door without them noticing. ... sometimes.

You expressed my general opinion in a much more eloquent manner than I could have.

Do me a favor: Re-read my first post. I had no intention of malice or aggression to that post, I was pointing out to you that where this RP interaction went wrong was with you, not the other RPer. You took this as aggression. Now, put yourself in this other RPers shoes for a moment. Someone you don't know informs you that there is something wrong with your character, whether or not there actually is. This is a character you have established their history, you know who they are, you know why they exist. This rando suggests you change your character to suit the lore as they know it. How will you react to that? how will you handle being told (no matter how politely) "Your character's history is wrong, you should change it."? Because I can almost guarantee you that that's what the RPer heard, just like you heard aggression in my response. Now, I imagine you're probably kind of like me, and if this particular incident happened to you, you'd go back and double check the lore and make adjustments as needed, but you might not be super receptive to the idea when broached, because "who the hell does this guy think he is, telling me how to change my character to fit his version of the lore."

The purpose of attuned sets is so that those sets aren’t level-locked and retain their bonuses across their entire level range. As I would love to see the answer in print: Why would you want Attuned Common enhancements? So I can slot at 7 and not have to replace it until I am 50 and doing sets? If you use Attuned set IOs, you can slot them as soon as those sets become available and keep the bonuses whether you Exemplar down or play at 50. Sure, which relies on finding set pieces that cover what I want in the price range I want. Plus most of the ones I can slot at low levels reach their peak at 30. If I could do it with basic IOs, I could equip them at 7 (or 10, whichever) and they would keep improving until I hit 50.

The purpose of attuned sets is so that those sets aren’t level-locked and retain their bonuses across their entire level range. As I would love to see the answer in print: Why would you want Attuned Common enhancements? So I can slot at 7 and not have to replace it until I am 50 and doing sets?

How I feel about Hollows now? It, like so many other zones blueside, is kind of superfluous. It's a hold over from a forgotten age of MMOs where there wasn't really a 'story line', and you had tons of options for where to go and what to do as a character leveling up. It's a hold over from when leveling took forever. These days, even without double XP running, it's so fast and easy to level that you have to make the conscious choice to not out level contacts, you have to decide "no, I'm not going to go do a Positron TF because I want to do the Hollows storyline." The 'new' design is good, the storyline there is decent. That people only go there for FF and CoT now has nothing to do with the redesign, it has everything to do with the current leveling curve. How I felt about it back then? "Aw shit, Hollows missions?" *sprints across zone, avoiding baddies, only to find mission door camped by purples who kill him before he can get to the door*

The Pay 2 Win vendors, found in several zones, under 'prestige powers > travel > teleport', the mission tele for just you costs 1 mil, the team transporter costs 10 mil.