Dispari

You honestly get more out of Hurdle than either Sprint or Swift.

Honestly even if someone was in an SG called "don't buff me" I probably wouldn't even notice. I have no issues not re-buffing someone if they ask me not to, but I think I've only ever had one person complain about a drive-by buff in the 39 months I've been playing.

If you ask nicely not to buff you that's one thing, but this whole "you should never buff anyone because it interferes with my playstyle" thing seems more like a one-man crusade to have everyone play your way. You can't expect everyone who comes by to not buff you, and yelling at them for it is just pointless instigation.

Gosh, I never knew how much of a quitter Dr Aeon was. Thanks for telling me, Television. *sits to watch more TV*

Or more realistically you could take them along on some sort of level 50 farm mission for just a few minutes to get them to whatever level you wanted to get them to. It would be identical to street sweeping farming, and could be done exponentially faster because you could actually be at a level where you have useful powers. Building up a level 8 character would be a ton of work to do one thing, and quite poorly compared to all the other existing options. Just saying.

I think our current system is decent. It's not great and it could be far better, but there's enough diversity to not call ED a waste.

You can do just SOs or standard IOs. But there's not much variety there. I mean, is there anyone who doesn't slot their attacks for 3x damage? Or doesn't put 3 RES slots in Temp Invuln? People are still slotting to the maximum.

As far as IOs go, there is variety there to a small degree. But there are too many junk sets and not enough alternatives. There are really only a couple things worth building for, and if you look at builds you're going to see the same sets springing up all the time. It's not like people are hitting new milestones and creating awesome new builds using sets like Trap of the Hunter or Pacing of the Turtle. It's all Positron's Blast and Luck of the Gambler.

Still, it's better than just having everyone 6-slot attacks and put all damages in them.

Hmm, so this is happening on the same day, but at a different time than whatever this is.

If you play a lot of female toons, I'd recommend wedding pack. The patterns that come with it are very useful, because A) they're some of the only textured pieces you get, and B) they match the magic pack parts almost too well.

Other than that I'd recommend valkyrie and then GvE, with cyborg being dead last.

Radiation secondary seems doable, since the powers Shivans use are basically Peacebringer powers. And I still hold out hope for secondaries involving Martial Arts or Katanas.

I checked to see if we weren't missing something and there was a newer article somewhere that actually had an interview, but no, this is the most recent link. I wonder if they'll post something new in the next day or two.

If suppressed, the DEF values are the same. If not, Stealth has double the DEF of CJ. Of course, that only matters if enemies attack you while you're sneaking around. And it's not much DEF anyway.

Pretty much any class can work as a mage if you use the right powers. But in my opinion, a mage is a squishy type person who uses abilities from far away (or can but doesn't always) and has a variety of spells to use. So I'd recommend:

1) Dominator - Doms do pretty high damage; some of the best in the game actually. But they're really squishy and easy to kill if they don't handle their control. Their sets are control/assault, which means their primary is devoted to mezzes and control while their secondary is a mix of melee and ranged attacks. They're redside (villains) and almost always have pets.

2) Controller - Controllers do very little damage until high levels, but they do have all sorts of neat abilities. You can play Controller as a sort of support mage who exists to help out friends rather than directly destroy things. Controllers are blueside (heroes) and have control/buff, meaning their primary job is to control enemies by locking them down and preventing them from attacking, and their secondary role is to buff and debuff to support a team and themselves. Controllers almost always have pets.

3) Defender/Corruptor - These two are a lot alike. Defenders are blueside, Corruptors redside. Both have ranged attacks and buffs/debuffs, just Defenders are more buff/debuff oriented and Corruptors are more damage oriented. You get blast attacks with some secondary debuff effects built in as well as a set of buffs and debuffs to support your friends and teammates.

4) Blaster - Blueside toon. Blasters are pure damage. They have ranged and melee attacks, as well as some self-buff powers. Blasters are pretty much the best flat-out damage dealers in the game and tend to get a variety of different attack types. Blasters will often also have debuffs and other secondary effects in their powers, and some even have other special abilities like Sonic's mass sleep or Ice's ice patch. As a mage, Blasters are much more straight-forward and mostly focused on dealing damage with less emphasis on the side-stuff that the others listed above have.

Hopefully some of that helps. And welcome to the game!