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Me neither, I'd phone. But I wouldn't be surprised in the least if that is what they'd ask; it's classic account identity verification stuff.

I'd bet they'd ask for exactly that kind of information.

This already exists. You have to be in the WW/BM interface, but that's OK, because that's where you buy the salvage from anyway.

This would be great. Also: the ability to log out to character select.

Plenty of long animations are on powers that are not massive damage/debuff, and plenty of really good powers have fast animations. Heck, lots of times the power is good because of the fast animation, and many bad powers are bad because of the length of their animations. As long as we are dreaming, the replacements could be just as flashy, but shorter.

For the "good power, long animation" side, things like Full Auto, sure. It's long but effective. Same with Rain of Arrows. Then you have Eagle's Claw. A long, ugly animation with all sorts of wasted "hang time" for an attack that is actually pretty bad, overall. Shadow Maul's another one that people don't like, although I don't mind it. Jump Kick? Is that still the horrible flip animation? Shout? Electron Haze? Neutron Bomb (which suffers more because of the travel time of the bomb)?

I just find that a lot of powers are no-picks for me because their animations are terrible and long. Your mileage may vary. Not everything needs to be Blaze, but nothing should be Shout. I think capping animations at 1.5 seconds would make for a faster, funner game, although I realize some might disagree.

Only that you not aim to be a healer. Every set is great but even Empathy is better off focusing on its buffs, not the heals.

Effectively, yeah. Once you start approaching around 96% it's pretty much ED capped.
Higher mob levels, fewer targets are where it's at there. I deleted my necro/pain at 44 because my bots/traps made it look pathetic, but it was still a decent set assuming I didn't try to slide the difficulty dials all the way to the right.

It is not. Scrapper versions are ST, but tanks and brutes are 5-target AoEs. In addition, Taunt is autohit and provides a range debuff on the mob, where Provoke requires a hit check and applies no debuff. Provoke lasts a shorter time. Provoke is in all relevant ways inferior to Taunt on brutes and tanks.

EDIT* Deleted cause everyone has a different playstyle and mine isn't the only right one. Sorry for bein' a jerk.

It will make them move faster but has no effect at all on recharge.

Nope, there isn't, and I sure wish there was.
Masterminds are so damn good that basic IOs or SOs are fine. There are a few key uniques that can really help some sets but they are far from necessary. Some pets do get some endurance issues after gaining their top upgrade but you can deal with that when it happens.
I might catch some flak for this, but yes. Yes, it is. Necro/Poison is a squishy single-target debuff specialist and bots/traps is a def capped AoE monstrosity. Bats/tarps is a combo that plays to the game's design very well.
Good grief, no, don't do it. You will hate your bots forever. However the Explosive Strike proc is awesome in bots.

I will be the first to disagree It's a good debuff and certainly the best of the MM personal attacks, although that's not saying much.
Agreed, it's worth considering on anyone. It's great mitigation.
Note that this has no effect on your pets. They are immune to anything that speeds up their recharge.

The endurance troubles mainly start for the prot bots once you get the final upgrade. Don't worry about it until then!
Get the Mu patron pool and love life. Electric Fences does wonderful things for your fighting ability.

It's not that bad. Only one second of the animation is interruptible and you can, if you like, slot an interrupt reducer to bring that time down to 2/3 of a second, but I just slotted Doctored Wounds and went to town. If a DoT gets on me from something then it might be an issue but usually it just fires off fine.

Yeah, it's unfair of me to paint them all with the same brush. Most likely, an incompetent fire/kin would be as useless as a scrapper or defender, too. It's the singer, not the song, as they say. Bad players are bad players, regardless of AT.

And they will be first against the wall when the revolution comes.

Wait until you get the protector bots, they charge into melee, and they don't even have a melee attack. I'd give my left whatever for the ability to tell the robots to stay in one place and shoot from there, do not pursue or close to melee.

Your post actually reminded me that I was wrong when I said I have had no teams that were ruined by one member being a tool. Fire/Kins on Master runs invariably screw it up, because they think that they are unstoppable forces for soloing everything that refuse to listen. So, I must retract my previous statement.

Now that I think about it, almost every incompetent player I have met and remembered was either a tank or a fire/kin.