Eva Destruction

Doesn't the Invention tutorial or the guy standing by the market tell you that?

The AE players aren't playing AE, they're playing Incarnate stuff. Between that and a recent double XP weekend, there's a shortage. If you (not you Fulmens, general "you") have a problem with the shortage, go play some AE and roll some tickets, or exemp and kill stuff. Use what you need, sell what you don't, profit. It's not like you're being prevented from doing so by your own lack of low- to mid-level characters. These aren't Pool C recipes.

More tedious? Yes. At least that failure is over quickly. The one time I ran Barracuda and failed it took forever...although the massive 5th Column ambushes were fun.

As opposed to a handful of shiny missions that require you to zone twelve times, just to click two blinkies and beat up four EBs (If you use your mission drop you only have to zone ten times, click one blinky and beat up two EBs) that you have to repeat on every character before you can even start to get anywhere? Yes, I would rather they just slap something together. Don't get me wrong, the Trapdoor and Honoree/Holtz encounters are a neat change of pace, but the first mission, the "unique" maps and the cutscene are frills that probably took more resources than everything else in the arc. So yes, I would rather have something half-***ed now than wait six months so they can tweak maps and add special effects to the bad guys.

Don't forget, you still have the alternative of repeating the WST over and over, and have been explicitly told there is another alternative coming, so if a stop-gap solo alternative is no more imaginative or "fresh" than the stop-gap team method you don't have to do it.

It has been my experience that the "unprepared" are usually up front about it.
Unprepared guy: "I've never done this before so I have no idea what to do."
Leader: "No problem, we'll direct you."
Unprepared guy: "Ok, thanks."

Then, you know, you be polite about it and don't call him a noob when he goes the wrong way and wastes 30 valuable seconds of your life fighting something that wasn't strictly necessary.

If your tank doesn't have their mez protection, and hasn't figured out by the time they hit level 45 that mez protection is a good and necessary thing then they are beyond help. Either that or they're PLd, in which case they should go run some "standard" content before tackling the "advanced" stuff.

Because purples really help with an SS/Shield Brute's survivability. Oh wait...they don't. And no matter how high your defense, enemies still have a chance to hit you, and when the heroes on the LRSF hit you, it hurts. Sister Psyche has Mind Control powers that ignore positional defense. Numina casts Fortitude that increases the heroes' to-hit. Positron debuffs defense. Even the stoners back in the day needed good support to keep them alive. It's called "team" content for a reason.

Well I haven't actually checked, but there's no reason why Dev's Choice arcs shouldn't drop Incarnate Shards if you set them to regular rewards. If they do in fact drop shards it might be a good idea to pick some high-level Dev's Choices...you know, in case some people get bored running tip missions, Battle Maiden farms and the ITF over and over....

Oh I agree from a design perspective. I personally don't mind having a strong taunt aura, I like it. I've been bitten in the butt by AAO's strength a grand total of once (all-Scrapper Tin Mage, two War Walkers and Bobcat all decided they hated me. It being my first time, I had no idea they buffed each other's to-hit.) I just don't think a Scrapper's taunt aura should trump a Tanker's taunt aura, ever. Holding aggro is their job, and their taunt auras are part of their aggro management toolset. I do not draw aggro with my Blaster AoEs if there is a competent tank and I allow him to do his job, but with AAO I might.

Midlevel salvage is hella expensive right now. Unlike recipes though, it's at least available, either to buy it now or at least within a reasonable time frame (my definition of reasonable for salvage is "I'm gonna go run a mission or two and when I'm done I want my salvage bought"), and anyone at any level can quickly and easily generate it through MA tickets or exemping.

Team leader: Keep your pets out of melee!
Bots MM: Don't you love the "stay" command?

To be fair, those were put together from the Scrapper forums. I'm willing to bet it would be far more difficult with 8 Scrappers pulled at random from the general population. Most of them would think you're insane for trying.

Now, prove me wrong.

Bah, I'll take their stone tank crutch and raise them a fire tank with a tray full of purples and a kin.

As for melee toons and GW: Her heal is not auto hit. It requires a to-hit check. Monitor your defense. If you don't have enough from your secondary or teammate buffs, eat purples. Sure, she has a chance to hit you still (whatever the to-hit floor is for a level 54 AV), but the Scrapper's damage should offset what healing she does manage to get off.

By the way, I managed to get on an STF very easily with my Scrapper. There was a Stalker on the team as well, and nobody suggested either of us should stay out of melee with GW. I was /SR, can't remember what the Stalker's secondary was, but we took her down pretty easily, and her healing wasn't an issue.

How about this: you play your way, I'll play mine. You get to 50, buy your IOs and max level, and stop telling others they're doing it wrong because they're "wasting so much time." I'd be wasting time rushing to 50 because I'd end up with a character I have nothing invested in and don't give a rat's patootie about.

And it's far from my first build. I'm assuming the people who post in these threads in this forum all know what they're doing, they know what their options are, and they make a conscious choice to buy things at lower levels.

Yeah, we know. That's the whole point of the thread. The time spent waiting for the recipes to become available retards your progress to the point where it's unacceptable to a lot of people. The crafting time is negligible, and a few million inf here and there is pretty much irrelevant, especially if you're buying, say, a level 35 set of Thunderstrike, that you never plan on replacing. You won't need that inf for anything else. That's inf invested in your final build.

If you want to rush to 50 and never plan on exemplaring, carry on. You can get by on SOs. My point is not everybody plays that way, the IO system was designed to accommodate people who don't play that way, but the game has changed to encourage people to play that way, which makes it more difficult for those who don't to get their shinies.

Pretty much all your arguments come down to "you don't need those mid-level recipes." This is true. I don't need those mid-level recipes any more than you need your level 50 recipes. The point is I want them, others want them, they're not available because the system makes it excessively difficult for people to generate them, so the system should be given a slight tweak to make it easier for people to generate them.

The second account can log out without dissolving the TF, they just can't quit. Get a friend with a level 35+ character they don't want to play right now to keep your TF active for you if you don't have a second account.

Oh, and gratz BrokenPrey.

Yep, and I'm being forced to jump through a lot of hoops or wait a long time if I make the CHOICE to use IO sets instead of regular enhancements.

Such as? Actually if I slot with IOs I won't need inf for SOs....

And some lower-level recipes give you more than acceptable enhancement values while also giving you some nice set bonuses. See: Thunderstrike, Crushing Impact, Doctored Wounds. See also: LotG +rech for characters with little defense. See also: procs and uniques.

To use them. I don't care what level stuff I sell is. I do sell what I don't use, but I primarily want them for my own toons who are too low level to slot max-level recipes.

I like it when they sell me their stuff, it saves me from having to get it all myself.

I'd argue that she flat out makes her own case that she's wrong. "There were no mutants before 1938, but I'm older than that, but that's ok, I'm not a mutant, I'm special."

Krylov doesn't say there were no mutants before 1938, just that his records don't show any. Either way, the "no mutants before 1938" thing can be safely ignored.

So...if Dr. Strange casts a spell on Spider-Man that permanently makes him stronger, Spider-Man would forevermore become magic origin? Or maybe he's tech origin since he invented those web-shooters?

Depends how you define "demon." If you define them as denizens of a demon-dimension, then nope, it's entirely possible to access it through other means. The game never says they're specifically "magic."

Magic-users say that. Of course they think it's superior.

Where does it say that?
Right, because WW is an expert in all things magic? So, um, why do we bother dealing with that Akarist guy?

Well that's the nice thing, it can be easily ignored, since the entire thing is narrated to you by people who have a vested interest in telling you what they want you to believe.

Play a villain, do mayhems. I think if you switch to hero you get the epaulettes as well.

Did you miss the introduction of respec recipes?

Most of them are possible to solo, and I'd be all in favor of removing the minimum team size requirement.

You can form your own supergroup of one and build a pretty base.
I hear that other game is going F2P.

Go. Hunt. Kill Rikti.

Run Nemesis missions with a team or on a high difficulty. I have characters who have done this and earned the Unveiler badge with no "farming."

Why do you need a portable workbench if you don't like to craft?

Some major sarcasm fail right here.

I am opposed to the rampant dismissive, inflammatory insistence that there WILL be a way to do it in i20 despite the complete and utter lack of developer confirmation. Nothing they have said indicates a solo way is coming anytime soon.

I would, if the game would let me do so without freezing my progress.

Which is the problem. The lack of availability encourages hoarding, which only exacerbates the lack of availability.

Again, I want to play the game and earn them. I do not want to play the game with an artificially imposed limitation, and I'm willing to bet many others don't either. "The game" includes leveling. Why should we play a different mini-game just to generate mid-level stuff when the devs could allow us to generate this stuff while playing the game "as intended?"