Gearsinger

It would be pretty awesome if there were little checkboxes on the power customization screen that would leave a toggle on, so you can see how the toggles look together.

I'm the weirdo who is here for the story.

The Praetorian story, or at least the crazy well part, is bad enough that I really have no interest in seeing where it goes.

One issue I can see with consolidating TP Friend and TP Foe is targetting an enemy through an ally. For instance, if you send a stalker around a blind corner and he wants you to teleport and deal with the sapper he has targetted, it wouldn't be possible with "Teleport Other." Of course, I don't know if it's possible now, as I've never tried.

A mastermind is another archetype to consider for low-level farming. I generally bump my difficulty up pretty soon on them.

If you have a bit of trouble collecting the inf to pay for your costume change, you can log out at the tailor for a day or so and get a coupon that will take 50% off the price of costume changes.

It's too grindy for my taste.

I left another game I cared a great deal about when it added a similar grind. I think in large part it's that I'm doing the same content over and over for a bit of pixellated currency that doesn't actually do anything. There's no inherent value to a thread or a shard. If you gather enough of them, you can build a whatsit, and with enough whatsits you can build a whosit.

If I cared about the story, or found the content inherently fun, I wouldn't mind. However, I find the Tyrant invasion story very bland, and don't like repeating content on the same character.

So when my subscription runs out in mid May, I'll move on.

That's my basic story for my Demon MM. Recombinant DNA plus lab-brewed toxins (Poison).

It would help a lot if you gave a general idea what the henchmen would look like. Are these hydra slime beasts, Shivans, etc.?

Yes, you can get debt at 50. It just reduces the amount of influence you earn, or takes a piece of your patrol experience until it's paid off.

The hero tutorial badge can be earned via Ouroboros, but as of now, no Praetorian content is available via Ouroboros, so the Praetorian tutorial badge is not obtainable to anyone who doesn't get it right away.

Other than that, the exploration badges in Safeguard/Mayhem missions can be tough to get if you out-level them. You can team with players in the correct range, though.

The villain badge Efficiency Expert cannot be obtained via Ouroboros. Each character only gets one shot at that one.

I'm working up a rather Spark-y Zombies/Traps mastermind that would fit in rather well. I usually play on Virtue.

Given the activation time of TP Foe, it would be more of a party trick than a viable strategy.

I find Praetoria pretty fast. The arcs are short, so you get the end-of-arc bonus more frequently. The enemies are pains in the butt, though. No matter what your specialty is, there's an enemy in Praetoria that can shut you down.

Vahzilok. I love the Frankenstein/Re-Animator sub-genre of sci-fi. Fighting Dr. Vahzilok in the Vahzilok Wasting Disease story arc is always a highlight.

I have a 50 DM/FA/Pyre. I haven't done much with IOs or gotten the Alpha Incarnate past the common, though.

I think DM and FA play pretty well together. The damage in FA helps make up for DM's lack of AoE, while the survivability tools in DM (Siphon Life and Touch of Fear) help with FA's relative squishiness.

I recommend picking up Tough at least, and Weave if you're going to build for defense. I went with the Spiritual Alpha, since more Healing Flames is good and I had my endurance problems under control with Consume and Miracle/Numina's uniques.

I farm pretty well if I set out to do so, and haven't had any trouble with any of the enemy groups solo, but I certainly wouldn't want to be the main tank. I'd need to put in quite a lot of work to build up my survivability before I was comfortable playing in the Incarnate trails, for instance.

For the most part, function trumps form for me. I want to play Gravity but I just can't, for instance.

If the difference is marginal, though, I choose the cooler one. For instance, one of my corruptors uses DP even though Fire is generally better by the numbers.

Although, once I've made the larger decisions on powersets and individual powers, I use whatever feels more fun at the moment.

Back when the activation rooted you when casting Practiced Brawler, you'd see my scrapper flying through the city at the run speed cap, only to pause every thirty seconds or so for a fist pump. Must've looked quite silly to the civilians.

I like it on my squishies when I solo. It's nice to grab an irritating minion (say a sapper) or lieutenant (perhaps a sorceror) and deal with him while his friends try to figure out where he went.

It can help masterminds as well, teleporting an enemy into a mess of pets and debuffs can make short work of him.

I'd really like the first one. Or to at least have the empty tabs default behind the ones I actually use. It always take a bit of unnecessary clicking so my low-level characters can check how many salvage slots they have left.

Way back in the day, before powers got suppressed instead of toggled off when you got held, Practiced Brawler was superior to toggle-based mez protection. It self stacks, so so you can have extra-high-mag protection depending on your recharge slotting, and if you got held through your protection (say by a dominator in PvP), it keeps right on proctecting. That was a bigger deal when it was possible to de-toggle.

I'm working on a Plant/Elec now. Elec doesn't have much AoE and VS is kind of a crappy power, IMO. It's nice in that Roots can mitigate the knockback of the melee powers if you don't want to smack them out of melee range. Also, Build Up is always good to have.

Plant/Fire would be very strong, though. Seeds plus Roots plus Embrace of Fire plus Fireball and Rain of Fire sounds quite deadly to the enemy and safe for you.

Don't forget that the Envemoned Dagger temporary power can give you a bit of -regen. I doubt it's enough on its own, but every little bit helps.