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Kinetic Melee. Prior to KM it was Claws, which I still have a soft spot for, but KM wins because Tanks can have it. All my tanks have KM and all of my tanks have enough recharge to (when the situation demands it) go ranged without having to sacrifice for any of the epic pools.

My dream toon would be a KM/Regen tank. But since the tank thing may never happen given how well willpower works for Tanks, I have settled for a KM/Regen brute to be my in game namesake.

I will add, that if you are aggressively seeking iTrials, then finding the assembly point for groups on your server is paramount, followed by global channels, followed by, keeping your LFT active so you can be searched with LFG for when you are distracted/crafting until you're ready to gun.

On Virtue, I hang out in RWZ. On Victory, I tend to obsess over the various channels I'm on, listening for the call.

And we also get

DETH Baby Momma's

and

DETH BABY DADDY'S!

From a purely vet perspective: I not only use DfB to get to 22, I've used DfB and the XP boost pay power on my new Praetorian to get him over levelling humps like 27, 32, and 35.

There is something rather thrilling about the ad hoc teaming and seeing nacent builds of other players develop in DfB. I've run a 50 through it a few times, not for the badges because I still enjoy it.

I'm onto a new obsession now: Getting patron epic pools for a toon that started hero.

However, once I go back to hero, I may go into DfB for 49 and 50. It would be interesting in a meta kind of way.

In Man Of Steel, supes used his reflected heat vision to shave. In the DC Universe, he has, well, plenty of options. Batman gave Chris Kent a kiddie-watch that emitted red-sun radiation to suppress his powers. He probably has his own robot barber in the Fortress of Solitude that he trusts to cut his hair while under a red-sun lamp.

And Cavill's pictures remind me of Gladiator Superman" from the early '90's.

http://shirtless-superheroes.blogspo...gladiator.html

I think Praetoria has really unnerved Malta, their cells have probably started so many schemes they'll be tripping over each other for issues to come.

Okay, I apologize if I missed it in the thread but...who is the contact in Talos? I did not get a popup saying I should talk to so-n-so.

In general, Praetoria is still my favorite starting point. It's definitely slower now compared to the Sewer-Riffic madness of the low level sewer trial, but I still prefer starting there than Atlas.

First: I love First Ward.

Second: I'm glad a played through it with a Praetorian, because I was invested in reaching the resolution. If had been playing a Primal character, I would had run screaming back, Primal about halfway end and start (at least in my head) lobbying for Praetoria to be magically sealed off from Primal Earth. If that can't be done: nuke it to ashes.

Hell, I know a couple of my characters would be looking to join Malta.

Third: It was an emotionally draining experience. I think I am going to hold off repeating it until I roll a new Praetorian so I can take him from Praetoria, to First Ward and then Primal because I don't think Praetoria city and its secrets would send him away screaming, but First Ward, and particularly the fate of the Forlorn, will. That alone was enough to make me queasy.

The Awakened should have Rikti/Arachnos/Longbow XP.

Playing through Katie Douglas and I wanted to share my favorite bits of internal dialogue:

"Whenever you want to make yourself feel better, Katie, come and get me...you will lose just like those several hundred Awakened lying on the ground behind me (Yay "Snooze Button" badge!).

And my latest one, "You can call me 'Killer' if I can call you Crazy A*** See You Next Tuesday."

EDIT: And for someone so lippy, she should at least not be made out of ghetto grade wet tissue paper.

So, I went in for the first time this weekend...and I was impressed...and then jealous. Jealous because I wanted to take a Praetorian through on his leveling journey. Except...I wanted to play my regen brute...who wasn't a praetorian.

So I rerolled him and when I got to First Ward again, I felt totally in synch with the story. It is weird, but it is an immersive experience to continue this character's journey from Loyalist to Warden (I didn't do any non warden arcs) to Hero and now thouroughly disillusioned due to events in the first two First Ward Arcs.

My only regret is not doing Helix, but well, Warden only. Still I can Ouro an older character to see if there is any recognition.

First Ward is unsettling and detaches me from my expectations. The enjoyment has been immense and the Apparitions are sooooo damned creepy.

The arc left an extremely bad taste in my mouth. Not in the "nerdrage" sense, but in the "oh holy hell what did I get into by going villain? These people are crazy. Time to ramp up the diff and hurry to 20 and go rogue."

It's either that, or just reroll. I thought the grave's arc was fine for atmosphere, great even, but like you said, Graves and the other NPC's just weren't...well...scary and I probably would have waxed them early if I had gotten a chance.

I liked New Mercy enough to place my new main there instead of Paragon City. In addition to being more "evil" I think the new beginning story arcs give new villains more to regret faster (if that is their story) and sets them towards trying to go Rogue soon as it is available.

Hrm...my roommate found a potential bug. On the server list, if Exalted is at the bottom of the list, the scroll bar will not stay in place to allow you to select it. If Exalted is not at the top of your list, do not select another server, you may not be able to get it back to a place where it is selectable.

Waiting like this has conjured the odd image of what it may have been like if the Oklahoma land rush had been liveblogged.