Ironblade

One additional consideration: if you aren't going to decide the disposition IMMEDIATELY, then craft it. The reason is this: When you visit a store, you can easily sell the recipe due to a mis-click, stuck mouse button, or lag. You CAN NOT sell a crafted IO at a store so you can't have that accident occur.

Close to $300 for an 80GB drive. It depends on how deep your pockets are.

I don't think mine are that deep. I've already started considering components for my next system. I pre-ordered my copy of Win7. Definitely going with a Core i7 CPU, 6GB of DDR3. Haven't picked the mobo or video card yet. SSD performance sounds wonderful but it seems too expensive to me. Maybe in a year or two I'll install one as a 3rd drive and move CoH and some other big/high use programs over to it.

They could use the inertial/drift effects of flying but have you stuck on the ground like running. Hardly perfect, but a start.

To be fair, 'aggro sponges' have their place. I have one tank built to be as indestructible as possible, at the expense of damage. I have another built for high damage and soloing with little thought to teaming and survivability against large spawns. The rest fall in between.

Old news. I have a blaster at 37 with XP turned off.

Two small details:
1) Bug-Hunter is not impossible to obtain and there is nothing theoretical about people getting it.
2) The Liberator badge had its named changed to 'Power Liberator' to eliminate a conflict with another badge with the same name. (Liberator badge for completing the Eden trial.)

Not really. A more accurate explanation:
Getting TF Commander before level 35 is completely impossible. Invader can be obtained at any time since you can do the missions at level 1 (you just won't get the temp power).

You are not "out of luck" at any point unless you have zero friends and are instantly despised by everyone you encounter in-game.

And yet, every time I go into a PvP zone, most of the players are hidden. I can read an extended broadcast conversation between players actually fighting and see FEW or NONE of them listed on /whoall.

Are you on a satellite connection?

Well, yes, but farming an instanced mission is FAR more efficient. Assuming the mission is level 50, set it for -1 level and the largest spawns you can handle. At a -1 setting, my fire/kin can handle spawns set for 8. This will get purples far faster than 'street sweeping'.

NOT a good yardstick.
'The Redemption of Alexander' is a THREE mission arc but it counts as a 'badge mission' and so is not eligible for the challenge badges.

99% of the time, this is simply not true unless the team is completely unable to adapt to a change in the team composition. The other 1% is situations like the STF with the team specifically built around the tank. You can certainly do it with no tank, but if you built the team around the tank and he leaves, then you have a problem.

It's spelled Excalibur.

I see what you did there. Well of the Furies. Watered down.

There is tremendous variety within the AT's. The different defender sets are dramatically different from each other. Have you taken every defender set to 50? I'm working on it. I've taken empathy, dark, force fields, radiation and kinetics to 50. I have thermal at 40 currently. Still a ways to go to try them all.


Total nonsense. Lose this mindset and your options expand. Narrowminded (and wrong) thinking puts blinders on you.

This is pretty much nonsense because it's entirely dependent on what kind of tank and what you're replacing them with. Plenty of tanks do excellent damage. My ice tank does massive damage: Rage + Icicles + Ice Storm + Footstomp is nasty. The stomp comes after the storm to keep them from running off and they're dead before they can stand up again.

Replace ANY tank with a force field defender and your damage is NOT going up. Replace any tank with a fire blaster and sure your damage will be higher. Give me 6 tanks plus 2 rads or darks and I'll show you epic carnage. There's just so much variability in team line-ups that +/- one tank can mean damage goes up OR down.

I do. I exemp a lot, so I like mid-level recipes. I blow all my merits on random rolls at level 37. By then, my toons have always done all 6 signature TF's, plus Moonfire, Hess and Katie.