Ironblade

That might be YOUR definition, but it's not *THE* definition. Different tank sets are suited to different enemy types.

As for the MoSTF badge, totally bogus argument. I've been on runs with 2 tanks. I've been on runs with no tanks. (FYI, easiest STF I ever saw had NO TANK.) I've been on runs that had a kheld on the team - people had complained there would be prejudice against them due to the possibility of a cyst spawning at a bad spot. ANYONE can get the MoSTF badge. AT and powersets only seemed like a big deal at the very beginning before anyone had worked out tactics.

This. It's also worth noting that we get way less enhancement drops than we used to since it was changed a while back on the theory of 'better to get nothing than get garbage that fills your tray'. At higher levels, you just won't get training or DO enhancements.

I did a TF the other day (which I was in the correct level range) and got 3 enhancements - and one of those was from the AV defeat.

Not a valid comparison. Unyielding, for example, not only gives 10 points of knockback protection, it also gives TEN THOUSAND PERCENT resistance to knockback.

Yes, I forgot to mention this. My first tank was invuln and it was just TORTURE until I got SO's. He didn't feel like a tank at all. My ice tank seemed considerably tougher than everyone around him even at very low level. In fact, when I'm going to do the Cavern trial (which exemps to 15) and fight our way through, I usually use my ice tank.

Ah, you misunderstood me. I was not referring to the in-game 'ignore' function. I just meant that I would have disregarded (i.e. not replied to) your broadcast.

Put me on team one with the cat cooties. I'll probably bring Ironblade, since the zombies take extra damage from lethal and he has both stealth and recall.

I've taken ice and shield to 50 and they're both very good. It's really tough to say which is tougher since the builds are not similar (I would say my shield tank is tougher, but he has Tough and Weave while my ice tank has neither of those). 'Out of the box', with no IO's or power pools, I think ice is a bit tougher.

They're both great sets to play, though. If you're really keen on costumes, I'd go with shield. The ice armors cover your costume and there are *A LOT* of just stunning shield options.

Maybe they could add something new, like side-switching.

Of course, I'm assuming you're talking about increasing population in general. If you're talking about specifically addressing low-population servers - the devs SHOULDN'T. Having a variety of population levels is a good thing.

I know; it's total BS. And the RP'ers have conniptions trying to explain how I can hand you a billion influence. Or I can sit in Wentworths and 'earn' a billion influence.

Maybe at once point, it could be explained as actual 'influence' but, when the devs gave us the market, that ended the charade.

Since you weren't around, you're not aware that they upgraded the server capacity. You are exactly correct to call the indicators "server load". They are not a population indicator.

Yeah, well, I would have ignored you too.

Because they threw all the farmers and PL'ers out. They instituted changes to the difficulty structure that make farming easier in regular missions and told everyone to get the farming out of AE (and deleted toons and banned accounts to prove they meant it).

Okay. Stay or go. Your call. Form an opinion, make your judgment, etc. Only a fool would try to tell you that your impression is 'wrong'.

Geeze, here we go again. Maybe so that you have to make CHOICES in your build. Go for uber performance or keep your set bonuses when you exemp - YOUR DECISION.

And they're not the "best IOs". If you want the best, get purples. They *DO* keep the bonuses no matter how low you exemp.

Well, if they turn out to be a thief, why would you bother demoting them? I would just kick their sorry butt out of the SG. And that works fine when they're offline.

It could also be that the mission is back-loaded. The most extreme example of this is the Atta mission in the Hollows. People often wonder if there is a problem with the level setting since the initial enemies are blue and green (assuming default difficulty setting).

Are you referring to the people who fly around Atlas Park in heavily-armed squads and don't even seem to be able to prevent purse snatchings?

Excuse me, but Arthur is wearing a MOTH suit!

Yes, we know. The difficulty settings have TEMPORARILY been disabled for TF/SF's.

Thinking about joining us, or did you just come in here to gripe some more, like you've done in multiple other threads?

Yep. Easiest run I ever had was 6 controllers, 1 defender, 1 blaster. In hindsight, we should have made it a Master run. We had exactly one death, at a silly point (I think it was against Black Scorpion) because we kept goofing around.

8) someone within aggro range (YOU)

When I was hunting Coralax, I used Ouroboros to exemp my badger to level 9.

It's not doing it for me. Also, I would not consider that a QOL feature, but rather a stupid security breach.

Actually, they have already explained their purpose. The -1 setting made it absurdly easy to get the 'Master of' task force badges. They have stated that this is a TEMPORARY solution until they can code some sort of exception handling for the 'Master' TF's.

At one point, they did. However, it seems that a significant number of new players, having no preference, simply picked the first server listed to make characters. Having the lowest load server at the top uses this tendency to distribute the population more evenly.

Of course, this is ENTIRELY subjective. How much, or how little, work "SHOULD" it take? The above is purely your opinion. And while we have people posting that it's too hard to find teams, we also have people complaining about getting too many invites to teams.

No.

Regarding the progress bars, they seemed to be working okay last time I checked, which was a few weeks ago.

No, they are listed in order of load, so you have relatively detailed information on population.

And if you're going to say, "A new player wouldn't know that." don't bother. A new player would likely think that 1 green bubble is better than 2 yellow ones so BOTH types of ranking would need to be explained to provide useful information.