Kelenar

Also the Controller 'Overpower' effect. Because, you know, having only one AT perk is for losers.

This is pretty much my big problem with CoV as a whole. There are just too many points with 'you'd better do this or Arbiter Bob is going to tell on you!' Not to mention every third mission opening pop-up mentioning how great it is that this will curry favor with Arachnos for you. Heroes get to start saving the world around level 20; villains never even really get a glimpse at a chance of conquering it. I should point out, though, that the final patron arcs show you rising up to have an apoctalyptic war against Recluse in the future, and the very end of the arc has him basically go 'Fine, you're your own villain, no longer beholden to me.' I'd much prefer to be my own villain from, oh, level 1, but eh. It's something. Several of my friends have told me that this was one of the coolest moments in the game for them, so maybe I'm just picky or something.

Ohhhh yeah, they're out there. Not nearly as common as they used to be, but I still see them on a near-daily basis when I'm running on a lot of heroside PUGs.

As an aside:
Heroside, I basically agree. Villainside, I almost always put off mezz protection to the 20s. There's very, very little in the 1-20 range that really has much mezz for villains, apart from the occasional Lost newspaper mission. Those few things that do have it are usually trumped by keeping a single Break Free on hand.

Am I playing some radically buffed Electric Armor set only available to me, or what?

A lot of campuses and such also block anything Torrent-like on their internet, which I know was a big problem for my roommate's MMO of choice when my college started it.

I made a midlevel villain arc to try doing something about that problem! ... and then I found out that it completely wouldn't work for about 70% of the game's population due to how Family spawn and gave up. Freakin' AE.

I keep meaning to make a replacement for it. I have a character I'm trying to level solely on AE story arcs, and I started noticing the supply of them decrease once I hit the mid 20s.

Snakes disappear fast. Unfortunately, from about 20 up, a huge portion of missions in the game are against either Arachnos, Longbow, or CoT.

Can you use PayPal for it? If you just transfer from one account to the other, the only one you have to give your credit card information is PayPal itself, which is about as trustworthy as these things come.

Oh, so now you're entitled to find people with entitlement issues?!

I can't see how it's any less heroic than shooting acid arrows at them, setting them on fire, shooting grenades at them, shoving them off rooftops, summoning flaming imps to attack them...

This. I now play every character like I play my Brutes: If there's still something alive, I attack it with extreme prejudice, with the best attacks available to me to do so. Said attacks all contain the equivalent of 1-2 endreduxes. If I'm low on end and I have a blue (and I usually buy a handful prior to missions), I pop that. If I'm low on end and I have three insps to combine, I make a blue and pop that. If not... well, rest time. Only if the character can do entire missions like this without pausing for breath do I consider skipping Stamina. Even on those, I'll usually pick it up, since those three inspirations I'd turn into blues would be much more interesting as reds or purples, and there are only rarely three really good alternatives anyway.

I get Stamina for the same reason I upgraded my dial-up to broadband: waiting sucks.

As I remember, their teleport is basically short term phase shift + super flight. Instead of clicking the place you want to teleport to, you manually fly there while intangible and then reappear. In my short experience with it, I was strongly torn between '... this is pretty stupid' and 'It's nice being able to teleport around obstacles without finagling my camera to find a landing zone first.'

Oh yeah, I forgot Devices. Its whole 'you can win practically any fight with enough setup time!' thing is interesting, but doesn't appeal to me in practice, since about 90% of the AT/powerset combinations in the game solo too slowly for me already.

To be fair, the only things I can think of that have come out since CoV that weren't mirrored on both sides were the villain 40+ content and the Faultline revamp. After GR, I'm kind of hoping we get a few issues with new unique content for both sides.

This right here is my big problem with villains right now... If I play two heroes in a row, one can do normal missions and one can hit Faultline->Striga->Croatoa->RWZ. My two villains, though, are stuck doing the same 3-4 contacts per level range that I've been doing forever.

... and yet I still spend 70% of my time v-side, because it's still better than doing newspaper missions ad infinitum where my team absolutely must have a tank and a kin and a healz0rs to even fight -3 Skulls.

This kinda sorta exists. Channels have descriptions, and you can search for them:
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Global_C...els#Search_GUI

These pretty much sum my feelings up, especially the first quote. Most sets don't really start developing their unique features and coming into their capabilities until the 20s, so that's when I really start to enjoy them. ... of course, by the low-mid 30s, most ATs no longer level quickly enough solo to keep me interested. So there's this 10-level band where I really enjoy soloing!

I'm convinced that they're some sort of villain plot. If I had the cash and time, I would've flown across the country to hug the guy who showed me how to block those announcements.