Kelenar

You picked an interesting time to join. With the recent Architect box drawing in a lot of new players and (not coincidentally) coinciding with a system that made it easy for anybody to get a character to the maximum level quickly, there are a lot more other new players around than usual... and also some vets who resent new players on the assumption that they're all people who took part in the fast-leveling craze and also eat babies. However, I'd say the vast majority out there are still friendly and even somewhat sane. If anybody accuses you of ignorance, just explain that you've only very recently joined.

That said, if you have any questions, feel free to toss them out. I'll hold off on bombarding you with guides.

I totally used to farm customers for my 'gainfully employed' badge.

Nowadays I craft code instead. I'd probably make more just flipping it, but that gets you less accolades in the long term (even though I already have a laptop mobile crafting station.)

I've been having them. About every other issue makes my video card drivers lock up during zoning. i15 was a no-lockup issue, so i16... Fortunately, they're not nearly as bad as they were a few issues ago.

Enjoying my Traps/ defender a lot more than I did my /Traps corruptor. I think it's mostly the defense vs. offense focus. On my defender, spending the first half of a big fight dropping Seeker Drones, Acid Mortar, Poison Gas Trap, Triage Beacon, and Caltrops is about normal. On my corruptor, all of that is 'the stuff I have to get out of the way before I can Full Auto.'

Maybe enemy groups that have a focus on coordinated fire (I can see Nemesis or Malta doing this) that make the members of individual spawns all fire on the same target. A lot of things in this game start getting a lot more deadly if they're not spread out at least a little, particularly without a tank on the team. I think this would still fall in the 'tough, but not impossible with no tank' level.

Had my /elec brute in RWZ, screwing around the other day. And then, a pylon shot me. I wasn't about to settle for that, so I charged the jerk and started beating on it. Since it was only doing lethal damage, I dropped few superfluous toggles to help my endurance a little.

After a while of this, I got bored and decided to go back to missions. I picked up a Rikti mission, ran in... and almost died to the first mob, having to use Overload to survive. I barely struggled through them, rested, and tackled the second. ... and almost died to them, needing Demonic. At this point, I was WTF'ing, because I'd been doing missions on this same difficulty for days, and only now were they hard.

Finally, I died. I came back to the mission and started fighting again, and found them to once more be a piece of cake. Only then did I realize what my problem was to begin with: I'd forgotten to turn my energy resist armor back on after I fought the pylon.

I want to see somebody play a character to 50 with only Brawl as their attack power, never using any other power, even Sprint. That way, they can say that they hit 50 without ever burning a point of endurance.

My brutes (Fury!) and MA scrapper (Still has gaps in her attack chain at level 38 with every power from her primary!) still use the power, but I'd have to have a huge abundance of slots to ever put one in there.

I am a wild rebel by joining PUGs with my cold/ice defender whose ice shields are still the original color.

See, I like big missions like Atta, as long as they're not kill alls. It's one of the main reasons I do arc missions over newspapers when convenient. Anything that maximizes my 'killing stuff:everything else' ratio is a good thing.

Arachnos: If you have a hole in your defenses, we'll find it!

or, less succinctly
Arachnos: You don't mind -perception, placates, defense debuffs, toxic damage, psionic damage, -regen, slows, holds, stuns, endurance drains or enemies with to-hit buffs, stealth, mini-nukes, or mezz protection, do you?