Kierthos

Thanks for the quick responses.

If someone earned the SG healing badges (1 or more of them) in one Super-group, then joins a different Super-Group (that didn't have those badges already), does their progress transfer over?

If I'm not clear enough, let's say Captain Example has earned the first two SG healing badges and the SG he's part of (the Example Squad) is 2 million points of healing away from getting the third SG healing badge.

For whatever reason, he leaves the Example Squad and joins the Speculative Question Society (the SQS). Prior to this, the SQS did not have any of the SG healing badges.

Does the SQS automatically gain the first two SG healing badges, and have two million points of healing to go? Or do they still have none of the SG healing badges? Or it is somewhere in between?

Well put, Chad.

The thing to keep in mind is that (outside of Devices, which is sort of the odd man out), all Blaster secondaries have at least two "within melee" attacks (by which I mean the targets have to be within melee distance. For example, Fire Sword is melee, and Fire Sword Circle is PBAOE. While FSC checks against AoE defense, it is still only targeting things within a relatively confined range.)

Also, no Blaster secondaries have any heals, self-heals, or major defense/resistance boosts. Yes, Devices has Cloaking Device. After attacking, it's only a 1.75% defense bonus. Given that Devices also has two powers which require placement in order to work, and no "within melee" attacks, again, it's the odd man out.

So, if the Devs were to make a new secondary for Blasters along the lines of a more natural sort of attack (as in no glowy fists, summoning fire, etc.) it would probably not have self-heals, major defense/resistance boosts, etc.

But just because they haven't said that they're making one does not mean that they're not considering it or even working on it. Stop asking for the moon and stars, and stay civil and reasonable (or some facsimile thereof).

I think it would be better to discuss it here, where we can freely talk about possible synergies with Dual Pistols. For example, Targeting Drone in Devices gives a small boost to AR's Sniper Rifle. Do we want to look at something similar for this proposed new secondary? (And let's face it, there are Devs who are paying much more closer attention to the Dual Pistols beta forums then they are to the Suggestions forums, AND those are the Devs that we would want to notice this topic.)

A new and nefarious foe, huh?

Okay, I'm calling it. *ahem*

Protean didn't die when Manticore shot him with a disruptor arrow, and all this time has been building a force of shapeshifters (possibly cloned from himself) to exact his revenge on Manticore and the rest of the world. Protean has honed his own powers even further, and can mimic powers as well as appearances. These traits have been passed down, in limited forms, to his underlings.

Of course, I'm probably wrong.

It still irks me that when Stefan Richter "came upon a revelation in which he would use his newfound power to pave the way to a new age of science for mankind, officially marking his descent to evil."

What? Science is evil?

Which means it's a pain in the rear if you're doing a 1-account SG. (Although not as big a pain as trying to get the Auto-Doc plans.)

Can you have more then one at a time?

I have a level 50 Shield Defense/Super Strength tanker, and yes, I can do pretty good damage... I have two AOEs (Shield Charge and Foot Stomp), and some strong attacks. When I pop Rage, I do a ton of damage for the next two minutes (and then there's the crash), but it works a lot better, IMAO, then Build-Up does. (Build-Up is usable for 10 seconds every 90 seconds, baseline, and Rage is usable for two minutes every four minutes, baseline. Rage has that crash at the end, but overall, it's far better.)

Now, yes, I do still have Accuracy problems. Nothing sucks more then having Knockout Blow miss. Twice in a row. Or not affecting as many enemies as I could when using Foot Stomp or Shield Charge (although part of that is from the fact that I'm generally fighting enemies at +1 or +2).

To be honest, to solve my accuracy issues, I'm thinking about re-speccing to drop the Flight pool entirely (with Ninja Run, I really wouldn't need a travel power), and picking up Focused Accuracy and Physical Perfection out of Energy Mastery. I wouldn't gain any net Defense out of it, as I couldn't six-slot both Rage and Focused Accuracy with Gaussian's, but the Build-up proc would have a lot more chances to trigger in FA then in Rage.

Any ideas on how to make something that looks like a conveyor belt? I want it as a decorative item (well, group of items) for a tech-styled base workshop.

If there is weighting for purples based on Archetypes (which I doubt), it's not working right for my tanker. Last purple I got was a piece from Gravitational Anchor. Before that was a piece from Absolute Amazement.