Lazarillo

The Nav window has...an awful lot of text on it. Is this an actual new zone, or is it an event/mission map?

I am proud because I do have red and black villains. After all, red and black is the new red and black.
I am a stylin' fashionista.

Perhaps I'm overestimating the evasion of leadership factor or the desire for XP bonuses, or both, but I think bonus XP might skew the effect too much in the other direction. As it is right now, there's a series of badges for leading teams (provided at least one member is lower-level than you), and that's probably all that's going to be seen, for balancing reasons.

The default hit chance of an attack against an even-level enemy is 75%. To cap this, you only need about a 27% accuracy bonus.

~Against +1 enemies, it goes down to 65%, meaning you need a 47% accuracy bonus.
~Against +2s, base hit is 56%, meaning you need a 70% bonus
~Against +3s, base hit is 48%, meaning you need a 98% bonus
~And finally, against +4s (the highest you're really able to meet in normal play), base hit is 39%, meaning you need a whopping 144% accuracy bonus to be capped.

Note that to-hit buffs (or enemy defense) modifies the base chance, so, especially in the case of major level discrepancies, To-Hit is vastly more important. A 10% to hit buff is basically equivalent to 1 level's worth of discrepancy. Likewise, fighting an enemy with 20% defense means you would treat them as if they were two levels higher than you for determining how much accuracy you need to hit.

Enemy rank does not generally have an effect on hit chances, with the caveat that higher ranked enemies are more likely to have higher defense bonuses.

I live some 500 miles from my old tabletop group these days, and haven't met anyone local, so I don't do much, but I am in an Exalted/Alchemicals game online lately with one of my old friends. My feelins are mixed; it's not quite the same as playing in person, especially since in the past, the game itself was often secondary to just hanging out with friends.

Still, I suffer tabletop alt-itis as much as I do in CoH, and it's nice to get to bring one of my creations to life from time to time.

Still on the fence with this one. I'm gonna give it another week or two, probably, see if any other animals out there fuel my own concepts for new characters.

As a quick addition, the final mission to choose Hero or Villain also counts toward one choice (or it did a few months ago, I haven't seen that changed in any patch notes), so you only need to do 4 arcs, technically, before leaving.

Kinda nice of the devs to wait 'til everyone can have their extra-leet gear before handing out Apex and Tin Mage (I totally expected them to be the first two). My first two Incarnates will be done with collecting Notices this week, but I'm definitely looking forward to getting to try the new TFs on a group with my souped-up peers.

And my next two Incarnates will definitely appreciate 3 of the 5 being lower-level stuff they can use to help reach 50 and start the process.

Just read issue 2. Man, this is good, good stuff. #1 was great, but this one was a step up even from that.

The science of "dropping homicidal maniacs from orbit" has not yet been perfected to quite the degree that I suspect you think it has.

For what it's worth, Battle Maiden meant to land on Sharkhead. She just missed.

Fine then, shatter my dreams of Marauder getting stuck in a manhole.

I don't see how much security would be needed. Sure, a Praetor or three could probably fit through that manhole (not so sure about Marauder), but somehow I doubt the glorious armies of the Praetorian Revolutionary Guard and their buddies the War Walkers are all going to fit through that tiny crawlspace.