Minotaur

Would rather see the reverse, you know the RHPS inspired paper mish should have a hostage in labcoat basque stockings heels and suspenders

Pool Bs drop at your level, others at the level of the mobs.

Merit rolls are at your level, which is the normal reason for locking a toon at 33 so you can drop the maximum level IOs useful in Siren's.

Close the quote after .exe then add the -test.

...cohupdater.exe" -test

not

...cohupdater.exe -test"

This is correct, although not a problem for most attacks, fireball is the exception I know, in that it does fire/smash but is only tagged as fire. Ice blast and BIB are tagged as cold and smashing.

My only circus character Kablooie the clown is a 20 ish hero, if there's any RWZ stuff (or AE in RWZ) done, will join you.

And of course it won't happen anyway due to I17.

Can do DB/stone, but not claws/stone. I have done a Stone/DB tank, but not that impressed with it.

Well I finally got TP when I started tanking STFs, and they put one AV up on a 4' high plinth with a large mob of stuff.

I'm fortunate in that I've been around long enough that I don't have to take a prereq for TP
so it only costs me one power, but I would recommend going with TP.

OK, what I did: (This was June/July 09)

Firstly I play a LOT. I solod a stalker 1-50 in about 3 weeks, checking the market and doing stuff every 2 or 3 missions. This was a completely fresh server, so I levelled a load of lowbies up to 6 or 10 so to get some market slots to sell my loot, and created a one man SG to have a base for storage and so I could transfer stuff between toons. A friend created a toon that could invite my alts. I actually stayed in SG mode throughout so could have earned more.

I say I earned 3BN, that was what I ended up with, but the build on the stalker probably spent most of another billion. I earned very little from playing, one 80M (at the time, would be a lot more now) purple was the only truly expensive drop I got, but I did get some decent stuff (20M type stuff not the real goodies) with the merits I earned off arcs when I rolled them at 50.

The cash was made on the market. At the time I was able to buy stacks of uncommon salvage at 10K each and sell them for 100K. The turnover time as stupid, I'd put the bids up and come back 2 missions later and that was a million a stack in profit. When you have 10 such stacks and are making 10M every half hour on a good day, that soon mounts up. This niche is no longer really worth doing.

I got field crafter (probably unnecessary, although getting the badges that give you extra salvage slots is essential), then got the badges for the level 50 common IOs that I thought I could turn a profit on. I probably approximately broke even on getting the badges. Then I'd craft a vast number of common IOs, dump them in my base and use the army of lowbies to sell them. Load them all up in the morning with stuff to sell, check/refill in the evening. If you're selling 100+ of these a day at 250K profit each, that's a nice steady income stream.

Once I got my first billion, I moved on to set IOs. I looked at the market and found recipes I could buy and craft for say 2M but that I could sell the crafted enhancement in decent numbers at 10M+. That accelerated my earning power. The next 2BN arrived fairly fast.

I've never really taken any great risks, just steady accumulation of infamy. I could probably have made inf faster, but I didn't want to risk getting caught with a stack of 10 purples when the price crashed for example so I never really went after the expensive items.

Most of my recipe niches I found by dropping the enhancement in normal play, or needing to buy one for my build, and it becoming apparent from looking at the prices that there was a profit to be made by buying the recipe and selling the crafted enhancement.

Unfortunately they've nerfed the merits so much (both from the current live values and the lower than live early beta values) that once the initial "new shiny" feel has worn off, it's going to be as bad as the old posi was pre exemped XP for finding over max level help. Toons will do it once for the badge and move on, unlike the situation on live where if somebody wants to run it, I'll join in for the nice merit reward.

2 hours was massacring everything that got in our way, would have been less if we'd stealthed anything, I just took the 8 levels I got quite happily (12-20).

One thing I would say to you, the "Aaaaargh not a large team" factor has actually been removed from posi with SSK. We've done 2 8 man kill nearly all posis in the last couple of weeks in 2 hours or just over with my SG (peppercat's in the same one). It's not the same with a team SSKd to 15 as it used to be with a team of lvl 12s.

Yup, no veteran or origin attacks, no containment, soloing an ice/storm troller was no fun at lowish level.

Also no difficulty slider and a lot less content, so if you did solo, you completed every mission in the game for the level range, then had to streethunt 38-40 before you could get more missions.

MoG's paragon protectors was what told me you need an autohit taunt of some description, feeling impotent as they massacre squishies because I can't hit them is not fun.

There is a slight problem with brutes, part of the fury mechanic is a pulsing effect that aggros. That said, it's not a big problem. I'd go with a stalker though, but I prefer a defence based one rather than a regen.

It's actually the other guy that looks like him, Angus McQueen, Tim Raymond is a villain contact.

QFT

Also, for a tank I wouldn't recommend dark/dark, I'd always stack dark armor with a set that can stack stuns with oppressive gloom. I had a dark/axe tank I deleted in the 30s, my dark/stone (with fault, a large AoE stun) is much better and a friend's dark/EM also works well.

The fastest way to level outside AE is to run the TFs where you get other people to cover the holes in your build. We ran an 8 man no stealth posi in just over 2 hours, I went from 12.1-19.6. If you run posi, synapse, sister, moonfire, citadel, hess with full teams, not only will you be close to level 30, but you'll also have 250+ merits in the bank and most of the atlas medallion for about 12 hours of teaming.

Tanks are pretty poor below SOs so don't expect miracles, but get to 12, slot DOs or lvl 15 IOs and go run the TFs on big teams.

I read and indeed posted in that thread several times.

They never explained why when they combined the maintenance, they shifted it 2 hours earlier, which is what's really screwing up Aussie prime time.