Minotaur

Nope, different AE exploit, but patches have been on Weds as often as Tues for a while now, and exploit patches go on whenever they're ready.

I'm thinking that the Aussie community is going to be screwed in the Northern hemisphere summer unless they move maint later, and even though I'm a Brit, will be PMing Avatea about this.

There is a big difference between having a sub par build, and having a build that is so bad it endangers the entire party.

Example - Having an empath defender with only your starting attack is sub par, having a tank who hasn't taken his mez protection at level 40 endangers the whole party if he's the only tank.

I've never seen anybody kicked for the former (although I know a couple of people who would kick for that), I have for the latter.

Making somebody else's build without understanding how you're supposed to use it is one of the worst things to do, and sadly a lot of people do this.

I'd go for Fire/shield or elec/shield scrapper and plant/cold controller.

I'm guessing you'll be playing fairly casually, where many players use expensive IOs, shield with cold shields should be close to soft capped for defence from soon after you get SOs. Plant is a really fun set with an AoE confuse that comes early and is up every fight. Fire and Elec melee have excellent AoE which will help aggro handling.

I already sort of do this.

When midrange salvage prices get stupid, go to ouro, exemp to 29, go to DA.

Go hunt - kill zombies.

The set was OP. I never slotted any as I haven't tried to do a high defence squishy yet, and I'm not paying the necessary cash for my melee types for KB protection I don't need.

That said, there are some builds it screws up and this can lead to the reslotting of 30 IOs quite easily, so multiple freespecs would be good.

I can see a number of melee types that softcapped without weave resepecing into it and that will make a right mess of some builds.

I think the reason Castle went public was because some people in the beta leaked this out rather than make a vast profit themselves.

And to Sat Hamster, posi blast is fine, could just do with a couple of new sets for targeted AoE.

The only people I feel sorry for are those who spent thousands of merits buying these for a build, that is a very large time investment wasted.

I'll be watching this thread, I put together something with 41% melee, 26.1 S/L others 11-15 (AoE 18) but with resists up at 60 for neg 69 S/L/psi and 73.5 F/C of course capped to energy. Only weakness is to toxic.

Can't make up my mind whether to have fitness pool or CP/PP and a proper travel power (or maneuvers which would get me close to the cap for melee).

Mine is in the high 20s atm.

Even more confused now, ran a sister psyche with a 23 leader and everything set at 25-26 so it appears to just be Manti that's out of line. May try to run another one to check this.

Northern task force on Freedom has been around since launch or very soon after (was certainly well established when I joined in July 04). It only has one active member outside of free reactivation weekends (not me, I have toons there but never play on Freedom atm).

Eurocore on Victory has been around since launch (several met in the beta) and is still active. One of our leaders has been in the SG since 2004 (I didn't join till much later).

Have had a series of odd occurrences that I can't make any sense of, so trying to get clear how this works.

A few weeks ago, ran a numina (cap=40), leader was 38, missions set at 40.

Also some time ago, ran a Virgil (cap=20) with a level 18 leader, mission level was 20 and exemped players stayed at 18 even when the leader levelled.

Just after the last patch, ran a manti (cap=35), I was leader at 34, mission level was 34.

Today ran a Virgil, but I was SKed not exemped. Went from 17 to 18 when the leader levelled to 19, but stuck at 18 when he hit 20. Missions were level 20 throughout.

Yesterday ran a Katie Hannon, I formed the team, passed the star to the person who could start it, they talked to Katie and we did the first mission, exited and the first mission still showed as active (and indeed somebody was able to reenter). The person who started the TF couldn't talk to Katie. I did, and the mission switched to the second mish of the TF, the team display changing to me at the top, with the starter still having the star although indented on the team menu. I had to do all the subsequent talking to Katie.

I understand some of this like the difference in behaviour on the 2 Virgils being due to the fact that if you're at the cap for the TF as leader, SKs are to your level -1 whereas if you're above that, they SK to the cap level.

What I don't understand is why heroes and villains seem to behave differently and the Numina and Manti behaved differently.