Neuronia

This is also my experience. I have Tough on mine (no Weave) and have slotted Kinetic Combats and one of the Stun sets adds +Defense (forget the name at the moment)...I have around 43% Smashing Defense and a good amount of Lethal/Fire Defense too. These days I farm Battle Maiden mobs in AE when I want easy mode or Nemesis when I want to pay attention to gameplay, fun stuff.

Lavish Glory on Infinity if you want to see my setup.

End-game stuff

Task/Strike Forces

Statesman and Recluse Task Forces can be pretty daunting on pick-up groups and can get steamrolled in under 30 minutes by savvy players. Before joining one of these, find a group of regulars so you don't get discouraged. They do offer Hamidon Enhancements, some of which are still quite used while others are bunk (looking at you, Centriole Exposure...).

Heroside has the Shadow Shard task forces but they can be pretty long and tedious, but the view is great from the car.

The Rikti War Zone (look for a "V" on the map in Atlas Park, Peregrine Island, Founders' Falls, Cap au Diable, Grandville and St. Martial) has a gigantic flying saucer that a large group of people can raid for Vanguard Merits, which you can turn in for a temporary robot, costume pieces, extra salvage storage and so on...be sure to speak with Levantera at level 35 to unlock the Member of Vanguard badge so you can earn the Merits. Lady Grey also has a co-op 45-50 tf which is fun.

Speaking of that...doing Ashley McKnight (in Cap) or Montague Castanella (in Steel Canyon) arc will unlock Cimerora and the Imperious Task Force (ITF). If anything is run to death in this game, it's ITF as you can do it fairly quickly, it grants 26 Merits and it can drop purples.

There are also a lot of story arcs and they can get "tougher". The mobs tend to have a lot more status effects at higher levels, Malta are especially tough as they are built to take out supers with end drain, stuns, robots, their friends the Knives of Artemis use caltrops and big swords...fun people.

Hamidon Raids are basically you against a blob, 45+ raid so keep your ears open on your badge channels and server forums for when they take place. These grant...52 Merits (?) or a Hamidon Origin enhancement. Well-tuned groups can just breeze this.

Outside of that, there are tons of Story Arcs which can have interesting stories and you should get an Ouroboros portal once you reach 25 (ask for one to be dropped for you then hit the top of the spire in there for the badge and portal) where you can 'flash back' all the arcs in the game...

There's also PvP, but if you're going to get your feet wet here...join a 'friendly' under PvPEC guidance so you don't get rolled too badly.

As a meta-aspect, the Invention system lets you boost your character through permanent enhancements (the non-purple, non pvpIO ones scale to 3 levels...it's kinda convoluted so see the Market section for more info) and there is the costume creator, supergroups, the upcoming Cathedral of Pain...

The game is pretty much always about shooting stuff but at higher levels the mobs get more obnoxious and have more status effects/attacks to keep up with your progression.

Agreed, if I had more slots I'd be selling a lot more stuff, seeing I have bins upon bins of items I don't list out of frustration to their abundant supply (Thunderstrikes, Doctored Wounds, Crushing Impacts, etc) and scarce return.

Actually, if we're going to Magic Pony land, what I would really, really want is seperate buy and sell slots. Say you have 20 slots available...20 of them would be for sales only and 20 for purchases. Of course, feel free to "doom" the idea but it seems, at first brush, you might be executing more transactions in this manner.

It is easy to make money but a new player walking into the Market and seeing a high price will be surprised, if not discouraged, by that price.

There may be a dissonance here, that a player sees 100,000,000 as a price and goes: "Wow, 100,000,000 irl will get me so much stuff but that's the price of one item?" whereas that much can be obtained fairly quickly at level 50.

It's a sticky situation, to be sure. If the supply of the good stuff increases, prices will likely go down but the achiever/seeker types might get bored and those that like to buy and sell such items will find other niches. Players naturally want to get the best stuff. If they find that stuff out of their reach, they may gravitate toward easier games or games where you can get your stuff in a more straightforward manner, rather than random rolls/Merit accumulation.

There certainly is too much inf floating around, but the Devs haven't seen this as an issue, Castle's post and Synapse's big post about the economy sometime back aside...it is interesting that in War Witch's post about the merging, she mentioned other sources acting...here it is:

"The other is not quite such common knowledge. Out of nowhere, Wentworth’s has gained access to new suppliers, but all suspicions and investigations have been stymied by the immaculate paperwork of their new partners. Likewise, the Black Market has suddenly seen a rise in activity, though no one has looked too closely at the ‘why’ so long as the goods are solid. For now, it remains a mystery."

Whether this refers to the Devs seeding the Market, the Going Rogue system players selling their wares, no one knows...

Well, as long as you can field your starting 4 regularly or in time for a match, no problems. The subs are there in case someone can't make it and the sub can.

JK, can you make this Wed? Like to get a match done with Facegrape...

What happened and why a low score of 1-0, were the matches played?

Yes, mostly for the social aspect. I would like to get Merits/Hamis on my namesake but...I don't need either.

No...well...I run a one-person SG atm and most of my evenings are PvP/real life based. Even if I wanted to run one, I doubt I could pull more than 10-20 people in there and the coordination...yeah...I don't think so.

I'll gladly help though, as always, on any night I don't have a PvP event; EoE gathering, cheerleading, bubbling, whatever...just give me some notice and I'll try to help.

Edit:A reason I haven't been to a lot of raids, outside the above, was because of the perceived time commitment (one hour or so). If raids really are 18-40 minutes long these days, that would definitely be an incentive for myself. With the old raid day being Sunday, I can attend most of these.

Thanks to you too

Actually, XFunk "gently" reminded me that we have a sub.

If Nymph, Funk and you can make it Wednesday, we can do this thing.
That ok with you 3?

Garent, all times EST pretty much.

@#$! I wish people had the same globals and forum names. Ignore that then and we'll resked to a day you and kiwi can both make it.

10 would be fine.

This sounds cool but very convoluted. If zone events that are meant for Incarnate level characters occur in Praetoria...which will have zones spanning the entry band, won't newer characters get squashed or squeezed out of the loop?

The whole "zone event" has me really nervous. Outside of the questions of server population, there's the real possibility of players having erratic schedules and missing out on advancement potential for their Incarnates.
How will people in Paragon or the Rogue Isles even find out about the events, let alone access them? Will there be an "O-Portal" to Praetoria?

Further, zone events in the past have mostly degenerated into a "First come, first served" until badges and rewards are obtained then largely ignored.
I sincerely hope that there will be a Task Force or two or some missions that allow Incarnate advancement or progression or challenges...zone missions sound so dicey as to their potential reception and implementation.

You guys should use the Blaster Dom VEAT Blaster line-up, maybe switch one of the offense for a support, it looks solid.

GFs