Obscure Blade

On the plus side, with Acid Mortar you have a debuff that is both auto targeting and persistent; unlike most secondaries you don't need to worry about knocking your target out of the debuff.

Or to be more comicky, Karate Kid, who beat Superboy because he was Just That Good. And the Black Panther once got the Silver Surfer of all people in an armlock.

On the other hand, they do good damage and contribute to Bodyguard Mode - honestly, given Bodyguard I'd never respec out of an MM pet even if I just set them to Passive and had them follow me.

The FFG provides much better hold protection, and it does it for your pets and allies as well as yourself. Acro only provides a single point of hold protection.

Oh, I'd like that. Especially with Tremor; it would be less silly looking than the float-and-punch-the-ground animation it now has.

And also if you break a display case in the mission a spirit tells you that "Nothing can stop what's happening in Dark Astoria now."

I was just looking at my DP/Storm corrupter and thinking about how he'll be able to get Hurricane at 20. And I''m planning an Archery/Dark corr - who can now get Fearsome Stare at 20 without endurance problems. There's lots of good powers at 20.

Actually Brutes have higher resistance caps, the same as tanks. They just usually need external buffs to reach them, but not always; an /Elec Brute reaches 90% energy resistance on its own for example.

The sentry guns from Aliens I expect. Like so:

Same here. Especially the lowbies; they'll be much more fun to play once they have Stamina.

Or bid low and wait; it helps if you have a lot of alts since that means you can still play the game while waiting for the price to dip. And there's always the chance that what you need will just happen to drop on that alt and you can e-mail it.

The only character I have who is an actual divinity is The Lady of Wrath my EN/Dark Brute, and she's only in her 30s. A lost goddess of rage whom the CoT tried to bind, who possessed the sacrifice and slaughtered the mages; she's still not back to her full strength as a dark goddess (thus the whole not level 50 yet thing). Divine Wrath my Fire/Shield Scrapper comes close, an angel with a burning sword; but isn't even 30 yet. Also close to a goddess would be my Fire/Fire Brute Queen of the Inferno, she's "the avatar of the Queen of Hell"; but again, not 50.

My 50s are my Ill/Rad Controller Entropic Girl who brings "chaos and disorder to the minds and bodies of her enemies"; I supposed she'd be an Incarnation of Entropy like her name. And my Bots/Traps Mastermind Pain Machine who would definitely be the Incarnation of Torture.

I don't know that it counts a nerf for Dark Miasma. Dark Servant has Chill of the Night, an -accuracy aura, so it actually gets something out of moving into melee range. Unlike all-ranged Phantasm and nearly-all-ranged Robotics.

Normally, they or banners may happen when costume parts are turned in for the extra costume slot. During the event they are apparently random.

Another problem is that they often happen in more than one zone at once, so the people who might be interested are spread out all over. It's hard to get enough people to pull it off when they are spread out over simultaneous events in Atlas, Talos and Croatoa.

I haven't heard anything; sounds like either an unfounded rumor or a closed beta leak. Or both; the leak of an unfounded rumor from closed beta.

I disagree. Right now, the difference in effectiveness at low levels for /Regen scrappers (thanks to Quick Recovery) and Masterminds (whose pets have their own endurance pools to attack with) is very noticeable. They are the characters that I first turn up the difficulty for, not because they do more damage or are tougher, but simply because they don't run out of endurance halfway through fights and get killed.