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Not true at all. Any mission can be solo'ed on Heroic.

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If you can't find a team, start one. If you can't find enough players in your level range try switching characters (levels) and/or servers. Don't forget that the [Help] channel is accessible by using /hc [message]. If you call out that you are looking for a "normal" mission team on the [Help] channel you may get people willing to team with you.


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I've got to point out here that using the Help channel to try and find teams is not an appropriate use of the channel, in my opinion. It is for players that have questions to be answered. Personally, if I see someone spamming the Help channel with team requests, they get placed on ignore.

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If you are on Freedom, it seems time to jump ship.

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This is excellent advice here. Get off Freedom. Other servers tend to have more of a "community" feel to them and some of the best players are on the smaller servers in my experience.

Very well put, Lex.

Finding teams is fairly easy. It only requires some minimal effort on the part of the player.

* Make friends in-game. Use the global friend function.
* Join an active SG. Use the forum section here for your server to find one, if you have trouble in the game.
* Use your server global channels. Again, look in the forum section here for your server. There should be a stickied thread listing your server's global channels.

Simply by doing the above, I have zero problems finding teams. Whether it is for AE, regular content, badging, Task Forces, it does not matter, the teams are there.

The larger problem is simply having an AE building in Atlas in the first place. Farming or not, it is detrimental to new players experiencing the "real game". Never should have been put there to begin with...

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Sorry but detention field is a bad power no matter how you use it since burning the mob down immediately or ignoring it in Nemesis Lt. case, is always going to be a better, faster, and safer option and it doesn't require any power choice or slots to make it work. As for keeping stuff away from towers and the reactor, AoE damage and -Res debuffs do that job perfectly fine and more efficiently.

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For such a "bad" power, it's funny how I've never gotten a complaint about its use on multiple STF/ITF & other TF runs. It may be a very situational power, but that does not make it "bad".

It seems overly obvious to me, in every one of these threads that comes up, that you have a chip on your shoulder about FF. Seems to me, the best argument that FF is a perfectly good set, is how vehemently defensive you get when it is compared to Cold.

Fact is, they are two different sets, with different purposes. FF will always be the "King of mitigation", and Cold has mediocre defense, with some nice debuffs.

Trying to "prove" one is better than the other just smacks of kindergarten playground pettiness.

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Blue won. Red lost. Get over it.


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This is the problem. We are 1 country but divided by 2 piece of crap political parties. If people would stop and think with their minds and hearts instead of picking a side, we wouldnt be in such a mess to begin with. Your post jumping on the opposite faction and calling names is proof of this.

Leave Karl out of this, I heard he caught his Assualt bot humping the washine machine

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This is why I consider myself an independent now.. The biggest problem we have is too many people are caught up in this "my team vs. your team" thing, and they are only too willing to overlook the terribly destructive policies of their chosen "saviors".

Shame more folks don't seem to have good critical thinking skills.

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I don't know a number for drop rate but i don't have much luck at it. lol. I will continue to "grind" for them though (which i enjoy doing, btw) before i spend the kind of inf in WW for them though. ( but that's just me )

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When I can make the inf to buy one in less than half the time it takes to get a random drop, I think I'll stick to buying them...

Be nice if we had some idea what was going on.

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the crafters will need 699.1 billion more to match the Obama package stimulus package.

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I thought it was 3.2 trillion.... and that was after there was "no more pork"

oh well

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As opposed to the 10 trillion the previous president saddled us with.

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Better recheck that 10 trillion number there... You couldn't be more wrong.

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Very logical, but #1 isn't going to happen. I know what's irritating people and it's my natural personality. That's not changing. I went through enough of that in my young life. I'm not changing for anyone anymore. Thus the poll. If people don't want me to play in their sandbox, I'll take my toys and go home.

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I could not care less about this whole silly thread, but I simply want to interject that people who cannot learn to get along with others tend to not go very far in life... It's a pretty important "life skill" to have.

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What I like to do is fly above a tight spawn, drop caltrops (put ranges in it) and ignite (again, with ranges). As the mobs on caltrops will mostly try to run, and shoot you less, it buys you some time. After the ignite patch is down, hit Flame Thrower and/or full auto, and you're golden.

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Of course an AR/EM would just hit Build-Up then Full-Auto and accomplish the same thing, then move on to the next group.

The lack of Aim/Build-Up has always been the biggest nail in the AR/Dev coffin. They really need to add some version of those powers to Devices.

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Since changing you colors will be -20% damage how many of the non-carebears will actually do this?

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That only applies to players using Regen... Everyone else is fine.

Cold is just too darn ugly. I really tried to like it, but in the end I'll take FF any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

Grandville, so you can buy all your new characters the jetpack as early as level 1. Of course, you need a way back too...

Prices on these seem to be recovering already.

For a cyborg concept, how about AR & Energy Manipulation instead of Devices? AR/EM has a lot more synergy than AR/Dev.

EM gives you Build-Up, which helps make up for the fact that AR has no Aim power.

EM gives you Boost Range which works amazingly well with the AR cone attacks.

The EM melee attacks make up for AR's overall lack of single-target damage.

Bean Bag and Total Focus or Stun can be combined to mez bosses.

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you can also... you know... slot it with one of those funny HOs that will increase the intangibility, say Endoplasms

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Wow. This never even occurred to me. Does that affect the duration or the mag itself?

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I have an Endoplasm slotted. The ingame info shows that it just increases duration, not mag. I believe the power is at the defender mag cap and cannot be enhanced.

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Hmmm... Mid's shows it as increasing mag, but not duration. Should be fairly easy to test though.

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you can also... you know... slot it with one of those funny HOs that will increase the intangibility, say Endoplasms

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Wow. This never even occurred to me. Does that affect the duration or the mag itself?

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AR - Missing Aim, sorry, but AIM+BU alpha defines a blasters true role
Arch - Well balanced, strong, a possibility but I find the visuals and draw time to be kind of weak.


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These are the two strongest AOE damage blaster sets. When you have a mini-nuke up every 30 seconds, the others pale in comparison.

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At its core, I disagree with this definition. Inferno, Short Circuit, Fire Sword Circle, and Havoc Punch are just a few very good melee-range attacks.

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The exceptions are not the rule. Blasters, overall, do their most effective work outside of melee range (you know this).

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I'm going to disagree with this as well. In general, the hardest hitting ST blaster attacks are all melee. Blasters are all about damage, regardless of whether it is at range or melee.

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The Nictus are immune to any kind of debuff and control I think (other than sleeps). The towers on the last mission of the STF, on the other hand, are a different story. You can safely cage one of those to eliminate some of the strain on the aggro-holder.

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This is correct, as far as I know. Detention Field can be used on Rom, but not on the Nictus. One thing to keep in mind about Detention Field, is that it will only work up to a +2 AV.

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I'm only asking them to play some DnD with me. You'd think they'd be relieved...

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Maybe if you were this specific, instead of saying they'll be 'Role Playing".

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Dang! I knew I'd forgot something!

I guess when I showed up wearing a hooded robe and carrying a gnarled staff, they got the wrong idea...

*gets wrong ideas*

YARG! That's going to replace the demon in my nightmares!

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I put on my wizard robe and hat.

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Scary...

Seems like a good time to start buying up as many as possible for those with the inf on-hand.

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heh, how about X number of purple drops per hour, game wide, randomly selected. so all the people that chat for hours under atlas or in AE have the same chance of getting one as people playing that actually the game. Is that fair enough? .... sigh

people are always trying to beat the system. Just go out and fight stuff, not getting purples fast enough? just kill stuff faster ... it's that easy.

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If I'm not mistaken, Castle had at one point (I think it was during or just after I13's open beta) said that in a perfect world, merits would work like that - you'd get x merits for every y minutes you were logged in, no matter what you were doing. However, the world's not perfect.

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Whose perfect world is that? Karl Marx?