Roderick

There is never a penalty for defeating a confused enemy. The "penalty" is from confused enemies dealing damage to your target, and it's basically the same as if another player hd come along and poked your foes a couple times.

Using Arctic Air technically will reduce your XP/kill a bit, BUT the XP share taken by confused foes is smaller than that taken by players, the confused foes are also slowed, meaning they attack each other less than they might otherwise, and any "lost" XP is offset by you spending less downtime healing (since you were attacked less), and the fact that you'll be working off less debt (since it helps mitigate a LOT of damage).

In other words, yes you might "lose" a tiny amount of XP by using Arctic Air, but you'd be a fool to skip it for that reason.

Just be sure to slot properly to deal with the HUGE End cost. I couldn't run it until I had it and Stamina both 3-slotted with SOs.

I can't comment on top levels, but Wincott still starts at 5 (when I go to the Hollows at 4, I have to street hunt a bit before he talks to me). Flux hasn't turned me away in ages, so I don't know his level range. I recently finished Flux a level 10 though - Julius wouldn't talk to me at all, not even for his non-arc street hunt, until I hit level 12.

It wasn't because of people whining over -rep that "wasn't heaping piles of praise", it was because some people were using it to slip under the radar and post anonymous comments that were abusive, rude, and blatant violations of the EULA.

This system is a "middle ground", where you can still find the comments if you want, but they're harder to find, so people are less likely to use them for inappropriate uses.

And I can confirm that the same is true for the NA servers.

Actually, for IOs that give a global effect, with no Enhancement of the power they're slotted in, 50 is the worst level, because they can't be slotted until 47, and they stop working if you exemplar below 47. The lower the level the better for this type of enhancement; in this case, level 10 is the best.

The arc that gives access to the patron powers becomes available at level 40. That's probably what the OP had heard about.

The set IOs from enemy drops are also at the enemies' level. It's the Pool B's from mission completes that come at your level.

There have been MANY posts about it in the last month. Same thing happens with Martial Arts and Shield. Brawler says he fixed it already, and we're just waiting on the fix to find its way into a patch

My first roll: [Recipe:Eradication: Acc/Dam/Rech/End.12]

Put it up on the market, not really expecting a speedy sale. We'll see.

And I'm still waiting for a SG invite. Send a /tell to @Roderick if you're on! Oh, and do we have a global channel yet?

I assume that, like existing non-combat pets, they'd be limited to one at a time.

Thanks!

3 weeks? Guess I was thinking time from the Feb 12th patch until the TEST change to the current setting.

No. It is NOT "supposed to" work that way. It was "supposed to " work that way for all of a week before they patched it to change it to the current method.

You have to set up a series of bind files, each of which says ine line, activates the power, then loads the next file in sequence. The last file loads the first one. There is no way to randomize them; they will load in a predictable order.

Check out this guide from Ex Libris for details.

/bind KEYNAME "say $battlecry"

Or change Say to Group, Broadcast, Local, or whatever channel you prefer.

I've got a toon ready to join. If someone could send me a /tell to @Roderick, I'd appreciate it.

I've got an Ice/Ice that I'm planning on playing in melee range almost exclusively. I've got Arctic Air already, and am getting close to Chilling Embrace. AA is pretty expensive to run, but I find that it's worth it. Adding CE is going to be a bit rough on my endurance though, so I was wondering: Is stacking the two worth it, or will CE's addition be negligible?