Roderick

The "tutorial" missions from Twinshot/Graves are useless as far as tutorials go - heck, one of the things they try to teach you is how to train, regardless of the fact that you can't even talk to the contacts until you've trained at least four times. On top of that, they're HORRIBLE. Those two arcs are the ONLY content in the game I refuse to ever do again.
The Hollows, on the other hand, is some of the BEST low level content in the game. Why would you direct people away from it?

That's what I get for trying to do build calculations in my head. :P

Your To-Hit slotting has to be pretty close to maxxed out there. I'd say that the numbers you're showing there are even more proof that the number was carefully selected, and not just picked out of the blue.

I'm really not sure what you're implying here. You do know that Accuracy and ToHit are two totally serarate mechanics, and slotting all the Accuracy in the world will have no impact on insta-snipe, right?

I suspect that the number was picked so that unslotted Aim was enough to trigger the effect, but fully slotted Build Up was not. Since "Three small yellow inspirations" has been mentioned a few times, it was probably part of the design decision as well.

It's NOT the Tier 3 power getting it's range boosted. People are just calling it that because it's quicker to type. It's the third single target blast that's getting its range boosted. With a few exceptions, the third single target blast has a shorter range.

Concerning Thunder Clap: If you want the buff without getting attacked or scattering enemies... Use it between enemies as you're running to the next group? Hawk already said that it doesn't need to hit anything to buff you, and the recharge is far quicker than the duration of the buff, so you'll be able to use it for both effects as you need to.

Body Armor is 8.75% S/L Resist (about 12% slotted)
Wolf Spider Armor is 3% S/L, 2% Psi resist (About 4%/2.4% slotted), and a mag 2 mez protect.

That's a pretty large nerf to the resistances, especially when many don't even think that Body Armor is worth it in the first place. In return, you get mag 2 mez protect, when most mezzes are mag 3. Wolf Spider Armor is meant for the pre-24 game; after that, you should be using Bane or Crab Armor.

Crab Armor is the same as Wolf spider, but mag 4 mez protect. This would be better, but the resistance is still pretty underwhelming.

Bane Armor is 7.5% Resist All (10.5% slotted). That's weaker than Body Armor, but covers all damage types. It has mag 4 mez protect (like Crab Armor), and a small +Max HP.

Mag 4 covers ONE mez, or two if they're only mag 2 each, so stacked mez would still stop a blaster using a Bane Armor clone. Giving both Resist All and +HP to a blaster via autopower MIGHT be overpowered, but not necessarily. If Body Armor was replaced with an Arachnos Soldier armor clone, I'd recommend Bane Armor, or Bane Armor with the +HP removed.

I'm fairly certain that all Sleep powers with a damage component do the damage up front, and the sleep after a short delay, so that the power doesn't interrupt itself. These powers can still be fouled by Interface DoT procs, because some ticks happen after the sleep applies, but that's a separate effect, and the power should never break itself. If it is happening, that's a bug, and should be reported.

Nope. When I joined, I had the option of buying CoH or CoV for $15-17 (can't remember exactly), or GvE for $20. It seemed like a no-brainer to me, so I bought GvE. When I started my second account, over a year later, I still had the same options.

The conversion of all accounts to cover both games, and making it so that any purchase of one included both came after NCSoft's purchase of the game from Cryptic - I'm fairly certain it was about the same time that Paragon Studios launched as a dedicated studio for CoH only.

I've deleted my own posts while I was a VIP. Click the "Edit" button, and there'll be an option to delete your post. You cannot delete threads, but you can delete posts.

Also, I would be surprised if the Devs had that ability. While they share their "redname" status with the Community Mods, I doubt that they have the same permission levels as the Mods do.

Does that work in Flashback? I don't think I've ever tried, but I didn't think you were supposed to be able to abandon missions in TF/Flashback mode.

We already have this on the Paragon Rewards tree - [Return to Battle]. I'm not sure if that would make this more or less likely to be made available via in-game means.

If you just took down the Top Dog, shouldn't that say "You're the Dog now, man"?

The only catch is that he doesn't count any arcs that you completed before he was added to the game. So if you did Heather's arc before he was added, and all the rest after, but never redid any, you need to Flashback Heather to get the merits.

In addition to what StarGeek said, that story arc will remain an open story arc, reducing the total number of story arcs that you can have open, potentially preventing you from getting access to additional story arcs (depending on how many you have open). Yes, it will still count, even if you switch sides and can no longer get back to the contact to complete it.

When switching sides, it is a good idea to make sure that no contacts have the open book icon beside them BEFORE switching.

No rez = No second batch of XP. They can go on rezzing, IMO.