Roderick

I'm only singling you out because you posted, I would ask this question of anyone else who said the same thing:

Do you ever use Set IOs? For example, do you stick a Karma: Knockback Protection in Combat Jumping or Hover on a blaster? Do you put Luck of the Gambler: Defense/Increased Global Recharge in characters with a lot of defense powers? Do you mix up a few dual- or triple-aspect IOs in a power to get the better enhancement value in fewer slots than SOs (or even common IOs) provide?

I ask this because my girlfriend plays the game, but - like you - isn't interested in putting in the amount of work necessary to max out a build. However, she will look at a Devastation: Damage/Recharge and think "I need more Damage and Recharge slotted in my Executioner's Shot. Let's slot that!" Likewise, she will pick up globals like the KB protection one, when she knows that it's something that will benefit her.

It's a matter of personal perspective, I know, but I don't see any difference between your attitude and hers, but I see a pretty big difference between how the two of you actually play and slot.

-I can't afford a subscription, and only have access to SOs.
-I don't have a big enough bankroll for IOs.
-IOs confuse me.
-This character isn't a major enough undertaking to waste the time, effort and resources to make a top-end build for.

And numerous other reasons. "SOs only" does not automatically equate to "gimp", and not everyone needs or wants a top tier build for every character they make.

Edit: Hi Bill! Out of curiosity, how much would it cost to slot a 500 million to 2 billion Inf build on each and every one of your characters? I think the answer to that would illustrate my last point perfectly.

This is correct, except that fear can only be broken once every 8 or 10 seconds, no matter how many times they are hit.

The option does nothing. I just switched myself to a white name three times, and every time I came back to this thread, my name was still gold. White = Free/Premium, Gold = VIP.

I suspect that that's somehow related to whatever code is forcing me back to a goldname every time I switch to white.

A free player that's displaying as a goldname IS a VIP (as far as the forum is concerned). If they had an avatar and/or signature before they went Premium, those come back, and the PM system is temporarily made available to them, just like how they're given access to forum sections that they shouldn't have.

Yes, that was covered several posts back. However, some people have been answering the new guy who necro'd is, and others have been partaking in the new discussion that has arisen.

But not for long. Mod 13 should be here to shut things down in a few hours.

When a full quarter of my screen is full of Big Red Text, it actually DOES impact my play - It's SO focus-grabbing that I can't look away, particularly when it's constantly scrolling past.

Some way to limit it to one window would be nice - I don't need to see it EVERYWHERE.

Free players are limited in what inspirations they can get from drops - including merit rolls. Large Insps don't become available until T8 is complete; they will be reduced to Medium if T4 or higher or small in less than T4.

This makes me sad, but from your earlier comment, I had suspected that was going to be the case. Thanks for answering, I've asked others several times, and never even gotten a "No", let alone a reason, before you.

Well.... maybe a BIT like that. But I don't use iStuff, so that's pretty much useless to me. WinMo or Android only for me.

Edit: After following that link, that looks like a pretty nice app. Put that on an OS I use and I'll be fired faster than you can say "Freem!"

Uniques are limited to one EACH per build. You can slot as many Unique Enhancements as you want, as long as you don't slot more than one per build. If you are using multiple builds on a character, you can slot the same Unique in each build; each build is essentially a different character, so they ignore the enhancements slotted in the inactive build(s).

Some enhancements are grouped up so that you can only have one from each group. Currently, there are two places this happens:
-All stealth enhancements (Celerity, Unbounded Leap, Freebird, and ... I forget the name of the teleport one). You can only slot one of the four at a time.
-ATOs. Each regular ATO is grouped with the Superior ATO of the same name. Note that the regular ans Superior versions are two different sets, so if you have 3 regular and 3 Superior slotted, you don't get the full set bonuses from either; instead, you get the 2- and 3-piece set bonuses from each set. Some people prefer this, as it allows them to double up on the low-tier bonuses (I'm looking at you, S/L defense for brutes).

Hopefully that wasn't too much all at once. Welcome back to the game.

Without knowing anything about your build, I have no idea how relevant any of this info is:

-If your primary is Super Strength or Stone Melee, you have a Hold already (or you should! Shame on you if you skipped KO Blow or Seismic Smash!). At least three Epics I can think of have a Hold to stack with that: Block of Ice in Arctic, Fossilize in Stone, and Char in Fire. With enough recharge, you could probably hold a green Mito. If you aren't SS or SM, it's very unlikely that you'll be able to hold a mito.

-The Blue mitos have capped melee and AoE defense. That means that you can't rely on a ranged AoE in your epic against them. My scrapper can solo a Blue with Ring of Fire and Fire Blast, so a brute probably could too. If you're SS or SM, you can take Hurl instead of Ring of Fire, giving you better ranged damage.

-Because of the two things above, Soul Mastery - which is usually considered the best Epic for Brutes - isn't very good for soloing LGTF; Fire is probably your best choice. And even then, it won't be enough unless paired with the right primary.

Now I'm curious about how feasible this is. Anyone know how much Hold you need to stack to take down a Green mito?

EDIT:
I wish there was a mobile version of Mids'. Then again, if there was, I'd probably never do any work while at work ever again.

Pulling some numbers from City of Data, it looks like slotting KO Blow, Seismic Smash or Char with 3 level 50 common Hold and Recharge, and adding about 100% global recharge gets any one of those holds to the point where you can triple stack it. That's enough for Mag 12 off KOB or SS, and Mag 9 off Char, or Mag 21 if you combine one of the melee holds with Char. That slotting will demolish your endurance bar in about 30 seconds before adding toggles or other attacks, but I wouldn't actually slot like that anyways.
Slotting 5 pieces of a good set into a melee hold and Char should give reasonable enhancement to everything but the Hold; the sixth slot can take a level 50 common IO. With reasonable global recharge, you should be able to maintain double stacked holds (Mag 14), with occasional triple stacked spikes.
It seems like it should be possible, unless that Hold Protection is really high.

Yes. The rest of us know better than to try to make sense of anything Satanic Hamster posts, especially when it involves pictures.

At the Player Summit panel where the work on the costume set was first started, some of David's concept art included a little green blobby alien - like the brain slugs from Futurama - perched on the head (presumeably a hat), and on the shoulder (like the cat and panda shoulder pets). Sorry, I don't have a link. Those were OLD posts, and would take a fair amount of digging to locate.

Does this apply to textures* too? I'll double-check when I get home, but it seems to me that there's a couple textures - Blast and Straps, IIRC - that aren't mirrored from one side to the other.
*It strikes me that "texture" might not be the right word. I'm referring to the selection under the Tights selection (or other part) which determines how Color 1 and Color 2 are applied to an otherwise plain costume piece.

The reason I ask this is that I've wanted one texture for tights forever, and it seems like it should be as simple as a costume piece can get. However, if the mirroring applies to textures as well, it explains why I can't have it.

As always, please forgive the horrible MS Paint edit.

The ones I'm familiar with NEVER function like debit cards - they function like credit cards, which are totally different. When a credit card is processed, it's one of two types of transactions: a purchase or a cash advance (technically, there's a third type - balance transfer - but that isn't done at the POS level). Cash advances can only be done at the bank or ATM level, and typically have a higher interest rate. Stores typically aren't supposed to do cash back on credit cards, because transactions they do are processed as purchases, not cash advances.
Prepaid credit cards are designed to automatically decline cash advance transactions, and that's how the card would be processed to "pay you into your chequing account". Doing it some other way to bypass that limitation would be credit fraud.

Again, I'm Canadian. Rules may be different in the US, but they are generally pretty close.

Fixed.

This is correct. You have to be in the same state as the seller to be charged sales tax, since sales taxes are added at the state (or provincial) level. Because of how NC Soft is set up, last I heard there's two states where they charge sales tax on purchases. I can't remember which ones - but I know neither of them is in Canada. ;P