Roderick

The only excuse I have for my typo is that I frequently transpose letters when typing, and I posted that on my phone, which doesn't give me a red line under typos. Seriously, I need to figure out where to put the ink in my monitor, because I must be low on red by now.

You can only boost IOs. ATOs aren't IOs. They can't be boosted at all.

The problem is, you're comparing members of other ATs that have had billions of Inf pumped into them. Show me one level 50 build of any AT that can outdamage all, or even most, level 50 blasters, when all examples are on SOs only.

Your example of the level 12 blaster, scrapper and brute is also flawed. Any brute will outdamage any other character at level 12, because fury doesn't scale with level, so that massive damage boost is ridiculously overpowered before characters start slotting SO or better enhancements. Brutes and scrappers also will usually have at least one hard-hitting single target attack by this level, whereas the blaster usually has to wait for theirs, because they're getting AoEs right now - and Fire Ball, Exlposive Arrow, (Whatever the Energy equivalent is called), and such are far better than any AoEs the scrapper or brute has at this level. There's also a good chance that the Blaster has melee attacks in their secondary that are as good as what the Scrapper and Brute have, just opened up a bit later.

The Brute vs. Scrapper debate is old hat. At level 50, the scrapper is numerically the higher damage, though not by much. The Blaster and Scrapper have the same damage scale, so they start off on par with Scrappers. They benefit just as much from Enhancements and +Damage from Set Bonuses, Incarnate Abilities and outside buffs as the Scrapper does. They don't crit like a Scrapper, but the damage buff from Defiance provides a Fury-like consistant damage bonus that, over time, should at least equal the bonus damage from crits. And most blasters have access to TWO +Damage powers (usually Build Up and Aim).

I really can't fathom how any blaster is doing significantly less damage than Scrappers and Brutes, unless you're comparing baseline SO blaster builds to high-end Scrappers and Brutes, and if that's the case, it's a ridiculous comparison.

Calatyzing requires that the enhancement be slotted, so if the enhancement in question isn't a Blaster ATO, no they can't. And if it IS a Blaster ATO, they still can't, because they've already got a full set slotted, and the pieces are all Unique.

ARRGH!

I got the rifle too. I also am unable to use it, because I neither have nor want Beam Rifle. It should be for both Beam and Assault Rifles, and maybe even Arachnos Soldiers.

Soul is good for other ATs as well: Brutes and Tanks can make amazing use of Gloom, Dark Obliteration and Darkest Night, and Scrappers and Stalkers do great with Shadow Meld (Especially the sets that want to add some defense to their already high resistance).

But other Patrons are good too.

Brutes and Tanks can get a few extra AoEs out of Leviathan and Mu. Mu's AoE immob is invalueable to those that benefit from keeping their enemies nearby, and Mako's highly non-resisted cones do impressive damage in the hands of a brute with high fury.

Many squishies benefit from Scorpion Shield, especially if they're aiming for a softcapped build. And Bane Spiders get better blasts from Mace than from their primary, and an amazing melee attack - and Mace Mastery doesn't cause redraw when paired with Bane Spider Mace.

And what sane controller is going to turn their nose up at an extra pet? Or defender for that matter?

There's other good stuff in Patron Pools too. Soul isn't the only good Patron, and Power Boost isn't the only reason to take Soul.

Calling them by their proper name (Paragon Reward Tokens) would have saved the confusion.

Except that Performance Shifter would go into Stamina, not Health.

"By default" does not mean that all VIPs will be gold-named. It means that when a new account is created, it will default to gold, as opposed to defaulting to white.

Those aren't overall percentages. Those are percentages within a bracket.

Each card is randomly selected to be Common/Uncommon/Rare/VR. Once its rarity is determined, it rolls on that rarity's table.

Very Rares just have higher numbers because there's fewer items on their list.

I doubt it. The Gunslinger boot has a with and without spur option, so she likely means those ones. Which is too bad, because I'd love Baron boots for one of my female characters.

But thank you for doing all this, Dink! These are some great additions!

To add a little more detail:

Each Patron has 4 arcs:
1- The Patron Power Pool Unlock arc. This arc is level 35-50.
2- A second arc, level 40-45.
3- A third arc, level 45-50.
4- A fourth arc which is basically the same for all four and grants the Usurper badge necessary to lead the Lord Recluse Strike Force.

None of these arcs are in Ouroboros, which means you can only do them, at most, once each per character.
You don't need to worry about outlevelling the Patron Unlock, since it goes to 50.
Furthermore, #2 caps at level 45, so if you get to level 46 or higher before you start it, it will never be offered to you - the contact will skip straight from arc #1 to arc #3 (unless something got changed with arc #2 when they changed the Patron requirements).

Or resubscribe. The level 20 unlock remains in effect for VIP players; they don't have to pay to unlock them. Note that if a VIP creates an Epic AT character, then drops to Premium, that character cannot be played without purchasing an unlock.

Also, there's a bug that lets some Premium accounts play Epic ATs without paying for an unlock. It seems to be connected to the account having unlocked Epic ATs before the transition to CoH: Freedom. However, according to any comments we've seen from the devs, this doesn't seem to be intended behavior, so if you have a free Epic unlock on your account, don't plan on it remaining unlocked forever - they may fix it at any time.

(HERE BE SPOILERS)The rest of the arc pretty much deals with making sure that she doesn't get herself re-killed, because if she does, you die too. There can't possibly be another way, because if there were, it would invalidate the rest of the arc.(SPOILERS END)