Roderick

That brute would be a villain, and as such would unlock Arachnos Soldiers, not Kheldians.

A Claws/Fire scrapper could do the same thing, but with the lower damage cap, would benefit less from eating a pile of inspirations before entering the mission.

You have to make sure that they're super fresh, or they'll have that effect on you. And make sure you don't overcook them either.

I think the intention was to say that your "Inner Gimp" feels lonely or neglected, because your listed 50s are all sets that are rather trivial to turn into raging powerhouses.

I know you already decided, but if the Shade turns out not to be your thing, here's my 2 Inf:

Dark Armor. I'm surprised Dechs didn't mention it. Because it's mostly resists and a heal in the low levels, it works best with high HP, so tanks and brutes. The damage aura works wonderfully with fury, so I prefer brutes. Pairing it with Dark Melee gives you a bunch of -tohit to layer your mitigation, and Dark Consumption to refill your End after Dark regen flatlines you (less relevant once you're well slotted, but a lifesaver in earlier levels). And don't worry about the Mez Auras messing with your fury - with new fury, they only slow you down a bit - you'll never notice it.

(Fire or Archery)/Devices blaster. Add Super Speed or a Stealth IO and you can stealth past anything (remember to use Smoke Grenade on high perception and anti-stealth foes). Yay ranged Stalker! Devices has no Build Up, so I recommend NOT pairing it with a set that doesn't have Aim, but that's just my preference.

Plant/Earth dominator. Seeds to confuse everything, Immobilize them when they get close together, then let the enemies and Carrion Creepers do most of the work. With a hold in both the primary and secondary, you can mez a boss even without domination, and the hammers and Seismic Smash will make short work of them. And it gets Power Boost too!

And I got a LRSF going on Victory in under 5 minutes and turned away 3 people because we filled on a Thursday morning when it WASN'T the WST and there were at least two other TFs forming at the same time. If it's taking you that long to form a team, you're doing something wrong.

Under the new Paragon Rewards system, the Vet Reward wings will be part of the Tier 3 rewards, which means that if you have 9 months or more, you'll be able to select them when Freedom goes live, and if you have 12 months or more, you'll be guaranteed to have them.

Furthermore, if you've been subbed so little that you don't even have one vet reward, once Freedom goes live, you'll get one Paragon Reward each month, meaning that you'll have those wings in 3-5 months, depending on the order you pick your Tier 3's in - and that's assuming you start from 0.

Then again, if you wait for Freedom, you can use your monthly stipend of points to buy the individual pieces from the booster pack, so if all you want (for example) is the bird head, then that's all you buy - and you can save the rest of your points for something else.

You might want to find something else to bid on, before someone steals all your money*.

*Note: This is not confirmed, but keep it in mind, just in case!

There was, however, a post by Castle that asked which powers we want new animations for. Like David's "All things art" threads, we were told not to take it as a guarantee, and that anything that did come from it would almost definitely take a while.

Linking fail and getting the joke fail in the same post.

Impressive.