Roderick

I don't take it as a preference of Heroism over Villainy, but rather a self-fulfilling prophecy of "population" vs "ghost town".

I know many people who refuse to roll anything redside solely because "nobody ever plays on redside, so it's impossible to find teams", ignoring the fact that if they'd all play redside.... there would be players over there.

There are, of course, people who prefer to be the good guy over the bad. But I don't think that they're as numerous as certain ( ) people would lead you to believe.

Or at minimum level if you are lower than minimum. A rare case, but happens. For example, a level 24 character rolls 25-29 and gets a Luck of the Gambler +Recharge. LotG is 25-50, so the recipe is 25.

Concerning recipes from enemy drops as mentioned in the OP: They always occur at the level of the enemy you defeated, unless the enemy is outside the level range of the drop, then it's adjusted as a random roll is. This is most often relevant when fighting enemies that are over 50, but occasionally, you'll get a recipe from a set that doesn't exist at the enemy's level; then it will be adjusted to the max or min for that set, as appropriate.

Mission complete recipes are essentially Silver Rolls from the AE. They always roll at YOUR experience level, regardless of your combat or security levels, or the level of the mission.

One can be social without participating in the endgame content. Some, like myself, enjoy leveling characters more than playing level 50 characters.

If you don't set a defeat challenge, it doesn't count your deaths, so it will always report "0".

There are level-locked Hazard Zones though (The Hive, The Abyss).

And not all level-locked zones are PVP and Hazard (Correcting the tip, not you). At the very least, there's Cimerora and Ouroboros.

I imagine that sitting through any TF without a butt would be a pain.

I think you meant dans.

Not entirely true: It's impossible to complete that mission without destroying the pylons.

As mentioned everywhere else in the thread, it makes no difference if you destroy them before, after or during the Hami fight though.

You've got way more Smashing/Lethal defense than necessary. If you're going to use that as a base, save yourself some money and skip on the Kinetic Combat in Boxing. Use the slots you saved to put a Mako's Bite quad in Energy Punch, Bone Smasher, and Total Focus.

I don't recommend using Gaussian's Synchronized Fire Control when building for typed defense. It only gives its 2.5% bonus to positional defense, and half that to types. 6 slots of 1.25% def isn't really worth the investment.

Somehow, you've got both Combat Jumping and Super Jump turned on in that build. After turning off SJ, you're using 1.05 end/second on toggles and recovering 2.68 end/second. Picking up your accolades will improve your recovery, but as-is, you'll probably find yourself running out of end in long fights.

If you want to get the Energy defense from Red Fortune, I'd personally drop Maneuvers and 6-slot Weave and Scorpion Shield with Red Fortune. If you really want those Luck of the Gambler +Recharge, you can keep Maneuvers as a set mule, or even grab Grant Invis instead, so that you can stealth teammates.

I assume that you used the Detonations in Fire Ball and Fire Breath for the AoE/Fire/Cold defense. You don't really have enough of any of those categories for it to be worth trying to get them too high. Also, many attacks with these types also carry Smashing or Lethal vectors; in these cases the S/L defense will replace the AoE anyways. I'd recommend Positron's Blast for the +Recharge set bonus.

This is a modification of your build. It's probably not the best, since it's a quickie, but it's a starting point. It has 47.5% S/L and 35.1% Energy - A little lower, but still over the softcap on S/L, which is where it counts. It's got 15% more global recharge, and when Hasten is active, it's got almost 3x the global recharge. Hasten is down for less than 20 seconds - With a Spiritual Boost in the Alpha Slot, you might even have perma-hasten. And the endurance usage is 0.4 end/sec (less than half yours) and recovery is 2.91 end/sec before accolades (only a bit more than yours). This leaves you plenty of end for blasting. Finally, I put a Stealth IO in Sprint, so you can use that with Stealth to get Invisibility level stealth, without the Only Affecting Self effect. You have one slot left over to put wherever you find most useful.

This costume wins the thread.

And yes, that chest piece is awesome. I use it a lot too.

Actually, you've only got 95% DDR. Mids' has a bug where it forgets to cap Defense Debuff Resistance, but it can't go any higher than 95%. Don't sweat it though - I've got characters with exactly 45% defense and capped DDR, and they rarely fall below 42%.

If you're talking about http://paragonwiki.com and http://wiki.cohtitan.com then there's no need to check both; paragonwiki.com is an alias for the other, and they're both the same site.

If the second wiki that you're talking about is the one located on Wikia, please, for your own sake, don't use it. The founders of Paragonwiki stopped using Wikia because, among other things, viruses were being propagated through the site, and the people running the wiki were unable to do anything about it. The Wikia version has been abandoned by most of the people who update the wiki, meaning that most of the information is out of date as well.

A new feature of Mids' added in v19.1 is the ability to suppress your powers to see the effects while unstealthed, mezzed, etc. Go to Options, Configuration, Effects & Maths, and notice the "Suppression" field on the far right. Turn on "Attacked" and all your stealths will give the in-combat defense numbers instead of the out of combat values.

As Morbid Star said:

They did give XP at one point. And back then XP was rare and valuable, because XP hadn't been smoothed, Patrol XP didn't exist, and Debt was a lot harsher than it is now. So people would tell others that clicking the glowies would make the trial harder so that others would avoid them... And then would click them themselves for the extra XP.

The devs removed the XP from the glowies way, WAY back, but the rumor has persisted, even to this day.

All procs that you can slot in Dual Pistols check every time they're used, regardless of the type of ammo you're using.

The only time the type of proc matters is when it's slotted in a pet (Ranged damage proc won't fire in a pet's melee attack, etc).