Sailboat

Perhaps a forum name change is in order -- is Firewater-minded taken?

I usually take Sands because it's usually more effective, but I do like the Axe for some things and on some characters. One other minor point is that you can pull out the Axe in noncombat roleplaying or just showing off; Sands doesn't look like anything.

But now I have the Vet badge that lets me pick up the one I skipped, so I generally have my cake and eat it, too!

Congrats!

Do you have all the passive accolades (the ones that add life and endurance)? I find these days it's easier to hit 50 than to round up all the requirements for the accolades, so my 50s are usually still working on Freedom Phalanx Reserve or Portal Jockey after their final ding.

/SR does have a recharge advantage over /SD.

Supposedly PvPers tend to be heavily drawn to Freedom for the population. Also, people who liked the AE exploits liked big, easy teams, and may have been overrepresented on Freedom. The changes to PVP and the AE exploit nerfs supposedly drove away many of these people and probably disproportionately impacted Freedom, while at the same time, NOT driving off invested roleplayers, who flock to Virtue.

On the day of the AE nerfs, Virtue for the first time appeared more heavily used than Freedom, and it has often been that way since, when I looked at server order. So I wouldn't be at all surprised if Virtue is (now) more populated than Freedom.

I have a character who has been sporting a badge for some time. I would like to switch to NO badge showing. How can I do that?

Generally I have fewer complaints than most people seem to. I don't know much about software design, but I do know something about the dynamics of a large, diverse message board dedicated to gaming, and how hard it is to keep everyone happy.

I also have about a decade's experience game-mastering a superhero RPG. The superhero genre has unique issues other genres do not. Challenging superheroes, without either making them feel un-super and weak OR meaninglessly overpowered is very tricky.

In the spirit of the OP, I guess I do have a simple complaint about the interface. Why is there no command or keystroke to level the view? You can tilt your character's viewpoint, or the camera looking at your character, up or down -- but once you've moved it off of level, you can only approximate leveling it again by fiddling with it and trying to persuade yourself you're dead-level.

Yet if you log out and back in, the camera starts perfectly level. Obviously there IS a way to level the camera somehow -- why can't I have it??? Why must my fliers do a drunkard's walk, progressively correcting up and down a little, trying to find level flight to avoid scraping the road or gradually drifting up to the altitude cap?

With one keystroke, I can reset my view to the default "camera right behind me a short distance" position, but that does not affect the up/down angle.

In most software, it's possible to return to a default state fairly simply. Why is that not true of our camera angle?

Sounds like being Renowned would hurt.

"Finf info on Quatrexin"

Your thread title looks like the e-mail spam I get from pharmaceutical resellers.

Also, it's probably not accidental that Claws and Spines are terrific AoE sets that would synergize well -- perhaps too well -- with Shield's Against All Odds damage bonus. It would certainly be either almost overpowered or completely overpowered, depending on your point of view. That may or may not have occurred to the Devs, but I assume it's part of the reason.

Yeah, the Sweep combo turns you from a "Scrapper who has an AoE" into an "AOE monster!", at least at low levels of recharge. And 1,000 Cuts is the best power of that combo. It's very helpful in dealing with crowds.

Obviously mileage varies, and the Sweep combo is much less useful for soloing tough single targets such as AVs and monsters, and the Attack Vitals combo does provide some AoE.