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About time you shed your lemming fur.

To answer your question, as I'm sure 65 others have before me (didn't read), Scrappers (DPS +durability) then Blasters (Glass Cannons).

Some other ATs with some powerset combinations and builds bend or even break this "rule" but for the most part go with a Scrapper if you intend heavy solo play and a Blaster if you intend to mostly team.

No, AE Exp does not have to go.
A few brief points, if I may:

1) AE needs, as it has from the beginning, developers and testers who want a fair and enjoyable tool for telling interesting stories with interesting characters and mechanics.

2) Having said that, said developers and testers will know that there are some players who will squeeze every bit of advantage out of any loophole you give them. This will lead to "abuse" by some, and poor knowledge/skills in others.

3) Further, knowing this, begin to "police" our tool. But none of this "report a Farm" crap that we had last time. I mean LOOK at the patrons of the AE buildings. Listen to the Level 1 n00bs broadcasting for a "Rikti team" or "Mito team" or "Monster team" or a "Korea Korea" team. When you hear this kind of chat LOOK at the mission being mentioned. Use your vaunted data-mining to see what missions are being played and then look at these missions. Indeed, you seem to be getting better at snuffing out "exploits" but why is it that you are determined to castrate the entire system? There is no fairness in the system that you seem to want.

4) Rethink that "Risk vs Reward" *****. As long as there are various damage types and defenses to different types of damage there will always be less risk for some toons than others. Period. Is it WRONG for a */Electric Scrapper to like Malta when almost nobody else does? Is it also wrong for that same to Scrapper to avoid CoT and other Negative Energy wielding opponents like the plague because his resistance to Negative is weak? Well, that's called leveraging your Risk vs Reward in his favor. I guess XP from just about every source in the game needs to be nerfed because SOMEBODY is going to leverage it.

5) LOOK AROUND! Go to PI and stand at a portal. Wait few minutes and count the number of level 50 Fire/* Controllers standing around, entering the portal, exiting the portal, etc. wearing "random" costumes, zero vet months, Global the same as the toon name, have ONLY AE and level badges, and have names like aspietrj, 09edifja, and oasfdj. You may even catch that single level 1 Blaster SSK'd to 49 mingled in with the group.
Those RMT farmers are a huge problem yet most people have a "play and let play" attitude about them. Why is that?

6) Now that we have the Powered Personnel Power Profile, Farmers have no need to "pad" their missions by increasing their team size. Consequently there is no reason to include random lowbies in your missions. So lowbies that you invite are there because you WISH for them to be, meaning that you share in the responsibility for not making level 50s who don't know where Steel Canyon is. Bottom line: Don't PL people that you wouldn't run with on a "real" team.

7) Remove AE from Atlas Park, Galaxy City and Mercy Island. 'Nuff said.

8) Lastly (I know, its longer than I intended, sorry)
Architect Entertainment is a company created by Dr. Thaddeus Aeon AQSA, with Crey Industries funding.
A known Arch Villain and Subordinate of Recluse running the show with another Arch Villain and her evil MegaCorporation holding the purse strings is not a recipe for anything good for Paragon City. Positron is enamored of the technology but has doubts about all of the data being collected by the wrong people. Still, he shrugs this off, saying that he has faith in the Heroes of Paragon City and that he believes that the benefits outweigh the risk. What benefits? I can only guess that's the extra EXPerience that Heroes can gain.
What about the downside of Heroes spending time in simulations when they could be fighting REAL CRIME? And don't forget: "The fact that the whole thing is a scheme to benefit me and further my needs and goals should not be counted against me by posterity." ~ Dr. Aeon
TL/ I know, but here's the point: All the time that Heroes OR Villains spend in AE is time that they aren't doing their JOB. Don't people NOTICE this? Is a Hero that's spending all his time playing video games as worthy of public respect as one who's out on the streets protecting the innocent? No. Therefore, CHARGE INF each time a character enters an MA mission. Put the charge on a scale based on the mission level and difficulty setting. Level 1 missions are free, level 2 missions are almost free. Level 50 missions are cheap for a 50 or even a 30 but they are prohibitively expensive for the brand new toon unless it is funded by an alt or friend.

I know this is an old topic and there are many varying perspectives. Don't flame me too hard. ;P

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Last night was the worst I've seen it on Pinnacle in a long time.

I use WASD for movement, TAB and CTRL-TAB for targeting, mouse for direction, view and powers. Almost everyone I know shakes their head at me...

Pinnacle and Infinity, yes.

Its been around forever, so its either WAI or its too complicated for them to fix.

My niece just did have her WoW account hacked this week. She says that something like 70 or so WoW "realms" have been offline for "maintenance".

I prefer the first, and think its gorgeous. I do not, however, like the size and how half of it wraps to the back of your leg. I think that a lot of the beauty will be lost if only half is seen at a time.

To clarify:

Whichever build you are in when you earn the respec makes no difference. When you USE your respec is when you need to make sure you have as "active" the build that you want to change.

I believe that Bases have already done pretty much all that the Devs wanted them to do. That is it coerced people to fork out the money for CoV whether we had ANY intention, whatsoever of PvPing OR playing a Villain.

That's right. For those of you who don't remember (I know a lot of you do), back before I6 we had no bases. No zone teleporters, no med bays, no storage, etc. We were used to it and it didn't bother us overmuch.

Then along rolls I6 in conjunction with the release of CoV. Suddenly SGs can have all of those neato things. Only 1 problem... you couldn't enter your SGs base (yes, the one that YOU were earning Prestige for) unless you owned CoV.

So your SG builds a base with your hard work and is really excited about it. Its the new toy and as such it is just SO cool! And you sat outside... and sat... until you bit the bullet and payed for ANOTHER GAME (CoV).

/signed on this if for NOTHING else, to allow those unfortunates who misspelled their SG name years ago to FINALLY fix it.

It takes longer to reboot because every line of code has (( )) around it.

Lengthen it or not doesn't much matter to me, but can we PLEASE have a way to eliminate or lessen the horrible GLARE at sunrise/sunset?

---Edit---

Actually, I'm happy without night unless the zone/event "mood" REALLY calls for it.

Debuffs OFTEN cause mobs to scatter.

Generally, as wasted... :P

I can see it making a MMs job a lot more difficult. My Tanks are LOVING it, though.

Seems this is the other side of the coin from the "mob wandering" issue. Blasters and Defenders love it. Tanks, Scrappers and other AoE specialists (FIRE/KINs) HATE it.