Amy_Amp

From the arcs I have done, it seems like you have to recover the tech that gotten stolen from let's say Black Scorpion. The hero version could be you being the one to steal it and thus copy the patron pool powers since you have their tech. It's slightly evil, but yet heroic.

EDIT: I will +1 the idea because I would love to be able to skip the side switching aspect as a whole just for the patrons. I certainly would like to skip it on a number of characters. One minor thing about switching. Let's say I take my namesake villain side so I can get Scorpion Shield. I lose the numeric listing of the prestige I have earned while in the SG, which should be number one. I also lose the join date which is the date the SG was created. There's simply no way I'm losing the creation date of the SG when it's already there in game.

Spines with a damage aura in the secondary is rather awesome though.

A 4 mission TF is more than doable. I just got done with a Synapse TF that ran for around 2:30.

Still comes across as being over the top and and too flashy for my own personal taste, but I don't think I'm going to win this argument either.

I got a character with just about all of the market slots full, a full tray of enhancements, and ones in my e-mail just waiting for this weekend to hit. I'll be very happy to clear all of that out shortly. If salvage goes crazy, then that's what AE is for. If I wanted to, I could likely cake walk making a billion this weekend alone. I could likely do more, but I want to level as well.

Sadly, this is one forum where that thread title comes across as somewhat funny.

Farming is a repeated action done to gain the desired reward.

One can farm the ITF for shards since you are most likely to get shard drops from it.

One can farm for purples by running missions on x8 with mobs that have level 50 drops.

One can farm for tickets by running AE missions at x8 although the higher the diff setting the quicker it is to hit the ticket cap, 1.5K for a mission. Any build can farm for tickets. The only difference is the speed in which it is done.

Power Leveling(PL) gets lumped in with farming because it is basically farming for exp, +4x8 with bosses being the ideal since the lower level character will be facing +5s. If you see a non-level 50 asking for a farm, they are doing so because they want to get PLed. Sure, they will get tickets as well if it's done via AE, but that's a secondary goal. A smaller number of builds can PL others, but the current king is a SS/fire/mu brute. It is a common practice for the farmer to even take payment for them to farm other players(not saying it's right mind you) and certainly in cases where it's a private farm. A private farm is where the number of players getting PLed is on the lower side and ideally it's just two people doing the mission since they will get far more rewards for doing x8 sized mobs versus an 8 player team doing it. Players can set up trades which means person A farms person B, and then they switch.

As much info as you'll ever need on farming is found in the brute forum via three threads, "Very Best Farmer?," "Lowbie Farming Map," and "Cebr." There's even walk through videos on how to do it. "Very Best Farmer?" covers the debate on which brute really is king and why. "Lowbie Farming Map" is based on how one can farm tickets and PL oneself using low level maps. "Cebr" is covering low level maps, but specifically with a Claws/elec brute.

My official opinion on farming is...it's an option. I wouldn't do it if I was a new player since they would have too much to still learn about the game. The game doesn't need more AE babies. I didn't break down and try self PLing a character until I was nearly a 6 year vet. I'm not even doing it for the currency it can generate since I have generated around 6-8, or so billion from the market. It was merely done because it's one of the only things I haven't done in game.

It's been an interesting experiment and I'll leave it at that. Some days I have no problem going through a 5 mission arc and burning through the tickets I get for it. Some days I nearly cringe at the sight of an AE building. My level 50 SS/fire feels like it still has it's training wheels on because about the only thing it is currently good for is ambush farms. Once I get it IOed, then the real fun begins. It's interesting to think I have a level 50 and yet there is no story of going to level 50 outside of ambush farms. Compare that to my other 50s and I can tell numerous stories about their journey to 50. My Earth/storm had teammates chanting her name. My SS/fire has people asking if I'm running any farms even if I say nothing. Like I said, it's an option.

With a Spiderman movie coming out soonish I wouldn't doubt this would be a way to work him in there. Marvel is adding one shot type movies so they could be adding a character from one of those.

I level up build 1 with SOs and then IO out build 2. This frees me up having to use a respec although I have numerous respec tokens via vet rewards. If I'm doing end game content, I can use build 2. If I am doing lower level stuff, I can simply use build 1 if I feel it is needed.

Even if the movie is amazing, is there really the fan base to make this a profitable movie?

It's true as long as you have that AT unlocked which won't be, or might not be the case for F2P/premium players.

I like it more now that fitness is inherited. I could see taking another pool, ie Leadership depending on the primary, or Concealment for more ways to slot LotG: def/+rec. Weave does help in building def to S/L. and if you haven't slotted the res/+3% def IO somewhere else you can slot it into Tough.