Aggelakis

Why would it work differently in one AoE power versus another AoE power?

Unless you're looking on the wrong wiki, e.g. wikia, because that place sucks. ParagonWiki for the win! http://paragonwiki.com

And freebies can't use it, because it uses /t which is restricted to higher reward tiers.

I did DFB with four and got SOs from all of the AVs, no EBs in sight. I didn't check the difficulty setting but I'm pretty sure the LFG ignores that.

I used to call it "Dammit, Please Announce MOG!"

<-- emp def main char

Unless you're talking about N/S Indy Port, or N/S Nerva, or getting out to the monkeys or DE monsters in PI. Those mission doors are irritating. I can change zones faster than doing those trips most of the time.

Overwhelming Force is not an ATO (ATOs are archetype enhancements, like Brute's Fury). Overwhelming Force is simply an Attuned Enhancement (that is currently bugged), or a Universal Damage set.

The items that stack have the same minimum level requirement. The items that aren't stacking have disparate minimum levels.

OF is currently bugged in that they are being granted a minimum level through the reward table, even though they're supposed to be attuned and effectively level-less except obviously the minimum level of the set. The likely reason this is happening is because the reward tables have never granted an attuned item before and they aren't sure how to fix it. They haven't really said anything other than "yeah, it's broken" and "we're working on it", with no ETA or other details.

Also, the epic ATs remain unlocked if you unlocked them before Freedom launched (under either the level 50 unlock or the later level 20 unlock). However, if you didn't create your account until after Freedom launched, you're SOL; you gotta buy 'em no matter what.

Getting from level 3 to level 4 (the difference in levels that the porters could be available at, which is what my entire post was talking about) takes about five minutes, especially if you kill everything in your path even between missions.

Errr, when you summon the transporter, you end up right by it... :x You can team-port to any missions in your teams' list, not just your own.

That is, indeed, why porters of all types do not work in the tutorial. You get on a team with someone in Peregrine Island, they select one of their missions, and you are not allowed to port to their mission because the porters are grayed out. They didn't initially, and people ended up with broken characters with no contacts. Villains that couldn't get their capes/auras because they had no previous contact with Kalinda. Etc. It didn't last that long, I'm not even sure it got out of beta, but it was pretty hysterical while it lasted.

You also can't TP to your base or Pocket D.

People were also porting into the tutorial, but that was also nixed, though I'm pretty sure that one made it live for a short time because I'm almost positive I saw a lv50 in outbreak in a forum thread.

I don't know why they chose level 4 instead of level 3. It's obvious why they didn't choose level 2 (you can still be in the tutorial at 2), but level 3 doesn't have any possibility of tutorial foul-play. But it takes maybe 5 minutes to get to level 4 so no biggie.

Hasn't changed. Drains you completely and destroys your recovery. Blaster and Corruptor Self data is the same (except Blaster has the extra +dam buff from Defiance).