_Caliban

Everywhere else (in COH), I can safely ignore them, or just leave the team if they are a real problem. Your only choice in a PvP zone is to leave the zone.

And the 90% is base on my personal experiences in the PvP zones. Either the zone is empty and I can do my business and get out, or there are some PvPer's in there who once they find me won't leave me alone until I'm dead or I've left the zone.

A PvE build that's lost most of it's IO set bonuses is no match for a PvP build optimized for the zone/combat level it's in.

Well, there is something to what he says. I had one character help fight the GM solo, and I got the reward merits but not the badge. And I had another character not get the badges for 2 of the banners, even though he was on a team and attacking the banners. (I also had a different character get all 6 badges in one event. Yay me.)

I think there is something that can cause the badges to not be awarded properly, wether it is an odd lag effect, an outright bug, or some combination of the two.

Fortunately, the events were happening often enough (and I was home sick) that it wasn't a hardship to get the badges later.

You are right, that is a minority opinion. Most people seem to like it, aside from a few issues with lag (and an entire zone crashing in at least two instances for me on Wednesday).

Well, that's silly. It's not intended to be a solo event. If you do it wrong, it's probably not going to be that enjoyable. I did it just fine with my lvl 15 DM/SD brute, my lvl 50 DM/SA brute, my lvl 41 SD/WA tank, and my lvl 50 MA/SR scrapper.

I know that on my MA/SR scrapper, with Stamina (with a Performance Shifter +End, and Numinas and a Miracle in Heal), and PP, I still run out of End and have to fire off CA periodically when fighting a string of large spawns.

I'm running 5 or 6 toggles at all times, and with a fast attack chain I use end slightly faster than I can recover it. Maybe after I pick up a 2nd Performance Shifter + End.

It would have a chance to trigger for each target affected by the power, so some would get the boost and some would not.

With all my Accuracy bonuses from sets and Combat Training, offensive, I never used AIM as it was. Especially since I do mostly AoE attacks, missing has never been an issue.

I swapped out the Spiderlings for Bile Spray. Venom Grenade + Bile Spray does more damage, in a much larger area.

Jetpack lets me hover and rain death if I need to stay out of melee.

All I can really say is this build does more DPS with better survivability than my previous one.

My MA/SR scrapper solo'd most of the arc without to much problem. If they can't hit you, they can't debuff you.

I think I may have been with you on that one, on my scrapper. I usually play a MA/SR scrapper (Shift Redux) or DM/stone brute (Tombstone Terror) in the ITF - either one can go off and solo Cyst spawn as needed. My stone brute usually takes the role of a tank because that's how I built him (my SG told me they needed one for LRSF).

Stone brutes aren't as unstoppable as Stone tankers are, unless you make the extra effort (usually by taking the Fighting pool for Tough and Weave) and enhance them properly. (My stone brute is at 89% resistance to smash and lethal before any other buffs, and 35% defense to most attacks - defense could be higher but I focused on Resistances).

However, you should know that the Cimerorans have a -def buff on almost every attack, and some can crit like a scrapper. Even my brute will eventually have his defenses reduced to heavy negatives, and even with 89% resist, the damage adds up when 16 of them are hitting you every time, and critting on several of them. (I deal with it by teleporting away, so that their debuff has faded by the time they catch up to me again.)

That being said, it's usually only an issue when when i'm soloing them. If you are being buffed by the team, it shouldn't be a problem.