3dent

Am I the only one who is, well, underwhelmed by Twinshot arc?

Twinshot herself, is well, OK, once you forgive her her patronising ways... And you will forgive them, once you realize, whom she has to work with Everyone, except a colourless non-character that is Proton is a comic relief??? And not very funny at that? All right, I chuckled at Grym&police dogs joke. First time I read it. Next time it was "What an idiot."

Then, the whole thing turns out to be ABSOLUTELY MEANINGLESS. It was all a set-up to showcase who is a rip-off of a FlyingMammalMan in CoXverse and how awesome he is. Mind you, FlyingMammalMan and his expies tend to hijack spotlight like that, it's part of what they are, but it's not working in a computer game. Old origin missions, for all their blandness, were at least genuine accomplishments of your character. No one told you afterwards those Clockwork in the warehouse weren't real, and it was all a test, now we can send you against the real thing... At least we want you to think this time it's for real.

Then it's not working as an extended tutorial either. All the useful info is lost in torrent of lame jokes. That wild goose chase around Atlas where you hear that police dogs joke and Flambeaux shopping for hair care products is supposed to teach you day jobs. It does even contain good info on them... In clues. IIRC, nothing in the mission indicates that unlike with a Ms. liberty mission, it's clue text that's important tutuorial info, not the dialog, which is all stale jokes.

And then, this lamest superteam EVER passes the test as a whole and gets the funding. Even though you and Twinshot did all the job, and no one but you even showed up at Sinclair's mansion. Manticore, you're an idiot.

I didn't touch Mercy 2.0 yet, but I hope it's better. I really do.

All right... Traps/Dark/Dark is obvious, but the concept (a Vahzilok Eidolon who had fallen out with good doctor and now does good and not so good deeds FOR REAL SCIENCE and against "quacks" like his former boss) lends itself to hero/villain revolving door anyway, and some patron pools look very good.

So, would T/D/Mace or T/D/Soul be better?

All right, I really want to try incarnate trials, but I just can't decide which character would be most useful in ways other than venge-bait.

1) Shield/elec tanker - I don't like tanking, don't know why he's 50 in the first place, use him as a farm tractor and, well, I really, really really, doubt I'd get to 59% def on him anytime soon. On the other hand, he is my only 50 who could really solo all the EBs in Mender Ramiel's arc.

2) Rad/Rad defender with perma-AM. Good for oldschool TFs, but I have no idea how he'd perform in I-Trials, from the sound of it he'll faceplant more than a blaster on SOs. (Defence was pretty much sacrificed for recharge in this build)

3) Claws/regen scrapper. Not touched since 2009. Would need a major rebuild anyway.

Or should I level something else entirely?

Account items casn be claimed 1 time per character.

Character items can be claimed 1 time per account.

Which is a big fail of logic on Paragon's part. (Yes, I know, from dev's side it isn't upside-down at all, but we aren't the devs.)

ABlast... I really, really, really tried hard to find use for the thing. It has none. Even with the recent Vigilance revamp, and even on perma-AM build. I still kept it, because it looks cool when customized, but that's it.

Solo, it leaves mezzing bosses (one thing Rad/Rad has problems with at higher lvls) intact. On team Fallout or EMP wins hands down as panic anti-wipe power. Fallout also accepts the same sets.

Maybe I should lrn2nuke, but It really is probably the most skippable power in Rad/Rad.

The tutorial shocks and awes new players, who DO NOT know that you can really just click brawl 4 times to complete it. Players who do know this fun fact have an option to skip it with no consequences.

Now, a new player wouldn't either read anything said in a tutorial anyway, or will read everything, tutorial, forum guides, ParagonWiki... In either case too much info in the tutorial is, well, pretty much pointless anyway.

In other words, the tutorial does most of the things it's supposed to do well enough.

The problem starts when you exit it. AtLLLLLAAAAAGGGGGGG Park. With grand total of 3 choices you can make, lag, Twinshot and her team of half-wits, lag, Find Ms. Liberty (Fort Trident) for extra confusion, lag lag, lag and lag.

Galaxy City was there for a reason. Yes, the reason could be easily forgotten after years of half-empty servers, but it was there. And yes, I understand that part of it was probably done in order to save on re-designing missions in two zones. Still, nuking, say, South Skyway for new tutorial would've been much less disruptive.

Obvious one is a Pistols/Kin corruptor, - An Equilibrum/Wanted/John Woo type villain (or hero) who is Just That Good because of secret training techniques he learned or devised.

First of all, hi to all Union players Looks like I'm back for good... (if you can level lowbies even without sub fee there's simply almost no way to stay out of game now Tyvm Paragon for recreating this major time-sink in my life. )

Anyway, since I was away since shortly after GR launch I have alot to catch up to, and some things just aren't on ParagonWiki. Because I always was intrigued by MMs, but hated look&feel of Rogue Isles (apart from the "you can rob banks there" part, anyway) one of the first things I did upon return was to roll a MM hero (Thugs/sonic) and he's quickly approaching levels where teaming becomes a major part of the game for me.

And then I remembered that back in the day there was some level of prejudice against MMs on teams. So far I haven't noticed any dreaded effects of a MM being on a team (well, except an OMG WHAT'S THIS LIGHTSHOW AND WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN??? effect a Demons/Therm produces) while playing other alts, but maybe I was just lucky and played with good MMs? Are thery any pointers on how not to inconvenience your teammates with your pets and their powers?

Actually, posting account names of other people is against forum rules. So, congrats, instead of receiving help from the official support you put your own account at risk.
(and they do take billing issues seriously, and they did eventually fixed even such major messes as epidemic of double-charges affter the release of superbooster #2.)


Grandstanding and writing open letters should be the last resort, not the first. And putting private item in open letters is stupid, even is it wasn't against the rules.

I never did that mission, but if he isn't significantly different from his Faultline arc version... Force Field drones he summons are buffing his defenses quite significantly, so try to take them away as quickly as you can, or, if you can, confuse them, so they would buff you instead.

As an AV he has purple triangles, even downgraded, so all the general rules for fighting enemies with purple triangles apply: don't count on mezzes other than immob, try to hit him with -regen and-res, if you have such powers, or get help. Castillo is a tough customer, so if your powersets aren't known as AV-killers there's nothing wrong with not being able to solo him.

Hmm... Didn't OP meant that they wanted to solo AVs while leveling?