Arctic Man

Doesn't look like Atlas to me. With those type of walls in the background (and the hill), I think it's in Hollows (which has exits to both Atlas and Skyway).

Edit: Should I say "busted" on this one? :-P

Edit 2: It also says in the picture "Smokin Joe has defeated Outcast Initiate Slugger" so it has to be Hollows. Most definetly busted! :-)

Unless I'm misstaken, it *is* 50 for zombies already. It's only the witches that require as many as 75. That said though, I still got the badge for zombies last on at least one of the characters (and possibly both) I was doing ToT from scratch with (most of my characters just caught up on spirits and vampires).

How about the War Wall Defender mission then?

I think somebody should tell Phillipa Meraux that the Rikti can disable the war walls at will.

That doesn't work too well if you're trying to make a story about CoT, Banished Pantheon etc though, and want to include their gods in the text somewhere.

Which is bit of a deal-breaker for some powerset combinations when it comes to epic powers. For example ice/ice/ice and fire/fire/fire tankers and blasters, or dark/dark/dark defenders or scrappers. Only being able to color 2/3 of the pools breaks the theme feel of the characters. For me that means that some of my characters wont be customizing their powers until they can go all-out there.

The Tsoo?

(sorry, couldn't resist)

Some of the Unseelies follow Eochai though. He's the leader of the Fir Bolg, sworn enemies to the Red Caps.

Maybe not villains then, but since scrappers are getting a fire epic to match the fire/fire powers they got in the first round of proliferation, it makes sense for other ATs to get epics to match the sets they got then as well. Back then, defenders got cold/ice, tankers got dark/dark and blasters got psychic/mental so it makes sense for those to get a matching epic as well. Not sure what controllers might get since they got plant/thermal back then and already had a fire epic.

That said, with Going Rogue still in the works, they have to sort something out for the villains that crosses over and wont have access to the patrons. Guess we'll see how it turns out when I16 goes into Open Beta.

Yes, but perhaps the rest wasn't finished yet then and/or they want to save some surprises for articles such as this one and open beta. I'm still cautiously optimistic.

I hope that what that means is that scrappers wont be the only AT with a new epic pool. Cold Mastery for defenders (as well as dark mastery for tankers etc) would be nice.

I don't see this as a problem if only the server lists (not the servers themselves) were merged. As it is now, the same name can be used on all 4 EU servers without any problems or name modifications (like Arctic Man-Defiant, Arctic Man-Union etc). Shouldn't make any difference to character names if there's 4, 11 or 15 different servers to chose from in the list when you log in.

Options 1 and 2b are most likely out. Option 1 is out because they haven't released the pre-download for I16 yet, and the reason there's no closed beta on EU Training Room is so they can test that there (if I read Ghost Falcon's post right). Option 2b is out because they never announce the release day of an issue until it's live and working right.

Considering that there's only room for 4 ancillary/patron powers (taken at level 41, 44, 47 & 49) adding a 5th power to each pool doesn't mean extra slots will be needed. All it does is offering you more choice on which powers to pick.

Those sound like they might be RMTers, especially if they hung out at the AH.

That said, all my characters (currently ranging between level 33 and 40 heroside on Defiant and 16-20 villainside on Union) are hidden and has been for years. Those have real names though, as well as costumes and are all in my personal SGs (one on each side/server).

I'm soloing 99% of the time or so, and found all the blind invites back when I started annoying - especially since some people back then (no names since that would be against the forum rules but one of them was a fairly well known and disliked player) wouldn't take no for an answer. I'd decline, then 1-2 minutes later another invite from the same person would come. I'd decline again and send a tell that I wasn't interested. Then a few minutes later, yet another invite would come. It just got too much so I went on /hide as soon as I found out you could and been there since (I got my 48 month vet rewards this week).

Well the same client that works on Zukunft (German) and Vigilance (French) also works on Defiant and Union (English servers) so I don't see why they can't make the US servers work with that one too instead of having two different clients. Might mean that the players on the US servers would have to re-install and/or patch to the EU client though, so I guess they see a problem there.

I agree here. The other day I was sent on a mission deep into Crey's Folly (over 1 mile in, into the red marked area) on a level 32 character. Mission door had at least 2-3 purple freakshow bosses outside. Possibly more - I didn't exactly stay to count them...

For me it's the oposite. Heroes on Defiant and villains on Union. Oh well, I wouldn't have won anyway.