Willowpaw

Wiat until the mission is -1, then set your difficulty level to -1/x0 as well. That makes the mission effectively -2 (everything is now green and blue.) At that level, even my FF/Rad Defender (who wears Non-Combat Pet as her badge title) can solo the Safeguards.

And if you are already level 50, then still at least set the difficulty to -1. By the time you reach 50, you should be able to solo -1 PI Safeguard missions no matter the AT and powerset.

Actually, both orange and yellow inspirations are becoming much more useful lately.

I've noticed that defense does not seem to be as effective as it once was for some reason. So since hits are getting through more often it seems, those oranges help reduce the incoming damage.

And those once worthless yellows are proving to be much needed thanks to various long lasting blind powers that seem to be more plentiful. Can't see what's attacking you? Pop a yellow and everything is clear again.

Just had to go look, and you're right. Targetted AOE is pretty lacking as far as sets go. Never noticed that there are only 3 normal TAOE sets, and yes, it does look like that as far as bonuses go, Posi's is the only one with anything worthwhile.

At least the other two sets are often cheap enough for those who just want to frankenslot Targetted AOE powers instead of going for set bonuses.

It's an April Fool's thing, and a fairly weak one at that.

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html

GMail Motion was much more clever.

And that is followed by the eternal conclusion of "By that logic, they will never get used."

There's actually 2 EBs in that one: Tendaji (had to flat out drop that one on my Darkity/Dark since I was perma stunned and KBed despite having KB protection) and Deitrich in the final mission, tough but still beatable.

I was going to suggest The Freakalympics with its 8 easy door missions and only one defeat all for 34 merits. However, it looks like even though it is only 6 merits, Julius The Kind Hearted Troll may give better returns for your time. 1 easy hunt, 2 door missions, and only one of those is a fairly fast defeat all.

Do you have any other major story arcs open? I'm not sure what the new limit is now, but if you have tsoo many going, then it won't be available until one of those gets cleared up.

It is doubtful that would happen due to a certain great ranged damage proc (Devastation: Chance for Hold) that would become a totally awesome AOE hold.

Then there would also be an issue of both ranged damage and targetted AOE damage each having its own purple set.

After the Hollows revamp. it became more of a mildly perilous zone than a hazard zone.

How can you safeguard? All it takes is one buyer bidding 200,000 to make the price 200,000 (which would most likely go to someone listing for under what yours are listed at.)

Wow! Sounds like you spent way too much to IO out a single character with all non-purple sets.

I think it cost me all total under 400 million inf to IO out not one, but 2 Assault Rifle/Traps Corruptors. Granted, I'm not counting what I could have made off the half dozen or so alignment merits I spent on a few pieces that weren't available at a price (if at all) that I was comfortable with.

Sure, it took about 2 or 3 days off and on, but I managed to get everything needed by putting out bids (in many cases, lowball bids at that) and waiting. Go for a range of levels instead of just sticking with one and only one IO level. My range I did was 33 to 38 (my corruptor went for the 33 to 35 range and my partner was happy with the 35 to 38 range).

For the few pieces that took longer than the others to get, SOs or generic IOs filled in those slots in the interim.

Also ended up with several extra pieces that other alts will eventually need, or that could then get crafted and resold for a nice profit.

Eh, that doesn't seem so bad. The really really annoying thing is that they can phase while held/slept/stunned.

Also, River Rat and all of the Praetorian exploration badges.

And the only thing more fun than two of those is a pair of Fire/Dark Corruptors.

I suspect level 10 Karma and Steadfast -KB IOs are probably high value too, since they can be slotted at 7. Otherwise, another thing to do would be wait for the Winter Event, stock up on candy canes, and buy a bunch of Winter's Gift Slow Resist IOs, since there is no level slider for things purchased from the Candy Keeper.