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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry

Economics, people. You could just sell them, you know? It's almost the same as deleting, except you get money for them.

Originally Posted by Catastrophe

And as long as you're "Rogue", your Ouroboros portal will only give you redside options, so you may want to avoid that method so you don't lose your Hero tips.

Tourists beware!

Originally Posted by Obsidian_Farmer

Heck, in theory, we now have the ability to get 4 HOs in a day. LRSF, STF, Hero Hami, Villain Hami.

Originally Posted by Angryellow

I don't think P.L. is going to make it that far. I have no intention of turning her heel for the sake of badging. A to-the-core hero she is.

Originally Posted by that 1 guy

Ok, I think it is known that if you finish STF or LRSF in the same day, you can't get the HO again. So, with Going Rogue out, Vigilantes and Rogues can go to both areas, so does that mean you can do both and get a HO from each, or can you only get 1 HO per day regardless of which TF you finished?

Originally Posted by Slax

Or whiskey

Originally Posted by DumpleBerry

Oh, but you're wrong--I earned Fabricator early on. You know, back when it was 10,000 crafts. That's how I made my first billion, pretty much.

Originally Posted by Panzerwaffen

I won't say I have trouble, just that I'll occasionally faceplant due to a couple lucky hits in a row getting by the softcap. It's rare, but it happens. Usually when there are 3-4 bosses agro'd at once. Whereas with my Fire/Rad, those bosses just sit there sucking on Choking Cloud while I pound them into the ground with Seismic Smash.

Originally Posted by ThatGuyThere

Not infrequently with the new interface, I'll post a stack of, say, ten salvage at 10,000 each, and it'll say something like:

"Selling for 100,000" (0 each).

I've never sold a salvage off one of these borked stacks.

1) Does this happen to anyone else?

2) Is there a way to correct this?

Originally Posted by Nericus

So why not the game Anniversary badges as well? Just put them in the X-mas event as craftable for x-amount of inf and candy canes.

Originally Posted by Fulmens

Random is, in fact, random.

Originally Posted by Lothic

What if it's really going to be two different Moon zones?
Then they could name them Moon Unit Alpha and Moon Unit Zappa.

P.S. Instead of a Moon zone(s) they need a space station zone so we can have a cool Moonraker styled fight setting.

Originally Posted by Call Me Awesome

Truthfully the situations where Psi resistance might be useful are really rare in the game; I haven't ever run across anything that my Inv/Stone Melee tanker can't handle. For the very few missions, and I can only think of maybe 7-8 in the whole blueside game offhand all in the 40's, where psi predominates you can rely on your team, your inspiration tray and Dull Pain.

A high level Invuln tanker built to the defense soft cap will also possess over 20% defense to ranged/aoe attacks as a byproduct and that applies to all but a tiny portion of psi attacks.

With an Invuln/Dark tanker you'll also have siphon life as an attack with a decent heal attached so you'll have even fewer issues.

Originally Posted by Catwhoorg

I run then in Talos rather than PI for ease of travel.

Originally Posted by Santorican

Holy cow people are blowing through 11 tip missions in 90 minutes? Share secrets please lol.

Originally Posted by Slax

Secede? What are we, Texans?

Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex

This is kind of a contentious topic, so be prepared to get the firehose out if it turns into a brawl. Long winded reply alert.

In general, I mentally define a generic battle into four parts: the Stage, the Shock, the Assault, and the Clean Up.

The Stage phase is how you set up the battle before enemies become aware of you. Fire/Kin doesn't have a lot to do here unless this is the first battle of the mission, when you might be Speed Boosting people (this action will later be rolled into the "Clean Up" phase). Staging is a major component of playing Mind, possibly Illusion, and now in some cases Electric. They use this stage to Confuse and possibly sleep enemies who are likely to cause trouble. (This is slightly off topic, but to do this smoothly, I have my Mind and Illusion trollers depart the team during the Clean Up phase so I can scout out the next set of targets. That way the team can cleanly roll directly into a Shock without having to wait).

The Shock phase is the opener that alerts enemies to the team. If there is a Tank, this is usually where he or she usually leaps in and grabs aggro. It is typically one of the highest danger phases of the battle. The Controller's role, as I see it, is to "shock" enemies in such a way that most of them are unable to retaliate (the word "shock" in this sense refers to the war strategy "shock and awe" where you figuratively attempt to paralyze the population of an opponent nation by quickly eliminating its resources). This is in order to minimize the amount of return fire directed at the team. For Fire/Kin, this for me means an immediate Flashfire is in order, if it is available. If it isn't Cinders may be an alternative. On non-Fire/Kin Controllers you may also begin using other powers in an attempt to "shock out" as many enemies as possible while the team proceeds to "knock out." The shock out/knock out relationship forms the bulk of the battle synergy between Controllers and their teammates. Depending on the team the shock can last as little as a few seconds to quite a while.

The Assault is the battle that ensues after the Shock phase. Mentally, I often think of it as the point when the Blaster AoEs are launched (because when I play my Blasters this is when that happens for me). More than likely a few enemies are still running around unchecked. On a Fire/Kin you may not have time to deal with that just yet. Your main concern is raining a barrage of damage down on enemies heads, and the best way to do that in this case is Fulcrum Shift. From there, it becomes a question of what you need to win the battle. Healing, endurance, damage etc, are all at your disposal. There is only thing that IMO you really have to remember: when you are Fire/Kin on a team, you are no longer the superstar. You will still do a lot of damage, and should still attack, but Blasters, Brutes, Scrappers and the like are the team's cannons. (E.g. I have a Scrapper who, hit with Fuclrum Shift, hits for over 1000 points of damage on a critical hit). I only say this because a lot of Fire/Kins decide that since they are such good farmers solo they must be god's gift to damage. The truth is that they hit hard, but surrounded by a team of damage classes, hit MUCH harder.

The Clean Up phase comes at the end of the Assault phase, usually when there are 2 or 3 enemies left over who the team is piling on top of. This is the point when the battle is pretty much won. This is also the time when I advise most buff-Controllers to stop attacking and reapply their buffs. Let the damage classes (who don't have much else to do anyway) clean up the remaining enemies. On a Fire/Kin you can let your pets and damage aura do it too while you apply buffs. Do it even if the buffs are not close to dropping. Ideally you want to minimize the number of times you're forced to reapply during the middle of an Assault phase. Someone earlier said they only give Speed Boost to people struggling for endurance; IMO that is the worst way to use Speed Boosts, for reasons that would take another long post to explain, but again basically because "you are no longer the super star." However, it's not for me to dictate how people use their powers.

Anyway that's my basic strategy. I hope it's helpful.

Originally Posted by Nericus

Given that Praetorian badge toons won't have anniversary badges and it will be awhile before the next Halloween and X-mas events, I can't see it as being worth the time to get a Praetorian badge hunter on par with a PRE-GR badger.

I'll just wait until PRE GR alts can go to Praetoria. Plus I'm also not in praetoria much right now as the zones just launched and I figure I'll let them do some debugging