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I think the first buff available may have to be a personal buff in order to increase survivability. The inherant may need to have a built in to-hit buff (so that you hit more as more surround you). Also, taking the Stalker train of thought, you may want for each primary to have a set ST Fear at specific levels (similar to Placate) so that aggro is a bit more managable. Or you could add a chance to Fear in the Undermine power you created for the secondaries. When proliferated over, the melee sets may want to concentrate more on the control aspects (stuns, KB) to add to the needed survivability in melee.

Leader really can't have Scrapper level survivability due to pets. However, one intriguing idea is to leave Bodyguard mode in but make the pets substantially weaker in HP than MM pets. This follows the "lead by example" concept by giving you a buff for having pets but not allowing you to rely upon them like a MM would since they'll be more squishy. Since it isn't a Dominator, you could easily add Assault Rifle to the assault sets.

Instead of changing Thugs to Heroes, you should change Thugs to Freedom Fighters. Seems like it would be much closer in theme overall. Likewise, it seems like (benevolent) Spirits would be more in line with Necromancy than Vikings.

Recently, the XP gains on AE were deliberately lowered since the dev intentions were for it to be a storytelling tool and people found some exploits to blatantly powerlevel. However, you level up pretty fast regardless at lower levels. Main benefit is that heroside the low level stories aren't as well done (it's much older content than the rest of the game and hasn't been updated) and lowbie villainside has very few stories overall. And of course there's the storyline/RP choices of using an archetype that is good/evil for the opposite purpose.

I'd argue that you should try out either a Stalker or a Mastermind for the sake of trying them out. Stalkers have Hide which is a built in stealth mechanic and wind up with their damage being front loaded bursts as opposed to more even amounts that Scrappers have. MMs are essentially their own team. You summon henchmen (up to 6 total when you get to higher levels) that fight for you and you can control what they do to an extent.

Well, at least you got one.

The "problem" is that I'm one of the few (only?) new people participating so most players have a "been there, done that" feel for most of these except maybe Reichman. I lack anything 40+ so I can't suggest everything and I have a feeling that I might lag out some of the higher level stuff due to some of the ambush waves.

I can respect that. One way around that is skipping the tutorial and only doing custom missions in the Architect Entertainment building. Still, it might be best just to wait until GR to see how sideswitching works out.

Seems like it would stand up to the Cottage Rule yet would make Dimension Shift much more usable both for teams and solo play.

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They are merely disappointed that with your friendly jab to them, you only pat them on the shoulder instead of punching them in the mouth.

Technically, that's sort of my primary issue--as a joke arc it doesn't seem to joke enough. The flavor of the arc description should be applied to the contact text. The enemies are lacking in custom descriptions (missing a chance for jokes) and the contact is just the generic hologram. However, I loved the "You haven't saved her yet? Poor cowgirl." line. I'd almost argue that you could set the contact as the desk with the computer on it (since you can use objects) and play it up as people reading about the incident on the forums. Also, I only saw Ninjas, Pirate Ladies, and the Catgirl boss. Perhaps you should add a few more enemies for variety.

There's a few nitpicky MA issues. While defeating everyone in the last room is pretty valid and shows up as such when you are in the mission, when searching for the arc it looks like the infamous Defeat All. However, the "last room" option is occasionally wonky since the last room can vary greatly between maps. Sticking to just defeating the boss + spawn is usually better in most situations and saves you from people griefing your arc's rating for being a Defeat All (though most of those types have thankfully moved on).

Vivace merely runs off without saying anything. A quick thank you text and emote will add to the rescue. However, I can understand the desire to escape the catgirl horrors. I marched right up to that catgirl and let her know that I know that: The cake is a lie, the pie is a fake, and I don't need cookies because I have waffles.

Give into the darkness...we have waffles.

Also, I'd say it would be good to experiment with some of the villains to see their playstyles since some are quite different. In the upcoming Going Rogue expansion (release date unknown) you'll be able to switch sides between good and evil so it wouldn't hurt to get a head start. Also, the zones are a bit more linear which can help you find your way a little easier though there's also a little less content overall.

Defendable objective.

Nice to see that it seems like the AI might have been fixed somewhat (usually they don't attack the object even though they are supposed to) and it's also nice to see it in an actual mission instead of someone using it to powerfarm the ambush. Emptying the level could simply be done by setting the default enemy for the mission to Empty and custom setting the Defendable guards and ambush.

I15 broke any published arc that used a destructible if the author didn't manually fix it.

Or confuse

I think airhead should run my arc, Rider's Ribs Restaurant Rescue (#163967) because who other than an airhead could get more hyped up for a fun arc of delicious awesomeness?