Bantar

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I'd love to see a way to completely turn off XP gain, so as to be able to see and do it all with any given character.

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But, there is. Exemplar. Your level will never advance with it.


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Character concepts are few and far between for me. I don't just close my eyes and randomly click on archetypes, powers, or costumes. Every character I create - and I only have 3 - mean something to me.

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And believe me, I value that! I wish I'd have known, I would have made my characters on the Virtue server.

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And, bottom-line: If you don't want to use Flashback, can't see the point, don't like it, whatever, it's simple. Don't use it. But don't try to take it away from those who *do* want it.

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I don't want it *taken away* from those who would use it. I'm saying there are already ways to experience the missions. Okay, not enough of the backgroud--I think that was a comment on another thread, or this one?, that everyone in a team needs to be able to read the contact's dialog and clues. If they put that in, there's nothing keeping you from exemplaring and experiencing all the missions as if you'd done them the first time through.
What I'm actually trying to get at here is not spending devs' time on something not needed. The dialog-clues thing is already needed for other reasons, and it's the only thing I can see missing from this doing old missions thing. Let's have them work on other things.

That's great. But why not just make an alt and take completely different contacts?

I'm really looking for a reply from Statesman on this, but the community might do as well. I'm probably going to be hated for this, but what is the reasoning behind adding flashback? I really don't see a need for it. It seems to come from a "have your cake and eat it too" angle.
What happens if you hunt specific mobs trying to get their badges and you out-level your contacts? You don't get their missions, *shrug*. If you spend lvls 26-30 doing story arcs, like I did, what happens? I miss a lot of my contacts, I face the same enemies for 5+ levels....kinda boring. Oh well. I'm just not sure I get the point here.
And don't bother saying "save mystic mission badge" blah blah blah. The former Artphobia's site and I'm sure others list which contacts you get each important mission from, you could have planned on getting it the first time. And you can still exemplar down to get it, not to mention have a freind/SG-mate/etc make an alt just to get the mission.

Followed the link in your sig to this guide. Excellent job! I too wish there was a guide like this for other ATs, particularly Controllers and Blasters.
By the by, my Defender Dr. Curie is an Empath/Radiation. She solos pretty well, except for bosses or particularly large spawns. This might also be due to my travel power, which is SS; when I get that boss or high-lvl Lieut I tend to fight him for a bit, running(normally) around, then toggle on SS, run down the street/tunnel, set up a snipe, fire more while he's running at me, wash-rinse-repeat.

Pretty much all of these powers exist in other sets. Do we know if they have the same costs, activation times, recharge times, etc?