Canadian_Medbot

If you play in bursts with a couple of days inbetween, maxing out patrol xp can help your leveling speed. The Law Enforcer day job (and its upgrade) give bonus xp for mission completion. Log out in a Police station(or an Arachnos base for redside version) to charge up its duration.

Other than running Trials on test is there a fast way to get Astral and Emp merits? I understand there was some way to click and get them supercheap on Beta

last update on fixes that I saw was here:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...10#post3670210

and no, the belts were not mentioned there

The only IOs that bind to a character are the Going Rogue Pre-order Bonus IOs which cannot be sold, stored or traded. You can respec and use them in a 2nd or 3rd build on the same character. They can be deleted.

How about a reduced power version of an other ATs inherent, or tweaking your current inherent ability. (take a blaster and add corrupter scourge frosting)

Was I the only one who found a bowl of CC, while delicious, would turn the roof of my mouth into hamburger?

Well how about a vaguely lore-related mechanic? You have poor breakdown efficiency because you're only 1/10 of an Incarnate. Perfect breakdown would require all 10 Incarnate slots and would be your 10/10 Incarnate icing.

Also make sure that in options you haven't set see opposing faction private/local/broadcast to no. People may have be replying and you couldn't see it

Well canespecs are of the use it now variety and can't be stored like respec recipies can. Prices are going up in expectation of demand on/before the 2XP weekend, the ending of the Winter Event and I20 expectations. In addition, many people have likely used their I19 freespecs up on alts they felt needed rebuilding. So upcoming increasing scarcity(back to normal lvls) and anticipation of increased demand are what I think are the motivators here. Also 2XP inflation.

Actually the convergence of 2XP weekend and the last dregs of the Winter Event make me think this could be Winter Lord leveling revisited(to a lesser degree).

Get on a WL spawning/present hunting team and then do the Lord Winter zone. Rinse, repeat. With 2XP on this might be the fastest way to level lowbies. Or get a 20+ to host a Lady Winter team, that map is very farmtastic

Of course many ITFs and LGTFs will also be run.

Apart from the usual uses, I often temporarily 5 star PUG team leaders or lead tanks as well as leaders of the other teams on MS raids and the like. Handy in the clutter so I dont have to keep my map open.

Regarding empaths: I was concerned about my Emp/Rad but I went for the lazy way, summoned and Fort,AB,Regen and Recovery boosted a Shivan and she went down nice and fast. Minimal healing required to the pet.

I do wonder what the mag of kb on her gale-like power is. It was shoving even my alts with a -kb io.

The always popular scanner mission: Rescue Dr. Stephen Fayte "A simple doctor and nothing more."

Along with the tip about dropping dmg patches, I note that unless its changed as well, pets (MM and otherwise) will start blasting the rezzed NPC well before you can target them(the NPC) again.

Alpha soaking is what I use mine for, but I will note that the sonic -res ally toggle can be placed on them to great effect when solo. I am sure that there are other ally effects that can be used in a similar fashion

I also had Mangle pop up between the Savage Siren and Silent Blade spawning.

I would almost suggest waiting out and killing the bane executioner spawns(the timer launched ambushers) before offing the Fortunatas (in the back of map, behind the statue) to reduce the number of simultaneous ambushers. Of course I was on my squishy emp/rad, ymmv

Long time observer of these threads, this one seems above average.

Haven't seen it mentioned but popping in the Numinas and Miracle Unique IOs in 2 of your health slots will give you another 25% recovery which iirc is equal to base Stamina. Each for only 2 Alignment Merits each. (if market is too pricey)

Unless you're sold on Power Mastery, Dark Mastery gives Dark Consumption at 41 which is a nice +end power, as opposed to Conserve Power's end cost reduction.

Well in the last stage of the coming Praetorian Event in IC (fight the syndicate),
you get a warning of 'high winds approaching' and if you're not careful they will blow you right off the top of the skyscraper. I was glad I had fly.

So I could see a case made for more of this localized event driven weather. Admittedly the wind gusts didn't have any lag inducing graphics that detailed rain or snow might have.

I have a similar exemp plan for a WS as they get inherent recall friend and can take a stealth power out of the secondary, which lets you stealth to boss/end room and speed through missions in TFs that are not kill alls (there a few like this in Posi). Admittedly this WS is also using SS so the stealth is unlikely to be broken by foes at low lvls. (toss on a stealth IO if necessary).

Stealthing to boss/end room/blinky is also great for running through papers quickly. I agree with the above posters that otherwise PB will give better/more consistant perfomance at Posi, Synapse lvls.

RWZ beacon is now available for placement. I think we now have a full set.

Using the information from the OP and extrapolating with the info on the Alpha slot from the GR page we get:

[Ion Judgement] Common
[Ion Core Judgement] [Ion Radial Judgement] Uncommons
[Ion Core Final Judgement] [Ion Radial Final Judgement] Rares
[Ion ??? Judgement] Ultra Rare

Checking in game, the core gives more damage at the cost of the 2dary effects of the radial [-end -rec], acc and num of targets go up with rareity.

One wonders if global recharge will reduce recharge for this power or if Alpha slot enhancement modifiers (damage, range, rech, etc) will apply to it or not.

I also like adding dmg procs to powers that are autohit in PVE like the smashing dmg proc for chilling embrace and a few others to quicksand.

This really ups dmg output as those are normally non-damaging powers and they leverage the AOE benefits for procs.

___The best thing about using A-merits as direct buys as opposed to rolling (which is also very nice), is that you can pick the level of the set IO you buy.
___This is really nice for things that go down to lvl 10 such as the Kismet +acc, Regen Tissue +regen and other such uniques.You can be guaranteed that they will exemp down to the low lvl TF/SF/Oro missions, you can use other alts to buy them and mail them to your lowbies, and buy crafting at the lowest lvl you want, you save some extra influence and use lower tier salvage

With regard to the separate rooms with power suppression at BM/WW, was there ever a good explanation as to why a base item like a market terminal was an unworkable option? Such an item would get most marketeers out of the Zone markets and improve crafting speed. By doing your market activities in your base wouldn't that reduce load on markets like Cap and Talos?

Well to directly leverage the -dmg effect from KM, the two that stand out for me are Ice Armour's Chilling Embrace and Sheild Defense's Against All Odds. IIRC both are autohit, and should let you stack up a decent amount of -dmg, esp on a single target. CE has a -14% dmg effect and AAO has a -7% one, offset by the fact that AAO buffs your own dmg, which synergises nicely with power siphon.