Canine

Survived with account name and global intact.

I know several people who haven't though.

And I'm still not happy about the way it was handled.

There's no Fear effects in the BAF, there's a confuse aura on the minions and Lieutenants, but Tactics can offset that, either running it yourself or from someone else on your team. The only reason I can think that you're seeing fear effects in the BAF is that someone else using fear powers (Mind controller/Dom, Illusion controller, whatever) is getting tagged by the confuse and hitting you with their fears.

Fear/Terrorise is thrown around in Lambda by Augurs, I think.

If it's really such a big deal, then think about picking up Clarion for your Destiny slot, as it covers everything and can be made perma at higher tiers. Again, Tactics provides some help, but it's only resistance, not protection, IIRC.

I've got 3 characters that always have something going on with the markets, they're my three with Field Crafter.

I log them on first of an evening, pick up inf from sales overnight, make and list new things, bid for salvage as needed, then alt to whichever alt(s) I end up playing that night.

At the end of the evening, they get checked again, and if needed their slots refreshed.

Takes about 5-10 minutes at the beginning and end of the evening, so 10-20 minutes total. Oh, and the VAST bulk of my turnover is common salvage and Generic IO's, so I'm not playing with big lumps of inf at a time, but it all adds up eventually.

If another character fills up on salvage/recipes due to being played, I'll drop their goods on the markets and leave them to cook until I next play that alt, which can vary from a day to 4 months...

I always have to like the background idea, costume, playstyle or ideally all three of a character before I'll take it to 50.

(a side effect of this is that my characters spend 95% of their time in their initial starting costume since I make my mind up on a character at level 21, a holdover of 'if I can't hack it with slotted stamina on this toon I'm not going to take it any further')

To me, if you're playing a toon just because 'the numbers say it'll be the best ever' then you're doing it wrong. I'm not going to try and stop anyone doing that if it's what floats their boat, but it's not for me.

Congratulations on the cap. And the top hat and monocle, too

Once you've inf capped your first toon, the second takes less effort. Significantly less effort.

So far as decking out another of your alts with IO's, I'd personally suggest only doing that if you actually enjoy the process of coming up with the build and implementing it.

I hate the faff on involved in the whole process, so I've IO'd the grand total of one of my toons properly, and he's my Stone/Fire scranker who's now effectively immune to normal content (by my definition of being able to survive aggro capped Carnival of Shadows indefinitely with no end or health problems).

I've technically got three level 50 Scrappers. (and two Brutes, three Tankers and a Stalker)

In reality I've got one and a couple of part timers.

My original toon, my hero main and the toon with the most paytime on it is my Katana/Regen scrapper. He was created the day before the EU game officially went live, as the servers were available early for those too impatient to wait.

I took him, partly solo, but mostly in the company of a group of friends from 1 to 50 over a period of about 3 months, 474 hours of playtime, to be exact.

I remember when you go to become a god of the battlefield with /regen, able to stand on the frontlines alongside any tanker.

Hell, I *was* a tanker. A very specialised one at any rate, on an old fashioned Hami-Raid. I was the Hami-Tank on Union's first successful Hami Raid, backed up by two Empaths, with perma-Hasten, Dull Pain and toggle Integration/Instant Healing. Oh, and Calling the Wolf slotted for range, recharge and taunt, IIRC.

The best thing about shelving a character for months at a time, especially a scrapper, is that you come back to it, and assuming your memories of how the play the character still work, you think 'Good god, how much damage can I dish out on this guy?!?'

So now I'm 75 months into the game, yet I still play my Katana/Regen scrapper. And I'm STILL using my Issue 5 build that I respecced into after the successful Hami Raid. I've changed the enhancement in the slots around, but the allocation of the slots is still as it was before ED was known.

If you value seeing well constructed, focused Scrapper builds, then for the love of god, don't view this build. What IO's are there are purely an afterthought. I dropped shiny things into slots I already had as something to do with the inf, and to get a vague idea of the invention system.

I play on Union.

After 75 months of playtime (got the badge a few days back), I still only have characters on Union, and I don't think I've ever created a toon on Defiant.

I don't think I'm going anywhere...

I've got about 40bn in liquid inf spread around my alts...

Looks off by a significant amount to me.

I keep WASD for strafing and QE for turning, but never really use QE, as I use mouselook for heading.

I remap Tab to target nearest, and T and Y to target previous/next.

I came here from Planetside and single player games, so the standard FPS layout was what I knew and was comfortable with, so I never questioned it.

As to why other MMO's use QWES for strafing and AD for turning, maybe it's a holdover from older MMO's, but other than that little bit of speculation, I don't know.