Carnifax

This is basically correct, from what I've tested with my Stone/Fire Brute. -1s will still knockdown, -2s and lower will be knocked back instead (for normal enemies with no knockback weaknesses or protection)

I use Fault > Burn > Tremor usually as my chain. If you try Tremor > Burn > Fault I find the second knockback doesn't happen, and the mobs do the speed-stunned-stagger out of your Burn Patch.

Note that on a Brute, because of the way pseudo-pets inherit a Damage Buffs duration as well as the buff itself that Fury tends to only affect the first 2 or so seconds of the Burning (after that their inherited Fury Damage buff expires). I've tested it a few times now. Still does nice AOE damage even then (especially with Build Up and Fiery Build-up thingy running).

Well that's how I'd do it anyway. An option to make your team Publicly Viewable (so it shows up on the list) and a checkbox which goes with it (defaulted to unticked) which allows Auto-joining. Otherwise people would have to send the public team leader a tell instead.

Of course the analogy sorta fails in that the AE, despite being replicated madly into every zone possible by the devs in practice ended up as a two zone experience (one hero side, one villains) so a channel basically wasn't needed. A teaming one might work a little better, although probably not. Isn't there already a "Global" or "General" global channel, which basically no-one uses?

I haven't really been paying full attention so dunno if it's been mentioned or not but for me one great addition would be a "Teams looking for members" list, a la WAR. It'd let you know what groups are looking for more people, what level ranges they are and who the leader is, along with an optional (ie up to the leader if it's enabled or not) Join Now option for people looking for groups.

Dunno, I can use the EU client to access both, just by copying and renaming the launcher file (removing the .eu from the middle of it). So the EU client supports the US one (don't know about the other way around).

Wouldn't it make more sense to take parts of bad guy to your local butchers and earn some cash from selling them?

Mmmm. Freakburgers.

I'd guess that optional endings are likely to be in GR as well.

Yep, I'd go crazy with purple insps as well.

And floor the difficulty to -1 as well, she'll miss more then as well (number of heroes you're equiv to is up to you, might be handy setting it to 2 or 3, just for feeding Fulc Shift).

This would be the best approach IMO. Even from a PR viewpoint it would be more "We're unifying our community" as oppose to merging servers which would cause a Chicken Licken "The Sky is falling, the sky is falling" wave of doooom (all my analogies will be based around kids nursery stories for the foreseeable future. Damn things lodge in the brain).

Well no. If they wanted to they could make an AE specific clone of the mitos and set their XP to 0. But I think they know Mitos are such a niche mob with limited creative options that it's probably not worth the manhour investment to do so.

It's a pity the OP made a mish using that niche. Only thing I could advise is change the story of your mish so the Mito becomes some other insidious Devouring Earth creation and use a Custom Critter to represent it (maybe something Energy Aura based so it looks vaguely blobbish).

Why? Claws is still a great set, even post tweak (I refuse to call "Fixing an error" a nerf).It still pips Scrappers in terms of damage with your Fury up (which, with Claws is easy to maintain). It's got great AOE damage, decent single target damage (no real big orange numbers but a nice constant stream of damage) and the best Ranged capabilities of any Brute (especially when you compare Focus to duds like Hurl and Trow rok).

Yep, I agree with this, my Claws Brute is a joy to play (so much so I'm having serious trouble resisting him in order to get my Dm/WP to 50 first). Just from playing him he feels so nicely balanced in relation to my Stone and Dark Melee Brutes. 3 different sets, 3 different playstyles and none of them seemingly much better than the others overall (obviously each is better at certain things).

At 51 months now, so I barely qualify. Disappointing that my last 2 lots of Vet Rewards have been so rubbish

1) Played mostly Controllers initially, my main is Carnifax, an Illusion/Storm/Ice controller. When Villains came along I also started Masterminds and Corrupters. Recently gotten into Brutes, so now I've 3 Brutes I'm sort of levelling at the same time.

2) Nope. Altitis won't let me do that. I switch between characters and Flavours of the Month all the time (in fact it's more like Flavours of the Day sometimes).

3) Overall probably my Warshade, all things considered. I love the flexibility she has. She plays like 3 alts rolled into one anyway so her playstyle suits me. But she's 50 now so I don't play her that much. Currently my fav is my Dark/WP Brute, who is level 43.5 and has just overtaken my Necro/Dark as my highest villain. Doing the RWZ missions with him at the moment, with the new diff setting he feels really epic wading into massive spawns of Rikti and tearing through them. Sorta trying to push him to 50 to unlock Crabs and Fortunas.

This is true. But CoH did used to as close as you'd get to it in fairness. It was one of the chief reasons I hated WoW. There was just none of the "Log on, get random PuG, play for 2 hours with people coming and going" you can get with CoH.

That said I don't want to merge the servers. I just want to stick em all on one list, so if my Red Side Unionite is having trouble getting a PuG I can switch to Virtue to some alt and try my luck there instead.

The Atoms that make up your body may have. The molecules, not so much.

<-- 35 but full of enough pith and vinegar for a bus-load of 80 year olds.

No beer for you until you finish your tequilla!

Make him a cockney Assult Bot and call him Arfur

You can give your other bots nice cockney names too (try Googling Eastenders for some. I recommend RIKKY and Bianca) and give them binds filled with cockney slang and the worst, cheesest lines from Guy Richie films (don't forget "Oi, $target, you slaaaag, fancy a bit of a kickin").

Cockney Rhyming Robot Squad mooooove out. You slaaaags.

National Association of State Medicaid Directors (NASMD), apparently. I'm not sure why they're so angry though. Maybe they dislike the idea of EU peeps going over to the US, even in virtual form, in case we bring some foul European disease like the Black Death.

Nope, you're not alone. I find them incredibly hard too. They're incredibly tough. Especially compared to the crappy Rikti raids.

With Halloween coming up again (I assume we're due another spate of random, unexplained Zombie Raids for no real reason other than "It's Halloween") it'll be "avoid the zombied zone" time again.

But Vengie is a clickie, not a pulsing aura, which is what FFGs aura is. Vengie gives you a long lasting buff. FFGs aura gives a short, non-stacking buff over and over again.

It's like the difference on how Power Build Up works on Force Fields Deflection Shield (which it boosts for the entire duration of the buff) compared to Dispersion Bubble (which it'll only buff for Power Build Ups duration).

Basically Power Build Up effects will last for either the duration of Power Build Up or the *buffs* duration (not the life of the entity casting the buff), whichever is longest. Since pulsing aura type buffs have a really short duration the bonus won't last long past the life of PBU.

By all means test it though. Testing is good.

If it does affect FFG it'll only do so for the duration of the Power Build Up. FFGs aura is basically a toggle / auto aura so and pets inherit the remaining duration of buffs from their caster as well as the values. So after 15 seconds FFGs defense will return to normal values.

I saw it in i15 spawns as well. I remember PRAF mentioning it on the EU forums as well. Bosses seem to spawn more often (either as bosses or now downgraded to Lieuts if you've the No Bosses ticked) in Diff 2 and 4 (and their new equivalents) now than they used to. Not sure why.

The Duration is standard for a hold (bearing in mind AT modifiers, which are low for a MM). Agreed on the recharge being slow. In fact it used to be an even worse hold, the Animation Time was ridiculous. At least they cut that. Now it's more or less on a par with Petrifying Gaze, more or less, at the bottom tier of single target holds (Pet Gaze has an annoyingly slow Projectile speed). My controller likes it, but it lasts longer for him and serves well as a back-up hold for stacking on bosses.

On a MM it's certainly skippable, you'd get more value from Disruption Arrow in terms of boosting your pets damage.

Bit confused by this. Why do you need to "set it up"? Disruption doesn't have an Avoid element so things won't specifically try and flee it, and the AOE is large enough that generally things will stay within its effect.

Me too. Last time, during the summer, I was getting married. No pesky wedding in the way this time around (unless something highly unusual happens in the next 2 weeks).

Depends on your AT. Personally on my Controller I skipped Flash Arrow. The -ToHit is pretty small and the -perception is only occasionally useful. Poison Gas Arrow isn't the greatest either. It's alright, but not that great. Disruption is more useful than either of them IMO. For a MM I'd drop Flash Arrow myself.

Trick Arrow is good fun, but suffers from having a lot of powers which just seem to be half-powers compared to other debuff sets. It does make up for it somewhat with its top 2 powers though, EMP and Oil Slick are superb powers, but could probably do with some tweaks still.