DarkGob

I never liked this aspect of the last mission (although the mission itself is great). There really ought to be some sort of clue that the teller might not be where you'd expect them to be (that, or just freakin' move the teller to behind the desk).

Virgil Tarikoss soloed the Apex and Tin Mage Task Forces on x8/+4...at the same time...at level 1.

"FREEEM!" was his idea.

He uses only level 53 IOs in his build.

He is...The Most Interesting NPC In The Game.

What level are you? If you're level 40 or higher you can get to Recluse's Victory. If you're not level 40 yet, well, if all you're concerned with is the Alpha Slot, you don't need to worry about it until level 50 anyway.

I assume the arc you're referring to is Echo down the Aeons from Marshal Brass. If you're no higher than level 29, one of the missions of Vincent Ross' arc also grants the badge, but apparently only if you choose to free the demon Botis.

If none of the previous statements apply to you, then I guess you're out of luck. Personally I think you could just get over the begging thing, go to the Cap au Diable Black Market when there's people there, and ask someone to drop it. Someone will probably do it on your first request.

You could go to Brickstown, then to South IP from there.

I can confirm that the Energy Manipulator proc does work*, I have one in Conductive Aura and one in Electric Fences. It doesn't trigger often, mind you, and ultimately I'll probably drop it in favor of slotting an actual enhancement (it was kind of handy in the earlier levels, though), but it does trigger.

*Um, I should qualify that: last time I checked, probably a few months ago. Hell, I guess can hop on and check right now.

EDIT: Yep, it works fine (er, that is to say, it works; "fine" may be an overstatement). But it's a moot point as far as the OP's question is concerned, since Gremlins won't take EndMod sets.

How would they differ from what can already be created with existing archetypes? I actually made a Dark/Psy Defender in Praetoria with a Carnie-ish costume named Dark Ring Mistress (yes, I actually managed to get the name); with the Ring Mistress costume code, I'm playing a full-fledged Dark Ring Mistress. A Master Illusionist is just an Illusion Controller with a Dark Servant and a unique ability that wouldn't even make sense for a player character to use (Carnie post-death endurance drain).

As far as the side-switching concept goes...how would this work? You're locked into an alignment once you pick which tree you want? It changes with your alignment? Not sure I like either possibility.

I guess this means the Conan Costume Creation Contest officially violates the EULA.

That's one of the default keybinds, F9 I think. F1-5 uses inspiration slots (you can have up to 5 columns of 4), F6 says "RUN!" in Local, F7 says "Ready!", F8 says "HELP!", F10 says your battle cry. Near as I can tell looking at my keybind file, F11 and 12 are unbound by default.

Welcome to the game! I think you'll find that we're a friendly and helpful community.

EDIT: Oh, I wanted to add. "Not looking for team" is a flag that doesn't show up in your profile, but rather with the search function. You probably saw the other flags, such as "Looking for missions", "Looking for Task Forces", "Looking for anything".

That's not all of them. I can tell because I couldn't find an out-of-date tip I saw last night mentioning that only PvP and Hazard zones are level-locked (no longer the case for Hazard zones). Dunno if there are any others missing though.

Got Devilfish on my Mastermind a few weeks ago, so no problems here.

I'm still holding out for Hugh Laurie as Twelve (since House will probably be done by then), myself. Extremely unlikely but I like to dream.

Prepending with $$ should work. I use this to generate a set of inspiration-combining macros for new characters. An example of the Tier 1 macro:

I feel like this is mostly covered by the Mission Architect. The only thing you'd have to do is create an area where you can share your created critters with other players and the rest would take care of itself.