DarkGob

Just want to make a minor correction here: grey status is actually queued, not totally locked out. Subtle distinction, but there is one.

EDIT: Wow, my avatar makes me look like a real jerk in this post.

Are these your friends?

Not the same. I believe the Champions power is closer to what Iceman does with his ice slides.

First of all, your difficulty is irrelevant, since you can't change it.

Yesterday my Elec/Elec Dom died 3 times before finally defeating the same spawn of +1 minions. Even respeccing into a power I was going to take 2 levels later (Jolting Chains) for additional mitigation didn't help (mostly because all your powers are worthless if they miss, which at level 10 they do often). In two or 3 hits my HP bar was reduced by half. Death #4 came at the second spawn group, at which point I gave up and went to go watch TV. It's not that I'm not used to dying. The first toon I leveled was a Blaster, created shortly before Issue 5; I know death. But this is ridiculous, and way outside the design philosophy that the game has been establishing since the split with Cryptic. This feels like it was created by Jack.

I could rant more but don't want to derail the thread. I would team more, but I really do want to run through at least most of the content once. On a team I'll miss mission text, and probably outlevel other content. I'm the sort of guy who burns a Veteran costume token because the Praetorian duplicate of his main isn't the same height (I noticed this on the character select screen), so if something is important to me I will go to ridiculous and inconvenient lengths to do it.

I would argue that the Power Cosmic is magic over science. Any sufficiently advanced technology (which science is the basis of) is indistinguishable from magic.

I'm not sure if you're saying you want to wait that long so you can spread the enjoyment out (disregard if so), but the Item Pack is available now.