DarkGob

You should be careful with responding to people 3 posts up without quotes. I was trying to figure out how I possibly insulted you when I wasn't even responding to you.

Also, I don't see how MustachedHero insulted you either, but that's between the two of you.

On a high-level team? Absolutely spawns will drop faster than you can drain End. Enemies cheat in the first place by being able to attack on much less endurance than us puny players can. Pretty much anything that's not an AV/GM will be dead or dying before you can sap it (maybe you can sap an EB before it's fully down, but why bother, it's not really a significant threat in a team environment anyway). AVs are somewhat difficult to sap down to 0, and even if you manage it they won't really stay down there unless you focus on keeping them there to the exclusion of other more useful activities, like doing damage or engaging in other (better) forms of mitigation. And good luck sapping a GM, you can do it with some of the lower-level ones but they have pretty hefty recovery.

End drain can be very useful in a solo or small team environment, since while not stopping enemy attacks entirely it does effectively reduce their attack rate. But on a big team, especially on Incarnate content, forget about it.

You're adorable.

I'm really hoping that River doesn't turn out to be Eyepatch Woman since that would be so stupidly obvious as to be insulting, but given the cliffhanger we were given in the midseason finale I don't have very high expectations.

May we assume that this redname acknowledgment of a non-50 WST during 2XP Weekend means it won't be changed to a 50-only WST before 2XP Weekend begins? Because I seem to recall that happening before.

Yeah, and it's not fair to those of us who didn't start playing until later either! I mean, how was I supposed to know all this was coming 7 years ago? If I had known I totally would have subbed at launch and not let my sub lapse a few times.

To be fair, the button does not work intuitively at all.

With the exception of Positron's TF (which was revamped and split into two pretty short TFs), none of the old TFs were changed. The difference is that now we have builds tweaked with IOs, players who know the content inside and out so it's not a bunch of noobs running around like chickens with their heads cut off, and travel times are much shorter due to a wealth of shortcut travel powers (Ouroboros, Mission TP, Assemble the Team). Then you get into the high-level TFs, like all_hell said, where a team of 8 with Incarnate abilities and super-tweaked builds can curbstomp the entire thing in less than half an hour if done correctly.

On top of the other observations that the mouse isn't over the Harmonized Healing enhancements, all of the other new IO sets bear the icon of the archetype they correspond to, there's no reason Will of the Controller should be any different.

Comic-Con.

They shouldn't, but they shouldn't ignore some of their players either. At least previous code giveaways on Twitter and Facebook were open to everyone (Twitter and Facebook members did have a bit of an advantage, though, but that's fair).

Anyway, I remembered that I already had a Fakebook account, so Mr. ***** *. ***** was able to snag a code for me. Funny though, I thought I was the only one who had thought to do this.

Kinda defeats the purpose of having a free account if you're just gonna buy stuff anyway.

I would guess that Rhode Island has some sort of law about contests like this (which means it's out of the devs' hands), although the irony is really pretty hilarious.

But the limit for most low level TFs is already 3-4.

I have a sneaking suspicion players won't be allowed multiple free accounts. Multiple paid, sure, more money for them. But multiple free accounts would be ridiculous.

I would imagine the reason is that, storywise, it's meant to be a challenge faced by a team of heroes/villains rather than solo. The fact that players have found a way to circumvent that and complete these challenges solo is irrelevant. You may not care about the story, but the devs do.

You can certainly attempt to solo a TF although I have my doubts about a Corr doing so (has this been done yet? I knows Doms have soloed some). But even then, you would still need to find people to pad the thing, which may be problematic if you can't find people. (Incidentally: is it that your server is truly empty, you play during times when the server is empty? Have you tried finding teams on your server's global channels?)

Beyond that, yeah, you're stuck running Tips/Paper Missions/other repeatable content (Borea in RWZ, Marcus in Cimerora, a number of contacts in the Shadow Shard) for Shards. And yeah, it's gonna take you a while to accumulate what you need.