Dispari

Dark Control sounds like Mind Control but with immob and pets.

Which sounds great to me. I'm all in even before knowing what the t9 is (a permanent pet of some sort would be nice though).

Widow - Void made purple to look psi (may switch to Vorpal)
Plant/Earth/Fire Dom - Pyronic
DS/Pain MM - Pyronic
Necro/Dark/Soul MM - Void
Energy/Energy/Force Blaster - Ion

My DP/Time char, who is a natural speedster, will be Vorpal if I get her to 50. TW/EA will probably do Ion.

As far as people arguing numbers, a ranged damage AT would need to do something closer to 1.00 scale. It shouldn't do so much as to overshadow the point of Scrappers and Blasters, but by virtue of it having Aim type powers and not Build Up it would already do less. People saying it should do closer to 0.75 or 0.7 (which is less than a Corruptor) don't seem to realize how low that is. And really, why would you play a Corruptor-damage AT that is just a bit harder to kill than a Blaster when you could just make a Corruptor with a good support secondary? The right Corruptor secondary would already give you great survivability and you'd probably do more damage through -RES and +DMG.

Consider that Fortunatas are already range/defense and their damage scale is 1.00 without an inherent that adds damage. And they still get mez and team buffs on top of it. A range/defense AT would most likely need a decent damage scale.

I'm also curious if AS is going to remain interrupable while from Hide. No issues with it keeping its cast time. Just it seems like very few people would continue to use it from Hide if you could lead off with a non-interruptable attack and then go stab someone else with AS all without having to worry about positioning, moving, DoTs, AoEs, or patches. For being a signature power of an entire AT, I think it's silly it's interruptable at all.

I don't use any of the sets you named but it's worth saying that replacing is never a good option when you can simply add an alternative. Somewhere out there, someone is using the part you're wanting to replace, and likes it how it is.

I used to have a character with bolero and cherub wings. They're gone now and it's no longer an option. Shame since that character is a valkyrie and I have to either never use the bolero, or take her wings off of that outfit.

Just the way it goes I guess. Unlikely a GM will restore it since it was "grandfathered" with the risk of it being broken at any time without notice.

Probably time-gated reward solo arcs with random rewards with virtually no chance of rare and/or very rare salvage. Though anything that would give me access to threads would be a major step, since right now all I can get is 10 threads a week from SSA plus 40 a week from WST. Occasionally an extra 10 from talking someone into Apex or Tin.

Something where solo players could earn Emps and Astrals would be ideal, but not holding my breath.

Thugs/Traps with Lore pets is the obvious answer. Make sure everyone is using Gang War and german shepherd pets. And Shivans and HVAS and backup radio for AVs.

Some friends and I actually did all-MM ITF and LRSF. We weren't all Thug/Traps (which is good because we needed a few rezzes in LRSF) but it was still very laggy and reasonably smooth. That was before incarnate stuff too.

I've pushed a level 50 fire/kin onto another server. I won't be playing her anymore (I don't like FotM chars and I never really cared for Controllers). Other than that I also deleted a level 50 Brute who was just taking up space because I had a better version of her as a Scrapper I liked more. I've deleted a few 40+ chars besides, and more 30+ chars. Just recently rerolled a 34 Scrapper as StJ.

I have enough space now I wouldn't need to delete anything anytime soon, but I have a couple 40+ Brutes I could easily part with. One's a 50 SS/WP I never play because I don't like Rage.

You pretty much can't. I've crashed out of a trial during the last fight and sent in a ticket. My response was "Run the trial again."

I'll say it, since people aren't angry enough about it yet.

There's absolutely no reason this needs to be a one-hand only piece that requires you to unlock it twice. The recipe or the emp purchase needs to give it for both hands.

I only have two DP toons, one which I don't play, and on the other I'd rather stick to classical guns. I have no intention of getting this gun. But I still don't like the precedent it sets. It's not a good idea and it doesn't need to happen.

Look, I know sometimes games try to put emphasis on realism. But if you really want this to be realistic, the gun should be non-colorable (which clearly it is by the picture). It needs to drop 100% to one person. And then after that, Maelstrom doesn't have a gun anymore. So there's only one gun on the entire server.

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Yeah, that's a terrible idea. Yeah, realism is kind of stupid in video games. Realism sometimes needs to take a back seat to "having fun." In this case, there's nothing "fun" about having to acquire the unlock twice. There's no reason for it other than an arbitrary "it's more realistic" which still doesn't make any sense. So please throw away this idea, and just have the acquisition of the gun apply to both hands. Because all locking it to one hand is going to do is make tons of complaints over something that doesn't need to exist in the first place. It'll drive up the recipe prices and double the emp unlock cost. For no reason.

Recipes don't have to make perfect sense. I can already "craft" working wings to apply to my character. Just pretend I made my own extra gun after having the original in my hand. Pretend he drops two at a time because he obviously has a few dozen of them if he drops them all the time and still comes back with more. Don't lock this to one hand per recipe/purchase. You're just asking for trouble.