Draeth Darkstar

Like many people, almost all my high level builds include Hasten near or fully perma'd. The only 50s I have anymore that don't have Hasten are my Bot/Force and Willpower/Super Strength, because neither of them benefits particularly much from Recharge.

The ones who have no other source of stealth almost all have Super Speed + Celerity IO, the only exceptions to this are my durable melee characters who can get by with 30 ft Stealth from an IO and don't care about taking a couple potshots here and there when running through mobs.

Several of my characters (read: the ones who can't softcap their designated type(s) or position(s) without it) take Fighting for Weave and frequently a mule of the 3% Def IOs in Tough. I often don't bother to slot and run Tough up if it's the only source of S/L resist a character has, because it doesn't make a lot of difference when it is and costs quite a bit of endurance.

Nearly all of my characters, 50 or otherwise, have at least Maneuvers from Leadership. Several also have Assault or Tactics (depending on if I can spare the slots to enhance Tactics or not) and Vengeance.

All of my Masterminds who have no heals in their secondary have at least Aid Other from Medicine; the utility of being able to patch allies up when you have a horde of henchmen to tend to is just too important to pass up. Some have Aid Self and one has Resuscitate (the Bot/Force... what else is he going to take?) Some of them also have Presence for Tankerminding.

Travel powers other than Super Speed have become a rarity in my builds. I only have a few characters with Hover/Fly because of concept reasons and only one with Super Jump anymore. The plethora of account-wide and temp Travel Powers available to me means I only take one if it's really important to that character to have it.

The Arachnos Patrons spawn as AVs when that setting is on because those mobs exist natively as AVs in the game and get scaled down to EBs.

Most of the unique bosses made for DA were made as Elite Bosses, which is why they don't turn into AVs with higher difficulty settings.

The realistic answer to your question is: any AT which solos well. That probably means the melee ATs are going to be easiest, followed by Masterminds.

Be warned that Praetorian content has a lot of game design to it that is typical of the higher levels than the Primal 1-30 content does, so expect mixed exotic damage types, control effects, and ambushes frequently.

The only ones I'd EVER bother with are the cone in Demon Summoning for the -Res AoE, or MAYBE Life Drain on a character with no self healing capacity.

I would base it on what set bonuses you're chasing, personally.

If you really need the extra R/N/E defense, there's no other way you're going to get that in an AoE. If you're more interested in Recharge, the only Ranged options are Decimation and Apocalypse, and the ATOs are head-and-shoulders above Decimation in both enhanced values, set bonuses, and the proc's usefulness.

More and more frequently I find myself foregoing APP/PPP theme choices on my squishies and taking Mace Mastery just for Scorpion Shield, then building them to the S/L/E softcap.

There is a degree to which it annoys me to not actually gain utility from my epics, but the durability provided by softcapped S/L/E defense is immense, especially with all the IDF/Warworks thrown around at max level lately.

My preferred slotting for TG is either 5x Doctored Wounds (very cheap) or 5x Panacea (very expensive), 1xL50 Accuracy IO.

That's generally enough slotted accuracy to be fine assuming you have some global accuracy bonuses and/or some +tohit.

Traps is nice for its combination of status protection, personal defenses, and stellar debuffing potential, but takes more player involvement than most to be played to maximum capacity.

Radiation is probably your best choice if you hate redraw and don't like how Traps plays.

My personal favorites for StJ are Shield for a Scrapper (best damage), Willpower (for Endurance recovery, which StJ struggles with) or Fire (for damage) for a Brute, or Ninjitsu for a Stalker (because it's awesome).

I don't like StJ for a Tanker - I feel that a tank's secondary should contribute meaningfully to survivability, which StJ does not. If you're in it for the damage, you've already gone wrong by picking this AT.

Edit: Thought I'd mention the reason I don't advocate StJ/Willpower Scrappers is that Willpower is functionally superior on a Brute, and so is StJ, so if you're going to go that route, go Brute or go home.

Blasters have all kinds of problems basically stemming from the fact that what they bring to the table (damage) is brought by everybody, and they don't do it so much better than anyone else as to be worth having nothing else to contribute.

Tankers suffer sort of the same problem, but with damage mitigation. They're not so much sturdier than Brutes that they can do anything that a Brute can't, but their damage is substantially lower.

Masterminds suffer more from poor power balance than systemic problems. Ninjas and Mercenaries are both incredibly bad, and Beast Mastery and Necromancy are a far cry from perfect. Robotics, Demons, and Thugs are all strong, competitive powersets with what other ATs are capable of. What really needs to happen is a sweeping round of buffs and fixes for the broken sets and some quality of life improvements for the mediocre ones.
Of course, the impossibly bad pet AI doesn't help matters any either - for any MM.

The only issue I see with Kheldians is that Peacebringers are still very meh when compared to Warshades, who kind of have, "Anything you can do I can do better," syndrome going on.

As far as I know, there isn't any official lore mentioning WWII in Praetoria, so, you can probably feel safe assuming it was (mostly) the same, and if they ever retcon anything in about it, worry about it then.

They delay purchased powerset sales so that they don't steal the thunder from each other.

How many people do you suppose bought Beast Mastery when it came out?

How many people do you suppose will buy Staff Fighting when it drops next Tuesday?

Now... how many people do you suppose would've bought each one if they came out together?

Eh... I'll grab some character slots to fill out my servers while they're on sale. Nothing else particularly interesting in these sales to me, travel IOs are basically worthless ingame, so they're not worth spending real money to get, and I practically only ever use the procs anyway, so the level-scaling benefit wouldn't matter either.

Note: even on sale the price for enhancement unslotters is ludicrous. Six bucks to pull the enhancements out of one power? I'd sooner respec, Jesus.

The moral of this thread: Standard Code Rant.

My most used origin is a roughly even split between Tech and Magic. I then have another roughly evenly split between Mutation and Natural. I have very few Science origin characters.

If they add Psy Melee, I demand Psylocke style psychic laser katar thingies.

Can a Rogue enter a Supergroup Base if they're in a team lead by a member of a supergroup which has the permission set to allow team leaders' teams to enter their base?

If so, a Rogue could enter Echo: DA and Echo: Galaxy via supergroup teleporter.

TPN is actually significantly easier than it's order should indicate, in my opinion. I have done several MoTPNs on fresh 50s (not on Telepathist duty, of course) and didn't feel like I wasn't contributing. Most of the trial is just fighting packs of IDF and running around.