Eiko-chan

There were actually quite a few costumes included with Going Rogue - the Resistance, Overguard, PPD, Sport and Clockwork sets come with Going Rogue. The Complete Collection also includes the Alpha and Omega sets (which also come with auras.)

Definitely. Aforementioned Fire/Dark is the one that soloed Barracuda and Indigo, but couldn't take down Infernal because of his Fire Resistance.

I've got characters that have soloed the AV versions of Barracuda, Manticore, Indigo, and Stheno (and The Radio, but I think that's a particularly weak AV. One of my characters accidentally soloed The Radio (as in, I didn't realise I was set for AVs and had no preparation going into the fight against it, and still took it down.))

My Tanker lacks the damage to take down an AV, but she has faced, solo, the Clockwork King, the Honoree, Marauder, Malaise and Mother Mayhem, proving that these all lacked the damage to take her down, as well. Also, my Fire/Dark Corruptor couldn't kill Infernal (blasted high Fire Resistance), but he couldn't kill her, either.

Does that count?

Full disclosure: her recharge on those three powers is nearly identical, so it actually makes for a complete chain.

But I don't play Blasters, so I'm not really a good case study.

The only character I have that has Build Up is my Elec/Shield Brute. She only uses it just before firing off a Lightning Rod/Shield Charge combo.

While I'm generally in favour of absolutely breaking the game as much as humanly possible, I just have to go at this.

Of course not! I love you, Friend Computer!

Which is an excellent argument against excessive difficulty, as well.

And folks wonder why I like to play solo.

From the stance of "absolute XP earned" - or even "XP earned per mission", it does. Confuse does not steal XP from "rate of earned XP", but it does "steal XP".

When a villain goes to Paragon City, they are attacking Paragon City.

Except in the Apex TF.

Would you then suggest that the Quartz emanaters should provide a +100% (or possibly +200%, to more accurately reflect what +100% to hit does without defence) accuracy bonus?

Define "some" risk. Is "some" risk getting defeated five times in the same mission simply because the ambushes keep coming? Because that's what happened to my Praetorian Defender.

Uh, I was putting a rebuttal to a suggestion that the crafting path had to be time-gated to a slower rate (once every three weeks, specifically) so that the WST would be the standard and so that no one could earn faster than the once-a-week method.

I was simply pointing out that "WST once a week" is not equal to "earning 40 shards in a week".

I care about how fast I, as a soloer, get things. I really don't care how fast people who team get them.

Except, of course, that they've poured several hours (probably 10 or more, even counting TFs, and more like 30-40 solo) into playing that week, while those running the WST have put in a couple hours or less.

Just because they both get one Notice a week doesn't mean one person didn't work a lot harder for theirs.

I don't consider "I get level 30, you get level 50" to be a fair and equitable distribution of interest catering.

There's at least one Redside tip at level 50 that involves Rularuu. Can you mention that too, while you're at it?

Oh god whatever. Solo or casual, having to be "on your toes" still isn't going to jive with the reputation the game has built.

I've always hoped, if any dev team would take the gamble to try it, this would be the team that would try to balance not against the top, but against a more reasonable middle ground, and actively allow the top to blow through things and completely ignore their complaints about being bored.

I thought I had caught them at doing so in other things (Side-switching and A-Merits, for instance; the implementation of Day Jobs; the Invention System in general) and am very surprised to see this not seeming to be so much the case with the Incarnate System.

I truly believe that trying to balance against holding back these top performers is actively detrimental to the MMO industry as a whole. Let them get to the top fast, and let them get bored. I think the game would be better for it; I don't think they're any more significant a potential player base than dabblers and other low-performing players.

As City isn't an action game, the type of gamer that wants to learn QUICKLY to stay on their toes are unlikely to be the type of gamer that tries this game. Especially with seven years of hype and scuttlebutt about this being the "solo-friendly" MMO.

Well, a Widow probably is the most beneficial team mate to have when they're just auto-following and doing nothing.