Fulmens

Well they couldn't actually do the slog, because it was off the top 5 by the time I posted this.

I guess it's my money now.

If you take Force Fields, you won't get much use out of vengeance. Just sayin'.

Someone bought an Impervium Armor off me for "one zero too many." If you can tell me which one it was, what level, and what the buy price was I will give you your money back. (I know, this may be the equivalent of "I found a $20, tell me the serial number and I'll give it back"- but I want to make my obnoxious profits intentionally rather than through someone's fat fingers.)

Oh, and I won't be around this weekend so you have plenty of time to put your guesses out there!

Oddly enough my utilitoon is FF/Sonic with Tactics. There are many situations where the team gains enormously by the quiet confidence that no member of the team is going to get hit twice in a row, and gains enormously by the +40-70% damage on tough targets. It isn't perfect for all situations, but desquishing the squishiest members of the team is a startling amount of help.

And with FF there is no need to wait several seconds before charging into a fight. Two and a half seconds per fight, times fifty or a hundred fights, really adds up.

Chaos, is that an "all of the above" or an "any of the above" list? Cause there's ... quite a lot... on there.

I overpay for mine- about a million each. I see that you raised your bids above even that amount. Good luck!

If you don't want to play the market game (buy for 6 million, craft, sell for 20 million- just check the stuff in your build till you find a winner) I think an ITF still gets you around 10 million on average, after you roll your merits. I've been wrong before, though, often and in public.

I apologize for an unnecessarily lawyerly post above. Basically I do think that Dev is a flawed set. (Notice my phrasing- I DON'T play AR and I WON'T Play dev.) It has advantages, but they don't seem to be advantages that I like. I have a friend with bad shoulders who likes */dev because he doesn't have to hit a lot of buttons and do a lot of mousing to be effective. Set tripmine, wait 10 seconds, set tripmine... that's pretty much opposite of a steamroller team.

Best I can come up with is to fill your friend list with other AR/Dev (or just /Dev) blasters. Two tripmines is something a team can wait 4 seconds for. Not 14 seconds, 4. And two Full Autos is a grand thing (speaking as a guy who plays a lot of forcefield defenders.)

My understanding is that only Dev's Choice AE arcs drop purples. Does that match your experience?

I've always assumed, but never tested, that a critter has one "chance" to drop each type of thing and the potential drop goes to a random party member.

Stever's description makes it sound like one Hellion could drop eight inspirations (or eight recipes or whatever), one on each member of the team.

It's been confirmed that you can defeat one enemy and get "one of everything"- I think someone got one base salvage, one invention salvage, one inspiration, one recipe and one store enhancement from one defeat, and took a screenie.

I don't play AR and I won't play Dev, but there are a couple of giant holes in your arguments.

One is Talen's comment, with which I agree. If you don't find the numbers support your argument, you have to reconsider either how you are using the numbers, or your argument.

The other is what you're describing when you look for teams. First, you're claiming to read minds through the internet. There's no body language, there's no tone of voice, you're interpreting a pause as "looking for someone else" instead of, oh, I dunno, "cat ran across the keyboard" or "replied in local" or "sneezing fit." I can't tell if you're right or wrong in your interpretation. But I don't know if you can either.

Second, I'll bring a good friend, or a known good player, onto my team even if they're playing AR/DEV, or Storm/Energy, or... I don't even know what my bottom-of-the-barrel powersets are right now. Just show up and don't suck and I'll find room for you. Cherrypicking powersets is kind of a new-kid trick.

I'm pretty sure you can't mark yourself as a spammer or ignore yourself.

( I think I hit the "ignore" button on myself once. )

Maybe this person is a PVPer or something.

I don't keep up on the latest trends. Imperious Task Forces used to give a WHOLE LOT of xp, last I looked. Lots of XP-onna-stick (Shadow Cysts- do they still give that much XP?) , lots of Elite Bosses, and about a thousand required kills.

EDIT TO SAY: Great, clear, accurate guide. So of course I want to tweak it, because that is my nature.

"-Recharge affects players worse than enemies.
This is only partially a myth. While -Recharge can wreck a player, it can also wreck enemies, because enemies have so many fewer powers to fall back on when their recharge drops. The reason it might appear otherwise is most players experience groups of enemies instead of individuals. The overall mechanics work the same for both players and enemies."

There's a couple of things going on aside from just the bolded part. I'm a little muzzy, I'm not going to present it clearly.

1) You always notice things happening to yourself more clearly. Especially if your beautiful attack chain has been vandalized.

2) Players win something like 95% (or more) of all fights. If you win only 90% of the fights, you're probably in permadebt. So if there's an effect that makes you win 50% of the fights you would have lost, you're going from 95% to 97.5% and you won't notice that much. If there's an effect that makes you lose, not 50% but 10%, of the fights you would have won, you're getting killed THREE TIMES AS MUCH.

3) the "Paragon Protector" effect. Powers that are not very good for PC's (the old Moment of Glory) can seem much, much better for critters because, basically, of point 2.

I'm a big fan of /rad on corrs. And a big fan of sonic blasts. If you want more AOE, it may not be the thing for you, but sonics make brutes do absolutely ridiculous damage.

.... and matched.

Welcome to the game! It's very hard to give NO advice to a new, excited, player so I'll restrict myself to this one, harmless, spoiler:

The door where you come out of the train is not the same door you use to go into the train. In other words, you can't just turn around and click it to go to another station.

... yeah, it took me a while to figure that out once.

This may be irrelevant to you, Master-Blade, but if you have lower level characters with merits on 'em I buy random rolls - a million inf per merit, so 20 M per roll. Anything up to level 41.

(Offer good either side, any server, to anyone. I pay then you roll and trade it to me.)

I just realized I didn't answer the OP. If you're new, I recommend running all the way up to 50. It's an acheivement. If you've done the high-level content a few times, and you've run enough characters up to 50, you can see it as an entirely optional goal. Different people like to do different things, and I find I like the reward of levelling up... and I'm the person who STARTED Midlevel Crisis. [Not the person who does the most on it, just the guy who registered the SG name...]

A friend of mine swears by the Imperial March (do I have to say "from Star Wars"?) . Does that help?

In case of severe emergency, and I'm not responsible for what happens if you click on this link, there is this. I listened to it once, and resolved never to inflict it on anyone I know in 3-d, who could drive to my house and hurt me.

Wife: "What's wrong?"
Me: "Song in head. You've never heard it. You don't want to hear it."
Wife: "OK."

Hmm. Sounds like you need the "Song in head swap meet".

Basically you post the song in YOUR head in spoiler tags (they don't seem to have those here) and you then highlight spoiler tags until you get something that knocks it out.

Like this. (Starts a few years ago, but then again there's no expiration date on "Duke of Earl". )

Tokyo said

Dave_P: your ignore list can be rebuilt, it's just much harder to find. But utterly worth it, for me. (Under user CP there is an "edit ignore list" feature.)

For the OP: If only there was some way to SELL items for those magnificent prices, instead of just BUYING them!