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Just makes me sad that so many people apparently don't play with map open in a small window stuck to the top left or right of the screen, haha. I've had to reply to at least five people asking me where Scirocco was by the answer "Press M to view your map".

Some people just won't be happy until they have an option to blow up the world which auto-deletes their character due to their character being permanently dead in the CoX universe.

Sometimes, your luck varies. From my rolling with 7 different PvP recipes into a Gladiator's Armor 3% def (none of the original recipes were Gladiator's Armor), the shortest one took 4 converters, which was two rolls (one to get to Gladiator's Armor, one to get to 3% def), while the longest took 25 converters (I lost count of how many rolls :3).

Remember to factor in reward merit and inf cost of converters along with the cheap recipe to convert towards the balance of outright buying the recipe itself though.

I've ran into a few concept Tankers without Taunt in itrials. It's kinda funny seeing the leader tell them to pull Siege/Nightstar/Penny/GM bosses to specific areas only for them being unable to do it and when the leader's about to get frustrated thinking they're deliberately refusing to pay attention/follow requests, a Brute or Scrapper or second Tanker who wasn't the 'main' realizes the main Tanker is unable to pull them since they don't have Taunt and has to take over, haha.

All of my 'Paragon Protector' Brutes and Scrappers took Fly for concept reasons, but it's almost a moot point since I don't mind Fly's slow speed in comparison to other faster travel powers.

Regarding not using incarnate powers in itrials, almost nobody will care, as long as you still have your level shifts, which is the main thing allowing you to fight more efficiently. If you choose to deliberately never build up your shifts or unslot them so you'll always be a straight 50, please don't join a team for Dilemma Diabolique Trial. :3 The same goes for Apex or Tin Mage and unslotting/not having any Alpha because it doesn't fit your concept. XD

My idea is:

Confront - higher magnitude than Tanker taunt, but is balanced by only being able to affect one target. If it's applied to a new target, the old target can be 'stolen' by other taunts. This allows a Scrapper to take specific targets out of mobs which are being taunted.

Is it almost worthless? Yes... XD

Seriously speaking, even though I like Stalkers, the idea of them using the crit system, and in a better way (they get flat rate of 10% chance to crit enemies before teammates and Assassin's Focus comes into play) is kind of jerking the Scrapper's chain a little, haha. Bumping the critical rate is no good since it would make them unbalanced, since they're already a top-tier AT - not to mention enemies which use the critical system such as Cimerorans and Warworks Victorias. So any change can't be too great.

It's not really much of a problem even if Assassin's Strike misses, since they bumped up the damage out of hide from moderate to superior. That's a ton of damage even if it doesn't critical.

And then each stack is 33.3% chance of critical which is already great, you could choose to chance your luck with just one or two instead of having to hit three times before using AS. If you miss, just roll again.

Adding to this is the Tin Mage TF - Mastermind Pets will attempt to engage Neuron and Bobcat on their own once the two have spawned. So it's not just trials now, but possibly something to do with their AI (again).

Shivans can generally solo any EB (being EBs themselves), if you support them a little. If I remember right, MMs are able to feed Shivans inspirations? If this is the case, get shivans and a couple of emerges, and bob's your uncle.

If not, have the Shivan anyway and have it lead (since it has a boatload of health) by summoning it behind Serafina but right next to her so she turns around - and then have your henchmen attack from the opposite side. Meanwhile, buff up the Shivan with your secondary.

From what I remember of them, they have no regen, and don't give rewards, and have AV-level HP even with AVs turned off. It's been like this from at least issue 10.

I think this is actually working as intended if it's been this long and left unchecked.

Traps don't recognize the Spines as enemies either.

I can say my Thugs/Dark pets are bugged as well. Even on Passive/Stay on the slope in front of Marauder, my thugs will attempt to charge Marauder's group.

In BAF, on tennis court waiting for Nightstar or Siege - pets will try to engage either AV regardless of distance or MM controls.

Keyes appears to be fine.

TPN appears to be okay as well.

For me, I found getting around 47% is better. That way, a small purple with 12.5% def pushes you just over 59% for incarnate stuff.

Of course, if you have paragon reward which increases the strength of inspirations, you might want to pick different numbers, but it's up to you.

I went from "omg it's Blue Steel" to "what" when he fell in five seconds to a team of ice/energy and fire/energy blasters and an ice/empath controller.

Seriously, make enemy signature Heroes and Archvillains their status again instead of permanent Elite Bosses in Dark Astoria. The difficulty setting is there for people who don't want to fight Heroes and AVs anyway.

Regarding allied Heroes and Archvillains having Boss-class HP, however, is nothing new - it's been done a lot of times for balance, which is very reasonable. Black Scorpion in Mender Silo's Strike Force, however, needs to be bumped up from having Pet-class HP to Boss-class HP. :3