Ironblade

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Well, I like my main character, who is a scrapper, and probably play him more than any 2 or 3 others. He's my only scrapper since I figured I didn't need any others.

If we go by what I actually make a lot of, I have a ton of tanks and controllers - five of each at level 50, so far. I guess I like having the enemy do what I want.

Firstly, welcome to the game!

Second - they say the only stupid question is the one you don't ask. All of yours seem reasonable anyway.

You've already gotten good answers to your specific questions so I'll make some general comments.


1) Don't play a tank.
I don't recommend a tank as a first character since you will often have other people relying on you and/or expecting certain tactics. I would suggest making your first character a scrapper. The only thing people will expect of you is to hit stuff. This will give you breathing room to learn the game.

Once you learn the basics, by all means play a tank. I have more tanks than any other archetype. And by the way, I don't know if you had some advice or just got lucky, but willpower is definitely a good choice for an inexperienced tank player.


2) Your tank has too many attacks.
For the most part, you can infer some things about the character by looking at what the PRIMARY powerset is and what the SECONDARY set is. The primary set for a tank is DEFENSIVE. The secondary set has your attacks. Conclusion: tanks should mostly be concerned about staying alive and keeping others alive. Scrappers have their attacks in the primary set - their main (only?) purpose is to hit stuff. With all those attacks, you are compromising your survivability and, as a result, the survivability of the team.


3) Your friends should be explaining things to you, rather than throwing you in the deep end. I mean - "My Question is How do I Tank?" - there has been enough written on this subject on these forums to fill a book (and not a small one). The only way to learn to tank is by watching other tanks. You can learn by watching poor ones and figuring out what they did wrong, but the best way is find a good tank who can explain WHAT they are doing and WHY.

BTW, this is definitely the right section to find good tanks. There's plenty of arguing in here, but most of the people posting in this section at least have a clue whereas the average player in the game probably does not (in regard to tanking, at least).


What server are you on? Odds are that someone in here is on your server and can meet with you in-game and explain stuff. If you're on Infinity, I have a level 50 willpower tank and would be happy to demonstrate tactics and discuss the powers in that set.

Open your email window by clicking the word EMAIL above your chat window.
Click the button to create a new email (called NEW, I think).
The email will have a box where you can type in an influence amount. It will also have a box where you can drag-and-drop an item (like a recipe).
Send the email to your GLOBAL name and any character on the account will be able to claim it as long as they are the same 'faction' (hero or villain).

No, a lot of accolades don't give you anything or do anything. You can get 3 accolades from doing the respec trials - they do nothing. There are accolades for all the Safeguard or Mayhem badges - they do nothing.

Open your badge list, by clicking BADGE on your navigation window.
Go to the veteran tab.
For most of the vet categories, there will be a 'badge' badge and a 'select' badge that lets you pick something or claim something.
Click that one and it will ask which weapon you want.
Make sure you pick the one you really want since you can never change it (on that character - every character gets their own choice).

I think it was in the webcomic Elf Only Inn that a new guy joined and was amazed that the name had been available.... until someone pointed out that he had spelled his name 'Lord of Dorkness'.

And, if you'd prefer to NOT earn XP while exemped, you can go into 'Options' and set it that way.

I did that SF early this afternoon and noticed the exact same thing. At the time, I mentioned to the team that I thought it was due to the crystals since I think they have to be treated as critters by the game engine due to the way they work.

Unfortunately, the last time I did that SF was a LONG time ago and I have no recollection if it was any different back then.