Lemur Lad

There's also another factor of perspective to remember. It's willingness to pick something you want to do and start it. I can't tell you the number of times I've seen upwards of 6-7 different people pop on, and say "is anything forming?" or "any interest in <list of 4-5 things>" within the space of 30min or so, and none of them none ever bother to get in touch with each other, settle on one thing to do, and then get a few more people interested to get started.

People who sit around waiting for something they want to happen, then complain the server is dead when their thing doesn't magically appear, grind my gears. Passive language and inquiries don't provoke responses. It's really not a mountain of work to get 4-8 people together in this game and do something fun.

The day the OP came along and posted his complaint is the same day I logged on at 5am because of insomnia, saw someone I knew forming an early morning ITF in Pinnbadges, and I got on the team and we rolled out, and had a GREAT time. It doesn't happen every day, but it happens when someone who isn't afraid to start their own team steps up to the plate and decides to make some of their own fun.

As for question 2, my converted scrapper ran it through Ouro just fine having never had any of them. One of the contacts will talk to you at the appropriate time. It may be based on origin or something, but the first I tried (Vince) helped me.

Sounds great! Assist targeting can be very helpful in the early levels, or when newer players aren't so sure about what to target when. All 3 of you should be working on your Identification and prioritizing skills so that later on as you face bigger groups, you can ween yourselves off assist targeting and split your focus to handle multiple important targets.

Good advice darkangel, that's exactly what I was going to say.

Pinnacle is definitely not dead. Join PinnBadges, and I or another mod will unsilence you as soon as we see you there.

Look under Content Features.

All it entitles you to is having those things for the amount of time you've had them so far, which is in advance of when anyone who joins the game today will get them.

It's really just that simple. It's there stuff to give out when and how they choose. They're not taking it from you after you've already gotten it, they're just making it easier for people now to get them a bit sooner, because face it: the amount of time the game is going to be here in the future is more than likely less than the amount of time it's been here so far.

You've gotten what you're entitled to. Don't go thinking you're entitled to more.

I agree with Thirty-Seven

Controllers don't get Speed Boost until level 20. Stamina and Accelerate Metabolism may be enough to cover the gap until then, you're correct, but then again maybe not, as Dark Armor can get expensive.

Personally I'd rate a Knockback Protection IO as a much higher priority buy than the +END proc, but they're both good things to keep an eye out for.

Yes, the difficulty settings are not to be trifled with lightly.

Here are some general tips I use to work my way to higher and higher settings.

Virtual Team size before added levels- Add more foes to the mix before you consider bumping up the level of those foes. In fact, consider lowering their relative level to -1 and bumping up the numbers even more. At least once your team has some solid Area effect powers. When you bump the levels of enemies higher than your own, their damage goes up, and so does their chance to hit you. Additionally your damage goes down, and your chance to hit them does too.

Warm up missions are your friend- Don't be afraid to start slow. Keep your settings easy for a mission and then increase gradually. Once you're comfortable stay with that a while.

Beware different enemy groups- There are a lot of factors at work to determine how tough things are. Not the least of which are some inconsistencies in the power levels of different enemy groups. For example Council are easy at almost any level. However Vahzilok of the same level tend to give players fits until they have powers that help mitigate toxic damage or nullify the ongoing aggro. So basically be prepared to adjust your settings up or down until you have a solid working knowledge of what the different enemy groups mean for your Trio.

Beware the leveling curve- As you level up, so do the enemies. Not only does this mean more damage and more hit points, it means new variants and additional abilities. Council are easy when they're just guys with guns. In the early 20s though you can be in for a rude awakening when they start throwing melee unfriendly warwolves at you. Longbow can be the same sort of deal, but they get a very nasty jump around about level 41. The Nullifiers get their final power, a Sonic Grenade, 2-3 of those and I've seen single groups wipe out entire teams. Best way to deal with this kind of thing is keep your eyes open when the NPCs pass the 10s, i.e. every 10 levels or so is roughly when you can expect to see jumps in NPC powers.

The difficulty settings are a fantastic tool. Don't be afraid to use it. But don't feel like you have to continually hammer yourself against a brick wall if things aren't going well.

Edit- one last tip: Purple (Defence) inspirations are your friend. Sometimes buying a tray full of those and popping 3 at a time is enough to get you through some tough spots without changing your setting. It's a cheap easy way to mitigate incoming attacks.

I have a feeling there will be very little Co-op going on. Just new characters without any chosen alignment each running their missions solo. You can't team in the Moral Choice missions in Praetoria, I doubt you will be able to in the new Galaxy City.

I run missions to level 5, then I go to King's Row and unlock my Police Scanner. From there I run scanner missions until I get a Safeguard and run that. That gets me a Raptor Pack to help with mobility.

From there I either keep running Scanners or contacts until I can run the new Posi TF. Then I run that at least once.

Another more Team-y option is to see if there are any groups running Hero Tip Missions in Atlas Park. Often they don't mind taking along a friendly and helpful sidekick and the missions are fun (much more fun than AE farms).

There's a third type. Ambushes that divide themselves among the team and attack. This is why occasionally Door Sitting characters get attacked, or in a Katie Hannon TF people in the back row not doing anything get an equal share of the aggro.