Neuronia

Television arc is nice.
First Ward is great except for a "Woman in Refrigerator" moment or two.
World Wide Red arc from Crimson is decent.
Von Grun is decent.

My main is a Mind/Bubbler, remade her as a Mind/Kin on another server and as a VEAT redside on another server. Fun stuff.

Fire Blast > Energy Blast, especially with procs.

If Flambeaux has Energy Manipulation she'll have Boost Range as well...which gives her an edge. If she's Fire/Fire it's just more AoE goodness. As for KB, Flambeaux can just use Hover. We know she can use the Market since...*SPOILERS* in a Twinshot arc you speak with her next to Wentworth's, where she found some IOs to make her hair better. She might have enough KB protect from IOs to make that meaningless.

Overall I find Flambeaux less annoying AND we get to defeat her in a bunch of morality missions too, so she wins hands down.

Actually, the real fight should be Arcanaville vs. Johnny Butane but that might be postponed indefinitely since Johnny dislikes fighting AVs.

You need to get a level shift or two so it won't feel so overwhelming.

Your powersets should be great on trials. Hurricane can pin the escapees in their pens, you have a fair amount of -Defense on the mobs and AVs and if you join a Keyes trial Hurricane can clear the guards at the terminals so you can access them quicker.

It always seems overwhelming when you're on a 50 in those trials. You'll faceplant a lot and feel frustrated but even Alpha at Tier 3 can help your survivability a fair bit.

Had a good laugh at the OP.

VEATs bring tons of pets + teamwide defense and damage bonuses.
Blasters kill stuff like no tomorrow.
Defenders have massive buffs (highest buff scalars in game, iirc) and no slouches attacking either.

On and on.
If you like all Controller teams, knock yourself out but the other ATs offer tons to any team configuration.

What side do you pick more than others?

Villains. I prefer the archetypes and it's easier to get some of the accolades (Invader, Born in Battle) and there's a lot less zoning. It also has a female top tier that isn't a total ditz (Ghost Widow, though she has her fair share of lapses).

What play style do you prefer?

Buff/Debuff. I've been playing since 2004 and just got my first Blaster to 50 so...

What power set(s) do you favor?

Cold Domination, Mind Control, Defense based "secondaries", Empathy is right up there.

What zones do you like the most?

Redside: St. Martial, the Giza and the nooks and crannies are great.

Blueside: Founders' Falls, Atlas Park for majesty and Kings Row for griminess.

Do you usually play as a male or female (word of hatred) ''toon''?

Entirely dependant on concept. Generally female but if the idea specifies a male then that's what it is.

Views on Role Playing?

No ERP.
RP with people I know or open RP on Virtue when I can join in (not an easy task at times).

Servers?

Champion, Infinity (Red), Exalted, Pinnacle.

The Well:

Ignored as source of metahuman power on virtually all my characters. I don't even run the arc anymore now that you can unlock it with Astral Merits. My namesake is a former scientist that had no knowledge of the thing and got her powers through experimentation...yeah. The list goes on. The sooner I can avoid railroading of my character's motivations, the better.

Praetoria:

Nice new starting area, loved First Ward content. Not a fan of everything Incarnate being tied to it. I can get to 50 without interacting with the Praetorian storyline and I can run endless task forces divorced from it, yet once I start the Incarnate path, I'm cooked.

Praetoria is a great starting zone but again denotes a tendency by the developing team to get "new shiny" syndrome and abandon it; you never use the "shifting" system of being part of the Resistance or Loyalist factions in First Ward or in any other content. Granted, branching arcs do require more tech, but those choices are generally the culminating part of an arc. How fun would it be to either let Diabolique go instead of seeing her torn asunder? Perhaps you betray Makwa instead of helping him? Still, you can't reproach the Devs too much as they've gone a bang-up job with this zone overall, and I hope to see 30-40 zone along the way.

The trials are a nice way to convey the "first strike" into Praetoria, and they are repetitive, but so is most MMO content. It would be nice to have alternate way to improve though and we'll see if Dark Astoria is that way...

Only ran the hero one so far but States did not have any compunctions in throwing down in Lord Recluse's strike force after we zapped Ms. Liberty, so why did he suddenly hold back here? I suppose it makes sense in a "Paragon" type of way.

The maps were nice and having the option to revive him but failing is a nice touch as well. The arc was fine, going to have to do the redside arc in order to see if the final fight is any different.

Probably.

I only wish I could be the one stepping on his throat and walking over his corpse. That goes for the rest of the Phalanx too.

Anyone who sees their HOs as trash, please send all Microfilaments, Nucleoli, Membranes and Enzymes to @Neuronia and @Neuronium, I'll give them a good home.

As for the change, unfortunate but they're now WAI so that's a positive.
Players being Munchkins will abuse other items and the Devs will fix as needed.
If they're unhappy with certain interactions, they'll make certain facets unenhanceable.

Citadel has access to ALL THE WORLD'S DATABASES?

What???????

Ooooooook, so there is NO chance of all our credit, military, intellectual property and other knowledge bases including our personals being misused or otherwise compromised by anyone, especially seeing that the Council tried to clone him and Citadel appears in a variety of villain and hero arcs...

Wow.

My namesake used to be my main, but got most of the Master badges and having done the new content she sits shelved until new shinies arrive and I roll yet another Dominator to perma (Electric/Thorns).

"City of Heroes: ATOs will be purchasable with Reward Merits and Inf, or Astral Merits and Inf."

This is great to hear but hopefully the price in Reward Merits is reasonable.
200 Reward Merits for a LotG 7.5 or 2 Alignment Merits, which is bascially 100 Merits? The Reward Merit costs for recipes need a review.

I'm expecting 75-100 RM + 10 mil and 40-45 Astral + 10 mil myself.

Not gettting the EB complaint.

If he wants his Patron arc done, choose Black Scorpion, ghost the first few missions, autocomplete the Gutter Scorpinoid one and when you get to Quatrexin, he's not THAT tough. Carry a few reds and greens and you should be fine.

With the autocomplete feature workingfor nearly all standard content and a host of global channels, bypassing such issues is trivial.