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Someone PL my Martial Arts/Ninjutsu Stalker so I can slot it up and Eagle's Claw people in the face plz, kthxbye.

Results?

It honestly doesn't take that long to get to 50 anymore.
1-20 can be done in probably 5-6 hours, maybe a little less...it starts to curve off in the mid-30s, but if you join some Imperious Task Forces or have steady grouping (Freedom, Virtue) it shouldn't be much of an issue.

I'd say...hmm....if you do Arcs, a few TFs and team heavily maybe 30-40 hours to 50, probably less than that, much less with a good group of people.

2.PvP (serious PvP will require a time investment for IOs and Accoaldes), Imperious TF, Lady Grey TF, various end-level TFs, lots of story arcs, hunting down Invention Origins for your character, costuming, trials, Hamidon on active servers...and Going Rogue has new stuff for level-capped people such as the Incarnate System.

3. I'm addicted to PvP but the average person might find it meh. It's a lot of stop and go damage spam in the zones, so just bear that in mind.

4.You shouldn't AVOID any servers but you should try Freedom or Virtue for large-scale teaming, the others will be population lighter...but if you invite people to teams you'll never be alone.

For your question, try a Scrapper, Brute, Blaster for quick disposal of mobs. With the XP curve these days though, 20 is reachable fairly quickly regardless of AT, as long as you do a little teaming.

My main used to work for Crey before she ran off with a potentially lethal new product, so you decide.

Machina, you all good for next Wednesday evening for our match?
Thinking 9:00 or 9:30 p.m.

I'm fond of poutine as a very occasional guilty pleasure...

I just played my Emp/Py in PvE for the first time in months, on a speed ITF.

What with passing out Fort, AB, auras, CM and throwing attacks, I barely needed to hit my heals. The team was just steamrolling stuff anyway and the odd time someone died they were Veng bait...

Heals are nice, but buffs? Those are great.

Welcome aboard new people.

So now that we have five teams, how about someone challenges someone...so we can get some rankings going?

In the "never going to happen" category, I'd love to see purples, PvP IOs, Shivans, Warburg Nukes etc etc sold at an NPC vendor.

Shivans: 10-25,000,000 per temp power, one owned per player.
Warburg Nukes: 50,000,000 per Nuke, one of any type of nuke owned per player.
Purples: Trickier...Sleeps at 20-30,000,000 each. Confuses at 15,000,000 to 25,000,000 each, with the pricier ones at an appropriate cost.
PvPIOs: 100,000,000 - 750,000,000 each.
Respec recipes: 50,000,000 each.
Costume recipes: 1,000,000 each.
Extra costume slot: 10,000,000, which is likely far more expensive than just getting the salvage off the Market.

Won't happen because the Devs probably don't want that many purples or PvPIOs kicking around and they likely want us to work to obtain them through gameplay instead of purchasing them from vendors.

My unrealistic post aside, I wish there were SOME inf sinks kicking around as there is a lot of unspent influence and infamy out there. Heck, I have a friend that's been afk from the game for school/life reasons and he had, at last count, 1.2 billion on an alt. He doesn't like to "buy" from the Market so he usually just uses this to craft IOs for our group or "buy" from our COalition mates.

Then you could explore other options:

How much would you pay for Portal Jockey/Born in Battle?
How much would you pay for...a level?
How much would you pay for...50 levels?
How much would you pay for the ability to unslot IOs, as proposed by Aura_Familia, it appears?
How much would you pay for a TF completion?
How much would you pay for candy canes?
How much would you pay for Winter's Gift IOs?

Since, you know...people have paid influence or items to get this stuff done anyway (there's a black market for you) but you're not likely to convince the developers this is a good idea for their game, as people would go to RMTers, get afew billion to get a 50 or some badges.

Realistically, the inf sinks we are likely to see are increased market fees, increased crafting fees, some 'chase' items or some silly items which would have a self-imposed degradation timer.

"Wow, where did you get that sombrero?"

'Oh, I paid Serge/Facemaker a million for it!'

"Is that account wide?"

'No, I had to pay it for every one of my characters...'

"Is it permanent?"

'No, my character has been tagged to own this piece for two weeks.'

The Developers could go the OTHER way as well, REDUCING inf earned from tasks. If less influence enters the game, wouldn't this entail that less got spent as well? Of course, existing influence would be unaffected. I don't think less would get spent. Instinctively I just feel that people would just find the quickest way to get the slower allowance and they would be rankled at having the influence earned changed in a negative fashion.

The Devs could also tax your account...or simply 'create' all those items that are being bid on but not ingame, enjoy your level 52 LOTG 7.5, sorry you lost two billion, old boy...

Welcome to the madhouse, gl hf.

Your mileage may vary, but you can make up the Taunt aura bit by using a massive aggro-generating set.

Mine is a Stone Melee/Energy Aura Brute and between Fault, the mallets and Tremor stuff is swarming me and getting dropped in short order. I definitely prefer her to my Fiery Melee/Electric Aura Brute; Energy Drain lets me get small heals and replenishes my end bar, you can pump up defenses through IO sets and the Tier 9 grants a hit bonus as well, doesn't it?

EA isn't "top of the line" at anything though, so you're more likely to see Fiery Aura or Willpower Brutes than EA...

I still need this on my namesake; I can offer PB Bubs and some cc.
Global me up and I'd be glad to help/mooch/not faceplant.

Wouldn't miss this for the world.

Hope life is treating you well Ping.

Also, it looks like Defender TK has been fixed on live, someone should test this; if so, you can probably removed it from the banned powers list as it doesn't repel anymore.

Out of the stuff you listed I'd say the Fiery Aura/Superstrength tank might have the right mix of survivability and damage for you. Now, it's been a while and I don't think Fiery Aura has KB protection, so you'll be wanting to invest in some IOs to cover that gap.

Still, throwing Boulders, Fossilize, KB Blow (? is this still good these days ? ) and clicking Healing Flames should get you a few kills and increase your survivability.

Don't hesitate to pick up the Hyper Phase temp power and Super Leap/Superspeed are still great movement powers (some may say the only, but some Fliers have been seen in zones, often to their detriment) even with all the suppression out there.

Basic thing though is to grow a thick skin and laugh off the many defeats; eventually you'll get a hang of stuff and getting your own kills or setting them up.

Cheers...

I use a Stone Melee/Energy Aura Brute and plow through Nemesis in my downtime.