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If it didn't need as many slots as the vastly superior trip mine to do not nearly enough damage with a very clunky delivery system on far too long of a cool down I might consider taking it. As it it I can't justify the slots it needs to be worth spending a power on.

There's very little, aside from being terrible, that a trip mine or two can't do as well or better than time bomb.

Text is a lost art.

When I tried the base teleporter to Echo GC to Ouro scheme but was under Ouro's level requirement I zoned into Ouro for a second or two and then was booted to Atlas.

<Curmudgeon>They have a perfectly good message board so why are they putting stuff on all-your-info-belongs-to-us facebook?</Curmudgeon>

Can't help with the MM part but for the /traps part you want three things, recharge, more recharge, and even more recharge.

A friend of mine has a bots/traps setup as a tankermind (aoe taunt from presence + bodyguard mode) that is extremely powerful and durable.

Chasing fury. Mastery of Soul seems to be helping with the blue addiction.

Without IO investment and/or external buffs they aren't much more than scrappers (yes yes the Res cap is higher but the armor set values are the same) with an annoying mechanic that makes cold starts very painful and thus needs a GOGOGO style whether you want it or not.

The timing could have been a bit better with the Collateral Damage story arc. With States, Psyche, and Miss Liberty just recently planted in the marble gardens blueside didn't need one more shot at herofail.

Redside you get a to have your own personal army twice.

Don't get me wrong, I like all those arcs but they really need to find something other than "rocks fall everyone dies" to make things "heroic".

Update all incarnate recipes to include shard based components and then eliminate the thread based components entirely. Shards would become equivalent to Astrals for purchases and NotW equivalent to Emps with costs lowered for the increased difficulty of getting NotW but the WST timegate changed to a daily restriction instead of weekly.

iTrials will still exist but would not reward anything beyond the pleasure of doing iTrials and whatever rewards a TF gives.

Gut the defense bonuses from IOs. Add a few more options for res set bonuses. Give recharge a serious look, probably gut that but also update the base recharge times of sets that need recharge to function in the modern fast moving CoH (anything with static location based powers like traps).

I wish the badge would have been an account badge since like every other holiday event that requires multiple teams to defeat a GM you're not going to be getting that badge after the first few days once people get bored with it.

I bought the 50% off 5 pack of 1 hour 25% boosters. You'd need the 8 hour 100% booster to approach that PP:XP and 8 straight hours (not counting offline breaks) of grinding ITFs or MSRs would do me in. If the 1 hour ones were more reasonably priced I might have picked up a few for those want-to-hit-50 TFs.

Experienced is nice (especially that you get a goodly sized stack for free) but the 2 hour cooldown means you can run out of patrol xp quickly if you're doing TFs. Leveling my stalker 1-50 under perma-patrol took care of most of the ones I had lying around from when I bought packs.

If you don't feel effective on a team I'd suspect you're not playing a defender, they have force multiplier tattooed across most of their primaries. Even Empathy is that way as long as you're not a "healor".

Put me in the curmudgeon camp but I hate having to watch videos when the medium, in this case the internet, is fully capable of supporting text.

They don't need a professional stenographer but at least have someone official-like make a go at transcribing these things.

Considering the fight it took to not have him scrubbed from our badges and that SSA#1 was there just for character assassination I really don't see them putting in much more of a memorial than putting a history plaque on a dumpster somewhere, bonus points if they put it in the dumpster.

As soon as the backpack is only on specs with the crab tree I might give one a shot. Bane and huntsman till then.

Flashbacks: 2 common, 1 rare, astral

Squiddies and their crab brethren can save slots on a respec since they pick their Nova and Dwarf forms, which grant inherent powers, THEN they assign slots, so on a respec you can place your level 3 and 5 slots into Nova or Dwarf powers and not just human powers.