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I just want to point out that there is no reason to wait until later levels to begin frankenslotting set IO's. Frankenslotting can be extremely useful at lower levels when slots are somewhat scarce. Once you hit level 22, triple and quad aspect IO's really start to pull ahead of SO level performance.

For example, a level 24 Pulverizing Fisticuffs: A/D/E/R provides about 53% total enhancement from one slot vs. an even level SO at 33%.

There are plenty of extremely cheap set IO recipes on the market. Even rare sets are usually pretty inexpensive prior to level 25, and can be crafted with much cheaper tier 1 rare salvage.

So, what you're saying here, is that the devs lack common sense, because they seemed awful surprised & upset that anyone would even think of using the system to generate maximum rewards. Especially Positron..

They don't expire. The 20 hour timer prevents you form getting MORE fame points once the 5 boxes are filled. There is a separate morality meter that tracks your progress towards changing alignment. The only purpose of the 20 hour timer is to slow down the rate at which someone can change alignment.

More is good!

I'm curious about this as well. If anything but Virtue & Freedom are "dead" and "unpopulated", who the heck are all these players on Protector that keep forming TF's at all hours? And who the heck were those other 7 people on that villain team I was on Monday morning? Must be figments of my imagination, just like the global channels that have a couple hundred people in them.

I actually found it quite amusing that each of the 3 Protector global channels I am on routinely have more players online than the one Freedom global channel I have in my list.

I thought there was also a timer in between tips dropping. Something like 30 minutes between tips?

I'm curious to see how this goes as well. It should be interesting, provided that eryq2 provides details of his experiences (both good & bad) and doesn't let his historical bias against the market affect the results.

Those of us who have some experience farming know all too well that drop rates are random and a couple good runs are not nearly as common as a whole bunch of runs with worthless drops. There's also been some excellent prior analyses of pure influence earning rates from farming done in the Market forum before.

Either sort by date, or just look at dates before picking an AE farming mission. Recent ones will generally be fine.

Looks like I'm a little slow today..

Welcome aboard!

I think you seriously exaggerate the issue for new players. Your perception seems to be that lower population servers are full of cliques that shun new players and ignore them. My experience has been completely different. I see new players often on Protector. They don't seem to have any major problems finding out about global channels, joining TF's, forming teams, or whatever other problems you seem to think they have.

New players aren't shunned. They aren't ignored. They are welcomed. The Mentor Project, which has spread to all servers now, originally started on Protector as part of the New Player Council.

The so-called 'empty' zones are often exaggeration as well. While they might not be populated like the busy servers, every time I log on I see people in the normal popular hub locations: Atlas, Talos, Ouro, etc.

OK. It's a bad idea. It will only exacerbate the situation and drive more people to the crowded servers and away from the others. It will make lag worse on Freedom and Virtue and cause more lock-outs and longer queues during events and 2xp. Even more to the point, I'll suggest that the devs do not want to drive players to the busiest servers either. Look at how they intentionally arranged the server load screen so it displays lower load servers first.

Here's a counter-suggestion: Do what some other MMO's do. Lock out the most crowded servers to new players. Only existing players can make new characters there. All others are forced to go to other servers. That would balance out the population, alleviate the load issues on the busiest servers and increase population on other servers, which would, according to some here, be a good thing.

I certainly would not provide that kind of information in response to an email request.

If I was going to build an Empathy character just for TF support, I'd go with Emp/Sonic Defender, and concentrate on recharge. That would provide more powerful buffs from Empathy, plus add on -resistance debuffing from Sonic. Leadership pool Assault & Maneuvers, plus probably Tactics.

Add on Superspeed and a +stealth IO, and there's the equivalent of invisibility without wasting a power selection.

Global channels change, players behavior changes. When I was on last night there were between 200-250 players online between red and blue. I saw several TF's being formed on globals as well.

Current active global channels for Protector:

Protector TFs
Protector Vigilance
Protector Watch

Welcome!

I'm sure there are several players on Pinnacle that will be glad to assist you. For now though, I would strongly suggest (if you have not already done so) joining the Mentor Project global chat channel. I would then suggest joining whatever active global chat channels there are for your server. Either ask on the NPC channel, or head over to the server section here on the forum.

All you need to do is enter the following command in-game: Exactly like that, including the spaces in "N P C". Once you've joined NPC, you can communicate directly with any mentors that are online.

Just what you have on your character.

On a Master run, at least in my experience, the usual tactic is to fall back to the hospital and wait for them to reset rather than risk fighting two at once. Normal STF? Fight's on!

With a bubbler, I suppose a Master team could take the risk and fight one AV while the bubbler kept GW caged, but there's too much risk in that, as far as I'm concerned. Detention Field could miss or GW could take out the bubbler in the moment between one cage dropping and applying the next. And caging as a tactic requires a bubbler that A: took Detention Field in the first place & B: slotted it with HO's to increase the mag of the cage effect. Those kind of bubblers tend to be a bit rare.

This will be my second one. Wife & I went to the very first one in Denver back in 1999. This one looks like it will blow that one away, especially the after-hours event at Disney.