Roderick

Remember that Hero=Resistance and Villain=Loyalist.

It doesn't matter what faction your ex-Praetorian is; any Hero can enter the Resistance-only places, and any Villain can enter the Loyalist-Only ones.

Correct. And the enhancement values will be close to those of level 50s (if not equal).

Note that it can be harder to find enhancements that aren't at the top of their level range. I tend to pay extra on the Auction House to get my level 25s, and I often have to use Merits to create the recipes I want, because the supply is low to non-existant.

I'm not sure I'd mix and match the levels. That would make your set bonuses rather difficult to predict which you'd keep when exemplaring.

Personally, I always slot Level 25s. I rarely exemplar low enough to lose those bonuses, and I'm still getting roughly the equivalent of SOs for enhancement values.
My goal is to keep all my set bonuses as close to all the time as possible. I only use a mix of levels when the set I'm using doesn't provide enough enhancement. For example, four Kinetic Combats has some incredible set bonuses, but the enhancement values aren't great, especially at level 25. I'll slot a couple level 50 triples or quads (usually Crushing Impact or Mako's Bite) to improve the slotting. For these latter ones, I don't care about the set bonuses at all.

Other people slot in the 30-35 range. This gives them noticeably better than SO enhancements, and they still rarely lose set bonuses. Note that somewhere in this range, boosting an enhancement to +5 makes it equivalent to a level 50 enhancement. Boosting an enhancement doesn't change its level, so it will still count as its base level with regards to set bonuses and exemplaring.

Enhancement boosters don't change the level of the enhancements, so the set bonuses will be affected by exemplaring exactly as if the enhancements are unboosted.

To simplify what's been said above: The effects of exemplaring only looks at individual enhancements if that enhancement gives a very large or very small bonus. If the bonuses are "normal" (ie, not significantly more than an SO), then the effects are based only on the total enhancement values.

The values you gave are roughly equal to 1 Acc, 1 Rech, 1 EndRed, and 3 Dam SOs. Their numbers will be reduced when you exemplar, but will still give the same values as if you had the same SOs slotted when exemplaring.

StarGeek's answer is correct, but incomplete; it only covers the enhancement aspect of your enhancements. For sets, there's a little more to it.

Set bonuses are retained so long as you don't exemplar more than 3 levels below the levels of the enhancements. In your example with all level 50 enhancements, you could exemplar as low as level 47 and keep your set bonuses. Exemplar to 46 or lower and the set bonuses will all vanish.
If you mix the levels of the enhancements, they individually stop counting as you exemplar too low. For example, with 5 level 25 and one level 50, you would have all 6 set bonuses at levels 47-50, 5 pieces from level 22-46, and no set bonuses from 1-21.
The enhancement values scale down as per StarGeek's explanation.
Set pieces with special always-on bonuses (such as the Luck of the Gambler Global Recharge, or the Steadfast Protection Defense bonus) function just like set bonuses. You keep the bonus until you exemplar more that 3 levels below the enhancement. If it stops counting for set bonuses, it stops providing its special bonus too.
Pieces with procs (Chance for X) or use-activated bonuses (X bonus for 120s after using the power this enhancement is slotted in) will function at any level. Of course, since you have to activate the power they're slotted in to trigger them, if you exemplar low enough to lose the power they're in, you also lose access to the special enhancement.

Purple enhancements (including Catalyzed ATOs) and PVP IOs never lose their set bonuses or special effects when exemplaring; they remain all the way down to level 1. The enhancement values still scale down as StarGeek explained.

Attuned enhancements (Store Bought sets, ATOs, and the new set from the summer event) level up with you. When you exemplar, they are still treated as the same level as your REAL level, and then scale down to your exemplar level. Their set bonuses are retained at any level down to the minimum level for the set-3. So, if you have a set of attuned Luck of the Gambler (level 25-50), you keep the set bonuses and the Global Recharge boost all the way down to 22.

I'm pretty sure all of this is explained in the page StarGeek linked, but I thought I'd add it, just in case you're somewhere where that site might be blocked (ie, posting from work).

If you screw up one of your keys, remember that you can use the /unbind command to set it back to the default value. I often find that helpful when binding basic function keys, like the arrows, F-keys, etc.

1- so you want to convert your Kinetic Weapon into a Clockwork Winder, or your Military Cybernetic to a Mutant DNA Sample, or your Psionic Manifestation to an Inanimate Carbon Rod? No thanks, that would would just be weird, and it's bad enough that we do that with Incarnate Salvage - though that has a Lore precedent when you take the Incarnate item from Trapdoor in Ramiel's arc.

2- We've (kinda) already got this. You can use AE tickets to get any salvage (at random for commons, or specific pieces for Uncommon/Rare). The only difference is that you have to earn the tickets; you can't trade in your unwanted salvage for more tickets.

What I'd rather see is new sets to fill in all the holes - there are still several categories that need more variety - and just make the recipes for these sets use mostly the "unwanted" salvage. After their release, we'll see a period of market turbulence where the junk adjusts to its new equilibrium price, and the new recipes find their spot, but once it settles, the salvage prices should be more balanced - if their usage is roughly balanced.

My solutions for Stone Armor have always been:

1- Remove the -Runspeed from Granite and Rooted. These are remnants of the OLD days of MMOs, where developers had the idea that making travel slow made the game longer. We've long since moved away from this in most parts of the game, I see no reason to keep it here. Also, remove both of these from the Jumping and Running groups, so that you can turn on Combat Jumping, Super Jump and Super Speed while using them.

2- Remove the -Jump and -Fly from Rooted. Make parts of it suppress when off the ground, like how Grounded works. I'd say that the Regen and KB protection should suppress, but the rest remain.

3- Remove the -Jump from Granite. Add a -Jump Cap so that you can hop over that curb, but no matter how many Jump buffs you get, you will never be able to jump onto a building. Possibly add a -Run Cap as well, but not enough that it would slow fully slotted Sprint+Swift. IMO, the -Fly can stay in Granite.

This way, you keep the thematic slowing of the Stone Armor character, without crippling him in comparison to all of the other characters that can currently leave him miles behind almost instantly.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...&postcount=345

I suggested the plant aura long before it was added to the game. Tunnel Rat seemed to think it had been suggested before, so I don't know if I can say it was MY idea, but that one can go on the list too.

I just realized that I was misinterpreting the OP. You're suggesting Galaxy as a shortcut to Ouro, whereas I was thinking that you were saying that the Galaxy Explores were now counting as time travel badges that pop Entrusted. My mistake.

Hopeling and Klaw, note the comments about forums and game accounts being linked, and about not having the self-control to avoid logging in. It isn't the forums he's trying to break free from, but the game, and he's trying to get his forum account closed, thinking it will take the game account with it. Since many play the game without ever signing up on the forums, I don't know if that'll work, which is why I've given other suggestions.