Roderick

I think he was talking about the new difficulty setting, not its exclusion from task force mode.

It's interesting to note that he mentions large blue spawns, which shouln't be possible in flaskback mode. Sounds like they slipped in a stealth fix that made it so only "real" task forces ignore difficulty.

Sefu

That is correct.

Also correct.

The only other place a hero can fight Longbow is Siren's Call, and those Longbow are HERO aligned, meaning you need a "friendly" villain following you around confusing you so that you can attack them.

What you need to do is find someone (preferably lower level than you, so you can breeze through) who hasn't done that arc yet and do it the normal way, so that you can adjust the difficulty.

The Circle are regularly seen performing rituals on people in Kings Row. One ofthese rituals is the possession of the subjects' bodies. The victims are, as often as not, female. Those robes are pretty concealing. The ones with hoods up could easily be either gender.

I wouldn't want to see the Council have females added. Doing so would mean that most of the costumes would have to be adjusted for female skeletons, and a few, like the Vampyri, would need new costumes. This is WAY too much of Jay's time for too little return.

Most (all?) Nemesis soldiers are mass-produced automata. The only reason to have female ones are the existing replicas of normal people. The soldiers are basically period replicas, and female soldiers would be out of place.

Typical Mafia have a less than modern outlook on women. I can't imagine them having women in the fighting ranks.

Malta should have some female members. It's highly unlikely that the Malta bosses are going to take a highly skilled operative and say "No, we don't take girls in our regular troops. But here's an application for the Knives. They'd be happy to have you." To avoid the issue that Council would have, limit female models to specialists, like the Gunslingers, and maybe one or two others.

The Tsoo seem well suited to female units. Either new mystically-powered Lieutenants that don't just spam Hurricane and O2 Boost, or actual ninjas, that use stalker-like powers (stealth, placate, crit/assassin strike).

Either adding females to the existing "thug" groups (Hellions, Skulls, Mooks, Warriors) or adding a new all/mostly girl Thug group would be cool.

Honestly, I don't see a HUGE disparity. We have females in Arachnos, Longbow, Vanguard, Rikti (they're fairly androgynous after the change, especially in armor), Knives, Carnies, Circle of Thorns (at least the Succubi, plus any that may be in the robes), several of the Praetorian groups (Mother Mayhem, Malaise and Battle Maiden at least), plus many Signature Heroes and Villains. More would be good, but is the work really worth the time spent on it?

Last weekend, I rolled an insect-themed Shield/SS tank. I already had Wikipedia open to look up alternate names, specific species, etc. Imagine my surprise when I got "Shield Bug" on the first try.

The first auto accepts if you are being adjusted UP no more than X levels.
The second auto accepts if you are being adjusted DOWN no more than X levels.

X, of course, is the value of the slider. Set them both to 50 if you never want to be asked, set them both to 0 to always be asked.

Actually, it's a 2x2 entrance room.

To add to this, the default plot size is 8x8, and you must leave a one-square gap between all rooms. This means you have room for nine 2x2 rooms in a 3x3 plot.With planning, you can get all your basics into that plot fairly easily.

OK, so with 4 sets of Crushing Impact in my final build, I'll be able to get enough recharge to hit it early.

I wasn't too worried about the crash, since I'll have high resists and near-capped HP, I was mostly curious if hitting Rage during the -def period would end that debuff prematurely. Sounds like it will. Thanks.

So, basically, your proposal is that after doing a special trial to earn the ability to change your secondary, you can end up with a character with two builds with different primaries, but the same secondary?

Schizophrenia has nothing to do with multiple personalities.

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Your difficulty is always in effect unless the real team has greater values.
-The spawns are based on the virtual team size or the real tem size, whichever is larger. The two do not combine.
-You always fight Bosses at regular strength if you are teamed, and always fight AVs at full strength if on a team of 6 or more, regardless of your difficulty.
-Only the difficulty setting of the Team Leader (If no mission is selected) or the mission owner's difficulty (If a mission is selected). All other difficulty settings are ignored.

It's not that simple. Each attck has one or more attack types, which may or may not match the damag types dealt. The attack checks against the best of your applicable defense types. If the attack roll misses, the whole attack misses, not just the part checked.

Probably the work of War Witch. She rocks.

9pm PST (Midnight EST) - Midnight on Thursday, then all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

So no, you're not reading it right. It's 3 days, plus 3 hours.

I notice that the announcement doesn't mention Prestige being doubled. I assume it still is, just like it always has been?

This. Even before i16, I would sometimes run into places where 2-5 groups would be so close you can't avoid aggroing multiples (I'm looking at YOU, T-junction with a balcony on the lab maps!), and you end up fighting multiple Sappers. But I can't recall multiple sappers in a single spawn, even on 8-man teams, in the 2+ years I've been around.

That bind involves setting one power to auto, and then activating another, resulting in the power on auto firing after the triggered one. Toggles and interruptable powers can't be set on auto, so this doesn't help the OP.

In short, there is no way to turn on all your toggles with a single keypress.

Not quite. They get the bonus with whichever they pick as the 33 month reward. If one of these is selected at 54, that one does not get any bonus damage, regardless of the character's origin.

For Baby New Year, the invasion code won't be needed. The entire team will be adjusted to the level of the Mission Owner under the new SSK rules, meaning that you CAN'T run an all-grey mission for easy rewards.

No, I'm Paladin!

Wait, no I'm not. But I was. Now I'm confused....

Hi! I'm Confused!

Yes, but only through the method the OP described. If you don't have the mission porter, you won't be able to get there. And at least one day job badge (the Vanguard one) is level restrcted. This one may be as well.

Still, it sounds like the OP was getting LESS, which should not be the case.

Hm... looks like I changed some of that on my last respec, I'm only going 45mph with Sprint turned on. But I plugged those enhancers into Mids and got 54mph. Very respectable speed for no travel power, if you ask me, considering that's the same as a level 14 with unslotted Super Speed (SS scales as you level).