Sardan

Really incredible! Amazingly professional looking. Kudos to you.

I wouldn't have thought that possible. Kudos.

I didn't see this thread before I started another, so for completeness' sake I'll add my suggestion to this thread: rather than an aura, I'd rather have the temp power give an invisible and meaningless buff. That way it'd show up in the buff bar, making it easy for teammates or leaguemates to see that you've got it.

As anyone who has done a Lambda trial can attest to, rarely do all the temp powers that are collected get used. And when you ask the league, "People, please look in your list of temp powers for Acids or Grenades!" all you typically get in response is resounding silence punctuated by a few crickets.

So my proposal: give all mission-critical temp powers a meaningless buff aura, like an infinitesimal amount of regen or something. Now that the powers have a buff, they'll be visible in your teammates buff-bar displays. It'll be easier for people to tell at a glance if they have one of these powers in inventory, and perhaps more importantly it'll be easy for sharp-eyed teammates to see it and point it out to their unobservant cohorts as well.

This would completely end the mystery of temp powers collected but somehow never accounted for, and the best part is all it takes is editing a powers spreadsheet--no programming changes needed, since it's using existing game mechanics!

I'm not into farming nowadays, but I'd say if you're dead-set on a farm toon on a very limited budget it's still hard to beat a good ol' Fire/Kin controller. Get one set up in a mission against enemies that don't mez (like the old Battle Maiden mission) and you're good to go even on SOs.

I believe the main appeal of SS/Fire is in AE farms, since you can opt to go up against enemies that have all fire-based attacks, which you're strongest against. Or if you want to be able to get purple drops, get old Demon farm mission.

But like an earlier post said, if your main goal is to make inf, it's easiest via the market. It's also easy to run a few alignment missions a day, then earn a Hero or Villain Merit. You can use 2 of those to purchase expensive recipes and cash those in too.

A contrarian opinion: do a Mind/Fire Dom. They can solo just about anything. Much higher damage than a Tank. If you grow fond of the character and want to invest in it, you can discover the friggin' awesome world of perma-Domination in which you suddenly become mez-proof.

One of my most embarrassing moments was when I was on a full team of 8. We were in the high 30s and had a mission in the old Hollows. We exited our mission and were chatting idly while the team lead was grabbing the next mission. While we were at the door a lowbie team exited the same door. Suddenly a high level Nemesis ambush appears with all their lovely AoEs. They were targetting us, but of course flattened the lowbie team in about 5 seconds flat. The lowbies stayed there, since this was before they added a hospital to the Hollows, and I awkwardly go "Oops, sorry about that." in Local. I felt responsible for their deaths even though there was really nothing we could've reasonably done to avoid it.

Is it unforgivably stupid to consider creating a petless Plant Dom? I currently have a Mind/Fire/Cold Dom that I absolutely love. I've got his Incarnate slots to where I'm happy with them so I'm looking for a new project. As I have only the one Dom, I'd like to try something new.

I think Plant is awesome but I admit that the pet creeps me out. Seriously. To the point where I won't take the power just because of how it looks. So I always just wrote off Plant as a set I'd never play. But then I thought about how I've run many a mission on my controllers without bringing out their pets due to being in high aggro environments.

What do you all think?