Supernumiphone

That's because by the time you joined the devs had already taken steps to stop the spam /tells. Way back when it was happening a lot.

For me the main time I want more fine grained control over my stealth level is when I'm doing an escort mission. Despite the change that was made to the game a while back to have certain procs like stealth IOs shut off when the toggle they're slotted in is turned off, they do still persist sometimes. This can interfere with the ability of escorts to follow. When it happens I usually end up going AFK or just waiting around for my stealth level to drop again.

With the IO slotted into Sprint I can choose to still use my travel power to navigate the map without having Sprint active.

Since I don't usually find myself fighting with travel powers active (at least not on purpose), the endurance cost is a non-issue. I have my travel power and Sprint bound to adjacent keys, so turning them both on and off is almost as easy as just one or the other.

I'm curious how you think villain side needed a tune-up to compare to what was an abysmal low level experience blue side.

I see it the exact opposite. Whereas villain side always had decent story arcs from level 1 up, blue side had the origin contacts and forgettable one-off missions, usually sending you all over hell's high acre before you had a travel power. With new villains I did contact missions. With new heroes I just did street sweeping, because the contacts were just that much of a waste of time.

Now with I21, hero side finally has some low level contacts worth spending the time on, not the other way around.

This, especially the part I bolded. If you haven't had a chance to try it yourself, that video doesn't really give you a proper feel for it. Trying to use it outdoors I always felt out of control with it. Trying to get up onto any type of narrow ledge or column was a real exercise in frustration. You launch up into the air and come crashing down so quickly you don't have time to exercise any kind of fine control over where you land. It is probably quite a bit closer to "realistic" than the CoH version, but I don't see that as a good thing.

I'll take our version which allows me to see where I'm going, appreciate the scenery, avoid accidentally landing in the middle of hostile mobs, and land exactly where I choose.

It's a known issue that's being worked on. It's been discussed in the main Mids release thread.

Here is an old thread that covers some of the basics. Read past the first post for some items not covered there.

You do realize this is the internet?

Then you're not trying very hard. Here is one example, and here is another.

With regard to the OP, it's been a while since I tried out Graves' arc in beta, but my impression was very negative. I don't plan to run it again. Even if I try to justify the way my character was treated and behaved as just going along for my own purposes, I don't think it's necessary to behave like a cowardly dunce to achieve that end.

Also Sam the word you're looking for is "vain". Veins are things in our bodies through which blood flows.

No, nor do they have to fight him to access PPPs.

The random logout bug has indeed been around a long time. This is something different though. Every time your session gets reset you are logged out now. Not randomly, every time. One way to do this is to close down your browser completely (all windows). So I can log in, browse the forums, close my browser, go back to the forums, and I'll have to log back in. Every time. If I close my browser, I'll have to log back in when I return.

That is new. I was unable to log in for a week or so, as many were, and ever since that got fixed it's been this way. This is not a random bug in vBulletin's software. Something has become misconfigured that could be fixed but hasn't been.

Yeah that's why I haven't joined any yet. I'm waiting to see which becomes the de facto primary channel and I'll join that one. I'm already full from all the channel schizophrenia from my main server, I can't do it on another one.

So it was you.

This is one of the reasons I haven't rolled another toon in Praetoria since the first time I tried it. Fortunately now that we can start any AT on either side, there's no need to ever start in Praetoria again.

I've taken to using a mission auto-complete on this one now. If I don't have one available I'll park the toon for the three days until I can. That mission is over the top tedious.

If you don't want to use the mission complete feature, here's what you do. First get a temp pet. The easiest is to complete the Loa Bone mission from Bocor in Port Oakes. If you didn't do it while in range Ouroboros it. Otherwise you could craft the Backup Radio temp power. Then craft a couple of AoE temp powers. I think they're named Hand Grenade and Plasmatic Taser. The recipes are available on the market.

Once that's done, enter the mission. Find a corner you can hide behind so the mobs have to run up to you to attack you. Summon the temp pet. Select the pet. Now you'll target through the pet. Set one of your temp AoEs on auto (control-click). Go do something else for a while. Come back from time to time to resummon the pet and set the other temp AoE power on auto once the first wears out. After a while most of the ambushes should be done.

You may need to go manually clear out some stragglers from one wave to get the next to spawn. I think what happens is that the waves are over the aggro cap, so some of the mobs just stand around. Then when you defeat enough mobs to drop below the aggro cap, the ones standing around forget they were supposed to be attacking you, so they just stand around.

Anyway you could do all that, or you could just auto-complete the mission.