Verene

well let's say you're in the middle of a farm. you can either exit, go to the vendor and sell your 20 temp powers for 40k, or delete them all, save the time and make room for common recipes that are 60k+ a piece and whatever crap snipe/immob/stun recipes you get trying for decent drops. (i delete those too, only thing i vendor are common recipes, but i really hate vendor trips/rezoning )

I'd be all for it if the recent mission map designs weren't 1) monochrome buildings swiped from original KOTOR (praetorian labs) or 2) basically older maps but with more crap on the floor to make them lag (new council maps, big rooms in lambda grenade side, etc.).
If they actually did cool stuff like the OP suggested and didn't make the maps too busy to keep lag down, /signed.

i'd second the recommendation for willpower now that i think of it - versatile and has no endurance problems

1) brute or scrapper are probably the most beginner friendly
2) just experiment, part of the process is screwing up your first build a million times
3) lolno, you're not likely to see much active pvp til the 40+ zone and then only if you're on certain servers (freedom, virtue?, exalted (though that one's vip only)) If you're ftp, arena is probably your best bet for pvp (see below)
4) not a lot of content, mostly just the incarnate (50+) content, the signature arcs and iirc the going rogue expansion stuff. your bigger worries will be your inability to send private tells (whispers, depending on which mmo you're used to) and your inability to use the market and invention systems. Those two pretty much make the pvp and build questions above irrelevant, since there's only so much build tweaking you can do with Single Origin enhancements, and you'll likely won't want to try zone pvp with an SO only build either (cue 15 people saying they do just fine with only SOs in pvp).
Just have fun and don't worry about screwing up, it's impossible to get it all without trial and error.

Wait wait...there are stories?

Pretty sure they weren't broken. I think they just took them off when freedom hit so you couldn't level pact a toon with a second freebie toon and pl yourself to 50. (yes, i'm guilty. was too tempting with the $1.99 account deal they had just before freedom. i'm a bad person, et al.)
Would be shocked if they came back.

might wanna download mids while you're at it
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it's the launcher that's applying the update and the game itself that's checking if it applied correctly

where's stink aura? i wanna make a war mace hippie with a protest sign for the weapon.

the duration for the recharge buff is 1:30, 30 seconds for the rest. sounds like you have it perma.

I haven't played it yet (don't have the points yet) but I find the animations hilarious - looks vaguely like the martial arts version of old-timey footage of Babe Ruth running the bases.

Also fire is clearly what i'd choose for pure power, i just assume we all have enough fire/ corrs already

Don't know if it's possible/easy enough to add but I'd love a "show all" option added to the Map options - all the stuff I'm used to being defaulted to off is driving me nuts with my majillion alts.

I'd give beam rifle a whirl - time should keep you alive for the set-up and you'd be a single target monster with the combo.

3 heal asap, if you have slots to add extra -to hit that's gravy. I generally IO it with 3 numina then 2 dark watcher's if you have the slots

I thought gravity was fine/fun until the ridiculous nerf of wormhole where every enemy in the mob gets a free shot at you. I've since deleted my grav dom.

Sam Tow's, cause she doesn't talk.

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