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I see it now right under the Pain Specialist part. Must not have noticed it when I checked before my last post here. Although there is no mention of the auction house day job icon showing up in Imperial City and underground Imperial on the wiki and indicating there is no progress awarded toward the badge. I have no idea how to edit the wiki. Never done anything like that before. I'm a bit technically challenged.

That is 12 free slots per server for VIP with the possibility of 48 slots total per server.

Free players get 2 character slots total and that's it. You can use them on any server. But, through purchases we premiums can have a total of 36 slots per server because the other 12 are reserved for VIP membership.

Currently I have 30 slots all on 1 server which includes the 2 free slots. I have 27 characters created. I plan to buy the last 6 slots eventually and I do think it would be nice to add more than that on a single server. I don't want to have to run out of slots eventually and have to add characters for new power sets on a different server. I like the server I am on and I will probably lose track of my toons and forget I have some on another server.

Edited for typos.

Edit 2: And please don't tell me "You should go VIP to get those extra 12 slots". I have no interest in being VIP, but I do gladly support the game by buying lots of paragon points. I've been playing since the game went free-to-play and as of today after buying points, I have currently 105 reward tokens earned. (Would be cool to get an account wide badge for having 100 reward tokens )

Yeah, tell them to type '/r message' to reply. It only replies to the last person to send them a tell so if someone else sent them a tell after you did, you may not get a response. Also, yeah ask them if they can't reply to use the LFG channel and keep an eye on it.

There is an option somewhere in game options to turn on individual name colors for the chat window. I keep that on ever since I found out about it. What it does is, every player in the chat channel will have their own color assigned to their character name in the channel automatically. Very useful to keep track of certain people. But, there is a possibility that more than 1 player will have the same color, or 2 player's colors will be similar. As far as I know only players with the option on will see the different colors in their own chat windows. In other words, it is only seen by you and turning the option on won't do anything to anybody else.

That's funny though. I still see people looking for teams in the help channel myself.

I think it's far too late for them to make changes to the summer event. Perhaps changes to it next year, if the game is still around.

One thing you could do is rerun it over and over on a single character and choose the 8 reward merits every time. When you get enough of them you can trade them in at a merit vendor for IO set recipes that go for a lot in the auction.

Mastermind and Controller ATs are unlocked for free when you max out tier 5 in Paragon Rewards. As for the epic ATs on sale, if you're not VIP then you have no choice but to buy them from the Paragon Market. Just to clarify which ATs you were referring to.

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Summer_B...2#Event_Badges

There are 4 badges, 1 for each role in the heist. Perfect grifter, hitter, thief, and hacker. Once you have all 4 of these badges you get an accolade called Roleplayer. When you get the accolade you are granted 5 reward merits.

You can go check each badge on the wiki and it explains how to do each role to get a perfect score.

Well I meant for regular task forces and trials I don't que for. I always que for the holiday trials because I can usually get in fast.

Edit: I was able to do the summer event trial via the LFG teleporter on my Praetorians So nice they included us non-hero/villains in the event.

Funny

You answered your own question. Hand clap does no damage and it makes no sense to have a universal damage set in it.

The damage aspect of an enhancement 'enhances' damage, it does not 'add' damage to the power. So a power has to do damage before you can increase the damage. And a universal damage set is meant to be used only in powers that do damage.

Well there were 4 pages of comments before I posted.

If you can dodge a wrench.....
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As a premium player I had to buy all of the epic archetypes to unlock them. Don't remember ever seeing a message on screen that I unlocked them. It was months ago though lol.

I believe how it works is for VIP only. Get any character to level 20 and you have access to the epic ATs without having to purchase the unlock from the shop.

For premiums, you may need to have a single character at least level 20 before you can create an epic AT even after purchasing it from the paragon market. Not sure on that. In my case I had already leveled a few characters beyond 20 but deleted some of them, and had at least 1 level 20 I didn't delete when I purchased my first AT, the Peacebringer.

All in all, it's not hard or too time consuming to get to level 20. Just spend a couple hours or so doing DFB.

Edit: I vaguely recall seeing a message on my screen that I unlocked epic ATs and asking in the help channel what that was about. That was a little while before I bought the first of the 4 ATs but still had no access to any of them until I purchased them.

If you join the trial with a team that hasn't started it yet, then yes you do have to do both parts to get the reward table. What you are talking about is joining the event already in progress with 1 part complete and you are able to still choose the enhancement reward.

So having to do both parts is technically correct since it was meant to be that way. They probably decided to allow all players to still be able to claim a reward if they joined an in-progress event in the case where players quit the team or disconnect and never return.

Edit: You have to take into consideration that a lot of players, like myself, don't click the option in the LFG window to join in-progress trials. So if you don't choose that option, you DO have to complete both parts of the trial for the reward table to appear. I like the trail and its nice to get as much XP and inf I can as well as I'm working on getting all 10 badges on all characters I can possibly do the trial on at this time.

#1 Yes you do need a team for the Gladiator portion of the event. Unless you think you can solo an archvillain plus 2-3 elite bosses at the same time when depending on your AT and powersets and the fact you are exemplared to level 29, you can get killed in 1 hit.

#4 When your team enters the trial, which part you do first is picked automatically at random. You could end up doing the heist first 3 times in a row, then gladiator a couple times, then heist, then gladiator 4 times, etc.

#3 You can only claim 1 overwhelming force enhancement per character per 20 hours. The reward merits an inspiration can be claimed as many times as you want in a day on a single character, so feasibly you could farm this for merits if you wanted.

#4 Depending on what type of team you end up with, it can take about 25 minutes to 45 minutes. The first time in the heist when you go back to your hideout and face the first AV, she is one tough cookie. It can take as much as 5 or even 10 minutes just to defeat that AV and I was on a team the other day where it was taking so long to beat her, 1 of my team members quit, although I was on my dominator and we had 2 controllers and the 4th I don't remember but it wasn't any kind of melee. Blaster I think.

Edit: Forgot to mention, which overwhelming force piece of the set you receive is random and sometimes you can get the same exact piece on a few characters in a row. As they say: Random is random.