worst misinformation?

There's just so much misinformation I've seen over the years that it's hard to narrow down. For instance I was on a team with a new player running an Invuln tanker and someone was trying to tell him that Invuln sucked at tanking and he should reroll as, of all things, a Fire tank if he wanted to be durable. Nothing against Fire, but there's no question that it's far less durable than Invuln. That one really had me shaking my head, and I told the new tanker that he was just fine; he just needed to change his build a little... he was 15 and hadn't taken Unyielding yet because he thought it rooted you in place like the game manual said it did (that was actually changed way back in issue 2 or 3). That was actually what got me to write my first 20 levels guide... which needs an update now with inherent fitness.

Of course the "don't get the glowies" in the TV respec is certainly a mighty hard rumor to squash (for the record they do nothing at all), I first heard this one when I was running my first respec back in issue 3 and it's STILL out there. It may be the all time most impervious to removal rumor in the game.

Hmm, there's the "Nobody can make any inf in this game" and the "Everyone's fixing prices so they make tons of money" bits, and usually they're stated by the very same person without realizing the logical fallacy of that statement. In today's game the inf creation power of a high level character is so high that there's simply massive amounts of influence constantly being generated and added to the game. Most of the time I list things on the market at fairly low prices; it's not the marketeers doing that people are willing to pay so much. Excluding the market totally any level 50 can make at least 3 million inf per hour simply by running missions and killing mobs. That's why things cost so much; there's simply so much money floating around and so much more being made every second. The inf supply is increasing much faster than the supply of the more desirable items therefore those items rise in price.

I haven't had a character in several years who hasn't made enough on his own simply by playing to afford a modest IO build by level 35; all of them have had over 200 million by level 50 even after buying IO's.

I saw SerialBeggar mentioning that he didn't get Scrappers and that's perfectly ok; but the point that a Scrapper is the most straightforward character to play is a valid one, they simply run up and smack the bad guy upside the head and have enough durability to forgive many mistakes while having enough damage to kill things quickly. That makes them a good choice for a player still learning his way around; his character will survive many mistakes he'll make and it'll take out mobs fast.

The Taunt/no Taunt argument has been ongoing in the Tanker forum for as long as I've been playing. Yes, some tanker sets have great aggro management tools and can get & hold aggro without it, but it's still another tool in your toolbox. I very definitely believe that a good tanker can do the job without Taunt, but I also believe equally strongly that any tanker can do the job better if he has Taunt available, and there are times where it's invaluable. I have it on every one of my tanks and while I don't use it every group I find it useful several times per mission. Yes, it's situational but that situation pops up very frequently.

Sometimes in a beta you can hear people claiming that certain things are as intended and they like to talk that way without specifying it as their opinion, or frame speculation as fact.

If you join it after those people and can't find any official statement to refute it, eww.

"Kinetics is such a busy defender primary that you shouldn't bother taking your attacks"

I teamed with a Kinetics who had done just that recently. They were easily the most useless player I've ever teamed with: in addition to doing no damage of their own (and so sitting idle for about half of every fight), they tended to hang back (limiting the usefulness of their Leadership toggles), and they hadn't hadn't developed a feel for how and when to use their powers for greatest effect (eg. Siphon Power and Fulcrum Shift are useful even when the team is at damage cap, by debuffing enemies' damage).

"Practised Brawler" is just the bigger and as useless brother of that stupid and waste of a slot "Brawl"!

Seen in team chat to a lowbie newbie Claws/SR scrapper during a sewer run!

I did send a private tell to the scrappie explaining why this was not actually the case

"Confuse powers steal XP"

This is one I see and confront on a regular basis. Confuse powers can't take away XP that you have earned. It persists mainly because there is a slight grain of truth in it -- Confuse power CAN reduce the available XP that you could earn if you killed everything on the map, but the effect will be minor if the players know how to deal with Confuse powers. Confuse powers have so many benefits that this myth is frustrating. And, as far as I know, nothing can "steal," or take away, XP you have already earned.

And most of us are way to cool for pants; kilts just are not that well accepted.

Exception : It is not coolness that keeps the Hickman pants-less.