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He's been around for 40+ years...he's probably earned a costume slot or two. 😁

Not sure I would call Gladiator a hero. 😛 But yeah, I mentioned to a friend last night that Cap does wear briefs but of the same color as he leggings. Colossus I think is a onesie because otherwise the top wouldn't stay on (but if we're going that way the only way Dagger avoided exposing herself was the use of glue).

Included in the 9.6 million. I did have some mats on hand. I have a record of what the character's total Influence was at every step along the way. 🙂

I am not doing this without an eye towards the number of things remaining in the existing spawn and the group's control ability. I know full well on my brutes (played a lot of them) the limits of their control.

On my Brute I tend to leap to the next group if it is nearby and lead it back to the existing fight. Saves on "setup" time going from fight to fight.

The other day I, playing my Water/Kinetics corruptor, was following the Tank around noticing how people were dying who, for whatever reason, were not with us. But that really does not reach the WTF level of a bit earlier when I was on my Tanker, in a group with 2 Tankers, and both of us Tankers were together but all but one other in the rest of the group were off making their health bars swing wildly up and down rather than following us. Sometimes you wonder but so long as it does not get me killed....

So gave it a whirl... 18,000,606 : purchased 6xUnbreakable Constraint: Hold/Endurance recipes 9,650,000 : cost for mats, two-thirds spent on oranges 76,000,000 : what the finished product sold for after listing at 85% of recent sales value (sold at the going rate despite lower listing) 49,000,000 : profit after 2-3 days listing on AH (apparently Holds do not move all that quickly but hey, I didn't do much work either). I have enough influence lying around (and note, I consider myself impoverished) to, market willing, maintain a pipeline where every day I purchase 6 recipes and the requisite mats, make, and list so in theory it could be 49 million profit coming in every day. It would take about 3 weeks to get to a billion influence.... ...more work than I can see myself doing but doable.

How is there any choice other than Khallisti Wharf? Do Rikti ever show up there in their invasion attempts?

I will admit that despite being a comics/superhero fan from a young age I have not really ever cared for superhero costumes featuring briefs.* So while my last costume had one because I was paying homage to a number of characters wearing briefs, the appearance bugged me. Leotards (which are no more presentable in real life outside of select situations) however do not bug me. So... * Wonder Woman gets a pass...hers works. Superman...how I thought I disliked his briefs, then they got rid of them and it looked even worse! Maybe it was the miserable belt they gave him because when Aquaman shed his briefs for a continuous lower look it was a real step up. And Batman...come on, when you see briefs you think Adam West and a certain amount of goofiness. Marvel heroes don't generally do briefs (any longer) do they?

*scribbles some notes*

There is also that for people who don't easily buy what they want (say when the character is level 20) there is a process unfolding even at level 50 where you acquire the sets/incarnate abilities where the character is still growing. So you experience content which is not just pushover easy. Guess that is a perk of not being fantastically wealthy. Edit: Adding to the above, yesterday I was working on my New Year's resolution to make greater effort towards my existing 50s final builds and purchasing sets. My sentinel needed Preventive Medicine and I noticed that while most enhancements from the set were in the 3 million range, one was down towards 1.2 million. So I bought six of those thinking I could run some number through the conversion process and sell back what duplicates I had when I reached the limit of how many convertors I was willing to commit. The first four conversions each yielded a different result within set, putting me at 5 of 6 pieces of the set. Yesterday converters were running 55K, so that cost me (because I restocked) 66,000 influence. Total investment then was 6*1.2 million + 660,000 = 7,860,000. Le t's say I sell that last copy I have and buy the final one from AH and the cost ends up coming up to 9,600,000 or an average of 1,600,000 each. I will have saved 14.6 million over just buying them. Small change to the whales but for us poor people it made the day glorious.

It is not like the 50% chance to be hit (by an even level opponent) does not apply to the character upping their resistance. It is 100 damage, 50-50'd to 50 damage, then resisted at either 65% leaving 17.5 damage or resisted at 68%, leaving 16 damage--a drop of 8.57% using the method above. Were you to add 3.75% defense to the 65% resistance build your odds of being hit drop to 46.5% leaving on average 46.5 damage, which 65% resistance drops to 16.275. 16.275, being greater than 16, means you are better off increasing your resistance rather than picking up defense (at least in this case).

Layered?

That is it! It doesn't show anything until there is an enemy in range then you get base and one stack per enemy. I did not realize the resistance scaled. Thx!

Tried with both Efficient on and off. Hmmm...probably should check the other modes though nothing in the power description suggest the resistance is mode related. Will check. And no, no modes selected in Mids. Edit: Checked and the only time Resistance changes between no Adaptation, Defensive, Efficient, or Offensive is when in Offensive, and it gets lowered as indicated by Offensive mode. Edit 2: It doesn't show anything until there is an enemy in range then you get base and one stack per enemy.

On my SS/Bio, I just set slot and let Fury do the work. But that is not considered top tier play.

I was testing a build on the Test server and noticed the values showing in the Power Monitor were notably different for Smash/Lethal resistance than what Mid's showed. Well, sometimes Mid's is off, so I toggled off all the powers in Mid's that I knew gave S/L resistance and toggled all power containing sets with bonuses to S/L resistance to an empty setting. Oddly still showed 4.13% S/L resist. Finally realized Evolving Armor gave S/L resist. But wait...I do not recall seeing that amount in the Power Monitor...checked, and no, not showing in the Power Monitor regardless of being turned on or off. Just to be sure it was not a matter of the Test server, I checked Live and same thing. Okay, check in the Info for the power in game and sure enough, it says it gives S/L resistance. Check City of Data 2.0, same thing...supposed to give S/L resistance.

I was testing a build on the Test server and noticed the values showing in the Power Monitor were notably different for Smash/Lethal resistance than what Mid's showed. Well, sometimes Mid's is off, so I toggled off all the powers in Mid's that I knew gave S/L resistance and toggled all power containing sets with bonuses to S/L resistance to an empty setting. Oddly still showed 4.13% S/L resist. Finally realized Evolving Armor gave S/L resist. But wait...I do not recall seeing that amount in the Power Monitor...checked, and no, not showing in the Power Monitor regardless of being turned on or off. Just to be sure it was not a matter of the Test server, I checked Live and same thing. Okay, check in the Info for the power in game and sure enough, it says it gives S/L resistance. Check City of Data 2.0, same thing...supposed to give S/L resistance. So which is not working properly...Power Monitor or the power?

Drink their power is Dark Melee or Bio (or both) as they both lift from opponents to grant damage, regen, recovery. Color powers blood red.

1 billion/ 7.5 million = 133 IOs sold...well, you did say do that a lot. Hmmm...checking the market right now there are a total of 29 Hecatomb recipes for sell, most running at 3 million or so in recent sell price. The finished product is typically in the 12-14 million range. To cut down on the tedium make 4-5 IOs per day. Takes a month to reach 1 billion in profit but it was less tedious and less likely to perturb market prices to your detriment. Seems like a legit strategy.

Discussion elsewhere on the forum prompted me to make another Brute. Decided to lift from the Hyperion costume then had an idea and shifted to the colors of The Sentry and finally decided to toss some Captain Atom in to finish thigs off. Since the name I wanted as taken I'm calling him Ideal until a better name comes to mind.

Awesome!

I imagine Burkholder's thoughts went something like: I'm supposed to be taking down this annoying woma...WTF! Where did all these ninja come from?!?

Yanking out the green (at least as much as I could) and leaving just red and blue would be pretty nice:

Because everyone knew about them from the get go and of course everyone started playing from the day Homecoming opened to the public. 🙄