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That is what I have done, 😁

I am playing him exclusively with friends whose ability to play varies, so he is only level 26. Still, Seismic brings a nice chunk of control (which I knew going in from having a Seismic/Time Blaster) with its knock ups and knockdowns. Throw in Fear and Tar Patch and at times it feels borderline abusive with all the ways you have to keep things in a tar patch, particularly when you can sneak up on most things via Shadow Fall. But that is facing the things you face in the 20s (redside) and there are plenty of opponents with nasty tricks of their own which will likely be more unpleasant. Hopefully it holds up at higher levels.

I made the Seismic effects as dark as possible to suggest solidified darkness. (Yeah, I know its not a recent post.)

Energy Melee

You would be far more correct than the acronym. Metagaming - Wikipedia

One wonders if it has become necessary to add, "This is a joke" to comments. In any event, the person had narrowed their choices down to Tankers and Scrappers (which arguably says something, but I am not getting into that).

Do not listen to Snarky. Invoking Brutes means an inevitable devolvement of the thread into how Tankers can't go back...NO WAY! WE SUFFERED LONG AND HARD AND DESERVE EVERYTHING WE HAVE NOW!!! Scrappers still manage to come ahead of tankers for damage done and can be made plenty tough.

May be worth keeping in mind some enemies debuff To-Hit and when you're down to just the final, big foe (Elite Boss, Arch-Villain) you will not have much in the way of Invicincibility stacks. FWIW, my StJ/Inv Brute has Focused Accuracy (admittedly does not have Claws...but Claws has to hit in the first place for you to get its To-Hit buff) and has to toggle it on from time to time. You might want to be prepared to grab Tactics or Follow-Up if you find yourself whiffing against harder targets.

Do what feels good (though I really cannot see doing without Power Crash unless it is somehow specially awful on Scrappers).

Yes, I realize how they drop. Like I said in my post, I clear out the low price selling stuff. And yes, I realize how lower level characters get level 50 recipes (because I am selling those all the time). As I noted, one character was unlucky and another was (roughlyish) at expected. I suspect some personalities are more prone to noticing unlucky breaks than lucky ones. As a case of lucky breaks, I bought 6 copies of the same enhancement from Preventive Medicine last week because they were selling for way lower than the rest of the set (well under half in fact) and the idea was to run all but one through in-set conversion with expectation that half would turn into something useful. Four conversions in each had turned into something different, so I was only short one enhancement for set completion. Which is likely to be remembered by me 2 years from now...the lack of purples on a character or the lucky conversion streak? Betting the lack. Check with me in 2 years.

I just successfully manage to fill the last recipe slot on my veteran level 24 sentinel with a non-basic, crafted recipe. He has not run Market Crash. The routine has been to clear out basic recipes whenever his 80 slots were filled. Mind you, I have not actually kept every non-basic recipe. I tend to go through the recipes and sell the ones which low sell prices and which I know I have no build across my hundred or so characters would use. How many cheapie, non-basic recipes has he sold? No idea. I would guess probably no more than 40. He has not a single purple recipe. Effectively he has had 120 slots to fill and has only kept set recipe drops. If what I am reading is correct purples drop at a 2.4% rate? So on average one might have expected 2.8 purple drops? Or turning this around, there was a 97.6% chance of not getting a purple drop, so the odds of no purples at all in 120 tries would be 1-0.976^120=5.4% I think it is fair to call that unlucky. Of course I have other level 50s. My "flagship" character has 3 purples. Take out that he has done Market Crash and he's roughly at the expected number. Hmmm...not sure I want to trawl through all my 50s and try to remember who has MC'd and who has not.

3 times in the last 24 hours.

I laughed so hard at this. 😁

"Assassin" has negative connotation, but that is what James Bond is--an assassin for His Majesty with a license to kill. We root for him because the people he targets are incredibly malign. "Stalking" has more recent negative association, but it merely means to stealthily approach. And it is Forbes telling people, "Why You Need A Mastermind" 😁

I find a lot of the, "PUGs are horrible" sentiment on the forums to be overblown. However, I have to admit to wondering about the Kinetics possessing character who only once managed to provide a buff and never, so far as I experienced, provided a single heal across an entire TF. Why have the powerset and the powers if you're not going to use it?

I have quite literally -=NEVER=- had a character where the primary and secondary were thematically the same and had very little problem justifying any of the well over a hundred characters I have made. Just sometimes you have to lean a bit harder into comic book physics than others. 😛 Taking such an approach has been part of my toolset.

I can see the merits in doing a full set at a time. *faint* The sad thing is in none of my many melee character builds does Hecatomb play a part. 🙁

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?