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Solo 4/8 what, though? Any decent build can plow through Council or a fire farm, sure. My staff/DA can do Malta, but I have to be careful. CoT I'm tepid to try. Arachnos? Carnies? Heck, just look up forum for someone wanting Nemmies nerfed. And even if you can solo, you can do them all faster with teammates.

Honestly, I wouldn't mind a change for Carnies so I'm not going up to get a drink everytime an illusionist goes ethereal.

Some men just want to watch the forums burn.

Yeah, but if it's not OP, we're still in dramaville where tanks won't want the changes proliferated and scraps are upset they're not getting the good SS. The plan for a Rage rework is for the dev team to finish the resist rebalance first, and I inagine the set's not coming over until both are done.

Yup. You either nerf Rage with the resulting tanker/brute drama. Or you don't proliferate and get this thread.

Positron isn't taking on the entirety of Arachnos up to and including Recluse himself. There's a reason the Freedom Phalanx is guarding the portal while your task force is crossing over to wreck Neuron and Bobcat's day. By level 50 blueside you're now The Guy. By level 50 redside you're still Rocksteady and Bebop. That's a problem.

24.3 million once you factor in AH costs, but otherwise you're spot on.

At some point y'all will have to understand that, until substantial work is done to redo redside, the Rogue Isles just won't be that popular. See also Praetoria.

I've been through a pair of pretty fast Citadels. It goes easier if the party's beefy enough to split up on their own.

That was a whole lot of words with no paragraphs for someone who hasn't posted in this thread in eight months.

More to come soonish...

After a half-hour of arguing with the forum exporter, I can finally post the build I said I would! Hero Plan by Mids' Reborn : Hero Designer 2.6.0.7 https://github.com/ImaginaryDevelopment/imaginary-hero-designer Click this DataLink to open the build! Sunbow II: Level 50 Science Blaster Primary Power Set: Dual Pistols Secondary Power Set: Fire Manipulation Power Pool: Speed Power Pool: Leaping Power Pool: Fighting Power Pool: Leadership Ancillary Pool: Mace Mastery Hero Profile: Level 1: Pistols * (A) Superior Defiant Barrage - Accuracy/Damage * (3) Superior Defiant Barrage - Damage/RechargeTime * (3) Superior Defiant Barrage - Accuracy/Damage/RechargeTime * (5) Superior Defiant Barrage - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance * (5) Superior Defiant Barrage - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime * (7) Superior Defiant Barrage - RechargeTime/+Status Level 1: Ring of Fire * (A) Superior Winter's Bite - Accuracy/Damage * (7) Superior Winter's Bite - Damage/RechargeTime * (9) Superior Winter's Bite - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance * (9) Superior Winter's Bite - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge * (11) Superior Winter's Bite - Damage/Endurance/Accuracy/RechargeTime * (11) Superior Winter's Bite - Recharge/Chance for -Speed & -Recharge Level 2: Dual Wield * (A) Thunderstrike - 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Phantom Lass is your basic Golden Age heroine, Phantom Lady with a beat stick and a fondness for purple. T-34 is the Clockwork Mythbuster, the Six Million Ruble Nerd- er- man. Agent Trinity is parts Men In Black - more K than J - and parts She-Hulk, of course. Sunbow is John Woo's Sailor Moon, a Stan Lee and Buzz Dixon production.

Trying to re-rail the thread: I've had a lot more fun with teams running task forces, story missions, and MSRs than I've had facerolling Council or AE farms. Merits are a really good source of inf and enhancements. I already have two builds finished by the lower vet level 20s, though my blaster will take a while longer what with her winter enhancements. But that's OK! I don't need her tricked out right now, it's good to have some goals. That said: Different strokes for different folks! If you like solo farming, it's all good!

The Overwhelming Force proc does! When I get home tonight I'll post up my planned build for my DP/Fire.

Hot Foot is a slow, and that and the aura are whittling down anyone charging into melee. Hot Foot also can take a knockdown proc for added funsies. Then you smack them silly with a fire sword. Also: Hot Foot -> Build Up -> Burn -> Hail of Bullets. Judgement? What Judgement?

Its the current 'what blaster are you playing' thread! Right now I'm working on a DP/Fire. She's not at Hot Foot -> Burn -> Hail of Bullets yet, but she's still great fun in groups. Blast away at range, and then hit anyone who gets up close with a fire sword! I also have an AR/Atomic redside that needs more team love, but he can come later.

Modern MMO content, but yeah.

Upping levels and HP doesn't make content more difficult, only more time consuming. Think mechanically. Bosses that can spawn Battle Maiden's blue fields. Cimeroran bosses with AoE heals and +Res. Freak bosses with AoE rez. Enemies that can only be defeated if you activate their weakness. Ideas like that. Content that makes you feel more heroic when you overcome instead of 'thankfully that's over'.

Oh heck yes.

But it doesn't answer why put something in a hold if it can't hit or do serious damage to begin with. We have to begin the discussion with how twenty years of MMO meta theory has rendered CC irrelevant outside of special mechanics.

I'm on a phone keyboard so I can't quite elaborate as much as I'd like. But at +5/+6 your controls won't be as effective due to diminished accuracy and higher resist. And it's not that much of a help for your tanks and DPS that are already def-capped. And then you get to the guys with the purple patch and, well. You'll need a second controller or dominator on board, and at that point why bother when you can get more out of a defender or corrupt? What would help controllers more would be some manner of defiance bar or such that would make CC useful in a DPS boatrace.

Certain posters making the same posts over and over again is not 'most people'. You said 'most people'. Prove it.

'Most people' I seem to have missed when we held that caucus, can you point us to the results?