ZorkNemesis
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Plant/Time was one of my strongest characters on Live servers, one of the only ones where I managed to solo a giant monster in fact. My old build doesn't quite work the same here, it was heavily neutered by the procs-per-minute change, but is still quite strong and can handle x8 spawns without much trouble. Time is a good all-around set but it stands out with Farsight being an excellent buff that can be made permanent rather easily and Chrono Shift giving a huge recharge bonus to everyone nearby, plus solid healing over time effects and good debuff potential. With Plant primary, spawns go down quickly when they're all confused and swamped by carrion vines.
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Doesn't that event have a Teleport Supression aura in place so you can't just teleport the dude to the goal? I seem to recall that being the case.
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I start at +0x1. I typically stay there until i'm past Savior of Atlas Park/Freedom Cracker, at which point I usually turn on Solo Bosses. If on a higher damage AT I typically go to x2 after level 10, lower damage stays at x1 for a bit longer. As I keep leveling I bump my difficulty up as I go though by how much is AT and power dependent. High damage ATs are usually at x4 by 30-35, low damage will often lag behind a bit and stay at x3. By level 50 the strongest ATs are usually at x6 while weaker ATs stay at x4; without major build completion and confidence this is usually where it stays but if I have that i'll set it to x8. Incarnate stuff doesn't usually bump me up further, I will typically +1 after getting the Alpha level boost and will +2 and +3 after getting Lore and Destiny shifts while i'm in Dark Astoria or running BV/Number Six. At no point do I enable Solo AVs, they're not worth it. I'll solo them in TFs if need be but not in normal missions.
Praetora stays at +0x1 until First Ward due to the fact that you can outlevel contacts too easily, but I still do solo bosses at 10. If I manage to clear a storyline and am still underleveled to move on i'll bump to x2 for one of the repeatable missions before backing down to x1 again. First Ward gets bumped to x2 or x3 depending on AT since the level range is much greater and harder to overlevel.
I make some exceptions for specific missions: Moonfire's first two missions are set to x6 to make Vampire and Wolf farming more productive. Brother Hammond's last mission is set to at least x4 to spawn large groups of Gremlins for the Electrician badge. Investigate Warrior Earth is always x8 because Warrior Earth Praetorians are a complete joke. IVy's first mission for the Loyalist Responsibility arc gets bumped to x3 and XP disabled since this is the only time a Responsible Loyalist can farm Failed Experiements without needing a repeat mission or the Great Escape event.
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Just to be sure: do you have any Reject Recipie Drops enabled from S.T.A.R.T.? If you do it will eat your merits and reject the drop.
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Ninja Run cannot be slotted, same with Beast and Athletic Run. They are prestige powers that, originally, had to be purchased to get access to and would give an early level pay-to-win advantage before taking a proper Travel Power. In the current state of the game they still cannot be slotted as they can be exchanged and removed from your character; this could have potential major problems if you invested slots into a power that you no longer have access to. This is why the four Prestige Sprint effects can't be returned once you buy them since they can be slotted.
My understanding is that Hurdle should add jump height/speed to Ninja Run, but the bonus is so negligible you won't get meaningful gains from it. If you want a similar power that you can slot, Infiltration in the Stealth pool is a slightly better version of Athletic Run (10% faster/higher jumps) that is able to be slotted like any travel power and has the added bonus of providing some stealth and defense. You can also make it look like Ninja Run by changing your stance in the tailor.
Fiery Embrace is specifically part of the Fiery Aura set. Due to the mechanics of that power, every damaging power available to ATs that have access to Fiery Embrace have to have that extra number which adds the damage for the 15 seconds or so Fiery Embrace would be active. It used to be a damage bonus specifically for Fire damage (the Dominator variant in Fiery Assault still does this) but it was changed so that Fiery Aura users weren't shoehorned into using Fiery Melee to take advantage of it. If you don't have Fiery Aura as your armor set, don't worry about that extra damage.
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I play primarily on Indomitible which, until further notice, has double exp active. This isn't usually a problem, I run the 100% xp boost most of the time anyway, but one thing I did notice is that Praetorian content doesn't agree with exp boosts too well. If you like to play through the story arcs naturally anything that increases your exp gains can mess that up and lock you out of missions if you're not careful (I won't even increase mission difficulty other than solo bosses in Praetoria for this reason). This has also shown to be a possible issue with Villains as well as it can easily lock one out of the Atlas Park Mayhem Mission if you want Invader organically as well. Now i'm aware there's an option to shut exp off entirely already but that's a bit of a hassle to have to manually toggle when I get too close to leveling just from normal progression.
What if, on shards with passive exp boosts active, S.T.A.R.T. had an option to disable that bonus so you would earn the base exp values instead? This way if one wanted to they could play through Praetoria or other content without fear of becoming locked out from leveling too quickly, especially in the 1-15 ranges. It would be convienent to not have to worry about going to fast for level-sensitive content. And for people who still want to go fast, you don't have to take it and still benefit from the double, or triple, boosts if desired.
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I'm subbed to the HC discord but I don't use it. Only pop in to check for dev/GM updates when things are on fire serverside.
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Hit or miss for me. Sometimes it updates quickly, but more often then not it seems like it doesn't want to show me the history no matter what I do. And a lot of times it shows the history for two seconds before going blank.
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Does this count as a geometry error? It's more of a model error but might have something to do with the see-through windows.
Independence Port
[-2021.0 220.0 -7101.4] - Inside the AE Building second floor
This guy standing on the balcony on his phone has a completely transparent torso when looking at him from inside the building.
If you go outside he looks fine. The shirt/torso doesn't seem to render when viewed through a window. His own reflection in the window from the outside is also fine.
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24 minutes ago, WuTang said:
Ha! Always a hole....
Does the Stealth in Ninja hinder escort missons?
Most escorts will not follow you if you have a degree of stealth active and you'll have to turn it off if you want them to follow. Generally any NPCs that can't attack are the ones who won't follow if you have stealth but combat NPCs usually have no trouble.
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Don't sleep on /Nin's stealth. It has the extra effect of giving you a buff to crit rate if you're "hidden" (in this case, 8 seconds without attacking or being attacked). It can make for a big opener when you engage. Stack it with a +Stealth in Sprint for full invisibility so you can position better.
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Do I have to? I'm pretty much a career redsider anyway. In fact my current project that I started three days ago is a redside Blaster.
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8 minutes ago, StriderIV said:
As for /Bio, are there any attack sets that you feel pair particularly well with it? Battle Axe seems like one, but any others? I remember hearing Kat/Bio was pretty monstrous.
Dark/Bio hits like a truck. Soul Drain plus Bio buffs can do so much damage on the heavy hitters plus the -ToHit and Siphon Life help out with survival when Offense is active. I should revisit this Scrapper of mine but I last played it two years ago and completely forgot what I was doing with it.
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Lately my top Scrapper is an Spines/Ice/Leviathan. Needles flying in all directions and excessive slow stacking, as long as Frostwork is active and I can get a good Energy Absorption I can typically survive most things solo and I have Icy Bastion and Hibernate for emergencies and most groups die quickly. Also being virtually immune to slows myself is really nice.
I also enjoy my Mace/Shield Scrapper. A lot more straightforward but Mace is the de-facto crunchy powerset IMO. Clobber criticals are hillariously strong, sometimes landing for over 2k on even level targets. Can be a little sluggish though but a good number of Mace powers can use Force Feedbacks to help with that.
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As a general Dominator question, where is this proc the most effective? That stacking damage bonus can do wonders but since it's limited to Control powers I can never figure out just where it should go. I've usually been putting it in the ST hold but I tend to forget to use that in my rotation proper and the generally faster recharge ruins the proc rate. Meanwhile most controls feel too slow to put it in limiting to just one stack at a time. The only power I found a good spot for was Arctic Air which usually stacks 2 or 3 times as long as i'm in a group (easy enough on an Ice/Savage) but I feel like i'm wasting it's potential most other times. What are the best powers to use this proc in?
And on a more specific case, where should I put it for an Illusion/Arsenal Dom? I considered putting it in Buttstroke on it's own but I'm not always in range to grope things.
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Only crafted enhancements get any special attention to pricing. Everything else I unload for cheap. When I quicksell salvage i'll generally list for 11 inf; the minimum fee combined is 10 inf so selling for 11 makes sure I don't lose inf if someone does somehow buy the item for just 1.
When I sell crafted enhancements, I'll check the recent sales and i'll typically list for about 200k less than asking price in an effort to sell sooner. I won't list valuables for 1 or similar low numbers as there's always a bunch of lowball bids trying to prey on people doing that. Sometimes I list for 200k more than the lowest price if the enhancements looks like it's trending up. I'll do the same for other high-ticket items i'd consider selling too.
Recipies are generally sold to vendors unless they'd be more valuable to craft. Always vendor normal enhancements, no market for them. Typically don't sell inspirations but i'll vendor them at the Hospitals to fill up on greens and purples if necessary. I hardly ever get Super Inspires to put on AH either. I use converters and catalysts so they don't get sold. I have not yet sold any Aether though I assume prices might fall on that soon with GMs giving bits of Aether now.
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Meanwhile on Indom, we still have tumbleweeds rolling down the road on Sharkhead.
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5 hours ago, Oubliette_Red said:
It'd be nice if standing around the Monkey Fight Cage in Pocket D gave the Duelist/Predator day job.
There's an idea, the Gambler Day Job since (presumably) you'd be spending your time wagering on monkey fights (unless DJ Zero forbid that, then nevermind). Give it a bonus reward roll of an enhancement, salvage, or recipie at the end of a mission. Just an extra anything on top of what we already get access to.
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I'm often parking characters in the Arenas when possible. Max End increase plus if you have the PvP zone badge you also get a +Def toggle that can come in handy.
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Only around two hours again, ridiculous how supportive this community is.
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I know i've seen one of the Homecoming GMs appear as a Spirit Shark projectile, they can be a lot of things if they so choose.
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4 hours ago, KITANYA said:
Will both Neuronic and Ghost Widow work together since they're both Psi?
Do they have independent chances? Can both Proc at the same time?
Each proc has an independent chance of firing and they can all fire at once. Multiples of the same damage type can proc applying damage for each one.
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Usually just Sprint given how a lot of maps are too cramped for anything more. If my character flies i'll probably have Hover up instead. Combat Jumping is usually on too considering how much extra mobility and flight control it provides (it gets rid of the momentum drift for more precise flying).
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Praetoria Mission "Arrest Resistance in Holon Technologies" from Investigator Whitworth: named boss Tire Iron has the "BOSS_DISPLAYINFO" placeholder for a description.
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What Works Well with Time?
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On the discussion of concept, going back to my Plant/Time my character's actual power is the ability to use time dilation. She uses it primarily to make the plants grow out of control, resulting in vines, brambles and creepers everywhere. The plant path aura helps this as well as she produces grass and leaves where she walks and stands.