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arcane

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  1. My biggest problem with marketeering is the combination of (1) I don’t have the patience to save for a long time; I earn then spend (constant stream of new 50’s every week to feed). Add to that (2) Marketeering incentivizes people that save long-term because it grows more lucrative the more capital you have to invest. Farming doesn’t punish my lack of discipline in this way, so I prefer it. I’m still trying to do a little market stuff here and there tho. Oh, and the QoL issues with converters are pretty annoying (the part where you can’t lock it to converting within sets of the same type) so it never feels like the 5-10 minutes of work people always mention here. Converting 70 uncommons into desirable rares feels like a real slog compared to just sitting still with Burn on auto. I put in a buttload of bids last night though, so here’s to hoping I get better at this.
  2. I have a Graniteless Stoner that doesn’t have any huge survivability issues (well, outside of Lord Recluse flattening me a couple times - add some energy res if you’re serious about him). It’s Stone/Kin tho so I might make another with a better secondary some day. Kin can be passable with a ton of procs plus a good APP (mine has Fossilize and Stalagmites proc bombed too) but the animations will simply never be a good deal.
  3. IO everything. IO two builds if you like. Why not? 🙂
  4. iTrials are definitely plenty active on Excelsior right now.
  5. What kind of a sucker buys lunch for a wisecracking economist
  6. Point noted - I just remembered that, on live, at one point I did farm +0 every now and then in a desperate attempt to score a purple since those kinds of assets were out of reach for such a peasant.
  7. My Stone Tank skipped Granite Armor because I’m allergic to anemic damage.
  8. MA is one of the few remaining melee sets I don’t have kitted out at 50 - along with Street Justice and Battle Axe. StJ will go with a Stalker probably. I was going to probably make an Elec/MA eventually - to maximize the usefulness of Storm Kick.
  9. Shield is awesome. Definitely in the upper tiers. Get basically every power except maybe not the T9 and you should have capped defenses, 80-85% DDR, and decent resistances/HP. Grant Cover will look like garbage to you at first, but DDR is not to be underestimated. Tankers have to be built well for their damage to be truly impressive, but Shield’s damage buff / shield charge makes that much easier. If you aren’t confident in your skills or using timely inspirations, consider a set like Dark Melee that covers Shield’s no-heal hole, but it’s really not necessary.
  10. Huh? I farm basically every day.... Does not compute. You know a person can simultaneously be a farmer and be opposed to farming getting any easier/more lucrative than it already is, right?
  11. Yeah that’s probably not for me. I’m a fairly neanderthal gamer with my WASD movement and my trackpad 🙂
  12. Pretty much any tanker can be IO’d to nigh invincibility, yes. Willpower will be the most mindless due to zero required click powers. Only caveat on that one is you should be vigilant against singular hard targets, as you are a lot less tough before Rise to the Challenge gets going. I have one or more tankers of each primary IO’d. They’re all fun.
  13. I’m not sure how arbitrary it is. Seems plenty logical that you would expect above average performance from a character *specifically built for one kind of mission, one kind of damage, etc.* If I pass on my character being viable in the entire rest of the game, it seems immediately reasonable - not arbitrary - that I should get better kill speeds in return.
  14. I don’t even know what a popmenu is. It sounds scary, like binds.
  15. I played my Ill/TA last night and it has a buttload of these macros. It’s almost too much to handle.
  16. I think I’d prefer you remain off the project after this little display 🙂
  17. Who told you water was bad?
  18. The fact that you’re asking this question tells me you don’t understand what power creep is (a big thing that happens in small increments - iow, a change being small in no way prevents it from creating power creep). Let me simplify this for you. I oppose buffs to farmers/farming because farmers/farming clearly need zero buffs. Full stop. I don’t care if you get 2 extra emp merits per hour or 20. The correct answer is zero extra emp merits per hour.
  19. I wouldn’t worry too much about SO / generic IO advice. Now that you’ve figured out basic survival at 90% fire res, it’s only a matter of time before you move on to IO sets and replace the cheap stuff.
  20. Fiery Embrace gives fire damage to all your attacks now.
  21. I don’t have mids but hang in there and don’t give up - a good moneymaker will solve a lot of your frustrations with this game 🙂
  22. A person can both farm and oppose power creep.
  23. You can get 45% fire def with only IO set bonuses.
  24. Get temperature protection until you have IO’s so you can be at 90% res. 45% comes from IO set bonuses primarily. Some people get some defense toggles in the mix too there, but you’ll need bonuses either way.
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