arcane

I have heard sekrits through the grapevine. Soon®️.

Yeah, one problem with 100m is you can make that even quicker than you can powerlevel a character to 50. Though you’d be set back a smidge on IO money. I’d be more ok with 1 billion because only the ultra rich would waste their money so inefficiently, leaving this little chance to disrupt our game’s largely farmer driven economy. Outside the massive inf sink outside of the market that is.

Pets do wipe fairly often at high difficulties, but, against +4x8, any other AT is still going to use way more endurance cleaning up the entire mob than the MM would just recasting their T1 summon a couple of times and re-upgrading. The T2 and T3 most likely don’t need to be resummoned every mob. As for running tests on SO’s or without using one’s secondary/pools, I have no interest in testing arbitrary conditions I literally never use. I have never slotted a single SO since live.

I always slot Enflame with 2 acc/dam/ends and 3 damage procs and 1 -res proc.

I don’t know what set you’ve been playing but these days Storm has never been better due to Sudden Acceleration and Force Feedback procs tuning down their scattering while tuning up their damage bigtime. Most experienced Storms I know only run Hurricane against AV’s. If you have an occasional runner, shoot them down or CC them - with all that DPS, you’ve got time to. Does it scatter things more than a taunting tank would? Yes, obviously. Does the running across the map complaint sound like hyperbole since most mobs are either on their backs or dead? Yes, it does.

I believe a dev has already said in a focused feedback thread somewhere that Irradiated Ground is currently broken with procs.

The 2-3 hours currently required to get 1-50 seems small enough.

Thanks for the useful data. 🙂

Have you been reading the thread responses at all? Masterminds generally have highest DPE in game.

Patch damage has never done containment damage. Like Ice Storm, Bonfire, etc. I have never used Corrosive Vial but know for certain Enflame summons patches. They are the only pool power exceptions you’ve found because they are the only pool powers that summon patches. Procs have not done containment damage either though there are less examples of this to reference (examples outside of damage proc enhancements ofc, none of which get containment damage). But I would assume Arcane Bolt’s proc functions like a damage proc like Assault Radial or Toxins does. All working as intended as far as I know.

I read all points and this is a solid summary 🙂

You could, yes. It would just be clunky to *keep* aggro.

I love Sorcery but the extent of its usefulness certainly varies from AT to AT. Spirit Ward is perhaps best on pet classes (or at least support) unless you’re just using it as a Preventive Medicine mule. Makes a pet way more durable. You will like it on Controllers. Arcane Bolt is great but with the caveat that it doesn’t fill out an attack chain that well. Its problem is it is so much better when Arcane Power procs that it can feel better NOT to spam it but rather to just hit it when you see the yellow circle. Mystic Flight is a Fly/TP, nuff said. Enflame is a great power vs mobs and procs reliably, but I do not know if its damage is good enough to be justified against an AV instead of a group. I think maybe the Ill/Dark doesn’t have it. Two of my Grav trollers do though. Rune of Protection is awesome but more noticeably good if paired with Melee Core Embodiment. EDIT: Enflame could be really good against AV’s. I don’t know. On one hand it’s low damage in general, but it’s passive damage that only has to be activated once a minute.

“Someone didn’t love you enough when you were little.” - Texas Ranger Bobby

Side note: my ill/dark/primal only picked up primal because I had little left to invest in an APP. So it’s just Conserve Power and Temp Invulnerability for me. I guess Sorcery limited my options since it’s a slotting heavy pool. I would agree with picking another pool if you have room to invest. Indomitable Will is always attractive. I know a friend with Ill/Dark/Mu that swears by the extra pet. Seismic Smash or Poisonous Ray or Water Spout would all also be good damage sources with proc options. Agree Power Blast kind of sucks.

Just the DPS vs regen situation. Between Phantom Army taunting, Twilight Grasp spam heals, and all the debuffs, everything else was great. Whittling down that HP bar for so long was just a slog. I’m not typically an AV soloist though so I don’t know what’s typical for fight durations and difficulties. But I imagine a secondary with more -regen or -res would be ideal. Traps, Cold, Rad, Poison, the usual. Either that or at least some more proccy attacks (Seismic Smash?). I think I was just running proccy Blind + Arcane Bolt + Pets.

I’m not crazy about my Ill/Dark/Primal as far as AV soloing goes. Level 54 Infernal literally took me half an hour. I’m assuming this is because Twilight Grasp’s -regen is too small and Howling Twilight is maybe not perma. If an AV is going to take that long, I’m really not interested. Sure you could do better with P2W, but I would no longer consider it an AV soloist if it needs temp powers.

Sure, that has no bearing on the fact that they’re not to expensive 😉

Right on homiesapien

I think you forgot to apply the damage resistance portion of the equation.

Sorry shenanigans, I believe your binds make your life easier, but if they (1) require something “under the hood” that cannot be visibly identified in keymapping options or in my tray, (2) require any kind of setup at all, and (3) require revision of over a decade of muscle memory, that alone is enough for me to declare myself uninterested. I am happy with the interface as is, and would have to identify some genuine problem or challenge to motivate myself to bother with all that junk you rant about. Fortunately, the game is so easy as is that it’s even readily playable on hallucinogens.

This is not a bug. It is working as intended. See fear right in the power detail. Fear not to be confused with Terrorize.

This means you think it should be a phase power, in case you didn’t know what that meant.

Are you ok with: (1) the increase in recharge and (2) the nophase timer and (3) the being unable to be affected by ally heals/buffs and (4) the loss of ability to slot defense sets, including LotG, that would all logically have to come with this being a phase power like you’re suggesting? I’m not, personally.

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