arcane

Where I struggle most with lucrative marketeering (besides the number one reason: patience), is not using too many converters. It’s tough to know if I should shoot for a better orange IO or settle for one that could sell for a million. It’s so tempting to try to score a LotG. So I appreciate that you wrote how you budget only about 10 per recipe. Will read this more a little later.

My only hypothetical problem with this kind of feature is if the mobs were made easier to accommodate level 1’s because that would make the level 50’s experience way too easy. As long as content that scales with level does not cater to the lower levels, it seems fine here and there. In other words, a level 1 fighting carnies is fine but not advisable. A level 50 fighting hellions is a problem.

Or maybe he’s just saying don’t complain about the natural consequences of your own conscious decisions? Do you want to play your favorite playstyle, or do you want your second arm? Which is it going to be? We have a saying that goes “trying to have your cake and eat it too”. Own your own choices. It’s really that simple. I have made similar decisions to forego meta powers/slottings/playstyles etc for personal preference. I also don’t complain that the game doesn’t naturally cater to each of those decisions.

I also don’t know how the exact calculation works, but, assuming Hasten with two +5 recharge IO’s, I also seem to do fine with about 80% in bonuses. I’m not sure where the exact line is (and Hasten makes it tough to understand) but I seem to have a few seconds of wiggle room in case I am continuously activating other powers when Domination comes back up. And I don’t do the keybind thing either, so when I say it works out, that’s also with some wiggle room on refreshing Hasten.

Yes yes and I love my /sonic too, but we’re very specifically in “no melee allowed territory” in this thread for Snarky’s sake, and that -res + blapping is just too tantalizing on /sonic.

Yep. But that makes it approximately equivalent to Time without Time Lord 😉

You aren’t forced to do anything unless peak efficiency is - no if’s, and’s, or but’s - your #1 value. But if you’re complaining about playstyle issues, it would seem playstyle is your #1 value. So which is it? It can’t be both - as that would mean that “My favorite playstyle must always be also the best playstyle” is a reasonable proposition. Which it isn’t.

Makes little sense to do tbh since /sonic’s most attractive feature is the melee -res aura. But sure you can play with just the build up/sustain/ranged hold as you can with many other sets. Anywho, I don’t understand where this implied idea that a pure ranged build is somehow a rarity is coming from. I have at least 5 of my blasters where I’ve picked up zero reasons to enter melee, and that’s not even starting on controllers, corruptors, defenders, dominators, etc where I’ve done the same. The way Snarky here has been going at this topic for awhile, you’d think he was looking for Bigfoot.

This here. I don’t like the argument that a buff is bad just because it makes an existing playstyle look a bit less ideal in comparison. If you loved the existing playstyle enough, and it’s still there for you in some form, where exactly is the problem? Offering alternatives is not forcing anyone to do anything, and that applies to both the Stalker debate and the combo mechanics / Total Focus debate. If you choose to use the alternatives due to their efficiency, that is a conscious choice on your part that you value that efficiency more than the prior playstyle. EDIT: Yes, I missed a whole new page of posts when I wrote this, but that doesn’t make the point incorrect, so pls don’t be mad at me.

Poison Trap alone makes the set actually one of the best against AV’s since it does easily perma *1000% -regen*.

Beam is my fav of the all-ranged choices personally. Have a Beam/Time Blaster, Beam/TA Blaster, and TA/Beam Defender all with zero melee powers Your S/T chain is awesome and your nuke is sexy.

Could pair cold and hold. Maybe lethal with the debuff to debuff resistance like in Acid Arrow?

So your problem is with powers not being insta-cast? Hard no from me if so, sorry. Best game ever doesn’t need to take tips from inferior games.

Well... if you started in i7 for one thing, you may have missed that radios were new. You used to actually be able to run out of missions for reals if you played before CoV.

I only really street sweep in Dark Astoria since I generally don’t play below level 50 unless it’s for a Yin, Morty, Moonfire, or perhaps the very occasional other TF. Would do it more if there were more options for 50’s. (And that really needs to mean level 54 enemies to be relevant. Possessed scientists aren’t worth anything.)

Yeah, Traps is plenty playable with mobility and toe-bombing, but I do tend to just have more fun with the set when using it to set up bigger death traps - so I tend to play it pretty slowly with long setups when I’m soloing and only speed up on teams. Wormhole or Fold Space synergy makes this particularly satisfying because you can wipe out entire spawns including bosses (alas only level 53 though) with one AoE TP if you give yourself a bit of setup time.

Why not just surf the internet on a potato at that point?

Thanks. That’ll work ok for me since I usually only slot the procs from those sets in MM pets anyway.

Sorry if it’s been asked already.. not trying to read 9 pages right at the moment... Do the changes to pet recharge mean no more recharge intensive pet IO sets? Because if so this severely hurts half the sets’ ability to slot all of the aura procs, no?

But to be fair, 8’ radius or less on anything feels lame once you’ve tasted that 10+’ life.

That’s what they want you to think. The truth is these phat cats are going to squeeze the OP until she names names so that this rogue GM double agent can be shipped off to Siberia.

I just want to thank the OP for spiciest thread of the week.

Not saying it’s often ideal, but I have had a few times when I needed a couple more slots more than I needed more power picks and therefore skimped on the KB protection procs. It’s very rare, but yeah, that’s why I’ve picked Acrobatics a couple times outside of PvP characters that actually need it.

But newbs aren’t supposed to have the easiest time; that would disincentivize them from learning! 🙂

I would start with: 1) Give web grenade the entangling arrow treatment by adding a debuff. 2) Speed up force field generator. 3) Give trip mines the devices trip mine treatment. 4) Buff time bomb. Other than that, I’m not super convinced of some of the other cited issues. For instance: - RE: debuff values of acid mortar: it’s sort of ok they’re that low because you can have two of them. - RE: triage beacon: not convinced about the desirability of the Faraday Cage treatment since you can have multiple of these as well, right? - RE: seeker drones: I haven’t used this power so not sure how good or bad it really is. - RE: caltrops and poison trap: these are both in good shape.