roleki

My advice? Don't take anyone's advice. These forums are filled with goons who would see you waste your time killing cranium rats for every fucking character, because they erroneously believe your time is as worthless as theirs and can't fathom why someone would want to skip the tedium that somehow still amuses them after 20 years.

And if you go to cod.uberguy.net, you can peruse powersets by AT, and see which enhancement sets the individual powers will accept.

Cleave is also a good mule for set bonuses that come out of MAoE enhancements; you can shore up your AoE def with Dervish, Melee def with Avalanche or Obliteration, or a little melee/aoe with Multi-Strike. It's also pretty good for clipping runners that sneak out of mobs, or filling out an attack chain if you're getting pounded with Cryo Rifles or other slows. Cleave: it's what's for dinner.

That's a bug? I always got that message if I zoned straight from an AE farm to RWZ to get the Vanguard badge, and didn't drop off the AE team "Task Force." I thought it was just somebody behind the scenes being a farthammer about farming.

It's The Terror that's a mastermind from the Tick, though I prefer the incarnation from the Patrick Warburton series.

Which is what I described.

I wouldn't bother with FF+Rech UNLESS you can slot it into three attacks/summons that you use in combat. FF+Rech doesn't stack magnitude-wise, but it stacks duration-wise; my Grav/Storm is slotted with three of them (Gale/Tornado/and Fissure) and I spend more time with the bonus than without, makes for a lot more mayhem. If you DO wind up slotting a bunch of FF+Rech procs, be sure to address your endurance recovery (be it through slotting, procs, Incarnate stuff or Accolades) or else you'll be chewing through your blue bar like a fiend.

Have you gone back (X amount of time later) and tried it again? Just wondering if there's a scheduled job on the backend or something and you just landed in-between passes.

There's a simple fix for that - brains and patience. If you're after a recipe that's 'been selling' at 5M, bid 3M and wait a few days. Aside from a few evergreen recipes/enhancements that rarely get posted at a discount, chances are good you'll get what you were after at a fraction of the MSRP. Keep in mind, 99/100 is a fraction, as is 1258/100.

This is the kind of thread that gets closed about two replies past mine.

I always land on the side of Corruptor because of the way combat works in teams, and with Corruptors in particular. Put it this way... you're on a full team going up against 54s. You've got your usual mix of Blasters and Scrappers, and you're the Defender. Maybe you start combat with a buff or debuff; your teammates are starting with their best available attack, usually their alpha. By the time your superior buff/debuff numbers kick in, the hardest-hitting powers have already been fired off; your buffs are amping Flares and Chop or whatever. There's a difference between a 10% damage buff on Flares and a 10% damage buff on Blaze. Blaze has already been fired off, so now what? Same scenario on a Corruptor... you dont bother attacking until Scourge is in play, so you spend a few moments chunking out buffs/debuffs. These don't hit as well as the Defender version, but really, who is disappointed that Flares only got a 7.5% damage buff, especially when you DO start attacking, you're chunking out at LEAST Brute-level damage at range. Fights end quicker with Corruptors than with Defenders. Quicker fights means faster mission clears. Faster missing clears mean more missions. More missions means more progression. Corruptor Uber Alles.

Ice/TA was always a strong pairing, but now that HC has buffed both sets, it's just ridiculous. With the fear and the confuse and the slow and the DoT, it just turns enemy AI into jelly. I love it. Ice/Traps is also a bit of a fun one.

Superjump is the travel power I most enjoy actually using, but for practical reasons my ranged characters usually go via Flight and my melee characters usually move via Speed of Sound/Jaunt. Every once in a while I get an oddball build that can run both SJ and SoS, and I'm just a kid farting in the tub.

What you're looking for is either a Grav/Storm slotted with KB/KD where relevant, FF+Rech on at least three attacks, Clarion, and the Atlas Medallion, or a Fire/FF stacked the same way but with Ageless. Either one settles around 330% recharge in combat, which on a Grav/Storm means 3 or 4 Lightning Storms out in a kill zone that you can just WH everything into, AoE Immob, stack stun, Gale the survivors for an FF+Rech bump, Tornado to stack FF+Rech, WH is recharged, one storm is dying, chunk out another then go get more chum from the map. It's a machine. Fire/FF is a little more direct - Smoke, Bonfire, Repulsion Bomb, head into the mob with your Imps at 59% Def (All), Hotfeet slowing everyone in your immediate area, ST hold your bosses every 1.4s, Bonfire's back up, everything is dead. It's a sexy machine. If i could record 4k without it pixellating into a mosaic, I'd show you what I mean. But either one, set up as described, does what you're talking about.

Not saying any of this happened, but, don't discount the effect of sudden changes in weather on communication infrastructure between your location and the servers. Heavy snow can bring lines down, people can slide off into junction boxes, heavy frost can cause fiber optic to fog or splinter, a whole host of things. If your usual route from Point A at your desktop to Point Z at the server farm includes hops off an affected node, the new route may not be as efficient and will introduce some drag. Plus, in bad weather, schools close and people work from home, adding extra traffic on top of the sluggish routes. People don't think it be like it is, but it do.

Oh, like Discord. My mistake, we should probably start a new thread for every thought that pops into our skulls. Or would that be forum spam?

People around here: "What a great community we have here at HC!" (slobbering sounds ensue) Also people around here: "God dammit who dare has a thought we had four years ago! Fuck THEM to the abyss and back!"

Many thanks! You're a good egg, @JJDrakken

Truck is also the technical term for the finial atop a flagpole.

Happy Holidays! When you get back, any chance you could gin up a Storm/Storm Corruptor with Speed of Sound?

You know, despite my dropping enemy endurance for years, I don't think I've ever had one simply stop attacking because it had no endurance left. Does endurance even matter to badfolk?

Look, I don't mean to be all judgy, but in a thread about a spammer and featuring an impromptu reference to a horrifying medical condition, you've managed to bring the whole vibe DOWN. Maestro!

Dude. Moderate to SEVERE. Why else would someone be up at 6:30AM on a weekday??

You know what, as long as Feijiqiluo288 isn't selling car insurance or singing the theme song for a pill that treats moderate to severe anal warts, I'm OK with it.

I never thought there would be a market for a LFG Museum, but, here I am.