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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.

I have a Dark/Electrical Affinity and it's one of my favorite characters for PuGs and whatnot. Dark is a great primary for all the reasons it always has been, and Electrical Affinity is a top tier support set for zone events/leagues with its ability to drop heals/buffs on dozens of people per shot, in any direction up to ~160' apart. And maybe it's just the way mine is set up, but the workflow of offense/defense on Dark/EA is really a FLOW. It's almost like scrapperlock, but with 2x as many powers and more objectives than *just* damage/survival. It's a pretty fun ride.

If you're looking for combos that have a lot of synergy, I would suggest Grav/Storm or Ice/Trick Arrow. Grav/Storm gives you plenty of tools to move mobs where you want them, and where you want them is right under your Lightning Storm(s). With so many powers that take FF+Rech, you can pretty much spend combat at 300% recharge and chunk out 3x Lightning Storms at a time, which will help you melt pretty much anything you'd expect to as Controller and some stuff you wouldn't expect. Ice/TA was sneaky strong before HC tweaked both sets, now it's even better. Stacked slows, single-target holds and KD patches down both sides... Confusion and Fear out of Ice makes mob AI go bananas... then there's all the debuffs out of TA. If you appreciate soft control, Ice/TA is your spirit animal.

I suppose I should qualify my comment with "...at least on Brutes" because I'm still leveling my first Stalker, but I plan to put two Cytos in there like I do elsewhere once I have it. While the ToHit debuff resistance is the star of the show, the extra ToHit is nice too. It's expensive for a reason! Some people drop a Gaussian's Build Up proc in there but I am not sold on that yet.

Whenever I have the option, I take Focused Accuracy, Superior Conditioning AND Physical Perfection. After tossing a couple of Cytos in FA, a PerfShift% in both PhysPerfection and SupConditioning, plus the recovery/end buff from those powers, it's a net gain in endurance and a much smoother-running character overall.

I gave Champions and DCO a chance, as well as some other MMOS but they just didn't do anything for me. Wound up getting big into Unreal Tournament and Team Fortress for a while, then Rocket League and Wreckfest.

Meanwhile, /Dark controllers out-regen a Regen Scrapper when it actually matters. But nah, let's not fix regen for the actual set built around the concept on the AT it was meant to be paired with.