Major_Decoy

So, I've done: Bio Armour/ Dark Melee: The carapace is a large scab, but I do go minimum FX with red energy Storm Blast/ Dark Armour: Because controlling weather is one of Dracula's powers in Bram Stoker's Dracula. I've considered: Mind control Beast Control: Dracula never met a problem he wouldn't throw a wolf at. (You'd have to skip the cat powers) Dark Control: Dracula never met a problem he wouldn't throw a wolf at.

I think Dominator Secondary/Blaster Secondary would be interesting. The inherent would have to provide some form of mez protection, I think. Blow Out? if you spend enough time mezzed, you violently escape?

Yeah, every so often I wonder how I'd do a tutorial mission to introduce people to things like "Go to the Merit Vendor, buy this salvage, put it on the auction house. This is how the auction house works and what the fees are"

You can do that with Infamy turned off and a 2x experience boost active. I am talking about the information that you get by "sacrificing" 2x experience gain. By playing at level 39 instead of level 50 you're effectively taking a 65% infamy gain penalty. But yes, a person familiar with the game and the market can make ten times more infamy just by visiting badge markers and the auction house on a level 1 character than someone can earn running content from level 1 to 12.

I'm still stuck on this. If you level from 1 to 12 with information gain on, you'll get somewhere around 84k infamy. At level 12, that's enough influence to get four or five single origin enhancements. 84K infamy is about 6 bosses at level 39 and about 1.5 level 54 bosses. It's not like fighting a boss is any easier at level 8 than it is at level 50, so influence is not awarded for effort. And you don't get infamy from grey enemies, so it's not like information is awarded for the status of the enemy. There is neither Doylist nor Watsonian explanation for why influence is awarded the way it is. But at any rate, turning off infamy at low level is no sacrifice not because infamy is so easy to get, but because turning it on doesn't really get you more information anyway. At level 8 you get 433 influence for a Lead Brick. A level 10 Visor (Accuracy Dual Origin) is 4,214 Information. A level 10 Awakening: Improved Accuracy is 12,672 Information. A level 50 Insight of Grey (Accuracy Single Origin) costs 57,852 Influence. Influence costs do not scale the way Influence does. I would argue to either give everyone level 50 influence gain no matter what the level or make Single Origin Enhancements free.

Well, I'd argue that the downside of the double xp booster is ignored not because infamy is so easy to get but because both information and experience scale with enemy level, but only experience costs scale with level. I'd argue that if you got the same information for defeating an even con enemy at level one as you did at level fifty, then more people would second guess turning it off. Having more infamy at lower levels would make them less painful (Single Origin Enhancements are available, but who can afford them) and perhaps people would spend more time playing those levels rather than trying to breeze through them.

As I recall, there as a mids update that was so bugged that you couldn't just "uninstall" you needed to go into your files, find the folder that it created, and delete it to make sure your computer had no memory of that installation at all.

To get more AoE defense from Aegis I'd need to free up five slots to put into Indomitable Will (I'm not going to drop Steadfast Protection +3% defense from my build to add Aegis). Dropping the Blessing of the Zephyr only gets me three slots. If I drop both heal slots from Pain Tolerance and move Steadfast Protection there, I've got that. Then I can swap out Hecatomb for Mako's Bite and get to 46m, 45r, 48a. If I then swap out the four slots of Blistering Cold for four slots of Superior Spider's Bite, 6 slots of Superior Avalanche for 5 slots of Armageddon, and 2 slots of Power Transfer for 3 slots Synapse's Shock. I'd still be at 100% slow, 88 second recharge on Mindlink, and 46%, 45%, 46%. I'd only lose about 100 health from Pain Tolerance and about 160 health per minute from Power Transfer. Gloom is not a good option because it is, critically, not a psionic attack. I took Soul Tentacles because I needed another Ranged AoE for Frozen Blast and I was sick of dart burst. If I could have taken another psionic attack instead, I would have. I might end up dropping Smoke Grenade because, as it turns out, I forget to slot the Spider's Bite: global chance for Toxic Damage somewhere, and I can't just stick in in brawl.

Maybe Smoke Bomb should be dropped in Favor of Blinding Laser, a single target -perception that can be slotted for range take a Rikti Drone or Nemesis Sniper's perception radius to 0.

I was imagining them being placed like caltrops but kind of sitting around until something stepped on them, like trip mine.

Marbles: Like trip mine, but just does knockdown and no damage. Smoke bomb: Like Smoke Grenade, but no to-hit debuff, just a straight-up -perception. Blinding Sand: Like Blinding Powder, but no chance for confusion, just a -perception and a sleep. Distraction: Toggle Taunt Aura Decoy Drone: It's a pet with a taunt aura and no attacks.

What's your stripper name now? Big Sacks of Endurance?

I will agree that there are more options for communicating in English than there are for communicating in forum emojis, but depending on the idea being expressed, forum emojis are potentially a much more concise way to communicate. If I were trying to communicate "The extent to which it's a problem varies" in forum emojis, I would go with moose, but there are a lot of homonyms in forum emoji so context is very important.

Not every language develops in such a way to easily communicate the same ideas. An idea that might be easy to communicate in one language might be difficult in another. I know which of these symbols better communicates an idea to me. But as it relates to any language, if you don't make an effort to understand it, you won't understand it. Not everyone is going to be making a good faith effort to communicate or understand, no matter how they're trying to communicate.

That's a problem with any medium of communication. Words are not necessarily meaningful the the recipient. Green numbers vitiate ceremoniously. You, for example, do not understand what a symbol is. Words are a subset of symbols.

What about the Fortunata build? Do you recommend Subdue and Swipe or Telekinetic Blast and Strike?

Probably a miscllick, I was playing around with different slottings and removed the wrong enhancement by accident. The Chance for +Absorb in Preventative Medicine is a global bonus. It's tied to your health and not the use of the power.

Okay, so this Night Widow build drops Dart and Dark Blast, picks up Mental Blast and Soul Tentacles (to have a place for Frozen Blast) and Darkest Night (just because Darkest Night is an awesome debuff), it's only about 84% psionic resist even with mindlink up, but it's got Rune of Protection as an Emergency Button. The sticking point is that (without Mindlink active) it's 43.6% Ranged and AoE defense and 46% melee, which concerns be because a lot of ranged attacks have -defense. But it does have perma-Mindlink and 100% recharge resist, so it should be up at all times.

Dart Burst is on my Night Widow build. I think I took it as part of a plan to try soloing Archvillains, getting the -25% regeneration from both dart powers to stack, but in practice it doesn't seem entirely useful. I haven't gotten rid of it because I like having chance for Terrorize in Psychic Scream (thematically) and I don't have another place to slot Frozen Blast on my Night Widow build. The problem with Gloom is that it isn't psionic themed at all, and for character concept reasons, I want to lean more into psionic damage. It's why I think I want to move more into a Fortunata build. On the Night Widow build, I'm thinking of dropping Dart for Mental Blast. It's slower, but only about 10% slower. I don't know how that's going to play. I thought that with Fate Sealed it was a guaranteed Knockback on the Telekinetic Blast. I was thinking of doing it on the Fortunata build because sometimes knockback is nice, like the last hit against a Super Stunner. (also Telekinetic Blast has the fastest animation, and taking Telekinetic Blast at first level would allow me to take Strike instead of Swipe) I do typically like the Guassian Build-Up proc in Aim or Build-up, but I do want the 2.5% defense (Ranged, Melee, AoE) from the six set bonus. But while putting it in Aim gives me more control over when it procs, I understand that it procs more often in tactics (I also recall (and I could be mistaken) that I get roughly 8 times as many build-up procs on a team of eight) So, I did try a rebuild of the Fortunata Build. As I said earlier, I'm thinking of trading Telekinetic Blast for Subdue and Swipe for Strike. I'm on the fence about dropping power transfer. I take it on every tank, but the Fortunata only has 1228 health, so I might be able to spend that slot better somewhere else (maybe to get Kismet +6% to hit back into the build) What do you think?

Oh, I'm not playing the game, I just play the forum these days.

Honestly, curry pizza sounds just like "put the curry on the naan before cooking it"

... Pizza Rossini is apparently an italian thing. I am not going to link any images of pizza rossini, but you can search for it if you feel compelled.

I was walking through London and saw all three on the same pizza on an promotional sign for a pizza place. I hope that pizza place is no longer in business, but I very clearly remember that. The egg on pizza actually isn't that unusual, no matter how revolting I might find it.

Evolved is not doing anything in this sentence. Clams are evolved bivalves. Foxes are evolved canids. Cows are evolved bovines. cats are evolved felines. Emus are evolved ratites. If it is alive, it is an evolved something.

You're English. Pineapple on pizza doesn't even rank of list of English pizza crimes. Eggs, peas, mayonnaise?