Doomguide2005

Just waiting for someone to get Rikti rolled.

Ice/Cold... Blizzard, Ice Storm and Sleet and all the -recharge and slow things are crawling around trying to run away

They are also advantages to multi-aspect IO in how the get treated by exemplar scaling.

An Empathy pair at high levels and or with incarnates is very strong. Easily among the strongest pairings you can run when built towards running as a pair. Offensively tough, but even stronger at mitigating any incoming damage. Pain and Emp probably almost as tough defensively. The trade off is better offense via Pain. But either way with Incarnates Lore Judgement they pack plenty to handle things.

I am no proc wizard but how AoEs are figured makes it relatively ineffective. First the radius plays a role in the math, large radius poorer chance. Sleet is large area. Secondly they proc on cast, then check every 10 seconds afterwards. With most teams the mob is long dead by the time those later checks occur. And Sleets real value is in the debuffs it provides.

*cough, cough* You just maybe, ok were the Dark/Inv i saw tank Recluse

Yep thought I hated purple caves and the layer cake room. Nope I'll take them over Council caves anytime.

There's a Delete button?

Okay now I have to hop redside and find this Clock Tower and its Lunatic. And dutifully report back on the 'I was today years old' thread.

And unless you have each character fund itself all of this pretty much becomes moot once you have a 50. Their earning potential is vastly greater than a pre-35's needs. A single ITF can be 10,000,000+ Also if you do a respec before you start slotting sets you can keep and store all those generic IOs and potentially never have to buy them again.

Personally with a fun team and TT, MT powers ill take Synapse any day over IP, Talos, IP, Talos, etc. while dealing with Council Caves.

For what it is worth, short of reading this thread I have pretty much zero knowledge of the story lines in the coming issue and I was aware the previous PPD in KW were viewed as corrupt and replaced by Blackwing. It says as much in the HC KW content already in place in KW right now. Edit: As for why heroes don't attack Rogues in Paragon that seems a pretty straightforward you can't go blasting folks for crimes they might commit aka this is not Minority Report (though maybe vigilantes could). Crimes they are alleged to have committed in the Rogue Isles are well outside Paragon City and its jurisdiction. Heroes don't break laws because it would be convenient to do so (collateral damage not withstanding).

I think well played and well built anything talked about in this thread would fit the bill. But it also points strongly towards the driver behind it all. I've seen Werner pull off all sorts of stupid scrapper tricks with his Katana/Dark, I've watched a Dark/Invulnerability tank Recluse, Seen what Bill Z can due on his scrappers, and I've watched Linea running Angel Hornet. Part of the reason, probably even a big part of why they are so damn tough, is the player running that particular scrapper. The familiarity and almost 6th sense of when to use power x because the stuff is about to hit the rotary oscillator developed from hours running that scrapper. @BrandXmentions Incarnate powers and probably ideally you take them out of the equation. At least for me if said scrapper can't exemp down to run Manticore or Numina or other pre 45 content then it doesn't really fit the requirements if can't still handle the deep end. That said the thing that boosted my own Claws/SR was the Hybrid choice. Barrier and or Rebirth yes very nice but Melee Hybrid takes an SR who is at the hit point cap, with DDR and the rest of the package and adds in a passive regen at Regen IH levels for her. Now that is flippin' hard to kill especially with the Destinies to back it up when active Hybrid isn't up. Funny enough given the right foes Clarion is also great for her. Terrorize, not so much anymore. I imagine it would do similar for the holes almost any scrapper might to that sort of thing.

Yep you haven't really done it "all" playing just one character. Running an Empath solo and teamed are very different leveling experiences. Then switching to a Dark/Dark defender is different as well and very different from running a blaster etc., etc. There's Hardmode versions of some of the TFs, leveled on SOs only, solo'd AVs ...

Yeah aware of that now not so much many issues ago. But this was pre inherent fitness on top of the fact it was leveling yet and just barely beyond 20th. I'd have been super excited by hypothetical 200 damage. But 3 white con foes (that lovely number tossed about by Jack) was more than I could handle without hitting bottom on end before they hit the ground and it would have been more like 20 damage boosted to 23, Yay. It was horrific struggle and I've no doubt things would be vastly different for many reasons these days between procs, inherent fitness, START vendor etc.