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Shh, don’t tell them 🤫 I had assumed, however, that this wasn’t a bug. I know it does +def but am unsure if theirs is just some positional def (melee and ranges). Not unlike how some PP’s can still be taken down with psi powers.

The game - in general - isn’t super complicated. But I don’t want “you can only damage when stood here” or “tap this power” type gameplay. Sometimes I just wanna smash some council, maybe laugh at the Romans as they swing wildly at me, and sometimes I wanna fight infuriating mobs like: •PPD from about lvl 25+: the redside arc HC brought in for rogues is banging •Longbow •DE on +2 an above can slow me down •Nemesis with loads of veng •arachnos •low level CoT •Family with their Grav pets •carnies (to name a few) When was the last time you fought the wailers? Great time. Loved them on live. We’ve started running TFs with the “enemies buffed setting” and it has been bloody fun. 50% acc + dam. A couple of people have quit cos their min-Max’d toon suddenly is fighting something that can fight back. Each to their own. Difficult content is there, difficult enemies are there, I think people quite often avoid hard stuff because it’s out of the way or more annoying to get to. Or, sometimes, they’ve levelled their toon past fun baddies. Or, like me, I’m not always on for a long time. I’ve got an hour to kill. What am I more likely to fill quick: an ITF, or running an arc through Ouro vs the weird spells in First Ward that are an utter pain in the bum (but also quite fun!). If I’ve got a Sunday then sure, hook an Arachnos arc into my VEINS. Let me do Shauna’s arc in IP through ouro and deal with gravity-family then Chuck a guy out of a window.

I think, with this, you could drop fighting for an epic pool instead. But each to their own 🙂 I only took it on the corr cos I don’t have nimble enough fingers to get inspirations going quickly. Also, by about the mid 30/early 40s the meat shield should be able to hold aggro enough/ enough damage and control about for you to not worry. I team a lot with @MoonSheep on our kins and I can confirm he doesn’t need fighting pool or play any worse without it (when we do team it is a bit chaotic I’ll admit ha). The best way to not take damage from the baddies is if they’re all arrested/dead, so another attack from epic could work.

Personally, if I'm tight on powers I'd take manoeuvres over assault. But as @JayboH said, it does bring a high amount of +dam to the field. But I think having Siphon power + FS is enough. On a high rech build you can get FS+Siphon stacked a few times. You'll probably hit your damage bonus cap without assault, on my Corr I'm often at 400% dam cap most of the time. Assault on a Defender is great, but on a kin defender? Dunno if it's needed. But each to their own. Build variety is fun 🙂 Yep! So increase density doesn't really need anything else in it. Just 1 slot. And the things you can enhance only apply to other people. However, you can put a certain IO in it which does help you. The Steadfast Protection: Resistance/Defense IO can be put in there which will give you +3% defense to everything all the time, even if you haven't recently cast the power. Woop! Here's my water/kin for reference. I'm sure someone will say it isn't the best it could be but I find it fun 🙂

Welcome home! Kin/rad is very fun. There's a lot of opportunities in it. IOs can make rad a beast (kin already is one). Kin favours you being relatively in the middle of it, and rad enjoys that too, so you can benefit from the heals/end/buffs. So I'd build a kin to avoid a beating. You can probably skip: Kin: Intertial reduction DEBATABLE: Increase Density (although its a great mule slot) DEBATABLE: Siphon Power (FS should be shunting everyone's +Dam up, but you might want to do more -dam to the AVs etc. DEBATABLE: Repel - chuck an KB converter in it and you get some very soft control, but it'll drain your end in a busy field. I often don't bother. Rad: Not a fan of electron haze without a knockback converter. X-ray beam has quite a slow animation, I feel. You wont need assault, I feel, with FS and Siphon Power going. Save you end. If it's Tactics vs Assault - I'd go tactics any day of the week. Kin doesn't need many slots to work really well. I do heal (5), siphon power (1), siphon speed (2), transference (5-6), FS (3-4), and i'll sometimes do speed boost with 2 so I can put the winter set in for KB res and some rang def, ID (1). Rad can be a such a little saucy proc-bomb. Play it through without worrying too much about IOs I reckon and get a feel for it. You can slot a couple of -res procs in it, as well as other sets. You might want a patron/epic pool that has defence in it over a resistance one. Your HP is lower on a def. Would you rather avoid getting hit entirely, or just making sure that when you are hit then its for less? Scorpion shield is popular because of this. Its hard to say what you should be slotting because you need to know how you play the toon? My first run with a water/kin corr I'd foreseen me to be going in/out more often than I do, but only after it got to about 40 did I rebuild it in Mids. My Kin is soft-capped to s/l and ranged. I hover above the mobs, using Fulcram shift Whirlpool/Water burst/Geyser. But I guess my takeaway is: go and play it for a bit and see how you feel? Respec's are given out every 10 levels, you can still do the trials and you can buy them from the auction house. If you're on Excelsior then drop me a tell, I'm on @Xiddo as my global, happy to team with you as you try it out 🙂

Completely agree with @Doomrider . I'm somewhat used to my PB looking no one way that it really doesn't feel like a problem? Inner light -> shift to squiddy, use 2 squid powers -> shift into dwarf and land in the middle of a mob to foot stomp 2 -> 2 human powers and repeat. I love how fluid it feels with the right binds. You dont miss much visually, tbh I find it the most stimulating. I would possibly go as far as saying my PB is the toon I've been the most creative on. Because I want to make sure I look sweeeeet when I dont have tentacles or a large alien butt.

They’d have to build a new prison at some point. Can you imagine the conditions in bricks. People must be furious there. I reckon it’d be built in new Boomtown (repaired). Hero 1 is reformed. Becomes a pacifist. Takes over from Miss Lib in Atlas. She’s goes a bit like manticore, publicly in charge of a slightly more militarised LB but also a more cut-throat and hidden Wyvern. Doing what has to be done. The Rikti chill out so vanguard are in Galaxy fighting the shivans. Meanwhile manticore leaves after what happens to Psyche. Port Corps incursions that STICKS. One of those big portals blows, so there’s an event where something breaches and we have to fight it back. BaB is sent there to help contain it, giving him a new home. Architect Entertainment shut down for tax evasion.

I have seen, a couple of times, NPC dialogue in the last mission of ITF them chatting about Atlantis I swear.

Welcome back! Yes, works fine while hovering etc. For example; I'll fly in to nova, solar flare, then dwarf foot stomp to clear some more.

I've not built for def on mine. I had the two "3% def" IOs when levelling but found the slots were more useful elsewhere. It would have gimped me a bit to try for 32, I'd rather get everything else available all the time. So priority was rech then res/regen. Tri-form with Perma LF/ hasten/inner light/dull pain and it just kind of soaks up damage. I've got a full AoE attack chain post 27. Sometimes it can get a little hairy but ultimately fine: we have 3 heals and enough knockdown to give yourself a break. Hard agree, but I would also like to add how irritating freaks are on Yin.

As a at-the-moment PB main and a water blast user, +1 inf from me. Would also think it'd work on some Kin Melee powers to give the set something else unique. Cannot agree more, @TheZag, love em. Was doing a redside arc in a full team on +2/3 and it was so - I guess - 'refreshing' for us all to all stop and think about how to do it without losing someone at every mob? Proper teamwork. Watching, in my big-bummed Dwarf form, as the MM's pets get drawn in like cars at a crusher.

Hey @Timeshadow Used your explainer a while ago and now have a PB I adore that's a Vet in the 20s that's solid, purpled and Incarnated. Do you happen to know if there's a guide (or if you could do one <cheeky/ pleading wink>) along the lines of "Warshades still suck!!!"? Really keen to try one out and see the difference but I have no ides where to go with it/ what the powers are like.

The only thing holding me back is that there isn't a way to show I've done it over new Posi. Doing Sister Psyche gets me a different badge, I want people to see my profile and know I'm a sucker for punishment.

I just finished the book and now desperately want to see how they made it into a show. What was it on for you? I'm UK so might not be so easily available.

I had a very similar thing to this! Called a blueside contact when on red shores and he sent me to Port Oakes.

I mainly PUG cos my shifts have changed at work so I’m on at weird times/ my friends are playing less. I’ve noticed an increase in newer players. Whilst that can be a bit of a challenge, getting used to them not knowing stuff (certainly on SFs) for example, but really I think it’s great there are new people and have been enjoying showing people the ropes. It’s great new blood is tricking in. Before starting ive gotten used to saying “has everyone done this?” and then explaining the bits that I think would catch people out (travelling to faultline, yin’s computers, respec trial ambushes etc). I think it’s more about If you want it to go right, try and help at the start. I think ‘most’ people are open to compromise if you explain it out. Keep PuGging, people PuG’d with us when we were new.

I hope we finally meet Midas in all his gold-painted-glory! I penned out an AE arc/ rough draft for a TF a while ago, equal level range to Posi. Their Aeon spat never felt resolved and they feel like fun Sky Raiders. Really excited they might be getting a little more.

Is that... something to do with the Gold Brickers? I odd really love them. And the Warriors are looking sexy in the Kallista... Pumped! Am currently on a bit of a break so this is really cool.

Could I make one more suggestion... To help make more people do the Signature arcs, add one to 'Who Will Die' and add that to the requirements. "Gone But Never Forgotten", or something

Very nice! I think I prefer Pandora’s Box slightly more than WWD. There are slightly fewer cutscenes. However WWD is great for the villain kill badge.

think it was here. a search shows there are a few people asking the same thing. But, can confirm having done them all: no badge.

I think I read in another post about em that the team didn’t wanna lock them behind a paywall? That is obviously less of a concern now.

They're only about 4-6 missions, usually in the same zone as where they're launched, so I wonder if it's just lack of practice? I certainly never did them on live. And no badge... However lots of EBs/AVs to wade through on some missions. There is a VERY fun mission near in Pandoras where there are... If you're forming and Im about then ill join 🙂

Really happy with the change planned. They're fun arcs. And check out the big boy you fight. They should be played more! 20 merits a pop, first time, and they aren't long.

Heya, Ive got a plant/psi Dom at vet 138, love the psi set. I've not used dark much but here are some thoughts and a very rough build. Drain psyche could be changed, I overslotted for the ranged def. Are you aiming for perma drain psyche (one of the best moves in the set), perma hasten and permadom? You're quite under on all 3. Im not 100% on how living shadows works vs roots but the kb is voided in thrust when they're immob'd. Sleet is really, really good. Unless you want to stick with the Leviathan set, I'd recommend ice. You've gone for a lot of purp sets for the def, from what I can tell, but it's not focussed. Do you want ranged or s/l or a bit of both? You'll obviously have to build a bit less because of dark's -acc. I've got soft s/l and 1 small purp from ranged soft capped on my plant. Do you really use psionic dart so much? it's very much just filler for me. Attached is a build but also the numbers, pre-incarnates