BazookaTwo

Just yesterday I was running duo with my Archery/Ninja/Ninja and a Ss/Energy brute. We ran at +3 and did the Wildflower arc from Crimson. The two of us competently chewed through Malta at +3/8 at a pretty good clip. The Brute was quite impressed. I keep looking at the build and where to shore it up, but I can't find anything I'd change. Ok, I swapped an acc/DMG/rech IO for a toxic proc. Beyond that it's hard to improve on. - 50/42/42 positional defenses with just Ninjitsu + Maneuvers, with Barrier and Kujin Retsu for godmode level def. - 65% range boost - 75% DMG boost - capped run speed with only Infiltration. - 50% to hit boost before Aim - 5 AOEs counting Incarnates/4 ST attacks. - Decimation proc letting me have twice as many build-up instances. - 2 fire DMG procs - 2 toxic procs - hybrid assault double strike proc - pyronic Judgement with the prolonged "I am on fire" effect - robot drones, doing dmg and adding another bubble. so yeah I bet DP nin-nin is great too. Try the archery version!

Adding that to the list of "stupid dumb tricks for Sentinels" to try.

I'd also be interested in more places in zones where clicking on a door just gave you a random instance of a map. No mission arc needed. But only sometimes. One day it's just a Mexican restaurant, the next visit? Tsoo are there in droves (because obviously they want to corner the ethnic restaurant biz)

You flatter me, but the term is masochist. I like that arc and that mission.

why do many mobs stand around in groups, when it would be more interesting if most enemy mobs were patrols?

Before I let this thread rest in piece, has anyone built a purpled out EM/SR? Not having access to mids prevents me from experimenting there. I could hit brainstorm and try some different things though.

I tend to use it whenever it's up, more than I use it situationally. and yeah I think it's best on a whole spawn.

I guess I should look at swapping Mako's for Apocalypse, maybe. depends on how much it knocks off my Def numbers to do so.

That's a fair point on Shadow Meld vs Elude. However I 'feel' like Melt Armor is very good to soften up stuff several levels higher than me. Maybe it's my imagination?

So I've got this guy to level 50. I took whirling hands and skipped the other aoe/cone, I took Elude, and I took Char and Melt Armor. I have 48% positional to melee/ranged/aoe. I have like a 30% damage bonus, as well as musculature alpha I'm working up. Of course I took BS,TF, and ET. Clearly it's a good character. It hits fairly hard, and the defenses are pretty good. But I'm wondering are there any further tweaks or tricks people could recommend? I do no have mids, as I'm on a Mac. Thanks in advance!

Thank you! This is exactly my problem! Next time I will screen shot that damn door! I was enjoying the arc before all that...

So any time I build a squishy archetype, the resistance numbers in Mids say they are in the negative, no matter what I do. Example: building a dark/kin controller, and even with Rune of Protection, Tough, and Charged Armor all 6 slotted, my resistance numbers still look negative. Is there some config I need to do in Mids to fix this?

Yes, and then those heroes killed me, and I was unable to get back to the mission. It moved on to another mission, and as I already explained it was broken.

I tried running Houston. Got a striga map within Striga map that confused the heck out of me. I'm the 2nd or 3rd mission I had to bail cause the heroes I was supposed to fight never showed up. I cleared the whole map of mobs... Nothing. Asked in help and gen chat...nothing. Petitioned for GM help ..nothing. Then I quit cause literally no point.

I take that back. I just relogged my staff stalker and she is staff/energy

Staff/bio is a winner

My kinwater defender Silver Tsoonami would be down to team with this guy

Hello from Thailand! Kinetic Melee on a Stalker is the best AT for that set. I love the idea of a Muay Thai fighter (I think super reflexes works for concept...cause Lerdsila!) I'd recommend trying out MA/SR, KM/SR, maybe even Street Justice/SR for that theme.

That's my original character from live. It's amazingly OP, and thank hells they didn't nix Ignite. Ignite on flyers is hilarious and fun too

You're being way too hard on Siesmic. I like Storm Blast too, but Siesmic is its own wonderful thing. I'm sure people are going to moan about people refusing to slot Sudden Acceleration in Jet Stream. Jet stream is like Gale but smarter (and yes I skipped Gust, cause I'm not ridiculous)

Storm/electric blapper. Feels good

I don't think that's actually possible to do.

I can tell you from a blapper perspective it's going well. My main damage dealers so far are hailstones and the snipe. Storm Cell is ridiculously easy to perma, too. I don't know about IOs yet really. But Jet Stream is great positional mitigation. Seems when they're getting pushed back they don't get a chance to hit very hard. A team with several Storm Blast characters is gonna mitigate most threats easily. On Beta I tried a pure storm corruptor, and Freezing Rain + Storm Cell is great. Everything crawls.

So I haven't seen anyone mention storm blast in this sub forum since it rolled out, so I'll start. I am working up a Storm/Electric Manip blapper. So far I'm level 17 but it's been a fun ride. It's end hoggy and I started slotting stuff towards that with a performance shifter proc. I assume Electric Melee has tools for that later on. I'm also putting in FF+Rech in the slowest melee power, which helps things recharge faster. So far I have only taken Hasten and Super Speed for Pools. I feel like Storm Cell really does soften up a mob. I joined a 50+ team in PI and surprisingly it even helped with +4 Carnies. The Snipe hits hard. This build gets build up, intensify, and storm cell. That's alot of damage and tohit buffage. Anyone with Electric Melee build tricks? I know we are all anxiously awaiting the Mids update for Storm Blast, but surely someone is a blap expert with Electric?

Just curious give an example of how you play this? I thought my ideas were far off the map.... 🙂