[The Mindful Tank]

My Inv/Psi Tank will be sticking with Energy Mastery. Focused Accuracy is just too useful, and now they've reduced its End use too. He also uses the Force of Will pool, which I think works well with the Psi theme too.

 

But I'm glad they're adding sets and giving us more options.

[What Is The First Thing You Are Going To Do In Issue 27 Page 7?]

Maybe I'll give Storm Blast another shot.

[How to Defense soft-cap as Blaster]

The Winter themed enhancement sets all give a lot of +Defense, especially when they're boosted to Very Rare (at level 50).

[Name database - Will this get cleaned up?]

I've started a few characters on Torchbearer and have been surprised at the good names available. I lost interest in one and deleted the character, then soon saw someone else using the name. I'm just glad it found a new home.

[The Officially Unofficial Weekly Discussion #63: What do you do for low level content or to get through levels 1-30?]

Mostly police scanner and bank missions to 20, then add in Tip missions. As long as your character can gradually increase difficulty, it goes very quickly.

[Replace Speed power "Flurry" with super speed combat teleport type power?]

Move Flurry to the third tier and make it a cone attack.

[Would you settle for a close, but not exact name?]

Now would be a good time for veteran players to delete or rename some of their lesser used characters to free up names for the new players.

[Updated Superman builds]

2 hours ago, hoopahnan said:

though if there’s a move that makes you leap to an enemy that’d be nice.

 

Yes, there's Spring Attack and it is cool! I just wish it had a shorter recharge time.

 

I don't know much about Mids compatibility but here's my build to see if it works and give you ideas.

InvSS.mbd

[Superman Tankers are boring.... but..... intentionally handicapping yourself is hard.....]

My alternative to the indestructible Tanker lately has been to go in the complete opposite direction- the massive damage Blaster. It takes some getting used to (did you know there's badges for being defeated?), but at higher levels you start to feel just as powerful in a different way.

[S.O. enhancements... let's make them affordable for new players]

Just one Rare Salvage drop, sold in the Auction House, can fund SOs for quite a few early levels (as long as you're not upgrading every level.) And you can buy a Rare Salvage for the 5 Merits you get for the starting zone exploration badges.

 

Yeah, this info isn't exactly new player friendly, but isn't figuring out strategies like this part of playing games?

 

(And honestly, how many new players is this game really getting?)

[Invuln/Rad Build]

I like Resilient for Invulnerability, since it effects so many powers and pushes the exotic Resists over 70%. (The ToHit buff also effects Invincibility a little bit, it's a bigger deal with Inv/SS because of Rage.)

[What kind of snacks do you eat while playing?]

Jambalaya

[Definitive Invul Build]

My suggestion to help Endurance problems (and I realize some people won't like it) is don't take Hasten. One power that saps your End every two minutes is bad enough, two is asking for trouble. Yeah, you can hit Footstomp and KO Blow a couple seconds faster, but by the endgame purpled-out build, I barely notice the difference.

 

I'm surprised you'd have Accuracy problems, I think the +ToHit from Rage is one of the best parts of Super Strength. I still take Focused Accuracy though, for the +Perception and ToHit Debuff resistance, but generally only need it running fighting Arachnos.

[If you could make a new archetype or epic archetype, what would it be?]

I think a Melee/Support AT could work if you switch some of the Ally-only powers to include the caster.

[Okay, Fighting Pool- You Win]

I've always avoided the Fighting Pool on my Melee characters, especially Tanks. I already have a set of Melee attacks, Tough is redundant, and Weave might be nice to have but isn't necessary. But since we can now skip our Tier 1 secondary power, it's a little easier to fit in the Fighting Pool, and having another AoE attack (Cross Punch) would be nice..

 

So I finally added the Fighting Pool to my Inv/SS Tank. Cross Punch does almost as much damage as Haymaker, but can hit up to five targets- that's great! And it recharges just as fast as Haymaker. Also it can Stun and Knockdown targets. Cool. But wait there's more- every target you hit increases your Recharge and ToHit for six seconds! It's weird how much this attack does.

 

I used to have Spring Attack from the Leaping Pool. It's a fun way to enter a fight, does decent damage, but has a very long recharge. I kind of wish I could stick with Spring Attack, but Cross Punch is just too good. So you win, Fighting Pool.

[How much should damage type factor into your decision regarding power choices?]

The good thing about Psi is a lot of the sets have a Confuse power that lets you recruit a helper buddy against resistant enemies.

[Help choosing a combo to learn how to blap / joust]

On 9/28/2023 at 10:51 AM, Procellus said:

I don't know if it's good any more but during live Sonic/EM was a good solo blaster. Sleep a group, Total Focus everyone straight to jail.

 

Can confirm this is a great combo. Sleep the whole group (and it's auto-hit, there's no mess), hit the Boss with Screech and the EM attacks and they're too stunned to fight back.

[Super Strength/Hurl: give it the same AoE Knockback as Propel]

Throwing a big chunk of ground should feel more powerful. Adding AoE knockback (or knockdown) would help without adding any damage.

[Psi Melee Insight change (scrappers)]

1 hour ago, Ananke said:

Replace boggle with something like rend armor that lowers psi resist.

Yikes, no. Boggle is awesome.

 

I think an easier "controlled" Insight would be just have Concentration automatically grant Insight.

 

 

[Officially Unofficial Weekly Discussion #45: Travel Powers and speeding tickets.]

I think the secondary powers should crossover if you take both travel powers. Ex: Afterburner with Mystic Flight, Double Jump with Mighty Leap.

[Why Play Any Control Set Other Than Mind Control?]

5 hours ago, Eldyem said:

Am I missing some context here? Every Control set has multiple forms of AoE lockdown. AoE sleeps aren't even unique to Mind Control. Holds and Stuns completely stop enemies from attacking, Confuses stop them from attacking you, and Fears slow down how often enemies attack considerably. In fact, Sleep is one of the least effective forms of AoE lockdown.

 

Sleep is the only auto-hit, though. It's nice not worrying about a bad roll.

[Why so much Cold/Fire Resist/Defense? (Feedback)]

It is weird that most purple sets have a 6% Fire/Cold resist bonus but only three sets give 6% Energy/Negative resists (and they're AT-restricted, so you can only access one at most.)

[Do you build for psi resist?]

Not anymore, since they added Psi resistance to Invulnerability.

[Sigh Barbie]

I'm going to assume Barbie Q is already taken

[Sonic/Mental help request]

I just levelled up a Sonic Blaster (but /Energy) and really liked the set because it's Controller-ish. I would use Sirens Song to take most enemies out of the fight while I concentrate on the Boss, but to do this you have to use single target attacks. At higher levels I could be more of an AoE Blaster, cycling Shockwave and Sirens Song to both damage and control a group. And of course Dreadful Wail to nuke everyone whenever it's up.