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That is 14 billion inf... On the bright side? You will never ever ever want for anything from a super pack. Heaven forbid trying to pull ~1550 atos out of email, one at a time. Or anything, really.

Ahhh, frankenslotting. You can get in the red for acc/dam/end/rech on attacks by +5ing them with 4 slots. I think it is ALMOST possible on 3, depending on the power and ability to slot more than one purple trip of mixed bonus. Winteros are amazing options for frankenslotting, since you can purple them for stupid values. I do not recommend frankensloting catalyzed winteros though, given the extreme value they have as a set.

Those guys are kinda like, hmm, part blaster, part mm? With all those silly flying things that go around. I think it could be fun! I REALLY like their melee attacks at low level, with the cool grid-looking effects. That would be something I would really love to play!

Fwiw, I find squids to not really be "advanced", just more requiring tons and tons and tons of inf for "advanced builds" to support their tricks. Widows and soldiers are anything but advanced. You get whats on the tin from almost level 1. Moreover, whats on that tin is really, really, REALLY useful. Couple their inherent leadership powers with leadership itself, and you are cooking with gas in a very reall way. No fancy slotting required.

The other powersets are flavor + utility, but not on the level that cj, hover, weave, hasten, tough are. Weaken resolve is actually pretty useful if you have sufficient recharge. WoF I have found useful as well, especially at levels where you just don't have much aoe. Considering you can take almost immediately, and that some sets like MA don't get you your pbaoe until your 20s, its actually a really strong ability.

Tooltip is not accurate. It (ToE) is actually capped at the level 30 value. Kind of irritating. I am pretty positive that MRB gives you the accurate value for the slotting, if you do that kind of thing. 😄

That is unfortunate. It seems like bio, if the stance isn't purely putting out raw damage across the board, then the alternate forms are kind of beat. I wonder what the break even point is for 1 damage per X end per Y rech, and balance these forms against that. Even dual blades is a terrible example of this, where generally you ignore the combos entirely once you get enough recharge...

The reverse is always an option as well. Catalysts (turn unattuned into attuned) drop 1 every 18 hours within the first, 5? minutes of play at level 50. Any significant playtime (or just a few minutes every day on a variety of 50s) will net you more catalysts than you will know what to do with. Funnel odd-level pvp ios to your 50s, have them slot, attune, and unslot, then dump the attuned pvp ios into your storage mechanism of choice.

I would like to see PVP stripped out entirely. Outliers in PVE are squashed pretty thoroughly due to PVP. Wild swings in PVE performance do not translate well into "balanced" PVP. What we have seen, over and over and over and over and over is PVE concepts/functions/"fun" squashed to enforce a bell curve in function in PVP. You cannot excise PVP entirely, because hey, people want their PVE char (derivative of slotting) to function the same in PVP, but with some slight additions/subtractions to powers used in each format. As a result, the two end up in some sort of pale imitation of each other, as we watch cast times, power affects, dpa, all toe the line towards making PVP accessible and eliminate people from swinging too far to the left or right of the bell curve in PVP. MANY bad decisions that affected PVE play over the years have stemmed from PVP. I did not join to PVP. In fact, I joined because at the start, there WAS no pvp. I still enjoy playing, and will play till it dies again, but always lament seeing changes flow into PVE, originating in "balance concerns" from PVP. I enjoyed the arena, but apparently noone else did. To me it was a creative take on PVP that could have been taken farther, and if you actually got rewards for winning matches, could have had an impact on the general life of a player.

Fantasy games have fairly huge areas between "levelup" movement between them so noobs don't get isntagibbed wandering. This is predominantly a city; there is no place to put buffer between level gradiations. Rogue Isles is 100% islands; if you aren't flying, you really arent making it from point a to point b, so what ultimately is gained there?

Before you get all level-numbered focused, be aware that set ios only work to the level you can exemp access to the enh. If the set doesnt even start until 30, you will still get stat values out of it at, say, 20, but not the set bonuses. (edit: winteros, pvp ios, and atos not withstanding) The solution to this problem is to use attuned set ios, exclusively use pvp/ato/winteros, or generics. If you just want level 50 enhs, slot them at 50 and boost them to +1-5, whatever is needed to max value out within the set-slot requirement for a given set bonus you are chasing. I personally sell all generics recipes and SO enhs to vendors, sell anything on the ah for a recipe that isnt a pvpio, wintero, or extremely valuable io (lotg +7.5 rech for example), and just buy outright attuned enhs that I want. Attuned enhs scale with level (up and down), and the set bonuses are available at _all_ levels the set can be slotted.

Don't do radios! I really don't understand the prevalence of people running radios in PI. Tips in Atlas are short commutes, almost never have escorts (there are 2? debutantes and the crazy spy lady), generally have small maps, and generate merits after 10. They drop continuously, so running mishs is constant without stopping to run to get the bank mish or whatever. Excluding tips, regular mishs are a great way to go. Incarnates can get incarnate parts for eeeeveryone just running repeatable arcs. Those do tend to be a little tougher though.

Corpseblasting is real! Justice for all the poor poor corpse blasters!

My most incarnated char is actually the least set io'd. He currently has _1_ set io slotted... and I mean 1 enh, not a whole set.

I have a few physics/electricity names that i was surprised werent picked, like Shocking Discovery, but probably my fav is Mace to the Face, wm/bio/moonbeam scrapper. 🙂

I like to lead friendly teams, with lots of chat, and a difficulty set according to the general function of the team. This means during the course of some play time, difficulty is moved up or down based on the changing team dynamic and capabilities. If people aren't having fun, switch mishs, lower difficulty, or try a different set of enemies. Some people prefer to utterly smash white cons over slowly whittling away at purples or reds. Moreover, some people just arent slotted/ready for high difficulty teams, and can feel depressed when the other members slotted out with IOs of DOOM + INCARNATES IN A TACO walk in and obliterate before they even have time to land _1 attack_. Gotta get everyone having fun!

Before mids, I would literally do this on paper. I was never disappointed with a build I did on paper. Not so much one from mids. I think thats because with mids, you see all the numbers and really want to maximize all things to the maximumize.

If you guys read the fourth book, its pretty interesting. I don't know if I liked Prime's telling of book 4... I felt the book was actually better, but the show had value.

I vote for this.

Sounds perfect! When are you available for teaming? 🙂

I will totally hire any person with knock-whatever on to my team, NO QUESTIONS ASKED! Well, as long as that person doesnt do something like slot 4 sources of +kb stat into every kb power. This isn't golf! But... I will do minigolf!

I feel that EM needs a second, moar better aoe, and maybe some sort of instant tf or et or something.

I heard there is cake?

thanks! thats it! edit: Update, it works as marked on the tin, but I don't get the nifty countdown for power recharge, so I am stuck keeping the power on the bar. HOWEVER! that works, because now i don't need to move the damn mouse to target it!

I had a macro at some point that said, teleport attack at currently selected target. I can't find it. Does someone have that macro?