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    At a fork in the road and don't know which way to turn

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    Thanks for getting back to me over the holidays. Sorry I didn't reply sooner, but I've been busy with friends and family as well.

     

    My fire resistance is capped at 90% of course, but don't have any defense at all. Not sure if I need it. I guess everyone has a different opinion. Some say that Agility is better because of the +20% defense and others say damage is better. Then you say to stay away from Tiers one, two and three. To tell you the truth I have no idea what you're talking about 🙂 

    At a fork in the road and don't know which way to turn

    in Brute

    Posted

    My Spines/Fire Farming Vet Brute just started his Incarnates and maxed out everything on the equip page. Now I'm looking to raise Agility, but there many choices. One way is recharge and the other defense which I believe would be the correct choice for me, but as you go up each power has two to three recipes. What's the difference or best way to go? Any help would be appreciated.

     

    Problem entering AE and living to tell the tale

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Diantane

    Bought one L45 damage IO for 1,000 inf thanks to your advice, "Without_Pause."  Kept on going up for the others. Paid 150,000 each for the others, but still cheaper than making them myself.

     

    By the way, one of your videos "How to get to 50 in two hours" started me on this path. Now someone may have made a 50 in two hours, but it wouldn't be me 😄

     

    Tried sending a inf request to that link you sent, but they are not online today

     

    Problem entering AE and living to tell the tale

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Diantane

    47 minutes ago, Hedgefund said:

    To OP - if you're planning to stock up on basic IOs, buying lvl 45s already crafted is great for the bargain hunter.

     

    The reason is, by the time players are able to use 45s they're in one of these camps 

    * Using SOs up to 47+ then upgrading to 50s (regardless of SO or IO)

    * Using attuned IO sets (that's me)

    * Bought IOs at 25-30ish

     

    I'm sure there other flavors and there's no need to list them if you, (generic "you", not the OP) do something else.

     

    On the other hand, people who pursue crafting badges are required to do some number for both level 45 and 50.  The level 50s they can sell no problem, but no one wants 45s so they're cheap.

     

    Note - please have what I call "24 hour patience".  Be willing to let your bids sit for 24 hours before bemoaning the lack of availability when you're at the /AH.

     

    For example, here's the last 5 sales for lvl 45 recharge IOs:

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    Here's the last 5 for lvl 50:

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    So, my "24 hour bid" would be something like 50,000 inf.  There no bidders and badge crafters are quick to list something for 1 inf just to get it sold.  I don't want to get bogged down in best bids, my point is that lvl 45 IOs need not break the bank and will function quite well for a basic IO build.

    Thanks for that heads up. I will be creating IO's at 42 (as many as I can afford that is 🙂). Of course I'll be looking for bargains on the AH. When I respec'ed before I would save the SO enhancements in my base. So I'm saving inf by going through them. Sometimes I get lucky. I'll do what you said when buying at the AH though. never understood what all those different numbers were for until now.

    Problem entering AE and living to tell the tale

    in General Discussion

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    37 minutes ago, Ukase said:

    With level 40 SOs...at level 43, they're going to be rather useless. 
    The inf you spent there, well...it could have been spent on level 30 IOs of the same type, and even if you couldn't get ALL of them that you wanted, you'd not have to rebuy them again. 

    There's a lot of ways to proceed from here. 

    I can pull back the curtain later in this thread, (not this post) share some useful paths to take, I can just gift you a large sum of inf so you can buy Common IOs right now, and then, maybe work your way, one day, to the very useful IOs that give set bonuses - which may be more than you're willing to do, from what I can tell. 

    You mention the cost of these things being ridiculous, and compared to some other enhancements, I suppose that is true, in a relative sense. 

    But, consider the idea that when you slot a given "Set", it's like a free enhancement that you didn't have to buy, and if the set is attuned, it works as you level up, getting stronger each level, and it scales down if you exemplar. (unless you exemplar too far below the level in which the set would normally occur) 

    There's no need to use those,(set bonus IOs) of course. But, if the right recipes drop, and all you have to do is craft them (later when you reach 50), you'd be rolling in influence at that time, why wouldn't you? 

    At level 50 - other than inspirations or p2w buffs you might buy, you don't really have expenses. So, as you play, it adds up. Even solo, it adds up. On a team, the kills come quickly, the inf pours in. The last time I paid attention, a kill most ITF, I think I got about 20M inf. 

    If the only thing that's stopping you from proceeding to 50 is the cost of the enhancements, you let me know, I'll drop some inf on you, if you like. Not so much to take your motivation away, but enough to buy all the Common IOs you might need. 

    Before making this Spines/fire brute I never had the drive to go much further than around 40. But now that I have done what I'm been doing the last couple days by jumping into a large mob (like 20 of them) without being a dedicated alpha tank, and within 20 seconds most of them being dead, I'm pretty fired up and looking forward to see just what else this AT is capable of. Not just looking at 50 being a goal, but what lurks beyond this point.

     

    Now I had looted many yellow and orange recipes, but have no idea if any are keepers or not. (as I have never used one before).  Didn't want to sell any to a vendor so when they filled up my available space, I switched over to tickets (no idea what they are for yet, but there must be a reason they are there).

     

    When you reach 50 my guess is that the x2 xp buffs I'm using become worthless or are they still used for gaining something else? You say at 50 I would be rolling in influence. Can't figure out how. It couldn't be the little influence you get from killing mobs is it? Remember on LIVE the trouble I was having being able to afford SO's from the low influence you received as loot. Had the same trouble when I first came to Homecoming, but someone told me about selling enhancement boosters. Course that only helps to buy up to level 40 SO's with some extra change.

     

    Have little experience doing task forces. Did Positron 1 & 2 one morning, but don't remember what the reward was (except maybe a badge). But now that I have a character that impresses me this much, I will look into doing more after I get to 50 in a few days.

     

    How do you attune an enhancement?

    Problem entering AE and living to tell the tale

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    46 minutes ago, Ironblade said:

    That's like saying that you're losing money when you go to the grocery store.  Technically you are, but you are receiving something you perceive as valuable in exchange for your cash.  Everyone who buys something on the market does so voluntarily.

     

     

    Well, I would say you're not really farming yet.  You're still leveling.  You have to make the investment in time and money to get a character ready for real farming.  Having said that, you can put together a farming build really cheap.  No one has to farm at +4/x8.  I put together a cheap second build for my fire/fire brute and I run at +0/x8.

     

    I just use SO to fight at +1x8. Have a close call now and again, but I do it every time. Reason: No one said I couldn't 🙂  However with the difficulty I'm seeing, I won't be going over that atm. 

    Problem entering AE and living to tell the tale

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Diantane

    Got a new question that came up as I was farming. Have been using many inspirations as they come in so quickly anyway. Just wondered if there was just so high you could go (cap) for damage, accuracy and defense? Figured out that the F2W vendor could stop sending me rez's (which are harder to get rid of - right click/delete) and break frees.

     

    Problem entering AE and living to tell the tale

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Dazl said:

     

    Farming is pretty boring and not a method I would want to level up a character either. However I do use my farmer to power level new alts. Some alt's I'll PL to 50, others I may just PL to 35 and give them a decent IO build and run them to 50 normally. All you really need is one farmer on a second account and you would be set. Heck some of us might be happy to help you with that. I have no problem helping PL new farmers, just not thrilled about doing it for non-farmers just so people can level a toon faster without even trying.

    I wouldn't have to be a sitter as I've got some experience now. Only, I have not been able to get past +1x8 yet. Having some difficulties with even that, but okay until I level once. Can't gain two full levels on one map anymore. 

    Problem entering AE and living to tell the tale

    in General Discussion

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    21 minutes ago, Without_Pause said:

    Correct. Do a respec. Load all of the IOs you want to keep into the 7 trays you get so non are deleted. Store the ones you want to. You can reslot ones if there are some, but I think that would be a rare case. If I use 1-2 common IOs for a power, see Hasten, I can see slotting level 50s in it.

     

    In short, the game kind of holds your hand 1-20. This is why by 22 I start slotting level 25 IOs and only slot something different if I am going all in on IOs. I have leveled many builds to 50 using nothing but level 25 commons.

     

    One advantage of getting a character to level 50 is using catalyst drops so you can take a non-common IO and make it attuned. This means the IO is the level that you are up to any level limit it has. It also can be slotted at the minimum level for its range. A level 13 IO can suddenly be slotted at level 7 and go to level 25+.

    Pretty amazing that this was in the game. I've also been reading about the incarnate system and was impressed on how extensive it was. Looking forward to that. Is there anything there that would aid in farming?

    Problem entering AE and living to tell the tale

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Diantane

    1 hour ago, Albion said:

    I got to applaud you, sometimes we land on an already stablished crowd with our own personal way and there is clashes neither side could be proud of, takes strong character to steer the wheel away from such courses, thanks for the reply and will be looking forward to what you can achieve in our loved game, if you need some inf to slot the basis of your end game and happen to be on Excelsior let me know.

    I moved to Excelsior from Everlasting about six months ago because of the higher population here. I can lead a team or join another in the wee morning hours (impossible on Everlasting). A few days ago I led a team through every arc in the Hollows (I disabled the XP @ 15 on a rad/rad sentinel).  The players were quite excited to be there as they had either never seen the arcs or not in ten years. Especially the Julius the Troll and Talshak the Mystic arcs.

     

    Created this character the same day after reading about the interesting synergies within. Got him to 7 by grinding in Atlas and the Hollows. Then joining a radio team in PI and one in Founders. At 24 they disbanded and I started my project to farm/level the character. Currently 38.

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    Problem entering AE and living to tell the tale

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    1 minute ago, Dazl said:

    Keep in mind you don't need to keep upgrading the basic IO's. Level 25 or 30's will work all the way to 50. Sure it cost more to start, but you will save funds in the long haul. Once you hit 50 you should consider using a real IO build and put those basic IO back in storage for your next alt.

    You mean doing a respec to get the IO's away from the character?

    Problem entering AE and living to tell the tale

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Just found out that the difference of cost between a L45 and 50 IO's is huge and I will never be able to afford the 50's for some time (maybe never). So at 42 I will start replacing my SO's with IO's. Can't do all of them at once, but will work on them as I earn the influence.

     

    Have said before that at this time, farming is interesting to me (not boring yet 🙂)

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