Yomo Kimyata

When I was doing my giveaways, I made sure that people needed to come to me and ask which is why I did it through in-game email. There are many many times I've been playing a brand new alt and someone runs up and tries to give me inf or items without even a word, and I find that really offputting. I understand that they are trying to be nice, but no, I don't need or want your detritus to sell. I'll get my own.

I hear you. Maybe this dated thread will help give you more data:

Only if you increase the +defense on Combat Jumping for Dominators.

When I play TW on scrappers, I always keep Defensive sweep and usually skip Titan sweep. The +def from Def sweep helps a ton on a resistance based build.

Something that you might want to keep in mind is how you use your computer and what else you have running at the same time. I am a unrepentant multi-tasker, I've got a browser up with about fifty tabs, and I'm running about 5-10 applications at a time. Some are more intensive than others and yeah you nailed it a lot of the time the bottleneck is internet connectivity. I have recently started using Obsidian and although I love its functionality, it cuts my connectivity to a bare minimum so I try not to use it while I'm also playing something like coH.

I'm not going to say this is me, and I'm not going to say this is not me, but this is me. It's all me.

I'm not sure if I want to emphasize this because I usually do this, or because it's a smart play. A little from column A, a little from column B. I often make alternate builds for my high end scrappers: 1. Force of Will; 2. Experimentation; 3. Sorcery. I don't make the third one often, but when I do it's a doozy

Throw in Achilles Heel and Annihilation procs. It's frankly overpowered. If you've got a free power slot, sure. I originally thought it helped your resistance to confuse or terrorize, which would make it more useful in certain situations, but it looks like it just adds duration to your confuse and terrorize powers, which is niche to the point of absurdity. for Experimentation builds, I'll go with Experimental Injection (base slot, Preventative proc), Speed of Sound (base slot, Universal travel slow protection proc) and Corrosive vial with 2 to 5 total slots. Adrenal Boost is fine if you have room for it, but it's hardly necessary.

Earlier this year, I was on a PUG ITF and one of the members of our group was wearing the Cim Surgeon costume for the entire ITF. It was brilliant.

My endless lag

I very recently resurrected a Battle Axe/Ice Armor/Leviathan scrapper and updated it for the relatively recent changes in Battle Axe and Ice Armor. I have both Icy Bastion (which seems to act a lot now like Hibernate before being deactivated) and Hibernate, and I use them both in solo +4/x8 general play. After at least a dozen missions, I have noticed some inconsistencies in Hibernate that I've never noticed before. This might be due to the fact I've never used it frequently before, but here goes. These are specifically about Hibernate and not Icy Bastion, although I suspect they might be interacting in an unintended manner. 1. Sometimes enemy damage breaks through after activation when I'm Untouchable. The way this happens is that damage comes in while the power is still activated. Not often, and yes, I'm sure that this is occurring after the 0.75 second activation time because the health regeneration and endurance recovery has already kicked in. Maybe I'm not sure what Untouchable Mag 1000 means, but this is in the middle of one or two x8 mobs. I'm fighting mostly Nemesis right now, so I'm thinking that maybe this is an effect of stacked Vengeance? 2. Sometimes Hibernate breaks, much like I've observed Geode breaking in the past. Again, not often, but maybe one every other mission. I believe Geode is designed to break if enough damage is taken, but Hibernate is not designed that way. The way this happens is that the power is activated and functioning and after a few seconds the power is deactivated and put into cooldown. If intended, I can only imagine that this has something to do with an Untouchable timer, since Icy Bastion and Hibernate each involve the Untouchable status. 3. Sometimes the Hibernate button greys out for a period of several seconds or much longer. This happens the most (every few minutes) and I'm suspecting that this has something to do with Icy Bastion being previously activated but it is not consistent. Sometimes it happens when I haven't used either power for at least several minutes. I've been suffering a lot of lag in my current circumstances so I think that might also be a factor

The rate at which new characters are created has decreased for various reasons, while the rate at which new IOs are created has increased for various reasons.

B-b-but they all have the same trading history?!?!? WITCHCRAFT!!!

I've been noodling around on my Ultimate Enhancement Guide for years now, but I keep getting bogged down. Partly due to the fact I want to avoid tables like the ones above. At this point in my existence, I may be more artificial than intelligent, but it is interesting to see what an AI or two came up with.

Looking at this thread, I pulled out an old lvl 50 scrapper that pre-dated both the upgrades to Ice Armor and Battle Axe named, imaginatively enough, Ice Axe. I'm in the process of running her through the paces in this newer gentler world, but here are some thoughts so far: I'm generally not a fan of non-positional typed defense, but frankly I don't worry too much about this to be honest. Since I'm running through all sorts of content, I won't make a specific "psi enemy" build and I'll just make up the difference with healing/regeneration and oh shit buttons. I've got three builds on this one: a Force of Will build, an Experimentation build, and I'm working on the Sorcery build now. Lots of oh shit buttons out there! I try to have both a ST chain and an AoE chain. For Axe, I usually find that Cleave, Chop, and Swoop are sufficient because I'll have a ranged attack from an epic pool, I'll have a Force Feedback proc in Cleave that helps, and there are other buttons to push for Ice Armor that keep me upright. If I were going for pylon times, I'd focus more on ST options. As a leveling build, yeah, it's tough at first and I'd consider taking another attack or two at lower levels that you respec out of later. Honestly, I pick up Kick pretty early and use it until about level 12 or so. My basic ST chain is Cleave, Chop, Swoop, +. My basic AoE chain (and AoE is glorious on this alt) is Cleave, Axe Whirlpool, Pendulum. As such, I go against the grain and put the Crit Strikes proc in Cleave. It has a good chance of activation for a small AoE, and since I spend 95% of my time fighting x8 hordes, it activates a ton. I'll put a FF +rech in Axe Black Hole and/or Pendulum as well, and I generally skip out of Hasten because that proc is going to be dinging like crazy. Normally for a non-defense based scrapper, I'll split the Scrapper's Strike 3-3 for the extra defense bonus, but I'll probably 5 or 6 slot the set in Swoop since I don't really need it.