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Then why does that darned tornado do its own thing?!?

I realize this is a “first-world problem” in a lot of ways, but I’d love it if there were some large scale influence sinks in the game. Nothing that would affect the average gamer. Prestige used to serve this purpose, but I understand why that went the way of the dodo. Maybe a badge? I for one would welcome a “Dr. Evil” badge for one hundred BILLION inf. Or a trillion? Any other ideas?

This would be a non-starter for me since I wouldn’t be able to rationalize shooting arrows through constant high winds!

I agree with this entirely. The build would not be great on teams though, since your pace would be slower than most.

Mind/ is great, but I don't think of it as a team controllery build. Lots of sleep and confuse, which doesn't often go hand in hand with the steamroll zerg nature of teams nowadays.

Personally, I'm mostly out of the market. At this point I just do it as a habit or to create supply when I see a need. My carefully planned winter-o and purple marketers sit on huge supply, since when I have an alt who needs them, I just pick them up from the market rather than go through the hassle of emailing them. I'd suggest just buying converters when you need them for whatever character you need them for. I try to keep 500-1000 converters on every character, and put in bids with spare slots when I log. I mean, worst case scenario, you need 1000 converters right now, you can probably buy them instantly for 100k. If you need 1000 converters right now, you can probably stomach the 20k/converter price for buy-it-now. If you can't, that's when you dip into your merit supply! I highly doubt that email is safe for the long term, but I have a lot stored in there right now. I have a few bank mules, but even so...

You can also run it at +4/x8 and it’s still quick but not as boring since you get a few good fights in. Takes me about 20-25 minutes that way and you pick up lots of threads to boot.

Play lefty.

Yeah, for what it's worth, I'm with this opinion. If you are soloing or it's your team? Have at it. You do you. When you put on your "teaming" hat you need to be a teammate. I don't think it's a reasonable presumption that everyone else in the league should already have disabled this or should take 5 minutes to go to Null because you don't want to have to resummon your robots occasionally. If I were playing a melee character and got taken out of range because you came too close to me and made me fly? I'd be miffed too. If I were the only one on the team with an issue, I'd probably figure out a way to coexist. If there were 2-3 others who were also having a poor play experience? I absolutely would have turned off group fly. But I'm Lawful Good, yo; greatest good for the greatest number of people. Just my opinion.

Was your group fly only affecting yourself and your bots, or was it also affecting other players?

Thanks for this; I would have found this arc eventually but this got me here more quickly. It's very entertaining!

Wow, great job!

War mace/battle axe (they are essentially the same power sets, except one is smashing damage and the other is lethal).

Every building is a Chase bank, a Verizon Wireless store, or is empty.

Yeah, I made an error. I thought Energy Aura was the one with -endurance resistance. Elec Armor it is!

I recently made 50 on mine and it's great at 50. I'm running around without an alpha doing content like Malta and Carnival at +3/+4 and having a grand old time! Not fully IOed out yet (no purples, ATOs or winter os) but relatively nicely put together. Soft capped at melee and ranged defense, close at AoE. Resistance for s/l mid 60s, low 20s in just about everything else. I even added Aid Self for a heal, which kind of felt necessary. My only issue is that lethal damage really feels inferior to smashing, so I feel like a war mace would be outperforming. Running Malta content, for example, on a WM/WP brute or a WM/DA scrapper feels a lot faster.

For Carnival of Shadows, I'll go with WA/Energy Aura brute.

I was just thinking about this very thing this morning. For Malta I'm going to say WM/WP brute.

I was initially leaning towards the two damage procs, and then the accuracy/slow from Impeded Swiftness and the accuracy/to hit debuff from Cloud Senses. I'm running at +4 and maybe one of the reasons I'm not seeing the procs is because I'm missing a lot. Again, I'll need to check the logs. Also, there is a smidgen of resist damage for the set bonuses. I like the idea of stacking -recharge, but I imagine that any fight that would take long enough for that to come into play, i.e., AV or GM, would also involve massive reduce recharge resistance?

It can take Slow sets in game. I’ve only been running with it for and evening, but I haven’t noticed it proccing; when I get a chance I’ll check the logs.

I recently respecced one of my brutes to add Aid Self, and I’m looking at Injection instead of Aid Other as a prerequisite. I rarely/ever see this in posted builds. It looks like it could be useful for procs, Cloud Senses, the Slow smashing damage, maybe some other to hit debuffs. Does anyone use this power on enemies and if so how would you slot it? Assume up to 6 slots.

In practical terms, it makes selling harder. There is a penalty if you post too high and feel like you need to repost. BUYING IS EASY; SELLING IS HARD. Now why is the fee split up into two components? Because when you post an offer, you have almost no idea where it’s going to sell. It could be at your posting price. It could be 2bn. Having two fees asks for an initial deposit and makes it so it sums up to 10% of the sale. Why is it 10%? Influence sink. I wholeheartedly support this.

No. I will not support yet another initiative to make everything yet easier, even though that has been the clear trend through Live and Homecoming. Gaining inf is trivially easy. Buy your purple. If you can't get a purple recipe that is exactly the one you want to drop, along with the salvage and the 600,000 crafting fee, then press your I win button and have it automatically slotted, I'm sorry. I am all for making this a low-entry game that is extremely easy to excel at. We all want to feel validated. But you don't need purples to succeed so asking for the rate drop to be increased is ridiculous.

What distinguishes one from another? What tools do you need to defeat a GM solo that are over those needed to defeat an AV?

I ought to have sought him on Hot or Not in the year of two aught aught aught. I thought he was in a fraught squat, eating a kumquat. Sometimes I can be a real tw jerk.