Yomo Kimyata
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35 minutes ago, Damoklese said:
So ive always wanted an ice controller but every time ive made one ive lost interest once I hit that point where the damage falls off and you start to feel like you need either a lot more damage or a lot more hard control. I inevitably give up and move on to other alts at that point.
Id really like an ice controller though. Does anyone have a pairing with Ice Control that make it feel more solo friendly? Or just that you generally feel is the "best" route to go when playing Ice Control?
Maybe you should make a stone or fire controller and change the power appearances so they look like ice.
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4 hours ago, Ghost said:
His prices are ridiculous, terrible customer service and an almost non-exist return policy.
Personally, I prefer "ridonkulous", "terriblistic", and "completely non-existent return policy".
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I've been winding things down for a long time and doing some cleaning up, including tallying some things up.
As you may know, the kiosks blueside list a bunch of lifetime character stats, including some marketing stats. I don't think these stats are available redside or goldside. Over the last few months, I kept records of all characters on my main account, with the exception of 15 characters that were either still goldside and I hadn't brought/didn't want to bring them through or were redside and low enough level that I didn't want to spend the time bringing them to Pocket D and switching them to Rogue and checking their stats.
Since April 2019:
I have sold on the /AH a total of 478,203 enhancements, 2,131 inspirations, 6,221 recipes, and 1,155,880 pieces of salvage. I have no idea how many items I have vendored, but it's going to be a bunch.
I'm going out on a limb here and saying that if you have ever bought an enhancement on the /AH from 2019 to 2023, the odds are rather good that you have bought something from me at some point!
Happy hunting!
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No matter what, your first character isn't going to be particularly self-funding until you get into your upper 30s. I'd suggest something that can use SO (single origin enhancements, available from most vendors) and be effective, like a broadsword/willpower brute. As you learn more, you can dip into IOs (invention origin enhancements, which provide set bonuses and other yummy stuff) and try more exotic characters. Also consider if you want to solo or team.
I'm happy to give you, or anyone, start-up capital. Look for my "Salmagundi" thread in this forum.
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1. Not stellar. I would not consider spines as an AV killer, but it will certainly get you there for just about everything else. As mentioned, having Moonbeam or Zapp will help a bunch with single target. I'd think that targeting bosses with your ST and letting your auras take out minions/lts on their own is a sound strategy.
2. Absolutely keep Throw Spines. I'd even keep it over Spine Burst unless you needed melee AoE specifically for set bonuses.
3. Mud pots is probably superior to Quills if you are only going to keep one, but as mentioned this is kind of the point of this combo! Endurance is going to be a real bear. For good times, put an Avalanche knockdown proc in one aura and Overwhelming Force knockdown proc in the other. Knockdown is your friend when using passive damage!
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20 hours ago, Yomo Kimyata said:
Sometimes I find an even better name.
Case Study:
A while back, I wanted to make a themed SG named the Defcon Five. It was to be a quintet of female special agents whose primary purpose was to protect the U.S. and the world from nuclear disaster. Now, there are five levels of DEFCON, and each one has a code name associated with it (From least serious to most serious they are: 5: Fade Out; 4: Double Take; 3: Round House; 2: Fast Pace; 1: Cocked Pistol). As you can imagine, most/all of these code names had already been snatched up, and names like DEFCON Two were not available across all five members, so I kludged together names for each of them like DC5 Fade Out, and made power sets that made sense and had a pretty good backstory for both the individual members and the group as a whole. But, the names sucked, and I was never really able to play them out so they are all languishing in their early 20s and I consider it a defunct project. So that is a sad story.
However, I also decided they needed a nemesis, and so I created a cyborg monster from a post-apocalyptic future whose sole goal is to bring nuclear holocaust to our present. The clear name for this unstoppable beast would have been DEFCON Zero, which was taken. However, DEFCON Zer0 added just a bit of flavor, in a post-apocalyptic/steampunky way, and I ended up creating variations of that character with that name across a few shards. They are all awesome and terrifying and fit the name perfectly. And that is a happy story.
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10 hours ago, InvaderStych said:
Do you even chuck wood, bro?
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I think the question is how much wood would you chuck?
I mean, if you *could* chuck wood.
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Sometimes I find an even better name.
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I've had an Ice/Thorns dom for a long time, and this thread inspired me to pull it back out again. Currently at lvl 45 and running with Ice as the epic pool.
Now, you could write everything I know about dominators on the rum of a shot glass with a blunt crayon, so I've been playing this pretty organically. Not focusing on perma- anything.
Having Ice Slick, Thorntrops, and Sleet is pretty fun. Set up a macro for casting it on a target or for casting it on your current position.
I went Sorcery for Rune, and I think I will end up with Presence in order to increase fear exposure. Hibernation is a very fun and useful power, but make sure you activate it early enough!
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Be careful; seals can be dangerous. I heard that a bunch of them killed bin Laden.
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36 minutes ago, PancakeGnome said:
So it's either "play something that relies on someone ELSE being the superman tank that can't die...... or be it yourself" ?
You've won the game as Superman. The question is do you want to continue to win the game as Superman or try to win it as, say, Wendy and Marvin?
Teaming is always going to be problematic, since there will generally be at least one Superman on any given team, in my experience.
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Welcome new players! Yes, this is for you!
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If this is your first time through, you’re going to find that it’s tough to stay fully equipped until you hit your 40s. See my post search “salmagundi” for some start up capital.
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9 hours ago, Snarky said:
U iz nooby noob from nubtowne
Hahahahahaha ... noob
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On 1/1/2024 at 4:38 PM, ninja surprise said:
Huh, I've never heard of these. Time to hit the AH!
Still, it sure would be nice to have a Hami or IO version of this.
Be careful; they are pricy! I could give you a few but, meh, I don't really want to.
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Helsinki if I know.
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10 hours ago, FFFF said:
So I've taken a break from Homecoming. My last login reflects that it's been 66 days since I've logged onto a Homecoming character. Mostly, I've been spending some time on other servers and experiencing firsthand the differences in implementation of an old MMO.
Thanks for doing this, and more importantly, thanks for sharing your knowledge!
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If they had made the Deceleration DSO Slow/Accuracy/Endurance then all would be right in the world.
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I’d really like to see an A/E, either DSO or HO.
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4 hours ago, Snarky said:
Am i the only one that read the title and wondered if some were now undead?
I feel like there is a Necromancy/Time Manipulation mastermind concept in here somewhere…-
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On 12/29/2023 at 7:35 AM, Andreah said:
One caveat is you cannot buy something you have listed for sale from the same character. One can do this using two characters on the same account, but the auction won't let the same character buy something the character has listed for sale (or vice versa, you can't sell something to your own bid).
Sometimes it may look like this is happening due to pre-existing bids or offers though; but in this case you just bought someone else's item that was priced right, and sold your thing to yet another person who had a bid just right.
This is very important to remember. You can trade with a different character on a different account, and you can trade with a different character on the *same* account. But one of the first things the algorithm checks is if there is a high enough bid or a low enough offer *and not on the same character*. There are lots of times that people accidentally mess themselves up by locking or inverting a market. In general, it's a good idea to not have bids and offers for the same item on the same character unless you really know what you are doing.
On 12/29/2023 at 7:46 AM, Andreah said:The reason I do this is so that I free up market slots more quickly doing bulk buys or sells. If I have thousands of something to sell (e.g., salvage or converters), and only 200 market slots, and I price at the same exact value, then they tend to sell out sort of randomly (as Yomo noted, not purely randomly) and leave a mess of partial stacks occupying my market slots. However, if they're posted in increments, then the lower offers always sell out first (and higher bids always buy out first), and this frees up market slots more efficiently so I can post even more for sale (or bid).
When you are buying or selling large amounts of the same item, I have noticed that it tends more towards LIFO (last in, first out) rather than FIFO (first in, first out) and I'll change that in the initial post. According to Uberguy (all hail), each time a new bid/offer comes in at the same price, the ranking of the lists reset in a way that I think is inherent to the underlying computer language rather than being specifically programmed for the /AH. I think that my LIFO observation (and this is mainly noticeable if you are using different characters) is based at least in part of the increased size of the pool. Example: If you have bids for 100 widgets at 100 inf on Character A, and that's the highest bid, the next widget put up for sale at or under 100 will trade to Character A (but it's difficult to tell which slot it will be allocated to). But if Character B puts in bids to 200 widgets at 100 inf, even if the allocation is completely random, it will trade to Character B 2/3 of the time. That said, it isn't quite random and it isn't quite orderly and I'm frankly not going to worry about it one way or another.
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Battleaxe gets pendulum at level 8 now. A former T9 at level 8! (Admittedly, they tuned back the damage a bit).
Axe Cyclone with a few slots in it (let's say by level 25) would have you dominating in your mid-20s.
[EDIT: as @kelika2 notes, a tanker gets burn at 18 and pendulum at 20, which will be very very powerful in your early 20s.]
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Which is the tankiest tank in tank town (with caveats)?
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For the title of tankiest, I'd want something that is at or near melee defense soft cap, at or near tanker resist hard caps, and has some sort of ability to heal on command. The problem I have with something like SR (and this is a personal problem, to be sure) is that even at soft caps, at least 5% of those attacks are going to get through and if you are constantly in the thick of it, those add up. Defense debuff resistance is also important, but you are generally only going to get that in defense-oriented protection sets or through incarnates.
I'd think that my personal best would be something like radiation armor and either staff or titan weapons. The offensive sets have enhanceable and stackable melee defense powers, and I don't think you would have too hard a time making bulletproof builds. The downside is no DDR. Invulnerability would cover that, but it's just not as fun or as busy a set!