[Insanity !!!]

4 hours ago, GATE-keeper said:

During World War II, Julia Child was deemed too tall to join the Women's Army Corps...

 

 

 

 

 

>.>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...so she joined the Office of Strategic Services instead.

 

I went that direction as well:

 

[Insanity !!!]

I challenge you to play an homage to Julia Child.

 

My work is done here.

 

[Some stats]

21 hours ago, Ironblade said:

Second - Those are some massive numbers.  I decided to check my stats.  I figured I might have decent enhancement numbers since I'll buy converters 3,000 at a time to craft trash, convert and sell.  Once that character is fully incarnate (and not played as often), I move to a new one and repeat.  I track on a spreadsheet where I have a lot of cash so I just checked for those characters.

 

It turns out I only needed to sell 700 - 1200 enhancements to hit the inf cap, dump extra cash into email, and move on to a new character.  And I've sold about 2% as many enhancements as you have.  That suggests you have way more than 50x as much inf as me and that's A LOT.

 

Could be, rabbit.  Could be.

 

[Solo Power Leveling?]

People mentioned the xp boosters from the P2W vendor.

 

When you change your difficulty, increase size of mob over level of mob.  You'll level quicker at +1/x8 than you will at +3/x3.  Somewhere in the wiki there is probably a formula for it.

 

Don't sleep on patrol xp.  When you stay logged off for awhile and aren't earning a different day job badge, you will get up to 10 bars of patrol xp, which is colored light blue on your progress bar.  When that is in effect, you earn experience (I think it's) 50% more quickly, and it does stack with the xp boosters, although I don't know if that is additively or multiplicatively.  It is significantly faster.

 

Patrol xp seems like a niche case, but there is a temporary power called Experienced which grants 5 bars of patrol xp per use.  The devs periodically give that power out to players who log in during a specific time frame.  More relevantly, you can get this power as a drop from opening Hero/Villain/Rogue/Vigilante packs and Winter Packs. According to Bopper, you can expect to get one to drop for about every four packs you open.  Alternatively, you can open thousands of packs and let them build up.

 

 

Interestingly, this power works on veteran levels, so if you are looking to fast track your incarnate status through the use of empyrian merits earned through leveling, this is a great power to use.  Match it up with the Windfall power (also a pack drop) for added goodies.

 

 

[A little interested but wondering if the mega nerfs are still in this version of the game.]

You can still be invincible, but it's BS.  Here I've got it 6-slotted with defense SOs and I only get a few % to my defense instead of the 120% that it promises!

 

[Which is the tankiest tank in tank town (with caveats)?]

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!

[How do you make ice control good?]

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.

[Some stats]

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".

[Some stats]

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!

 

 

[Looking for Tips for Easy First Character]

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.

[Seeking Spines Advice]

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!

 

[Would you settle for a close, but not exact name?]

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.

[If you could only, would you?]

10 hours ago, InvaderStych said:

 

 

 

Do you even chuck wood, bro?

 

[If you could only, would you?]

I think the question is how much wood would you chuck?

 

I mean, if you *could* chuck wood.

[Would you settle for a close, but not exact name?]

Sometimes I find an even better name.

[Ice/Thorn/??]

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!

[Guess this should be in the Announcements section?]

Be careful; seals can be dangerous.  I heard that a bunch of them killed bin Laden.

[Superman Tankers are boring.... but..... intentionally handicapping yourself is hard.....]

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.

[Yomo's New and Improved Bang-Up Salmagundi Spectacular!!!]

Welcome new players!  Yes, this is for you!

[Buying Enhancements]

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.

[Guess I will be nicer since my other post got deleted. *risitas laugh*]

9 hours ago, Snarky said:

U iz nooby noob from nubtowne

 

Hahahahahaha ... noob

[New Hami-O: Acc/Rech]

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.

[are we Finnished?]

Helsinki if I know.

[Share your Puns/amusing Character Names]

[The Sandbox, Progression and the Homecoming Experience]

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!