Yomo Kimyata

I've already gotten bored with the Stone/Super Strength tanker, so I thought I'd take another shot at it. Seeing that I'm allowed to pick the favored of three rolls: Claws/Regeneration Stalker. Pass, the world needs another Wolverine/Sabretooth like I need another hole in my head. Dark/Water Defender. Slightly more interesting, and I could come up with a concept. Sonic/Earth Blaster. Ugh, blasters! And sonic is terrible and I've never even heard of Earth... Wait, didn't they add Earth Manipulation relatively recently? And didn't they upgrade Sonic relatively recently? And wait, don't you like stun? And you can double up Sleep?!? (I'm just kidding about liking that last part. I think.) Oh heck. (Name may change.)

For the most part, I don't play tanks at all, and my recent experience with Stone Armor has been with a Savage Melee/Stone scrapper (and it was a good build!) Based on what I'm seeing, I'm just adding Granite Armor as an "Oh hell!" button, although I'm probably better off spending that one spot on Taunt.

If I recall correctly, and I think I do, even though there is only a 10% stun chance in Force Bomb, you can still slot stun procs that will go off even if the stun does not activate. The Absolute Amazement proc comes first to mind. Razzle Dazzle immob is interesting, and I don't know if that activates before during or after the knockback is activated. And if you want to double down on knockback, hello Stupefy!

I went through Breakout and then set things to +2/x8. I'm five missions in.

Clearly if your pets die to fast, you need to feed them.

Wish granted!

I'm sorry to hear that. I'm guessing that has a lot more to do with the people putting the team together than the people making up the team. I can imagine some teams (like a 4star or Master Of type team) would want to craft their team, but for the most part, we are all a bunch of rikti monkeys mashing buttons, and I suggest to you to be the type of monkey you want to be. Personally, I don't team much, but when I do I expect to solo it. Play what you want to play is my advice.

Your title and your question are two separate issues, in my eyes. The answer to your question is: of course! If you are on a team as anything except a tanker then you are trying to help defeat enemies before they defeat your team. Stalkers are great at defeating. Your title makes me think about various debuffs available. Like KM/Rad. But it's all good.

Just about all my lvl 50s have one or more *Os at this point, but the added value is rather marginal for the most part. My thought process usually goes something like this: 1. Can I put a boosted purple in there? A Schedule A power like Accuracy or Damage or Recharge will get me +41.4% to a dual power like A/R. Costs about 20mm in total. Purples tend to have good bonuses. Cons: can only put one of these in across your entire build. 2. Can I put a 53 *O in there? A 53 Provocation will get me +38.3% to every aspect which is great if you can use all three aspects of it (purple triples max out at +33.1%). You can put as many in your build as you can afford, but costs are awfully high. Cons: no potential set bonuses. 3. Can I frankenslot an IO? A +5 lvl 50 dual gives you +33.1%, which isn't too shabby. Your costs will be 5mm+ and most of that will be the boosters. Cons: no set bonuses will work if you exemplar below 47 unless you are using PVP IOs. 4. Can I use two slots and put in two lvl 50 common IOs and boost them to +5? That's averaging +26.5% per slot to each attribute. Costs again are basically the cost of the boosters. Cons: no bonuses, need an extra slot. When you account for the value of bonuses in certain areas, it may shade your choices (I usually use +53 cytoskeletons because I rarely need any of the defense bonuses) and your need for a slot here versus there will also play a role. For me, I think I've got a 53 Provocation or two slotted in about one out of ten of my 50s. And that's mainly because what the hell else am I going to spend my hoarded trillion on?

This becomes useful in any number of inf-producing antics. I will buy lvl 10 recipes and craft them into level 10 IOs, then transform them. Some I may sell on the market to one of my alts at say, level 41 due to the better odds of converting into what I want, and then transform them again and put them up for sale. And I may end up buying the same IO for that alt in attuned flavor, partly because they are still levelling, and partly because they are purty. And at level 50, I may end up selling attuned IOs and buying lvl 50 versions (I'm looking at PvP IOs here) and +5 boosting them.

I just rolled a stone/super strength tanker and now I don't know what to do with myself.

Did someone ask for a witch brute?

This works for each of the three standard sizes (small, medium, large, I don't think it works on super). A trick to make some walking around inf is to put in bids on large inspirations of less desired types, transform them, and put them on the /AH (or use them). I'll frequently buy oranges, change them to purples, sell them. It's not a ton of inf, but if you want to be self-sufficient this is one easy way. Also, for more quick start-up inf, sell the large green and the large red inspiration you get from the tutorial once you have enough inf for the posting fee. As an added bonus, once you are rolling in inf, put in bids for large green and large red inspirations to pass it along.

Axe Ice is extraordinary on a scrapper, imo.

Yes. Preferably a badger. the kind that doesn't care.

Lots of bad things happened in that year.

But what to do if you have tree sickness?

Just try to stop me!

Until you want to sell your attuned for a fixed level you can boost. I don’t know why they did it since they made catalysts basically free, but that’s how it is and I’m down with that.

That makes a lot more sense. Thanks!

I guess what I’m asking is what an AT is asked to do as a “standard”: if a xxx/.regen can’t fight a +0/x1 spawn that’s bad. But I don’t think that is true. is the rwz challenge today different?

This seems like a pretty low bar nowadays. I'm also assuming SO build and no incarnates?

I am also curious as to this.

You joke, but it is disassociations like this that are ruinous for me. Is the lid the part of the pie that was browned, or is it the part that is made of dough, or is it the top few layers of whatever molecules are on top?

What the hell is a lid? You mean a crust?!?