Yomo Kimyata

I haven't run the numbers, but that would make sense from a balance perspective. Dark Melee, like Kinetic Melee, has an effect that adds to your defensive abilities. That added survivability comes at the expense of a bit of damage.

My takeaway from my KM/Ice scrapper was that there are three main powers in the primary that make things work: Burst keeps the -11.25% damage up (ideally) constantly, Concentrated Strike keeps your Power Siphon up, and Power Siphon keeps your everything up. Chilling Embrace is an incredibly underrated power. I think that Darkest Night on a melee toon is the closest thing we have to an "I WIN!" cheat button.

Try Willpower as a secondary. Invulnerability works too. Bio and Radiation Armor are incredible, but require some maintenance and investment to really shine. Willpower on SOs will get you through most stuff.

darn it, I was prepping up a run on Exploit Weakness in the /AH!

I like a lot of animations, but I’m going to focus on the ones I hate. ice sword and Fire sword. Hideous! I can play Ice Melee without swords but I can’t play Fire Melee. Some alternate animations would be welcomed. Psionic swords and stone mallets are customizable enough to be useable. anything with a flip built in. I get it; a longer animation is necessary to justify a more puissant power. But I cannot stand the flip on something like Ripper because it is completely extraneous to the power. At least the spinnny staff break dancing animations seem justified.

I made a concept build for a hover axe ninja scrapper. Since the new pendulum is a 7' radius sphere with a 7' range, all you need to do is hover seven feet over the nearest target. Since they bunch up underneath you that radius will hit everyone it can. Axe Cyclone and Cleave cover that range as well. so it works for safety and for bunching up mobs.

That said, the new battle axe is great for it.

Yes

Nah, I have to limit my Luminara tribute alts to once every year or two.

It's almost as if, I don't know, by "creeping" other AT powers higher, brute powers (which have gotten better in HC overall) have gotten relatively worse. If only they could "creep" the brute powers higher! Won't someone please think of the brutes!

Leave Britney alone!

Every seller needs a buyer. For those paying attention, 5 merits will buy one booster, or 15 converters. I would expect that the trading levels would approximate 15:1, and at 66,666 inf per converter, that's 1mm per booster. That said, I can't recall the last time I paid that much for either one. Sounds to me that there are a lot of people who switched from selling their merits as converters to selling their merits as boosters. Now the question is: what's the ongoing demand for either of these? As a (semi-retired) marketer, I've bought literally millions of converters, and as a person with a bunch of tricked out 50s, I've probably bought between 1,000 and 10,000 boosters.

*Twirls mustache* You must pay the rent!

Everybody was stucco knighting. Those cats were fast as lightning.

Ice armor is one of my faves. I’ve made a bunch of scrappers, but some particularly good synergies are battle axe, kinetic melee, psionic melee. EDIT: Battle axe because it gives you lots of recharge if you slot for it, Axe Cyclone brings them in, and Chilling Embrace keeps them there. Kinetic Melee because you stack -damage. Psionic Melee because you stack -recharge. Chilling Embrace is a wicked good power.

I think that whoever has made this their work is doing a good and generous thing. Listen, I provide plenty of product, but I'm generally going to manage a healthy profit out of it. Whoever has been managing this niche has been providing a really important service pretty much at break-even levels. A hero marketer, who'd have thunk it?

You had EMP Pulse activated, so that was going to give you the -1000% recovery penalty.

I'm not sure if you are referring to something else, but someone has been maintaining a pretty tight market on the proc for years. Bidding in the low 3s and offering at or near 4. It's super useful for all of us who want and need the procs to know there is reasonably priced supply available, and if you make them it's nice to know there is also a good bid out there for your product. It's marginally profitable, but I would guess it requires a lot of daily maintenance.

Invulnerability has much more upside in difficult situations. My “main” and first character on Live and here is BS/INV and although I don’t find a lot of synergy between the sets, he can handle it all.

I always go with Cleave. It's got a good proc rate, and if you are fighting three or more enemies it's practically guaranteed. You get enough time for the proc to be active on the next attack, and possibly the next two if you choose wisely. I also always skip Gash, even when levelling.

Try Mr. G (primal). You get him from Inside Information redside 30+ in Grandville, and Sweeps Week part 2 is your huckleberry.

It probably started in General and so the mods moved it to Archetypes. As they do. 😉

Hey! I don't criticize *your* love life!

I may or may not be a gem, but there is definitely some rock in or around my head. Hey newcomers, come get some inf!