Yomo Kimyata

I’ve edited the title to make it more relevant, and the section on lvl 47 is expanded. I expect to edit more soon.

I'm a secret fan of psi melee, although I haven't found the right pairing for it yet (just leveled up a psi/ice and that was close...). You've done a good job of getting some really high mitigation numbers, and I suspect this might not be as squishy as you may think. I feel like you are chasing a lot of set bonuses, particularly for psi/toxic resist. Maybe that's the new world we'll be living in, but I tend to be willing to give up on some hard/soft caps for a bit of mitigation. I'm 100% with you on Mass Levitate's slotting. In crowds (which you will be in most of the time) it will be the norm that your procs will be going off. I don't usually run Hasten on Shield builds (or anything with click mitigation) but that +100% recharge from FF will be very useful regardless. I'd like a healing "oh no!" power like One with the Shield or Unrelenting from the presence pool more than a resistance power like Rune of Protection. I'd also like to slip some slow protection in there. Good work and happy hunting!

I make my inf the old fashioned way, in winner-take-all dance contests.

If you want to fight and defeat GMs, you will probably need a specific debuff character.

You can go a few different ways with DNA Siphon. The way I choose is as a debuff/damage proc bomb that happens to heal and return endurance. So I generally aim for the same amount of accuracy I would target in any AoE attack.

I'm going to keep submissions for the top eight for a few more days, but I'm going to start to execute on the "also-rans". This is 50% due to the fact I'm getting a little antsy; 50% because I have some good ideas for the matchups; and 50% because running twelve scrappers to 50 (and beyond!) is going to take some time so I might as well get on with it. The chosen matchups for the also-rans are: Savage/Stone: This was a marriage of necessity, as I've been playing another Stone Armor to 50 (and beyond!) and dang Stone of all sorts is very endurance intensive so I need some help from the primary. Pu'u Wa'awa'a is a proto-Hawaiian demigod who was trapped/guarded by Pele (the Hawaiian goddess, not the Brazilian football player) for thousands of years before gaining his freedom in a recent eruption. Stone/Electric: Also a marriage of endurance necessity but the other way around. The Electric Pizza uses piezoelectric forces from his specialized quartz weaponry to power his electronic armor. He chose his nom de guerre after trying to explain "piezoelectric" to his five year-old niece and they both got bogged down with laughter on "pizza electric". Street Justice/Fiery Aura: I'm been playing some StJ and it feels very light on AoE, so a little mitigation in the form of knockdown/stun/terrorize and a little Burn might do the trick. Hellion Carnate's story isn't as uncommon as it may seem at first -- a young woman from the shady side of Atlas Park who got tired of being a Girlfriend from Hell, went straight, and wanted to help bring a little gender parity to Paragon. Radiation/Ice: You've heard of the Chernobyl meltdown, right? But I'll bet you've never heard of the far more deadly Balachko incident. In the deep north of Siberia, the secret city of Balachko was where Russia did much of its state-sponsored superpowered "research" and was powered by the most powerful nuclear reactor ever made by humankind. Well, until it melted down, leading to the deaths of every soul in the town except one man. No one is sure if he was a superpowered experiment, or simply a janitor who got "lucky". Working name is, well, the Balachko Incident. In a few days I'll make my decisions on the top 8, then we can move on to the next phase of me giving you inf! I'll make payouts for this thread then. Happy hunting!

Well, I guess that's one way to look at it, but I meant it in terms of liking progression and learning, not in terms of being a dopamine addicted slave to leveling. I'm not going to play a card game of War with a friend, unless it was extremely important to them and we were able to have good conversation during the process. I'd be more willing to play bridge since I would probably learn how to play the game better during the process, which would enhance my experience. This game is a lot closer to War than bridge, and I mostly solo, so I'm just gonna stick to the things that I enjoy about it and not worry about it.

I think I like progression the most. Start out as a lowly plebe, work/earn your way to bigger things, gain new powers or slots every level, raise your difficulty as you become more of a Really Big Thing. This is probably why I get so bored playing post 50 content.

I'm going to say that I think that the purpose of having several sets in a category is to provide diversity. You want better set bonuses? Slot Eradication or Obliteration. You want better endurance reduction? Slot Multistrike or Scirroco's Dervish. I'm pretty sure that was the intention from the very start.

I'm happy to see this thread come back, mainly so I can see how I've changed my answer over time. Now, I track: 1-3 types of defense 1-2 types of resistance To hit bonus Last hit chance Endurance cost Recovery rate Recharge time bonus Influence Sometimes max hp Some of that is tracking what I need to watch as I level (do I slot for damage or endurance reduction next level?) and much of it is to see when I get debuffed.

At some point I'll make a KD guide for melee. IT CAN BE EVERYWHERE AND IT'S FANTASTIC.

I'm not going to opine directly on those three secondaries, but I find knockdown to be the pinnacle of mitigation. It's pretty much like hold, only far, far more amusing.

I request, nay, *demand* a new emoticon that just says:

I figured this would also be a great way to add thousands of new players. Could you imagine how incredibly useful this service could be to so many people who are desperately in need of help?

Even though I completely recognize that my solutions are 100% spot on and should be implemented immediately, I understand that not everyone has my infallability. So I *strongly* recommend against ever making decisions based on a (shudder) poll.

It’s the new currency for 27:4. 1,000,000 gourds = 1,000 Yin’s Zucchini = 1 Mako’s Pumpkin.

The only time that I am fighting one opponent is when I've already put down the rest of them! I haven't crunched the numbers for a pure single target optimal chain, but for mixed use I'm *very* happy with putting it in Shatter. Although, this does give me an excuse to craft up an alternate build for single target only. By switching after all the lowbies are gone, that might shave a few seconds off defeating AVs.

How about a command that puts you n touch with a therapist that is covered by your insurance to help you figure out why you don't get along with strangers on the internet?

My experience with the Crit ATO is that I put it in Shatter. Generally, I would like to get as close to a guaranteed proc activation as possible, and I would like to follow it up with a big hitter. Shatter has a 45 degree arc, and it is pretty simple to get three or more enemies in that arc, which usually leads to a very high chance of activation Since my AoE chain is Shatter, Crowd Control, Whirling Mace, repeat, that puts the Crit on Crowd Control, which is nice. Since my ST chain is Shatter, Clobber, Jawbreaker or Pulverize, repeat, that puts the Crit on Clobber, which is fantastic.

Sometimes complaining works! But with great power comes great something or other.

Having been summoned, I would like to complain about the misleading title of this thread. This debate is hardly “great.” I’d accept “pretty good” as more accurate.

Would it be worthwhile to add more invention sets with these characteristics? It's a lot of work but it would make building more modular.

*cracks knuckles* oh, it's on! 🐯

Oh no, I don't need to go down this rabbit hole right now. However, I see that I am judged to be significantly more funny than I am confusing. All part of the five year plan...