Yomo Kimyata

Honestly, I start all my alts at +1/x1 right out of training. I may be optimistic, but I think +3/x8 is doable without too much problem on that tank. Tanks are super easy. I just dinged 17 on her, and she is running at +2/x3. Accuracy and AoE damage ftw.

I find it interesting what the mods lock and what they jut plain make disappear. Was OP mentally deranged? Maybe. Were they the victims of bad translating software? Maybe. But they weren't spamming viruses as far as I can tell. I continue to welcome our professional drama overlords.

No it isn't. If they are going to run, front load the damage with procs.

If you look at them in isolation, many of the ancillary pools are ridiculously overpowered, depending on the AT. Their design is presumably based on the idea that they will exploit the powers in their primary/secondary. Based on the aforementioned pool power rules (only primary/secondary for first 3 powers), squishies can get as much or more mitigation than melee alts. I'd kill to get controller ancillaries on scrappers. Well, I'd be willing to use harsh words.

Or start using Ben Gay.

Interestingly enough, after trying it out, this knowledge doesn't really speed up my process at all. Although it does make it easy to list the salvage, it does not autopopulate price or amount, which my normal method does. As a result, I'm finding my old method slightly preferable. Also, I hate change, get off my lawn, etc.

You know, I've been seeing the word "cytoskeleton" for as long as I've been playing this game, and never once over the years have I mentally interpreted it as anything except "cytoplasm". Thank you for the correction. Now I've got some scrubbing to do!

I still give out seed money when requests trickle in. I got an email this morning from someone I helped out recently: Their email had 20mm inf attached (which I already removed and put towards investing in Cytoplasm futures).

I, for one, welcome our new professional drama overlords.

That's what I was thinking too. Like a vanity pet that follows you around kowtowing for a minute or two so you can brag to your teammates.

In all seriousness, I usually slot one or more in my end game builds. Example 1: I don’t love the set bonuses for defense sets in general. If I’m trying to save slots for other powers, I’ll slot defense toggles with LotG recharge and 2x 53 Cytoplasms. Example 2: For scrappers and brutes I will split the ATO set that gives melee/s&l defense 3-3 (1/5/6 and 2/3/4 iirc). Adding a lvl 53 Nucleosis gets me where I want for accuracy and defense. Sure they’re spendy. But c’mon, you deserve nice things!

if there is one or more for offer and you haven’t bought it yet, you’re not bidding high enough!

Also, you can only slot one +5 A/D from a given set, but you can slot as many lvl 53 Nucleoses as you are willing to buy from me!

I've got a simpler one: replace Rage with Build Up.

Well, I find them great, because they work really well with how I like to play. If, for example, you are looking to max out defense debuff resistance and laugh at debuffers, then there are better alternatives.

I love crafting (and often playing) these kinds of builds, ones with serious constraints. If you asked me to make the most powerful and enjoyable melee alt, I'd freeze. But if you ask me to make one that can only use ranged attacks, I'd be happy as a clam and make one that can solo +4/x8 content.

I see this happen with Malta occasionally, and I attribute it to mez stacking. I'm about to embark on a tremendous anti-Carnival campaign with my Battle Axe/Energy Aura scrapper named The Coulrophobic Avenger, so I'll report back if I see the same thing.

As much as I consider the annoying visuals of Radiation Armor and Bio Armor as "annoyance taxes" because those two sets are just so good there has to be *some* way to discourage people from using them exclusively, I'd be pretty happy with a true minimal fx option on both of them.

For a defender, my first thought is something like this:

I'll bite. I'm assuming the restriction is only pool powers when you can take them, so only your first three powers come from your primary/secondary? I'm focusing on a build that should be able to solo 1-50 through "normal" content. Maybe not +4, but probably +3/x8. The hard part is finding four pools (and one ancillary) that you can take enough powers from! I went Fighting (for pretty obvious reasons), Leaping (for Combat Jumping and Acrobatics. It's been a dog's age since I took the latter but you need *some* mez mitigation. Spring Attack for an AoE -res debuff!), Medicine (self-heal, Injection as a single target debuffer), and Force of Will (mainly for Unleash Potential, but Weaken Resolve also as a single target debuffer). Soul Mastery for Gloom and -to hit debuff. The power selection order can certainly be optimized over this quick build, but I think it will get us where we are going. Slowly, of course.

Unless he is building specifically for PvP, his mez resist will be 10.something. Now I know absolutely nothing about PvP, but one thing I've been playing around with on scrappers is the single target hold in some of the epic pools. If you slot Soul Storm, for example, with 2x lvl 50 Endoplasms, a lvl 50 recharge IO, Devastation proc, Lockdown proc, and a Superior Winter's Bite proc, you've got a mag 3 hold that basically has a 81% chance to add an additional +4 mag for 6 seconds in PvP and a 90% to slow him down a bit. With a lot of global recharge (or other sources of hold) you should be able to stack the mag over 11. It's crazy overkill for PvE, but it could be a nasty surprise for your hubby!

Be (passive) aggressive! B-E (passive) aggressive!

If you want to be sneaky, and why in the world wouldn't you want to be sneaky?, as you level up have two builds. Build 1 is the one you use to team with him. Build 2 is the one you have ready to gank him. Some really sneaky things to do might involve slipping in some procs that he might not expect (like Absolute Amazement -to hit) or debuffing power pools that you may not have on your main build.

If it makes you feel any better, I pretty much have them committed to memory! But yeah, I learn new stuff all the time. It's great!

With respect to the title question, I'd say yes. We form a society of some sort, where we are undoubtedly very diverse in shape, form, and thought, but we all have one thing in common: we enjoy playing this game. For me, it's a very good thing to belong to a group like this. On a slight tangent, I'd like to express my opinion that there is *far* less dickery on HC than there was on Live. Maybe that's just my perspective, but I'm grateful for that. As far as all this about how to play on a team or whatever, I find it to be so much less important that what I discussed in the first paragraph that I personally find it practically irrelevant. Happy hunting!