Yomo Kimyata

I like it! Cloak of Fear and Oppressive Gloom shouldn’t stack on bosses though, since they are different types of mitigation (fear and stun respectively).

You know, when this thread was first posted, I watched it with some trepidation. I am an Order Muppet of the first degree, and I was a little concerned that an intentional destabilization of the /AH would lead to fewer people using it and thus becoming less useful. I haven’t been on Rebirth in some time, but their AH is dead because no one uses it. But, I’m pretty confident that there isn’t a destabilizing scheme that I’m not prepared for. At the end of the day, the HC system is pretty stable.

Truth. I wish they all could be Praetorian ghouls.

As I mentioned off line to you as well, I suggest picking something you want to try out and solo it gold side up to level 20. Gold has great stories, it’s fast to get to level 20, even solo at regular xp (and feel free to team or use do boosters). I like doing this with new ideas so I can see, for example, how I’d like to learn to play a poison/dark defender.

Well, it *was* in Pocket D on Everlasting. It’s difficult to *not* get a virtual tongue in your ear there.

Unless you are having a DPS contest, as long as you have enough you are sound as a pound. By enough I would think that’s enough to be able to overcome an AVs heals solo. If you are teaming, you could have 1 dps and your team will roll.

This is a valid concern, and the solution should be relatively easily implemented. +1

1. Please stop making this game even easier. 2. Did I mention I’m rich, RICH?!

You mean at a time, right?

It was indeed on Everlasting (although I could be *anywhere*!). I didn’t recognize the global name, which is why I brought it up here. I hope they got the polite message that I appreciated the thought, but I didn’t want their garbage. I just wanted to do a sanity check to see if maybe this is what all the cool kids are actually doing these days, in which case I’ll stock up on some sniper recipes and hand them out for National Pickle Day or something. Thank you @Hedgefund for that setting. You may have just saved @Bionic_Fleaand @Luminara from a severe tongue lashing.

It wasn't even a Karma!

Like several others have mentioned, I am also guilty of this. Every build I have that has Tough (which is almost all of them) chooses Kick over Boxing because it is so much more satisfying. I will generally use Kick in my attack chain (because I generally pick it up in the 6-10 range) but by the time I can slot FF, I've usually moved past Kick as an attack. However, I DO actually slot it with FF for a couple of reasons: 1. I've got to slot it with something (one doesn't, but I do because that empty slot nags at me), the FF costs practically nothing as far as I'm concerned. 2. I periodically use Kick long after it has dropped out of my attack chain, because as mentioned, it is satisfying. Consider it role playing, as I'm frustrated that Nemesis? has vexed me for so long already. Generally, that happens near the end of a long fight. 3. When that proc dings, it's the proverbial cherry on top. Pure dopamine hit. Now, I also get that putting it into a Mids build is a pain in the butt. I've long been used to unclicking every FF+ rech that I have in a build, and I'm starting to come around to not putting it in my Mids builds out of courtesy to others.

So, I realize that you can just drag and drop IOs into other people's inventories, and I know it is a great way to facilitate giveaways. I can see it's even fun to stealth gift someone useful things, like LotG procs. Anyway, I was just in Pocket D crafting on one of my marketers, crafting table out. Someone walks up to me and starts dumping a half dozen so so uncommon IOs on me. Things like Cleaving Blow and Blood Mandate. I'm right in the middle of converting so it blocks up my enhancement trays. I run away from them, delete the IOs, and send a tell asking them to please not do that. They got (in my opinion) a little huffy and told me to convert them into something better and sell them. They were trying to do me a favor. I thanked them for the thought, but asked them to please not do that anymore, at least to me. Is this something that people do? My first reaction was that I was being trolled. My second reaction was that if you want to give people gifts, maybe convert them yourself? My third reaction was to shrug, be thankful that people want to be kind, and go back to my business.

I'm not going to waste your time with "You can do it with anything!" Some thoughts I have from my personal experience. 1. Start at the very beginning and play something in a style you like playing. You like melee? Choose a melee. You like ranged? Choose ranged. Choose a character body type you can stand to look at. I generally dislike "Male" so usually only use it when it really is necessary for my concept or if I don't have to look at his squingy run all the time. Spend a lot of time in the costume creator. A LOT of time. If there is a power that you don't like the animation of, check to see if there is an alternate animation in the costume creator or just don't take the power. The upshot is that you are going to be spending a lot of hours playing this, and if you find it tedious, there's no point in it. 2. SOs. Groovy! Ask yourself what your motivation is and does this apply to, say, no P2W powers as well? SO only builds are extremely overpowered at low levels, so you will level like a monster quickly, even solo. Feel free to raise your difficulty settings as you feel comfortable. I usually progress something like: +1/x1, +1/x3, +2/x3, +2/x5, +3/x5, +3/x8, +4/x8 if and only if I feel comfortable I can handle it and I'm having fun. SO only build will be a lot slower in that progression. I would play with bosses on but AVs off. Personally, I auto-upgrade my SOs every level so I'm always running at +3. That's expensive. You'll probably want to fund your character from one of your other alts. 3. Endurance is always going to be an issue now. I suggest against something like War Mace/Dark Armor because you can certainly make that work, but it will suck making it work and you're not in this business to do things that suck. Look for powers and slotting to cut your endurance needs. Slot +end red before that second +dam. 4. Although I think this is silly game design, supposedly the balance metric is designed around SOs. In that case, why not try something that is "traditionally" undertuned? You'll find that on SOs, a Sentinel (for example) will be much closer to Blaster (for example) play. Have fun storming the castle!

Yes, you do save yourself 2 converters a shot, but 120-150k inf an IO kind of gets lost in the shuffle. It adds up, sure, but it's still kind of a rounding error in my books.

It's been a long time since Live, but I think there have always been inconsistencies long before HC. @AboveTheChemistmentions Exploit Weakness, which drops from 10-50 and only 1 of the 4 recipes require a rare salvage. Cleaving Blow and Air Burst each have 2 of 4 of their recipes that require rares. There are many, many others, and there are many rare recipes that don't require rare salvage. I always assumed that was the developers' way of telling people to pay attention.

*nods in a supportive fashion*

Although my brilliant research in brain transplantation is unsurpassed and will probably make my name live beyond eternity, I agree that posting it here is useful. I'm always happy to share my thoughts, but by posting here you also get other people's thoughts, and now other readers get to see the dialogue as well. Knowledge is power!

Something like this makes the most sense to me. There will always be people who will have a fit unless things are backwards compatible forever.

Doesn't matter if you know them. They are either doing something, or they are doing nothing. Either way, unless you are Leandro running this show, it doesn't matter. They put their team together and are going to do what they are going to do going forward. They don't owe you or me or anyone an explanation or accountability. Again, my two inf.

My two inf on this, is that knowing this is useful, but please don't abuse the knowledge. You don't need to PM a volunteer DIRECTLY RIGHT NOW BECAUSE YOU HAVE A SIGNIFICANT ISSUE! I volunteer on a lot of stuff and I don't give my direct information to just anyone, because I've learned that many many people spam me with requests that are very very important to them right now right now.

I helped out @Marine X with something, and he gave me a character sketch! Love it!

I think that most of it is because, as you say, it's an old set and it has no secondary effects (so no great proc opps). It's not overtuned. But I can't stand it for its animations. I detest elemental swords and I hate breath attacks. But that's just me.

I just duoed him as a +2 AV (me on Fire/Time controller, pick up on Thugs/Kin mastermind, thank you!). That guy is a right bastard.

This. This! A thousand times this!!! But /ah is pretty sweet too.