Yomo Kimyata

Ok, I haven't finished this journey yet, but I'm far enough along to see where it's going. I learned a few things along the way, and I apologize if this is second nature to everyone else, but it wasn't for me. Electric Melee: I've never played this to 50 before, but it's really a much better set than I anticipated. Jacob's Ladder doesn't have much use to me, and neither does Confront, but everything else is in and gets used. Being able to slot Sleep sets on three powers means that you can slip a Call of the Sandman heal in there -- it's a significant heal when it triggers. Being able to slot End Mod means you can slip a few Power Transfer heals in there -- it's not nearly as significant but I guess it adds up. Neither of those made the cut for my "final" build but both did when leveling. The endurance steal from attacks is practically insignificant, but with Bio Armor you really shouldn't ever be wanting for endurance unless you are getting actively sapped. I see that Chain Induction doesn't pass on self buff procs (like Power Transfer) past the first target, which seems fair. I really don't like telenukes, but Lightning Rod fills a need for a AoE proc bomb ready every 30-40 seconds, so I moved the Fury of the Glad proc to there from DNA Siphon. Lightning Clap needs a Sudden Acceleration proc, and then 5 slotting with either Stupefy or Absolute Amazement. The AA proc should provide a fair amount of mitigation if you lead with Lightning Clap. ST damage chain is lacking, but man those flopping AoEs! Bio Armor: I probably have the most experience in this as in any of the armor sets. The thing that I'm doing a little differently is slotting up Environmental Modification more than I normally do. The rut I get in is normally focusing purely on positional defenses rather than typed. Low 40s for S&L and low 30s for everything else except psionic, seems more than tolerable. No endurance problems, and my Healing Received chat is lighting up green with all the bonuses I'm getting from various procs. I always 6-slot Ablative Carapace with Preventative Medicine and 5-slot Panacea in Parasitic Aura plus a Theft of Essence. DNA Siphon and Parasitic Aura should both be blue bar fillers every 30 and 90 seconds respectively. I'm putting the Crit Strikes proc in the damage aura along with Overwhelming proc and Avalanche proc. Every pulse, there's about a 45% chance for one or both of those to proc, so lots of flopping even if you aren't doing anything at all. Epic: I went with Leviathan Mastery for Hibernate as an oh shit button. Water Spout seems like an extra tool to stick an Achilles Heel in, and it causes knock up so that's cool. Like any bio armor scrapper build, ranged debuffs are going to be a problem, but other than that this is a really fun effective ride. Now am I claiming that this is the best build ever? Yes, yes that is exactly what I'm claiming! There's an extra slot in there I haven't decided what to do with yet, and I'm still fine tuning some stuff. Love it.

The biggest problem I've been having is that I have a real need for a bunch of WOs right now. I'm not willing to pay up for them now when I know they will be 60%+ off in a month, and I'm not willing to wait a month. Decisions!

I feel like this brings the thread back around. It has been thought provoking, at least to me. One the one hand, "be kind" is a very good moral tenet. You can't go wrong with that in many cases, and the world definitely needs more kindness. On another hand, this community is a social group of (presumably) humans. In my life experience, I fall firmly into a Hobbesian viewpoint of humanity in that humans, like life, can be nasty, brutish and short. The Leviathan to Hobbes was the overarching authority that kept people in check. Sometimes that's government, sometimes that's a volunteer group that monitors a forum. In severe cases, they will step in and stop behavior that is detrimental to the society as a whole. But in less severe cases, there often is a self-policing that occurs from within the group itself to express disapproval of people who are being detrimental. I'm not necessarily going to say, "It's the GM's forums, let them settle it," and I'm not necessarily going to say "I'm going to settle it." Both of those are extreme viewpoints. But I don't see a problem with providing a feedback mechanism to say, "Hey, In my opinion you stepped over a line, and although you might not be actually touching your sister, I'm still going to pull this car over and we are going to hash out what it means to be a member of this society." So when someone, deliberately or accidentally, trolls, I think it is legitimate to express disapproval. It's a good feedback mechanism. At the same time, it is also legitimate to critique those who critiqued the original person, and it is legitimate to critique those to critique those who critiqued, and ad infinitum. And yes, I'm looking at myself in this spotlight as well. In this venue, you are going to be interpreted by your written word, whatever your intent may have been. It's probably a really wise idea to spend a little amount of time thinking before sending a snap response. I, for one, can benefit from that introspection. But if after thinking, you still think your response is merited and adds value to the community (bonus points if it's funny), lay on MacDuff. Because at the end of the day, those volunteer GMs are going to decide who the ultimate jerk is!

Just perusing, I'm really not seeing anything. But just wanted to get a second (or fifth) set of eyes on this in case I'm missing something important. Here's the patch notes for reference:

I'd say it's a smart way to overcome some of the problems with Bio Armor scrappers. BAS have a few problems. They are squishy and can't get as much protection from their ATOs as some of the other ATs. Their epic pools are extremely lacking in protection, and there are only two legit "oh shit" buttons. Debuffs, especially ranged debuffs, are the kryptonite of the class. I'm running mine through the 30s right now at breakneck pace, and I'll post my thoughts/experiences on a build soon.

Nobody sees my doodle unless I *want* them to see my doodle. Or unless I forget.

By the way @Nemu, love the idea. I love Bio Armor but it's a lot harder to make it work (safety-wise) on a scrapper (or stalker) than on a brute or tanker. I made an Electric/Bio scrapper about 6 months ago that I forgot about, so I'm doing to put it through the paces and check some things out. I'm really not that into Electric Melee, so I'm going to need to get a feel for some things. Like how much endurance can I realistically expect to leach back from my attacks, which will affect my endurance slotting.

You will be cash-inf negative for a long while, but by lvl 50 you would be way ahead of the game.

A knockdown build without an Overwhelming Force proc and an Avalanche proc in a damage aura? Turn in your knockdown card at the front desk on the way out, you're fired!

Money, yes that's a real issue, but time? It's just pressing a single button? which is part of what makes it such an insidious inf sink! Also, there's a *big* difference between a -3 SO (23.33% enhancement, between a lvl 15 and lvl 20 IO) and a +3 SO (38.33% enhancement, between a lvl 35 and lvl 40 IO). I upgrade to +3 every level, but yes that is very expensive over time. Then again, I'm usually on an IO only build by about lvl 25-30.

If you are going to upgrade every level, I'd say the ballpark figure is something north of $100mm. Probably less than $500mm. I'm basing that on my limited experience with SOs from levels up to about 20, then extrapolating on an increasing number of slots and an increasing cost of upgrade.

I did enough research on the matter that I feel confident that (with respect to conversion) there is no reason to believe that the process is not random or psuedo-random. Sometimes you are gonna flip a coin and get heads ten times in a row. Let me find some examples with data:

I think this is spot on. @Rumors is the first one to be invited over for space eggs!

To OP, it’s not the number of enhancements that are limited, it’s the amount of enhancement that has diminishing returns. So for schedule A stuff (like damage), it is easy to get 70% enhancement. It’s difficult to get 100% enhancement. It may be impossible to get 150% (from enhancements).

You might find this thread useful:

Excellent idea! I would certainly spend 100bn for a space base where I could eat space caviar with my pals. You should post that in the Suggestions forum!

Are you kidding me? Do you have any idea how *difficult* it is to give away vast amounts of inf? Especially when we *literally* tell people exactly how to get all the inf they need, and we give them a fishing pole, and a starter fish? The problem, as far as I see it, is that I enjoy using my brain to accumulate vast amounts of an imaginary item. I'm working on that.

Blatant lies! It is infinitely entertaining.

Looks like I win! Looks like *everyone* wins! Looks like VT loses...

I would be over the moon if they put in any sort of large scale influence sink, but I keep coming back to the same issue I see a lot in the Suggestions forum: it's a fair amount of work on the devs' part, and how many people would it really help? 2? 10? Once you and I are both over 500bn, we should have a winner-take-all dance-off.

Brutes can get 10% melee defense and 12.5% s&l defense from their ATOs; scrappers can get 5% melee defense and 10% s&l from theirs. It's not a world of difference, but it's a difference.

I realize I misspoke and that my Rad/Bio monster is a Brute, so I apologize for that. I find it a lot easier to build defenses on a brute than a scrapper, but the scrapper version will be muy offensive. Here is my brute build: And here is a very quick stab at a scrapper build. I think I'd need to put more work on the defenses before I would commit to this build though.

I'm kind of with you here. I've gotten Jingo Updog Esq. Junior (DP/Ninja blaster) up to level 34, and it's kind of hard to really want to take her any further. Both Dual Pistols and Broadsword/Katana feel to me to be meh sets, and I'm not getting much synergy other than theme (but it's a great theme: a Revolutionary War-era super-patriot). In terms of flash and style, I expect to eventually use The Lotus Drops as a PBAoE debuff/soft control button (Avalanche knockdown, Overwhelming Force knockdown, Achilles Heel -res, Fury of the Glad -res, 2x Nucleolus). That should be entertaining.

Don't forget Dr. G, Paragon City's famous basketball player.