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The Trouble

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  1. The Trouble
    Titan Weapons now has a table for when Momentum is in effect. This was a great suggestion because it was something I hadn't even thought of. Please let me know of anything else I may have missed. I started this project to seeking to boost the capability of my one and only Scrapper. I played on Live, and the AT never clicked for me until I tried out Broadsword/Super Reflexes here. The really cool part? After putting all of this data into a more easily consumable chunk, I've found myself building Scrappers. Plural. What a world.
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    It would have been nice if Statesman had been taken out by someone besides Skippy MacGuffinthief. Blueside reaction: "Who?!?" Redside reaction: "That Neo cosplayer with the hair fetish?" My retcon would be that Darrin was actually manipulated by some other, better, shadowy mastermind - and there is some remnant of the Well and Rularuu power that has combined and lays dormant within him. Whoever was behind this wanted Darrin to die for this novel power to be unleashed, so his capture has only postponed the unknown mastermind's plan... I've been out of the loop on the game's lore for awhile, so please forgive any misconceptions or poor memory. Also, apologies for pulling this poor horse out of his grave to wail on him a bit more.
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    It wasn't me, but I have something like that: I play them almost exclusively in mini-mode. Put the Circle of Thorns "backpack" on a costume like this, and it'll get much closer to the ban hammer. It's not exactly the same as pictured, but I attached the costume file for anyone that wants to play around with it. hiveling.costume
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    I certainly don't think that. Lowest price goes to the highest bidder. I very deliberately used the word "can" to imply there's a chance.
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    Here's the EVIL MANIPULATION I was using to make that 200m in an hour: I listed a large quantity of extremely high-demand enhancements for pennies. I'm not the reason you're spending 4m+ on that Luck of the Gambler. I'm the reason you can get one for $1m.
  6. The Trouble
    It requires understanding which of your attack powers are junk, but this thread has some additional considerations for where to slot your Critical Strikes Proc.
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    They were likely not crafted directly, but the result of us Ebil Marketeers using Converter Roulette. Using "free" Reward Merits to purchase Converters makes the cost of that process much cheaper than the standard way. This is part of what makes us so darn Ebil - most of our tactics make things more affordable for everyone.
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    The attempted comedy was me introducing divisiveness into your appeal for unity. "Reunion" was chosen for another level of irony. Failing to land the joke is really Torchbearer* of me. 🤦‍♂️ *chosen at random
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    Ugh. You sound so Reunion with this... 😄
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    False, @Glacier Peak. Just perma-Hasten your softcap defenses to multibox your proc-bomb.
  11. The Trouble
    Donate today. Don't be responsible for robbing the world for what could be... Snarky. Not gone, but not forgotten.
  12. The Trouble
    I absolutely love Ninjitsu with Street Justice. There's no better pairing if you want to feel like a Dark Knight of your own making. I took every power from the secondary due to the Rule of Cool, but I agree that many powers are skippable if you wish to chase other concepts and stats. I got my guy to 100% slow resist, 7 knockback protection, and soft-capped all positionals (although I did include the Fighting pool). I also got Spinning Strike and Crushing Uppercut both decently proc-bombed. There's a lot of wiggle room with Ninjitsu!
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    So Energy Blast is even easier than I recall. I appreciate the correction, thank you! For what it's worth, I only ever put the +Recharge proc in Explosive Blast. Nova is the only power I ever bothered to convert to knockdown. SuddenlyI want to dust this character off and resume knocking back for justice.
  14. The Trouble
    Slot a Knockback to Knockdown in Explosive Blast, and Nova. The KB/KD tax is trivial because those are the only two that truly scatter enemies. Everything else let fly. Use Energy Torrent to send clusters back into debuff patches. With this method you are primarily only knocking a singular target back. Aim them towards a wall or a corner. Then you'll find other situations where sending an opponent sailing over an edge, or rolling down a hill a great benefit. I haven't seen a single complaint when sending an Immunes Surgeon screaming over a cliff. Why are people bad at knockback? Because they're never given the opportunity to practice because of the widespread hate, and forum reputation. The cycle just repeats.
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    I'm waiting for you to be struck with the irony of claiming to be a part of a counter-culture, yet demanding people to conform to your myopic and empirically incorrect definition of what a word means. Yes, language changes. But we still call paper notebooks "notebooks" even though we call a specific computer the same thing. Just because a modern subculture has decided to use the word "Goth" to describe themselves doesn't erase two thousand years of history. Peoples, language, architecture and literature have all been described as Goth/Gothic. That's why it was such a good pick for a costume contest!
  16. The Trouble
    Firstly, welcome home! I'm addicted to alts, but I have stuck with a handful of them all the way through 50 and beyond. As for your questions: I do solo and teaming with all of my characters. I usually turn to Tankers (no specific build) when I want to survive everything. The best thing to see in a group is someone who pays attention to what the leader says... I rarely celebrate seeing powersets, but players. I have a handful of builds that do exactly what I wanted them to do: ultra-high recharge, immunity to slow, capped res/def, permanent this-and-that. I realize most of these answers aren't helpful in guiding you to a concept that speaks to you. What makes or breaks a character for me is the concept. I'll come up with a name, theme, or costume first. I'm already excited about the character by the time they're running around in the game. So I don't see any harm in you making multiple characters because eventually one is going to be just right. You'll discover some kind of synergy that'll motivate you to log in as them every time you look at the character selection screen.
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    Hey. Those chainsaw swords we have are really cool. I'd love to see an adaptation of them for Claws.
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    ...and if it was just limited to "Goth" and not "Gothic", you'd see the same uproar from this user if someone dressed like Conan the Barbarian justifiably won. Thanks to everyone who make these contests possible! Please know the community as a whole loves this stuff far beyond words' paltry shortcomings. I say this even though my mummified John Travolta didn't even place in the "Ancient Greece" contest. Maybe someday the parody-musical subculture will find the right representation in this online superhero videogame's community-run events, but until then, I'll keep fighting for our rights! ✊
  19. The Trouble
    @BrandX hit the nail on the head. I've omitted toggles because it makes predicting your Crit Window impossible, and the goal of this post was to steer Scrappers towards the most efficient placement for their personal build(s). By all means, put it in a toggle if you'd like! I'm not the Build Police. 🙂 I think that method would work best with extremely fast recharge attacks, so you could just go on your merry little berserk fury and randomly get a boost here and there. You don't need to be "efficient" to have fun. I'm sure most of us agree that a successful build is whatever leaves you standing while your enemies are in piles upon the floor.
  20. The Trouble
    If it procs (24% chance on standard, 46% for Superior), then you have 4.118 seconds of critical strikes, not just the next attack. A short animation or a long one doesn't matter as much as the Time After Effect, which you want to be as short as possible. Once Total Focus has activated, you'll get 3.326 seconds of crits, and the ATO has a very high proc rate in this power (65% chance on standard, 90% for Superior). On paper, it looks like a pretty good spot to slot this. Tables will include proc rates Soon(TM)! Tables updated!
  21. The Trouble
    Well, crap. You are correct. I'll update the tables to include regular and superior Critical Strikes proc chances as soon as my brain will allow. Thank you.
  22. The Trouble
    This is close to my experience. I used to have a ton of stuff stashed away, but I've been tearing down, giving away, and selling lately. After fully kitting out two pages of 50's, a handful of my wife's 50's, buying WAY too many booster packs, and giving away a ton of inf, I don't have a lot of liquid wealth at all. I still consider myself "rich" because there's literally nothing I can't afford. Sometimes I have to wait 45 minutes to an hour to make the inf for the new shiny thing, but playing the market is still quite fun for me. So that's my answer: Rich=everything you could want is readily available. In the past, I haven't considered slotted enhancements as part of a person's wealth, but this thread changed my mind. Reward Merits absolutely count!
  23. The Trouble
    I very passively addressed the issues like multiple targets when I said things like "probably be good candidates to slot this ATO (within reason)". My hope was to give folks a direction to look in, rather than recommend powers to use outright. Many thanks for addressing such a meaningful component missing from these tables! Directly related: Even though the Crit Window is pretty small for Broadsword's Slice, that's where I'm currently slotting the proc. So yeah, your observation is important enough that I should include it in the first post unambiguously. Including secondaries feels prohibitively daunting for now. Consolidating this data burned me out 🤷‍♂️
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    Me too! Updating my spreadsheet for that will take some noodle-scratching. I'm starting to feel like I jumped into the deep end of the pool with my boots on. 🙂
  25. The Trouble
    Thanks for linking that thread. I literally searched multiple ways to find similar topics, yet this one never showed up. I'll brush up my Search-Fu. Going to update my tables with this important feedback as soon as I have the mental capacity*, but at least they already help identify what powers should be considered for the ATO. Deeply appreciate the help! *Tables updated
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