WuTang

Alrighty...decided to go proc'n and rock'n! Wanna see if I can kill'em all before they have a chance to...ya know...do the same to me. But this dude will only group no real solo except for early stuff where it doesn't really matter. Question, if anyone knows. I slotted the Glad -res and Achilles -res in The Lotus Drops. MIDs is only calculating one of them, will they both proc or because they have the same effect it won't stack from the same power?

3 manned this yesterday for several runs. Solo -1/1 no bosses I can clear it with a tanker in 9 min and some change (9:17 personal best). As a group we got under 10 min once, the rest were ~10:30. The variables are cave size in mish 1, glowy locations in mish 3, and location of boss and goons in mish 2. Some personal variables: my clicking speed and getting stuck behind rocks and wall in mish 1, 3, and 4. How spread out the goons get with more people can be a pain if someone isn't watching and aggros loads on their way in then you end up having to kill way more than needed. We could probably squeeze a bit more time if we could coordinate a lil better. Like in mish 2 have someone head all the way down and start the NPC convo while the others kill the required mobs. But I think the one heading down, if they don't have stealth, may scatter the mobs and make killing take longer. Either way it's done, solo or small group, I ain't complaining. This so much quicker and easier than any other way I've grinded (that a word?? Is now!) for Incarnates.

Holy crap! Down to 9 min now

True. My guy has Super Speed maxed out. He can get to the mish door before TT can load.

True but the Heather Towsend arc is much faster than even an ITF and a common component = 20 threads.

Do the convo's start without the mish leader there?

1000x Thanks my man!!

1000x Thanks my man!! Personal best 11:47 min once I got Reveal and learned what to kill and what to skip.

Bruh! Your name is LITERALLY Snarky! It's like you come with a prewarning and all...

Sorry wasn't questioning a typo... I'm king of the typo! I don't actually know what those merits are used for.

What is a transcenant merit?

Did not know this!

I think the XP is good if the AE farm is built with or after "page 5" changes. I can't what exactly that means but I believe it means the mobs have been adjusted to once again grant more XP via attacks and whatnot. I do know the map I run is large and takes about an hour to solo and if I have one lowbie in there they'll be in the 20s before I'm done. Edit: Also I've leveled fairly quickly, and it was definitely more fun just by running TFs. Just have to have enough inf on you to keep up SOs upgrades until 27. But run DFB, then Posi 1 & 2, etc...

What's the fastest way for a leveled out 50 to gain incarnate components and threads? Going a different direction with the build and need to build a couple different incarnates, but I'm out of threads. Do all mobs have the same % chance to drop threads? Some people say ITF is the best option, but I don't think so. I know Tinpex/ApeMage is a good one for a couple quick components but is there a quick solo path? Thanks! -WT

Also, Midnight Grasp loves procs.

I do like the regen, that's an amazing job. My only concern is your accuracy and +toHit being so low. Without Build up and the extremely low proc chance (9%) of Build up from Arcane bolt you are floating in the ~63%-91% range and that might give you some problems.

If one is planning on playing blapper style, how does one arrange defenses/resistances? I have but one Blaster, and I went the route of hover blasting with him, so this is new to me. My power choices are Dual Pistols / Ninja Training and right now Arsenal. This combo seems very attack heavy, can't imagine all are must haves. I have a Dual Pistol Corruptor so I've got a decent handle on that set, but when combining it with another attack power set...don't know, was thinking about skipping Dual Wield, possibly Empty Clips, and Piercing Rounds, though my current MIDs build still has Empty Clips, but I know it's not particularly strong. In Ninja I've skipped the dart and both powders, but Golden Dragonfly looks skippable as well. Endurance and recharge don't look to be an issue, so I was going to go Clarion for the stat protection. Right now, my defenses are in the 20-25% range, so a medium or large purple will get me over the hump there. Right now, I've got procs throughout which is why my defenses are lowish, going for high damage, resist debuffs, recharge and prayers. I want the Teleport pool. I figured the Leadership pool is useless unless y'all think Maneuvers is needed. Any who on to Blappering...blapping...whatever... With DP/NT coupled with Combat Teleport will I still need to "joist," or with Clarion can I sit my lazy butt next to the tank and kick ass? I know each pull and each mob type will have different challenges and the playstyle will obviously need to be flexible, but on average will I need to be running in and out or is there a way to build it that would let me stay put? My DP Corruptor also has Time, so I plant him in the fray and go ham...but he also has heals and a stout -toHit debuff aura. Thanks in advance for any help! -WT

I have to agree here. I've recently been shown the errors of my way concerning Bio. My lesson came to me on my Sav/Bio Brute. My original build had fairly high defenses 35%-40% S/L/F/C/E/NE and 46% Melee and in farms or on teams he did fine, but I struggled with some enemies if I got away from the group or solo'd and my damage never felt good, but my regen was through the roof and I never had to watch my blue bar. Another thing always bugged me is that I had other toons that had no problems with any group even some of my Scrappers could stand better, my Claws/WP as an example. But... Now, I'm in a new boat, still learning the ropes though. @Spaghetti Betty threw together a build for my Sav/Bio Brute that on paper I just couldn't see it working...at first. Defenses had been lowered anywhere from 1/4 to 1/2 and my resistances dropped ~10% but my damage output shot up 30% - 50% and I gained a couple range attacks which I dearly wanted. And guess what... So far, I've had a better time of it than before. I haven't yet faced all the foes as before but that'll be coming soon and I bet he fairs better.

I cobbled this together... I'm working on a Bio/BA Tanker as well....just my BA/Bio Brute got in the way. I don't really like it yet, but I think it would work for most anything.... I'm still very new to Tanker builds. Tanker (Bio Armor - Battle Axe).mbd

This is for my son... I made a Battle Axe/Bio Brute and his theme is a tree where I utilized all the bio armor pieces to add to the look rather than minimizing their effects and he carries around the lumberjack axe. The look is good, when he's in Villian Stance 2 he looks like a tree. Any ways, through that my boy came up with a fantastic theme, a "swamp thing," so to speak, WB/Bio. And then working with him on his theme we came up with the idea of using the tentacles from dark mastery and coloring them like vines. He's my boy so he wants theme plus practicality. Working on the build, Water Blast looks awesome. None of the powers look skippable...and also none of the powers in Bio look unworthy, which doesn't leave much room for other things. Can anyone help steer me in a good direction, please? Water blast is a nice full range set, so I figured keeping him at range was a good idea, BUT I'm absolutely open to any suggestions. In my laymen view Dehydrate looks like the most skippable. Right now, I've kept it because it's a self-heal, but I don't know how good it is and only because I can't seem to get Bio's regen very high. We are keeping him "grounded" for theme, but right now we've taken Super Speed for the travel power which isn't very thematic either.... I was also thinking Teleport and use the goop effect and leave it up to my boy if he wants to keep the toon grounded of not. If anyone has a Water Blast or a Bio build they'd be willing to share, it'd be much appreciated. As always, thanks to y'all in advance! -WT Edit: Actually, just reread Rebuild DNA, is that not in the calculation in MIDs? Edit #2: Whirlpool, that's not worth procs, right? Cause location AOEs act like pets, right?

Oh and here'e my...I don't even know what rev I'm on...build. I borrowed some of @Grizleeslotting, it's better than what I had. Wu Tang - Scrapper (Staff - Ninjitsu).mbd

Nuther question... Staff, Sky Splitter, worth skipping for a snipe?

@Grizlee I might've swapped out Charged Brawl for Ball lightning. Or a proc'd out Electric Shackles. Edit: I might've also barrowed your Nin slotting 🙂 ...and very cool concept!

I've been kicking this around since yesterday. Some buddies wanna do a Staff team, the AT is up to me though. I've read this and that about Scrapper vs. Stalker, but I wanted to use Ninja because I've never used it before and on paper at least Ninja didn't look as good on a Stalker...could be completely wrong though. And, just messing around with the costume, I came up with a great looking ice ninja...so I want to use Ice Mastery. So...never used Staff or Ninja or Ice...so.....no clue. Staff is cool looking but the DPAs look low, and I DO NOT understand how Ninja works. Some of the builds I looked over, the endurance looks wonky. I know there is a clicky...with a nearly 2 sec cast, but is that to be leaned on that hard? And are we supposed to shoot for as much resist as possible or is ~40% doable. I don't have access to the build I worked on, but to be honest it's just a Frankensteined version of about 3 builds I looked over. What in Staff is skippable and in Ice Mastery, does Shiver have a cool effect? Kind of hoping for a fog effect like you get from some Storm powers. I was thinking of using Frozen Spear, Shiver, and Frigid Wind. Also, and I guess I should've asked this first, Ice any good? The debuff looks strong, but MIDs could be displaying incorrect data. SR is my backup for Ninja; I wanted a Def oriented set. Also, if I go SR might switch to Stalker. Any help would be muy apreciado! And a belated Merry Christmas to you all! -WT

Yeah I'm leaning strong on swapping it into Storm Kick. Just if it stacked with an AOE I could see that being more beneficial and I wouldn't have to respec. Thanks!