ParaBruce

This is a fascinating bit of detective work. The RP part of my mind immediately leapt to imagining Kheldians gratuitously zapping nearby bugs and whatever before form shifting, many of them having no idea why and just doing it out of superstition, following conventional wisdom, and such.

Just to bring some closure, I am very happy at being able to routinely do a lot of stuff at +4/x8 with @Warlawk's bots/time build from his grand collection of /time builds. I've still got some hurdles to cross, but then I also still have some T4s to secure, so that's fine. (In my case, incarnate powers very much help cushion the deficiencies of the player.) Sure, it's not as fast as some other archetypes and power combos we could name, but it works at a pace that suits me and makes me glad. Thanks, @Warlawk. 🙂

This is an export of Oldskool's build in the post above, since I was interested in poking at it. (OK, technically it's not. I swapped the positioning of Fly and Boxing; since I usually do DFBs, I like having Flight early.) Hero Plan by Mids' Reborn : Hero Designer 2.6.0.1 https://github.com/ImaginaryDevelopment/imaginary-hero-designer Level 50 Magic Sentinel Primary Power Set: Dark Blast Secondary Power Set: Invulnerability Power Pool: Flight Power Pool: Fighting Power Pool: Speed Ancillary Pool: Psionic Mastery Hero Profile: ------------ Level 1: Gloom (A) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage (3) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (3) Cloud Senses - Chance for Negative Energy Damage Level 1: Temp Invulnerability (A) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance (5) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance (5) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance/RechargeTime Level 2: Umbral Torrent (A) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage (7) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (7) Positron's Blast - Chance of Damage(Energy) (9) Explosive Strike - Chance for Smashing Damage (9) Force Feedback - Chance for +Recharge (11) Sudden Acceleration - Knockback to Knockdown Level 4: Fly (A) Blessing of the Zephyr - Knockback Reduction (4 points) Level 6: Abyssal Gaze (A) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (11) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage (13) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance (13) Gladiator's Javelin - Chance of Damage(Toxic) (15) Gladiator's Net - Chance of Damage(Lethal) (15) Cloud Senses - Chance for Negative Energy Damage Level 8: Aim (A) Recharge Reduction IO (17) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Chance for Build Up Level 10: Dull Pain (A) Preventive Medicine - Heal/RechargeTime (17) Preventive Medicine - Heal/RechargeTime/Endurance (19) Preventive Medicine - Endurance/RechargeTime Level 12: Dark Obliteration (A) Superior Sentinel's Ward - RechargeTime/Chance for +Absorb (19) Superior Sentinel's Ward - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime (21) Superior Sentinel's Ward - Accuracy/Damage (21) Superior Sentinel's Ward - Damage/RechargeTime (23) Superior Sentinel's Ward - Accuracy/Damage/RechargeTime (23) Superior Sentinel's Ward - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance Level 14: Boxing (A) Empty Level 16: Unyeilding (A) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance (25) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance/RechargeTime (25) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance Level 18: Antumbral Beam (A) Superior Opportunity Strikes - Accuracy/Damage (27) Superior Opportunity Strikes - Damage/RechargeTime (27) Superior Opportunity Strikes - Accuracy/Damage/RechargeTime (29) Superior Opportunity Strikes - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (29) Superior Opportunity Strikes - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime (31) Superior Opportunity Strikes - RechargeTime/Chance for Opportunity Level 20: Durability (A) Preventive Medicine - Heal (31) Preventive Medicine - Heal/Endurance (31) Preventive Medicine - Chance for +Absorb Level 22: Tough (A) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/Endurance (33) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3% (33) Steadfast Protection - Knockback Protection Level 24: Weave (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed (33) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance (34) Luck of the Gambler - Defense Level 26: Life Drain (A) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage (34) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (34) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance (36) Gladiator's Javelin - Chance of Damage(Toxic) (36) Touch of the Nictus - Chance for Negative Energy Damage (36) Cloud Senses - Chance for Negative Energy Damage Level 28: Invincible (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed (37) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance (37) Luck of the Gambler - Defense Level 30: Hasten (A) Recharge Reduction IO (37) Recharge Reduction IO Level 32: Blackstar (A) Armageddon - Chance for Fire Damage (39) Armageddon - Damage/Endurance (39) Armageddon - Damage (39) Armageddon - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge (40) Armageddon - Damage/Recharge (50) Fury of the Gladiator - Chance for Res Debuff Level 35: Tough Hide (A) Shield Wall - Defense (40) Shield Wall - Defense/Endurance (40) Shield Wall - +Res (Teleportation), +5% Res (All) Level 38: Mind Probe (A) Hecatomb - Damage (42) Hecatomb - Damage/Endurance (42) Hecatomb - Chance of Damage(Negative) (42) Hecatomb - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge (43) Hecatomb - Accuracy/Recharge Level 41: Dominate (A) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage (43) Apocalypse - Chance of Damage(Negative) (43) Unbreakable Constraint - Chance for Smashing Damage (45) Gladiator's Net - Chance of Damage(Lethal) (45) Gladiator's Javelin - Chance of Damage(Toxic) (45) Decimation - Chance of Build Up Level 44: Link Minds (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed (46) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Recharge (46) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance/Recharge (46) Luck of the Gambler - Defense Level 47: Hover (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed Level 49: Afterburner (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed Level 1: Brawl (A) Empty Level 1: Opportunity Level 1: Prestige Power Dash (A) Empty Level 1: Prestige Power Slide (A) Empty Level 1: Prestige Power Quick (A) Empty Level 1: Prestige Power Rush (A) Empty Level 1: Prestige Power Surge (A) Empty Level 1: Sprint (A) Celerity - +Stealth Level 2: Rest (A) Empty Level 4: Ninja Run Level 2: Swift (A) Run Speed IO Level 2: Health (A) Numina's Convalesence - 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Oh neat! Going to be following this with great curiosity.

I'm wondering about usage - the stock advice on Dimension Shift, I know, is basically "don't do that", in groups. Would you throw caution to the windows and dump baddies in it anyway, in this context, or what? 🙂

This has got to be a very extreme outlier at best. I literally never, ever see it, as opposed to people who put damage at a lower priority than defense and all.

Thanks, that's handy info.

This is my first time getting a crab soldier up to the point of having pets. Just spiderlings so far, but the others will come. And I realized that I don't know something important about using them well. So: If I'm making a powexec_location macro or binding, since I hate manually targeting a summoning, do I want them appearing on me or on a target?

It's interesting to see the kinds of realization one gets only or primarily from play. For me, it's "I get bored with so few attacks" -> "I would be happier with a primary that had maybe 4-5 attacks as part of a rotation" -> "likely I should look at secondaries other than Bio". 🙂

Thanks again. 🙂

Huh. As a fellow range-lover, I find this interesting. Do you think it would work okay as a farmer, when not doing other stuff? Also, there are some oddities in the build as posted. I had to reorder Fly, Hover, and Afterburner, and then swap Afterburner's place with Radioactive Smash because of minimum level requirements. And I don't know where to stick something to make it possible to take Tough and Weave.

Very much in favor.

Thank you!

It must be said that the background sounds made me keep waiting for this to kick in. 🙂

Watching the evolution of your build is downright fascinating. Dad was a NASA engineer and I grew up fascinated by the process of making...just about anything, really, even the making of stuff where I had no particular interest in the end result. When I do have that interest, it's even better to see the iterating. Each game of chess means there's one less Variation left to be played Each day got through means one or two Less mistakes remain to be made

Oh, cool, thank you for the answers! *exit, fiddling with Hero Designer*

Out of curiosity, with examplaring in mind, @Redlynne, do you have any general-purpose suggestions for alternatives to the Hami-Os? I exemplar a lot and was giving them the side-eye while admiring the rest of @SmalltalkJava's work a lot. Also, @SmalltalkJava, thanks for the videos! I really like that kind of thing - it helps me get a much better sense of what a bunch of numerical data means in play. I used to be great at that sort of translation, but autoimmune problems have taken their toll on parts of my brain along with parts of the rest of me. So, very much obliged.

Yeah, the T3 makes a big difference. And thanks for the comment about /Nature, which I haven't done a lot with yet despite liking what I did.

And there was the answer for me in the thread about Crysis' bots/time build. 🙂

I'm feeling the urge to do some boundary pushing. Can masterminds get up to that maximal mission stomping? (I'm not interested in AE farming.) If so, what combos are most likely to get there? If bots/time is an answer, then I'll have questions about build tuning. 🙂 If not, then I'll welcome builds and build suggestions for better combos.

@TheOtherTed, you are my hero of the day.

I need a picture of Peter Weller as Buckaroo Banzai pointing and shouting, "Evil! Evil, pure and simple, from the eighth dimension!"

This looks like a lot of fun. 🙂 When I've got my bots/time character kitted out some more, I may need to give something like this a try.

Ah ha! So @WanderingAriesand I both had some rightness. 🙂 Thank you for bringing me some clues!

Er, you may be thinking of something else, but this is in the patch notes for the 10th of this month: "Added the ability to select Borderless Fullscreen mode in any monitor connected to the system." Which sounds new to me.