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It's not strange at all. It was a response to "if we allow this everyone will take fighting/cj/hasten/leadership," where I already always take fighting/cj/hasten/fly and sometimes drop fly for leadership. You're absolutely correct that no one is forcing me down that path but any other path leads to ... lesser builds.

That only means he didn't dig hard enough through the horrific spaghetti code!

I have a lowbie ar/dev blaster that I've been enjoying the hell out of... much has changed since I last tried that combo before the snap.

I've been asking for an assault/debuff Archetype for ages with the debuffs all being pbaoe and acting like armor. I see no reason that you couldn't also go manipulation/debuff along the same lines.

I like compromise but unfortunately I don't care for the offerings of the newer pools beyond sorcery and even then it's only to get rune of protection which I've pretty much given up on and instead go down the cheat code path with defense amplifiers for mez protection.

Why doesn't the reverse count? Meaning, if it allows me to take provoke instead of some other throw-away power that I don't even bother sticking an enhancement in, why would that be bad?

Why can't stalkers skip hide in this scenario?

Huh. PermaLF with net gain on end rec even during crash period. PermaEB for 1856HP before accolades. Overcapped DR to all but Psi. Heal every 17secs. Hasten 2 seconds shy of perma. Absolutely zero KB in build. Wut.... Lousy defense but kinda don't think that's gonna matter much. EDIT: Lots of slows might be problematic. From recently updated Mids ver 3.0.4.7 | Copy & Paste this data into Mids Reborn : Hero Designer to view the build | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| |MxDz;1391;645;1290;HEX;| |78DA6594D96E127114C6FF0303144ACB560A2D850205A14059BC738BD136515B882| |4186FC9D8FE5B49281016E3ADAFA017757B016F7C04B72731F1D2604DD468A32D1E| |E67CB4254C80DFCC99F39DE51BA0F478C3FEF6D693EB4271AFD7B54EA75A96DAB67| |CD0AE35F664DB54D2F66ADB820ECBBAACEF37DB9A85CEE3E753AA77777765A3537B| |24B3C5DE7EADD1EC75AA37A950373696B52127B26EF4DA9AB0959BCD7AB6D29272C| |7A19F16A5B623DB9D87B5967D74DDA2126EFDE29EACCB56B3DDD5BAB56643F86996| |08BD8F4CF4A10CA71C98C40121A10AF37366EA05F892997905BE66F6CFB406E1A39| |3A02A0C178D4214A8C611F32FE528A8AFAC19F45822CB5CCD8179B0C04C7D517546| |C930236B15639A50B00A153CA6BAC3F6C3BAA677DC6BED3DF801FCC8CC7E0251F79| |08416CC6DF98A7B154567AEC43CA11C2BE7A8D613D6D906E0B033D1A930DD06A630| |0B318D5DA7A1B143638766169A59689C9889DC1733D875E60DFB10C2AE2EF2C1817| |91D4E9E2FEC01BD4C857ABB30AF2BC1FA9524B8CA8CA5C034D343753DAC119E08F7| |FA497378D9578317DEF8E14D08DEFCA21C1FE7283ECCE81F3D1F9A6301CF65E11FF| |7593C064F984B035070FD103CF84C8D03AC1501EC354F3306E14B708E6305DC3351| |AF65F8BD7C896B862F3323579899ABCCDC35661EBDCCA48D62CEE86D8EC5EE30739| |BCCFC16586416A0FD43FBC7D1371EE6BD2F8C981E6722334E23F54DC2F3649FF777| |D38E69C4D2780E718A65E145769163BFA96F1EB13CEA2FA902C7805E7488901E199| |61B0C9213778B1391B28A1F3145143D52514FBFFB46EB0F9E31B205C2FB95005FF7| |6DA7BF6FA80FCF220625C25953F75935B5A9E8FF1CDF2654DFCFAB9EF2B39A7BC69| |C3F60FE07E4CFD4B7| |-------------------------------------------------------------------|

Already in the plan. (Already have a kb to kd on dark detonation on the WS.) I do love bouncing the baddies. And, yes, I'm still eyeballin Air Superiority on both of my Khels for more bouncy goodness. But we'll see.

I watched carefully and think is was the endrec debuff from LF's crash which isn't quite perma on top of heavy fighting eating the rest of the end. Great info, yall. Thanks much.

Verified that weirdness. That is bizarre. Thanks!

Huh. Could have sworn I just had a full toggle drop from no end with an LF drop. Going to double check.

O.o Wait what? If I'm at 25% health/end and LF crashes my health and end go UP?

Build question on the PB: Normally on armor sets I completely skip the heavy crash T9s and since we can just buy mez protection, is there any reason to bother going the perma-lightform route?

Hrrmmm... ok, maybe not nuke the PB. She's already vet lvl 2 and my 2nd acct is sitting on 4 transcendent merits that she could use.

It will increase build diversity by allowing us to swap out of lesser desired primary/secondary powers for the lesser taken pool powers we'd otherwise be inclined to take such as provoke or aid other.

If you valued variety you'd support the request.

Peacebringer Combat Flight is using the standard flight pose rather than the hover pose. Please correct if possible and thanks.

Post to track a journey assisted by ample cheating. Recreated my chaos mage human only warshade. Purchased 16 hours so far of all 3 amplifiers and double xp. Set diff to +0/x2 w/ bosses. That was on Wed night. This morning she dinged 24 right at the end of Shadowstar's third arc and she'll give me another at 25. I've run nothing but her arcs solo. Bumped diff to +1/x2 w/ bosses and will run radios solo until 25. I suspect diff will continue getting pushed up regularly from here out and probably should have started doing so earlier. Stygian Circle, as it always has been, is still a linchpin power. Nothin like an insta-fill on health and endurance after every spawn. I've even been running Orbiting Death since very early on, mostly because it just plain looks awesome but also because more damage is always better. I still fail to see why Kheldians don't get mez protection especially with the addition of Sentinels into the mix. They have armor shields and spend a lot of time in melee where Sents are fully ranged AND get standard armor set mez protection. While I'm not even remotely a fan of the cheat codes we can buy from the P2W vendor, I'm certainly going to keep the defense amp loaded for as long as its in the game until the mez situation is fixed. No need to refresh the other two and probably didn't need them in the first place. All in all, I'm enjoying her again and I'm honestly not sure how much of it boils down to me just enjoying watching her because she looks cool as hell while fighting. Plan to do the same with my Peacebringer. Strip her, nuke her, rebuild her on my primary account and run her solo from 1 to 50 with defense amp loaded or at least until she has perma-light form and doesn't need it. Same ride, though, run the PB contact's arcs and radios solo. Kinda nice playing like I used to before hopping on the farmpling train.

ALL of my characters take Tough/Weave/CJ/Hasten. Most take fly so that I can use hover/afterburner as LotG mules and fly is my preferred mode of travel. Those that take leadership either drop CJ or end up finding other places for LotGs and go superjump. Yea, I miss out on a lot of interesting concepts because of this rigidity. Especially when there's plenty of primary/secondary powers I'd be happy to be rid of in the place of more power pool choices.

I don't like leading because it distracts from my meditative killin. But I will lead ITFs and MLTFs when I don't feel like soloing and I don't see anyone else cranking one up.

Restarted my chaos mage HO warshade for 10th time (or more, no clue,) Loaded her up with amps and double xp, she's run nothing but Shadowstar's arcs and is lvl 20 again. Maybe this time I'll get her right. I do find that for all the downsides, warshades are still a blast to watch in action.

Recovery serum? Pffft. Ya cheater,

You'd think the gaming industry would learn from games with a rabid following....

Yea.... past +5 the purple patch gets insane. I attempted to solo the 10 times the victor badge with my uber-awesome tank and realized that Mary at +3 was going to obliterate me with end suckage and tohit debuffs from hurricane. I *might* be able to pull off +3 but +4 or higher, she would beat me down like I was nothing.