Clave Dark 5

Noted and going into the build, thanks. 🙂

I've been visiting for close to a week now, started up a blaster and a defender, who's getting more of the love (it's a long story). But seeing as I have some 50s, it'd be nice to be able to do something with them at 3 am other than solo. But I still want to keep a foot over on Indom for the MSR that Eda hosts!

Cool, thanks!

Thanks. Is that five per my account, or a character? I'm guessing it's five times per account. Fort some reason I just don't feel I can completely abandon my first new server is all.

I started out on Indom but as I often play at super-late/early hours, I need to be on Excelsior if I want to have any real chance of finding a team. I know swapping a toon from one server to another is easier now, but how much moreso? Is there a limit on the number of times, or how many times within a time period, anything like that?

Nah, that's Ninjas. No, wait - Zombies! =)

That's what I;m discovering. I tend to stick with a toon for a long enough time to get fairly comfy with it, so maybe by the time I ding 50 I'll be able to do that. (Stupid forum formatting down here, dunno how to get rid of these. IGNORE ME!)

I was just doing some of that yesterday though, it does still happen!

This is my first stormie of any sort so I just have to take Hurricane; I've already found that it has it's uses, such as blocking a doorway to keep foes bunched up and not slipping past to annoy my friends, and that it draws friends close who want to stay safe from melee as they plink away at the bad guys. Those two things right there make me feel like a Defender with a capital D. I was half thinking about that tier one blast as a proc canon, but it recharges so fast right out of the box I was afraid that would hamper the proc rate. Currently cobbling up a build from a proc monster storm/sonic (I think it was) posted over in that thread, so we'll see how it goes.

I'd love to have some Mercy Island Snakes for Lore pets. And the Fir Bolg. Really, any so-far-not-represented factions should have a place there. And yes, like Illusion, maybe some decoy copies of the player themselves as well.

That's what I'm finding with it, it's good to give it a rest sometime to help my End, and to take a break from the sound effect. Still learning my way round using it to corner foes too.

I was asking more about what "perma temp" meant exactly.

Wait, what? That's kind of an oxymoron. =) You're talking about the 'buy a jet pack here' aspect of the P2W right

This is one of my gripes about the system, actually - armor armor armor! All the time, armor! Past armor, modern day armor, futuristic armor! Want some armor? Of course you do!

Well I play on Excelsior now too! 😉

This here guy/gal got magical somehow!" Seriously. I once planned a character who got a rash and got magical powers from it for no good reason, but never made him because "ManWithAMagicRash" wouldn't fit. I have had a few techie characters (back from the future, developed an electricity storage method which allows this one to shoot lightning, etc.) but the magic thing is an easy crutch, along the lines of "a wizard did it."

"Oh, whoops, sorry, didn't realize that was a cone power."

It's funny, because I was just looking up the "flavor of the month" posts and Radiation Blast was the number one choice for Defenders. C-could it be the intelligentsia build gurus have lead me astray? 🙂

Out of a bout of randomness, I made a Storm/Radiation Defender, stepped out of the tutorial and then logged off. Looking around now, even on the old Live forums, it appears no one in the history of forever has ever posted a potential build for such a 'fender, and it's rarely even mentioned. Did a Storm/Rad kill someone's family? Is it really that bad a combo? I'm generally of the mind that just about any combo is playable, but there's obviously some reason for this. Can someone explain why this is a shunned combo? I mean, it's not so late that I can't reroll this toon, right?

I know this thread is ancient, but I'm working up a Staff/Ice stalker and noticed Chilling Embrace could take a proc for +smashing dmg. Has anyone here tried that yet? Is that effect also suppressed by Hide, at least until you make your presence known?

I have that power on a Mastermind and I love it when I get the chance to see the whole shark like this.

Also worth a note that there are occasional powers out there that do little damage but can benefit from having more than one damage proc in them. I'm a fan of this and the whole "proc monster" ideal.

To be fair, they're not wrong.

On a whim I rolled o Beam/Dev Blaster without knowing much about the details, so now I'm looking over these forums for build help and hm, why does this build omit Gun Drone? I mean, it sounds like it would be fun to have an automatic machine gun following me around, is it trash or something? Derp, I see it now, I missed what you said under the quote.

Going off the OP, I want that snake lower body option. The used on those bad guys in... is that Dark Astoria? So it exists somewhere, and I want it. True, I only have one character that would fit, but it would be perfect.