Clave Dark 5

So I'm still struggling with a build for my Mind/Poison/Stone, and even after skipping a fair number of the Mind and Poison powers, my choices are tight and I won't be able to take too many Stone Mastery powers. But which ones to skip? In a thread elsewhere, the possibilities of proc monstering Stone centered on Hurl Boulder, Fissure, and Seismic Smash. Can't really fit 'em all*, so which one of those to leave out? I've never had Stone before, but my gut was telling me Fissure would probably be least essential of the two. But also, one reason I'm so tight on choices was so I could get the usual Boxing/Tough/Weave and then Maneuvers/Tactics combos to help out my defense. Would I perhaps be better to pick up Stone's Rock Armor instead? (How I wish Tomax was still around!) And how about Earth's Embrace, a self-heal might go a long way on a 'Troller. *I'll admit I took Telekinesis, which is junk these days, yes, but has still really helped save my bacon once or twice. Maybe I can drop that and Tactics to free up two slots at best; three if I also drop Stealth, but it sort of fits the theme here and doing so would sting.

"Unnecessary" is indeed what I was pointing to with my post. You don't have to appreciate anything, I was just hoping to point out it pays to play nicer.

It's a quite good thing for all MMs, far as I know. Two of my five 50s are MMs, can't wait til this goes live.

You sure? I never heard anything about them back in the day that I can revall, not like that.

I think that's been suggested before, but obviously nothing's come of it. Yet.

I knew of that one but they fixed it before I got a chance to use it. There was also one that made a character's (I think) left hand similarly invisible, something to do with choosing "beast" gloves option. That only lasted about five days, which gave me a chance to make a Dual Pistol character with only one hand, so his other pistol floated in the air when he used it.

I think it was only like three times? but yeah, I loved that. I generated a quick AE mission with a map full of nothing but drones (oops! all drones!) to fully enjoy it. I think it only lasted like two weeks before they fixed it and, because AWE was still fairly new and people used to run story missions (you know, back before the dialogue bug broke them), I got about 32 plays out of it.

I think characterizing the initial post was a freak-out is a bit disingenuous, if not unkind. It probably helps that I can understand where they're coming from - I play on Indom and often at very late/early hours; teaming at that point is pretty tough. There are a number of ways to address that, and making a suggestion to merge servers was one of them.

Yeah, that's dumb, why waste breath when you're already steamrolling?

Sigh, I already miss the winter stuffs.

Oh hey, I should make some new costume slots then!

I don't even remember who that is or where!

Question for people running a /Poison troller: I only just got it at 35 and haven't had a chance to play and test it much, so... when I drop one somewhere and no unfortunate mob walks over it, how long does it last? Will it just sit on the map "forever", or does it dissipate after like 3 minutes or what? Follow up cheesy question: anyone got a build for a proc-monstered Mind/Poison/Stone troller? :) I still haven't settled on one for this toon, but after considering my options well enough, I kind of get the feeling that most combos I might try for here are all going to be perfectly acceptable.

I was getting tired of having to chase after them to prevent them from faceplanting every spawn. >:( I'm just kidding. Any player who tells you how you should be playing instead of making suggestions to help you play is just bad. And if you're an Emp, chasing and babysitting is a big part of your job (I have a 50 Emp in fact).

I was surprised to see that one pop up myself a few days ago, what sets that one off again? MSRs set off the Rikti invasions right?

Probably real enough when you look at it, but mercurial if checked over time. I know I side switch at the drop of a hat, depending on where I can find teams.

There's a sucker born every minute, fella say.

I've no idea why, but every time I've ever played that TF, it's always been run by exactly that sort of (pardon the language) "farmer bro" player who takes off as if expecting everyone knows the mission maps as well as they do, and won't even offer advice nor answer questions in any depth when asked, "follow me, stay away from the bosses." Sure, it doesn't help that every time I've done that TF I've been a squishie as I don't have a built-up farmer-level toon, but still. Stepping out onto shore and finding the leader already over half a map away; later trying to figure out where they are while I'm still half a map away from the giant robot silo... the last time I ended up just hovering way up in the air whilst they duked it out with the final big bad below, I think I maybe healed them once or twice. Of course, since it was all about them, they didn't care or complain. "Sir, this is an Arby's."

IKR? The dev team doesn't know it's 2020!

Oh sure, because people who play this game never look for corners to cut or easy pathways to exploit! 😉 Damn it, now I want pie...

Oh sure, because people who play this game never look for corners to cut or easy pathways to exploit! 😉 Damn it, now I want pie...

Mind. BLOWN. But yeah, I was hoping the snow and such would last for at least half way through January. I'm glad I took the time to slide about a bit on the lake in Atlas last time I was on.

Cool, thanks. My first 50 after we returned is a Beam/Rad Corr, and although I've somewhat got her refined by this point (I only play that toon occasionally), there's always room to look into improvements.

Interesting. Do you know off the top of your head if this would extend to Corruptors' version of BR as well?

That's what kills me aboput doing tough content on an MM, is the resummon+re-equip times while combat is raging all around you (but hopefully not bothering you whilst you're doing all that). I was going to say that it would seem unlikely to make those equip powers auto, but actually, I'm not sure therte's a reason not to? Unless they just like watching an MM stand there getting slammed whilst summoning and equipping their pets. But maybe others have a better idea why they wouldn't.