Clave Dark 5

Solid point there. I like to level my characters the old fashion way rather than theory crafting them for "already at 50", so yeah, I wouldn't be six-slotting procs into anything, I hate missing. Like GM Kal and Six-Six suggested, I'd want to get the basic Acc/Dam at reasonable levels via frankenslotting or maybe a few pieces from one well-chosen set (such as a set that one of the procs is already a member of) before gorging on procs. 1) Anything attack that has "superior damage" is probably a a major power, so unless I slot a single poroc or two at most for some helpful effect like Chance For Recharge, maybe I shouldn't bother if you're right. 2) Betty's Logic???

I didn't know Mids would calculate procs as well, that's good to know. That too is a good point, I hadn't thought about checking into that yet (which is why I usually just lift completed builds from the forums). The build I'm currently working on is something of a novelty build, and I haven't even settle don an AT yet. I'd probably better marshal my ideas and then post it with an explanation of what I'm chasing in the Archetype forums; maybe there I could better spell it all out.

Quick question that some cursory looking didn't find an answer to: I'm currently MIDS building and got to wondering about procced-out damage vs. straight up IO slotting. I have a couple of attacks that do "superior damage" and was considering proccing one up for the hell of it. Would that be worth it? I know there's always another set bonus for something somewhere to chase, and there's a lot of subjective taste or distaste for this, but especially when you're getting up into the big league of attacks like say Knockout Blow, would I be sacrificing damage for splashiness?

I missed a costume contest on the 4th because I was on a team (sobs) but hey I figure I can post here and receive some validation right? Right? So I present you with my Savage/Shield Scrapper, The Star Spangled Tiger! You can see his general look from left to right, and the right-most is his most patriotic costume.

Best discovered by accident, like I did. 😃

Let me ask that nice man walking his dog over there, "Hey buddy, seen any Council 'round here?"

I recall someone once wanted to start a Twitter account - or was it Tumblr? - of bad bios and had a couple of screen shots of uh explicit ones, so yeah, that was a thing on Live. To finihs that story, it generated a bit of bad blood and the devs asked it be taken down to the poster did. I like a good bio as much as the next person, but I am not going to read a document that fills out ever last possible character count in that little window. if I have to scroll it's too long. Think of it like an attack: do you need to spam a T1 attack, or do you have few strong attacks that'll do the work in less time? And if you can write a good T9 bio, kudos!

I've done it a few times now on Excelsior (yes, PUGs), and I think each time it took some thankless handholding and careful directions ala IN ALL-CAPS PLEASE READ CHAT from the team leader. It also helped to have some Assemble The Teams along the way too. I don't think it's a mission to casually walk into, the person leading mine (I wager it was the same guy all three times) was really herding cats to get it done. But the good news - we did it! All three times. But not without some grief.

I like the way you think.

Yeah, I only learned this now too. I haven't done that one all that often though, as I often play squishies. And for some reason that one TF out of them all (maybe Aeon) seems to bring out the yellingest team leaders (and no, this wasn't all just yelling at me for dying ha ha). Not all the time mind you, just ups the odds.

Ever had a pet? Trust me, that Animal Fur gets everywhere!

Exactly my plan.

I didn't get to see such stuff until HC, my older computers couldn't handle the graphics. Now I get to revel in all the shell casings littering the ground around my AR blaster and Council goons.

You think that's bad, you should see my Grav/Dark Controller Trash Ghost.

I've been having occasion, severe rubberbanding as of late. This morning I was running a solo cave mission and I swear I must have passed into one room like five times, only to pop back to just outside the door. Tried TPing into the room, nothing. Finally got in and then TPed like 4 times in a row. Then mapserved when I exited - which was OK, it was time to log anyway, but still.

Knowing this has been beaten like a whole herd of dead horses, and coupled with the hint someone mentioned above, I'm already camping out on the name I want for a Wind character. And it if isn't a new thing, then the name should be fine for a Stormy too.

That lets you know who to block!

Well based on the few teaser images, I think we can definitely say that improved lighting is NOT something be worked on. 😃

You saw it here folks, the devs are threatening us!!

I've door sat once or twice but overall no I do not level in AE: I don't have hours and hours to play, so door-sitting for half an hour and then having to log feels like a waste of time. Leveling a character up is where the fun is, and I learn how to play the power sets along the way. I'm not made of Inf and don't like to market (see 1), so if I rushed to 50 and then had to fill all those slots, even with just IOs, I wouldn't be able to afford it. I'm sure all this has already been said in this thread.

The HC wiki has a similar page, but I don't know if it's up to date or not. https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Mission_Architect_Unique_Maps

Hanlon's razor: never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. I know I've been on some DfB's with obvious newbies. I don't think I've ever seen any TF get griefed by someone on purpose. And hey, if they do, drop a Note on them and block them (this saved me time just last week). Sooner or later they'll get caught enough times to get them to leave after trying to grief gets boring when there's so few takers.

Off topic, but had to share the way this thread showed up on my screen.

I now want to steal some of those color schemes for new characters. Heck, I just asked it to draw "city of heroes character" and got some good ideas.