MunkiLord

Everything you said here is true and I agree. But I volunteer to die multiple times in a mission if someone wants to use Vengeance. Debt badges build character.

So you're saying I shouldn't use Self Destruct right next to Ms. Liberty?

I personally wouldn't use it, but I would love for this to be an option for everyone.

Fire won't be as survivable as many of the other sets, but it'll still keep you alive. Especially if you pack in recharge and defense with sets. I was able to solo and ITF with it back on live, but final Rom did kill me a few times and I had to use inspirations. I'm not familiar with Katana, but Dark Melee will pair nice with it. Siphon Life is an additonal heal to go with the one that is already in Fire, and using Soul Drain to help power up Burn and the damage aura will help a ton to make up for Dark Melee's poor AoE. Now that I think about it, making a DM/Fire Scrapper sounds like a lot of fun and I may try it as well.

Munki and Justicebeliever have it right. Munkilord has it right, of course. If we all take one thing away from this thread, I feel it should be this. I'm also curious to see if Star Slayer can keep up this post to influence ratio.

I think it's still more efficient to farm minions and lieutenants since they are defeated significantly faster, at least in general. I'm sure some powersets or ATs(Stalkers?) could probably make short enough work of bosses for it to be worthwhile if purples are the primary goal. I know bosses significantly slow down my Elec/SD Scrapper. edit: I do know that on the old forums somebody had a thread figuring out drop rates for purples, but I don't know the best way to find that particular thread.

I don't have any secret. I try to make sure I profit about 2-2.5 million(give or take depending on conversion attempts) and price so it moves fast. If it's something that isn't always in extreme demand, I never post more than 5 or so of that enhancement at a time. But I agree, it can be extremely tedious at times.

This is one of the dumbest things I have ever read. Controlling people like that are best avoided.

Unai has a Council mission that people like to farm. As long as you don't click the 20 glowies you can keep it. But I'm thinking AE is probably faster. That's all I have as far as farm missions. Now I know you didn't ask about this, but have you considered using the market to make influence? If you're willing, it's a very fast way to make the influence you need. That's how I fund my characters.

That's more polite than me. On general missions, I'll drop immediately. And in a TF if a team is going fast and there is whining when people don't wait for a tank to herd, I'll drop from that too the moment I get bored or annoyed with it.

It's not just the Brute or Tanker - it's every melee AT. Even for non-melee AT, your knockback will frequently transform a massive AE blast into a piddling single target blast because you just knocked the anchor point of their AE across the room. There are very few groups where your uncontrolled knockback won't result in the group performing less effectively. If characters with KB are expected to adjust, then melee ATs can meet half way and also adjust. The problem with anti KB people is they very often expect all the compromise to come from other people.

According to the wiki, anything that can drop level 50 IOs, can drop a purple. https://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Very_Rare_IO_Sets

Soul Mastery is a fantastic idea! Question, how exactly does Power Boost work? Meaning if I use it, will powers I've already casted get a short boost? Or do I need to use it before I cast something like Farsight and I'll get the boost for it's duration?

It's definitely a display error. There is one recipe I constantly buy that shows it sells for 20-25 million consistently, but I pick it up for less than 500k.

People thinking about rolling a Kheld can safely ignore this nonsense. Waiting on herding is slow and boring.

If you want to use Ninjitsu then focus first on softcapping your positional defenses, then get enough recharge to run the attack chain you want based on your primary. After that I'd generally look at S/L resistance as that pairs nicely with Tough while also seeing what can be done with Regen and max HP. Of course the entire time making sure you have enough endurance to do what you want.

This is why the Homecoming Group shuts down the donation page when they reach their monthly cost goal. Whether there are two hundred or two hundred thousand players, what's the cost/benefit tradeoff for them to sue a group that has no more resources than what's needed to keep the servers running for another month? It depends what a company wants to gain. If they are after money, then no, suing Homecoming wouldn't help with that. Their legal costs would be more than anything they could get from the group. If their goal is control and intimidating other potential private servers, then a lawsuit would very likely pay off. But NC Soft would have care in order to go that route, and right now it's not clear that the do. Blizzard is a good example of a company doing this. Their lawsuits against private servers and cheaters don't bring them immediate financial profit, it's about control and scaring off other potential people from doing similar things.

Defense is more effective and easier to build for in general if you're talking about set bonuses. 20% defense will have a significantly larger impact than 20% resistance. And 45% defense will absolutely outshine 75% resist in almost all situations. Prioritize defense over resist. Of course, specific situations and powersets could very well change that, my advice is what I feel is the best general starting point. If you're not factoring in set bonuses, then play to the powersets strengths, whatever they may be. Edit: Wanted to add for top level end game stuff, I feel defense is more important. If Cole or some other AV in an Incarnate trial or fully buffed Lord Recluse hits you, they'll generally make quick work of you. 75% resist is nothing for many of them. Your best bet is to not get hit at all.

It always comes across as a very "get off my lawn" type of attitude.

Definitely. I tend to pay BUY IT NAO prices when I'm buying IOs because I can afford to do so. I'm more conservative when I'm buying stuff to convert and sell but I've got enough inf in the bank that I can afford to pay a premium when I'm actually buying IOs for my characters. This is what I do as well.

What section of the base editor are these located in? I was not aware these were things you could add to bases!!!

You're not wrong, but us taking the same primary is the most important part of this and Time looks fun. We did it with two Cold Defenders back on live and it was pretty ridiculous..

I'm all for this.

These are good ideas, thank you! I don't think the extreme recharge you're talking about will be an important goal, but likely might just be a product of various buffs and spending on sets. Since we'll be at perma-hasten or near it before sets, I don't think it'll take too much effort to get to ridiculous amounts with a few powers. The way we'll play this is likely going to extremely aggressive. Think of Scrappers that run off to solo the world and die, Blasters that try to stand toe to toe with Lord Recluse, Leroy Jenkins, and trying our best to make sure the most aggressive Brutes can't maintain fury. Tanks are going to hate us. The goal won't be to piss off those people or kill a Brute's fury, just throwing out examples of how aggressive I want this duo to work.

My Elec/SD time is for a Scrapper, and it's ugly. I did this with my freshly level 50 StJ/Ice Stalker yesterday, but my initial build has extreme endurance problems, so I'm not ready to share that time yet.