[Your start up working capital needs]

Well after my post I noticed this was in the market forum and was thus probably asking about seed money for marketeering, which i don't even do anymore. Derp.

[Your start up working capital needs]

Half a billion per alt. I want them to just be able to buy anything they need without me having to send them more and have some on hand to give away if that situation arises. I spend quite a bit on p2w powers off the bat and buy their IOs as they level. I now have enough purple/pvp in base that they generally have between 200 and 300 million still left when they hit 50, but that's fine. If I like the toon I'll leave it on them for future amplifier purchases. If I don't i'll ship most of it off before retiring them once they're tier 4'd.

[Ice Mistral SF question - level locking?]

I noticed the same thing with not boosting me up to -1 on renault or dropping spawn levels last week. I don't remember this issue on live but that might be me just not soloing them with lowbies on live.

[Mind/Savage or Dark/Savage?]

Remember there's a practically free 20% global recharge from the sg base buff machine. Just has to be recharged every 1.5 hours. Once I got used to doing it on every toon it's pretty easy to remember, though I always get +recovery and + endurance drain resist too - easier to notice 3 missing icons than one.

[Mind/Savage or Dark/Savage?]

Fearsome stare and unkindness would be a sweet opening cone combo before savage leaping in for the melee stuff.

[Assault Rifle - Sniper Rifle is still snipe-length cast time in combat]

Mids has them as all being the same damage. Oddly AR's gets a better DPA number since its long animation is evidently shorter than that of the others. Maybe this is meant to compensate. But unless it came in the last update I've not added, clicking the quick form button in mids doesn't adjust the cast time numbers so it's hard to tell from there.

[Assault Rifle - Sniper Rifle is still snipe-length cast time in combat]

OK I went through my stable and tried out all the snipes I had - fire, rad, beam, elec, dark, archery. That's all except energy (I don't have a nrg blast toon) and psi (my psi is a sentinel which explains why i didn't remember the snipe in my above post). There's clearly something wrong with the assault rifle one. It is faster in quick mode than long snipe but not by much and it's waaaaay slower than the other quick snipes. I don't have numbers as that would have required recording but it'd be glaringly obvious to anyone who goes to compare them back to back. Oh and my AR is a corr so it's not just the blaster version.

[aggo cap still 17?]

paragonwiki says 17

[Comic Books]

I tried that when i had marvel now but i'm so ridiculously completionist that i gave up because they didn't have all of the terrible 60s human torch books on there at the time. this ultimately led to my insane external hard drive hoard which would require several lifetimes to read even if i didn't also have regular books, games and shows to deal with. oh and i never even read comics as a kid (maybe had like 10 or so random grocery store pick ups growing up), this compulsion popped up full blown in my early 30s. Also I don't even like 95% or more of them and barely remember anything from book to book, much less over full runs. I'm completely insane.

[Assault Rifle - Sniper Rifle is still snipe-length cast time in combat]

I probably didn't notice psi's being any slower since almost everything in psi feels like you're mailing the attacks. Presumably they balanced the activation times but AR definitely feels slow to me so there could be a hitch in activation vs arcana time. Or I could easily be imagining it slower as part of my general annoyance with what utter rubbish the set is. That was my assumption until this thread gave me some corroboration.

[Assault Rifle - Sniper Rifle is still snipe-length cast time in combat]

It's still slower than the other fast snipes, and let's face it this set doesn't need more problems.

[Pain a good secondary for ILL?]

I can't speak to /pain but ill/cold is a very strong combo you might consider too.

[30 second timer on logout doesn't wait?]

Try logging out in an open zone, somewhere that isn't 'safe'

[Help me choose my next AT please?]

I've had all 4 (tanker/brute on live, scrap/stalker here). Stalker > Tanker > Scrapper > Brute. The point about brutes and pseudopets is true, but really with any of these the aoe isn't your problem, it's hard targets after all the minions/lieuts are dead from the aoe. Since you don't have a lot of mobs left to have against all odds help your lousy single target attacks, you'll end up nuking then standing there dealing with the leftovers for what seems like forever. This is magnified on brutes since AAO doesn't really help them as much as other ATs anyway. But even my scrapper seemed to take forever once down to bosses. 

 

Stalker solves this with AS and the ATO procs doing their thing, and is plenty tough, especially as the dangerous foes go down much faster. Plus LR doesn't break hide.

Tankers I'd put ahead of scrappers because you'd have an easier time with tanker defense values having the free slots to proc out your single target attacks to make them hit a bit harder. But really ymmv between those two. To me stalker is so far and away better than the other three that the differences in the others hardly matter. They're all serviceable but the stalker is way more fun, especially when you have full team crit bonus working for you on top of the rest.

[Slotting Cauterizing Aura]

i went with the 6 slotted preventive medicine for the delicious recharge bonus

[CoH community is divided between 5 basic groups that see things differently]

You forgot suckling pigs and those drawn with a very fine camel hair brush.

[How are drops affected when you're exemplared?]

You'll get recipes and salvage based on the level of the content. You won't get enhancement drops. You'll still get thread and shard drops though and your daily catalyst.

[How did I never try Stalkers before?]

7 minutes ago, Spectre7878 said:

Stalkers are fun. I love the hide and assassin strike. Solo/duo is fun, but when it comes to big teams I feel left out. I don't mean to whine and for sure its just my issues with the AT but when I am on a big team especially with brutes, masterminds or anything with heavy damage, I start to feel like I am on the side line wanting to play. By the time I even get assassine strike or any of my attacks the mob is dead. Maybe I just don't understand my role on a team. I just hate feeling like I am not doing anything.

That's why they weren't particularly fun before. Now you can just not AS from hide, put the chance to hide proc in AS, the chance to recharge build up proc in something that gets used and enjoy yourself. On a full team with both of those procs and the team crit bonus stalkers are a blast.

[Explain 'meta' to me.....]

as a side note - 'metaphysics' as a term came to be used to describe the sorts of things aristotle discussed in the book he wrote after (meta) the physics. 

[Which TFs/SFs are easiest to duo?]

Posi 1 and Yin would be the easiest tier. The rest of the TF commander stuff is easy enough to duo, though numina would be a hassle with the zone kills. All of the lower level redside TFs are also easy to duo with the possible exception of Morty Kal. It can be duoed but you wouldn't want to just prance in there with whatever random SO'd toons. Renault could be tough for certain combos as well. One key thing is to keep a nice supply of envenomed daggers from p2w on both characters to debuff AV regen. Will make for much faster/smoother fights.

[Does Phalanx Fighting give some defense solo?]

Grant cover doesn't benefit defense directly but its defense debuff and recharge debuff resistance does apply to the user. Huge mistake to skip it even on solo toons. As Caulderone said PF is a great one slot wonder.

[Mixing attuned and unattuned IOs]

I think procs have boosting disabled so we don't accidentally waste boosters during the mind numbing process.

[Mixing attuned and unattuned IOs]

^^^^ except that purples and pvp IOs should be boosted rather than attuned even if you don't want to exemp, as they already work the same as attuned. 

[Numina's Convalescence on PBAoE To-Hit heals like DNA Siphon]

Wait, is it stacking with itself or just proccing every time. It's supposed to have a 100% proc rate but I doubt it's supposed to stack. If it is I need to go redo some builds 😄

[Seriously: Alt-itis, What To Do? A Discussion on Self-Control]

I'm much better on HC than i was on live. I usually try to have one 50 i'm working on inc stuff for and one character i'm leveling. On live I was more of the 10 different alts at various stages of leveling kind of player. Oddly the thing that's made me better at altitis is I don't seem to enjoy making builds like I used to. Back in the day I spent nearly as much time in mids as I did playing but now not wanting to make a build has gotten to be the limiting factor in my making characters. (Though I did make 8 new toons to take advantage of experienced charges being free for the anniversary and I'm 7/8 done with their builds.) New alts get 500 million seed money, and all the prestige goodies. They then ride with my farmer for one meteor map which takes them to just shy of 18. Working on accolade stuff gets them to 20 at which point i run invader and finish the team tp mayhem mish. I pretty much TF the rest of the way to all tier 4s if I like the character. If I don't care for it i do a lot of speeding heathers to get it there. At 35 tier 4'd 'done' characters, a 50 working incs, a 31 and 7 of the new toons, only 2 of which have been played at all. Trying to keep it that way because if I play more I'll end up being live me with tons of toons I have to relearn every time I log on to them.