Mr. Vee

When you switch back to red to do invader you'll be awarded Hero Slayer.

It's pretty clear to me now that the OP is not actually reading the responses or is doing so with such an intense preconceived idea of what horrible people we all are that confirmation bias is turning all the responses into youtube comment vitriol. The conspiracy theory stuff leans me toward the latter.

Honestly, throw out what you have. Start over. Go look at the farm fresh builds thread or any of the other spine/fire threads in the brute section for guidance. Someone's bound to have a budget build somewhere on these forums that'd work for you.

that'd be great but I'd get tired of having to cancel TPs from people trying to get me to run a tf while i'm on a machine that's just gotta be due.

My bad, i saw the 60% resist effect in danger sense and thought it applied to both the perception and defense debuffs. Should've looked at totals before gasbagging. So even with ageless radial's added ddr it'd be an issue, and that wouldn't apply to the OP's question anyway.

I've not played it on HC but according to the Mids numbers that got fixed at some point.

The only thing they add to my mood is annoyance since i've seen many of them hundreds of times. my battle cries are mostly responses to them they're so well known at this point.

think that was just for itrials, which were coded much later. mother mayhem over and over as many times as we had to run BAF on live was just brutal.

I should have mentioned above when talking about searching for crafted instead of recipes that a good trick is to set your level parameters in the AH for 1-1 before you search. that'll limit your results to attuned enhancements (just make sure you don't buy attuned purples).

I don't think anyone's saying anything like that. In fact we couldn't really say that we've always done it this way because it's never been so easy. The issue you're having is more about the way you're going about things than the way the game works. If you're going to only bid on recipes and not consider buying crafted IOs, converting IOs or using merits, then yes, you'll run into problems. If you're willing to be flexible, you'll find that it's incredibly easy to get everything you want on HC for a fraction of the cost it would've been on live.

Sure it can, it's 20 for the to-hit, 50 for the other two. you might just need to use your level slider?

this got me curious so i went to check my build. I had 81.9 melee lol. 66.7 ranged/aoe which seems more reasonable. but it's not as if i really tried to build for melee - just a consequence of perma mind link, double maneuvers for the team values (giving 40+ defense all to anyone who sticks near me and catches mind link is probably overkill but makes me smile), the auto power being melee and one of the ATO sets having melee. that said with my kamikaze build being mainly melee with essentially no resists, some cushion's probably for the best. and of course like every time i open a build i've not looked at in a few weeks i noticed 3 things i'd change that'd require a respec.

70 defense is really not overkill on a fort/wid. Mine has a whopping 27.2 ddr before ageless radial. Try taking that on a speed itf sometime.

Seems to be a widespread problem that people are so used to buying recipes and crafting from the old game that they don't even bother to look for the crafted IO, even when you can get the (usually) better attuned version for the same price if you go that route. I'm constantly baffled by recipes that are more expensive than their crafted version. For a while there I was making 8-10 million on LotG recipes while the crafteds were only 4-7. It's evened out a bit of late but it's still usually not worth crafting if you get a drop. And as far as things not being for sale? That's hardly an issue with converters. You'll come up against 0 enhancements for sale here and there, usually in ATO or winter sets, sometimes in sets that are high demand but had their prices fall off so much that convert-and-sell folks went off of them and forgot to check back. But in those cases you either buy something else in the set and convert or convert from something cheaper. Worst case scenario you just use merits.

Procced out dominate is good fun fyi.

Been toying with making an ice control character as I never had one on live either so reading this has been great for info but a sad for those plans. Looking at mids I see ice slick is a location targeted AOE. Have folks tried using it from out of line of sight to mitigate the alphas? That works quite well on blaster's bonfire, so well that I've been taking it on every blaster. Someone mentioned that ice slick's not as good as bonfire now so wondering if that strategy's not workable with ice.

I gave it a long break and just recently tier 4'd it. I still think it's really fun but it's pretty well retired with the rest of my tier 4's - side effect of my skinner box style is that there's really no reason for me to play my characters past tier 4's. unlike live where I needed moar merits, here i have so much cash that i only touch the merits i got as i leveled for whatever boosters the character needs. i'm unfortunately not a play just to play person when there are more food pellets out there to be had, so my 'finished' toons get neglected for new alts getting leveled/finished. That said, it was never really an attack chain maxing kind of toon for me. I just grabbed savage to throw birds and bees and I pay absolutely no attention to the blood frenzy mechanic. My typical approach is to drop creepers and seeds of confusion then use whatever powers because nothing's going to be standing long after that. It is really too many powers - I barely remember I have soul drain and the heal and if i were going for the best chain i'm sure half of my stuff could go because my recharge is so high. My bread and butter is pretty much to get in an unkindness before all the lieuts are dead then hold and hawk a boss, feral charge in, vicious slash. maybe the aoe if other things are around. maybe some bees. jump back for more ravens and repeat. It's tough to say really since unless i'm on 4/8/bosses or the av part of a tf the creepers/confuse/flytrap combo melts things too fast to bother getting into too much of a pattern. And with perma-dom it's so safe I can pretty much do whatever feels fun at the particular moment. You probably need to find yourself a pylon person to really answer your questions.

I like it. No clue if it could be done or how tough it'd be but it's a nice idea. Though...what's the order 😵

As an aside if you can stand to not have access to blue side at all the villain alignment power will refill your domination bar automatically. It's great for first logging in or if you let it slip.

It's much more useful than a one-time sleep. plus it's extra end drain.

The old version is preferable for a couple reasons - it includes Siege so you don't have to go talk to her in person and abandon like crazy to get him (though he's in Tin Mage too, so not so bad), and it's 60 merits for a pretty quick run. Just don't forget to kill Blackstar in the rescue the prisoner mish as it's not a mish requirement. New version's fine though - it's zippier and some 'helpers' ranging from serpent drummer and penny yin who'll basically pl you while you ghost to objectives to ms. liberty and manti who will die on the first or second mob. You'll still need to get anti-matter from Keyes or from someone who has him saved or from flashing back Tina's arc (last resort as both versions have a really awful huge map where's waldo) if you didn't get him on the way up (next toon stop for the arc, it's worth it just to be able to auto-complete the waldo mish). And of course you still need the plaques, shrouded from the nightstar standalone and multidimensional from the hydra dimension fb (just running into the mish and back out will grant it).

that's hide. this is about the pool stealth.

i'd never take stealth for the defense, and since an unbounded or celerity IO in sprint accomplishes the same thing, I never take it period. If i had a free power slot/pool it would mean either i've yet to take maneuvers, so even if i only wanted a lotg mule that'd be better value, or the toon's not taking fighting pool, in which case it's probably already slotted its company of LoTGs, and if not I can take vengeance to slot one. Combat jumping I always take, for the lotg mule and for its movement utility. Only rarely gets more than the one slot as it's usually easier to get defense numbers from bonuses. Of course that'd all be out the window were i not a superspeed person and needed a second source of stealth beyond the IO to get full invisibility. idk how those folks do it, my builds are usually tight enough already 😄

Panacea slots at 7 which is a big help. Shield wall, glad armor, blessing of the zephyr kb too. Oh and if you're going the SO route and have a character who's done Penny Yin's I lost my daddy arc, the Yin store SOs are pretty well OP at the levels they're available. Damage especially if you have a natural or mutation toon who's done it. Drop some in base storage for upcoming alts.

Are you sure that's what happened? I've seen that IO routinely get the price fetch error, though I never market anymore so idk if that's still the case. Mainly i just felt obligated to reply 😄