Mr. Vee

i've got tons in my email from winter packs. i suppose i should yank them out and throw them on the AH for badgers and costumers, assuming there's nothing useful to use them on.

Someone did the math on the old forums and figured out that you're actually better off slotting more damage before endurance reduction in most cases. I've not been able to find the post though. If you're going for sets or frankenslotting, of course, you can prioritize pieces with endurance after accuracy since the damage will probably be in most pieces already. Like MunkiLord said, slotting for recharge works against you if you're already having endurance issues (and if you're using procs in that power) but you obviously want to eliminate gaps in your attack chain too. A lot of this stuff you just have to play by ear based on the particular toon.

MunkiLord did you skip energy absorption on that stj/ice? My stj/ice hasn't had much problem since 35.

It depends on the sets - thirsty stuff like storm or dark armor you'll need multiple slots in stamina. If it's not terribly thirsty one or two is fine as you'll likely get a lot of help from sets and uniques and incarnates. If you go one slot stamina a performance shifter proc is the way to go. Thirsty sets i'd probably go 4 performance shifter. Health I generally slot panacea, miracle, numina uniques (and preventive medicince unique if i don't have it slotted elsewhere). If i have extra slots i'll throw a regenerative tissue unique too and the health piece from either numina or preventive (assuming the preventive unique is there). If it's light on endurance usage i'll leave out miracle. If you have extra slot and are thinking about the regenerative tissue though you can now get the same 25% regen from an impervious skin status resist (assuming you have a power that'll take resist sets) plus the extra status resist. So only go regenerative if you have slots for both or don't have the resist power.

IDK about the command for it but just go into your friends list, switch it to that channel's list and mod them from there.

I generally make my final build before rolling the toon if i've played the sets before. That way i can IO as I go and on some toons even avoid the level 50 respec (unslotters ftw). There are obviously some differences in the leveling builds due to purples not being available til 50 and certain sets coming much later than the power i have them projected for. Also with ATOs being available starting at 10 I'll often throw them in a different power than i plan just to get the bonuses earlier. it helps to have some cheap junk on hand to slot at lower levels that you yank and store for the next toon. also keep set bonus analogues of purple sets around - posi for rags, decimation (or entropic if poor) for apoc, crushing impact for heca, etc. i find eradication to be the best sub for armageddon despite different bonuses. I also have a bunch of attuned pvp attack stuff on hand since you can slot those at 10. i don' think i've ever slotted a non-proc of those sets at 50 but they're great for leveling builds. Just keep in mind that anything with set bonuses is probably going to outperform a generic build, and can be place and forget until you're ready for your final stuff. Also don't forget about the amplifiers at the p2w store - they're cheap for early levels (at level 1 24k will get you 8 hours of all 3. it takes 60 mil at 50) and are just fantastic. defensive, e.g. gives 4 mag protection to all mez including fear and confuse which some melee sets don't even get, 7.5 resist all and 5 defense all.

it's a good place to dump any pet aura uniques if you're not slotting anything else from the set.

Also Winter IOs need attuning now since they uncoupled the regular and attuned in the AH in a recent patch.

and sent.

there's your problem - you're buying recipes. There are always plenty of crafted and they'll probably be cheaper than the recipes. Plus you can buy the attuned versions for the same price. But don't buy them now cuz i'm about to email you a set soon as I log in.

If you think that you need to reread some of the responses to this thread. You're throwing away gobs of both influence and merits if you do it that way.

I'll second savage as really fun. Though melee-centric savage means you're not throwing birds and bees which, c'mon. Also stealth IOs are for sprint. Combo that with superspeed for full middle-of-mob-dancing invisibility unless there's rikti drones or other +perception. Doesn't look like you're really planning to use jolting chain so could easily grab ss there and stick a winter's gift there or a botz -kb for if you let domination slip or while it's building.

I made billions off it, but it was over a good long time of having 2 guys going while i actually played my third account or did other things. I just started back after a long hiatus cuz i had more than enough to do whatever and give as much as i like away. My usual thing is giving away money when someone mentions being broke off hand and it happened to the tune of around 6 billion within a couple of days when it usually would be a few hundred million a week. Figured i should start back some to replenish the coffers. 😄

What's your global? I've got oblits i'm not using. But yeah, absolutely what Myrmidon said.

I'm gonna stop feeding now and just get off the bridge.

don't worry, no chance of me feeling good about myself, i have standards after all. I didn't say anything selling for 60 mil, i said those Hami-Os (cyto and microfilament - i.e. the ones that give you 2 so's value for one slot in tactics and travel powers, respectively), which are rare. As to the superior frozen blast for 30 mil - welp 100 merits @ 270k + 3 million inf for a catalyst - seems about right to me.

Yes these 'douchers' are hiding all the info unless you search for 'farm' or just scan the new post feed or ask the help channel. As to the dropping 60 mil for things to combine....are you talking about the couple of Hami-Os that people actually slot? Cuz those aren't 60 million because of farmers, they're 60 million because they're the only thing in the game that's both actually rare and sought after and they can't be made with merits. Piles of farm influence can't inflate the market in general because merits effectively hardcap everything else. So yeah, farmers have billions, but they're either just sitting on it or giving it away.

Shards don't drop in incarnate specific content so if a lot of your activity is DA or trials you're adding to the already rare drop chance. Of course that's more than made up for with threads etc.

I feel like we've kind of let down the OP by not mentioning that the delayed healing is kind of symptomatic of time as a set. It has about everything you'd want in a set but it takes a while to get all those things rolling and the animations are a bit on the slow side - on a good team by the time you get your buffs off first mob is dead, second mob dead after debuffs, maybe an attack or two on third mob but then oh, time to buff again, repeat. I made the mistake of rolling water/time which is two busy sets together. It's basically got so much going on that it's not even really a good toon. So it's a great set and it has all the tools to make time lovers feel like they've got something real. But even when i use nothing but time, time won't give me time.

if it helps, my kamikaze melee fortunata has practically no resistance (s/l/e/n is just shield wall unique, 7.5 from defensive amplifier and whatever i'm getting from the reactive defenses sliding at any particular moment) and i don't think it's ever died.

A mention! I've been waiting for this moment all my life.

temporal mending also doesn't work on an ageless heart

Don't waste the chance that you've been given.

you've switched modes on us but if you continue to faithfully pursue that you'll only see your problems multiply.

It's a heal over time, so if he's aggroed an entire group it might not be enough up front to keep him upright til the other ticks. Sorry there's no comfort in the truth.