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Hey all, I'm new to Excelsior. Been over on Indom mostly, and Torch a bit, but I wanted to spread out and check out all the shards. I am a Rikti smashing addict and I was wondering if Excelsior also has nightly Mother Ship Raids? If so, is it at a set time or just random? I love the massive chaos of a good MSR, and the merits, Inf, and xp doesn't suck, either.

Thanks for this! You will often see me passing through when I'm on. SUPER useful!!!

Well, my Beam/TA is level 22, now and so far it rocks. I like how TA is all ranged and self-buffs. None of that melee carp. Flash Arrow seems a bit like cheating. I'm glad you guys convinced me to take it. Beam is great so far, too.

I was just thinking the other day I'd like to do a Scraptroller. I have a level 1 Fortunata already rolled up, so I will have to break her out.

Great explanations! Just a quick note that when I see this, I will sometimes remember to refer them to the P2W vendor where there are a couple of self-healing devices they can buy. That way your Defender can get back to the job of making everything go squish.

Definitely let us know what you choose!

Soooo... I actually have a few friends who practice the modern martial art of Ninjutsu. They are also fans and students of the history of Ninjas. One common misconception about Ninjas is that they had some special love of their peculiar weapons. While, in fact, they are all about efficiency, and using the best tools for the job. So, a modern ninja is just as likely to use an AR as a bow, depending on which is more suited to the job. Also, you can imagine someone being born able to project fire, but with no special physical gifts. They might want to get special training to be able to compete in the big bad world of supers. Or a mutant might be born into a Ninja family. Or maybe a trained ninja found a magic gem that gives her special powers. As an example of a "mis-matched" Ninja, I have a Scrapper that is War Mace/Ninja. Her backstory, in brief, is that she was born into an ancient mystical Ninja sect. But, she is quite a bit bigger and more muscular than the average member of the clan. As a little girl, she was required to take Ninjutsu, but she really preferred the satisfying *crunch* of a heavier weapon, and preferred toe-to-toe fighting over stealth. So, when she was a teenager, she learned mace-wielding from Youtube. On one of her jobs, she "acquired" a magic mace from a target, and boom, mace-swinging ninja! (She's also a lot of fun to play, turns out to be a decently synergistic combo).

Yes! I discovered that on that same kill-all, since we were going all over to find things to kill, I noticed the glowie. Just to think, all that time on Live, we were just taking unnecessary fire.

I'm going to throw out Dark/Time, as well. Two sets you haven't tried, both different and interesting.

Of those two options, I would recommend the first. I generally find no reason to put the Boxing, Tough, and Weave grouping on my controllers. That being said, I'm not sure you need to include Invisibility and Misdirection to achieve the effect you want. Snag a +Stealth IO and Super Speed. Combined with your Stealth power, that gives you some pretty effective pseudo-invisibility. Certainly enough to ghost most missions.

If we are going into "What if" and "how to fix it", what if NPCs Endurance was allowed to go negative? One of the problems is that you can only drain End down to 0, then one tick of their recovery, and boom they can hit you with a nice attack. Given that the computer has 0 reaction time, it makes it very difficult for a player to keep them at 0 so they cannot get off an attack. If you could drain them negative, then they would have to recover back up to positive, making it possible to keep them down. Then again, this just turns an Elec/ blaster into a 3rd rate controller, and who wants that? So, maybe it's not such a good idea.

Hmmm, okay, I think you guys convinced me to go Beam/TA, instead of Beam/Temp. TA seems to do everything Temp does, but better, and more. The only thing it seems to lack is the -Regen, but I guess I'll be okay without it.

All I can say is that you are playing your controllers wrong. I'm not going to try to guess how because I don't know the specifics of your playstyle, but if this is what you have experienced, then you are definitely doing it wrong. Maybe just admit your incompetence in the AT and move on to others you prefer.

I mean, if you don't want to rule the world and rofflestomp your opponents, then definitely do not take Gravity.

Congrats? Condolences? So which is the best Lore?

Wow, that Praetor Duncan is kind of a nasty...

Oh cool! Thanks for the info. No wonder I was confused.

I do have a question, though. I did what I think are all the missions and I never got to skunk Mot! WTF is up with that? I did Heather and then MuVorkie. Done the Ephram stuff like twice before I realized it was repeatables. So, when do I get to thump Mot???

I do.

The missions from Dr. Boyd in FBZ, are those just repeatables? They seem to be the same hunt for monuments and maybe lost people over and over. But, I am not sure if they actually have an ending or no?

Wut EDIT: Wow, that was a lot more than I expected. Gonna take a bit to absorb all of it.

Great analyses, everyone! Good knowledge for character building. Yeah, I'm a high-damage kind of controller, too. Just enough mitigation to keep from dying while slaughtering everything. LOL, now I kind of want to try one of those as a "fallen Smokey the bear" concept!

Brute??? Used to be Scrapper was my least favorite AT to add to my team, but nowadays Brute is. I'd rather almost anything than a Brute. Most brutes have zero force-multiplication, which is best for teaming. If I am going to skip a force-multiplier for plain DPS, I'd rather have a Blaster, at least they have nukes (most of them). To be clear, I don't dislike the Brute or Scrapper ATs, specifically. They are great for soloing, but don't add much to a team.

It's funny that there is this exact same topic running in the Tankers forum right now (about Tankers being obsolete).

It's funny that there is this exact same topic running in the Controllers forum right now (about Controllers being obsolete).