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It is still discouraged to dual box during peak times, isn't it?

Level 28 and 35 EA powers should help mitigate what you are experiencing. Pool powers can help fill in gaps. It can be sort of an ouch ouch ouch ahhh leveling up path (likely as intended).

@Replacement gotcha.

I'd still be curious..

If you've run an EM/Regen brute for some time back on live, you've trooly seen some nerfs. My main is an EM/Regen stalker. I would definitely prioritize addressing EM over Regen. Regen benefits greatly from high recharge and splash of control. That is different than on many melee builds.

Wrong-o. Tank != Tanker. I'm not sure what you are trying to say here. Or what you feel is 'wrong-o'. If you are referring to my first sentence, well.. There are no Regeneration Tankers. I pointed out the original poster may wish to edit their post due to statements like "watched countless PI team Regen tanks eat mud 1-10 times". I have a couple Regeneration Stalkers and it is awesome for them. Regeneration is different from Def or Res based sets, that variety in my opinion is a good thing.

The game is pretty easy at this point. I vote more kryptonite!!

Hey - I resemble that remark but I don't keep track of "niches" and let the market do some earning while I play not instead of playing. I do appreciate those millions though. Keep em coming. Tip: Here's what I do when prices won't populate on their own. ( edit: I see now someone already said this ) Place a very low bid on something I want to see the price on and then look at it in the bids tab. There is an update feature there that works most often. Note: " Orange and sell it and it only gets 600k ".. you're right. You are doing it wrong. ( I never get to say that ) (p.s. feel free to pm me and I'll get you pointed in the right direction)

Damage adds up in normal game play. But if you need to get it done sooner than it would happen otherwise: Pop 3 good luck inspirations walk into some fire and use Rest. (at least that's how I roll) It'll take a couple tries for Rest to activate without being interrupted. Have done the afk in mission technique with just the right enemies wailing away. The above method is faster if you can survive.

Bump @Bionic_Flea I saw you in one of the AE missions!! That was pretty cool.. except for the part where your doppelganger/tribute NPC kept trying to hurt me.

hahahahaha good try though

PKs that would proceed to loot your corpse for that awesome gear. Some of those game mechanics would... Imagine that most prized purple or pvp enhancement breaking and disappearing as an expected part of the game. Or death = losing one random enhancement.

Yellow to orange. I'll also buy crafted cheap oranges and start from there.

Does crafting count as farming?.. craft, convert, rinse and repeat = more than I can use myself. Otherwise merits just seem to happen playing normal. The Freakshow War missions in Ouro is a good suggestion. Doing the weeklys = 2x. ( Weekly Strike Target link )

As stated above, Member of Vanguard is sorta separate requiring only part one; 10 rikti (i do monkeys) and speak to four contacts. Maybe you know this and are a completion-ist? It's just a couple minutes to get the badge. Many likely do it as a mother ship raid is announced.

To quote one of the current devs: " Defense was designed as a gamble/luck mechanic. Sometimes, you will lose that bet, and very quickly fall if defense is the only thing keeping you alive. " So you aren't imagining it @Cidri. Sprinkle in non-positional attacks and Super Reflexes can be madding. It is awesome until it isn't. I'm taking note of your 'Rather than taunting' Crimson Prototype comment. -thx

side note: Always amused seeing incarnates and accolades listed in builds for someone new to a powerset. (Of course that's an effective build 50+ levels from now) Here's my take without giving too much away: Teams love Speed Boost and Fulcrum Shift. (you'll always have a team) Transfusion heals near the affected foe versus healing near the Kinetics character. If you need to skip some powers - Repel, Increase Density and Inertial Reduction are good candidates (if you so choose). Note: Increase Density can use Resist Damage sets and can make a nice mule for globals. Note: Repel can be effective and fun but takes a lot of endurance (just never really used it due to end requirements). Fulcrum Shift will pull aggro. Just know, if a brute or tank is engaged with more than their aggro cap, the extra mobs will turn and attack you. That said, FS as often as it is up! You can easily do more /kin stuff than attacking on fast teams. https://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Kinetics Transfusion lvl 1 Ranged, Foe -End, -Regen, Team Heal Siphon Power 2 Ranged, Foe -DMG, Team +DMG Repel 4 Toggle: PBAoE, Foe Knockback Siphon Speed 10 Ranged, Foe -SPD, Self +Recharge, +SPD Increase Density 16 Ranged (Targeted AoE), Ally +Res(Smash, Energy, Disorient, Hold, Immobilize, Knockback), -SPD(Special) Speed Boost 20 Ranged (Targeted AoE), Ally +Recharge, +SPD, +Recovery, +Res(Slow) Inertial Reduction 28 PBAoE, Team +Jump Transference 35 Ranged, Foe -End, Team +End Fulcrum Shift 38 Ranged (Targeted AoE), Foe -DMG, Team +DMG Here a /Kinetics blank that's fairly inexpensive and adjustable as needed: I run Energy/Kinetics, Ice/Kinetics, Dual Pistols/Kinetics (in order of preference).

hahaha, maybe on your character. In my opinion, Hover+Combat Jumping+Siphon Speed = glorious combat movement. (that's right, I run both hover and CJ) @Razor Cure, me thinks you may have your answer. To summarize: Fly is loved. Super Jump is often used. Super speed needs combat jumping. Teleport is fast but very needy.

This

That's fair. As I said, balance while avoiding power creep and without making everything generic, there's a learning curve. Better on test than on live.

It was slower, but only started to get annoying by the third or forth time through. By then, we'd figured it out and how to go faster. Soon it was super groups & new friends. 8-man teams dragging a couple lowbies, PL's and I remember egg missions. Good times. We did have to earn things and it seemed to make them more appreciated. I kinda miss unlocks (I think). As Billz points out, taking the fitness pool on every build got repetitive. Travel powers at 14. Capes. Unlocking archetypes. There was a whole game level 40 and below. Did it suck - Not at all. It was successful and very re-playable. It's just a different game now.

What would you demand of volunteers for your free game? I believe they are learning quite a bit about the challenges of trying to take on balance issues while trying avoid over all power creep and being transparent about it.

No you haven't. You may (if you wish) want to edit much of your post. Opinions are important and we're all entitled to them. Presenting opinions as facts may tend to run into resistance. Regen is great for some ATs and not so great for others. I personally don't see a problem with that. I would totally try and create a Regen Tank build if I could..

Nicely summarized.

Is this really the math? Is it possible this is an over simplification?