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My mains are an energy melee / regeneration stalker & a radiation / dark corruptor. they are awesome., though better choices may exist. I'd suggest: Energy Melee / Energy Aura Stalker Fire Blast / Dark Miasma Corruptor

dark rewards situational awareness and game knowledge.

Stalking of prey, stalking a target. Ninja. Ranger. Spy. We can twist these labels to mean just about anything. Corruptors could twist evil to good, couldn't they? OR there is no black and white merely shades between concentrated near the middle, Corrupters twist the forces of the universe to do their bidding. As a corruptor, you might strike your foes down with blasts of fire, entomb them in ice, infect them with radiation, or curse them with pure darkness. As your foes are weakened, your scourge ability kicks in, increasing your damage to an enemy as their hit points drop. You can even impart a portion of your twisted power to your allies to protect them from harm, heal them, or increase the damage they deal. This wide array of abilities comes at a price. Your defenses aren't strong, and you can quickly attract the ire of your enemies if you aren't careful. Skill can divert clumsy raw power, and precisely applied force can solve many problems. As a Stalker, this is the core of your specialty. You do your best work when attacking from ambush, and can even hide in plain sight to escape foes. Deadly attacks and good defenses make you a dangerous combatant and assassin, but you can be overwhelmed if you're not careful.

It seems like we've had scheduled patch issues in the past.

that's not good.

If you are having issues today you are not alone. Yes many are having various issues which hopefully maintenance will address tomorrow am. Question/Discussion: Should folks report each server crash and individual issue? Official time is 21:05 [Help] Miss Voluntaryist: Anyone else having open zone choppy movment? [Help] Corythia: I've been having mission lag for a couple days [Help] Tentacle Love: lag and slow loading [Help] United: any body's friend list messed up [Help] Miss Voluntaryist: fair, thanks for the confirmation. Wasnsure if I just needed to mainline some more coffee [Help] Corythia: yes, no friends [Help] el nino.187: Whole server went down atleast twice last night all mapserved [Help] Black Operations: Yes, and global email. [Help] Miss Voluntaryist: so..my global email likst is empty 😞 [Help] Miss Voluntaryist: Is that all gone forever? [Help] Time GuardiAnne: no [Help] Time GuardiAnne: just a server glitch it will come back [Help] Time GuardiAnne: I have checked all my emals my global friends and my chats are all fine [Help] Anajamois: Emails are gone? Huh, well I never used them any-- OH MY GOD THE MILLIONS OF INFAMY I EMAILED MYSELF IS GONE [Help] Time GuardiAnne: 😛 [Help] Miss Voluntaryist: INF, ENH, blah blah [Help] Sam Che: I can't get global names today and got map servered.. so its all over. The maintainence should help. [Help] Retribution of Gaia: Game over man! Game over! [Help] Time GuardiAnne: I freaked one day cause all my GLOBAL Chats all like 13 channels im part of were GONE .. [Help] Time GuardiAnne: but a few min later they all came back [Help] Wet Armor: I guess I'm not the only one who has no global and my email was wiped out? [NPC] Sound Technician: Hey, what's that thumping up there? Make sure you have the low cut enabled on all of the mics, will ya? [NPC] Sound Technician: Sounds good to me! [Help] Tentacle Love: logout reboot ur pc and log back in see if its fixed [Help] Wet Armor: k thanks [Help] Radically Cool: Yes, you probably are. I just checked, and I could not get your global. Log out, verify files, log in and check again. If that doesn't help, you need to /petition ASAP [Help] EARTH-MAN: oh wow...my friends list is empty as well....and there is an empty box on the screen [Help] Black Operations: No, you are not the only one. Global services are down. AH seems ok for me though I'm not messing with it too much just in case. [Help] Kamylla: howcome i can't see my global friend list? [Help] Anajamois: none of us can Kamylla

now that's a JJ fan

maybe my pointing out that you are pointing out the obvious is the policing.. or the edibles are kicking in.

I'm okay with not resurrecting old threads so long as folks don't get dumped on for creating a new one.

forum police action in progress.. lame would you rather folks started a new thread so they could be accused of rehashing the beating of a dead horse?

ABSO-friggin-LUTELY Pugs are an adventure in spin the wheel of skipped to 50 and am now learning how a Curruptor is different than a Scrapper. ..but #atleastwegettoplay & #soloftw

it's an em/regen stalker. (just putting that out there)

It's bad.. really bad. so many cool combinations and archetypes. I know I have a problem when I get a new character through some of the lower task forces just to realize I've already got one of this combination in the mid 40s. I'd guess Just under forty 50s with an equal number in progress. The rest didn't workout and seem abandoned in the 24-40 range OR are so far down the list they don't get played. Be right back with some numbers. Indom = 8 pages (21 50s) Excel = 9 pages (17 50s) Everlasting = 2 pages (1 50) 2 or 3 pages combined for the rest Surely not enough alts to even be in the top 20% of players club. Days Offline oldest for me is 605 with second at 427 (a bunch at 176). About 1/2 the 50s get played rarely. Why do I keep making them rather than playing the same over and over? It's fun to make new characters, costumes, and see how they play. Other contributing factors? #1 Changes to existing powersets which make them not as fun. #2 I have a Troo or two on each server. My biggest related request: Better sorting tools to avoid duplicate combos. ("search" is okay) Biggest wish request: Powerset respecification. Many times it is just one of the powersets that isn't working out. I'd give 10 levels to be able to ditch a poor match rather than start a new character as we have to now..

yep aiming a little extra shooting a little further lighting the arrow on fire snap shot, stun, or explosive are the same time.

For newer tankers Invulnerability and Shield are excellent choices. Dull Pain possibly giving Invulnerability an edge. As a tanker grows in experience and know how.. other sets can become compelling. (Bio, Dark, Elec, Fiery, Rad) Sure a player can go Super Reflexes or Stone, in a lot of ways it is preference and playstyle. If someone loves the teleport travel powers and being a giant stone golem, please be a Stoner. Mentioned tanker reads: (some suggest skipping to page 10 or 11 if I remember correctly)

2023..01.03 the entity Faultline was observed doing.. something.

Archery is supposed to be relatively quick and has higher accuracy than other sets. That is it's shtick. If redraws are happening and there's a pause at the end of animations.. that would be annoying. I'm going to double check later but you may have found a bug as Akison stated. It could be Arcanatime vs Animation Time Before Effect..? Aimed Shot 1 Ranged, Light DMG(Lethal) Cast Time 1.67 sec Cast Arcanatime 1.848 sec Root Time 1.67 sec Animation Time 1.667 sec Animation Time Before Effect 0.8 sec Snap Shot 1 Ranged, Light DMG(Lethal) Cast Time 1.0 sec Cast Arcanatime 1.188 sec Root Time 1.0 sec Animation Time 1.0 sec Animation Time Before Effect 0.733 se Fistful of Arrows 2 Ranged (Cone), Light DMG(Lethal) Cast Time 1.17 sec Cast Arcanatime 1.32 sec Root Time 1.17 sec Animation Time 1.167 sec Animation Time Before Effect 0.9 sec Blazing Arrow 6 Ranged, Superior DMG(Lethal), Minor DoT(Fire) Cast Time 1.83 sec Cast Arcanatime 1.98 sec Root Time 1.83 sec Animation Time 1.833 sec Animation Time Before Effect 1.6 sec Aim 8 Self +To Hit, +DMG Explosive Arrow 12 Ranged (Targeted AoE), Light DMG(Lethal/Fire), Knockback Max Targets Hit 16 Cast Time 1.0 sec Cast Arcanatime 1.188 sec Root Time 1.0 sec Animation Time 1.0 sec Animation Time Before Effect 0.8 sec Ranged Shot 18 Sniper, High DMG(Lethal), Self +Range Cast Time 1.67 sec Cast Arcanatime 1.848 sec Root Time 1.67 sec Animation Time 1.667 sec Animation Time Before Effect 0.8 sec Stunning Shot 22 Ranged Disorient, Minor DMG(Smashing) Cast Time 1.0 sec Cast Arcanatime 1.188 sec Root Time 1.0 sec Animation Time 1.0 sec Animation Time Before Effect 0.767 sec Rain of Arrows 26 Ranged (Location AoE), Extreme DoT(Lethal) Max Targets Hit = ALOT Cast Time 2.0 sec Cast Arcanatime 2.244 sec Root Time 2.0 sec Animation Time 2.0 sec Animation Time Before Effect 1.8 sec

It really is/was this simple. When it became abused at a significant enough scale, it was ended. I'm surprised to see no mention of any issues that arose from opening many packs at a pace that had a system impact.

Monstrous Fur is just too much. Maybe there is a hairy chest option I'm not familiar with buried in the options somewhere? but I wanted a EM/FA broot.. We'll be going with a Temp Power for the thematically epic 'draw Revolver' pose 🙂

this holiday season brings us.. Hunter II (Energy Melee / Fiery Aura Brute) Happy Holidays

Energy Melee was "finely tuned" to be just above average except in short bursts. Forcing the use of Total Focus or be stuck with long Energy Transfer reins in any sort of sustained super high damage per second. If anyone wants details on making it perform on a Scrapper I take a peak here.

hmm that seems a little low. an example I have at 90% fury is 1,100+ & 1,300+ with Buildup. 4 procs one proc

This is excellent work. Sure, this is slanted toward heavy proc use and should favor Tanks over Scrappers and Brutes. Still it seems to be a solid data point. Another important data point would be the one proc limitation which would have different results. Another data point would be the one proc limitation without Incarnates which may have different results. Leveraging 4 or 5 procs may be the meta but is simply not what most players are doing. M.E.T.A. as I understand it is the Most Effective Tactic Available. The meta may change based on a number of factors. It may be different at level 40 versus level 50 and again versus Incarnate levels. Basically, once getting in the ballpark of 100% damage and enough accuracy to reliably hit targets additional slotting could go to another power, enhance another aspect such as range, or be used to hold special proc enhancements. If your goal is damage a "chance of damage" might be best. There are also procs for +recharge, -resistance, -tohit, -defense, etc. Some advanced number crunching can potentially reveal an optimal point where slotting below 100% damage in an individual power is more effective. Here an example from @Ston makes sense: Musculature Core Paragon + (lvl 53 Acc/Dam HO x 2) + 4 procs (2) Level 53 Acc/Dam HOs equals about 76% Acc/Dam with more Acc/Dam and -end, +rech, etc potentially coming from other sources (other powers, other players, buffs, Incarnates, ect.) and then the 4 procs on top of everything else The next example from @Ston is simply broken and shows why procs will be addressed. Even 4 procs can seem extreme especially used on 16 targets. Vigor Core Paragon + (lvl 53 Acc/Dam HO x 1) + 5 procs A level 53 Acc/Dam HOs equals 38.3% Acc/Dam with most Acc/Dam and -end, +rech, etc coming from Incarnates and presumably buffs as well as other sources (other powers, other players, ect.) and then 5 procs on top..

The reason is in the names, is it not? Minions and Lieutenants should not be as strong as Players, should they? Could the implementation have been better or more elegant, sure. If Phantom Army are short lived they should immediately be respawnable if character has the endurance. Just saying. Pets that are easily defeated with recharges that exceed reasonable life expectancy or durations which are eclipsed by recharges... Waiting to recast regular pets can suck.