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I'm having to do redo captchas even after I open the page, go do other things then come back 30 (15 maybe) minutes later and have to do it all over again. If this is indeed some temporary anti-DDoS measure, fine, but otherwise it's annoying as heck.

I just noticed this too. 6 runs, 0 drops.

I happened to finish mine a few minutes ago, starting with a blank Mids. Will check yours out.

I see this thread originated over a month ago and OP is probably done with t4 incarnates by now. If I had noticed this thread, I would have suggested something/Regen. I have a /Bio and really dig it, but Regen plays so differently than on the melee ATs (it's GOOD!) that it's worth checking out.

Still flashing for me. Though this happened when I first logged on, I'm not seeing it any more.

I confess to not reading prior comments, so I'll possibly be posting thoughts already conveyed. This is fresh on my mind, Mercs was a recent "grind to 50 then take all iPowers to t4" so I spent a good amount of time with these dudes. One word sums it up - damage. Make it two words - pitiful damage. Every fight was a slog. I can't provide numbers but I've seen them elsewhere on the forums in this regard and Mercs were just abysmal. On to other things. Serum - may be the worst utility power any MM has. I took it, muled some resist uniques in it and called it a day. Something with a 60 second uptime with a 1,000 (THOUSAND) second recharge better be an amazing power. It ain't. I'd probably use it just for yucks if not for the crash but I'd rather have a minion stay active than 60 seconds of "god mode" followed by a period of thumb twiddling. Serum may have more utility if one pet could do tanker duties but they can't. So, outside of "cottaging" Serum, my suggestion would be A#1 - take away the crash. Nerf the resists if needed. Heck, nerf it more and make it aoe. Suggested change - mag protections = 4, resists = let's say 20 (as a starting point). Set recharge = 400 or 360. I'm finding it hard to elucidate my issues with the medic. The utility he adds just seems suspect. Just so I'm not a completely negative Nelly - the Commando has my favorite entrance of any MM minion. Also I found M30 to be a good opener that's good for proccing. I never took the two ST attacks.

So far, and I haven't examined all that i27 has to offer by any means, one item in "the good" perhaps even "the great" is lowbie SOs. I'm a lowbie grinder, not even DFBs for me, and having SOs before 22 is incredible. It's even got me rethinking my normal slotting strategy, which is to make a beeline to the recharge bonus in a set's ATOs and perhaps 5 slot Panacea if I had a lowbie heal, but I'm finding 1 Acc 2 Dmg SOs gives legit performance that may even surpass having a head start on global recharge. The enhancement values of the ATOs still gets reduced to nigh nothing and for strict enhancement values, the SOs are way better. Time for some figgerin'...

I finally sold the last of my Winter Packs from last year. I didn't even remember they were still around on any character but it occurred to me to check and lo and behold, there was a stash. I did manage to sell them all so now I'm at zero. I don't do ANY marketeering but I do jump on easy money for no effort when the opportunity arises so, assuming a sale, I'll repeat last year's tactic of using about 90% of liquidity to buy the packs. Sell 1/3 when the price returns to 25M. Open about 1/3. Keep 1/3 for a rainy day to eventually sell before the next event.

Here we gooooo! If you've ever said "I'd like to do Praetorian arcs, but there are no teams" well here's your chance. We did Praetoria a few teams ago as well and kept doing content on into First Ward and Night Ward. Some of this can be notably challenging but we like that. Looking forward to seeing the regulars and newcomers alike this Sunday (22-Nov)!

I wrote a post about demon/cold and how the shields aren't just def and demons aren't just resists and how they actually intertwine quite nicely. To answer the question directly, the passive mitigation makes the Demon heals sufficient for the most part.

@Troyusrexare you up to your shenanigans again, even if on a much smaller scale? It seems like someone is sporadically dumping rares. Not the massive influx like the topic of this thread, but I noticed some 100k sales so I put in my bids and then see some get filled, some time passes with no sales, then some more filled. Looks like this isn't going to have an effect on my in-game net worth like the last time but thought it notable to see rares get to 100k again.

1) https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Sudden_Acceleration:_Knockback_to_Knockdown 2) https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Invention_Origin_Enhancements 3) https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Kinetics#Fulcrum_Shift

Set for x/2 works, period. I go from 0 to badge every single time at this setting.

I wouldn't give up on Kin. Slot Repel with an SA kb2kd IO and it's a surprising amount of mitigation. Kin definitely makes good use of Fortify Pack. As the saying goes "it gets better" and few things are better than FSing beasts. I really implore you to not give up in your 20s when becoming a speed fueled death machine is just a few levels away.

Um, like 3 posts above yours?

"That's X-Com baby" to be more precise.

Lowbies should get the Offensive Amplifier from p2w if you're not happy with your hit rate. 10% to-hit bonus (among other bonuses). Cheap for any budget up the low 20s. And I have to lol at complaints about this game's RNG. Play some XCOM if you want to see brutal consequences of missing a 98% shot.

The updated Wiki (link at top) says these auras have a 40 foot radius. The text on the IOs still say 20. Because I happened to be playing on a MM as I was reading this, I verified by moving my minions slightly beyond a 40 marker and slightly within. The buff went away and was applied as expected for a 40 foot radius. Also worth noting that line of sight is required as well.

Faraday Cage >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Force Field Generator On fast moving, nay even moderate teams, FFG just sort of chugs along, sometimes getting hung up on corners and other types of geometry. Faraday is ready when I need it. I didn't comment on any other points because I didn't read them, this one just leapt out at me inspiring a reply.

All told it looks like I got 1480 + 1890 + 1480 = 4850 pieces of rare salvage. I may have missed a character when I checked back to see but I don't think so. So, on the books now I have an unrealized gain of 4850 * 325,000** = 1.575B. I know that's lunch break earnings for most of this sub-forum's regulars but I don't actively marketeer and this is a significant windfall considering I was just trying to buy a rare to craft a PVP IO that dropped. **325,000 derived by expected sale at 475,000 less 10% transaction fee less 100,000(ish) purchase price. Now, for first world problems, I have to figure out how to liquidate this and further, what to do with this windfall. I have a process for excess inf, but this is dumb luck inf and I'd like to share with the proletariat. So I got some figgerin' to do.

Just curious, has anyone taken a peek at the code for this? I know I could and I haven't but if someone else already has, it'd be interesting to hear the findings.

Is that your doing? I haven't made "realized gains" yet but once I saw it, I dedicated every market slot to it. NVM - saw your other post. Well done!

Those that know, know... Not gonna spill the tea just yet.

Just protection. Other armors that have -kb give 1000% resists. I have seen Statesman KB those tanks but well, he's not a problem any more. My own anecdote for Elec armor vs LR is with a tank with capped resists to all but n/t. It was as smooth an experience as I've had against him. I typically chew a purple or two and maybe get kbd, but at that point my job is to own his aggro and as long as he doesn't go chasing down anyone else while I'm getting back up, it's ok with me.

This is happening to me right now. Specifically I'm trying to claim a couple of enhancement unslotters from character items. When I select "claim" initially, a few seconds pass, the claim button is greyed out then, after those few seconds, it becomes selectable again. This time though I get a message about to process a transaction (I didn't note precise wording). I logged off and login back in with a different character and the behavior repeated. I closed the game client, restarted and the behavior duplicated. Then I logged in my second account and WAS successful at claiming a character item. I'm going to assume that some passage of time will allow me to make claims from account 1 and I'll update regardless.