SeraphimKensai

Now that I have 3,000 posts, I'm basically guaranteed to get into the Homecoming Hall of Fame when I retire. To celebrate, I'm going to randomly give away a bunch of IOs tonight on Everlasting. So make sure you don't have your enhancements full tonight because you never know if you'll end up with a Winter IO, Tempest, a Steadfast, a Ghost Widow's Embrace, an ATO, or something else. Time frame will be approximately 10pm EST tonight, but the zone shall be random, and there will be no in-game advertisement, just me sitting IOs in random people's pockets.

That's next level there. I didn't even think to try and put shifting tides on barrier reef. I've been putting it only on my grave knights.

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As someone who's been to the Spam Museum in Austin, MN, the spam posts do Spam a great injustice. Luckily our Hawaiian friends are great at cooking up spam.

I typically don't publicly release builds, but I'm available to help give you tips. I can go over building characters in mids via dm or discord or such with you if you need. There's a plenty of different ways to build the sets, but having played quite a lot of necro, I like to build it to support it in melee. That said marine has a lot of aoes, and a self teleport that brings you into your target. The only power that works better at range is the cone heal. If you're operating in melee you'll want some kb protection so you don't get knocked all around. Otherwise I really like @Crysis's idea for foldspace quite a bit as it brings more fuel into the fire so I may actually respec to swap travel powers and then sneak foldspace in. I'll probably play around a bit more before I commit to putting in foldspace though.

Glad is worked although its not a perfect fix.

I haven't checked but does /noparticle 1 help? (/no particle 0 to turn them back on).

^ This right here. To the OP, If the proposed suggestion were implemented, characters would be weaker overall until they got to the point that Generic IO's scaled high enough to surpass them, The overall suggestion doesn't really add anything to the game. Also SO's are already dirt cheap considering that you can convert a few reward merits into converters and sell them on AH. Even using the Double XP, its pretty easy to outfit a toon with SO's using no outside influence that isn't generated from the character. It just takes a little work, but the notion of work seems counter to your interests.

A couple months late, but this is pretty interesting stuff. Numbers are fun to munch.

I slotted Toroidal with Steadfast and Gladiator + defense procs, and 4 unbreakable's as I built mine with soft capped melee defense, high res, and HP cap. I haven't had a need for a PT or PS proc there. I do have a PS proc in Stamina which I stuck in there out of habit, but I'm not even sure that is necessary. As far as healing, I have life drain slotted for heal, as a means to top me off if I need.

So the benefit of having a minor Covid infection the last few days? My necro/marine is now 50 and fully IO'd. I deviated from my plan a bit, and ended up with all the necro and marine powers. The character is pretty damn resilient with pets having ~90 resistances to some common damage types, and me having capped res, HP, and 45% melee. I took provoke as well. I've been popping soul extraction then shoal rush/white capping into mobs, and letting the pets do their thing while I provoke mobs into tide pools. I've been keeping shifting on one of my grave knights and that works great. I did a couple pug TFs yesterday and a couple people told me they were going to roll a necro/marine after the TF. Otherwise I've largely been playing +2x8 on missions so far, and probably can go to +4, but I'm going to craft my Alpha today, likely muscular radial, and then dial it up. Otherwise work on the accolades. The two sets definitely have some good synergy together.

I'll echo the sentiment of if you're running the team you set the rules. I've had people go and get a new costume before to fit a theme for a team that ended up becoming a super team over a few sessions before.

However.....Dark Empowerment should probably get the ability to slot accurate healing IO's/sets as the healing power that Grave Knights and Liches get is Siphon Life.

I'd recommend Bio. Its really fun. Willpower is alright too, but I gravitate towards builds with more complexity.

I just threw together a build last night, haven't played it yet, but I'm planning on 6 slotting Gaussian in there. It looks like it gets 0.6% tohit per enemy up to 16 enemies, so that's 9.6% tohit before slotting. I figure it would have an interaction like how the gaussian proc plays in tactics having a chance to proc off those affected as well but I can't confirm.

I enjoy sonic assault on my arsenal/sonic domi. The -resistance stacks nicely. It ended up being a nice team based domi. I personally play symphony control as a symphony/dark assault domi which is pretty sustainable for general content but not flashy. That toon pretty much gets used for Hami Raids.

I had one that I ultimately rerolled to an ice/ice/ice dom. I love poison, and honestly poison was the selling point of the combo. Ice control provides decent mitigation, but it's pretty end heavy due to artic air and does minimal damage. World of confusion is also only an 8-foot pbaoe, so it doesn't really help much. I'd replace psi mastery with either: leviathan or ice, but probably leviathan for a waterspout and coralax for more damage and you then have hibernate to heal/recover end.

Broadsword hasn't changed in a long time. Invuln had slight updates a year or so ago to give it some psi resistance. You can probably find an invuln build after those changes and just swap the attacks to broadsword and get a pretty good basis. Taking a slice at making a build yourself can be pretty rewarding, and you can post it back here for feedback and tips on how to improve.

As someone with 3 necro MM's already, probably my favorite MM primary...I was curious about necro/marine after reading this post so last night I booted up mids since I don't have much marine experience (only some from testing a while ago)...and the numbers look damn good. Given my in-depth experience with necro, I think the two would likely pair well together. So tonight I'll be rolling my 4th necro MM.

Victory/Paragon aren't new servers.

I keep a box of 96 crayons and some Bourbon on standby for when some marine buddies swing by to watch a game. Us army guys stick to the liquor and eat pizza/wings. I have canned sardines for my navy friends. And I don't have any air force friends as I don't have the channel that ballet is on.

Well for soloists, those team buffs can be thought of as self buffs that also affect any other people you might have on a team afk with you.

Just saw this article about the Intel chips... https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-cpu-instability-crashing-bug-includes-65w-and-higher-skus-intel-says-damage-is-irreversible-no-planned-recall

I'm sitting on a 10th i9 in my 4 year old machine ATM. I almost bought a new machine a couple months ago before hearing about Intel's issues. I only held off because I figured Nvidia is going to be releasing the 5000 series probably around Christmas for a 4th quarter stock run, so I might as well wait if I'm going to drop a couple grand.

I thought I had read the issue was specific to 13th/14th gen i9's. I hadn't seen any mention of i7's. I could be wrong though.