SeraphimKensai

Luckily enough @Snarky does not have a life, he's undead. Just don't expose him to garlic or sunlight and we should be good.

I've never played a fire/fire combo. I typically always mix and match. That said a fire/fire blaster can be amazing if it has a good driver.

Following the tangent: This post is making me want to go to the gym. Sadly I'm on baby duty so I can't. I guess push-ups, sit-ups, side straddle hops, and flutter kicks will have to do. I had to Google the ratio of pounds to stones, and most I ever lost in a month was 24 pounds (1.7 stone) using HIIT, intermittent fasting, and a Paleo diet paired with a side of light running 3x 5k's a week. Correcting course: yeah it does seem to be a something akin to a script kiddie. Mostly harmless unless someone is stupid, but annoying. Reminds me of the old days of AOL chatbots like Fate and prior to that firing up the old war dialer.

The AT and Powerset combo with the largest range in the game would be bar none a Psi/Energy Blaster. Psi blasts already get extra range over most other blast ranges, and pairing that with /em you'll get boost range. When fully built you'll be hitting things at the maximum targeting range. There's absolutely no other type of character that can achieve the same range as a psi/em blaster.

For me it was always MM's until Homecoming I never got one past 40 before giving up on it. I'm not sure why I didn't really like them, mechanically I understood them just find and am reasonably skilled making complex binds so controlling them was fine as well. Perhaps it was simply my perception of how they played at the time. It took until Homecoming launching for me to make an MM up to level 50. Now I have around 10 lvl 50 MM's, and I have no qualms about playing them. Perhaps I had to grow as a person over time to really get them. Otherwise for powerset at combos that I want to try: a Fire Armor/Staff tank built (not for farming mind you but for actual content), an energy/radiation blaster I have an interesting concept for a character for that one, and a /stone armor sentinel that I haven't decided on the primary as of yet. It's hard enough though to juggle the toons I do have with my limited playtime though.

Thinking Fireball. It's available early, you'll want to throw six slots in it, you'll get good enhancement value and a damage proc to help fireball hit a little harder occasionally. Or Blaze, but it really depends on your overall build.

Why 3 recharge each instead of 2 +5 recharge IOs? I would take 2 slots from one and add to the other, then 6 slot the one with gaussian, while maximizing recharge of the other with the boosted IOs. 6 slot gaussian gives a 2.5% def to all.

Damn a staycation day while my wife is at work and the baby is at daycare sounds like a great idea. I'd have enough time to take care of my yard, put the Christmas decorations back up above the garage, buy some beer and make a new toon. Sadly I'm already at work, so maybe next week.

I just got confirmation for my flight to Stockholm from those spam links, but now my bank accounts and cryptocurrency accounts are glitching and show $0.00. Weird, I'm sure my banks and brokers will get the glitch sorted soon. Stockholm is going to be soo fun!

I agree spring attack is garbage. It would should have either a damage increase or recharge redux to rebalance it for being that far into a power pool. Impale despite only having a 40 foot range (I still remember the days of 80 foot impale glory pre nerf) it works pretty well as it also has an immobilize and -fly component. I think hasten and dull pain are under slotted, as I like to max their recharge. I build my invulns to play at HP cap.

You're more than welcome to do so. I hardly use discord myself these days as I'm listening for crying from the baby's room, as I can usually only get in-game these days if she's napping and I'm not working.

Thanks. This was a toon I played from 1-50 Goldside before moving it over to try it in a solo 1 star ITF. I made it to the 2nd mission with it before my wife yelled at me to shut off the PC and roll out to wherever we were going that day. I ended up quitting the solo ITF and ran through a bunch of blue and red story arcs with it.

Elec/Ice tanker is super fun. Knocking mobs down with ice patch into lightning field, while pummeling them with frost, freezing touch, and frozen aura. Decent damage, lots of mitigation as mobs are sapped/slowed/kd/held and powersinl is a nice top off. I skipped the ice swords on this one to leverage cross punch as well. It works pretty damn good.

I like trying custom AE stories, so I'll have to give this saga a go. From reading the thread it's obvious that you put a lot of work into it.

Here's the link for the discussion while it was in Beta: I was then and remain a staunch supporter that super speed should of been removed from the stealth exclusivity list prior to going live.

I don't do near as many 4 star runs as I'd like but I typically end up solo or on pugs when I do get a chance to play these days, and as the baby severely limits my playtime sometimes I'm lucky to have 9 minutes for a speed ITF.

Easy way to test, make a quick AE map where you fight rad/sonic defenders and see what happens.

For Four Star stuff I generally use my Invuln/MA or Invuln/Kat tanker, otherwise my SD/Elec and SA/Rad does well enough. I want to give my SR/Rad, Elec/Ice, and DA/SS a whirl and see how they fair as well (I've used them 1-2 star TFs to various effect on pugs).

Don't all new powersets and pretty much any that get adjusted have some new mechanic to make them unique? Over the last few years that seems to be the modus operandi around here.

If you ever decide to look at the actual game code, yes adding new seems easier than changing something else and breaking other things while making your changes. And yes it requires a fair amount of alcohol, why else do you think we all had to pay $12-15 bucks a month, the OG devs needed liquid encouragement in addition to paying for their bills like Manticore's 2004 shiny blue Miata.

Not diving into numbers because I'm taking a break from some calculations on a survey by perusing the forums. I have an Ill/sav/ice domi and it plays really well and shreds things. Sure I might not be the best case study as all my characters basically start at lvl 50 and fully IOd out to the gills. But when fully slotted out it's probably my most fun (I know very subjective) dominator I have and I have maybe 8-10 other fully IOd domis as various sets too. Perhaps because it's one of the more recent ones and the fact that I wanted illusion control on dominators forever I'm being less critical on it.

Sure, there's a few different camps preaching similar changes, but I guess I was more thinking of the individual values and such. I've had several discord conversations about Regen over the years and over more than one bottle of liquor.

I'm far from the Regen expert that I was in the days of Perma MoG and soloing hammi mitos. A lot of people agree that Regen could use some work although hardly anyone agrees how. If I could redesign Regen.... I'd revert instant healing to a toggle l Move brutes taunt aura from integration over to the toggle instant healing. I'd ditch quick recovery for a new auto power named Resolve. Resolve would add scaling regeneration values the lower your health got similar to how SR gets resistance the more missing health it has. At it's most effective it would put out Regen values similar to a WP tank's RTTC while fully saturated. Resolve would also add a 50% resistance to regen and recovery debuffs. Fast Healing would be similar to how it is but have a built-in 3.5 ppm proc to have double Regen ticks for 10 seconds. It also gains a 30% resistance to slows. Reconstruction works as usual with the addition of potentially stacking 10% resistance to Regen debuffs that last 60 seconds. Revive can be used when not dead, it fully heals the player and gives them an absorb shield of 33% of their max HP. The power no longer benefits from recharge reduction. Other powers would function in the same way that they currently do.

I like the idea of a majority of attacks having a chance to immobilize a target. Its kind of difficult to move if you have an arrow going through your chest pinning you to a wall. Additionally explosive arrow should do more damage than what it does. It feels lethargic. As an archer in real life I once drunkenly taped an explosive firework onto an arrow shaft. Ignited the fuse and fired the arrow. it was loud, disorienting, and ultimately put a hole in the roof of the shed. Damn arrow was super heavy so it arched downward quick, so I could see an explosive arrow suffering an accuracy penalty on lieu of increased damage.

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