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No, but attuned IO's have the stats of the IO for the level you are from their bottom range to their maximum range. So the stat value you see is based on the lvl in mids you have set when you slot them. In mids you can +5 things by using the plus key while hovering over the IO.

Personally I just leave all the graphic settings to max. With the exception of a recent case of thermal throttling due to bad paste I replaced, the only time I get less than 140 or so fps is if I have all three accounts running, where I'm afk farming myself a new 50, and playing the third account on a MSR or something and then I might see it hit ~90ish fps. The OEM paste was flaky and dried out, so I replaced with Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut, and three accounts at once all on max settings is getting my GPU up to about 63° Celsius so fairly ideal. A few people I respect swore up and down about Thermal Grizzly so I figured I'd give it a try. Ultimately it's going to come down to finding the sweet spot for your own rig. Also the textures/models were going off of 15-20 year old textures so you'll eventually get to a hard limit.

Poison has 4 must have powers and potentially 5 powers that you can skip if you want. Envenom, Weaken, Venomous Gas, and Poison Trap are the must haves. This gives you opportunity to take what you need from your primary and pools fairly easily. Otherwise it's going to come down to your individual goals for the toon.

Croatoa, First Ward, Night Ward are all great for magic characters. Even Cimerora/Ouroboros can work.

Reading this thread got me to roll my third electric control toon on HC, I liked where @Carnifax's head was at pairing with poison, as it's one of my favorite debuff sets (despite it could use a pass in regards to splash AoE size, and alternate animations). IM pretty experienced with both sets, but thought the pairing would work well together, as I'm thinking of some build ideas with plans to cycle clarion radial and melee radial for mez protection while leaning into the end sapping and various debuffs of poison (-def, -tohit, -regen, -recov, -damage, and -special).

I'd find a way to proc slot the hell out of jolting chain at the very least as the chains can proc, and that will help your DPS.

I got one up for you. I never specifically made a rule I'd post them on Tuesdays, that's just typically what I've done as that's usually the least busy day of the week. Feel free to suggest other topics for the future.

This week's discussion deals with Pets, particularly ones that have an effect on combat. What is/are your favorite pets to use in the game? Why? Are there any you don't like? Why? If the pet is available to multiple ATs do you prefer it better on one AT over the other? When rolling an AT that is traditionally known for there pets, have you purposely chose not to take a or the pet(s) available to you? How did it work out? What about incarnate lore pets? Which of those do you find yourself picking and why? Are there any you haven't tried at this point? Lastly what are your thoughts on level shifts for pets, especially masterminds' pets?

Probably an AR/Martial Combat blaster that uses the Unlimited Ammo cheat code.

Not just pets but escort NPCs too. Give them a rocket booster.

That was my thought exactly, especially as I had seen this post yesterday as I was perusing the forums. Only difference was mine was posi 1 as opposed to synapse.

@Snarky its all good I quit a Posi 1 today. When the leader was recruiting I sent a tell asking what difficulty and if he was open to speeding it. He replied "+0 and yeah sure that's fine". I joined, and after went to grab a beer. Once they started, they saw my set bonuses (invuln/kat tanker) and discussed that I'm fully IO'd in team chat and that they were sure I could handle at least +2, and they all agreed in team chat then proceeded to talk about someone's cat. When I got back they started up, and I plowed through the objectives for the 1st 2 missions, and noticed on the 3rd mission its now +4 and most the team was dying, and wondering why I was rushing ahead completing the objectives as it was "lowering their xp just completing the missions and not killing everything". I said "Merry Christmas" and dropped team immediately, only to solo the tf myself.

Oh I'm sure CoX won't get any noticable improvement as I get on average about 200 fps on max settings with the existing system. There's a few games like Cyberpunk 2077 that use some heavy ray tracing, and although it works with the 2070 I can't run it on max settings. I don't know maybe I wait on the 40 series.

How they advertise for Jeffrey Dahmer and his ilk.

Hey I'm looking at replacing a laptop, so contemplating which GPU to go with. Anyone have either a Nvidia 3070, 3070 ti, or 3080 for a laptop? If so how do you find them? Upgrading from a Nvidia 2070 Super. Thanks.

LRM has sadly been a disappointment of a power for a long time.

I miss when Regen was epic. Like being solo in the hami bowl killing mitos epic. But alas I'd like to see it at least somewhere in-between where it is and where it initially was.

Psi/energy blaster with hover will have longest range in the game as their blast powers have a 100' range instead of 80' and you can use boost range from your secondary. Basically you can kill things as soon as they render on the screen from max range.

No they weren't, but people learned tactics/strategy from them, and with the development of IO's and set bonuses, its possible for a single character that's well built to literally carry a team through them, even at +4, so that's likely why you see teams steamroll them.

Like several of you I really like the zone wide story arcs where each successive contact in the zone builds off the last one, so the Hollows, Striga, Croatoa, RWZ, Nightward (hard to not like this one especially with the finale's nods to Ghostbusters), and Dark Astoria. Otherwise I really like Mr. G's stuff, and Ghost Widow's patron arc through all the chapters.

Electric Affinity works amazingly on masterminds.

I usually don't get a bubble, but then again it's not that I don't know about them, it's that I like the extra HP debuff as I make IO builds for all my toons. You're probably right about people not checking on the reactors hp/using coolant belts. @JasperStonea cheesy way to cheese win the trial. In the reactor room the waves of spawns were scripted to only appear of the last spawn has been killed, so people used to leave 1 minion alive and just wait the hidden timer (20 minutes iirc) to win the trial. I'm unaware of it ever being patched to change the way the waves spawn in.

When it first came out teams use to fail it left and right. Was the team not using enhancements?

Welcome back for week 7. This week's theme is all about a good story. What are your favorite story arcs to run? What are your least favorite? Any standout AE story arcs that you find yourself drawn in by? How do you want to be engaged by the story narrative? What suggestions do you have that might help convey a good story? What's a fitting capstone for completing a story arc?

I'm in this boat too, depending on team composition, I love Ageless Radial for the DDR since a lot of players build for defense anyways and can't really get any DDR. Clarion I take on almost every toon I make that takes powerboost just to take the radial variety and double up the special, especially for things like forcefields, fade, farsight, or debuffs.