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I was a voracious reader from about the time I was 7 or so reading the Oz books. Mom used to read me a chapter a night when I was young... not sure but probably about age 4 or younger. I remember being frustrated and wanting to know what happened NEXT so I basically taught myself to read on those stories. Recently I grabbed the old Baum collection and I was surprised how well they held up. I still have the books I grew up with; all well loved, falling apart first ediitons that have been handed down through my mother's family. They taught my grandmother to read, my mother to read and me to read. I loaned them to my cousin when he was young and they taught him to read as well.
Heinlein and Asimov were my favorites growing up, moving into Niven and a lot of others. Anthony was good in his early stuff before he went all hyper PC. I think I'd read probably over 5,000 SF books by the time I graduated college and I've run across a few of those old books recently in the attic; surprisingly many of my early grade school/high school favorites are still fun reads. The Heinlein Juveniles are fun even closing in on 60 and Time Enough For Love still gets me emotional. I suppose I ought to get rid of some of them, at a rough guess there's something over 2,000 in storage with no particular organization.
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Thanks for the suggestions, I'll sit down and play a bit with Mids, then probably roll up a couple of choices and see how they work in the early going, then likely pick one to focus on.
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12 minutes ago, venetiasilver said:
Stone Melee / Energy Aura
Stone Melee I'm very familiar with in the Tanker version; never played EA however. I remember thinking it was similar to SR when it came out?
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8 minutes ago, Maelwys said:
My vote would be for a BattleAxe/Rad.
BattleAxe doesn't have any combo gimmicks; but its main PBAoE "Axe Cyclone" causes inverted repel and knockup; which sucks nearby enemies towards you. This drags them into range for other AoEs such as Pendulum and any Auras (e.g. /Rad's Beta Decay). It's a little bit like a miniature "Fold Space"; and you can also use it to move mobs by jumping away from them and then immediately activating Axe Cyclone to "suck" them along for the ride with you.
Radiation Armor is primarily a +resistance powerset; but it also gives a very high Absorb "buffer" (Particle Shielding) plus substantial Recharge Rate, Regeneration and Recovery buffs. It has quite a good set of resistances to some nasty debuffs (Regeneration, Recharge, Recovery, Endurance, RunSpeed) and it can inflict -Regen (via Radiation Therapy) and -ToHit (via Beta Decay). The main draw of the set for most people however is Ground Zero - a big radius PBAoE that can hit up to 30 targets and copes extremely well with damage procs (even slotted for ED-capped recharge they'll have a maximum chance to trigger). The only real weakness of the set is Defense - and whilst you can build for that with set bonuses, it's often easier to just pick up Shadow Meld from the Soul Mastery Epic pool and/or Barrier Destiny for the few times you really need it.
Axe Cyclone + Pendulum + Cleave + Ground Zero + Radiation Therapy is a very good range of AOE.
Chop + Gash + Swoop + Cleave is good Single Target; and you can pickup Moonbeam to round it out enroute to Shadow Meld.
Note that BattleAxe is very good for both ST and AoE damage... but it's also very endurance heavy. However with /Rad that issue will be partially countered by Gamma Boost and will totally evaporate once you get "Radiation Therapy" and stick a Performance Shifter proc in it.
Both sets love additional Global Recharge and damage procs, but it shouldn't need specific IO sets to "work" other than that single Performance Shifter Proc.
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If you don't fancy the look of BattleAxe/Bio then looking at the sets you've played.... perhaps a Claws/ or MA/ primary plus a /SR or /Stone (Non-Granite) secondary?
Claws has a number of decent AoEs; MA only has one (Dragon's Tail) but it's exceptionally good and fast-recharging. Savage Melee is another option- technically it has a combo mechanic (Blood Frenzy) but you can largely just ignore it. Unfortunately /Fire is better on Brutes and Tankers; and whilst /Bio is fantastic it has a stance-shifting mechanic that you may not enjoy.
A decent suggestion there, Axe is a set I've never even looked at in Mids so I'll try and work something up. Claws I've dabbled with a couple of times to the mid 20's. Stone Armor I've played twice on a tanker, once with Energy Melee (ugh, HATED that when ET got nerfed in what, issue 5 or 6?) and once with Fire Melee after the massive nerfs to Invuln and ED. I've seen that Stone Armor has changed significantly since then, my last stoner was before shutdown, and I'm not up on it.
Rad Armor and Bio both look interesting; I've never played either one and they look like they'll build up pretty tough. A glance at Mids and it looks like Bio might need the full powerset? At a glance I don't see anything very skippable there.
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Hey all, it's been probably close to 5 years since I played much, and longer than that since I played a Scrapper regularly. I was thinking of starting a new Scrapper and wondered what the current state of the powersets was.
I've played Spines, Fire, Broadsword and Street Justice to 50 on Scrappers, some more than once, and Staff, Fire and Electric on Stalkers so I'm probably looking for something else. Secondaries I've played include Invuln (mainly on tankers), Regen (Scrapper and Stalker), Shield (Scrapper, Stalker and Tanker), Willpower (Tanker when it had a lousy aura) and Ice (Tanker)
I'm leaning against sets with odd mechanics and want excellent damage both ST and AOE. Prefer a secondary with a lot of survivability without having to IO the crap out of it... although if you soft cap your defense a Fire/Regen stalker can be godly at level 50. Last I looked I had one of only two of that combo in the game 😉
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34 minutes ago, venetiasilver said:
Embrace the Layer Cake Room, Live in the Layer Cake Room, Become the Layer Cake Room.
Become that last mob hiding behind a rock in a corner of the Layer Cake Room.
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It's a great buff for anyone who's ever been on a team of "Look, it GLOWS! KILL IT NOW!!" players.
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Well so far the new build works; I just finished an ITF and never dipped below about 95% HP. Previously I solo ran the Maria Jenkins arc to finish Portal Jockey and I don't think I ever dropped below 99%, I WAS however facing EB's and not AV's. If it holds up like that for tougher challenges I may end up dropping Rune of Protection; so far I haven't even come close to needing it to say nothing of Melee Hybrid (once I unlock it, CMA only had Cardiac Alpha, Judgement and Interface slotted)
Overall the numbers are comparable to a Granite tanker without any of the penalties, and even the lowest resistance (toxic) was ~70%. I'll try more challenging content as I get the rust knocked off; I definitely wasn't totally up to speed yet on that ITF since I think the last time I tanked in this game was sometime in 2018-2019. Still, it's like riding a bike and I at least wasn't screwing up too bad by about halfway thru the second mission.
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I've been doing some more research and found Hyperstrike's Mo build. There's some changes due to a different secondary and slotting but I think this should work. Stone Melee is end heavy so I've stuck with Cardiac over Resilient on the Alpha... plus I already have the T4 Cardiac. Durability is very similar and it has slightly better end and healing.
I tend to default to Rebirth for Destiny, a large "oh shit" heal is useful on almost anything.
Is there any consensus on Interface? Back when I was playing before there were questions about the effectiveness of them and it seemed Reactive was the default choice. Lore seemed to change from issue to issue with Clockwork and Cimeroans being the popular choice. I'm asking because CMA never finished unlocking the Incarnate slots so apart from the Alpha he's a blank slate.
In any case here's my thoughts now, I may tweak things slightly before respec. Mids, or at least the version I have, won't let me take a T2 secondary power at level 1.
Hmm, post is broken, it won't let me post the build. Let me try just the chunk.
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Isn't bruising still a thing? Also Mids doesn't allow for taking a secondary T2 at level 1. I'll check out the Absolute Amazement; it didn't flag it so I didn't notice it.
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Hey all, it's been several years since I last played to any extent and I've been dusting off some of my old characters lately. With all the changes I think CMA needs to step up a bit from where he was back in 2018 or so to handle it. I've been working on a new build and have come up with something that moves my defenses up considerably as well as adding about 20% to my resistances. Now the question is if you folks can knock any holes into the build?
This Hero build was built using Mids Reborn 3.4.6
https://github.com/LoadedCamel/MidsRebornClick this DataLink to open the build!
Call Me Awesome: Level 50 Natural Tanker
Primary Power Set: Invulnerability
Secondary Power Set: Stone Melee
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Leadership
Ancillary Pool: Pyre MasteryHero Profile:
Level 1: Temp Invulnerability- (A) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
- (3) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance
- (3) Reactive Armor - Resistance
- (5) Reactive Armor - Endurance/Recharge
- (5) Aegis - Psionic/Status Resistance
Level 1: Stone Fist
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Hamidon Origin:Nucleolus Exposure
Level 2: Dull Pain
- (A) Preventive Medicine - Heal/RechargeTime
- (7) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Recharge
- (7) Numina's Convalesence - Heal/Recharge
Level 4: Heavy Mallet
- (A) Superior Gauntleted Fist - Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime
- (11) Superior Gauntleted Fist - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime
- (11) Superior Gauntleted Fist - Accuracy/Damage
- (13) Superior Gauntleted Fist - Accuracy/Damage/RechargeTime
- (13) Superior Gauntleted Fist - Damage/RechargeTime
- (15) Superior Gauntleted Fist - RechargeTime/+Absorb
Level 6: Combat Jumping
- (A) Shield Wall - Defense
- (15) Shield Wall - Defense/Endurance
- (17) Shield Wall - Defense/Recharge
- (17) Shield Wall - Defense/Endurance/Recharge
Level 8: Unyielding
- (A) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance
- (19) Impervium Armor - Psionic Resistance
- (19) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance
- (21) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance/RechargeTime
- (21) Unbreakable Guard - RechargeTime/Resistance
Level 10: Taunt
- (A) Perfect Zinger - Chance for Psi Damage
Level 12: Resist Physical Damage
- (A) Unbreakable Guard - RechargeTime/Resistance
- (23) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance
- (23) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance
- (25) Impervium Armor - Psionic Resistance
- (25) Unbreakable Guard - +Max HP
Level 14: Super Jump
- (A) Jumping IO
Level 16: Boxing
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Hamidon Origin:Nucleolus Exposure
Level 18: Invincibility
- (A) Shield Wall - Defense
- (27) Shield Wall - Defense/Endurance
- (27) Shield Wall - Defense/Recharge
- (29) Shield Wall - Defense/Endurance/Recharge
Level 20: Fault
- (A) Absolute Amazement - Recharge/Accuracy
- (29) Absolute Amazement - Stun/Recharge
- (31) Absolute Amazement - Stun/Recharge/Accuracy
- (48) Absolute Amazement - Stun/Endurance
Level 22: Tough
- (A) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3%
- (31) Gladiator's Armor - TP Protection +3% Def (All)
Level 24: Weave
- (A) Shield Wall - Defense
- (31) Shield Wall - Defense/Endurance
- (33) Shield Wall - Defense/Recharge
- (33) Shield Wall - Defense/Endurance/Recharge
Level 26: Tough Hide
- (A) Shield Wall - +Res (Teleportation), +5% Res (All)
- (33) Shield Wall - Defense
- (34) Shield Wall - Defense/Endurance
- (34) Shield Wall - Defense/Recharge
Level 28: Resist Energies
- (A) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Recharge
- (34) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
- (36) Reactive Armor - Resistance
- (36) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance
Level 30: Resist Elements
- (A) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
- (36) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance
- (37) Reactive Armor - Resistance
- (37) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Recharge
- (37) Impervium Armor - Psionic Resistance
Level 32: Hurl Boulder
- (A) Superior Might of the Tanker - Recharge/Chance for +Res(All)
- (39) Superior Might of the Tanker - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (39) Superior Might of the Tanker - Damage/Recharge
- (39) Superior Might of the Tanker - Accuracy/Damage
- (40) Superior Might of the Tanker - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
Level 35: Tremor
- (A) Superior Avalanche - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
- (40) Superior Avalanche - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
- (42) Superior Avalanche - Recharge/Chance for Knockdown
- (42) Superior Avalanche - Accuracy/Damage
- (42) Superior Avalanche - Damage/Endurance
- (43) Superior Avalanche - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
Level 38: Seismic Smash
- (A) Superior Blistering Cold - Recharge/Chance for Hold
- (43) Superior Blistering Cold - Damage/Endurance/Accuracy/RechargeTime
- (43) Superior Blistering Cold - Accuracy/Damage
- (45) Superior Blistering Cold - Damage/Endurance
- (45) Superior Blistering Cold - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
- (45) Superior Blistering Cold - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
Level 41: Char
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Hamidon Origin:Endoplasm Exposure
Level 44: Fire Blast
- (A) Superior Winter's Bite - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
- (46) Superior Winter's Bite - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
- (46) Superior Winter's Bite - Accuracy/Damage
- (46) Superior Winter's Bite - Damage/Endurance/Accuracy/RechargeTime
- (49) Superior Winter's Bite - Damage/RechargeTime
Level 47: Fire Ball
- (A) Superior Frozen Blast - Recharge/Chance for Immobilize
- (47) Superior Frozen Blast - Damage/Endurance/Accuracy/RechargeTime
- (47) Superior Frozen Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
- (47) Superior Frozen Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
- (48) Superior Frozen Blast - Damage/Endurance
- (48) Superior Frozen Blast - Accuracy/Damage
Level 49: Maneuvers
- (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed
Level 1: Gauntlet
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It's not common but I've always liked Inv/Stone on a tank. You get quite a bit of soft control with knockdown and it feels like it hits like a truck. The biggest drawback is that it's fairly end heavy but that's manageable with a decent build. You have a great attention getter that knocks them on their butts with Fault along with Tremor to knock them down again and deal some decent damage. A MAG 4 HOLD combined with a load of damage in Seismic Smash rounds out the set.
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24 minutes ago, Cancrusher said:
No suggestions. I'm just impressed that someone had the fortitude to play a /Regen all the way to 50. You're made of sterner stuff than I am, my friend! 😁👍
Well, soft cap or near on S/L with recharge and regen worked remarkably well. The character was basically immortal once I reached the mid 20's and had decent defense set bonuses. I do recall looking up the combination in the list published a couple years ago and noticing I was one of 2 Fire/Regen stalkers at 50.
Regen does tend to be squishy without help, but with 50% S/L resistance and 20-35% to all others along with 45% S/L defense plus what Regen brings to the table works wonders. No, it's not up with my Elec/Shield stalker but it's respectable. Clicky to be sure but it was fun.
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It's been a few years since I've played but I've recently found some free time and decided to give it a try. In the process I've been thinking about the builds of some of my old characters. One that I've been stumped by is my Fire/Regen stalker... yeah, I know that's a unicorn build but it was fun playing to 50 shortly after Homecoming launched and surprisingly durable. Anyone have thoughts on improvement? This is very close to the current live build on the character, although it shaves 5% S/L defense for more resistance and recharge.
This Villain build was built using Mids Reborn 3.4.6
https://github.com/LoadedCamel/MidsRebornClick this DataLink to open the build!
Fire Dance: Level 50 Natural Stalker
Primary Power Set: Fiery Melee
Secondary Power Set: Regeneration
Power Pool: Sorcery
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Speed
Ancillary Pool: Blaze MasteryVillain Profile:
Level 1: Fire Sword- (A) Kinetic Combat - Knockdown Bonus
- (3) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance
- (3) Kinetic Combat - Accuracy/Damage
- (5) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Recharge
- (5) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
Level 1: Hide
- (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed
- (43) Kismet - Accuracy +6%
Level 2: Cremate
- (A) Kinetic Combat - Knockdown Bonus
- (7) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance
- (9) Kinetic Combat - Accuracy/Damage
- (9) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Recharge
- (11) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
Level 4: Reconstruction
- (A) Numina's Convalesence - Heal
- (11) Numina's Convalesence - Heal/Endurance
- (13) Numina's Convalesence - Endurance/Recharge
- (13) Numina's Convalesence - Heal/Recharge
- (15) Numina's Convalesence - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
Level 6: Assassin's Blaze
- (A) Kinetic Combat - Knockdown Bonus
- (17) Kinetic Combat - Accuracy/Damage
- (17) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance
- (19) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Recharge
- (19) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (21) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage
Level 8: Fast Healing
- (A) Numina's Convalesence - +Regeneration/+Recovery
- (21) Numina's Convalesence - Heal
- (23) Numina's Convalesence - Heal/Endurance
- (23) Numina's Convalesence - Heal/Recharge
- (29) Numina's Convalesence - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
Level 10: Dull Pain
- (A) Numina's Convalesence - Heal
- (25) Numina's Convalesence - Heal/Recharge
- (25) Numina's Convalesence - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
- (27) Numina's Convalesence - Endurance/Recharge
- (27) Numina's Convalesence - Heal/Endurance
Level 12: Mystic Flight
- (A) Flight Speed IO
Level 14: Build Up
- (A) Adjusted Targeting - To Hit Buff/Recharge
- (29) Adjusted Targeting - Recharge
Level 16: Integration
- (A) Numina's Convalesence - Heal
- (31) Numina's Convalesence - Heal/Endurance
- (31) Numina's Convalesence - Heal/Recharge
- (31) Numina's Convalesence - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
- (40) Numina's Convalesence - Endurance/Recharge
Level 18: Breath of Fire
- (A) Superior Stalker's Guile - Recharge/Chance to Hide
- (33) Superior Stalker's Guile - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (33) Superior Stalker's Guile - Accuracy/Damage
- (33) Superior Stalker's Guile - Damage/Recharge
- (34) Superior Stalker's Guile - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
- (34) Superior Stalker's Guile - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
Level 20: Boxing
- (A) Empty
Level 22: Tough
- (A) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/Endurance
- (34) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3%
- (36) Resist Damage IO
Level 24: Weave
- (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed
- (36) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
- (36) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
- (37) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance/Recharge
Level 26: Fire Sword Circle
- (A) Superior Assassin's Mark - Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime
- (37) Superior Assassin's Mark - Accuracy/Damage/RechargeTime
- (37) Superior Assassin's Mark - RechargeTime/Rchg Build Up
- (39) Superior Assassin's Mark - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime
- (39) Superior Assassin's Mark - Damage/RechargeTime
- (39) Superior Assassin's Mark - Accuracy/Damage
Level 28: Instant Healing
- (A) Recharge Reduction IO
- (40) Recharge Reduction IO
Level 30: Combat Jumping
- (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed
- (46) Shield Wall - +Res (Teleportation), +5% Res (All)
Level 32: Greater Fire Sword
- (A) Superior Blistering Cold - Recharge/Chance for Hold
- (40) Superior Blistering Cold - Damage/Endurance/Accuracy/RechargeTime
- (42) Superior Blistering Cold - Accuracy/Damage
- (42) Superior Blistering Cold - Damage/Endurance
- (42) Superior Blistering Cold - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
- (43) Superior Blistering Cold - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
Level 35: Hasten
- (A) Recharge Reduction IO
- (43) Recharge Reduction IO
Level 38: Moment of Glory
- (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed
- (45) Gladiator's Armor - TP Protection +3% Def (All)
- (45) Recharge Reduction IO
Level 41: Char
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Hamidon Origin:Endoplasm Exposure
Level 44: Resilience
- (A) Unbreakable Guard - +Max HP
- (45) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance
- (46) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance
Level 47: Fire Blast
- (A) Apocalypse - Chance of Damage(Negative)
- (48) Apocalypse - Damage
- (48) Apocalypse - Damage/Recharge/Accuracy
- (48) Apocalypse - Recharge/Accuracy
- (50) Apocalypse - Damage/Recharge
Level 49: Fire Ball
- (A) Overwhelming Force - Accuracy/Damage
- (49) Overwhelming Force - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (49) Overwhelming Force - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
Level 1: Assassination
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Soft cap ranged damage on a Fire blaster and you'll do very well; mine's Fire/Energy and focused on ranged with Boost Range. Rain of Fire, Bonfire (with KB-KD proc) & Fireball work wonders with Blaze and other ST attacks for bosses.
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Eh, stack up 8 sets of Leadership toggles, some buffs and debuffs and watch the mobs melt as fast as you can walk through the mission.
One of the most fun super teams I was on was when my group started a new set of characters on another server. We had 2 Kin/Sonic defenders, 2 Fire/Rad controllers, 2 Ill/Rad controllers, one Rad/Rad defender and a Fire/Fire blaster. At level 25 we took out Lusca in IP by ourselves in under 5 minutes and by the time we hit 50 we had the Master of Statesman's TF in a 30 minute run. Yeah, 8 Fire/Rad controllers might have been faster but we never ran into anything that slowed us down... except for our suicidal Fire/Fire blaster who seemed to use ROTP as part of his attack chain.
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I've had highly effective builds that would come in under 30 million, some even under 20 million. I've also had builds that would be well over 500 million.
As an example, building a Blaster for ranged defense can be cheap since one of the best sets for that is Thunderstrike, an uncommon set that's pretty inexpensive to get. Building up an Invuln tanker to soft capped S/L defenses can also be cheap, maybe even as cheap as 15 million if you're willing to slot extra powers with low end sets. On the other hand if you're building for extreme recharge, say for a permanent-phantom army Illusion controller, it can get expensive in a hurry.
The good news is prices are considerably cheaper here than they used to be on Live where there were one or two IO's that would cost you 2 BILLION EACH. Today I'd say save your merits to buy the more expensive IO's you need and use inf for the cheaper ones. If you're short of inf then I'd suggest buying some cheap uncommon recipes, craft them, and use IO converters to turn them into more valuable ones to sell. It's easy to rake in several million in 15 minutes or so doing that. I'll tend to do that when I'm waiting on friends to log in or in other down times.
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I can only speak for the Stalker combo but it rocks. I can clear an entire spawn with BU/Shield Charge/Lightning Rod/Fireball, then clear the next with conventional AOE attacks and repeat from the top for the third spawn. AS finishes off any bosses.
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While I have no clue what may cause respec failure I've done them in Atlas City Hall, an abandoned corner of a zone and, most often, in my SG base. Offhand I only recall one failure ever, and simply doing it again the same way worked.
I just put it down to random connectivity glitches.
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Welcome back, you'll find your Brute is a Go Go Go Go character; once you get Fury built up you want to keep going in order to keep it up. I suggest slotting accuracy and endurance reduction in your attacks for now, Brutes have a love/hate relationship with their blue bar and it tends to drain way too fast. Also get a couple of endurance mod SO's into Stamina.
I found that all my Brute characters had endurance problems in the early and mid game until I got them under control via IO bonuses and the various +end unique IO's. I suggest getting the hang of the game first before you start thinking about more advanced concepts like IO bonuses.
You'll want to consider the Miracle +recovery and the Numina's +regen/recovery IO's for Health at some point, save your Merits from running Task Forces and such for them as they'll cost around 4-6 million influence each. You can slot Miracle at level 17 as I recall and Numina at level 27, they'll help a ton with endurance.
Oh, a quickie way to earn some cash for your enhancements early is to go to the Auction House and buy level 50 IO recipes that are really cheap and sell them to the vendors for a profit. It's fairly easy to find worthless Rare IO recipes for 1-2k and vendors will pay I believe 10k. Uncommon recipes can frequently be had for a few hundred and vendors pay 5K for them... the level 50 versions. That'll fairly easily get you the money for SO enhancements.
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Question I had not long before shutdown:
"Why is your Fire/Fire blaster named The Amazing Redshirt?" Along with "Why the shredded red shirt and black pants?"
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1 minute ago, gamingglen said:
I'm surprised we CoH players haven't meme'd these things and numbered them, yet.
Like AE#1 : "How do you get out of Atlas Park?" (I'm not one to go look for the proper picture.. I'm not a memeist. 😉 )
At the time there were a few "AE Baby" videos floating around.
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1 minute ago, Seed22 said:
Nah. You know there are +4/8 PI radio teams more than farms, right? Look, I know yall LOVE blaming AE for everything wrong ever, but well...take a second and look at that PI council farm radio team going before making a post like this. Will save LOTS of time and headaches
Unless there's been a revival in the last year or so I'm not sure about the AE Baby thing. Sure, there were HUGE numbers of them on Live back when AE first launched... there was a period where you constantly ran into level 50 characters who's players had never left Atlas Park. That seemed to die out however and I haven't seen that much since.
I do unfortunately remember that era well, level 50 characters on an STF with no enhancements. And no idea how to play.
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1 minute ago, Carnifax said:
I'm just baffled as to why anyone would want to prolong a Citidel over pretty much any other non-shard TF.
"Would you like extra razor blades in your broken glass sandwich?"
It's not my favorite but there's lots of TF's I dislike much more. Synapse for example, and all the Shard TF's. And Numina, those gray hunts drive me up a wall.
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Re-reading books from my youth
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I think I had a couple of the post-Baum books but I hadn't looked at the books in probably 25 years when I loaned them to my young cousin back around 2000. I haven't read many of them since I was very young and my memories of the exact stories are a bit faded... I think I read a couple of them a few years ago but most I haven't read in close to 50 years.