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They have Consume Psyche with 10 stacks, you had with 0. With 10 stacks yours is

Maybe this should be moved to the roleplay section of the forums?

Adding to what I said it's not just squishy ATs that survive on overwhelming power. It's pretty much how every AT can make life easier for them. I had my big phase of playing with Fire Armor and I can tell you that I went 0x8 early (except when soloing Posi 1 and 2 because screw Vahziloks and their toxi and -recharge spam, so 0x6 for them) and the difference between melting a spawn and moving on or dying in five seconds... could be those five seconds. Jumping into a group and doing nothing for five seconds could be death against Vhaziloks due to their exotic damage. But, if in those five seconds I did Build-up + Burn + whatever AoE then they melted and I emerged healthy. Semi related if you feel like playing something sturdy and still doing good damage there's the old reliable Fire Armor/Ice Melee Tanker. Frost is phenomenal and available at level 4 (which had me going at least +0x4 right there and then), at 18 there's Burn to help it, and at 20 Ice Patch serves as a mini panic button. Even though Brutes are demi-gods under level 20 the Tanker is a plodding steamrolling machine, and unlike other games it doesn't have a leadership onus to it if playing in a team.

Just to add to this (not to you in particular who is aware of it but others may not and are reading this) transferring servers is painless, instant, and can be done 5 times a week. I was leveling a Sentinel with a buddy over Excelsior despite my main home server being Everlasting. I was constantly transferring back and forth to either grab IOs or dumping my old IOs from my base. So someone who does want to go through the trouble of setting up a multbox system they can transfer their level 50 characters over to a quieter server, farm away, and then make a level 1 disposable alt there who can transfer goods and cash.

Hmm. I'd have to look at the build in Mids since I'm not that familiar with Widows in particular, but orange lieutenants are +1 which can be a bit much to handle, but at +0x0 it shouldn't be constant trips to the hospital. Squishy classes are squishy though, which is why I gravitated to Tanks early on since I could go +0x6 or even +0x8 by level 10 and truly feel super. In comparison my Sentinel (roughly equivalent of a Widow) was dying a fair bit when I leveled it in the same fashion a couple weeks ago. That said fighting at +0x0 should not be constant trips to the hospital. You can skip early slotting of accuracy until roughly level 20 since the game has a hidden accuracy bonus for lowbies. If you can have a roughly gapless attack rotation then ditch the prestige attacks like Sands of Mu and etc as you're better off with your origin power (should be a Throwing Knives for a Widow, methinks). If you can afford a base teleportation prestige power then you can refill your inspirations between missions. Lucks, in particular, are very powerful to keep alive just by eating a couple. If you can afford the defense uniques (more in the guide in my signature if you happen to be new to the game) will help pushing the Widow's defense. Blasters and others are definitely 100% squishy though and survive on overwhelming power rather than fancy armor or fancy IOs. That means taking Build-up soon and opening with it, and then alternating with Aim (with a Gaussian proc slotted in it) for the next group (or using both for the same group) even if having to wait for one or both to recharge before moving to the next spawn. Definitely don't skimp on buying the Amplifiers, 8 hours of each, at level 1. Total will be 23k or so so a true pittance and the early buffs are truly noticeable.

They didn't say that they were good at it though 😄

But his problem is... I don't want to say rare, or unique, but at least not *common*. Sure, some people are complaining and their discord has some people chime in saying they haven't managed to install or re-install which they or the community there helps troubleshoot. But the vast majority is saying nothing because nothing is wrong. Like many in this thread my Mids is giving me no problems. I had a brief moment where it would open a window for a second and then close again but deletion and re-installing fixed it without even having to check their discord. And while I agree with how it should not make them immune to criticism what I really chided on was the tone of it. A free something handed out built on sweat and tears (because I've read the dev's comments and it's not easy to keep the program going) being sneered at because it doesn't work perfectly? C'mon. I already admire them by still being puttering over it for so many years. In the meanwhile I've played the game, got bored, dropped out, played other games, returned after months, played some more, got bored, left, went to do other things, returned. And the Mid's devs aren't even taking those breaks. They just keep on puttering at it and keeping things running, and we still have a working Mids with some niggles and problems but mostly correct, and when not they correct the bugs we present to them.

If it's an in-game thing you can bind it to your movement keys (or whatever). For example my w is /bind w "+forward$$playerturn$$visscale 5" so that visscale is reapplied (since it resets when we log off).

Again, harsh tone, and assuming they did it for funsies or maliciously, but no point arguing. Carry on.

Bit harsh a tone for something given free and that on top of everything else involving volunteers doing volunteer work they still have to spelunk the code and rely on players to find and implement changes. Because somehow they are still a project apart rather than part and parcel of HC. And yeah, it sounds like I'm licking boots, but without Mids we would have no alternative. So that they keep swimming upstream to keep on delivering ought to be met with joy rather than grumbles because it's not perfect.

Depends on how well it is done. I've played on other servers who had a stricter idea of how to level and it was mostly miserable for a truly new player. On a second or third character it was better. With EVERYTHING having to be bought with merits since there was no player economy then everything had value. Sadly they did not think about this part and there were no expanded recipe storage either on the character or the AH so I was resorting to the old dreadful method of having mules. But that was the other extreme. I do find that cutting off inf while double XP is on achieves nothing except screw new players since SOs are replacing them is exorbitant at easily half a million every five levels or so. Fortunately at 22 we can swap to generic IOs which is what I keep advising new players to curb the spending. Inf while leveling is already a pittance so doubling down by cutting it doesn't seem to serve a purpose. Not that I personally care because, like most vets, my account is firmly established and even whimsical challenges I sometimes undertake like start a fresh account is countered by experience.

Yes, but I keep the second row for expendable, AKA, eat all the insps that drop. The other rows are for emergencies like heals and lucks and endurance. Second row though? Nomnom.

You can take Musculature *and* Ageless and solve both. Barrier is nice but nothing inspirations can't duplicate.

Even the 45% damage Musculature only boils down to around 15% in practice. Still better than nothing though.

Izzat you, Dian?