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Like @quixoteprog, you make some points that I hadn't considered, which has me rethinking my build. Thank you.

You make some points that I hadn't considered, which has me rethinking my build. Thank you.

Which one: Conan or NMS? My interest in Conan surprised me: I've always played "theme park" games like CoH and WoW, while sandbox games like CX and NMS never held my attention, previously. But CX has enough combat to make it interesting, and somehow the crafting/building system has piqued my curiosity. I just started NMS, so I haven't really played much further than the initial tutorial stuff, which is all about crafting/building. I hope it gets more interesting soon, otherwise, I'll probably stop playing it.

Conan Exiles has my attention at the moment, and a friend suggested that if I like that, I might also like No Man's Sky. So yesterday I downloaded and started playing NMS for a few hours.

Yes, you have to switch sides to either Rogue or Villain so that you can talk to Arbiter Rein in Grandville to start the redside patron arcs. I recommend that you select Black Scorpion, as that tends to be the easiest/fastest to get to the AV/EB that unlocks the pool. You do have to contend with some Malta along the way, but as long as you're careful about the Sappers, it's not that tough. There's one "defeat all" mission that you can autocomplete to get it out of the way.

Yes, I believe so. God forbid they ever make Energy Torrent or Power Push useful for Energy Blasters (Power Push is actually good on Energy Sentinels), because that would mean I'd have to reconsider always skipping those automatically in favor of a defense toggle.

I first noticed this on Pineapple a few weeks ago, when I was creating new chars to test the Tanker and Phantom Army changes. It appears that it migrated to prod with the most recent patch as well.

Agreed, a conventional Rad build would focus on the debuffs.

Correct: I was going for a different approach, with more emphasis on controls and pets.

Here's an alternative build that's way more expensive (created for the test server, where IOs are free). I'd appreciate any feedback on it. Thanks!

Kheldians

As the Sentinel, appearing to be good at something on a team is my job! 😠😇

Why 17? Puzzled? 🤔 (edit) Why not just push forward to 22, when you can equip level 25 common IOs, which are the functional equivalent -1 SOs? Or maybe even further to level 27, when you can equip 30s, which are equal to +1 SOs? Basically, I no longer even bother with any enhancements (other than drops) until level 22 or 27, when I can equip common IOs that are functionally equivalent to SOs. I have 2-3 bins full of 25s and 30s that I keep for alts.

I read this as: "Well that was fun, I was playing City of Heroes [but now the fun's over and I'm outta here]." Some see the glass half full, others half empty. I guess I'm a pessimist.

I haven't bought orange salvage for less than 400K in months.

I think they need more than a few minutes... 😄

AFAIK, mobs have always scattered from Burn. Yes, I have a Spines/Fire Brute.

Yes.

She thicc tho.

Yes, see sig below. 😉 But I also re-created several alts from retail. Some of them were retconned with new powers, and one even got a new name (by choice, not forced). But some that I re-created haven't "stuck", for various reasons, so I don't play them any more.

Energy/Energy Blaster was my first, and main, from 2004 (I2, though) to 2012. I really dig the Iron Man vibe (my first costume was pretty similar to Iron Man, though not an exact clone).

Even if you're unlucky, you can use converters on the set to get what you want. That's what I did. *shrug*

That's actually happened a few more times than I like to admit, which is why I like to slot SA KB2KD in Nova now.

The first rule of Off-Topic... 😠