Bionic_Flea

Congrats!

Derp! Edited original to add RWZ Pylon.

Robotic Flea: Bots/Rad, level 50 (Nerve radial, barrier, reactive, support) but only used passives and barrier. No personal MM attacks. Used rad toggles to start, Perma AM and Lingering Radiation. Occasionally used Nemesis Staff or Blackwand if bored. Heal aura and resummon as needed. This was against a RWZ Pylon. Live: 3:13 Beta: 2:24 It's only one data point, but informative. True that Rad brings it's own significant -regen, but lots of MM secondaries have -regen. Also, thanks to Booper, for mentioning setting the chat to clock with seconds. Much easier to log precise times than trying to juggle a stopwatches start and stop.

/ignores this thread

TA has problems with ambushes? You can plant an oil slick and glue arrow in anticipation for their arrival and then set them on fire . . .

Personally, I would like it if the bots retained at least a little -regen that could then be augmented by taking the MM's personal attacks. So if the original -regen was Bots 500 (max), MM Zero and the new version is Bots Zero, MM personal (200x3 = 600 max), then we could try a newer version of Bots 200, MM (125x3 = 375) for a Max of 575 if all three attacks are taken. But more likely is that only one or two attacks would be taken and get to 325 or 450. Or something like that.

@Snarky: If your suggestion is to not have any more suggestions, then you shouldn't have made that suggestion . . . you know . . . to be internally consistent. Or is it that you are trying to change the way we change things? But isn't changing change itself a change?

One 50 a month. Bad idea or Brainstorm? I vote Brainstorm. As in go to Brainstorm and have your wish granted! You don't even need to limit it to one per month!

I also liked them solo and have not had too much difficulty on them with a tank or an MM, though the MM did have a harder time. But struggling is how I get better.

Did you actually fight an AV on your Bots/FF on the beta? I'd be interested to read your results.

EBs have become sentient and attack forum posters they disagree with based on some whacky formula using post count, word count, reputation, etc. . . . .

/ignore Bionic Flea. That guy's a jerk!

This is awesome. Thanks!

After the 30s, endurance management got better, no doubt in part to the reduction in Soul Extraction's end cost, as well as having additional slots to work with plus the accolades. I ran a few missions in the 40s and it seemed fine. However, I still have to monitor endurance closely if I am actively using attacks and Soul Extraction. Then I cranked to to 50 and cheat-coded all the incarnate powers I wanted to T4. But I only used the passive incarnates (alpha, Interface, and unclicked hybrid) was able to solo +4/x8 Nemesis, Rikti, and Arachnos without dying, although I did have to run away a couple of times to resummon my critters against Arachnos. Dampening Bubble is very good against Arachnos to protect against debuffs, especially to defense and perception. I also took down a pylon in about 3 minutes just based on a clock. I forgot to start a stopwatch. It didn't feel overwhelmingly fast, but I feel that it was not bad for Necro/FF. While I have not tried, I'm not sure an Necro/FF could take down a pylon before these changes. At least not anywhere close to 3 minutes. Necro/FF is a very tanky MM. Not as damaging as some other sets but good enough.

I understand your point and position, I just disagree that 1500 is the right price. *shrug* PS. You just admitted the price is unreasonable. 😎

I'm a big fan of other ways to get Aether. Adding them to new Halloween badges was very smart as you get lot's of temporary Halloween costumes while running around Trick or Treating and having 10 Aethers after getting the badges lets players buy one of their favorites to make permanent and dip their toes into the system. I also think that players of all levels should get them from running the WSFs and not just level 50s. I assume that would let most characters have enough for at least one costume without running any hardmode on or before getting to 50. I'm glad that the Devs reduced the prices from the even higher levels that they had initially proposed. I think that 10/100/250 is appropriate for the first three tiers but that 1500 is too high.

Damn those devs for changing things in patch notes based on testing and player feedback!

Let's see: At 3 stars you get 13 Aether, so you'd need to complete 115 three star tasks to get 1,500. At 2 stars you get 7 Aether, so you'd have to complete 214 two star tasks to get 1,500. At 1 star you get 2 Aether so you'd have to complete a nice, round 750 one star tasks to get to 1,500. Of course, you would probably accumulate several from random mission completions and WSFs. But I assume that many if not most players would also want to spend 150 to get the associated badges. Sorry, but . . .

[11:15] You activated the Hell on Earth power. [11:15] Target is unaffected by Hell on Earth.

I think 1500 is a bit much for any of these. Not that I have any interest in the current Tier 4. But I'm guessing that some day I will want a future T4. Seventy five four stars is a lot for anyone. And not every character or player is going to even be able to participate in 4* content. So then you are going to have to do a bunch of lesser stars and WSFs or spend a lot of influence. How long do the devs think it should take for a player to earn a T4? Any stats on how many Aethers have been accumulated and by how many players?

[Possible Bug] - Soul Extraction did not work at all in Mender Ramiel's first mission. Yeah, I know it's not a real mission as you have Limitless Radial Freeem and whatnot, but i still thought it odd that the power completely failed and might be a sign of a problem.