Bionic_Flea

Second attempt: The appropriately named Masochistic Flea - AR/Devices with Time Bomb and LRM Rocket.

Wow! Would you be interested in sharing your build and attack chain?

It takes effort and time, but you can find people that like to play like you do. My suggestion would be to put story arc teams together in Striga and Croatoa. If you can get folks to all start an arc at the beginning, everyone can get the story arc completion bonuses. Even if you don't, you get to unlock two great TFs (Hess in Striga and Katie Hannon in Croatoa) and work towards badges and accolades. At level 35 you can do the same in Rikti War Zone. Good luck!

Or you can type /quit.

Depends on the writer and how much time each character has to pre-plan.

Can I interest you in a test server with a freebies menu?

He placed a stun proc in Cloak of Fear to stack stuns with Oppressive Gloom. Sounds good; never tried it.

It needs the radius increased. It only has an 8 foot radius. That would make it more useful without making it OP https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=epic.psionic_mastery.world_of_confusion&at=defender

OK. Here we go for a first draft -- jump kick, spring jump, dark pit, time bomb, and world of confusion. I took them, but barely slotted them. It's hard to take so many "bad" powers and still slot up to be sturdy and damaging. Is that cheating?

What are the worst powers in the game? You know, the ones almost everyone skips, like repel, jump kick, etc. Stuff like that. I'd like to theorycraft a character with as many of the worst powers as possible and try to make it work. Hit me!

Of the dozen or so MMs I've gotten to 50 here and live, my two favorite are Bot/Traps and Thugs/Kin. Bot/Traps is an excellent combo for fighting AVs and giant monsters. Huge -regen debuff in poison trap added to the -regen in Bot's attacks; an AoE hold, web grenade and caltrops to keep things in burn patches; easy to softcap your bots and yourself; VERY proc-able. This was my all time favorite. Thugs/Kin I liked for one specific combo - Gang War, Fulcrum Shift, Burnout, Gang War, Fulcrum Shift. The ensuing chaos never got old.

It's not just incarnate powers and IOs that are adding to speed. Once you've run the content once or twice to read the story, do you really want to re-read it the tenth time? The hundredth? And when you've spent seventeen+ years playing this game, which many of us have, you tend to learn the maps, where the blinkies and hostages are likely to be, etc. We also have access to the wonderful P2W items like Team Transport, Mission Teleport, Assemble the Team, Base TP, Base portal, and the new Long Range Teleport. Even something like Revel can substantially reduce time to completion. I'd be interested to see the data on the Aeon Strike Force. I'm guessing that the first week had really high completion times and people quitting the TF and that those numbers fall each week since then. But the ASF brings up an interesting possibility. Many of the rewards of the TF are not just the end reward merits and D-sync, but there are bonus rewards for running at higher difficulty and completing side tasks that could be skipped. If they added something like that in older content, like saving the hostages in Lady Grey instead of getting them killed, then you would have more people completing skippable portions just for the extra rewards. And that, in turn, should result in longer median completion times and therefore higher merit rewards.

Says you!

I have no problem with merit rewards being adjusted up if the introduction of new stuff makes the content take longer on average. But don't be surprised if other content has reward merits reduced because the average time to complete has gone down considerably. This is the way.

I would just make a third account to PL alts. So would a bunch of other people. I don't even farm or PL that much, but when I want to skip a few levels, I skip a few levels. I'm not sure what problem you are trying to solve, but I am fairly certain this would not solve it.

I was able to solo it on lowest settings on a tank with the help of some pets and temp powers. I know Linea has soloed it as well and was working his way up the different difficulty levels until he hit a hard wall. So it's doable and you can take your time. I found it was a great way to farm some of the new defeat badges by resetting and repeating the ripples.

*Searches for Yomo with full trays of . . . stuff . . .*

Yeah, that was me. But I think BillZ got what I was saying when he said: Without_Pause gets it too: Because tankers are tougher and have bigger AoEs, they can run at higher difficulty levels before other ATs using similar power sets. They will almost never be able to compete with stalkers and scrappers on raw damage, especially single target damage. But on an SO build they can stay in the fight longer, safer, and doing more AoE and whittling the critters away. And my offer stands: If anyone wants to run a side by side test of an SO tank against an SO scrapper or stalker, I just need to coordinate a where and when.

Here's a link to my thread where I leveled a Rad/DM tank to 50 on SOs. That's what I am basing my comments on. I still have the SO only build, although I made a premium build for the second one. If Peregrine or anyone wants to test my tank against any other SO Only brute, scrapper, or stalker at whatever level (via ouro), jest let me know and we can give it a try. I'd be interested in the results.

If most of your characters are either SO or level 25 IOs, then yes, we are playing a different game. I stand by my statement. Your experience may be different than mine.

That used to be true, but I think the recent upgrades to damage and AoE targets makes it a much better ride. The tank may not be able to take out single targets as quickly, but I'll venture to say that it can handle and dispatch larger groups earlier and faster than other melees -- ON SO's ONLY. Once you figure in scrapper and stalker ATOs it's game over in terms of clear speeds and damage.

I recently leveled a rad/dark melee tank on SOs only and it was pretty smooth. Once you get Beta Decay, that helps tremendously with your accuracy and recharge as well as stacking -tohit buffs with your dark attacks. Two self heals, bonus regen and recovery, absorb, and decent resists.

I have been told that the team occasionally subcontracted or hired a team to handle a discreet project (e.g. arena, /ah, etc.). If you are crunched for time you want to get the code to work and then worry about documenting later . . . and later never comes because the project is over and you are out the door. And now the long-haul devs are stuck with what you did.

Hey! Keep your boots away from me!