Bionic_Flea

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!

Maybe I am being dense, but that doesn't make sense to me. You can always go to Windows Settings to add or delete a program and then go to MidsReborn.com to download it again. I assume other OS's have similar capabilities.

Claiming a single inspiration, or even a few to get over a difficult hump is probably not a big deal. But being able to have an essentially unlimited supply of the very best Super-duper inspirations, such that one can solo the Ms. Liberty TF in 30 minutes? . . . Yeah, that sounds broken to me. I wouldn't want to lose the ability to claim a couple of inspirations from e-mails now and then and I really don't care if Elmyder or anyone else can solo Hamidon, or whatever, by using e-mailed inspirations. But I have to admit that being able to do that is a little wacky.

I think you should call him TIME TO ROCK! And look more like this:

I had a similar issue, though not as severe. All my enhancement slots were moved to the left by about one slot. I tried to figure out a way to fix it and couldn't. Ultimately I went to the Mids Discord and was advised to unintstall and reinstall and that worked. Even better, it took less then a couple of minutes -- not painful at all.

[Farsight] and [Mind Link] would be good candidates as well. Back to the OP, I think there are many ATs and combos that can solo Recluse and Ms. Liberty depending on how you play them. But I agree with others that it's probably not worth the hassle or expense of making something just to get HOs solo. Just listen for others running those, ASF, and Hammy raids and/or start your own. Protip: If you are going to run them, try to run them back to back and include the ASF without the extreme challenge levels. You should be able to get 3 HOs in 60-90 minutes. Finally, regarding inspirations, I think that the standard 20 or less you can carry are fine and that e-mail is an exploit that doesn't need to be fixed. I'm not competing with anyone but the game and myself (as opposed to PvPers or Speed Runners) and while I generally don't use e-mail inspirations, I have definitely used them on several occasions to get a rez or whatever was needed to finish a mission after hitting a hard spot.

Attuned IOs can convert within the entire range of that specific set, so you have a lot more possible results. If you are trying to get attuned Basilisk to slot I would suggest straight up buying it from /AH as attuned. If you are looking to convert to Basilisk to sell, I would buy non-attuned, low-level holds or Basilisk recipes. You certainly can convert attuned pieces, but be prepared for a lot more clicks and converters expended if you are going for a specific set. The better option when converting attuneds, in my opinion, is to buy the cheapest ones you can find and convert to anything worth selling, not just a specific item.

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Why are we talking about this now then?