Bionic_Flea

Interesting side effect is that a corrupter can drop an Emp Arrow on a crowd and they don't even notice.

Are you getting any error message? If target's too far or blocked it won't work. If not, not sure why it wouldn't work. Looks identical to mine.

How about just replacing one of the recharge with Gaussian proc? How much of a difference in time are we talking about? Less than 5 seconds, I think.

I'll be your friend DC5! Seriously, hit me up in game. I play almost exclusively on Excelsior but I could always transfer or make an alt.

Hey Hyper, you're a professional techy-type person, do you have any suggestions or advice other than disable or get rid of Avast?

Hmmm . . . maybe it's Windows in conjunction with Avast? I just updated my Windows yesterday, not long before the problem started.

About an hour ago, Avast started blocking the forums completely as a phishing site. Even adding https://forums.homecomingservers.com to the whitelist on my end still blocks it. The only way I was able to get here was to turn off the Avast online security extension in Firefox. I checked Chrome to see if it was a Firefox thing, but I was getting blocked there too. Anything you guys can do on your end to fix the site's reputation with Avast? Any suggestions for me?

Nope. Why should I avoid anything that's beneficial? I may not chase capping fire resistance or soft-capping fire defense on any particular character but I still try to have at least some of one, the other or both.

First, I disagree with your premise. This community, by and large, does care about new players and is very willing to teach them "the ropes". So I can't tell you "why." Second, may I suggest that if you are learning the ropes you may want to join teams instead of leading them. There's nothing wrong with leading teams. In fact, I generally encourage people to do so. But if you are still learning the game it might be helpful to you to see how others play. If you do that, you would find that PUG teams are like that not just for you, but for everyone. People join and then leave for all sorts of reasons -- real life, to play with a friend that just logged on, to join another team doing something else that they'd rather do, whatever. This is especially true when running radio missions. People will generally stay for the entire Task Force or Trial; although even then people do leave for all the reasons listed above and more. To a lesser extent, they might stay together for a story arc just to see the end of the story or get a badge at the end, if any. But radio missions have no built in reason for people to stay. So they don't. If you want teams that stick together longer, you may want to search on the forums for individual servers to find SGs (SuperGroups - sort of like Justice League or The Avengers) or a themed team that sometimes start together at level 1 and play all archers, or all defenders, or fire/rad controllers . . . all sorts of different synergistic teams that play regularly together. Third, if you really think that the world doesn't care and that everyone is rude and abusive, and you aren't just being overly dramatic to make a point, may I humbly and respectfully suggest that you talk to a professional - a doctor, psychologist, even clergy. Someone that can listen and offer better advice than a forum for players of a superhero game.

I'd stick the Reactive Armor Scaling resist proc in Kinetic Shield and +5 the Def/End and the LotG for a slight loss of S/L defense for a 3%+ resist to all but psi. If you +5 some other defense IOs you could probably replace more of the loss. I'm not sure of the slotting on Rune, as we are now stuck at 180/60. But Mids hasn't updated that yet. And I know you'd still want the set bonuses. The problem with Sentinels, I find, is not surviving; it's damaging. So while this might be able to stay standing in your 801s juggling Rune and Overload and Temp Powers, it's not going to be clearing very quickly. To that end, you may want to put Gaussian in Tidal Forces and +5 the other recharge.

One of the greatest things about this game is all the wildly different things you can do -- from beating up NPCs or other players, to base-making, marketeering, role-playing, mission writing, costume creating, min-maxing, power-gaming, speed running, badge collecting, or just exploring the world. There's something for everyone. To me, personally, I consider "playing the game" to be activating powers to defeat critters. Not that I have a problem with anything else on the list and I engage in all with varying degrees of success. But if someone chatted me and asked "what are you doing?" I would only respond with "playing the game" if I was beating up NPCs. Otherwise, I might say base-building or crafting or whatever I might be doing.

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My own poll: - This is a good poll - This is a bad poll - This poll is mostly good - This poll is mostly bad - Poll? What poll?

Yes. I play all things, all zones, switching back and forth at will with the help of Null the Gull! There are no true "heroes" anyway. All the heroes go around punching, shooting, slicing, irradiating and otherwise maiming "villains" who are almost always just standing around.

Looking for a HOTFIX baby this evening. I need a HOTFIX baby tonight. I want a HOTFIX baby this evening. Gotta have a HOTFIX Gotta play CoX tonight.

This is my F3 fire farming, Soft-capped to F/C, AoEing blaster. Bonfire with a KB to KD proc is almost cheating.

I craft all my drops when I also have the right salvage drop. On occasion I may buy salvage if I'm filled with set IO recipes just to make space. I would convert all the ones you listed, except perhaps Gladiators Strike and Experienced Marksman, the 2 PvP sets. None of the other ones will sell for more than 500K and probably much less so you will spend more to craft than to sell. But they can all convert to something worth selling if you are willing to play converter roulette. You can get a few million from the PvP sets, but you can get much more with one of the popular procs from Shield Wall, Gladiators Armor, Panacea, and a bit less for one of the PvP damage procs.

I said don't make me!

Ugh! That sounds like more trouble than it's worth unless you are planning to integrate with Mids or have some kind of build planner of your own. That's a lot of granularity for what I expect will be minimal usage.

Ukase is as crazy as I am . . . then he hits turbo! TO THE MAX!

I agree with Apparition and Snarky. I mostly solo because I work from home and have a family so I sometimes have to leave for a few minutes . . . sometimes more than a few. So I don't impose my crazy schedule issues on anyone and run TFs and other stuff when I know I have a steady block of time. Therefore, I ignore most of the LFG chatter. But if I see a request for help to defeat a boss/EB/AV or whatever and I have the time I will always offer to help. Also: not all advertising is created equal.

I made a TA/AR defender and an AR/TA corrupter recently and mostly dual boxed them and . . . damn! Trick Arrow is a monster now, especially when there are two stacking the buff/debuffs and fire pits of doom. I can only imagine what a team of 8 could do.

HEY KIDS! Don't make me stop this car! Play nice. Be excellent to each other.