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I think more people would take Hasten with these changes. I know I would...

I thought testing of these procs showed that having multiples was not optimal. Has this changed?

I have a character who is a rapper and occasionally he's got to say some stuff. I want to press a key (let's say z) and have him say the bad guy's name and then other stuff in local. Can anyone show me how to do that?

I like this idea, but not sure I like replacing Focus Chi. I would suggest that taking Focus Chi opens up these toggles.

I have been doing 4/8 DA missions with my Savage/SR stalker. I've never really done 4/8 before, but I was trying to T4 my incarnates, so I decided to try it to speed up the vet levels and was shocked how easy it was. I will occasionally take some hits where I have to do a strategic withdrawal before finishing a mob and I have been defeated a couple of times, but overall I do fine. The DA missions are all Banished Pantheon, so not sure how I would fare against other mobs.

Revisiting this thread, sorry for bumping my own thread, but thought I would provide some additional information. My numbers were skewed earlier because I had the PVP tab selected. Here are the updated numbers and build. Instead of providing commentary in this thread I am going to provide cost information, so people can get an idea of how much a build like this costs. I just revamped the build and bought IOs yesterday, so this info is pretty recent. Comments / Goals: Soft-cap Range and S/L without having to use Power Boost Have Fly as a travel power (due to concept) Have a Stealth IO and SS for 65' PVE stealth Try to get enough recharge to use Power Boost often The updated Build Build Cost

Thanks for the tips. I wasn't aware the Hetacomb proc wouldn't proc as much, so I will definitely test that out. Your other suggestions are good as well and I will make those adjustments. I was building for recovery, so I tend to use the Miracle proc. I usually try to get both Numina and Miracle in Health where I can, but just couldn't fit it in on this build. I think I am going to do a second build and remove Hasten and add Inner Will as an Auto. I'll also try and get BoS back in the build, but I want to maintain my soft-cap Ranged and S/L. I'll try some +4/8 DA mission with my current build to check my baseline performance first and then do the second build and see how it stacks up.

That is a serious tease! Any hints?

All true, but I guess the point is that if you wanted the high end gear in SWTOR you had to seriously grind for it. Here if you want the high end gear you have to do what I would consider minor grinding, but I would argue the grind is much less and there are many more options here than in SWTOR. You can do most of the content here on SOs that drop from playing the game or the base IO recipes that drop as well. The term grind is going to be subjective to everyone. IMO the grind here is very limited and you can easily get rewards from just playing the game in whatever manner you choose. Some options are more efficient than others, but all of them will allow you to fully kit out a character.

We have that here though, right? I played SWTOR while CoH was MIA. That was a grind and could take hours daily to be able to upgrade a piece of gear once per week. Here I can play for an hour and feel confident that at the end that hour I have made progress towards my goal. If my goal is a purple IO I can get one in about an hour by running a double Hami, a TinPlex, use the AH, or even some missions / flashbacks / TFs. There is very little grind here. I do the same thing where at level 22 I slot level 25 IOs and use them until I can replace them. I will use converters to make some money and buy some attuned IOs during the leveling process, so that by the time I hit 50 I really only need to focus on the expensive IOs (Purples, PVP, and Winter).

The 4 day weekend is over and I did not (or did I) make my goal. My character has a little over 1200 merits, but I also played other characters and did multiple Hami raids, so if I transfer those merits to my stalker I will have easily made it. Now that I have the merits the question is do I pull the trigger. My character build is complete and I have a little over $100M influence, so I don't really need the merits for IOs or to make influence on the market. I'm just having a hard time buying 15 badges for 1500 merits. I have a few days to think it over, so will hold off for now.

Thanks for all the responses on Spring Attack. I decided to go Weaken Resolve and Laser Beam Eyes instead of Super Jump and Spring Attack as Spring Attack is apparently still bugged. Very fun build and extremely survivable. I have been doing some Ephram Sha missions at +4/8 to get some XP to boost veteran levels to level incarnates and no issues at all. SR is just awesome and the AoE damage is very nice. The endurance issues have mainly gone away due to heavy slotting in Body Mastery and Stamina and when I really need a boost I can pop Ageless. Thanks Frosticus for creating this guide. I doubt I would have ever tried Savage without you championing it. Final Savage / SR Build:

Nice build, not sure about the 3 slotting of ES and slotting SF for damage. I would probably rearrange the slotting on those two. Nice thoughts on Burnout, haven't used it, but 2 HoBs could be wicked. I made some adjustments for my play style. Looking forward to leveling it...

Thank you! I was wondering why the resists were so high and I couldn't figure it out.

Very impressive Magic! This is a really cool tool you are developing for the community and while I haven't used it yet but I am definitely keeping an eye on this thread.

I've been working on a Savage / SR stalker, so I feel your pain on the End issues. I went Body Mastery and took Superior Conditioning and Physical Perfection. I have Panacea, Miracle, 3 Performance Shifters + End, and Numina. It resolved a lot of my End issues, but I was still sucking wind in long fights. Going Ageless for the Destiny slot finally solved my End issues.

Great suggestions, thank you both! I had forgotten you could convert Emps to Merits, so will check that out.

My latest stalker (Savage / SR) recently hit 50. I ended up in Oroborous and looked at the conversion vendor to see what was there and saw that I could get the annual badges for 100 merits each. I knew you could get these badges in May, but had forgotten about it since I usually only go for the 4 passives. Anyway, I have a 4 day weekend, so I decided to give myself a challenge to get 1500 merits to buy these badges for years 1 through 15. My plan is to: Run the SSA arcs for 20 merits each Run Smoke and Mirrors a twice per day for 12 merits each time Try to hit the Hami raids for 80 merits per day (although I have never done it on a melee, so that should be interesting) Figure out what the WST is and run that Any other suggestions? BTW, I hate throwing away merits on badges, but I figured this one time I will do it just for the experience of doing this type of challenge.

I have to ask if you would share your build? I keep building a DP/SR and there are so many good powers that I am having issues slotting everything and hitting softcap.

Another thread is basically saying Weaken Resolve is crap. I just added it to my Stalker, so not sure how good it is going to be. Stating "it is the new Hasten" is quite bold. What makes it so great? It seems like just doing damage would be better.

Thanks for the feedback! I really like CJ, but it toggles off Beast Run which is what I am using for my travel power. I have been toggling CJ and Beast Run when I go in and out of combat, but my defense is now high enough that I often don't bother toggling CJ on, so that is why I was thinking to move out of it. I will likely keep it, but since it looks like Spring Attack isn't so great I can get rid of Spring Attack and Super Jump and see if I can find something better.

I am up to level 37 on my Savage / SR. I am sucking wind, so started building for Endurance for level 38+. I am using Beast Run and various 7.5% speed boosts for travel, so I am debating about getting rid of CJ, SJ, and Spring Attack. Also, I am not sure I need Hasten for this build. I have been running without it to see how it feels and I always have an attack I can use, so I made try a build without it, although it might be hard to find something as useful. Anyone used Spring Attack in combination with Savage Leap? It seems like it could add some AoE carnage.

That is interesting. I had Inner Will for a while during leveling, but I rarely used it because you have to hit a health threshold or be mezzed for it to be available. I would often just forget about it and use a break free or just attack with my T1 and T2 attacks while mezzed. I rarely get mezzed as it is and mez isn't as bad as it was back when it detoggled everything. That being said, moving out Hasten and making it Auto might make it more useful for me.

I was planning on building a Fire / Rad Sentinel, but decided to look at a Fire / Atomic Blaster to see the difference. I must have pulled a build off the forums because this build was already in my Mids folder and it doesn't look like a build I would normally make (it looked much better). Thank you to whoever made the build! I made a few adjustments and this build seems extremely good. I must have moved stuff around for hours trying to figure out optimal slotting. I really wanted to figure out a way to get Rune of Protection, but those options seemed worse. I tried proccing Electron Shackles, but lost S/L resistance and range soft-cap without Alpha Incarnate. No Incarnates: With Agility Core Alpha: If Blessing of Tielekku (2.81% Defense to All) can be re-applied after the first time I could move the Alpha to something else. Anyway, the defense and resistance looks extremely good to me. I have never played Fire or Atomic before, so before I head off into the unknown I thought I would solicit some opinions. I'm looking for a build review and if I am missing something. Is my recharge okay? Is Endurance going to be okay? What is a good attack chain? Mids recommendation is: Fire Blast --> Electron Shackles --> Fire Blast --> Electron Shackles --> Fire Blast. Should I replace Fire Blast with Flares? Is Rain of Fire skippable? From reading the forums it doesn't seem like this power get a lot of love. Thank you for taking a look.

I guess this puts paid to the argument from the farmers in the other thread.