Scarlet Shocker

I suspect he was making an attempt at sarcasm.

Crey Power Armor I seem to recall there's a few variants

This is a stupid analogy, not least because a movie is not just about the action and we have zero input into it - and the input I do have in game outside of the action has no bearing on the power set I've chosen.

I love KM I know it's imperfect and clunky and there are big problems with it - it is slow but I love the look and feel of it. I rarely ever play melee and KM is the only tank I've ever felt worth keeping. Not only do I keep it but I play it often. So is it really that bad? It might suck in comparison to other melee sets but if it's fun to play is it really dreadful? Performance is not everything.

I'm actually a big fan of knockback. I don't think referring to it is bad at all. I much prefer it to knockdown almost every time.

your mom

there's the Police Drones which freeze and teleport ne'er-do-wells to the Zig. Something like that might work well

<HORB> I am making air sounds at you because you are an idiot

That AV you just spent an hour soloing!

Talk about a hard day at the orifice!

I think you may be onto something with this. Or even when they are disintegrated they actually... well... you know... disintegrate

You're taking the piss. You must be crey crey 🫠

Does Veng work on pets? My understanding was that it did not.

This is useful and enlightening and I clearly don't understand Procs as well as I thought I did Are you suggesting I should load my health with the Procs and eschew the set bonuses? I took Thunderstrike in that build because although I'm going for a "Stand Off" build I'm very aware that even the best defences will be breached at some stage and I have no meaningful CQC damage. Kick, GSA and the other prestige melee attack (name eludes me right now becuase I've never liked it) are not enough when the manure impacts the thermantidote! Most of those KBs came almost naturally in the build. I didn't purposefully factor them in but I will take on board what you suggest and refactor.

Please explain what you like so much about it. I would be geuinely interested. What is it about your playstyle that makes it work so well for you?

Yes, that would be easy. Just scrap it and move on, start afresh with something new. But here's why I haven't yet done that: Firstly I want to see if it improves once I approach lvl 50. Will it get better or is it really just that boring? Secondly it's pretty competent at what I'm trying to do with it and my buddy and I started at level 1 and we've been enjoying our regular weekly team up. If I now turn round and say "Hey this sucks I'm starting again" we now have to decide if I PL to the 30something we are now or he starts anew and so far as I know he's very happy on his toon. That is incredibly unfair on a fellow player and we're enjoying where we've been so far. So the decision I make impacts our team probably negatively. I will probably get him to 50, then I will be able to judge fully whether or not it's worth keeping. It may be I find 50, and delete it or perhaps just put it in the box with all the other bad 50s that almost never see the light of day. I can't, at this stage, imagine me expending huge energy getting it IO'd and Incarnated out but who can say?

Early 40s at present and he's struggling a little. That's partly because the progressive build isn't great so may need a resepct prior to 50 - still fun though 🙂

Does it use up End when pushing enemies back in PVE? I think it used to

Thanks for your guidance, chaps. It's been useful I've come up with this which is a lot better I feel. Still some pressure on End but some blues and purples and I should be right as rain. Datachunk for those who wish: |MBD;24028;1478;1972;BASE64;| |G9tdACwKbOcVO6rNQp7JNcb5lUQp0rWn6kTEh89+QGLbqaKpU9VsOiLXm0Wnq68ztlI| |ne94G7EvZFDVVy6p2QfTqmuDqAW3NxkQkykdSye/3v3xnI3SUioxQL4UmLLIJlfk7L7| |0rSnX/oNJmN60rilC1H1+6Qwoc1s5T7w5tV2JxSHDgHTgk8B8xXU89jK2QnPxNZgvLM| |GDpnWMRORW9WPrFfUuY1vOxmcZxAclvkPB+502/AvghjUhISnImyOPEf6S8SPcNbw7h| |4IY0QcLnANbdJ33chqhElO4xgXhK50hI26iAF1r5pJcER8MWU0kWQ9LfVsOWs4qPqcy| |K9fgTFCxlEo4XLOchL6yUPlOdgN5zLm9+Z5fYmeIE/A0DtDaXq1a4UPWJLze2Rgvh5M| |d456w5HcTPaeLm4NvONqWxuXF98ksGTmAlwUckWjsHF2u4b3skp36OaelsYednQLGcK| |ZfBmfno0op41StF3Du6Yp2jOS938IErZecXSPEovxj0esmsh/4l+/2Feh86R4KTSeFS| |wUDll2qcGocGSy6vk7/HunmcDH0W03ZJ73Q46Z1CCDjwPVbCtZwCtSZz1Pdw8uPR0+B| |3uoCXHU/8Hf8gh903uwgqCgf/yI7gQAE5yBysJTAiAmGZSQpB71qab6Tkph3SZd2ci+| |XTTXyO5tII+hob6gKPPK+pUfgn9LuIofMYDAvZ/NKt2Eyyq8P3W3skse05COzIesAlj| |tkjttW5KgyZdUi9QSk4Dro891BcE4GBCWweZGt+UuOahxbGCJPAbT5aNNKM3R6XHS1Y| |l0in+fqfCSat0CXsFndxvH9Jpr6tBKzYfCjz/203RsmmJXAMGxzDv9AY2k1rRSJirkr| |ibDNF22Hb4MjnN18BrMp7YOKIfk3XmYiq7ewYyctbfB2daksFwHIWPz0wQcQChkR8oI| |gcS8CYeI3yds7F99qvV3ELbDbYr4/povanZqEOmVfvMCrLorkLhyGO6xqCr5Zmq1xpd| |kNHj+jdrKla82a829oUDWHuZVz0LBf2/lLfCdwY292+e5wTOPO9hlNjatmla04i2cyT| |NGHgxfH+V7j2NNcEl7/rYNJP2gMLr/mzjRnvHkwLPccZjK7M5rU6sIpef+/l04Ej0q/| |bGQMLUPDIrwv72Lfp7NMO1zicvN10qw5Jjx9vRrAOUFySzWe3DsWHorv0HmJ8RXp+dY| |FEeOlAATmUsZ7AiAgb401QFrTztyhZych9YB/HIDAHaznseWVIqt3e5/bEbsVI+QzcW| |NszFjlQClfUlHTM38GlricV1qot12U6nvvWrcxkwIvjPWnvO07SgaiwC3neUjRVitOq| |4Fqn8PkbBc+FiaviKtjNirt+Wk5WkYXJhYbZUmvOi3/B8w4JVAcmjvn4oTvT1BP95Xu| |fNeWbHWnBVbUUtcziUzJQQP5cwJD4GuOF7SYkc7b8eeZMbXFV7GZV2169h3oWFNWjm9| |d6tXkDznWtzfa2hx7JQnxpE8CL4+19fLVkkvMDwtgavTLd9FNtK7CVoIg97rDV2JHlX| |O99BSO4GbrC3jgU18ludh7LHV+9ot4FK1S9XnNWDgOiEPYSewWMiaDQvTLguTm+ijlg| |O4fsZjvZk5yexGazwtabkBZsB5dPlUIXPcIxgq696gMeHI1fcFzBX5H1BGPnVeNt5go| |2E5hJUMSerLDSqK7ESvHIVkBVhny4PU6Ekgs+0Av4vPLO9slVIvRjBMPhBOp/FIlbxG| |S3dpy8UAcAos2I6ig85nxmep8y1TY0X73bNyP6KDb1WAn/vTV/k/rDnrf6C/b5n5PJH| |rWFeuC9tCN/er+JYT1N+whKtrEAhUQwGCtQTAQHfJZt39uOPkj420Gypv2pLp3mevAb| |yFflJrnA/2RA8FZsxZ9960Mr3YScBWwJSRR7vdiM7uxsyY17gNCKY5ryYfp5rqGd2XZ| |mQQgHKNfUxXqYhBWOcgTdVq6+Zwc=|

Thanks. I'm struggling to open this. Could you please post the data chunk?

I have never in my life advocated merging shards and understand this. Please reread.

Whilst I agree with your post entirely the issue there is that 20 seconds after somebody works out how to do it, then it's done that way forever and it becomes boringly easy. If it doesn't get done boringly easy, then it doesn't get done at all because something else much easier and even more boring can be done instead

I get the OP's point but I understand the Devs' motivations here (I think) in that we are typically a smaller community than we were on live and some of our shards have much much smaller populations than on live. The only solutions to that is to either merge shards - which would result in huge upset to many players and be a logistical nightmare (and probably wouldn't solve the fundamental issue) or to make it easier for tiny populations to win the hardest content. On Excel it's easy because getting a big team is relatively simple - on Indom or Runion far less so. No it's not ideal, but a compromise needed to be made and this seems a reasonable one. But I also think OP needs to think seriously about what he considers to be "signature" powers.

Ask Karl Wallender

I misread this title and wondered if it wasn't going to be something about Enkidu Now I just want to know who blarfed in my obsolete bin