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I have a base where I store a few enhancers (cough) But even if you have NO enhancers stored and you see a market spike like this.... 1) Find a cheap PvP enhancer on market (relatively, look around for the low end) 2) Buy that 3) Convert in type (PvP) until you get a Panacea 4) Convert in set until you get the one you want This strategy is how to NEVER pay top dollar for items.

There are entire threads directed at each of these subjects. They are deep. "Softcap" defense (in normal play) is 45% meaning 95% attacks (barring other effects) miss. Those two brackets I put in are both pagelong explanations. Use some Board Search Fu!

I have grown to despise my once loved SS due to rage crash. Mainly because there are only so many backstory ideas that have manic depressive episodes. Hulk, however, is THE poster boy

I know someone who has hundreds of billions in email at 999 million. He was chasing a few people like Yomo who have a ceazy amount I find anything in the neighborhood of 2 bill is infinite unless i alt madly for months and just build new 50s. Running a 50 earns a ton.

there is only one badge. the one you are trying to get right now. zen and the tao of ocd

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Yeah. This is a matter of flavor and numbers. Built correctly the Dark Dark Brute, pound for pound, is one of the flat out meanest creatures walking. But….it is not for newbs or idiots. No offense meant. Just setting an expectation level You have to understand HOW Dark works. Dark takes the standard CoH Def>Res>Heal and puts that right in the trash compactor. Then dares you to say shit about it. Dark uses AoE stun and AoE fear to mezze the nobodies. This gets rid of a ton if annoying incoming attacks. If you do not take both those toggles do yourself a favor and quit reading. Dark Dark uses to hit debuffs to also reduce incoming attacks. Dark has non suppressed stealth. When they cant see you eating their friend twenty feet away you can call that defense. So Defense strategy set Now, your big bads ignore most of that. Soooo… some of the best resists in the game. Do not neglect energy resistance. It can be built into a nice neighborhood. I have Tanked Rom on a Master Run because i have energy resistance BEST heal in the game. Available every few seconds. Top of my head i think mine sits at 8 sec recharge. From .0001 health to 100%. Dark Melee provides very good ST damage. Bolstered by Dark armor damage aura there is decent AoE as well. since a Dark Dark Brute is rarely killed you will win any and all DPS races. the most spectacular tacoing of my Dark Brute i recall was a shadow shard TF. A teammate got stuck in a crossroads in a cave map with tons of big spawns all around. My overconfident butt went in. Those F-ing eyeballs ignore steath. So part of my “defense” was gone. Then…..oof. Rikti, some Nemi and a very few Longbow Wardens do the same. You need to learn the groups and know the odds. Only bet on winning hands. that is the cliff notes. If you dig around the Tank and Brute Forums you will find my builds for each AT. They differ from how most people build the armor. A lot of people do not take all the toggles. Yeah, I do not think highly of that. A lot of people go “oh, I cannot have good energy resistance” Yeah, I do not think highly of that. Enjoy the ball of hate that is Dark Dark

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yeah, and after about twenty minutes of ToT leagues i want to take a drill to my head

I actually ignore it because only people that grind Aeon endlessly (and their AH "woeshippers") ever se those options. F that. If I play non stop for six months and that gives me a handful of Prismatics I leave....

Blasters have come a loooong way. The changes to AR (just made) are awesome. Once you learn the trick of the "hidden first strike" build up it just gets better. And the Full Auto now is wide and cleans like a room sweeper.

The ragdoll mechanics in this game are still some of the best out there

and he is DAM tough in a "fair" fight. Me and two friends tried to run a +4 MLTF. They were drunk (on discord) and I am sober and thinking we are going to flop at Hami. It was a smooth and very fast run. Until Hero 1. Every time we got him down about 30-40% health the F-er used some Dull Pain type power and his health went right back up to full. Just fighting him took 10-15 min. Surprisingly the only hard part about that run.

I would help. But I have been putting off yard work.

A definitive beatdown by a Hero = Blue Shield basically murdering the kid. What...am I speaking Urdu here?

The biggest change in characters is the Clockwork King. Who went from a stalkery youth with superpowers to a (after a definitive beatdown by a hero) brain in a jar robo-chomo

Even though I have a metric crapton of math training I am NOT going to drag it out for stuff like this. Not for me, you, or anyone. I use the "common sense" math training. This is where you look at the big picture and say "screw the details" If you are solo, could be a toss up. Could depend on the AV/Boss and their particular power sets. So, unless some uber geek who has done intricate testing (math analysis is not enough, you gotta test. Just ask a certain submersible captain. Oh wait, nvm) But there are threads of people who test powers and if you want to explore their work, have at it. For solo, I would go with feel and fun. If you are on a team... What makes more sense? Not hard. A little extra DPS from one person... ORrrrrrr A Res debuff EVERYONE can take advantage of? Yeah, it's like that. And not a single derivative needed...

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it is a little involved and yet real simple. pause character design 1)find the volume for your comp. 1b)turn that down 2)put on tunes you like from 2a)radio, earbuds, stereo, w/e you got 2b) turn that up continue character design

This. I play on a very large screen (TV as monitor) and use a strange key setup (razer tarterus) I have to have all 3 expanded out to get the Razer to recognize the keybinds. Then I just leave that to one side and have 5-7 trays out around the middle bottom of the screen. Two are keyed to the ones opened in the orig bar and are my attacks.. The third over there is stuff like reveal and other utilities. the others are incarnate powers, temp powers, you name it. Some characters have keybinds beyond the tarterus and that when the larger number of trays come out. Ice Blast has 3 keys for each AoE rain. 1) center on me 2) center on target 3) get a reticle to drop normal. I have never run a MM for long but that would be insane.

Well aware. The first time (how many years ago...?) I tried to make a Longbow gone bad I discovered you cannot ever be satisfied with that "mask" It works for all colors but white, where it looks like instead of a pullover mask you have smeared white grease paint on your bald head. Thinly.