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So unless I am wearing really squeaky shoes Hide is not working the way I thought it would. I had assumed it was "Invisible" until I attacked. There are level 1 minion snakes on Mercy that are like "What the F you looking at hidey stalker?" and come over and attack me....

ITF is not "end game" now. It is end game adjacent. Same high rent, less cool stuff.

It would have been a veey different game if we has an option to pacify Marauder (even briefly) with control powers. Especially if it did not screw the badge. Just open a one or two second window for league damage with level 4 mez or something

For Dominators accuracy and +mobs this is largely not an issue. They tend to slot for global recharge. A LOT of sets that give global recharge also give global accuracy, and not just purple sets. There is a lot of sets out there that follow that pattern. What kills it for control types is the trials. Name some fights where you really get to use control effectively. BAF, Lambda? Keyes? TPN? Maybe a little inside the buildings. Magisterium? lol. Maybe some of the Underground stuff. The Devs used very choreographed setups to ensure we do not just control and burn stuff. So....

Yeah, I went Dark/Invul. One of my first Brute beast builds on live. Very good times. This will be a very slow crawl Redside, doing every contact/arc/side mission. So...the build is not going to be primary importance for a while. Pre 20 everyone is lucky to cram a couple slots on things lol. I will be using Hyperstrike's template and the ideas from the pinned Stalker guide to throw together something Tanky yet Stalkery. I will post it after I make a first pass and see what can be tuned.

I would say that at incarnate level Dom and Trollers usefulness drops off quite a bit. The damage they give up for control is not coming back. The control is either useless or not necessary in a lot of high end content Sentinels and Crab Spiders invested in a multi faceted AT and in end game that suffers a bit where pure damage is king. Other squishies are propped up by league buffs with no investment in armor

I do respect Monos King for moderating a lively thread. Good job i have moved on as he stated, correctly although now the whole thread has me scratching my head. Because seriously, how freaking hard dies it need to be? Challenge yourself! I see people doing crazy stuff like +4 ITF with death being auto quit. I am doing (and have done) solo entire redside projects. I farm (which is hard for me, too much like work). Is the game too hard? I am lost. What the hell does that even mean?

I just started a Stalker. This is to solo every contact Redside. Every story arc, every mission, until the contacts stop talking to me. Everything. Will I be hacked into little pieces or explode from space lasers as I play? Who knows. Normally I do this on Brutes. I never play Stalkers. I honestly do not think it will be tough. Not as far as wondering if it can be completed on +0/x1 anyways. It will be long. I will learn something about Stalkers. Will it be too easy? Let me just ask you. Have you lost what little of whatever sanity you started with that you have left? It is a video game. The hardest part is the time investment. And putting up with crazy people on the internet since it is a mmorpg. You do the stupid things, kill some stupid NPCs, read some bad dialogue and move on. It is a giant fidget toy. Barring someone coming into my room and serial killing me or aliens hitting my brain with a laser I do not expect this to be that tremendously difficult. My job. That is hard. Lifting weights. (my other hobby) that is hard. This is .... a VIDEOGAME. I swear you people are gonna give me apoplexy.

I use a full set of Gaussian on things like mr ranged damage dealers. I go for softcap ranged a lot. It wont be an issue here. I am building a Dark/Invul Stalker. I will use Hyperstrikes template. With ideas from the pinned Stalker guide on how to slot. So I will not be putting more than 69.9% recharge in Build Up. This character is my new solo all Redside character for this year. My first non Brute run. I appreciate all the advice. I will probably be asking quite a few Stalker questions in the next couple weeks.

Welk half these people want to nerf rewards as well. So they want stuff to be tougher and give less loot

I am no haxor but i heard the closest you can get is a button that runs through one command in sequence 1st power 2nd power 3rd power (or choice/activation) but in this game no binds to multiples. That is my understanding

I like the sideways idea. You pick...cookie cutter judgement or YOUR judgement. Cookie cutter lore or YOUR lore. etc. Then again I would love to see more power granted by opening up the last incarnate slots. I also have promoted the idea of awarding an extra enhancer slot for 100 vet levels, 500 vet levels etc....

I too, am on my first cup of java. But here goes. I solo Redside about once a year. Every story arc, every side mission, on every contact. I stop experience to do so. It is a labor of masochistic love. The hate Redside has is palpable, and I revel in it. I have done this Goldside (to 20) twice on live. Never on HC. It was masochistic, but there was no F-ing love. Agh I hate politics in video games. I have never completed this task Blueside. Couple reasons. The writing. Damn. I have been dead drunk and wrote better than that (if you clean up the typos) But beyond that (and FINALLY to the point) it is nearly impossible to pencil out a route to do a completionist blueside arc. Because contacts give the same storylines as other contacts and so are "choice activated" but without research (a LOT) you cannot tell which do that. Which contacts are actual unlocks, how to do them. It is near impossible to complete Blueside as is. So, you want to "hide" contacts/story arcs/rewards/souvenirs in there? Please. write it up carefully. Because the three people that eventually find it and play it will really appreciate it.

Sounds to me like the "Sentinel" version of incarnates. Look, I always want more theme. I run a Dark/Dark Blaster main even though I prefer a Ice/Ice Blaster most of the time. But if you let me customize a Judgement (type of damage, AoE choice Ranged/PB/Rain, secondary effect) I could see knocking it down to 80% damage of the generic version. Anything less than that I would be no way. 90% is prob fair, but I am willing to compromise down to 80% for the sake of 'perceived fairness" (I also do not want to do days of math and scientific samples analyses...after geeks like Arcana parse it maybe we could adjust....) So more themed Incarnate choices? Yes!!! errrrr....wait a minute. I still havent won the lottery and do not have a million to donate to the HC staff. Who the F is going to do all this work? This is the basic problem (besides the side conversations and inherent disagreements) with this thread. Where the F is it going? We are having a long design discussion like we are sitting at a corporate meeting looking at next seasons products. It is not happening. We are churning through concepts that have almost no chance of meaning anything. The best we could possibly hope for is a Dev will read this, take away some idea that might affect the smallest decision they make about something in a few months. small. lot of effort for real small.

No we have not look i pointed out that having SOs available at level 2 from vendor means squat. I gave details why. No one hears. Might as well be a homeless person standing by the freeway with a sign that says obey the speed limit. also i can point out that limiting merits and other rewards from content will do squat. Will also fall on deaf ears. People seem to think that reducing rewards will make everyone happy. Does not matter that earning rewards that way is already the LEAST efficient way to earn in the game we are dreadfully pitiful at this discussion. Which is why we are doomed to repeat it endlessly

so global recharge has no effect on this proc? sorry should have asked the question better in the original post...

My 50 rad/brute was opening AH between each mission to restock half insp tray with medium purps oranges reds and blues. What did i win in that bet?

SOs for level 2s are hardly game breaking. I regularly play toons i stop at level 4 and 9. They were fully SOd BEFORE the recent changes. SOs wre available in those level ranges through DFB and can be accumulated then put in SG base until needed. You only have so many enhancer slots and characters play entirely different pre 10 to post 10. Please stop being over dramatic. Normally that is my forum job and i am getting a little tired of peeps on my turf seriously though i have never read so many excuses to punish players with mechanics couched in technical and supposedly concerned terms in one day. My freaking head is about ti fall off. But it really boils down to a bunch of people want the game HARD MODE for EVERYONE all the time.

I just ran a Synapse on my 50 rad/fire brute. Took 64 minutes with PUG. I was never in danger but it was not easy nor boring. I worked for those merits and badge. A lot if the talk in this thread seems aimed at making the content ‘more challenging’ and even decreasing rewards or decreasing what you can buy with rewards. respectfully, to everyone who wants to crank up the difficulty on the rest of the community and decrease rewards do that they can feel personally challenged. SHOVE OFF

I am looking to try a Dark Melee Stalker. Would Dark armor or Invulnerability be stronger?

I saw a bit of info in the Stalker guide about using Gaussian. It said not to have over 70% recharge in build up or you will get less than a 90% chance to have Gaussian fire. Does that include global recharge?

I am not much for killing GMs except for badges. But they are easy merits. I may start checking KR and see if there are 2-3+ at any regular times. Then form a team and clean. I need me some converters for my farmer lol.

I am more irritated than entertained. I lump you firmly in the category of people that post in LFG looking for a team to join a Reichsman TF and then crank it to +4 after everyone joins. Maybe I am wrong, but I sense a certain predisposition towards one side of "should we change this?" in your writing. That you firmly have declined to own as your goal. You are entertaining the discussion. I suppose I am involved. I do not feel entertained. To me the divide is as wide as the ability to do this thing. How would a volunteer staff who are already working projects to the best of their ability dramatically alter the game. As an experiment. To see if it goes well. Why would they do it? Because someone started a thread that entertained discussion? Homecoming gave us back a large chunk of who we want to be. You are entertaining a discussion about a huge change to that. I am firmly in the camp of Noooooo. I think I am done posting here for a while. Good evening.

Redside, bestside.

I am insane a good 60% of the time. Tracking reality is hard for me. Did something happen?