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Try to get on trials run by confusion and oklahoman. These are very good PUG i trial leaders. Be honest with them about how new you are. Ask for guidance for me the simplest i trial is BAF. After that Lamda. TPN is very simple but takes a few runs to figure out. Same with Keyes. After that they are all odd in their own ways. You will just have to learn them and find what you like. TinPex is one of the most difficult for me. This is due to the speed and the complexity. Like driving at 100. Real easy to screw up

the abandoned labs (one in port oakes, but there are more...) that you can craft at are fun the first time

Been setting up a Rad/Fire/Mu Brute farmer on my alt acct this weekend. Now i like to badge and i need merits to convert all those farmed recipe drops. I also love TFs. So i joined an Operative Renault. this is not a well known TF. But it is very straightforward. I have a TF build for my farmer. Pretty heavy armored and as well balanced as i can make it. there were a LOT of deaths. None mine. I had already 50d this thing and my TF build has three full purple sets and a bunch of other goodies. I think i used a green inspiration once or twice. People (especially the Blaster) kept jumping toward the mobs and grabbing agro. I have no taunt. I have two!! Damage auras. If you give me one minute all the mobs will attack just me. 58 minutes. Towards the end they were following me. I only said something once mid way through. “I have two damage auras, if i go in first everything attacks me”. You need to say this? anyways i had a hoot got badge and merits. They even thanked me at the end.

In my opinion this is also highly dependent on the AT and powersets. A SS/Invul Brute will be very good on SOs only. I have run them. But a Titan Weapon Invul would be a bit crazy without I/O support. Some ATs are very different with an I/O build. (Dominators...)

I am a “power gamer” in that i enjoy high end builds i actually like the complex formulations required to make the most of a build with ED as an extra consideration. When you have a good build where everything just ‘clicks’ it is such a nice feeling

Not precisely. A lot of my builds have at least one very rare (purple) set. I need to fill those holes as i level. I am also the type who will solo all of redside stopping experience as i go. That toon usually needs multiple builds as certain sets are not available until level 27 while i mostly agree with your statement i just happen to run a crapton of the exceptions to it lol finally if you lose a ton of set bonuses due to running something like a posi it is almost always no issue. The tons of inspirations you can carry tend to make up for it

Things that make you go WTF??? I am not sure how you build. You mention having lots of enhancer slots left over... so, if you put sets in that give global recharge and a few other things then you can two slot 50+5 inventions on Haste and be at perma or near it bery often. That is pretty standard across a lot of builds. I would need to see one of tour builds to understand your theories

You aint got what it takes.

confused. i trust Apparition (did you let me down? sigh) lol. But Hedgefund seems to make sense. As I stated in my original post. This game confusing lol.

I played SS/Invul Brutes using just SOs and 90% SO builds for over a year on live. You dont have to sell me. Just now I can afford to slap chrome and show lights on the rig.

Yeah, no. Instead of softcapping S/L I softcapped Ranged Defense. Ice/Ice/Cold has the singular ability to sit 40+ range and be 98% as effective (statistic made up on the spot, tm, pat.. pend.) as if it added a melee attack. That is giving perfect circumstance to blapping. In actuality without the need for repositioning for cones and getting a strategic view of where you want AoEs I would argue it is 105% as effective as adding a "optimal" melee power.

so many things do not count in AE....does death?

I actually kept it the way it is. My "main" is a Dark/Dark Blaster. For theme, vamp. But the Ice/Ice/Cold is so much easier for me. In very tough environments (+4 ITF, TinPex etc) I follow a Brute or Tank in and let them be the meat shield. Old school style. In any regular difficulty this thing is bulletproof and freezes everything it sees, fast.

i tried ice temp first, have to say the ice ice cold works slightly better (for me) the extra AoE slows are my go to and help keep those that survive the killer frost confused and slowed (and in the DoT)

Vet levels do a few things. Most are ego stroking. They do tell another player how long you have played that character. Unless it is a farmer, which can crank vet levels in hours and might be crap to team with unless alt built. They net badges. ooooh shiny. Vet levels give a moderate amount of incarnate components. especially in the early vet levels. this dies off and finally stops at vet 99. So vet levels technically help you shift. but they count for squat. tier 3 your Alpha Incarnate. 1 vet shift....errr incarnate level shift 50+1 until you are exemped to 44, then you are...44 well, if you exemp to 48 i think you are still bounced down, but was mostly talking 45+ TFs tier 3 your Lore and Destiny. each of these is a separate +1 incarnate level. that ONLY count in Incarnate Trials. There is a temporary inspiration available from Luna in Ouro and through Auction House. It is expensive. it grants a very short +1 Incarnate level, which will stack on the others. This is useful in very hard incarnate trials. I regularly play with a league that uses them once a week to do Magisterium badge attempt Really Hard Way. The whole league is 50+4. It can go really brilliantly when the stars align, which they usually do. But the danged Inspiration is 30 incarnate threads...

Ice ice cold bump

I have a decent ice ice cold. Thought i had put it up a couple months ago. I will again when i get back home

Yeah. On brutes you pretty much need to drop toggles and wander up to a GM or enter a 4/8 And wander into a group. Otherwise it takes too long

You need to learn about ED. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has a public service video for men with ED. Youtube - "Enhancement Drug" Enhancement Drug - SNL - YouTube

Yeah I think it does. dusty memory THis is my new 4th July project. My alt account farmer. (Skulz on Excelsior) I had an alt acct SS/Fire farmer, but the danged rage crash screws my farming rhythm. (why the F would anyone spell a word that way....I have to look it up each time) So I made a Rad/Fire/Mu (which I have on my main account) I 50d it, transferred all my Emps to it. (191) Slotted in a Farm Build. Farmed until I had my first three Incarnates open. T3 alpha, started building others. Slotted a full TF alt build onto it. Ran some 50 stuff, a Mantis, a Tarikoss (this guy is a pure villain...at least for now) Now I am rolling into Accolades. Will work a bit more on Incarnate stuff after that. Been a good weekend.

So I am trying to work on my debt badges (villain, specifically to get accolade) I have been killed on Monster Island. i have been killed in paper missions, etc. No debt accrues. O debt showing. What is going on? I did just run all bank missions for 1st time and have "Life Insurance" do i just delete this thing? deleted life insurance. still no debt. is it eating patrol exp? After 1 death monster island 2 death Grandville paper deleted Life Insurance 3 death GV paper....grrrr 4 death GV paper got badge, accolade. Danged this game can keep you guessing.

You guys pay no attention to the lore it was derived from? All those drunk Scotsman have claimed for centuries to have seen Nessie on land....just sayin'

I got up and did the back pack dance when I read this! Shame. Bad person. Shame. True villainy does not always involve tying Nel to the railroad tracks. It is the small things. Like getting the dogs to howl all night. Favorite vampire trick. Petty? Maybe, but darned effective.

I solo every arc redside about once per year on a completionist toon. Stopping experience and doing every arc and side mission. Havent decided what to go with yet next run. Last run started in oct and ended in feb

This is one of the main reasons I never solo Blueside. You cannot complete everything, or if you do it is a miracle and requires days of research. Redside. Stop Exp. Do all contacts. Sometimes have to open a contact. Blueside....start guessing.