Snarky

it's hard to take sides here. everyone is an arsehole.

Wow. You really made me glad i never watched the star wars sequels. (except the one where they stole the Death Star plans… which i guess was a prequel? Very good)

I kill stuff with superpowers. Which gets me MORE superpowers. and you had me at “kill stuff”

new build (just hit 50!) Snarky's Brain - Blaster (Psychic Blast - Mental Manipulation) v2.01.mbd

If we are discussing enhancements

Fire is the only primary i can get away with this. The huge dps allows me to play like a Brute even though have no armor and little defense. Dead things do not attack back. When mistakes are made (rare but happens) there is Rise of Phoenix. I do not take melee attacks. It is just out of pure disrespect. Why do i need to walk up to you to kill you? I can do that from 80’ away. But the toon just runs into every fight. Preferably first. No Tank, no Brute etc. i have joined fire farms with him and not died. ( small data set but it worked for half hour!). That had tanks/ brutes but i regularly jumped to next spawn first. Did not die

My fire blaster has a deep strategy. Aim buildup jump i to the largest spawn NUKE jump into next spawn incarnate NUKE. Look at large spawn 60 ft away drop both AoE Rains. Start ST and fireball anybody that is alive and running towards me and not away. It is subtle but it works

WoW fails it this both ways. They create a world, which as usual is based on the epic actions of others. standard, and a fail. Then every character in WoW is THE "speaker of the horde" "first alliance member to discover" etc. It's like going to Disneyland and paying $200 to be "Mickey's best friend ever" only to walk through the gate and see 4000 people with the same hat "Mickeys Best Friend Ever" the Well is ill decsribed and out of the way enough not to bother me

Squirrels. The squirrels ate the phlogiston. Now the only way to get power ( and a decent cup of cocoa) is to boil the squirrel crap and drink it. Then you become more powerful. Squirrels…

I have run these a few times with members of the old Cosmic Council crew and Task Force Junkies. Speed. yes, it seems impossible, but it was quite efficient. I followed, and as usual have no clue. It does make me see why a lot of Cosmic took off. once you start memorizing Shadow Shard TFs you are approaching escape velocity....

Great. Points thanks. I will relook at Tornado. I will prob keep all ST range. I love to plink from afar. Tactics will get the end redux and Drain Psyche will get the Hamis!!! Great points. I like Force of Nature because it gives End help in long tough battles. I am thinking vs an AV drain psyche will give me little end help but will debiff the AV some, while Force Nature will prop up my weak end bar.

i've looked at a lot of this and come up with a plan. Still in mid-40s. Drain Psyche is a bitch to land sometimes, and it takes away from the see spawn nuke spawn fire Blaster solution. You GOT to drain. You almost need a tank in there 1st. But for late game TF my build has Epic Force Mastery Force of Nature. This will be up every 7 minutes or so for major battles. The crash will be more dealable with than on any melee. Snarky's Brain - Blaster (Psychic Blast - Mental Manipulation) v1.01.mbd

They are not! They are fans of my greatness. They come here fir wisdom, the type that only I provide.

I would like to report this thread. For obvious reasons.

Indeed, once again Ukase and (what is left) of Cosmic Council saved Snarky's butt. Ukase ran the Karsis and a Hess. My OCD grinds me if I do not complete TF/SF/Trials in mostly level order as I go. But I worked 55 hours this week, so.....

I post in LFG. I need a karsis, anybody got it open? I get a tell. "i did the contacts in hollows, i can do that" minute passes. "Will you run one" "sure" I get an invite. leader "you want to just do this or get a team?"' snarky (blaster) "I got no stealth and there is the boss fight" leader "friend me and i can do this after MSR" .... you just wasted 5 minutes of my life. Why, why why would i want you for a friend?

I agree, but the OP wanted pools and epics/patrons

Are we zeroing in on a number? Or at least a set of rules? If we disregard the madness of counting the different picks in primary/secondary/pool/patron/epic and just focus on WHICH sets are taken my mind starts to settle. Then you have the standard A x B x C x D. Except pools are odd in that you can pick 1 to 4. Which suggests the pool multiplier will be not be #pool but #pool+3. Likewise epic/patron is #epic/patron+1. For none. You cannot take no pool. Even if you take all primary secondary and epic/patron you still have one power pick left. so the method would be (Archetype Primary) x (Archetype Secondary) x (Pool+3) x (Epic/Patron+1) - invalid choices processed for each Archetype and then summed. If you want to talk about the variations of each power pick within the sets I will tap out. I like math but the navel gazing gets stupid at a certain point, and pretty sure that is the point in this discussion.

It immediately went through my head. And some Skyhawke posted it first…and better. Damn.

https://forums.homecomingservers.com/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=83509&key=d663df6e0b358c96218015a8731b6e65

at this point madness consumes me looking at the conversation. @Scarlet Shocker did indeed mention pool powers. but are we counting each different pick within a power as a different unique "combo" or just "some from this" and "some from that"?

None…funny. Also, now they are talking about various only take this or that so if we are talking actual power choice combinations and not possible primary/secondary/epic it is about to get maddeningly more complicated.

Blaster is 15 primary 15 secondary and 10 epic/patron. 15x15x10 = 2250. is this some sly way to get Snarky to figure the entire number because people are too stupid to do math?