SlimPickens

I think everyone who plays SS can agree, no matter what the solution is, the main issue right now is the set is nigh unplayable from a fun and game flow standpoint. You crash, you have ZERO DAMAGE for 10 secs where you basically get to just pop heals and end boosts to keep your toggles from dropping, and its flat out bad gameplay. The penalties are far too high for rages upsides. -def ruins all that hard work you put into getting softcapped on positional or types def. -end plus, god forbid if hasten crashes at the same time... mean you likely detoggle and die, or at best have to sit there for another minute plus retoggling everything. But he real kicker is ZERO damage... this is a damage dealer, not being able to do what you do for 10 secs (or more because the more rech you have the more crashes you get) every 90 secs just destroys gameplay flow and makes for a supremely boring powerset. Before the rage "fix" it was still bad, and the same issues applied, but now with the triple penalty its just terrible and not even worth enduring anymore, which before was endurable because the performance was at least better. The only thing rage is good for anymore is living up to its name, because it makes me rage at the keyboard while i sit there staring at my pixels not punching anything for 10 secs every minute or so. but in a gaussians build up proc world, rage just cant compete any longer, and furthermore, the poor mechanics make playing it too tedious to enjoy, so a once really flavorful and iconic powerset has been reduced to 2/10 stars- would not recommend status.

A couple of you have messaged me in game so with 3-4 now interested just from the forums we might be able to get a full team through LFG advertisement to fill in. How about we set a time as Monday, July 29 around 5pm PST. That gives everyone a week to get ready or schedule it in. Im thinking first run we can just do radio missions or something to warm up and then decide if we want to tackle a short TF or something else. Dont worry if you cant start right at 5 PST, if you work later and wont be on until sometime after that, just let me know in game @SlimPickens and Ill try to save a spot for you. I will send in game messages to those who have shown interest here and sent me messages in game about the team. Hope to see you all then!

I believe attuned and non attuned function as the same IO set, the only time you would lose set bonuses is if you took an ATO for instance from the standard version to the superior version which is considered a different set, but for normal sets which have no superior versions just attuning them doesnt negate set bonus from my understanding. That being said, I dont personally have any mixed attuned/non attuned sets so cannot 100% confirm this is the case.

My personal belief is the only thing thats better than recharge, is MORE recharge.

I went with support core on my ill/dark for the def buffs to softcap pretty much everything while its up with perma fade in effect. Support seems to offer the best overall spread of effects- dam.acc, end discount, mez and healing buffs plus the pet double effect for core.

especially demon pets... those things are annoying and noisy.

This thread title is relevant to my interests.

Baby come back

The game to me is to concept a character, get it to 50 and build it out with IOs, then go back and hand pick the content i would like to experience through TFs/Oro flashbacks/etc. I see no reason to spend precious free time slogging through endless radio missions or soloing content Ive done a multitude of times previously just to see a gradual progression every 2 levels... id rather burst from the womb fully formed and curbstomp flashback content as an incarnate exemplar.

Sounds good, I think for a first run we could just gather everyone together and blast through some type of content appropriate for the lowest lvl in the team to still be able to participate, and then move on to doing some TFs or something. The next few weeks the WST is tarsis and positron 1 which are low lvl so would be easy for any character to qualify to do, so those might be fun starting points for a beam team.

If i never see another Peroxisome, Lysosome, Endoplasm, or Centriole it will be too soon. Make all mine membranes, I never seem to get any of those and always find a use for them.

Would there be any interest in forming up a team full of beam rifle characters and disintegrating all in our path? I really am curious how force multiplier effects of multiple beam toons all feeding each other disintegration procs would play out in game. I would like to set up something maybe just a couple hours once or so a month if theres some other people who have and enjoy beam rifle blasters/defenders/sentinels/corruptors and would like to melt enemies into dust particles. reach me in game @SlimPickens, and leave your globals here if you have some interest in maybe joining in the fun so we can coordinate a time and day that might work for people.

The days of running to pocket D should be over... just build your private SG base, put in your TPers, and slap that pocket D beacon on one.

Doing summer blockbuster the other day my whole team was laughing at all the AVs running away during the casino portion, and jumping up into the rafters after being -rech debuffed. Maybe they couldnt attack and the logic tells them if no attack= RUN!

With those restrictions being useful is out the window, you are shooting for comic relief, and honestly, Id bring you along just for fun... not like a team of 7 isnt exactly as effective as a team of 8 so one player being afk (or in your case simulating a player effectiveness while afk ;)) would be entertaining to watch run around and try to shovel mobs to death with his one attack.

I take boxing or kick on plenty of characters to get to tough and weave, but all three attacks from fighting? cant say i have. I do enjoy kicking a mob to death when its on that last sliver of health though.

QFT Super strength now is somewhat less than super. Rage crash now having 3 negative effects and really punishing you for stacking it makes the juice not worth the squeeze when you can just take a build up set and have a huge damage spike every 30 secs with the gaussians proc slotted. Not to mention smashing is heavily resisted, so im not sure losing all damage for 10secs plus end dump which can detoggle and get you killed, plus -def which wrecks most peoples main form of damage avoidance makes up for a small buff you can get anyways thorugh red insp and a HUGE damage cap on brutes through fury alone. I find SS not only much less fun to play trying to manage rage dumps, but also very lackluster overall compared to its former incarnation.

this. I store only rare salvage now and simply buy as i need for the yellows and occasional white salvage I dont happen to have on hand after a few missions. Storage space is mainly IO bins and if you have 1500+ IOs laying in bins rather than in characters slots...you have a big problem.

I didnt even notice Pines needed update until I made a /rad MM and found that the older version crashed when selecting the secondary set... thanks for the update!

Aint it grand! Very welcome change not to have to call out or constantly grumble about pick up teams killing your anchors.

There are a hell of a lot of melee attacks that are s/l, so it never hurts to have capped to ranged position, and also have the fallback of capped or near capped typed in s/l. Sure you arent aiming to be in melee, but unavoidably, there are times when melee just happens.

Positrons is a good set outside of purple or ATOs. I would slot energy torrent 5 positrons including the proc, and one force feedback +rech proc IO. I think for a KB cone power thats pretty ideal If you cant get a purple or ATO in the set because you've used them elsewhere. Use the power as a +rech mule to give you the 6.25% form positrons, and the proc from force feedback going off every activation and just deal with the KB in the power.

aha, thanks.

Im curious why i dont get this power on all my new characters, I specifically saved it for use at 49-50 on my first few characters made but on my newer alts I just dont have the power at all in my inventory, I dont recall ever buying it from the PTW vendor, and dont see it when i look for it, its supposed to be granted to each character on entry to the city right? Or is it because im skipping the tutorial on my latest alts and you get it from the completion of that zone? Thats the only thing i can think of that im doing differently from the first characters to my recent alts.

I would never say you are "gimped" by not taking hasten, but i would say hasten makes 99% of builds better, so you are not min/maxed without taking hasten.