dual inspiration opinions welcome

[Snarky]

team inspirations are great.  i find dual.... not.  any opinions?

[Hedgefund]

I don't like them.  You can't combine them.  If I could only get def/res to drop and none of the others I might turn on that specifically, but heal/endurance?  Yuck.

[shortguy on indom]

25 minutes ago, Snarky said:

i find dual.... not.  any opinions?

• ARE YOU SURE YOU ARE USING THEM CORRECTLY?

[Jacke]

I like the Dual Inspirations because they pack 2 buffs into 1.  The non-Team ones are stronger than the same tier Team ones.  Tend to prefer the non-Team ones, but in certain cases, the Team loading up on Team Inspirations (Dual and otherwise) can really buff the Team for those difficult minutes.

[Major_Decoy]

If I know that I'm taking on more than I can chew (like trying to solo Army of One on a Stalker or Defender) then the dual inspirations can be nice. I typically just use the spare ones from Super Pack gambling.

[Scarlet Shocker]

Inspirations should be forced into the arena and made to fight one another. Then they'd be duel inspirations!

 

Actually I think they are about as much use as a rubber duck in the Sahara

 

 

[Jacke]

27 minutes ago, Scarlet Shocker said:

Inspirations should be forced into the arena and made to fight one another. Then they'd be duel inspirations!

 

With the appropriate soundtrack.

Spoiler

 

 

[MonteCarla]

I recently turned them on for my recent characters.

I then had to update my binds file to accommodate them so I can go F5 to heal, F6 for energy etc when I'm in the thick of combat.

Until then they clogged up my tray and annoyed me.

 

I haven't turned them on for my latest characters. I guess that's a big old "No" vote to them.

[twozerofoxtrot]

I just use em up.

 

Free candy.

 

Can't sell them so zero opportunity cost to just consuming if you want to make space.

[Techwright]

I do like the damage/accuracy ones.  I tend to get annoyed when the game fills up my box with the standard ones, especially on those occasions when it keeps spitting out the same type 15 to 20 times before another type appears.  If that happens to be accuracy, getting a damage/accuracy one at least gives me a secondary effect.

[KC4800]

Sometimes you just need a little bit of this, and a little bit of that. Don't be tweaking on inspires.

[Uun]

I don't like them. They cover multiple attributes but the values are too weak. Using 2 regular inspirations provides superior results. They can't be combined or sold to vendors. I had them turned on for a while but now have them turned off.

[Ghost]

I’ve had them turned off for so long, I actually forgot they existed

[Jacke]

9 hours ago, twozerofoxtrot said:

Can't sell [ the newer Team and Dual Inspirations ] so zero opportunity cost to just consuming if you want to make space.

 

You can sell them at the Auction House.

[Jacke]

6 hours ago, Uun said:

I don't like them. They cover multiple attributes but the values are too weak. Using 2 regular inspirations provides superior results. They can't be combined or sold to vendors. I had them turned on for a while but now have them turned off.

 

But 2 Dual Inspirations should be more than 2 Regular Inspirations of the same size (Small, Medium, Large, etc.).

[Wobegone]

I use them liberally on Posi 1 just before the clones.  Four or five of 'em can make a difference.  I'll still sprinkle them in while soloing EBs, but otherwise ignore them for better inspirations.

[Uncle Shags]

Do you have to turn these on to get them?  I don't get anything other than regular. No team, no double. I've never turned those options off. 

[Snarky]

20 minutes ago, Uncle Shags said:

Do you have to turn these on to get them?  I don't get anything other than regular. No team, no double. I've never turned those options off. 

These are bought (very cheap) at P2W vendor.  
 

I will be turning on team, but will forego duals.  Everyone here (that is not insane (disagrees with me)) agrees these things are garbage.  But the team ones can change fights. Especially in content like Posi 1 courthouse steps where the team is short on buffs due to level

[MonteCarla]

Typical Posi 1 chain of events:

Yay, we have Force Fields and Cold! We'll be unhittable!
Oh, crap... so will our duplicates.
I'd better buy some team yellows between mission for the final fight against our doubles.

Edited April 5 by MonteCarla

[Jacke]

3 hours ago, Snarky said:

These are bought (very cheap) at P2W vendor.  
 

I will be turning on team, but will forego duals.  Everyone here (that is not insane (disagrees with me)) agrees these things are garbage.  But the team ones can change fights. Especially in content like Posi 1 courthouse steps where the team is short on buffs due to level

 

[ TT Go Robin ]  I AM NOT INSANE!!!  😺

 

https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Inspirations

 

As Team Inspirations have their niche, so do Dual Inspirations (and even Team Duals).  It's all about packing more benefits for a Toon or the Team/League into the limited Inspiration Slots on a Toon.

 

Example: Accuracy and Damage:  2 Team Dual Inspirations of a given size (no Small Team or Team Dual Inspirations, so just Medium, Large, Super) have combined more Accuracy and Damage than an Accuracy and a Damage Inspiration of that given size.  Or a Team Accuracy and Team Damage Inspiration of that given size.  And 2 Dual Inspirations have combined even more Accuracy and Damage.

 

If you're using macros to combine into desired Inspirations from the unwanted, I can see leaving off/turning off Team and Dual Inspirations to get more of what can be combined.

 

Also if a Toon particularly needs much more of one aspect of a Dual but not really the other (eg. Health on Toons with good -End/-Rec Resists and very good net Recovery), then it can be better to focus on that.

 

But otherwise Dual and Team Dual Inspirations are a good way to potentially pack more buffing into that 20 Slot box.

 

 

[Snarky]

6 minutes ago, Jacke said:

Also if a Toon particularly needs much more of one aspect of a Dual but not really the other (eg. Health on Toons with good -End/-Rec Resists and very good net Recovery), then it can be better to focus on that.

i think this is the case for me.  i run a lot of +to hit on my builds, my corruptor is no excption.  as a dark dark corr i have heals out the wazoo, but endurance isses.  my toon is hungry for reds, blues, breakfrees and purples.  yellow/red green/blue and orange/purple are just weakening the mix for me personally.

[Uun]

9 hours ago, Uncle Shags said:

Do you have to turn these on to get them?  I don't get anything other than regular. No team, no double. I've never turned those options off. 

If you want to receive them as drops, you need to turn them on at the START vendor.

[Akisan]

I generally stick to the normal inspirations, with 2 exceptions:

• Medium team break frees last for 180 seconds.  Super regular break frees last for only 120.  Well worth it against mez-happy groups, even if you only use them on yourself.
• On low defense builds, a single large purple doesn't quite hit the softcap, and 2 of them is way over.  I usually stock both large purples and large dual def/resist inspirations on those builds, as 1 of each puts me to a little over the softcap, with some bonus resistance for whatever does hit.

[tidge]

I am not a fan of the "dual" inspirations, almost entirely because they cannot be combined. I almost exclusively have them turned on (if I remember to do so) for MMs, since I usually have some pet (or pseudo pet) that can benefit from Red/Yellow. The MM ends up gobbling the others as they drop.

[PoptartsNinja]

Even if they couldn't be combined, I think the dual inspirations would be more useful (for the ATs that find them attractive) if they replaced the standard inspiration drops rather than being in addition to them. So if you would've gotten an orange or a purple, you got an orange/purple dual; if you would've gotten a yellow or a red you get a ketchup/mustard dual, etc.

Being in addition to the standard makes them compete for space, which makes it harder to get 3 to convert; so I always keep duals turned off. They're quite literally in the way.