Willowpaw

You get that message every time you get a character to 20. whether in Paragon, the Isles, or in Praetoria, and whether or not you have already unlocked epics.

I think the biggest reward for leveling a Praetorian is that the first super group you join gets a bonus 100,000 prestige. That right there is a huge benefit for small groups. I am involved in a couple small (like 2 players with our alts) groups on a few servers, and running Praetorian characters to 20 and bringing them in once they reach Paragon has been a tremendous help in being able to afford to build our bases.

Someone needs to create a plugin for Firefox and call it J-Kick. Then, any time you get logged out of the forums (without selecting log out), some random guy shows up at the home of whichever developer is responsible for the forum software, and gives him a good swift kick in the jimmies.

7 of them are identical: Hecatomb, Armageddon, Ragnarok, Unbreakable Constraint, Gravitational Anchor, Fortunata Hypnosis, and Absolute Amazement

2 - 4% Recovery
3 - 2.52% Fire / Cold Resistance
4 - 15% Accuracy
5 - 10% Recharge
6 - 5% Toxic Resistance


2 of them are close to identical: Soulbound Allegiance and Apocalypse, with one difference at the 5 piece mark

2 - 16% Regen
3 - 3% Health
4 - 4% Damage
5 - (Soulbound Allegiance) 4.4% Hold Duration
5 - (Apocalypse) 10% Recharge (matches the first 7)
6 - 5% Psi Defense

Coercive Persuasion is the odd one, with 2 bonuses that are unique to the set, and the others either matching the first or the second group.

2 - 4% Recovery (matches group 1)
3 - 4% Confuse Duration
4 - 4% Damage (matches group 2)
5 - 10% Recharge (matches all the others)
6 - 5% Ranged Defense / 2.5% Energy/Negative Energy Defense

Thanks. Figured it would be that way. Just needed to confirm it.

Oooh. Major derp moment for me. I totally forgot about the scroll bar showing the different ways to craft. Doesn't help that the bar is so tiny to be easily missed.

But for the second tier 3, I will still need to craft another tier 1 and 2, correct?

I am totally confused on the requirements to craft a tier 4 incarnate power.



According to the mouse over, in this example, if I want to get the Cardiac Core Paragon, I need both a Cardiac Partial Core Revamp and a Cardiac Partial Radial Revamp.

However, when I went for my tier 3, I went with the Cardiac Total Core Revamp. So now if I want to do the tier 4, it looks like I still have to go through the process of crafting 2 more tier 3s, which also means 2 more tier 1 and tier 2 Cardiacs? Am I reading this right, or is the information in the Incarnate interface incorrect?

One important thing that origin affects is what Yin SOs (13/17/21) you can use:

Natural and Mutant: Damage
Magic: Accuracy
Science: Recharge
Tech: Endurance Reduction

These actually provide a significant boost for low level characters starting at level 10. Or, at least the Damage, Endurance, and Recharge SOs do, accuracy not so much due to Beginner's Luck.

And great thing is, Villains and Praetorians have access to these via the email system now.

These definitely make the low levels much more bearable depending on which ones you can use.

My Warshade did her first BAF and Lambda before she even had her Alpha unlocked. Plus, she was nowhere near having any defense softcapped as far as I can tell. So if she can get through those unscathed, then I think that makes the answer to the question a resounding no.

7 of the purple sets have the exact same bonuses: Hecatomb, Armageddon, Ragnarok, Unbreakable Constraint, Gravitational Anchor, Fortunata Hypnosis, and Absolute Amazement.

Recovery: 4%
Fire / Cold Resistance: 2.52%
Accuracy: 15%
Recharge: 10%
Toxic Resistance: 5%

Soulbound Allegiance and Apocalypse have four identical bonuses:

Regen: 16%, Health 3%, Damage: 4%, and Psi Defense: 5% Plus, Apocalypse also has a 10% recharge bonus.

And the last one, Coercive Persuasion, has 3 bonuses that are also shared with other sets: Recovery: 4%, Damage: 4%, Recharge: 10%.

The times I see it get used most in teams are the instant I do Build Up and start to activate either Full Auto, Ignite, or Rain of Fire, and end up killing a single enemy. Repeat for nearly every spawn.

I think I only have one character (an Emp/Archery Defender) that has a second build, one for teaming and one for solo. However, I have not played her in a long time. And once she repecs for Inherent fitness and to get Flight down from 3 slots to 1 slot, she will plunder the solo build to recover the KB protection and the Winter's Gift: Slow Resistance that it is using.

No need for the solo build now since the respec will free up 3 power picks and 2 enhancement slots.

I've found that at the very least, putting 1 endurance reducer in the 2 or 3 fastest recharging attacks helps tremendously. Quite often, the tier 1 and 2 attacks, even though they use less endurance per activation than the next couple up, will use more in the long run. Firing off 2 faster ones will use more endurance than one of the slower ones.

Additionally, I've found 2 endurance mods in Stamina seems to be the most effective (the third one does not seem to provide a significant amount of benefit). When possible though, I like to slot Stamina with a Performance Shifter: Chance for +Endurance, a Performance Shifter: Endurance Mod, and a generic Endurance Mod. Since the P-Shifter Endurance Mod is no different than the generic, you are still effectively slotting with 2 endurance mods, plus getting a nice little movement speed bonus out of the deal, plus frequently getting an endurance boost.

When there's a Willowpaw on your team in a Nemesis mission, you get reminded to not pull the Warhulk's finger.