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Now, that's the pitch I was looking for! I have already rolled a Kin/Nin, which I am liking, but I think a Nin/Nin is also in my future. I chose Kin/Nin because both sets are new to me, and my project already includes a Katana Scrapper. For this project I am wanting to avoid duplicating sets.

Thanks for the write-up. I think I'm going to save this somewhere.

No, not hit and run. I was thinking of the opposite of scrapperlock: Instead of blindly charging in head first, trying to survive, and devastating the group; using stealth and misdirection to tip the tactical scale to your advantage, then devastating the group, but with minimal damage taken.

This would probably boil down to using AS to take out a key enemy at the start of the fight (Engineer, sapper, etc.), then just fighting until everything else is dead. Or arrested.

Thanks for the tips everyone. I didn't realize Kin/ had those unique features.

I think it's between Elec/Nin and Kin/Nin now. Leaning toward Kin/ because my highest level character is an Elec/ Brute and I want a fresh experience. Must think some more.



Edit: wow! Post count 187 in a Stalker thread. Irony.

Google is your friend.

I think your Morse Code Translator is busted.

LMAO

I know you are but wot [sic] am I[?]

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Maybe because he's the Ellimist? Time means nothing to him!

I have read most of the guides here, including yours. I think yours was the first one I read that actually discussed flipping. I have leveraged arbitrage to get start-up funds on characters for a long time now and I get how to price drop/craft sales so I make a profit, so while most of the guides have been helpful in the past, what I need now is knowledge of how to invest. What makes a good investment and why, that sort of thing. My recent acquisition of a recipe whose crafted IO was selling for 100M+ when I listed it versus the ~40M it sold for three weeks later taught me that I don't yet understand the ebb and flow of the market.



So if I were limited to, say, one character logging in twice a week you would suggest I start where? Recipes? Generics or sets?


@Mandur, That is a very interesting way to look at it. I had not considered that ask-price variation might be affecting how often my stack bids are listed. It seems to match my experiences, too. When buying a stack, if it sells while I'm watching it, I see something like: three or so process at once, one update to the last five, two more process, one update, the rest process, one update.


Thanks, all
AYB

This is still the case? I hadn't had a chance to test it, but I was hoping after the 9/28 fix for Chance to Heal Self IOs in chain powers affecting mobs the Devs might have made it so Self-proc IOs worked properly on chain powers. I still haz a sadface. :-C

As I recall, SS/Elec was a FotM build a while back. Yes, that would be a good combo. I have a Dark/Elec brute in the high 30s somewhere. Virtue, I think.

Anyway, I agree with your thoughts on Hasten and Tough. Both will be very useful to your survivability.


I disagree with your thoughts on Aid Self. As a resistance set, you will have a hard time firing that off in combat.

Energize is better because it also has a decent +Regen buff attached to it. It is on a longer recharge than Aid Self, but fully enhanced for recharge, plus with Lightning Reflexes and while Hasten is up it will heal 50% of your health every 40ish seconds, plus another 37% regenerated over the 30 second buff. The +Regen component effectively triples your regeneration rate when fully enhanced, and can be up 75% of the time with SOs.

Admittedly, with the same enhancements and buffs Aid Self can heal about 40% of your health every 7 seconds, but you'll be fighting with the fact that it is interruptable and you have no defense. Every tick of DoT attacks, every pulse of mez effects (even ones you're protected from), and every time a nearby enemy sneezes, you'll have to reactivate the power. Also, Aid Self costs you an extra power pick to get it.

If you are really set on it, I'd still recommend you get Energize, for the extra heal and the Regen and EndDiscount buffs. Having both wouldn't hurt, I suppose.

At any rate, with Tough you'll have almost 60% Smash/Lethal resistance (an /Invuln brute can manage 70% here, with Tough, that's only another 10%) and with your set resistances you'll have up to 41% Fire/Cold/Psi, 30-35 Negative Energy (if you take and slot out Grounded), and capped (90%) Energy resistance. Any sort of healing will greatly prolong your life.


Grounded is great. An (almost) always on partial status protection? Yeah, buddy! I was originally concerned with the whole only-protected-on-the-ground concept, but I never noticed a time when it failed. It also pushes your Energy resistance to the cap (with no additional slots) and bolsters your relatively weak NegEnergy resistance. No need for Combat Jumping or Acrobatics/IOs here.



Edit: Holy wall of text, flying nocturnal mammal man!

Somehow I expected that would take longer. Good job!

I suspect this is due to years of store-bought enhancements and generic IOs being in 5-level increments.

Dyslexic, huh? That's pretty rough. I'm glad it doesn't seem to affect your programming skill, I know how even a simple typo can mess up a whole section of code. As I said, I was mostly curious at how your misspellings were so consistent. It isn't really that your posts are hard to read, I was mostly just wondering if you do it on purpose or if it just happens. No offense meant.

Some people I've met purposely misspell things on the internet ("this is teh intarnet, nt grayd skool, lol"). I have little patience for that, personally. Misspellings due to a language barrier or learning "disability" (I dislike "disability" because one isn't unable to learn, there are just additional obstacles for those of us with learning "disabilities". I'm ADHD, myself. Never made it to 50 in six years of CoX.) are a completely different thing, though.

Ok, end of threadjack.