Willowpaw

It is also worth noting that using Alignment Merits to buy purples is highly inefficient both timewise and infwise.

It requires 20 Alignment merits to purchase a purple recipe, and at 2 days per merit, you are looking at waiting 40 days to get that one purple (240 days for a single set unless you are going ahead and running multiple alts to each save up for a purple or two).

Alternatively, depending on market conditions and depending on the purple set you are after, you can often purchase (for 2 merits) a highly desirable recipe to craft and resell for what a single purple recipe may cost, with some cash left over. Going about it that way, you can have your 6 piece purple set in 12 days (or less if using multiple alts).

My MA/SR Scrapper also doesn't have Hasten, not because of a conflict between that and Practiced Brawler, but because her attack chain is fast enough. She's made it to 47 fine without it. Even when I get her respecced for inherent fitness, I will still probably not take Hasten. One of those freed up power picks will most likely go to Stealth to stack with her Unbounded Leap: Stealth that she has in her Surge Sprint. The other two? Not sure yet, perhaps more from Body Mastery or throw Boxking and Tough in there, or Kick and Tough, depending on which of the two look better for her.

I also don't see Hasten in the old plan for my AR/Energy Blaster. I think I decided on that because I didn't want her having those retarded flaming hands, and figured that I would make up for it with global recharge bonuses.

I'm sure I have a couple others who don't have it or are not planning on getting it, but that's enough for now.

They have a base accuracy of only 75%, so unless you are only fighting even con or lower things, 2 accuracies are needed, otherwise the aura will be missing a lot and just wasting your endurance, and your aura would be ineffective on those inane teams where they insist on fighting +4s and +5s since it would rarely ever hit.

Therefore, with just generics, 2 accuracies, 1 endurance reduction, and 3 damages would be ideal.

If you are going to make use of Brian Regan's Rooty Tooty Aim and Shooty (from his Walkie Talkie routine), then you also need to add:

U.S.: Bomb
British: Whammy Kablammy

Also, any level 50 generics are not worth trying to sell crafted. Those almost always go for far far less than the crafting cost.

25-40 seems to be the best level range for selling generics lately.

45s and 50s have always been that way, since long before the incarnate stuff. I think the reason for that is because except for single slot powers (or powers taken after 46), there is no real need to upgrade 35s and 40s.

And on that note, time to see how Krispy Kremator and Bow Chicka Bow Wow did with the gens I sent them last night.

I usually say ***Wilhelm*** in those situations.



Just out of curiosity, why did you bleep out Slug?

Reminds me of the scene in King Ralph where Ralph was a bit concerned that they were going to be eating spotted dick... (then the camera briefly panned over to a rack of sausages.)


I think the best solution is to have everyone speak their English in its original language... Klingon!

Ah, you're right. It is PBs that get Vahz early on. Warshades don't get those thrown at them until the second arc. Still, it looks like both get a good cross section of all the low level factions as an "Introduction to the Bad Guys of Paragon" lesson.

That said, my Peacebringers still managed to faceplant the zombies thrown at them before they could get into spew range.

Actually, that would be Warshades, not Peacebringers. And both of my Warshades were able to easily blast through the Vahz in those early levels. If I remember right, the zombies would normally be faceplanted long before they could schlep into barfing range.

Also, if you have a science origin hero who does primarily lethal damage (like Broadsword, Katana, Dual Blades, or Assault Rifle, you should be able to rip through the Vahz just as fast as a Warshade.)

The one I thought would make a good Wonder Woman was that gal who played Inara in Firefly.

"Golden crispy! Recluse is history!"

That said, do the Waffles of the Furies come with a low calorie truth syrup?

Even better is confusing a BP Death Shammie before he can summon his zombies. Then it is...

"Arise, my minions... Attack!"
"Not meeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!"

It's a part of the tank version of the Earth Mastery Epic Pool.

Plus, relying on bonuses from purples does absolutely nothing for a character for the first 49 levels. After all, purples can't be slotted until 50.

Anyway, I think the majority of my characters do have Hasten in their build, since I hate being slowed down (Marksmen, Cold blasts, etc). I do have a few without it for assorted reasons. But they could get it eventually when I get around to respeccing them for inherent fitness, and then, only if there is nothing else better to take.

If we ever get to customize pool powers to get rid of those annoying flaming hands, then more will grab Hasten as well.

I second this suggestion.

(an additional 6 months later)
WTF? That huge round of nerfs was unexpected. The game is definitely unfun now. Too bad they won't refund any of that lifetime subscription I paid 6 months ago.

And even then, you may not encounter any PvP, depending on the server and the time of day.