Baalat

I'll be looking into that asap. Game looks interesting enough.

though:

"As most of you probably know, The Secret World team has been through a turbulent couple of weeks. We've had to let some people go, and we're in the process of reshuffling and reorganising ourselves around the remaining staff. This is never fun, but it's the way of things: we need to scale down from a full development team to a more cost-efficient live team.

So what does this mean for The Secret World? How will a smaller team affect the delivery of upcoming content? And most importantly, does TSW have a future?"

kinda plays at my MMO anxieties.

It's hard to imagine life without all of the people behind the names both here and in game.

We are all experiencing a new and decidedly unpleasant social phenomenon.

Find me as Zizka in games or as Jan Zizka on the FB.

lies!

well, there's yer problem.

3 slotting stamina with endmod will nearly double your recovery. rate.

As others have said travel powers (sprint, beast/ninja run, SJ, SS, Fly, hover) except for CJ will eat your end like mad. Damage auras are also usually end heavy, as is the whole leadership pool and stealth powers. Check the end per second of any toggles you have.

Before I hit set bonuses, I like to slot 2 acc and 3 damage into attacks. Maybe 2 acc, 3 dam and an end red into damage aura toggles. for armor toggles, maybe 3 resistance (or def if that's what the power accepts) and 1 or 2 end red, depending. Once the recovery and accuracy bonuses start adding up (they're both easy to get without intending to), I alter my slotting.

If you're missing consistently, low accuracy may be a secondary root of the end issue, since you are having to cast twice as many powers to defeat the same number of foes as someone who is landing 95% of the attacks they throw.

On some toggle-heavy sets (common in scrappers, brute, stalkers, and tanks, you may just have to build the best you can and deal with the end issue until you can slot cardiac in alpha, but the situation you describe seems a bit more extreme than the typical "end hog" build. (i've not played the sets you mention, but I know dark armor can get pretty stupid on the end use)

Once you start moving towards IO builds, you'll be able to slot end reduction without having to sacrifice slots for acc, recharge, and damage. Even the cheaper sets will help with this, regardless of their bonuses (think multistrike rather than oblits; crushing impacts rather than mako's; thunderstrike rather than ... whatever the spendy ranged one is).

If you have 120 mil to burn, grab a +to hit IO (kismet? likely between 5 and 20, depending) and a perf shifter +end proc (likely around 100). Those will help with the acc slotting and solve some end issues, respectively.

Some builds need a little more care in the building to avoid end issues, but the general mechanics have never seemed broken to me in the last 6 years. I've also never felt any compulsion to slot end reduction in my single target attacks, so I suspect you'll be able to sort it out without having to sacrifice slots.

good luck; hope this helps.

-ba

Makes you feel like a real farging nevermelting icehole.

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This.

Stiil, it would be nice if the webite's Server Status section reflected reality. The status currently shown is from June 24, 2011. Why even bother to maintain the page?

I've got a small handful of old 50s who need help as well, hit me up (@Ba'alat) or just holler in JU or JFA.

You know. It's only just now occurred to me that your avatar is from sin city.

meine Lieblings Parteihosen is really the only thing that happened in that stream that made me glad I watched.

I'd kill for a picture...KILL!

eta: Oh, also, that trailer and all the associated goodies in it are just *amazing*

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