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  1. BrandX

    /Traps or /Time?

    POST-ACTION

    Well, you're in the CORR section of the boards. If you were to go Sonic/Time, you'd be better served to go Time/Sonic Defender.

    So go Rad/Time!
  2. BrandX
    Only have to go redside once, Swifty...just prepare for it...

    Get all the way to vigilante, and just have to do morality. Save going villain untill the next day.

    Do morality, do 5 rogue tips, do the arc...next day you're a rogue. It goes by quick.
  3. BrandX
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Silas View Post
    A fair point. For me, it's a question of 'why not?'

    Both the healing and endurance buffs only last 30s of the 90s duration, but given you can frankenslot the power and get good end/heal as well as recharge numbers, why the hell not?

    I mean I guess if you felt slotting was really tight you could leave it with just recharges, but I think it'd be a bit wasteful given the minimal investment and nice improvement across the board with frankenslotting.
    Not to mention it needs some ENDRED...Time is not END friendly
  4. BrandX
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Deus_Otiosus View Post
    IIRC you are playing DP/TIme.

    For a combination like Fire/Time with Rain of Fire + Reactive, you would want to leverage Distortion Field to keep enemies from running around bonkers.

    It's also a nice AoE -rech debuff, which is mitigation that can be layered on top of DEF & RES.
    While Time's Juncture doesn't have -RCH, it does have lots of -SPD to keep the enemy from running out of patches and stacks with Rain of Fire's -SPD, which I would guess one would just cast ontop of themself, since you want the enemies to be in TJ's -tohit area.

    With softcapped defenses and the two heals, I'm just finding while yes, -RCH is more defense, I'm just not needing to use it and usually better off using one of the other many powers in Time Manip or attacking.

    This is my experience though, and likely my playstyle, also a Fire/Time can play the "stay out of melee" more than a DP/Time is likely to do, so that can also be a difference.
  5. BrandX
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chaos Creator View Post
    I have to admit I really don't like slotting DF for hold. The chance is so incredibly low it just feels like a waste.
    I'm finding I just don't use Distortion Field all that much. Though, I did use it during the Prisoner Escape part of the BAF Trial. So I guess it got uses there, but so far, I've found it pretty meh, and don't bother to use it all solo as I just don't need too.
  6. BrandX
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Silas View Post
    Wow, very nice. The loss of the Achilles proc in Slowed Response is a shame, but damn, those bonuses from Shield Breaker.

    A bit of tweaking for my own personal preferences comes up with this:

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    Loses some s/l resist but gains more recharge and better (IMO) Distortion Field slotting.

    Edit: wrong data chunk, fixed now.
    Something to consider is to remove a slot from Distortion Field and replace the Purple Set with a Basilik's Gaze. Replace an ENDMOD/RCH in Chrono Shift with a Generic RCH and put a Ribosome HO in Tough...

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    S/L Resist improved, Chrono Shift Perma, Range Defense increased.
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    Quick rearranging of IOs...

    Chronoshift is .34 seconds off of being perma.

    Hasten is Perma.

    Softcapped defenses to all positions.

    Increased KB Resistance.

    Increased Slow Resistance.

    Fire Blast -> Blaze -> Fire Blast -> Fire Ball -> Repeat is now an option.
  8. BrandX

    Read Supergirl #1

    POST-ACTION

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dark One View Post
    Samothrake, are you missing a word in one of your sentences there?

    What I find hilarious about the Supergirl redesign is that they wanted to get rid of, in the words of Empowered, the "flouncy skirt", because of the bikini bottoms issue, but then they go and put her in a leotard with a giant heart over her lady bits.
    That skirt was a way better hero outfit!
  9. BrandX
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Johnstone View Post
    You can use a trick... Try this:

    /bind f10 "say The worst of the best is about to kick your <insert word of choice>$$e attack"

    I'm not entirely sure if attack is the right emote, but there is an emote that is the battlecry emote with nothing said.

    Edit: But yeah, I do support increasing the length so that we wouldn't have to use tricks.
    I will have to try this, though Id prefere not to have the work around.
  10. BrandX
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison View Post
    This much I find I have to agree with. I preordered with the knowledge that it would include the beginnings of the Incarnate System.

    I do not consider any of the additional incarnate content to be part of GR.
    You know, I forgot about that, the pre-purchasers who at the time were under the impression that GR meant Incarnate access and I was a pre-purchaser.

    However, still don't see any problems with keeping the Premium players locked out of the Incarnate content. They're being allowed to play for free, that wasn't an option before.

    If you want Incarnate access, sub up.
  11. BrandX
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by UberRod View Post
    I don't understand why F2P people can't have access to post in the forums. That doesn't make sense.
    Because then they start making free accounts, posting spam or just rule breaking post on the forums causing more work for the moderators, and losing nothing as they can just make a new free account and do it all over.
  12. BrandX
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    They're horses with a horn on their heads
    Someone needs to watch "The Last Unicorn" Calling a unicorn a common mare...insulting!
  13. BrandX
    \o/ Thanks to all of you who put the effort into MIDS.
  14. BrandX
    Well with the new MIDS, I can show you my planned build (DP/TIME, just rearrange the power choices) to give you some ideas. Yes it's expensive...however some of it can be tweaked easily enough to make it cheaper for you.

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    Panacea set, I happen to just need two more from the set to complete it on my DP/TIME (the HEAL and HEAL/END/RCH), but this can easily be replaced with Doctored Wounds.

    Bullet Rain can be downgraded to Ragnarok, I have Bullet Rain in it right now, purely for because I had the set available and not the Ragnarok set. It's a lose of 1 second on Farsight, and while it's not perma with either set, it's .29 - 1.something seconds off of Perma, and allows me to not use Hasten.

    I might switch to Ragnoarok at some point, but for now I have to get ahold of the Enzymes and the two Panacea IOs, so not to worried about it just yet. Also, I may just prefere the Defender Specific IO set if/when it gets put on the market.

    NOW! There are some changes on this build currently on Live, that you may prefere (like I have Distortion Field slotted with a Lockdown Proc on live, I really just haven't found it worth casting, maybe Im just on some good teams lately, but Slowed Response and Blasting has been worth the casting more than DF with all the other powers going on).

    While isn't exactly what I have on live now (like I still need to go rogue to get the Patron Pools open)...here's some suggested changes.

    1) Get rid of the Concealment Pool (that's three powers) I have it purely from a concepty Phase Shift ability.

    Then pick up Distortion Field (I have this on live, I just have not seen it to be all that helpful, and rarely cast it now).

    Pick up Temporal Selection.

    Then either switch to Soul Mastery or Power Mastery for the PBU + Farsight combo, or pick up Combat Jumping, put a LotG: +RCH in it.

    You could also skip Hover/Fly, rely on Ninja Run, Replace Hover with Combat Jumping (put the Winters Gift in place of the Enzyme, which I only have slotted in Hover as more of a ENDRED and less of increase defense of the power...but I might as well get both enhancements, so a ENDRED would of worked well enough).

    Giving you another power.

    Thoughts so far on the combo at 50, DP is still low on the damage compared to other sets (but I still love the animations ), /TIME can be power pick hungry for a lot of people.

    In normal content, I really haven't seen a need for TS when you have Farsight, Temporal Mending, and Chronoshift buffing your teammates. Yes it's more buffing for more DMG and survival on 2-3 characters...I just find the previously mentioned 3 powers enough for buffing the teams survival 99% of the time, while Slowed Response give the damage boost.

    Could also put in Hasten into the build to up the recharge on all these powers.

    My build is nowhere near the min/max OMG point, but while I'm willing to grab those expensive enhancements, I'm less willing to grab powers I'd rather not rely on (like Hasten).

    Cardiac seems the way to go on the ALPHA slot. You'll just want more ENDRED with this build, especially if you're grabbing power such as Hasten (and picking it up will likely mean dropping some enhancements...possibly the Kismet and/or the KB Resist IOs).

    All in all this should give you an idea of how you want to go about slotting your own TIME/DP and which powers you want to go with.
  15. BrandX

    I21 Mids

    POST-ACTION

    *crosses fingers and hopes Street Justice is part of it's features already*
  16. BrandX
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by FalconX_NA View Post
    A friend of mine just came back to the game after it went free and isn't allowed to use the incarnate system after he bought Going Rogue. Correct me if I'm wrong but the Incarnate system was included with Going Rogue, in fact before going F2P, new players HAD to buy Going Rogue to use the Incarnate system. So tell me how is it fair that someone who spent their own money on a service gets that service taken from them just because they aren't paying the 16$ a month. This is clearly just a way to get more money,someone who paid for a service shouldn't be denied .Premium players might as well start a new account, they really aren't gaining much of anything by coming back...
    Incarnates didnt come with GR. It came out after. Though they did say one had to have bought GR for access to Incarnates.

    That said, I'm of the opinion that, they're still free players who get access to the game, when not paying a monthly fee.

    What's to complain about?

    "I get to play for free! But not this one part of the game?! Grrrrr! I ragequit! Can I ragequit a game Im playing for free?" >_>
  17. BrandX
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by DarkGob View Post
    Not to derail, but I've heard about this vaguely but have no idea what the exact bug is, besides that it involves the 5th costume slot.
    It's not awarding you the 5th earned costume slot, even though you've earned it.

    I didn't get the lvl 40 Icon awarded costume slot (as it was my 5th earned costume slot) and a friend didn't get the 5th earned costume slot from turning in the costume salvage.

    It's suckie! I paid for 2 costume slots so far, and I only have 6 slots! It's like I paid for 2 costume slots and only got ONE!
  18. BrandX
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by DarkGob View Post
    Shockingly, it's not a consistent thing.
    I got caught with the 5th costume bug, it needed to give me this little victory over bugs
  19. BrandX
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by DarkGob View Post
    Nope. Still breaks when you try to backspace/edit/enter line breaks.
    Must have just missed me then when I edited my ID. Whew! got lucky!
  20. BrandX
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by DarkGob View Post
    Also feel free to fix the HOPELESSLY BROKEN BIO EDITOR.

    (Why yes, I am going to keep complaining about this until it gets done.)
    is it still broken? It seemed fixed to me with the new ID.
  21. BrandX
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lothic View Post
    Even if it was something they could just "flip a flag" for and even if they could easily handle things like origin-specific enhancements and powers they'd still have to account for other problems like what to do with the Vet combat powers that have damage bonuses based on origin. Frankly it'd be a little crummy to be able to respec your origin without being able to respec which Vet combat powers you chose.

    Sadly I think there are just too many "ramifications" to ever make origin respecs something that would be easy to do.
    If what temp power is the only worry, I'd say "Oh well" I mean, it only matters in the early levels and not even then.

    I don't see many people actually use them in the early levels, and I see less use them in the later levels (this isnt to say I dont see them in use mind you).
  22. BrandX
    32 characters isn't enough!

    I was staring the screen, thinking "What should the battlecry be for my main" when it dawned on me!

    So I started typing it in!

    "The worst of the best is about to kick your $#@!"

    And it's to long! This is the battlecry! It's perfect for my namesake! And it's to long!

    *Note: As I type this, feel free to increase the bio length as well.
  23. BrandX
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Revanchist View Post
    But I like Charleston Chews, especially frozen.
    I know right?
  24. BrandX
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Remaugen View Post
    I think the best answer to this is to create Heroic Patron Power Pools with their own unique flavor.
    I've suggested how to do it, even comes with a permanent gold title for your avatar!

    Sidekick Pools!
  25. BrandX
    Teleport. It's animation is to long and is over all suckie. :/

    I have one character who uses it, purely because of concept. I'd have given it to my main, but I just couldn't stand having another character with Teleport.

    They should turn it into something akin to the original competitions version of teleport.