ClawsandEffect

If you find this to be true...you're doing something wrong.

At high levels, the majority* of players should know what their character is and isn't capable of. If you set your missions for 8, you should be able to handle it. If you can't handle it, don't set your missions for 8.


(* The exception to this is AE PLed n00bs. If they can't find Steel Canyon, they probably have no idea what their toon can do. Thankfully they are getting somewhat less common, either they're learning how to play, or they get bored and quit, either way there are fewer idiots to deal with)

You don't even have to run the mission. Just talk to him, accept the mission, and drop it. Instant Ouro access.

Try out Pinnacle for your 10AM-1PM playing. It's not hugely populated, but there's enough going on that you should be able to find something to do. I get off work at 10:30 AM these days and play from maybe noon to 3:00, on most days I can find a TF or something if I'm so inclined, so there IS stuff to do that time of day.

PinnBadges is one of the global channels, it started as a badge hunting channel, and gradually evolved into Pinnacle's main social channel. Cozmic's Playground is fairly well populated too, but there seems to be more idiots on that one. As far as I know, both are public channels, so you can just join. PinnBadges is silenced on join, just ask an op to unsilence you, they're usually on in the evening-to-late-night hours. You can chat on a channel even while on another server, so you can ask them while you're playing on Justice if you want.

Just had to plug my home server there. If Pinnacle were ever to be removed as a play option, I would probably quit playing, I like the community there that much.

I play using the arrow keys to move and the number keys to fire powers, it lends itself well to the hyper, frenetic playstyle I prefer on my fire/fire. I play on a laptop with no offboard mouse, so using a mouse to click things isn't even an option for me. If you use the mouse to click powers it may slow you down enough to where it doesn't work as intuitively.

I queue things up a lot, so I have powers waiting to go off at any given time in a fight. This is both an advantage and a disadvantage at the same time. It gives me the ability to change my mind on what I'm using with split-second timing, but it also means that sometimes my timing is off and something will go off that will get me killed.

I soloed from 22 or so to about 35. I won't lie, there was a lot of debt involved, but it also led to learning survival skills on a character with zero mitigation.

My playstyle in general lends itself to playing characters like this. On the opposite side of the spectrum, since I don't use a mouse, I really suck at playing support characters unless I make extensive use of keybinds. The only exception to that is my Rad/Sonic defender, because it has only a couple ally targeted powers, which I can auto-target just by pressing the button (if you activate Fallout or Mutation it will auto-target the nearest defeated ally). I'm a lousy empath, a bad kin, and a sub-par bubbler because of my playstyle, but I'm excellent at playing scrappers and blasters.

I don't spend a whole lot of time in melee with my fire/fire, just enough to get the job done. Breakfrees are my best friend, I'll often use them pre-emptively to keep Hot Feet active while I'm hopping in melee and hopping out. It also makes that playstyle possible when fighting enemies that mez. I can't even count the number of times I've tried to joust and found myself mezzed in the middle of a spawn.

I don't think that makes you a bad player at all, just different. I would wager a guess that I am probably better at playing scrappers and blasters than you, but you are better with support characters than I am. That's not a bad thing. If you want the most mileage out of me being on your team, your best bet is to make sure I'm playing an offensive character. Asking me to play an empath or a kin is asking for a team wipe, or at the very least inefficient support.

It may come down to some payers just not being suited to some powersets.

See, I've mentioned a couple times that I don't have Blazing Aura in my build. That, burn and Combustion, were my skipped powers. Hot Feet is situational, I don't run it constantly, only when I need to buy myself a few seconds while the mob is milling around trying to get out of it. So, subtract those 3 and I have 6 out of 9 powers of my secondary. That is my criteria for a secondary, if I don't have a use for at least 2/3rds of the powers in it I pick something else.

My reasons for skipping those 3 are as follows:

Combustion is WAY too slow for my playstyle, that is far too much standing still, and will get me killed while it is animating.

Blazing Aura just doesn't do enough damage to justify taking it in the short amounts of time I'm in melee. It's endurance that could be better used elsewhere.

Burn is a nice power, I just never managed to get the performance out of it that some people get. Against an immobilized target, it's awesome, but with my frenetic hopping about like a crazed jackrabbit I just don't have time to make use of it. (I still think Controllers should get access to Burn, with their AoE immobilizes it would be a godly power)

Hot Feet I use when I want to keep things AWAY from me, if I plan on jumping in and out of melee I usually turn it off. Alternately I'll use FSC and Fireball (at point blank range) while in melee and while they're slowly running away I have just enough time to fire them both off (Works better if you use Fireball first actually)

I'm actually in agreement with some of the other posters here, Blazing Aura IS kind of useless for a blaster. Hot Feet works much better for it's intended purpose and has a useful side effect.

Edit: I'll be on later today sometime I'm sure, I might need to bust a respec on my blaster. If I do, I'll shoot you a tell afterward.

Learn to joust. Turn on BA and HF, queue up Fire Sword and jump past him. Your attack will most likely fire from outside of melee range, and his AI will usually (not always though) dictate that, since you attacked with an attack flagged as melee, he will attempt to respond in kind. Fire a Blaze in his face and hop back. When he tries to close to melee Hot Feet will usually kick in and at least slow him down, if not make him attempt to flee. if there are minions in the fight as well, hop in and fire FSC and hop back out.

Using a blaster's melee attacks is a tricky thing. The key to doing it successfully is to not STAY in melee range, but rather hop in and out, using your melee attacks in conjunction with fast activating ranged attacks. If you stand there and try to slug it out like a scrapper or tank, you will probably get squashed.

For AoE blapping, I have perfected the technique of jumping toward a mob, with Fireball queued up, and then hitting FSC on landing, and jumping out again. You might take a few hits, but if your timing is good you will deal a lot of damage and be in relative safety outside of melee range after you're done attacking.

I skipped Blazing Aura on my fire/fire, but I kept Hot Feet. I use it for it's avoid mechanic, while they're running away they're not attacking. It buys a few seconds to pop a green or purple, combine inspirations, fire off a quick chat message, or whatever you need to do.

Tell you what, if you have any characters on Pinnacle I'll show you what I mean in person. My fire/fire is slotted with generic IOs, just like yours seems to be, so there is no major survival difference.

As long as the transaction remains in-game currency for in-game services or items it is not violating any rules. That said, if you pay someone 5 million influence to PL you and they don't, you have no recourse, you just lost 5 mil. The GMs can't and won't make someone give you your influence back, because you gave it up of your own free will.

The instant real money comes into it (unless it is a service or item pack from NCSoft itself) it is a bannable offense. Interestingly enough, a lot of the accounts you're getting spam emails from were stolen from someone who paid real money to have their character PLed. Not only did they NOT get PLed, but they effectively paid someone to steal their account.

Nothing, the people who get a lot of purple drops either:

A) Are extremely lucky

-OR-

B) Farm high level missions for hours on end.

Purples are not MEANT to drop often, their drop rate is right about where it is intended to be. They're supposed to be special and rare, if they dropped more than they do they wouldn't be special and rare anymore.

There is absolutely nothing you can do to increase your chances of getting one. Look on the bright side, you've gotten a handful of them, there are some people that have NEVER gotten one.

1 and 3 didn't apply to me. 2 did.

My first character bought level 15 and 25 Training Origin enhancements because I didn't realize there were different kinds. I was also obsessed with keeping them green, to the point of spending all my money on it. Even though I gained a whopping .4% for it.

For a while I ran back to every mission exit when I finished one, because I had somehow closed my nav bar and didn't know you could just click to exit.

There were more, but those are the only ones that spring to mind at the moment.

Why? They all exemp all the way down with you now. There's no more issue of losing it if you exemp below the level you got it at.

Also, it's exceptionally difficult to find enough wolves and vampires for the badges before Striga anyway.

Let's see.

9 powers

x 2 for sword/pistol switching = 18 animations

x 3 for body type = 54 animations

x 2 standing or flying? = 108 animations

So you want BaBs to make 108 animations for a set that would normally require 54?

Good luck with that one.

I don't have anything against the idea of a Sword/Pistol powerset, I just see it as being HIGHLY unlikely.

The defense you were noticing was because your attacks are flagged Psionic/Ranged. They have no Psi defense while in MoG, but they DO have ranged.

Use Dominate or Mesmerize from Mind Control on them. If I recall correctly, those two powers are only flagged as Psionic with no positional component. When my claws/regen had old MoG I'd pop a few purples with it and be invincible...until a Rikti used one of those powers on me and I hit the ground like a sack of potatoes.

They may have been changed to have a ranged component as well, I can't be sure on that.

Okay, you're a moron.

I'm kidding, it's an easy mistake to make, but you said I could, so I did . It's not very obvious that the newspaper Drea gave you IS your new contact. The previous two posters answered it pretty well though, so I don't have much to add.

Don't feel bad about not realizing it. I made some DUMB mistakes when I first started that I'm not even going to mention here (they'd pick on me if I did)

True.

I go whole missions without using my AS on my DM/Nin. He scraps so well I routinely forget he's actually a stalker. I may bring him blueside when Going Rogue comes out.

I successfully fought the urge to trot this one out again.

You, apparently, were not as successful