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Just hoping to pick some brains. I have recently started Incarnating out my Gravity/Force Field Controller and there are a couple tactics that I use that I'm not sure if I should continue to do. What are your thoughts?

1) Plugging Baf Spawn Points

As most of you probably know, the spawn doors in the BAF trial can only have so many NPCs spawned at one time (16, iirc). My tactic for those doors is to try to keep the minions alive for as long as possible. Between Crushing Field, Repulsion Bomb, and Gravity Distortion Field it is easy to keep the minions all grouped up at the doors entrance and watch as nothing else walks out the door.

At one point during a string of BAFs there were a few people who wouldn't stop killing my nicely controlled groups. I took that opportunity to explain in league chat why I was doing what I was doing and basically got two responses:

• Don't complicate things, people don't listen anyway.
• We'll get less drops and iXP.

In my opinion, an easier time getting the Astral is more than worth the lost iXP and drops.

2) Negating Crate and Container Mobs in the Lambda

I've recently learned that the Weapon Crates and Containment Chambers in the Lambda are resistant to intangibility, but the Mobs around them aren't. When I run through them with a team I target the Crate/Container and use Dimension Shift effectively nullifying the threat around them.

I've noticed that people aren't used to this strategy. Kinetics users are the worst as they attempt to target the Mobs for heals and buffs only to find nothing happening. This method seems to work very well for me (I can jump right in without having to wait for a meat shield) but it looks like it confuses others. I believe the 'less drops and iXP' also could also count here, but safety and quick destruction is more important in my opinion.


What's your opinion?

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I am having this same problem. The first time I try entering the Lambda with a League I am kicked during the loading screen. Kicked in the sense that my loading bar stops (the same place each time) and I just sit there for probably a minute or two until the log-in screen shows up. No error boxes, no "lost connection to mapserver" pop-ups. Just the regular log-in screen. When I do log-in, I get the "This account is already logged in" message once.

When I get back into the game and choose the "rejoin last instance" from the LFG I am able to load into the Lambda trial and everything from there on out works fine.

While not completely prohibative...its dang annoying.

I took my Ninjas/Time out for a spin the past couple days. He's running on all SOs and tier 2 Cardiac.

Demons:
+1/x4(With Boss) was a breeze.

Council:
+2/x8(No Boss) was no sweat.

Devouring Earth:
+1/x5(With Boss) was slightly harder.
+2/x5(With Boss) was very annoying, but sustainable.


In the end I really like the set myself. The endurance is manageable. If you spam everything you have every mob, your endurance will bid you farewell. I basically just used Distortion Field and Temporal Selection when they were recharged, and kept a steady supply of Temporal Mending going. I was able to get though the entire fight without going below half endurance. I went with Ice Epics so I also had Frozen Armor, Maneuvers, Tactics, Hover, and Time's Juncture going at the same time.

On all but the Devouring Earth +2s I was able to breeze through mobs without losing any pets. Though if I was late with a Disruption Field, or if I was stunned and Time's Juncture was detoggled, or heaven forbid they both dropped, my pets were in trouble.

With the Devouring Earth +2s I was able to take down groups, but I ended up with 1-2 pets after the group went down every time.


Overall a very fun set to play! I just wish +recharge meant something to pets, and the Heal could be sped up a little for Temporal Mending (Not the ticks. The burst heal seems to come at the very end of the animation, but that might just be my imagination.).

*Drool*

I'm going to LOVE my new Ninjas/Time Manipulation Mastermind.

It doesn't look like I can get the Ninjas (perhaps the Jounin) to the Defense cap, however with that huge -Tohit debuff from Time's Juncture coupled with its massive radius means that won't matter for non AV fights.

Some things I don't like:

• Temporal Mending's Recharge
• The +Recharge buffs which are partially (since they come with other side effects) wasted on Pets

But overall it looks nice!

Edit: Silly me, I forgot to say Thank you very much Aett_Thorn!!

20 more enhancement slots (in two trays) for a total of 30?!

Thank you $deity!!!

This alone excites me because it will allow me to respec some characters whom I decided to go in a whole different direction with.

A few things:

• If you are going to take Absorb Pain, I'd slot it. Personally I love the power.
• Definitely don't slot Fortitude like that. It is a 'bread and butter' power and shouldn't be treated as a set mule.
• I'd personally slot Psychic Wail differently.
• Mind Over Body is very under slotted.
• Stealth is very under slotted.
• Stamina is under slotted.

I think you are giving up a bit too much functionality (especially in Fortitude) in search of set bonuses.

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*Translation, I am currently crafting and need more, so start selling!*

I came in a little after Beta, however after a bit of searching I was only able to find one source (seemingly from that time period) that talked about a couple Earth Control abilities having crushing as a damage type.