Cynic

I7 is working fine for me, but it seems AOL Dial Up has yet to be optimised. Sorry guys

I think my biggest hits may have been with Fire Sword Circle, full fury and heavily debuffed foes (with FS too obviously) Thats the power I think I've topped the 500 with, I dont check the combat tab and everything was dead

I think I've topped 500 before a couple of times. To behonest I dont tend to watch the numbers after Breath Of Fire cause I'm too busy looking at the partical physics and grinning to read the numbers

23 Aug 2003

Verandi's given me some strange women to test on. Odd make up, I'd think they were goths except for the really bright clothes. They dont seem to react to the machine the same way everyone else does, and their DNA sure is interesting after the tests. I think I might be able to make something of them. It does seem a bit of a waste though, they're rather attractive after all. Oh finally managed to get the fire more under control, if I suck the air out of the test chamber the risk of fires spreading is nill. Unfortunately this is costing me a lot in test cases, the police seem to be getting suspicious. Aren't there enough villains in Paragon already for them? Why do they keep trying to track me down, I'm doing it for science.

01 Sep 2003

Well I finally got a couple of male test cases. They seemed to hold onto their minds slightly better than the women before, but not enough that I'd be willing to try the experiments on myself yet. No one will miss two homeless guys, I'm helping society be cleaner. Unfortunately the police dont seem to see it that way. I may have to lay low for a while, so its back to the gym for me.

01 Jan 2004

What a new years party, what a collection. Its amazing how many strangers you can draw with offers of free alcohol, now to run some more tests, hopefully before any starve. Verandi doesn't seem to think I need to feed them. She's heartless but efficient, I'll give her that. We make a great team, my brains and her money have us poised on success

Not seen them after the 3rd upgrade but they've never run down to half yet

If you're taking tough that late I'd take Incinerate instead of Boxing, otherwise looks good from first glance

Teh 1st and 2nd teir I've gone 2 acc, 3 dam. The third teir is 1acc 2 dam atm, but at level 32 it will be 1acc, 3 fear, 2 hold

EMP doesn't drop toggles if you have AM running, as you still get a slither of end back

They dont use the health until they get the 2nd upgrade for most pets, then its for Siphon life

Wouldn't 2 tanks and 5 defenders have the same effect?(without having a ton of tanks trying to out taunt each other)

I dont like range, so I ply a necro, I tried Ninja's but they didn't fit well with Dark as a secondry (bad synergy) so I stuck to a stereotype. I tried bots a couple of times too, hated them each time. So I guess the reason is that most people have no taste

Have the same HO on offer as Keef does

want Dam/range

Can use the HO I've got but I want to get my TT slotted up

It muct be flurry, cant think of any other reason for that powers existance

Schro could probably cope with an AV, just about, on a good team, with some luck. She's not horribly gimped, just lacking in something called an attack cycle

The big lined up group of monsters blocking one of the bottle necks into the jelly. Are they significant in some way, cause its the only place it happens in the hive (there's about 22 of them so would still be an effort for anyone to test)

Got room for a Rad/Rad?

I'm pretty much as far south as it gets (Southampton) but have car and will travel.

Can we start AV thursdays after the Freespec comes? Nothing makes Schro so fun to play than an AV, it's what she does best

At the moment I just release one of the grave knights, will be the lich when I get it. At the start of the mish by the time I've buffed everything else I can resummon the knight

Gun-nut on onion??!

Nah I need a grav controller friend, all their holds and imobs stop that vile knockback (even a TA friend would be handy)

I'm chucking nova from my build with the fresspec. I picked it up to make leveling to 20 easier but I completely hate it. It holds no appeal for me and I simply dont want to spend my game time playing something I think is aweful. Others like nova (probably those same weirdo's who think blasters are "cool" :P ) but it really isn't for me. If I'm not hitting, debuffing, or controlling then I'm not having fun (in that order)

Real life just hit me, in a good way, but means I cant make the spawning, sorry guys. Seems Frosty's never gonna get his revenge on the CoT

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Cynic as you have a lvl 40 /DA brute do you get much damage out of the damage aura or not cause at the levels I played with a scrapper and a brute it didnt seem justified for the end cost. I was pre stamina and SO's so it might change then but I honestly couldnt see the reason for including it in a build that is very end hungry anyway.

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Played around on test with it (as I didn't have it to start with) and decided it's not worth it, but mostly because I have the AoE damage covered anyway.

Oh and the Dark Regen question, for PvE the best slotting I've managed is 1 acc, 2 end, 2 rech, 1 heal, cause you get over a third back from one target so is good for AVs, is freequent enough and doesn't cripple you when you do it.

I also dont have CoF, that's a massive end cost and discourages them for hitting you and building fury. On the Da side I only have 5 powers. 3 shields, CoD, Dark Regen, I cope better without all the others (having a respec before copying to test really helped me prove what I thought I already knew) but then that's for my play style and with the AoE madness of fire

I normally use Ltn's too, mostly because bosses have the acc to deal with the debuffs better so you ideally want them dead first. Most scrappers head straight for the boss so that works out fine.

En blasters tend to be more trouble than Khelds I found, because they'd single target the anchor leaving everyone out of it. If its a cone knockback then at least the whole group goes in the same direction

I'm going out at 7:10, but Caleb only takes 15 minutes to spawn tops