Dechs Kaison

1) Yes, because it goes faster. For some, it's what makes it possible.
2) Yes.
3) No. Bruising grants a power to the enemy, so the enemy gives itself the debuff. That means the debuff always comes from an even con source. It can be resisted, however.

Let me address these points in reverse.

2) Yours was not the only MoLGTF I've run during the bug.
1) I'm not saying my tank held the Mitos. I'm saying there's no way in hell that with only my hold on the team that the mitos were held, but we put out enough damage to kill them despite that.

Is it easier with holds? Yeah.
Is it impossible without them? Not remotely.

Excuse me, but who came into this thread with a snarky reply to a snipped quote, citing a rare edge case?

Hey, you can do what you want. Wait however long you want turning down whoever you want. I will continue to take the first seven people to reply and we will make due with what we have, and have a blast doing so.

I did it back on hard mode when you needed 50 mag of hold with nothing but my tanker's app hold on the team. For a successful master of run, no less.

This game is balanced around SOs. Any rag tag team can accomplish anything, apart from maybe the new incarnate stuff. There is little that cannot be overcome with the right strategy and inspirations.

Your intolerance haas no place here. We play for fun.

You know, it's not that hard. I know I've done it.

For me, it's a question of compatibility. I'm not sure how my computer will work with a Radeon, but I know that it works with Nvidia.

Maybe I didn't get the absolute most for my money, but if it runs the shiny parts of Ultra Mode, I'll be happy.

Good to hear, thanks. I ordered the EVGA, but I did get a $30 rebate on it.

Ok, so EVGA makes the Newegg one I linked, and PNY makes the Best Buy one? Is there anything else different besides the name on the card?

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I'd have never guessed.



This just in: The player behind the screen matters as much as the IOs on the character.
News at eleven.

Probably because brutes, the AT that would care about damage performance, are quite happy with the set's performance, even with the diluted effect Rage gives to brutes. They don't want to complain about it considering that any time the devs take to look at the set will probably result in a performance reduction.

The tankers that complain about its presumed poor performance are the ones that have a deluded perspective and don't understand that the most survivable AT cannot also be the highest damage dealing AT. These unfortunate people are forever doomed to ask for things outside the realm of reasonable expectation. They do not see the sets over performance, and instead only compare Super Strength for tankers to similar damage dealing sets of scrappers.

As a general thing, I've noticed that OG seems to do more damage to me than the minions it stuns.

Unless they're debuffing minions. Like Spec Ops. Or those nasty cold domination minions my friends like to use in AE.

Eclipse.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA MFing Warshade indeed.

S'alright, I had a bit of a rocky weekend. I read too much into your statement, and it seems a bit of pent up frustration got triggered on you. I apologize for being so over the top.

I assume you've seen my tanker's build. The most rare thing I use is the Kinetic Combat set, the next being Reactive Armors. If I bought everything on the market as crafted IOs for buy it now prices, yes, it would have cost an arm and a leg. I boast having built it entirely on 300 million. Granted, this was a few issues ago when less people were playing their level 50s and more were generating things like Kinetic Combat and Reactive Armor recipes.

Much of it, however, was done with merits. Nowadays, thanks to hero/villain merits, it is a hundred times easier to buy these expensive recipes. What used to cost 240 merits now costs as much as 2 hero/villain merits. Each hero/villain is roughly equivalent to 50 merits, so you can see how much "cheaper" it is this way. Many recipes are now half the merit cost.

I understand your pain about missing, but understand that once you're at 95% chance to hit something, nothing you do can make you hit more often. At the very best, you should expect to miss once for every twenty attacks. Enough accuracy is enough, and especially thanks to Soul Drain, I'm sure you will find accuracy to be much less of a problem with this tanker. The Kismet +6% tohit IO (since I see you plan to grab it) will do wonders.



I took a look at your latest build. Here's how I'd finish it:

Endurance is a bit tight, but with two Performance Shifter procs accounted for and every toggle running, you should be at 1.5 end/sec net recovery. When coupled with Conserve Power and the occasional Dark Consumption, you'll be fine.

I added the Steadfast Protection +3% defense IO, which is actually very cheap. At most, it should cost you one run through an AE mission to roll a few bronze recipes at the lowest band. I added a single defense IO to combat jumping, and now you're at 44.7% S/L defense. You'll be amazed how much difference it makes. Less getting hit means less Dark Regenerations, which means more time spent attacking and less endurance spent recovering.

The way I have things slotted, every attack (with the exception of Boxing) has the maximum possible accuracy against +2 enemies. I don't expect you to use boxing in an attack rotation (I know I don't), so I took away the extra slot and changed the most expensive KC IO to the knockdown proc, which you can't even give away these days.

Ok, now let's talk budget. Considering your situation, here's how I'd build this guy. Start with the Theft of Essence proc, that's the most important thing. In fact, you should already have one. Then start getting your Reactive Armor sets and that Steadfast +3% defense IO, since your resistance is the most important thing to you. Really, you don't need a finished build to be an awesome tank, you can do almost anything you need to on SOs alone, so all these bonuses are just gravy. Work on one set of KC at a time from there. If you want to finish out your LotG sets cheaply, substitute the Defense/Recharge IO for the Defense/Global Recharge one.

You can accomplish all this with SOs alone. You don't need my help.

Frankly I find this insulting, particularly the highlighted part.

To begin my retort, however, I shall state that recharge yields diminishing returns, particularly in regards to survivability. Recharge will allow you to Dark Regen one more time every two minutes than me, but the defense I've built means I take less than one fourth of the damage you do. Hit points, likewise, are adding only 20% to your hit point pool. I've accomplished 13.5% in my own build, which also has softcapped defenses and therefore multiply the survivability of that 13.5% hit points. Accuracy is only needed to a point where you can hit things reliably, and considering you won't survive alone against +4s, I don't see what good it does you to be able to hit them.

Now back to that highlighted part. I have a life, too. I may not have as many alts as you, but I have a family and a full time job and a house to take care of. I have friends and relatives I manage to visit, as well as clubs to which I belong. I am highly insulted by your insinuation that I cannot have these things because of the "elite loot" I've been able to attain.

Right now, they're the most common type of incarnate salvage to drop.

Yes, talk to pedestrians with names that start with a certain letter.