Dechs Kaison

Yes.

A recipe isn't so much "learned" as it is "consumed." It's a one time thing that gets burned up with the salvage.

You can, however, "memorize" the common IO recipes by crafting them enough times to earn certain badges.

I'm not sure what you're asking, can you elaborate?

Well, Dark Armor Sucks, of course.

But seriously, all tanks are pretty squishy at low levels. They're like scrappers, but without damage, critical hits, and have a few more health points to compensate.

With IO sets, Dark Armor really has some of the best potential in the game.

I'm sorry, I wasn't trying to say you shouldn't use it. I'm saying that the devs had to limit its effectiveness somehow, or it would be a clear advantage in all levels of play, and even serve as an extra spot to put set IOs... a whole gamut of complaints arise.

Maybe they could make it cost less endurance to begin with, but right now, it's balanced. Make sure you get two or more enemies in the Sands of Mu cone. That really gets more bang for your buck.

The one you enjoy.

This game is very well balanced, all things considered. There isn't going to be a huge performance gap between X and Y sets within an AT. Different people excel at different things, but no one is top dog everywhere. There's also no "worst" powerset combination either.

Also, welcome to the game!

Play around. Try everything. Find something you like doing and looks cool and is fun. You can't go wrong. You really can't.

Speaking of, I ran an MoSTF last weekend with a particularly good traps/ice defender. Thorn tree got one of our blasters, so when it came time for taking Aeon out, we kind of ran in 4 directions killing security chiefs as we felt like doing (Project Masters failed, so revert to normal DKTF rules). The resulting chaos and seemingly endless ambushes were a ton of fun.

Anyway, to the point of the story and to finish this little threadjack, I was tanking Wretch, I think, when I noticed the ambush text. Before I could get to the door, the trapfender already had caltrops in the doorway and an Ice Storm in the room the ambush was trapped in.

Our AR blaster proceeded to mop the room up posthaste with an ignite patch and a heavy dose of lead poisoning.

As the others have said, any AT will get you there if you join teams. Scrappers solo well.

But I have to go ahead and suggest that you play a 'shade.

That's the whole point to the patron/ancillary pools. They are designed to give you what your character is lacking, and in the case of stalkers, ranged damage is what you are missing.

Ever have that one longbow eagle fly away from you? Wouldn't it be nice to smite him from afar? Dark Blast to the rescue!

There are other powers in there too, that are meant to supplement your abilities as a stalker. As mentioned: Shadow Meld can be a great way to save yourself from cascading defensive failure. Hibernate is nice in PvP, I'd imagine, but you have to be careful coming out of it. Also as mentioned, spirit shark does pretty over the top damage.

Mu can give you some extra AoE damage if that's what you're looking for. Also, I've heard that the Mu pet heals you.

Black Scorpion causes redraw. I hardly ever pick his powers on any character.

Holy crap, this.

This is a very good point. Don't thank me for buffs; don't thank me for using taunt; don't thank me for using beanbag.

You can, however, thank me for choosing to give fortitude to your blaster instead of the tank.

You can thank me for taunting the specific mobs that were about to smite you.

You can thank me for beanbagging the sapper.



tl;dr: Don't thank me for using powers. Thank me for using them well.

This.

Everyone benefits from SB, and a lot. Lightning rods and blaster nukes more often kill more foes. Dark Regenerations and Healing Flames more often keep tanks alive. More endurance keeps the toggle debuffs on longer. Scrappers might fall into higher power attack chains. An extra person on the team might get fortitude. Players relying on Power Sink or Consume no longer waste that animation time and do more killing. Maybe the phantom army becomes permanent now. That warshade summons a fourth or fifth fluffy ball of doom.

And the stone tank can get to the mob before the team finishes it off. I guess everybody wins.

Standard code rant, it's probably possible, but highly improbable that it'd ever be implemented. Since endurance is consumed when you click the power, code would have to check after the power finishes animating and then give you endurance back.

Slot for accuracy and endurance reduction. Problem solved.

No. You get a free power for having played the game a while. It's already really powerful, so not being able to enhance it limits the end game use a bit. It's called balance.

I can verify that the build up proc has a chance to happen every time the pet attacks for every target your pet hits. Both my warshade's fluffy and my assbot have seen it doublestacked.

PA is unaffected by pretty much everything, though, so I don't know if it will affect them.

And it's a good thing they're not the best at everything. If at any point in the game any AT is the best at everything, there's a very large problem. They are, as you said, arguably the most powerful, and that's a key point. If it's ever cut and dry, then we've got to worry.

Ok, I completely agree here. Even the most controlling MM cannot control as well as some of the worst controlling controllers and dominators. I'll even include the subdivision of aggro control. An MM will not hold aggro as well as even willpower tanks/brutes (unless they didn't take taunt).

Why can't I be like a scrapper sometimes? Just because they don't contribute anything to the team, they get to run off and do their own thing while no one cares. I walk away with my debuffs and force multiplication and all hell breaks loose.

Er... right. I knew that.

I think I just wanted to highlight it some more. Maybe.

Don't forget warshades wanting to perma-eclipse, as I alluded to in my first post.