Dechs Kaison

Try a defrag. The updater tends to fragment files like a ****.

Edit: I can't believe they censor that word. I mean, it's just an M, an F, and two Os.

Ok, so how about you give me one billion infamy, and I'll go through the effort to make you a three billion infamy build.

That would be worth my time to do.

I run into this all the time. Rigorous use of the goto command is a remedy.

The Assbot is great at staying behind, even though sometimes I'd rather he did smack the enemies in the face.

Between Arachnos and Longbow, I'm pretty sure that, suffice to say, Redside has [your weakness].

There are four unique IOs, two are from "recharge intensive pet" sets, which is why I say they have to go in gang war. Gang war is the only power you have which will accept "recharge intensive pet" sets.

You don't need provoke. I'm going to say you don't need fitness either, though. So as usual, your mileage may vary. My bots/traps runs with teleport, presence, leadership, and hasten. I don't use provoke unless things get really ugly (say, aggroing an extra spawn of malta).

First, I'm not saying to slot defense debuff, I'm saying slot defense buff. Combining that with the unique IOs will almost soft cap your pets to everything. Invaluable protection, which is why I suggest taking maneuvers to push it to the soft cap. That last 5% will be incredible. Read the guide in my sig for an explanation of why.

Personally, I would replace at least two of the acc/dmg/end with just acc/dmg. Your pets don't need that much end reduction. My protector bots have two common defense buff IOs and one healing IO. The rest is blood mandate sets, and I don't miss the damage output from them. I feel it's worth it to be unhittable.

It would be nice to keep the achilles heel resistance debuff though.

+Rech does nothing for pets. They are completely unaffected by any recharge modification, plus or minus. I'd go with the uniques, ED cap his damage, throw in one acc common and call it a day. Thugs in particular don't need much acc because of enforcers, especially if you take tactics too.

Totally OK. I'm glad I could help. If, in fact, I did.

Or Bots/FF.

But really, LX, you mean to tell me you can't monitor exactly what each member of your team is doing, mathematically comparing who is contributing more, and offer suggestions to improve their tactics... all while doing the Warshade Dance?

I thought you were better than that.

Truer words have not been spoken.

No one here is debating whether a scrapper is useful.

We're saying that a scrapper is, by definition, not force multiplication.

This was hilarious.

And I'll take my bots away from the black market when you pull me to the arena over it, thank you very much. And turn off your quills.

You can't use a blanket statement like that to say that all multiplication is really addition. At the bare bones of it, multiplying four by three is the same as adding four plus four plus four.

Let's say a scrapper is a four. Let's say a defender is a 4 too. If you "add" three scrappers together, you get 12. Fancy that, four times three. If you multiply a scrapper by a defender, you get 16. That's four plus four plus four plus four. They are different operators.

Put another way:

4 + X = ?

4 * X = ?

The above statements do not equal each other except in one case. Other than that, no matter what X is, so long as it's greater than 1, multiplying is always better.

Put even another way:

If you take any two integers and add them together, then you take those same two integers and multiply them, you will get different results. Unless your two numbers were both 0 or 2.

The point is, multiplication is different from addition.

I'll do this too.

You don't need to focus on anything so long as you tank for your pets. Just leave them in BG mode and take the alpha. Nothing will survive long enough once you've put the -resist arrows down. Thugs are especially resilient with all the leadership buffs from enforcers, and if you take those powers too, the stacking is great. If you have all four unique pet IO's, you'll be practically invincible.

Universal. If you put all four in gang war, even if you never used it, your pets would have +20% resist all and +10% defense to all, as long as they were in range of the aura. I think it's the same range as BG mode (somebody verify this).

You'd be better off spreading those IO's around though, so that gang war can still be powerful. Two of them have to go in gang war, the others are best put in thugs and bruiser. You need all six slots of enforcers for acc, damage, defense buff, and maybe one +tohit buff.

If you happen to be running a Kheldian with three or even two forms, you'll work for hours to take every slot you can get your hands on!

Otherwise, yes, I agree with you.

My only redside 50 (bots/traps) made it there by pure greed... At level 32, I had every power and slot I wanted. But I wanted purples. I wanted merits. I wanted more prestige. I wanted it all. I ran ITFs and LGTFs like mad. Getting the exp was totally inconsequential to the end goal.

Ah HA! I get it now. Thanks.

No you don't. I totally understand a bit of rage in response to my earlier comments.

I was an ***, I said I'm sorry, you still felt pretty upset but with good reason. It's all good.

We cool?

Hard control ... FROM RANGE.

But...

That's the same as rolling a new character...

Yes, my point is that this seems to be intentional. The 5th are supposed to be making a comeback, not just an uprising. The devs seem to be making it a point to say that this insurrection has potential, and is in the 5th's favor.

One level makes a ton of difference. 5th get hit less often and take less damage from Council, but land more hits and hit harder.

These two, and:

3. Casino Tables - Also in Pocket D. Just put a prestige price on them and give them to bases. Can't be that hard!

"If I see farther, it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants."

I believe it was Archimedes who said that.