Dechs Kaison

I'm very certain that the only way to accomplish this is to use several different images, each with their own link, that get placed next to each other for a seamless transition.

You do this by creating one big image, then splitting it into the desired parts.

As far as I can tell, the list is alphabetical by power name. Acid Mortar will always be at the top. Seekers will always be just above Zombies and Thugs.

When I get home and have access to mids I'll do some quick calcs. I'm not sure how to account for switching forms and the time associated, so I'll just do two versions of dwarf: One while hasten is active and one while it's not.

Sorry for not being clear, I mean that I don't stay in dwarf form unless the team needs someone to tank the AV.

I frequently use dwarf to be all scrappy like, but I tend to do so briefly to get my mires up and then drop for an Unchain Essence.

What I said earlier was that if you indeed wanted a scrapper feeling kheldian, Dwarf Heavy Warshade is the way to accomplish that.

That's my other worry. Could my warshade handle all those extra enemies? I'm guessing so, but now we're talking something a great deal more stressful than I feel like testing. Meh, maybe.

That is the absolute worst and most useless power for a tri-form warshade, and yet my MFing Warshade still picked it because it's that MFing gorgeous.

That's going to be difficult to obtain, especially if you want results that mean anything.

I mean, I could give you a calculation of my Warshade's DPS output if he were locked in Dwarf and assuming only one target for Mire buffs, but that's hardly ever a true situation. Even against an AV at the end of a TF I'm switching to human for Mire and Gravity Well, and usually sticking to Nova for DPS. The Dwarf is only used when the team actually needs someone to do the tanking and there's no other option.

To do a Pylon test is even harder. First, I'm not sure a Dwarf can put out the DPS to solo a pylon. Second, I'm not sure if Dwarf alone is enough to survive the pylon. Remember that warshades thrive in hordes of enemies that allow for saturated buffs and frequent health/endurance refills.

This will be a pain to convert over if you decide to do so. There's no sugar coating that. At the time I did it, I only had my defense writeup and The MFing Warshade to convert, so it wasn't terrible. I can say I'm much more pleased with the results than a forum post gives me.

This can be a problem. I know my sig is only so big, and I recently bumped one guide out of the sig to make room for my new tanking (the role, not the AT) guide. But thanks to Google's Blogspot I'm able to create pages in addition to just blog posts. One of those pages is a listing of my guides.

Does this accomplish what you want it to? I don't think so, since you would like your entire list of guides in your signature. I would to, to be sure, because there's not telling who needs to read what. What I've settled for is keeping the more popular and newer links in my sig and the others in an easy to find, but not immediately accessible list.

I earn that reward this September. I can't wait. I think I might use it on a character or two.

You can do as I've done, which is to create a blog or your own webpage of some sort. There's no cost associated in doing so, and there is the benefit of being able to format and design your guides as you please. You can embed photos and videos as well.

Alright, I've got what I believe to be an accurate figure that comes from testing with a sufficiently large sample size that takes LTs and bosses into account. This makes for a much more applicable calculation for anyone who happens to be interested in this. Considering average spawns that include bosses, the estimate is 1 purple drop per 3700 defeats.

Let's run the same calculations again.

After 3700 defeats, it's 63% likely that you've gotten a drop. Note that this is the same as the 5000 defeats at 1/5000 odds calculation. This is not a coincidence.

To be likely (50%) that you've gotten at least one drop, you only need to defeat 2565 enemies.

To be 90% likely that you've gotten at least one drop, you will need to defeat 8520 enemies.

Remember that all of this is by yourself. Multiply by 8 if you're going to be with a full team all the time.

Actually... yeah, I would call that a good sample size. The only issue is that it's for enemies defeated, not specific to rank. It's not much of an issue because you can't actually fight just one rank of enemies anyway.

I did some math in another thread that was based on the 1/5000 number (which may be accurate for minions, according to these figures). I'll re-run those numbers with this figure and see what happens.

Thank you, MrLiberty.

EDIT: I bet it's too much to ask if anyone's done sufficient testing without bosses to see what numbers could be obtained?

Erm... Uh... I thought it was the level 1 power you couldn't skip? I dunno how I forgot that.

Shadow cloak is my fifth LotG.

Freedom has a good population of non-AE players. Have you tried using your server's global channels to find teammates for normal mission teams?

Simple. You need something stronger than Arachnos Soldier to be their Commander.

Speaking as someone who has taken a longer than two year break from this game: No, it's not a big deal.

Been a long time since I've done that kind of math now, but I'll give it my best.

I'm fair certain that the odds of a purple drop for a minion are 0.02%, or one in five thousand.

This is going to be easier to figure out backwards. If you defeat one minion, your odds of not getting a purple drop are 99.98%. When you've defeated a second minion, your odds that you haven't gotten any drops is now 99.96%.

Basically,
Probability of no drops = (1 - chance of drop) ^ defeats

By setting the probability to a number and using the defeats as our variable, we can determine how many defeats are needed to obtain a certain probability of "no drops." One minus that is the chance that you've gotten at least one drop. I'm not sure I remember how to solve for "defeats," so I'm just going to trial and error some numbers in.

After 5000 defeats, it's a 36.7% chance that you've gotten no drops, or a 63% chance that you've gotten at least one.

After 3566 defeats, it is likely (50%) that you've gotten at least one drop.

To have a 90% probability of getting at least one drop, you need to defeat 11,512 minions.

These are the numbers for defeating them by yourself, assuming my initial one in five thousand is correct. To find out how many minions you have to defeat while on a team, essentially multiply these numbers by 8.

Can anyone confirm that one in five thousand figure?

What a joke they've turned these things into.

Well, happy Pride month, anyway.

I see you haven't read the entire guide, as I have clearly addressed this.

Also please note that the saying is indeed "The tank who is the last man standing, has failed." That is not the same as saying "the tank who has let a teammate die has failed."

As a tank, you may not be able to save everyone, but you sure as hell ought to be able to stop a teamwipe.

I disagree that Blaster secondaries are designed as build up + eight powers that are meant to be skipped. If you don't understand what you are posting, why are you posting it?

Well, there goes any shred of credibility you ever thought you had.