Dechs Kaison

I dunno, I always saw it as "He used to be such a nasty villain, we better be nice to him now in case he switches back!" Or in the case of a low infamy villain "Who gives a **** that he's a hero now? He couldn't nab my purse off the hellions."

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Majors? Is that like a brand of Iced Tea Pitchers?

*I come from Pittsburgh; we haven't seen good baseball in decades.

I tried to make this obvious: I'm not telling you to get into optimization. I'm not talking about covering weaknesses or closing holes. I'm just saying to slot your IOs like they're multi aspect SOs. Ignore the set bonuses entirely. You don't care if you have them, much less what they are.

Two accuracy SOs is usually overkill in an attack power. One accuracy IO and one Accuracy/Damage IO is about the same amount of accuracy, but you're getting some extra damage you didn't have before. If you were to then add three damage/endurance/recharge IOs from different sets into one power, you'd be amazed how many SOs that's equivalent to, and it's been done in five slots total.

I'm just offering a suggestion here. You don't have to go for optimization. You don't have to care about set bonuses. You don't have to worry about a "build that will never be finished." You just have to know that every single IO you put into a build makes it better than the day before.

Installing Mids, learning how to use it, planning a crazy build, investing in all the IOs and taking the time to slot them: Yeah, that I'll give you as "difficult." It's also bloody annoying unless, like me, you enjoy that kind of thing.

But you certainly don't have to go that far. Stop by the invention tables in RWZ, a university, your base, or the abandoned labs at the end of the day. Go through your inventory of invention recipes that dropped today, and make a few of them. Chances are there will be a few set IOs that can be crafted. There's no marketing required here, just one extra stop on your way to the vendor. Now see if any of those enhancements fit somewhere on your character. Even if you get a grand total of zero set bonuses, level 50 IOs are flat out better than SOs. Think back to your old thread on dual-aspect enhancements, and how huge the benefits were. It's even better for three and four aspect IOs. Any set bonuses you obtain this way will be by accident, but are benefits on top of having better enhancement values.

If you really can't make that one stop on the way to a vendor at the end of your day, then I suppose I have to respect that. I don't understand it, but I'll respect it and leave you be. I'm just making this effort to stress to you how easy the system can be.

My Dark Armor tank is capped to S/L/E/N defense. My Warshade happens to have five purple sets and 187.5% global recharge. My Mastermind has S/L and ranged defense capped and something on the order of eleventy billion hitpoints.

None of them are "toons."

For me, it's not about accessing all the content. It's about accessing my friends and the content they are currently playing with my favorite characters. I like being my warshade, no matter what level he is. He's fun to RP and he's a blast to play. My mastermind and tank are no different. More importantly to me, though, is being able to play with my friends. And if they're level 20 characters are running a Positron today, then I want to be with them. I don't want to be useless to them because I built with the idea that I'll only be good at 50.

No, but apparently my eyes are. I just wasn't looking for it.

Ah, I hadn't seen those announced yet. Last I heard they were both uncertain.

Can't we get more satisfaction out of knowing we get more inf/mob we're killing and the drops will be level 50 instead of 49?

That and naming the two new TFs as the WTFs.

I know they avoid late week launches because they don't want to have a potential problem pop up and extend into the weekend.

My money's on Tuesday. Wednesday at the latest.

EDIT: Also, I'll be checking Tuesday (Wednesday) afternoon when I try to log in and get a forced download. Until then, business as usual.

If that's the case, you probably should have thrown your build out to start things off.

That was a valiant effort at getting us to do all the work for you.

You can use a forum search next time.

Divert all possible resources to getting Firefly back into production.



City of Heroes is great and all, but I feel there are higher callings out there...

Except that the way you've reworded his quote, you've changed its meaning.

There are no reasons for it to be impossible, but I think you're coming at this from the very wrong angle. If you propose a suggestion, you have to justify why it is necessary or at the very least beneficial to enact said suggestion.

"It's not impossible, the devs should expend the resources to implement this" is an illogical conclusion.

"It's not necessary or beneficial, the devs should not waste the resources to implement this" is a logical conclusion, and right now, the one that your suggestion is faced with.