Eiko-chan

There's actually something in the game Repeat Offenders has trouble such that they'd choose not to do it? That surprises me. I thought RO specialised in breaking the game more than anyone else.

RttC is the worst taunt aura in the game. I don't think you can necessarily depend on it to make sure everyone it hits is actually taunted to the caster.

If you're weird, at least you're not weird alone. That distracted me too.

Behavioural Adjustment Facility. Basically the big prison/mental institute/ghulag in Praetoria (currently in the northern part of the Imperial City map).

I play redside Virtue. Will you be around tonight? Do you still need help?

Maybe her favourite comic character is Medusa.

They hit you with one. They will not bubble the rest of your team.

Fortunately, Hover negates the worst part of KB anyway (the actually getting knocked back part), so you should be fine.

It could be FF's fault; FF isn't a very active powerset. An /FF MM is going to spend a lot of time standing around doing nothing (after the first few salvos of personal attacks, anyway; their end inefficiency makes them hard to use constantly). Traps, on the other hand, is far more active (and the traps you can use a lot - Web Grenade in particular - don't have prohibitively high end costs), and Bots are probably the toughest pet set (so you don't run into the "oh no, I have to resummon again problem; Thugs are pretty tough too, though,) but I don't know you well enough to really know what you find fun. I find Bots/Traps to be a blast, though.

I also find parentheticals to be fun, too, though, so your mileage may vastly vary.

Don't worry. Your son will only take up all your free time for the next eighteen years. Then you'll spend the rest of your life wishing he'd call more.

Hey, I offered an IO and he said no. I doubt that would result in a character Sam would play.

Bots/Traps, Sam. Seriously. It's good.

Traps can softcap Bots too - you just need to have Manoeuvres and the aura +defence unique. FFG is 15, Manoeuvres is 4, the Prot Bots are 22, and the aura is the slack.

FF can soft cap the prot bots, who otherwise are not capped, though - but that's really about all it has going for it over traps.

If you want to do things besides use your secondary, FF is probably a good choice. If you want to use your secondary, Traps has all the tools you'll want to keep using (don't forget web grenade's -recharge; it's pretty hefty, and good for mitigation).

If I bought you a -KB IO to slot in Hover and sent it to you, would you use it?

You don't have to stay evil. Once you've run the first Patron arc and gotten the badge, you can always have Patron pools.

They have a unique set that doesn't transfer directly from the heroes, actually (at least as far as APPs go). Field Mastery isn't too-untechy, and of course Mace Mastery is definitely tech (albeit Arachnos tech).

Tough and Temp Invulnerability (from Field Mastery) give my Mastermind (in addition to her softcapped defences) nearly capped resistance to S/L as well. Once she gets higher levels of Incarnate slotting, she should get capped.

Bots/Traps is a blast, Sam. Give it a roll. You might even feel a need to creep up from your usual -1/x3 difficulty.

Of all the awesome things you have said, this is now my favourite.

Oh, hey, I forgot about Seeker Drones. Both you and your Protection Bots can have them, and between the three of you you should be able to have a set out every spawn. Out of the box, their -to hit makes up the +defence you lack for the soft cap, even running on SOs.

So there you have it: Bots/Traps can softcap everything but Psi with SOs.

Meh. It's not that big a deal to go run to an auction house, especially with the merged trains/ferries we now have.

As the token Vet-Reward hater, I approve of these rewards. Not a bad balance between "Hey, nice" for the veterans and "That's not that big a deal" for the newbies.

Without IOs, you'll be around 40-43% defence to everything with Bots/Traps, and if you take Acrobatics you can get KB protection to avoid the "flopping around" problem (and you'll probably want Super Jump as your travel power anyway, with the concept).

The key here is to have Weave, Combat Jumping, and Manoeuvres. Those together give about 15% defence; Your FFG will be another 15%, and the Bots will give around 11%. Steadfast Protection's +defence IO should push you near the softcap, but without it you're only 3 points off.

And then of course you can take Mace Mastery as your epic, get Scorpion Shield, and have a defence over 60 for Smashing, Lethal and Energy.

Wish granted.

Whereas I cannot have fun if I ever die, no matter my role. I also do not have fun while mezzed. Nor do I have fun when everything is dead and I don't feel like I had much to do with that happening (a large part of what often annoys me about teaming.)

I've got a really low threshold for failure, probably because my work is largely a task of solving other people's fail. I don't want to deal with any fail during my off hours because of that.