Emberly

Not sure I agree with the first part, seeing as I have four shieldies who are all at 45% MRA defense.

There's a wide range of values lying on the survivability continuum between "no defense" and "incarnate softcap". A decent Shield build should be fine. Carry candy.

Did you try buying upgrade 2 of 2? If you bought 1 of 2 last time, then 2 of 2 is the one you want. I bought the first upgrade months ago as well, and just got the second today, so it worked for me at least.

Nice to see the storage upgrades on sale. I bought 'em all.

You don't understand how the proc works. The perfshifter proc in Superior Conditioning works the same as it does in Physical Perfection, Stamina or Quick Recovery. When it procs, it grants you ten percent of your max endurance. It doesn't randomly increase your max endurance. It's fine in there. Mathematically it may or may not be the best choice but the proc will work exactly as the OP expects it to.

OP I think that's an interesting build. Personally I aim for S/L defense on my DA characters, but to each their own. That's a lot of end drain; I wonder if Form of the Soul can counteract it sufficiently, or are you planning on using Ageless?

It's monstrous. I'm sure someone will come along and say "but SS is better!" but TW is insane.

Staff is just fine regarding damage. The nerdrage from some corners of the forum is because it is not the next Super Strength or Titan Weapons. It has more than adequate damage and plenty of utility.

I bolded the part from Bizarro City of Heroes. I'd love to hear some details explaining how Ice has better AoE than Fire.

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Very true and also, Time enough -rech that you don't need more.

Well hot damn, I did not realize that incarnate shifts were counted when calculating the effects of level difference on debuff. Good to know. I've been running on +4 in DA since I hit 50 and it's been a rocking trip.

Add some pouches and hide the feet and this is about on Liefeld's level.


lmbo

Actually, both are subjective, because what makes a set good varies between people.

It's really not.

Enjoying staff so far, devs. The only complaints I have are that the sound is absolutely awful, and the PBAoE animation is incredibly stupid. Fun set otherwise, though.

I feel ya. I imagine these people sitting in the dark, fighting pylon after pylon, doing hundreds more DPS than me, and hating every second of it, all while I am settling for having fun in a game. I have this theory that the more lathered up you get about things like attack chains and DPS and stuff like that, the less likely you are to actually enjoy the damn game.

Oh, yeah, I know what Form of the Soul does. I'm just wondering when Speed Boost started granting global endurance reduction.

Speed Boost... global endurance reduction... what?


Just remember, when you fire off the PBAoE, they're laughing with you, not at you.

Your understanding of how the boosters work is flawed. Boosting an IO doesn't merely raise it to five levels higher. Consider the following:

• A level 45 straight damage IO grants a 40.5% damage boost.
• A level 50 straight damage IO grants a 42.4% damage boost.
• Boosting the level 45 IO to 45+5 grants a 50.625% damage boost, higher than the level 50 IO.

So why not just buy max-level IOs and boost those? One answer: exemplaring/malefactoring. Boosting a set of level 35 Obliterations, for example, gives you higher enhancement values than an unboosted set of level 50 Obliterations, and you get to keep your set bonuses way down to 32 instead of losing them at 46.

For those of us that exemp a lot, enhancement boosters have been an awesome addition to the game.