Fortress_NA

Isn't that what a test server is for? After all, 'No Guts, No Gui'.

I had forgotten that 'Desks' also included things like cabinets. It makes sense that it would not only not have legs/pedestals like a desk, but that it would be solid when viewed from below.

I want to make a four-layer maze, and that leaves no room for 'flooring' of significant thickness. I've already drawn it on graph paper, now I just need the in-game components to build it.

But being desks, they would seem (afaik) to have two 'problems': They are as thick/tall as a desk, and they have unsightly legs/drawers below the desktop.

Ah. "Cuts down on rendering" - as in the time it takes a computer to draw (render) objects on the screen? I never heard of rendering speed being an issue inside a SG base...

I didn't know that.

Wait -- desks can be used for flooring? Presumably if you don't care about the space below, what with all the desk legs sticking down.

I wish a small tile (the size of the SG Floorplate) had a "bottom skirt" -- I want to build a multi-level maze in my base with them as the floor, but can't because of the invisibility issue.

Not to mention that at 1K a pop -- and 2k per 'walled' side on each square using the smaller SG "glass" display -- it's a darned expensive maze. A 6 x 8 x 4 maze sets me back about 600,000 Prestige currently. o.0

That's just whacked. It should give *me* the endurance, being that it is an attack/offensive power I am using.

Oops. You are correct, sir.

This comment made me go read up on this: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Exemplar...n_Enhancements

I was not aware of much of this. Though in your build it looks like you slotted enhancements in a specific sequence as if you loose access to slots (3?) above what you are exemped down to?

Something else I was unaware of:
WTF? So just about any Elec power that can slot Performance Shifter because it drains Endurance, when 6-slotting PS has a chance of giving them back Endurance I just drained?


Build Questions:

* You took both Aim and Build Up, but not Zapp, Thunder Strike, or Thunderous Blast?
* When you slot PS - End Mod/Acc into Recovery, the Acc part of the enhancement doesn't do anything because it's not a Global, right?

I can handle mobs with just damage -- my trouble starts with EBs and kills me vs AVs. I'm willing to rebuild to increase my sapping/holds if they will work against EBs/AVs -- can *they* recover END fast even after hitting them with Short Circuit and/or EM Pulse?

Thanks! I wasn't aware of the B-17's name when I chose the picture, but a quick Google search would seem to confirm that. Good eye!

I'm set at baseline, and I have trouble with EBs, even with munching a lot of candy. They're doable, but it's a tought fight for my E^3. Forget AVs.

Well, considering he currently has close to +0% Defense, wouldn't that be an improvement? Both Frozen Shield [Frozen Armor (Cold Mastery powerset) ?] and Scorpion Shield ( Mace Mastery powerset) are outside of what is possible for my E^3.

I don't intend to feel like a SR Scrapper or SD Tanker -- i'd be happy with being able to reliably take down Elite Bosses in 1:1 fights.

Bookmarked. Great article! Thanks for the link.

I've never been able to get a Hold to 'stick' on an EB for more than about 1 second, and never on an AV. So when fighting them, I rarely try Holds any more. Same goes for Giant Monsters.

I haven't given up on it yet.

Is it possible to do both well? Both be a good Sapper (able to solo EB's), and be "big-time AOE damage"?

Like Scarlet Shocker, I have an E^3 that I need to respec, both to take advantage of the i19 changes, and to make him less "squishy". I've only recently started learning about IO Sets, and haven't gotten any Hammi-O's, Hydra-O'a, or Titan-O's yet. Or any 'Purples'.

Aside: I really wish that CoX had an "export" feature that would create a file you could then import directly into Mids.

I tend to play solo much more than I team, mainly due to my work schedule. Thus, when I face a mob, there are invariably less than 16, or even 10, of them -- limiting the usefulness of my AoEs.

I discussed my toon's lack of longevity ("squishiness") in fights with a fellow player I met at DragonCon. He suggested I try increasing Defense instead of Resistance (what I had been doing). Toward that end, I'm leaning toward replacing his 3 Legacy Fitness powers with Boxing/Tough/Weave, and replacing his Static Discharge (which has underwhelmed me so far) with Combat Jumping, and replacing Air Superiority with Hover.

A test build I did in Mids managed to get all of his defenses up to at least 18+ percent, with more than half being higher. I don't have a 'feel' for the numbers yet -- is that a decent/good/great amount of defense? But at the same time, I felt that I had 'Robbed Peter to pay Paul'. I felt that the build would be sub-par on damage, having using much of his slots on the defense powers.

Another question about the Electrical Mastery Epic Pool. It is not possible to take all 5 powers, so what criteria do others use to determine what one (or more) powers from that pool they do not take?

I have a macro for each of the 4 emote flight poses.

That does save on the number of keys it would take. Personally, I prefer having a separate key/macro for each pose so the character goes straight to the pose I want.

Interesting. Is this the manually-typed slash command? Because I've taken screenshots with the print screen key (keybind) and it doesn't change the pose. And since I use a non-standard setup (all movement on the numpad, and the mouse to control targeting & power activation), taking my hands off that position to type is cumbersome to me.

That's neat how you overlapped the pads. But how did you get the beacons to mount directly to the pads instead of the wall?

I had stated that I had sufficient Power, Control, and Prestige, thus implying that I had means to generate them.

The missing elements were that I had to craft the telepad, and that it took a worktable that the base didn't have when I inherited it.

Once I got past those two missing pieces of the puzzle, it became fairly straightforward.

I do have one question about the Teleporter Beacons. AFAICT, the beacons are available as soon as you get all the exploration badges from a map, and aren't crafted. Is there a way to change where in the map it sends you? In a conversation with the previous leader (before leaving), I was led to believe that the destination point is selectable.