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General tip: Stamina. As you get more powers, your endurance usage goes up (esp. in the late teens.) There is a pool called Fitness; the last power in it is called Stamina and it helps greatly with endurance usage. To get Stamina, there are two requirements: you need to have two other powers in the pool first and you need to be level 20 or higher.

The EARLIEST you can get Stamina is level 20, and there is a common assumption on these forums that you MUST get Stamina at level 20. This is not true- but I'd aim for Stamina by level 24.

Two [or more] sets have powers that work like Stamina, but better (and without the prereqs): Regeneration and Willpower. (There may be others I'm not thinking of.) If you have those sets you don't need Stamina. Some people get Stamina anyway, later in the game, but you don't need Stamina.

If you're REALLY REALLY having endurance problems, try inviting one or two people onto your team (explaining that you're new- your problem in this game if you tell people you're new is usually "too much advice") and you'll find that you run out of enemies before you run out of ammo.

Dang. We are just lazy bankers, Enyalios, aren't we?

SLOT DEFENSE

that is all.

When the new interface started, it had that bug ( 10 slots filled, sold half a stack, 11 slots filled) but I think they fixed that. I haven't done any real research, but it hasn't annoyed me recently.

It would be fiendishly clever, help out my perceived problems, and could remove a disproportionate amount of inf in a hurry.

... fourspeed? Whu?

Next guess: 810,000,908 (yes, I'm conservative.)

My luck charms are gonna go away?

... I'll just have to BURN ANOTHER BILLION TO RELIST THEM.

I'm still running the backup service- still at worse rates. 100 gets you 85, either direction.

Mail it to @Smurphy and you'll get somewhere around 90 million back. Last I remember he was giving 95% but don't quote me.

Sonic dispersion is indeed a great TF character- and is rarely "rendered unnecessary" (like when you have three def-buffing characters on the team...) Almost nobody's capped on resistance, and everyone can use a hula hoop of extra damage.

A historical note: for the first few years, there was only one system of enhancements: the type you buy from stores in game, with TO's, DO's and SO's. Enhancements were really tough to buy until about level 32, at which point your income rose much faster than the cost of enhancements . At that point there was really nothing to do with spare inf so people would give it away to lowbies. (Your first set of SO's at 22 costs a million, more or less; your last set at 47 costs around 5 million. You need to replace about every 5 levels.)

Then the Invention System was added in issue 9. People bought the "best stuff" as it dropped, and so all this useless money actually started circulating. People were spending hundreds of millions of inf at the market, and a lot of that was going to low level characters. Prices at the market have gone up even higher- which is great if you're selling.

My suggestion is that you start out buying SO's, which work fine*, and selling all your salvage and recipes at the Auction House(except the generic ones, which have names like Invention: Damage), listing them at low prices. The system is "lowest sale goes to highest bid" so they'll sell fast and if it's a REALLY good item you'll still get a pretty good price. You will give people lots of bargains, but you will have more money than you can ever spend on SO's. You can learn about inventions when you're ready. Everybody wins.

* The devs did not make the game any harder when they introduced IO's, and we played on SO's just fine. There's about one thing in the IO system that I would say is "necessary", and that's knockback protection for blasters.

I seem to remember that even a really big stack of mines doesn't do much to an AV- 25% of HP, something like that.

908 million. Cause that's my market signature.

I don't know what the best profit point is. Taking a couple of arbitrary points (Impervium Armor: Resist, Celerity: Stealth, LoTG:7.5%) it looks like there are different points for different recipes. 33 is still holding strong for some stuff, 30 and 35 for others. 32 was surprisingly strong, but there weren't exactly a lot of recent sales at 32.

I hear Cimerrora has some.

I like 33 and 35, but I also like knowing other people are making different decisions than me.

Like Whisper said, there's always greater challenges.

Back in the day, soloing an AV without inspirations (or temp powers) was considered highly implausible. Now it's the standard.

And of course, the Ouro settings can nail you into "no temp powers, no inspirations" so you can't cheat even if you want to.

There was a similar Arcanaville analysis once [considerably pre- IOs]. I think she decided the "immortality line" gave misleading results- as you dial the damage up Regen is immortal, immortal, immortal, dead-in-10-seconds. I was always arguing that the immortality line for Invuln was disproportionately low because it's a slow-death set. Regen actually hits its lowest HP in the start of the fight and, as enemies get killed, it gains HP back. Invuln doesn't work like that. So maybe the dead-in-30-seconds line is worth considering. Of course, as long as you don't run out of endurance, anything that doesn't kill a Dark before Dark Regen comes back... won't.

Play through a few levels, paying attention to what works and what doesn't.

Figure out what you want to do FIRST (pump up the strong things or cover the weaknesses or whatever), then figure out what will give it to you.

I think of it as an unsupported feature: that is, it works right now. But if they fix it don't go crying like a Shield Charge baby.