GavinRuneblade

I'm one of those poor slobs who has trouble moving too fast and hover slows me down. Plus, from slightly above I have a better view of the area. And on the winter event, it came in very handy on the ice in BNY missions since I was able to hold position. But really, it comes down to hover is slower after the steal speed kicks in and I don't accidentally agro two or three groups by zooming too far.

That could be a lot of fun use of a second build. Totally not good for actual playing, but could be spectacular fun for goofing off.

A couple people have done this with AE. Make three arcs, first is intro, then you choose which of the second two based on the outcome of your first. They usually tell you in the mission summary notes (if you did xyz play mission ###, if you did uvw play mission ###). Kind of a kludge, but nice.

Thank you, I'll try that one!

Except for those who start slotting cheap set IO's early. Because triple IOs at level 17 are 99% the effectiveness of an equal level SO and you can put them in as low as when you're level 14. Level 20 triples are better than +3 SOs and so are level 24 duals. They are also cheaper in the long run if you frankenslot with the cheap ones instead of aim for top-level sets.

Here is the Wiki listing of where the effectiveness of each type of enhancement works out. Seriously, look into using IOs as low as level 15. If you think SO's are worth slotting than so is a level 17 triple or level 20 double. And you can get them earlier and often cheaper than SOs, plus they never expire.

Three ways:

#1 The same way chocolate is different from vanilla and the same way that the offices are different from caves. Why do so many people like FrostFire's mission in the Hollows? This is exactly the same thing.

#2 Trial and error doesn't work. Figure it out or fail. Alternatively, figure it out and get larger rewards is also a good alternative. Keeps people from being frustrated since you are in a win-winbig scenario instead of a win-lose scenario.

#3 (most important): 4 glowies only 1 works = rewards autistic/OCD behavior. A puzzle means you have to make a decision. That is a fundamental and very significant difference. Now the implementation may exaggerate or minimize this difference, but making a decision and just randomly acting is a big difference.

This said, if you haven't yet give Scott Kurtz' Lolbat mission in the AE a try (it is one of the guest missions from Herocon). He introduced a mission where some glowies summon vicious ambushes, and others are required to complete the mission. It is a limited implementation using the tools available, but a good step in the right direction and makes for a very nice variation on the usual mission of walk in the door, beat down everyone, leave.

Is there any other option for the stuns besides the stupify set? I hate that proc.

Never knew that, handy! I have a Dom who this will help also.

Yup, I'm already familiar with that little jig. =) I waited until the late 30's to take howl but once I did I started trying to figure out how to use it without waking everyone up from Sirens.

Nice. Much more effective than how I've been using it.

Didn't know that either. Thank you!

The build packs all the important things in early so looks very good for exemping too. Thank you!

I do too but I like having extras. I tend to miss a lot (my personal record is having streakbreaker kick in after too many consecutive misses with a 95% chance to hit on all of them) so I don't trust a single-target mez. Having a chance to hold on 90% of my attacks seems good on paper.

You have better reflexes than I do. =)

It's not fear. I usually use Shout from nearly inside melee range. I just don't want to use melee on a ranged character. If I want to hit something I'll get my scrapper. When I play a blaster I want to shoot things.

I find that if I manage to survive using a nuke it procs during the crash often enough to come in handy. Something no amount of recovery will ever do.

Depends on how good my aim was. I run up, pop as many insps and clickies as I can and try to jump into the middle of the group hitting the nuke as soon as I land. Getting back to bad reflexes, usually I'm off to one side more than in the middle.

I fight like a ping-pong ball. Jumping pretty non-stop and hitting people from different sides.

Mathematically speaking, no it isn't. Aim and BU have downtime. Unless you actually click them literally every 10 seconds without fail, you get more bonus damage over time from putting it in Tactics. The fact that it will also proc outside of combat is completely irrelevant (though very a popular fallacious argument). The fact is, you don't use the clickie every 10 seconds while fighting, therefore, it gives more bonus damage in the toggle.

Now the control issue (people who want it only on certain attacks) is a different one and for such people the reduced over-time damage might be worth ensuring bigger hits on prime targets by putting it in aim or buildup. But I use no strategy with my clickies on any character, I use them when they are up if I remember to use them at all.

In any event, for me gaussians is all about the 6-slot bonus. As far as I'm concerned the rest of the set and the rest of its bonuses--even the effect on the power I slot it into--barely exist. I put it in Tactics or Focused Accuracy on any character who takes those powers and then I just ignore it.

That's my big debate. 6 slot thunderstrike, or include the chance to hold in both shriek and scream. You vote for the defense?

That's because it's not even on my power tray anymore. If I want to melee, I use a scrapper. But the recharge bonus is nice. I can pull slots from health and stam for it for sure. 'Course then I can't follow MK's advice and put in Gaussian's. Hmm. I would have to go and pick a flexible power set instead of something direct and full of gimpy powers that are easy to skip. hehe.

All the way down to one on health? Hmm, I was contemplating two but I susped the hp/second difference is low enough that you're probably right. Stam, I'm also thinking of going down to two slots and running with just the Perf Shifter proc and End Mod. Not really sure if I want to do that or keep three, but I am strongly thinking of taking at least one out.

One of the things I was looking at was pulling out all of my travel powers completely. Having both superspeed and super jump is pretty redundant. PvPers do it, but I have so many flyers and ninjarunners that I'm thinking of bailing on both of them. Unless I really need them for the zephyrs. Any advice on keeping vs ditching? Keep both and get a second set of zeph?

Hmm, knock protection in CJ is actually a decent way to free a power slot by ditching acrobatics.

Here's my problem with dreadful wail: As I have it, against +1 con minions and lieuts, when I use it more than half live. Then I die. Pulling it down to three slots, can I keep enough damage and accuracy in it to make it at all viable? Right now I use aim, buildup, wail, and I'm dead 2 seconds later a little more than half the time. Weakening the power seems like it is bringing it to the point of just skippable.

[quote]Move those 2 slots into BU, 5 slot with Adjusted Targeting. I personally would pull 3 slots from your nuke and put those slots in Aim. Slot with Adjusted Targeting.[quote]Instinctively, I'd rather 6-slot one of them and go with Gaussians. But that is a neat way to stack accuracy and recharge. I'll have to mess with this possibility.

And it is a toggle. Yay for fewer clickies. hehe.

I've been looking at those options. But I'm not committed to the fire path yet. Any opinions on the other epic pools? Like I said, way back when I just picked fire because rise of the pheonix sounded cool and I die so much I figured it would be useful. But now that I'm trying to actually become effective, I think it is worth rethinking my "logic".

Thank you, definitely looking at those suggestions.

Soloing, lots of soloing and lots of oroboros down as low as the 20s.

So many clickies on this character. I really, really, really, really REALLY wish I could auto more than one, or the devs would have pity on idiots like me and make some of them either toggles or auto, no matter how reduced in effect. Aim, haste, buildup, boost power, boost range, conserve power... Sigh.

I know what you mean on the effect taking them out of combat though. That's pretty much how I roll. Sleep all, wake one up and kill it. Wake the next up and kill it. resleep all just to be safe. Etc. I'll look into the purple set. I have Sandman in there now.

The funny thing is that all the click options were what attracted me to /em in the first place (ooh I might not need stamina with conserve power, and I can use boost power for this and this and that too). then I found it very overwhelming to use them intelligently. Now, I want to like them, and I still smile imagining the potential awesomeness... but end up forgetting to use them when I need them. =)

I'm trying to minimize/avoid melee. I have Screech, but not Stun or total focus. Will Boost Power increase the mag of a stun or just duration? Are there any options like the chance for +2 mag hold proc from lockdown that would modify a stun power? I'll take Total Focus if I really need to, and I think Screech isn't enough by itself from my experience. But I'd rather have another option that lets me at least pretend I am a ranged attacker and not a hybrid melee/range.

This character and one other made me so sick of knockback that I pretty much avoid it like the plague. It actually makes me sick to my stomach I hate knock powers so much (I'm talking literally here, not figuratively, I get a cold feeling in my lower abdomen and even tremble somewhat). I can't use them well, and no longer want to learn how to use them. All they do is piss me off. I got really sick of hitting someone with a melee attack and them ending up too far away to use Shout on them. Sucked all the fun out of this character and about three others.

Hmm, that's a lot more than I thought could be fit in. Never thought to do Gaussians in Amplify. Lot of slots for that though.

The trick is, how useful is the ranged defense from 6-slotting Thunderstrikes, compared to the chance to hold procs? I have one in shout now and I was thinking of moving it to scream. That gives me a lot of chances to hold on shriek-scream-shriek. But it is pretty much single-target. Ranged Def is protection vs groups.

Thank you!

Level entry limit lifted at Firebase Zulu. Just run to Peregrine and buy one for 10k. But the safeguard is fun too.

Good advice Zam!

Slot -kb IOs. There is also a set that gives KB resist as a bonus I think.

The stun you could slot for reduced % duration, but that's totally not worthwhile considering how weak the reduction actually is. Instead slot for defense and have those shots miss more often.

You can also use the enhancement buffs from your supergroup base to mitigate both stun and knockback for 1 hour at a time for a very low cost (average 600inf for the cheapest -kb buff to buy the salvage required off the market).

So you have options even in human form.