GavinRuneblade

I always suspected the RNG God was chaotic evil.

Hmm, maybe we could bribe the devs to accidentally make Freedom's Atlas Park #1 and Virtue's Pocket D both become free-for-all PvP zones (convince the servers they're both using Warburg rules) for about 30 minutes prime time Friday evening. That should be enough sacrificial victims.

Earth/Ice is much easier than Cold/Earth. Cold is not bad, it's just trickier to play.

#1, don't open with roots unless you have a wall to hide behind. Especially on teams.

#2, for bosses solo, stack the hold fast as you can.

#3, as said, confuse as fast as you can

I saw some interesting post by Nihili a while back I WISH I'd saved (because I can't find it from searching) on slotting a fire armor's heal with three miracle and three aegis to cap toxic resist (after two stacks) and heal for the max potential. Doesn't one of the /regen click heals give toxic resist? Might be cool to see a stalker tank the hydras in Apex.

The one fire/fire/mace top-end build that I am aware of (by Frosticus) was over 400dps before incarnates existed. I've never seen a blaster with those numbers. But am not saying it isn't possible.

I have issues with videos on my computer. But This is embarassing, I really did look for it for 20-30 minutes straight. We'll I'll get to borrow the PC again this weekend so will give it another go.

Thanks for the hotkey Aggie!

No one can use incarnate abilities as the missions are below level 45. Also many characters are running with less than full set bonuses due to the lower level of the missions.

On my plant/storm controller I pretty much just used confuse, my single-target hold, my aoe immobilize, and air superiority plus the occasional sands of mu. VS the EB at the end, I did ST-hold, AoE-hold, ST-Hold and that was that. He was a pinata until he died. And his two buddies helped me pound him down thanks to seeds of confusion (once the AoE hold wore off anyway). On part 2 since it's level 30 I'll have access to my pet and many more attacks.

My blaster is sonic/energy. I sleep minions, then stack stuns on bosses. I don't think they got off more than 15 or 20 attacks against me the whole arc. Half of those were from the EB at the end and I had three small purples and a medium orange helping me vs him. So came out unscathed and again, he spent 90% of the fight as a pinata unable to act except to stagger around while I pounded him.

My fire/fire dom used about the same strategy as my plant/storm stacking holds.

Will be running my dual pistal/traps corr through both this weekend. But that one is soft-capped to range as low as level 20 so I don't think I'll have any troubles.

those are my main squishies. It wasn't hard and I'm not a strong player by any means. I found one trick that works (holds) and use it over and over and over and over. hehe.

Also, if you find you're having trouble soloing, the villain arc is easier because you can have a boss-level ruin mage on your side for the final battles if you ally with the circle in the first mission.

You know, now that lots of people are on SO only builds, I'd love to see a thread like "the results are in" from the scrapper forum for stalkers. Showing the best attack chains for each primary and their damage output. Doing it with IOs and incarnate etc would be much more complex but, the SO-only should be straightforward enough.

Sorry man I dun remember any more (see my sig) too many longbow missions and they all blend together after a bit. I know I was flashbacking and it's not one of the first ward missions... I think it was either a nerva arc or one of the 40-45 grandville ones. Haven't done any tips lately so not one of those.

Maybe I can figure out this weekend when I get another chance to play.

Funky that the dopleganger doesn't attack you. I'd test that but my stalkers are all proper villains.

Real fast note of thanks. I tend to be a snarky jerk on "what's the best" threads because people tend to post idiotic questions. You actually told us what you were going to do and what you think is fun so we can answer you. So thanks!

And pretty much the already given mind/fire is probably the best for what you want. Mind/ is famous for being able to solo hard content, including the whole LRSF including all 8 AVs at once. And /fire is the best damage. Mind/ can also be very affordable.

I have found plant/ and earth/ to also be spectacular primaries for both solo and team play. Plant/ matures fast with seeds of confusion so early and earth/ has some of the strongest hard controls out there.

Other than /fire good hard-hitting assault sets include /earth, /ice and /psy.

Those are really the go-to sets and there's not a bad combo among them.

Where? I really looked and I thought I went systematically through all of them and never saw accolades anywhere.

Did you have the freespec saved up or were you able to use /respec to access the patron respec?

I'm not sure what your question is. You can view which missions are part of an arc by looking for the book icon in your contact tab near the contact person.

You can view the text of your mission in the window when you talk to the contact. Also keep an eye on your clues tab as many bits of the story appear there along with a running summary of what you have already accomplished.

If you meant something else, be a bit more specific and we can help you.

usually those guys alternate oilslick arrow, something to light it on fire, and rain of arrows. I've heard that will drop a +2/x8 spawn in three clicks, including bosses with a second rain of arrows. Never teamed with one to see it though. I tried to make one, but it was pure fail.

I did once team with a blapper who had provoke and out-tanked my tank on the Kahn taskforce. Survived spawns that slaughtered me, held aggro better, and did blaster level damage. That was also embarrassing.

IOs let you make really weird builds these days.

Don't take sting, get Gambler's Cut. Sting sucks gambler's is awesome. And yes, put a heel proc in gambler. not in Dragonfly. Damage procs in dragonfly.

Don't go for a defense set. Give DA one hamio with +def like a lysosome or something.

Could go stealth and slot another gambler, I only count three of them unless I'm missing one.

pull one from placate to use elsewhere
Caltrops doesn't benefit as much from +dam as from procs. And slow makes a huge difference. Try one level 43 slow/end/rech, the slow damage proc and the posi damage proc. If you can get it ragnarok's chance for knockdown is both hilarious and awesome in caltrops.

The red fortunes in danger sense aren't really helping you. Either push it to 6 slots (one from placate one from stamina) or swap to 4x gambler, or pull some for elsewhere.

Stamina, go with two pieces from perfection: the end mod and the proc. The proc is minimally better than one endmod. And use the set bonus to get a free move speed buff. If you want a third slot go with generic endmod. At four slots, going with perf is again better than commons (proc, end mod, end/acc, end/rech). You could also move one slot over to physical perfection and get a second move boost.

On your build, I'd recommend the numina unique over the miracle in health. It's a miniscule difference, but that's how I'd go. the higher your defence the more regen will help you recover between hits. In theory.

I get most of mine from AE ticket rolls. I think I have 18 or so kinetic combat acc/dams banked. I should probably sell some of those hehe. There's a few pieces here and there that you're right, are much less likely to turn up and that if the person isn't doing TFs or story arcs or TFs they won't get via rolls or straight purchases.

But in my experience the people who say they wait to 50 to IO, also say they have the money for the build. They just don't use it before then. Some snobbery about level 50 IOs vs lower level IOs is also usually given as a reason. then they post a build with the IOs I mentioned.

You know, I'm not 100% sure, but I think that trying to hold aggro might be grounds for revoking your membership in the stalker club. You're supposed to be using placate to get the mob to attack your squishy "companions" so that you can AS them again and again when they're not paying attention to you.

Plus it's funny.

visit the facemaker and have her give you one of the smiling faces. Or change you to a catboi. Either one should work.

Just don't ask where she got the raw materials for the smiling face or you might stop smiling. depending on how squeamish you are.

Random is random. his windfall did not effect you in any way shape or form. Unfortunately the human brain is possibly the most powerful pattern detection device on earth. So powerful that we find patterns where none exist. Especially on very small data sets (like your "set" of one datum).

Also, for drops, it has never mattered who did the killing. Probably never will.

Here's the short version. If you want to stay with the exemp target of 25 here is a cheatsheat of the best slotting:

Part of a set you want bonuses from:
Single IO: Use level 28s
Dual: Use level 24 unboosted
Triple: Use level 28+++
Quad: Use 28+++++

Frankenslotting for numbers without set bonuses:
Single IO: Use level 50 (don't bother boosting because of the large bonus rule)
Dual: Use level 24 unboosted
Triple: Use Level 43 unboosted
Quad: Use level 50+

Purples:
Single: unboosted
All others: boost+++++

PvP IOs would follow frankenslotting rules, but pretty much only level 50s are available so follow purple rules instead just to make life easy.

I'll do a no math cheatsheet like this for level 30 tomorrow. I just got off work and my brain isn't functional. But I am 90% sure that your plan for 33s boosted 5 times is a solid one.

And thanks for getting me off my lazy bum to figure this out. Usually I just wing it and end up screwing my builds over big time.

I don't see any reason to change the name. A wishlist is a wishlist, not a gift list.