GavinRuneblade

The math wizzes on the scrapper forum mostly say that a damage proc outperforms the achilees heel in solo performance scenarios except for very very high damage builds. In teams, the achilees is prety much always better since everyone benefits.

There are of course exceptions and specifications and I can't really keep track of it all. But I try to keep it to 1 achilees where it fits, and the rest damage.

Yup on the single bonus IOs lots of people think 30 or 35, but if you want to be BETTER than a +3 SO, you gotta wait for 40.

35 is pretty darn close though.

8 ice/empath controllers who only took the tier 1 power from their primary. All have teleport, speed, medicine, and stealth as their pools. empath/psy defenders with only the tier 1 in /psy would be a possibility too.

Yup, I agree that one has a purpose. But the melee one not as much.

There's a mission where the only enemies are PPs ad they all count for the badge credit, even the minion and lieutenant versions. Get a group together and you'll have the badge less than half-way through the mission.

Rularuu merge also. the natterlings combine to bull natterlings.

Only if you pick a specific recipe. If you roll random it never worked this way for any source of recipes. But I think we all asked for it.

Repeatedly.

They just refuse to implement it.

I dunno if I'd say perfect substitutes.

Kinetic Combat is only chance for knockdown and it's abysmally low price compared to the rest of the set shows how useful/popular that is.

Touch of death only has a 15% chance to go off instead of 20% like all the others.

Mako is lethal and the highest resisted damage type in the game, especially at the end game.

Then you have hecatomb which is vastly superior, with a 33% chance to fire, increased damage and negative energy as its type.

So, it is an above average proc, I'd say the second best after hecatomb of the options. But it's not 300m better than Mako or touch of death. If it was priced comparable to mako/TOD, I would choose it every time I didn't need the defense bonus. But for 300m, I'll just look at it and say, "not today".

Solid advice. So is Zem's. I'll add that If you have the nemesis staff with it's longer than normal range, you'll find that stalkers make great pullers because placate can turn back one enemy if they have only aggro'd on you.

I'm here myself 100%. I have fun on all my characters from level 1 on. If I don't, I delete them. I don't power level, I play. And for me, life begins at 1.

You can always PM one of the rednames and see. Maybe Zwillinger or Avatea?

I know I asked David Nakamura about the art on the new underground iTrial and he said that Chris Gregory should get the credit. Lord that one is gorgeous.

thanks to your recommendation I'll give the twinshot arc a try later tonight when I finally get off work.

In that case: Welcome back for the first time!

Aggie pretty much took care of you (she does that), but on the IO vs SO thing, I'll add a little more. IOs are definitely more powerful than SOs. I strongly recommend them for two reasons:

1. SOs expire on you when you level. Since 9 times out of 10 you level inside a mission, if you find all of your accuracy expires that can really suck all the fun out of a mission. This is the specific reason I have not used anything but IOs on any of my characters for the last two years.

2. SOs are limited by your origin. Stores often only sell one or two types. So you have to find the right store. Then they all have weird names. A few you can probably figure out what sort of bonus they give - Military Accuracy for instance is pretty obvious. But where would you slot an Oscillator Overthruster? IO's on the other hand, straight up tell you: endurance reduction. And every character can use them. No bothering with origins or accidentally going to the wrong store.

It's just way easier on IOs.

But if you need some quick guidance: Put 1 end reduction in all your attacks before you worry about the toggle powers. Attacks use way more endurance than most toggles. Don't put more than three of the same SO into a single power. "generic" attack slotting is 1 accuracy, 3 damage, 1 end reduction, and either a second accuracy or a recharge.

Builds might be cookie cutter on SOs, but if anyone tells you you're too weak to join thier team, they're egotistical, and you can find better playmates without trying too hard.

Without access to the market, you will have a really hard time affording IOs. So if you go that route, you will want to buy market access as well.

I don't pay a lot of attention to exp. But a normal boss gives me 269 prestige. This dude gave 24k prestige. That is a really, really big difference.

I have seen two procs frmo chain induction when used by my elec brute.

Never really been sure on that point. Heh. The ways the alpha does and doesn't modify powers I don't fully understand. It's not 100% the same as dropping an enhancement of that type into each power because it works on some powers that don't have slots but not all (eg lore pets yes, vet attack powers no). and some powers that can't take the type of enhancement slotted into it, it will benefi (i forget the example, but I did see it mentioned somewhere).

Level +0 SO = 33.33%
Level +3 SO = 38.33%

Level 25 common IO = 32%
Level 30 common IO = 34.80% (Better than a +0 SO)
Level 35 common IO = 36.70%
Level 40 common IO = 38.6% (better than a +3 SO)

Level 18 Triple set IO = 34.7% (higher than a +0 SO)
Level 20 Triple set IO = 38.40% (higher than a +3 SO)

Level 21 Dual set IO = 33.6% (higher than a +0 SO)
Level 24 Dual set IO = 38.4% (higher than a +3 SO)

There aren't enough quad IOs to be relevant. But they are always better than SOs (except that one with a range mod since 9 times out of 10 you don't care about range and it's acting as a wimpy triple)

But I never wait for IOs. They are better than SOs starting at level 18 (when everyone else is on DOs) and they never expire.

Thanks to AE you can buy many of the yellow recipes for less than vendor prices and crafting and salvage (since yellows have no rare costs) are often less than the price of SOs (which get up to 48k each).

If you run AE yourself from time to time on lowbies, you can roll all the recipes you need to frankenslot pretty easily and turn a nice profit at the same time crafting and selling the others.

It has always seemed unlikely. No one ever reverts - they move forward. A revamp that pulls in some of the better parts of pre-i13 and throws out 99.9% of post-i13 is possible. A revert is a waste of time to ask for.

Note that this in no way shape or form implies I think a revert would be a bad idea, it's just that it is never going to happen, so I feel energy is better spent pushing for something that may happen.

Your understanding is the same as mine. You had said something about 50++. I mentioned you can do better. 50++ = 52. I showed three different ways to get a 53 equivalent, slightly better than a 52. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough (see my sig hehe).

I would have ended up thinking of Suzaku Seikun from Fushigi Yugi sooner than Pheonix from Marvel. Now if you were psi/mental I'd have gone with marvel first.

But I think coloring the effects to be radiant heat or calling them sonic are both very good ideas.