GavinRuneblade

I think the code needs that for placate to allow the autocrit.

But if you watch your defense numbers or placate someone in spawn a and run over to spawn b, you'll see you're not hidden as spawn b spots you and attacks. If you'd been hidden they wouldn't unless someone from spawn a hit you and broke hide.

Admastor and Kraken I think.

Well, Lusca will stay in it. =)

Scrapy runs like a chicken with its head cut off. Fricken annoying. The flyer and Caleb are pretty annoying too.

But Deathsurge, Kraken, Babbage, and what'shisfaceindarkastoria have never run out of a tar patch or burn patch in my experience.

I'm wondering "why bother"? The server status page has never accurately shown them being down even when they actually are, except during scheduled maintenance. So why bother since the tool doesn't actually work.

Hit the Marketing forum for guides on earning boatloads of money fast and easy. A few simple notes:

Level 50 characters earn more than double anything else, even 49s.

Vendor all common recipe drops and enhancements. Sell salvage and most recipes at 1 inf. They will move fast for an average of more than vendor price. In the long run this is easy fast money.

The new Alignment Merits (Hero and Villain) you get from doing tip missions are like printing money. You can do 5 missions per day (20 hours) and after 10 you get a morality mission, finishing that gives you a merit. two alignment merits let you buy any recipe from what you know as the Task Force reward pool. The keys are Kinetic Combat triple, Luck of the Gambler 7.5% recharge, and Basilisk Quad all sell for 150m-200m. You'll very fast learn that some missions are easier than others, run them at -1/x1 difficulty setting to blow through them fast and just get your merits.

Log out your character in Oroboros whenever possible, when you log back in for a while you'll get bonus recipes at the mission complete roll. Sometimes even two per mission.

Mission Architect is a great way to make money at low levels. Instead of salvage and recipes you get tickets. You can use these on random rolls. Testing has shown that bronze rolls in the 30-34 and 35-39 ranges make the most money over time (especially 35-39).

for fastest levelling and best money, get into the Weekly Strike Force at least once per week, you get double merits and a massive experience bonus sometimes more than 1 level. And at level 48 it was a full half level of experience. You can convert the "reward merits" to "alignment merits" and use them for buying luck of the gambler recipes to sell on the market. Craft them before selling for even more profit.

Lightning Rod is a pseudo pet and it crits from hide but it doesn't break hide. So you can still crit with thunderstrike. Makes Electric Melee on Stalkers very nice.

Also, there is a PvP bug where placating then AS sometimes gives dual crits, but that's obviously not what you're talking about.

Well, the non-easy mode is to

1. Roll an Ill/Rad controller or Bots/Poison MM and level to 50
2. Earn 10 Billion+ inf to deck out your character with softcapped defenses plus purple damage procs, gobs of recharge, etc.
3. Kill anything you want no temps no inspirations



So shorter, but not as easy.

The shortened short version is:

1. Load up every temp power you can muster (mandatory: Envenomed dagger, Vanguard HVAS, & Shivan)
2. Load up as many large purples as you can and email a few more just to be safe
3. Kill anything you want (start with someone easy just to get the hang of it)

Just chiming in to say, listen to this advice it is bang on the money. Also, your highest damage attack chain will be MG -> Smite -> SL -> Smite -> Repeat.

You absolutely slaughter things if you have those well slotted. If you can only afford one expensive melee set, put the best damage proc you can into smite since you'll use it so often. The cheapest will be Mako (don't go for Touch of Death that pile of garbage only has a 15% chance to go off whereas every other damage proc in the game is 20% or higher) but that's not really "cheap".

I also recommend skipping touch of death and I only took shadow maul because I wanted the bonuses from some PBAoE sets. It comes in handy when exemplared back down low.

I recommend getting tough and weave, as well as combat jumping (which you want for acrobatics anyhow). A little defense goes a long way on a resist-based set like this. If you can afford to buy the IOs getting some Smashing and Lethal defense is helpful too.

If you have endurance trouble the aoe stun is better than the fear. If you don't, then I like the fear better because it protects you from lieutenants with the -tohit, and the stun does nothing at all except to minions. But it really needs end reduction and if you have tough, weave, plus 3 dark armor toggles, etc you might not be able to afford it. In that case the stun is better by far.

I also recommend Haste. Because you have a few really good attacks you want up as much as possible, plus the dark armor heal, you will definitely appreciate having haste.

On the heal, if you can get 2 villain (or hero, booo) merits and pick up the chance for +end proc from the theft of essence healing set. That sucker uses over 25 end each time you click it, but the proc can give you 10 back per enemy when it triggers so I found it is really worth running 2 weeks of villain tips. (if you are ok with using the market, get a luck of the gambler 7.5% recharge instead, sell it, buy the theft of essence proc and keep the extra money).

Things to avoid:
Presence pool
heal pool
stealth pool (only good if you need more places to put expensive IOs or for PvP)

On the Patrons, I also went for Soul, just for concept. But the hero pools offer some very solid options. If you have low money and need endurance go body mastery for superior conditioning and physical perfection. If you want more damage, blaze master has fireball, which is a great AoE. and, if you go leviathan, the waterspout is very nice and I like hibernate as a 1-slot power choice that lets me recover endurance super fast without resting.

Hmm, I wonder if there's a Dev we can PM with that suggestion. they are pretty valid points on the combo issues.

Silverado has solo'd virtually everything using a variety of characters. Including taking down GMs on a blaster before incarnate stuff became available.

At this point, if he posted a video of him soloing a Rikti Dropship on a petless MM I'd probably believe it was legitimate.

also, they're not +5 to your level it's a bit wonky. Here's the link to the specifics:
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Giant_Mo...Vs._Your_Level

Also, testing has shown that the level shift from Alpha Slot doesn't apply vs GMs. The bonuses still do, but the formula that calculates "relative level" doesn't give you a +1 if you're alpha slotted for level shift.

the short strategy to easymode killing of a GM:
Stock up on many large purples and a few oranges and greens (blues if you have end trouble)

Craft backup radio, craft envenomed dagger, craft power analyzer Mk III, get shivans, get Vanguard HVAS. Warburg Nukes Optional. Wedding Ring recommended but optional. Any temp power shields (from Siren's Call, temp powers etc) also optional but recommended. Recovery Serum optional but recommended if you can't run your best attack chain for 5 minutes without running out of endurance. Temp power Med Kit optional but recommended to give more slots for purples.

Go to Perez Park and find Kraken (note he's not always up, but quite often). Summon all your pets. take insps and turn on temp powers to get your defenses to 45%. Unload. Use the analyzer and time the envenomed daggers to keep that -regen debuff on him pretty constantly. If you have any -regen powers of your own, use those often.

Lockdown Chance for +2 Mag Hold. the way it works is to create a new hold effect with a mag of 2.

Not true. I'm prepping to slot reactive armor in all my armors and kinetic combats plus two makos (quad and proc) in all my main attacks. With steadfast protection IO, and maneuvers, combat jumping and weave I'll be less than a small purple away from softcapped to S/L with near immunity to NE damage and high resists to most others.

I know from experience on many other characters that 15% S/L defense is a noticable shift, you can definitely tell you're more durable at that point. 25% you can handle mid-sized spawns of most enemy types solo. 30%+ is an enormous shift in survivability for res-based sets. Added ontop of dark/dark's -to hit powers and things are very happy.

Now, actually going for a soft-capped built is probably not a good use of slots. The great thing for /Dark is that S/L defense is easy to get and /Dark handles all other damage types better than S/L damage, so the combination works better than for say /elec.

Again, since the heal in /dark is so good, you don't need as much defense as a /SR or /WP does to survive the same challenge.

You CAN make it drop at 50 though: Run an AE mission and roll mid or low level salvage.

There's actually a ye and a no to this. While yes they have been around a long time, potentially "forever", they were almost unknown since the end of the Golden Age of Greece until States and Recluse. Those two activating the well changed things for the world opening the current age of heros. While some were around before that happened (and a few like Stheno have been around since Greece straight through to today) their power was lower or more subtle and they weren't in the public eye.

I need to track down where I read that.

Oroboros is a group that uses time travel to manipulate history to prevent "The Coming Storm". There are many other tools for time travel, as many as you can invent. For instance, the 5th Column don't have access to Oroboros but they still got back to Cimerora. During all of the villain patron arcs, you use Arachnos' Project Destiny Portal to go into multiple possible futures and attempt to determine the right outcome to force a desired future to come to pass by acting in the "now". I think at least one of the portal corp missions involves time travel. Not sure since parallel dimensions are so wonky as it is =).

Of course, your character may simply not know HOW they traveled through time and may very well have no ability to do it again.

Oroboros is based on primal earth, but the well of the furies information shows they track and act on multiple parallel realities. Plus, while Ramiel claims Silos is Nemesis, we still don't know which world's nemesis he is. I think there's no reason to avoid praetoria for your character. Plus, you don't have to use Oroboros if you don't want to.

Try a dominator. You can use domination like a breakfree so you have some mez resistance, loads of damage, plus the primaries are all cool. Just don't try Gravity or Ice for your first one, they're a bit tricky.

On my level 48 dom it was 1.7million exp.