GavinRuneblade

Or triple or quadruple dip depending on build. As Grey mentioned, a /fire has two toggles in their AT powers plus tough. /Dark has three plus tough.

You are correct. The IO is a "global" so the bonus is present as long as you are within 3 levels of the IO itself, even if the power is greyed out.

Can't be said often enough. Very, very true.

Well, keep in mind that they are unlikely to put out content that requires the players to be mind-controlled slaves of the well (hence no "short path" for us). And Cole may be/appears to be the only incarnate in praetoria with his henchmen being given excess power as part of what the well gives him, not via them becoming incarnates.

Thus, the lore is somewhat against players ever joining Cole at this level. That said, the Devs have control over lore and can write anything they want into it. I'd certainly be interested to see something like this, but I strongly doubt it will come to pass. Especially with so many people for so many years complaining about villain side making you a servant of arachnos when they wanted to be a villain on their own -- back-stepping and just replacing arachnos with cole seems the exact opposite of the current trend for story arcs. This is true whether you think such a proposition would be heroic or villainous.

I really don't see it happening.

Level has zero impact on drops.

Now, if the level changes how fast you kill, that might alter the speed at which you get drops. But in and of itself, level is 100% irrelevant.

The devs have also said that more incarnate content is coming. There are two trials now. I assume more in i21, and 22 and 23 and 24 etc.

Just like originally there were very few ways to get alpha components, now there are all the thread recipes as well as the old shard recipies.

Nukes, Shivans, & HVAS. People used this combo to do a 3 minute Hami Raid. The Devs wanted these trials to be a challenge. Nukes and other temps make them trivial. Same reason they disabled them for the Cathedral of Pain.

Ambush farms are in AE and you can do those anywhere, there's no need to be in Paragon at all. If you want to farm in a team with your hero friends, then use the AE in the Rikti Warzone. But in general, Farming works better solo anyway.

Actually it is IMPOSSIBLE to get a 2% resistance bonus from any IO set. The closest is the PvP unique that gives 3% and that sells for over 3 billion inf. You can get 1% or less resistance to a specific type of damage from a set. And Winters Gift gives 5% resist to cold. But the ability to increase toughness plus every AT-specific power by 2%? doesn't exist in the set bonus world at this time.

I see where you're coming from and to an extent I agree. But all the same, I appreciate more and more damage.

Being able to solo DE Monsters in under 3 minutes is pretty cool, and not pointless if you want to prep for a hami raid and don't have time on your server's raid day so you want to do it early (I've done this a few times)

Smaller groups doing the mothership raid is cool and not pointless.

Ensuring that reichsman isn't impossible to defeat because your only MM/Defender dropped off your barracuda team isn't pointless.

Living with as many lethal-based characters as I have, there is no such thing as "pointless" damage when buildup + headsplitter at level 50+1 with musculature core, only hits for 200 damage against robots, Malta, Council, 5th column, freakshow, and generally speaking everyone who isn't Carnies and DE at level 50.

And, for me, while I have builds that in other players' hands can wipe out a spawn in less than 20 seconds, my reflexes are so crap that I need over a minute to do the same thing with the same character. Upping my damage substantially will be a tremendous blessing to my game experience.

Then there are the people who just enjoy the big numbers and faster times.

Maybe scrappers will finally get to solo diabolique before she can phase and run as beyond the player speed cap until she regens past 80% and comes back just to do it again. Maybe there will be more GM soloing builds out there. I'm looking forward to the day my stalkers can solo Lusca, not because I actually want to but because I want to be able to.

And most importantly, more damage means that smaller teams can do what used to take bigger ones. This is more casual friendly.

Edit: there is the whole e-peen contest of my toon does more DPS than your toon hahahahaha worship me. But I tend to think that is pointless.

No, not even close. Getting a notice of the well was 100% guaranteed in about 2 hours or less. You ran the WSF 1 time, and boom. Some of them only take 30 minutes (ITF, Posi though that was buggy). Even if they make Doc Q the WSF for three months straight, that's still less play time than getting the 8 Empyrians to craft a very rare.

8 Empyreans, if we assume 1 week, you're looking at 4 and 4. My expeirence with BAFs is about 30-45 minutes, and Lamda a touch longer. You're honestly saying that 4-5 hours is less time than 30 minutes to 2 hours? As I read you, that appears to be your argument.

Especially once you factor in wait times and gathering, 1 WSF compared to 8 league formings, there's no contest. 1 WSF is vastly faster.

Not only unlocking, but also getting the components is more time consuming on these newer ones.

My dark is a stalker, but what I like is being able to ignore sappers. I believe Dechs Kaison summed it up best in the tanker forums when someone complained about them and he said "this is where I say neener neener poo poo".

The endurance issues aren't nearly as bad as people say if you manage your attacks properly.

It really has so many options and abilities that it does a little of everything. You can build defense onto it, it has very respectable resistance, the heal is amazing, it stuns, fears, resists psi, becomes nearly immune to end drain, etc.

It is not godly out of the box, but you can customize it to be almost anything you want it to. For me, that is really the appeal. Now, if only I didn't suck so bad at builds =)

I feel sad that stalkers and blasters don't rank higher in the damage dealing. In both cases that is their primary function and both are out-done at it by other archetypes.

I disagree. I make a lot of money selling purples that drop, I have a bit of a stockpile, and I can get anything I want, even the PvP recipes that cost more than the inf cap of 2-billion at the drop of a hat.

I have not been able to unlock a single slot, much less put anything into it, in two weeks of playing.

Some people can earn over 1 billion inf a day on the market. That buys 2-8 purples per day, depending on set and specific piece (the sleeps are down at 50m each, some of hecatomb are over 500m). The market forum has guides on how to earn 1 billion per week. Even I playing less than 9 hours a week manage to pull in a couple hundred million a week just running tip mission and selling luck of the gambler's and kinetic combat bought with hero and villain merits.

It is far easier to get purples because the only limit is inf. The new slots require experience, specific drops, and inf. And not a small amount of inf either. If you want to unlock a slot 100% using threads for experience you need 85 million inf to unlock a slot (assuming you have the 34 threads available). You can buy anything from Fortunata's hypnosis (possibly two of them) and almost anything from Absolute Amazement or the Confuse set for the cost of 1 slot. There are 4 slots, I don't know if the second tier slots are more expensive or the same because I haven't gotten the basic ones opened yet. and that's not counting putting anything into it, just opening it. If you want to buy a tier 4, you're looking at an inf cost equal or greater to any of the top-purples. Plus the time spent getting the drops.

Purples are easier. I've succeeded there, repeatedly. I have yet to succeed at the new slots.

Finally, if you're patient, you can solo grind any purple you want by killing level 47 enemies with a 50+1 character. There's no limit to what will give you purples except stay out of AE. Hell, I've seen three teammates get purples while on the new trials. =)

Please note: I am not in any way shape or form saying I think the slots should be made easier to unlock. I am simply disagreeing that getting purples is harder.

I don't understand, is this a trick question? I'd think the answer is obvious.