GavinRuneblade

Might be too early to say, but I THINK my lockup issue has been resolved.

I'll do some more testing but at least for now it appears that talking to NPCs is safe again.

You know, I've seen a lot of mentioned of the Iggy/Val Blademaster BS/Regen build but never actually seen it. Can anyone give me a point to the right thread?

Mine's not permadom, a bit less than 1/3 of the way there. But still had only occasional issues with confusing the spawns. The trick is that confusion is not the only tool in Plant's box. Creepers, vines, chance to hold slotted in roots, etc. and I was able to lock down all of the spawns with the help of some scrappers and a traps corrupter.

On a later run with a permadom plant tag teaming them it was much easier. So yes it is helpful. But by no means necessary.

Cheapest on recharge for high damage output is Incinerate-scorch-cremate-scorch. You can run that with no global recharge and it does solid damage.

Then the next step up is Incinerate-firesword-scorch. Uses a bit more recharge, a lot more endurance, and does moderately more damage.

Big jumps in recharge are needed to hit the two highest chains, which Auroxis already posted. They are only a bit more damage though.

I agree with Yomo. I have some parked level 15 and 25 characters I run AE with and roll bronze. I get a TON of great recipes. Combined with the random junk I pull just from playing I basically can ignore TOs, DOs, and SOs on all my characters. I occasionally slot an accuracy if it drops and I need one, but I'm more likely to buy or craft a common IO.

I have a base with about 80 level 30 and lower IOs stored and when my characters get over level 35 I tend to respec and put some of the more useful IOs back into storage for the next alt.

The trick is, don't be picky. Don't worry about going for the triples if all that are for sale are duals. If you get too many dam/rech and not enough dam/end, suck it up for a few levels and search again. Keep an eye out for the unusual sets, like Acc/End or Acc/Rech from a def debuff set slotted into an attack if you can't find enough accuracy in a melee or ranged set for sale at the level you want.

Also, use this forum for requests. Quite a few poeple have characters in Mid level crisis who have been great about helping when someone posts looking for a specific set at specific levels.

I have a few low level IOs that haven't sold for over 5 months even when priced at 50k or lower. But again, I don't sweat it, all of my characters have at least 5 unused market slots at all times so , meh. It can sit until someone needs it.

I sell about 10 or more under level 30 IOs per week. Not for a lot of money per sale, but usually at a reasonable markup in %. Mostly I do it for the karma =) and it seems to be working as I never have trouble finding something that will work, even if I don't have exactly what is best.

I'm on an ATI Radeon HD2600 and it is working for me. Which is nice. I will have to test later to see if I still get the talk to an NPC and hang crash.

Have any of you tried using safe mode?

In general I like the concept where everyone gets something different, but I do wish that instead of it going automatically by AT, instead that you could select which you got when you used the machine.

but ah well, it is not how they envisioned it. Still a fun SF, I enjoy it much more than Khan, except for doing that last fight without a MM/Defender.

Also remember that the Acc/Dam can't be bought with A-Merits. And the other doubles cost 1 merit while the triple costs 2.