GavinRuneblade

That is exactly the thinking. This is an i12 or i13 build. I'm looking to ditch physical perfection in favor of inherent fitness and so I'm assuming the regenerative tissue goes into the default health slot.

Per Umbral's math, it's needed for running the top attack chain infinitely. =) I can't do the math myself, but would love it if someone could check for me.

I've been left standing with under 30hp at the end of a fight more than once (talking about level 50 here). It's not amazing, but now and again it is enough.

I uh, fight Rularuu Wisps a lot. And Council all-vampire maps. And, I don't really have a lot of defense so everything hits and stacks. My playstyle is that I loathe the concept that "more wimps is harder" or "the same enemy dealing more damage and with more hit points is harder". Neither one is "harder" they are just grindier. Sure a +0 enemy takes 2 hits and the same guy at +4 takes 4 hits so he has a better chance to defeat you. But it's not any more fun, it is the same action repeated more times. I'd rather fight malta, rularuu, cimeroans, and carnies at +1x3-4 than family or council at +4/x8. So, yes, I get hammered by debuffs and I get mezzed because I fight the enemies who can do that stuff. Two Master Illusionists and a Dark Ring Mistress can and have kept me held through two medium breakfrees. a bad pull getting me 12 lieutenant and boss vampires has kept me in and out of sleep over and over through a fight disrupting my attacks. But that's what I like to run.

Per the math I've been given a level 50 common is .21 the perf shifter is .22 at 100 end. Both of them increase with your max end so the ratio stays the same. Also, it works through -recovery debuffs and the level 50 common doesn't. Which is more what I care about. Again, the build was designed to be able to run Headsplit-hack-disembowel-hack forever without running out of endurance. I'd like to keep that capability as I have gone upwards of 20 minutes without pause on some missions and taskforces.

No +HP accolades (but I'm getting close on them) and while dull pain is technically permanent, I use it maybe three times per mission. I really should have been a kat/wp as I just don't have the reflexes or skills to play /regen properly. I tend to die with all my clickies still unused. I've gotten a bit better at remembering to turn on IH. but generally speaking, I just attack and pray that I survive. Also, I'm not chasing anything, Umbral gave the build, it's way, way way better than anything I could come up with, so I blindly follow it. =) Last time I checked with dull pain up I have 1828hp or something like that. Significantly under 2k anyway. But I haven't checked recently.

Edit: Just checked I actually have Portal Jockey, and with dull pain I'm just shy of 2200 HP. So, even with the other two accolades, I'm below the cap.

Cool, thanks.

Hmm, miscounted I thought I only had 4, thanks! I have a Membrane sitting around somewhere I think, got it a few weeks back on a Hami raid was saving it for my fire/shield brute (who should have been a scrapper but oh well), but I have no plans to respec that one for months and months.

I am doing exactly that. Since I don't have defense to fall back on to keep the sappers at bay and I do fight them A LOT.

Two slots really doesn't do much. I'm thinking the kismet is nice considering there are so many level 54 enemies flying around these days. Seems like every random radio team I join wants to run at +4.

THANK YOU!

I know of one that managed to replace everything and still leave existing character accounts intact. Graphics, character design, world, mechanics, character statistics, implemented a tutorial from nothing, etc. It was truly a sequel but you got to keep your existing characters. I know of only the one. And they are barely an MMO.

Personally, I think that it would be possible to do a City2, maintain account continuity, and implement some sort of a character port. But let's think about the game's concept for a moment. Most MMO's reward having one character get stronger and stronger. City rewards replay and alternate characters. Does it even make sense to maintain existing characters? I can see maintaining naming priority and veteran status as maybe's. But with a new world, I'd think they'd WANT to wipe the characters anyway.

Personally, I'd love a City 2, there are many things that I just don't see them adding to City as it stands today even if we got up to being the most popular MMO in the world. Like voice acting, moving mouths, fingers, cinematic cut scenes instead of in-game graphics, a huge body-type for women, wall-less zones (and I don't just mean visually: I mean no loading window when moving from Atlas to Perez, no single point of entry--I mean wall-less), actually going "into" a building like went's not going "under" it into a false-indoor zone, etc (especially grievous in the case of the university which is massively larger on the inside than outside). Many of these are standard now and would be guaranteed to be included in a City2 but they weren't common in 2004 and I just can't see them being retroactively added due to the level of effort involved. I would like them enough that I would gladly sacrifice all my characters and history in City1 to have them.

This is very important.

As an example, I have two level 35 recharge IOs in haste. Moving up to level 50s is less than .1 second improvement. So why bother? Why waste INF and TIME replacing SOs over and over from 22 to 50 when you can slot IOs once and be done.

Additionally, many people are happy playing with SOs. Well IOs give higher bonuses starting at LEVEL 18. So again, if the SO is good enough, why bother replacing something that is better?

I have a level 50 defender who just did the Apex Taskforce with a mishmash of sets from level 14 through 50. Sure I'll eventually replace the lower-level ones as I get better drops, but he works, so why stress about it?

All of them. For team based characters it's a very good use of the proc. But since the duration is so short, if you solo a lot, putting it in an attack you use more often and putting a damage proc in Ablating Strike will work significantly better.

I agree 100% with Nihili on this. Sometimes a story works to show it better than math.

I started paying attention to the attack chain threads and trying to maximize damage rather than just frankenslot and the difference was pretty incredible. The biggest change was on my dark/dark stalker who went from mediocre to extraordinary.

I was originally using a random selection of Air Superiority, Shadow Punch, Smite, Siphon Life and Midnight Grasp without regard to pacing or recharge or overkill. Bosses took upwards of 10 hits if I didn't start with AS+Buildup. I could drop a minion with a MG critical, but otherwise I was looking at 3 hits to kill them. Based on some threads here and in the Tanker forum, I dropped shadow punch, and got enough global recharge to run MG-Smite-SL-Smite and still have 97%-102% damage slotted in each attack plus mako's proc in smite and touch of death in Midnight. The difference was night and day. Now I kill almost anything in two blows. MG-Smite is one dead, SL-Smite is another down. Against bosses it not only takes fewer hits (because I'm using better attacks more often) but they land faster too. In my case it was more like a difference of 30+ seconds to 10-12 to drop a boss.

I don't do solo AV fights, I don't do the pylon test. But I care about good attack chains because it makes every single mission more fun.

It does more than a level 50 Heal slotted into Fast Healing regardless of where you put it. That's a pretty decent use of 1 slot in my book. And, I have 3 of them sitting around. If you can think of a better use of the slot, please recommend it. I am a complete incompetent at building characters.

I like it for a number of reasons, all of which are related to it being a proc:
1. it lets you exceed the ED cap on powers in the same way as a damage proc
2. it is more endurance, rather a lot actually, over 85% as much as performance shifter
3. it is the only way to heal passively while under the effect of -regen which is quite common
4. when it ticks it will wake you up out of sleep
5. the set bonuses are increadible for /regen



The perf shifter will do more than a level 50 endmod anywhere. But as I said, I'm hoping to ditch physical perfection altogether. As built this character has infinite endurance and can run the top attack chain forever barring malta sappers, etc.

#1, I already have the panacea's slotted (except for one of them), #2, it is not just the recarge, look at all the other set bonuses. Doctored wounds has nothing but the 5% recharge. Panacea has +HP, +regen, +recovery and a higher recharge. With teh global recharge where this one is, plus a spiritual alpha, the different in doctored wounds and panacea on the specific power I'm not convinced that it is worth losing the set bonuses for. What is the actual time difference on the power?

That was one I was thinking of. I know it is very good for /regens. And dark blast does ok with just a nucleus or any old acc/dam IO

Fitness wasn't inherent last year when this build was created. That's probably why.

Edit:
Anyway, if I drop conserve and physical perfection in favor of Shadow Build and Dark Blast, it still looks like regen tissue in the default health slot because it's better than a level 50 heal IO as I understand it. And put just a perf shifter proc into stamina. Then I have two slots for shadow meld, I'm guessing Gambler recharge and Def. And just a neucleus in dark blast. That leaves me one slot I can either add an end mod to stamina, or a third slot to shadow meld (def/end/rech?) or is there anywhere I'll get more mileage?

This doesn't make any sense at all. First, procs never stop working as long as the power is available, it is global's that stop. Second, you can't slot a melee attack IO like kinetic combat into caltrops.

you could drop it into aid self as a slightly better solution. but you'd still have to click it every 2 minutes to benefit.

Even without needing them for favor of the well, you need 12 shards (or equivalent) for a tier-1 alpha, an ADDITIONAL 20 or equivalent (8 of them cannot be "equivalent and must be actual shards) for a tier-2, an ADDITIONAL Notice of the Well and I am not sure but more than 20 to for the tier-3, Then do it all over again from scratch for a second Tier-3 before combining both PLUS many more shards to make the tier-4.

It is well over 100 shards to get a tier-4 even using taskforces and picking the component options.

That is grinding. It is not bad as far as grinding goes in MMOs, but it is still grinding.

Which is why I like the PvP sets that give 3 points of KB. Some are even affordable. As in, less expensive than rare sets in the same category.

I have hasten on builds where it will help, and I leave it off where it doesn't. For me, there are a few reasons that go into when I choose to avoid it.

The end crash it causes is a big reason that I avoid it. Another is that it causes redraw. A third is that I am a lazy man, and so I set it on auto. Sometimes this has gotten my characters killed when it fired and I needed to click a heal or an insp and couldn't while it was animating.

well, judgement is an AoE attack. I could see them limiting swaps to respecs, or to another action as extreme as a respec.