GavinRuneblade

Depending on your hours, look into the global channels for different timezones. Like Australia. I know there are others too. That might help rather than just the ones focused on specific servers.

Now, if only they'd do something so you can cap teleport with one IO.

To the op, there is a guide specifically for these circumstances. Little bit old now, but very good.

I get the generics, but the ones I don't get are why so many of the recipes that require rare salvage sell for less than 1 or 2 million. Take the Airburst Dam/Rech. It requires a Synthetic Intelligence unit at the high level and Impervium at the mid level. Both of those go for between 1.5m and 3m. The crafted sell pretty reliably below 1m at levels between 37 and 49. Why the hell does anyone bother? Vendor or delete the recipe and other salvage and sell the Impervium or Synthetic and get double the money vastly faster. The level 49 specifically has a "last 5 sold" from 1.0m to 1.5m back 1 month. As I check, Synthetic Intelligence shows 5 listed a 2m each all from today.

So who is crafting these things and posting them at such a loss? No badges for these ones.

And there are plenty of other examples in the sleep and fear sets. some of the travels, etc. There are a huge number of crafted recipes right now that are listed for less than half the value of the salvage, with a reliable history of sales at below salvage cost.

When I slot ranged attacks I never use devastation for set bonuses. That one is all about chance to hold.

There are two ways I slot things: #1 6-piece thunderstrike because it brings recovery, accuracy and ranged defense. #2 Entropic/Decimation for recharge plus the chance to hold.

If I could get the ranged defense and still have room for the chance to hold I would. If I could slot it in a melee attack I would.

I will always slot the lowest level I can get on a pure proc because it impacts set bonuses even when it doesn't affect the proc itself. From time to time I pull someone out on a respec, so even if character A doesn't need a level 20 because the rest of what is slotted is level 32, the next character I move it to might want the 20 for a critical set bonus. To me lower will always be better even on a proc.

On one's like the luck of the gambler, as stated there is a defence bonus built in that gives a reason to go higher. On that one I aim in the 30-35 range.

I have a fire/shield brute and it was fun and reasonably smooth all the way. But then again I don't expect to run at +4/x8 and don't even want to on any character who can.

as it stands I have 38 melee, 42 aoe, and 34 ranged defense including tough and weave and I can run fine against 0/x6 romans with bosses on. Gotta be a little careful but it's not too bad. one small purple and I'm, capped. if they take that away an orange makes a world of difference. don't have aid self, don't need it.

Devouring earth, longbow, and PPD are the only ones that really give me trouble in giant groups.

Didn't they have a detective system in testing for a while that could be modified for this purpose?

The real question is does Paragon University have sports teams? With all the katana, BS, and Dual blades running around I'm guessing they at least have a wicked fencing team.