GavinRuneblade

Armageddon does over 100 fire damage when the proc fires (every third attack). Even a "normal" proc does 76.

I understand but when I do an average of 30 fire damage per hit (100+ spread over 3 attacks for simplicity) on the attack of my choice, PLUS every minute I get all attacks to do a significant amount of fire damage added on and allowing me to exceed the damage cap... that's close enough for government work in my book.

Full disclosure: I do work with the government. Why this matters I do not know, but stock market people get to/have to say it so why shouldn't I?

You are correct, and I am saddened by this fact everytime I use the power.

I'll back this as the way it works on every other pet proc.

the fee is 10% not 11.1111111%. So if you want "1 million out of this" your sell price should be 1,100,000. If you set your sell to 1,111,111 and I set my sell to 1,100,000 I will sell, you will not and I will get 1 million off the market.

People pretty regularly admit to typing 6666666 and 7777777 for bids and sale prices out of habit, speed, laziness etc. They are not doing math to get exact amounts. Or if they are, they need to update their formulas. =)

That's why I suggested IOs as an option and gave you a simple way to make the money fast. There are lots of ways to improve performance: Team and get buffs, slotting, power choices, personal experience/skill etc. I tried to help with slotting because I'm quite bad with builds and if you say the problem is that you don't have money then there is an easy fix for that.

I do what I put in my post in less than 10 minutes per play session right at the end. Teleport to market from wherever I am, buy a few bits of salvage to craft what dropped while playing run to the university, craft, run back, sell everything, buy new porter and log out.

Unless you want day job credit, then add self destruct or port to pocket D. =)

Many sub-par sets you can find the crafted recipe selling for less than the cost of the salvage. Which makes no sense because someone is losing money on that. But it still happens. I know because I vendor those recipes rather than craft them.

That said, I find the 20 million mark to be surprisingly low. A frankenslotted build yes, but Perma? Maybe frankensloteed with just the minimum needed to get recharge? I think it might be possible if you're careful. But I'd still love to see it.

Which version of Valk are you looking at? Angels of death? Simply supernatural warrior maidens (ala the Voluspa where they were like six horsewomen of the apocalypse but serving Odin)/ force of war death and destruction? Mere Servants of the gods (ala the grimnismal and parts of the prose edda where they are waitresses only and not fighters)? Pure mortals of divine descent who marry/are descended from royalty and act as bodyguards to their lord/husband?

First off, what does Valkyrie mean to YOU, because it means many different things even to the old vikings.

Call it "fire slash, sweep your empty hand through the air and have a thin arc of fire trail. Could be cool.

Or punch with spears of fire surrounding your hand and piercing the target a little like impale's/archery's spines/arrows do but only melee range.

fire claw

flame spike: punch and a pointy cone of fire forms along your arm, transfers to the target and explodes leaving the burning bits on the ground around them.

This is really easy folks, there are a million ways to do pointy or sharp flame animations.


MY dual blade/fire armor character would like to disagree with you. Read the changes on fiery embrace. Also, check the Armageddon Proc.

Quick note, you'll do better using unusual pricing. Lots of lazy bidders and sellers use 11111 or 22222. If you sell at 10 and I sell at 11 you will win and I will lose. If you bid 12 and I bid 11, you will win and I will lose. It is a seemingly small thing, but kicks in plenty often.

I hear you on the Psi thing, they bug me too. Would be nice to get some more options. A few are decent but overall not so happy with the look. Performance, on the other hand, is very nice. =)

as an option to hover, the tier-1 jet pack temp power only costs a pittance to craft (for some confusing reason it is listed in the middle on the auction house interface). This way you can use the strategy from level 2 onward and not use up a power pick. =)

Burn a bit more endurance though.

Ooh your right. I always forget dominators don't have darkness yet.

thanks for keeping me honest!

Welcome back!

It is not so much that "only a 50 can pull this off" as it is that 50s make massively more income of any other level (there is actually a mechanic that nearly doubles your income from 49 to 50 when exp gets turned off). That said, right now any character over level 21 can run tip missions and earn stupidly high amounts of money.

If you are interested I direct you to the market forum, look for any posts about Alignment/Hero/Villain Merits (not Reward Merits). By "stupidly high" my rough estimate is something like 75 to 150 million inf every 2 days if you random roll, and a pretty reliable 150 to 300 million if you just pick level 25 luck of the gamblers and sell 1 every 4 days. works out to over a billion inf a month available to any character level 21+ who can solo 11 missions in 2 days at the minimum difficulty setting.

See just above where I mentioned the "luck of the gambler"? This is a defense set and one of the pieces gives you a straight up 7.5% recharge bonus to every power on your character. You can slot up to 5 of them per character, but no more than 1 per defensive power. So a lot of people put one in combat jumping, one in Maneuvers, one in Weave, and then they run out of spots. But invisibility, stealth and phase can also hold them. Adding all five gives you almost 40% global recharge. By comparison Haste gives 70% and the two stack. On farming builds recharge is very important. The reason these are so expensive is that many people want up to 5 for each character. That is very high demand. =)

Just to give you some advice, head over to the Market Forum. there are lots of great posts that will help you out on the money side very fast and very easy. The first piece of advice I can give you is to only vendor your SOs. All salvage, and recipes you should list on the auction house, and check the recipes if they are worth crafting.

Very true. The "and run" causes bad feelings on a team. It is fine solo, it is not ok in a team scenario.

Other games have ways around it that work fine. Including bonuses based on positions. Our crit bonus from nearby teammates is a start in that direction.

But if the whole team is attacking, and you are running, that is bad. If the game mechanics encourage you to run when everyone else attacks, I suggest that is poor design.

Several of the AV killers are specifically built for infinite endurance.

One of the more famous ones was Iggy Kamikaze's DM/Invul scraper killing 9 AVs simultaneously with no inspirations and no temp powers. Iggy also has a kat/wp who solo'd the ITF. So endurance is not the limit, but it is something you have to build for. and as several have already posted, they have done it.

@ the thread in general, not Jibi in specific: Which gets to my real reason for posting: Temp powers.

You know, tossing out the occasional envenomed dagger will really hurt a GM. Several scrappers have been able to take Kraken solo with it, and I bet Deathsurge is do-able by a stalker.

@ the questions on Performance Shifter:
In general people call it .22 end/second. Which is mathematially accurate if you average over long periods of time. In other threads I have been told that if you only have one slot, putting it into Stamina is more effective than a level 50 Common end mod IO by something piddly like .01 end/second. But I am on a Mac and don't have mids to check.

@ the questions on Endurance options for brutes and scrappers vs stalkers:
I know that brute/scrapper DM is different than scrapper version specifically buildup is weaker than saturated souldrain and we don't have dark consumption for endurance. Are there any other sets where the attack gives something that stalkers lose out on?

That would only make sense if no AT other than stalkers had access to stealth. Since every character has stealth via two pools (Super Speed and all powers in Concealment), and since literally every AT has access to stealth in either a primary or secondary power set, AND beyond that all characters have access to stealth IOs... It makes no sense at all.

Except for the stealth, stalkers have nothing that the other melee sets don't already have, and even with the stealth they have nothing at all that banes don't have (for instance) including executioner's strike for bonus damage from hidden, placate, etc.

So it is completely false from any possible way of looking at it.

3 Doms 0 melee powers. As far as I'm concerned, giving dominator and blasters melee powers was the single dumbest thing the devs have ever done and I am including the i13 PvP crap in this statement. Do scrappers and tanks have ranged attack secondaries? No. So why isn't there a pure ranged offense AT?

I made my own via make believe that the melee attacks don't exist.

Edit:
Let me rephrase this bit to be... Making Doms and Blasters mixed melee/ranged and thereby having no option at all exist for an all rage offensive character was the bad Idea. I do think it is good to have the option for mixed melee/range. But just skipping the melee powers I am gimping myself, especially considering the higher damage modifier for melee on both blasters and dom. Frustrates me because I want to build an optimized character, but I also don't want to be forced to use melee to be optimal. I'd like that choice added.

@Streeja, I know there is a place for melee doms. I'm not saying there isn't. But I specifically want an all offense ranged character. Corrs and defenders are far behind blasters and doms in damage output on any build I've seen and half the powers aer buff/debuff so agin I have to gimp myself to build what I want. Controllers are the same, loaded with buff/debuff powers. VEATS and HEATS are both designed to mix it up between ranged and melee. There does not exist the option to play an all ranged assault character unless you deliberately ignore your highest damage attacks, or unless you play a mixed attack/buff-debuff. I want the equivalent of a scrapper with ranged attacks. Just one. either side. Hell give me even one dominator or blaster secondary with no melee and no PBAoE powers and I'll be happy. Just one. (Devices is dang close).

Any excuse to link to this comic is a good excuse.

It is a crying shame that Ian doesn't do CoH jokes anymore. Then again after some of the characters he had generic'd, maybe that's not such a bad thing.

Not true at all. If they are identical in value then there is also the advantage to getting your income faster rather than slower. If you could get paid $150 on Tuesday and $150 on Friday, or $300 on Friday, which option would you take?

Also, if you have a bajillion alts, the random rolls are helpful because you can use a lot of what you roll saving you time and effort by removing the purchase step.

I duno, but if it does I'm proccing the hell out of it. That's awesome. I know for at least a while the blaster version DOTs would hurt the caster.

Sort of. That's why I put in, "I don't care about combat time, I care about my time". It doesn't add damage, so with it or without it I have to launch the exact same amount of attacks to kill the enemy, +1 power (domination). Therefore, I go without. Wheter I need to activate it every time or every other time or every third spawn, it still means one power activated more than killing the spawn without it. Since activating it doesn't change my killing speed. It does impact survivability in some cases, and I often am lying dead on the ground thinking, you know I wonder if I'd have won if I used domination?

But when I'm alive it always comes down to "violence or buff?" and violence wins.


My holds all do damage so I'm adding 1 activation. Even if it is 1 per two or three spawns, it is still one more activation.

I was doing more than 20% way before 50 and still do after 50. Well slotted and procced Carrion Creeper is a grotesque amount of damage. With -res proc, assault, and poison ray the tarantula and tuey are also putting out very respectable damage. And I do toss confusion around. I consider confusion a damage power, because if I do it and nothing else people die. I have damage procs (2) in my AoE hold. If I could fit them into domination, I might consider using it more often =)

I use breakfrees for mez protection, which is a REALLY bad habit. =)


I had until recently a bug that prevented any macros or binds from working. I finally wiped and reinstaled from scratch and now macros that haven't worked for over a year magically work without me changing anything on them. So I might look into this. Binding it to my ST hold is probably a good one. That will make me feel like domination is an attack. =)

I probably shouldn't ask this but... With all the goofy ways that Hami-Os break what can and can't be slotted for are we SURE that we can't modify the -dam portion?

This is intimately linked to the cooldown on placate. Leaving placate as-is, as low as 4 is fine. Giving us placate more often, maybe 6 is fine.