Generalissimo

You should have said - I'd have switched to the toga

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although this mornings kip did mostly involve lots of dreams about eyeballs, knockback, swirly skys (and purple powers), lastly pink and green outfits...


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I hear pink and green scarves are "in" this year

There are power picks available at 44, 47 and 49 so you have 3 powers left.

Like Alvan said - it's the total bonus that matters, not the number of enhancements slotted. The only disadvantage of 6-slotting a defense shield with 6 DO's is that once you start using SO's you'll need to respec to re-allocate slots to where they'll be of more use.

Great fun today in the Shadow Shards today 3 in a row is some achievement Thanks again to everyone involved, it was a nice way to spend the day.

Going to go collapse in bed now...

I'm almost good to go. I picked up some Shivans yesterday evening, filled up on insps, cleared a mission slot (to knock the rust off my mace) and made sure I was set to heroic reputation (I assume we'll all be setting ourselves to Heroic for the task forces, right? ). Now it's just a matter of moving myself into FBZ tonight and I will be good to go Oh yeah, everyone bring sunglasses tomorrow - you're going to be staring at an 8 foot tall bright green and pink tanker for a ridiculous amount of time

Yup, I'm in for as long as it takes

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We gonna kick [censored] - still need a tank though to kick some seriouse [censored] (if anyone has one they want to bring along hehe)

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I think the tanks must be afraid!

Come on someone with a tank prove me wrong, dare ya!

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I'd like to sign up please Generalissimo 2, lvl 50 Inv/Mace tank

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Not to put a dampner on things, but most of the missions that 'appear' ghostable (i.e Defeat leader and guards) aren't due to 'fanclubs' (unless thats been changed) and the lies (Some of the Defeat Leader and Guards are actually defeat all but don't tell you)

These 'fanclubs' can see through stealth etc and will attack you till you die and curse skyward, and if you rez they'll auto come after you

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I'm glad you posted this, I was going to mention this myself.

I'm not sure how much use it still is, but I wrote a guide to the SS TF's about a year ago, and I reckon most of it is still relevant. I know they fixed the 'invisible glowie' bug a while back, so ignore any mentions of that.

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There will be no ghosting - there will be heroic combat all the way

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No ghosting? *runs far, far away*

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Also IIRC Quartz Enimators were broken for most of I6 and didn't get spawned.

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Yup, so it would have been a shock to the system for anyone who hadn't encountered them before.

I'll be along with my scrapper if I'm online at the time.

A single quartz eminator dropped by the DE in that fight would have meant that your shield may as well not have been there.

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Quartz eminators - the eminators dropped by DE LTs - is even more exceptional. Quartz eminators emit a tohit buff to all DE within its buff radius. The tohit buff eminated from quartz eminators is extremely large - by some estimates several hundred percent. To put Quartz eminators into perspective, I3 SR scrappers running perma-elude and the toggles combines were running with more than 150% defense - and still being easily hit by Quartz-eminator buffed DE minions.

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From Arcana's Guide to Defense from the US forum.

According to Nofuture.org.uk (which uses normalised damage scalar figures instead of brawl index values) the damage of Exploding Shuriken is comparable with the damage of Strike, Spin and Shockwave. Shuriken is halfway between Swipe and Strike in terms of damage.

Claws figures

Weapon Mastery figures

I'll come along with my tank if I'm online whenever it's on

If you see yourself getting involved in long, drawn out battles you may want to consider slotting an endurance reduction in your most used attacks. My lvl 36 spines/inv uses a fair bit of endurance running two to three defense toggles and quills. At 37 I'm throwing an endurance reduction into impale, ripper and either throw spines or spine burst so I can keep fighting for longer.

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With regrds to the effectiveness of PFF i used to be able to park in +3 mobs and my regen (2 heals in health) would take care of the damage b4 the next hit. Now, if i didnt have heal self, i'd be dead in 30 seconds. i believe there has been a modification to the resistance/defense that has been 'slipped in' without due notice.

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You still haven't answered my non-drivelly question regarding what enemy types you were fighting when you noticed that PFF wasn't as effective as before. If you were fighting an enemy group with known high accuracy or were sitting in the middle of a devouring earth mission surrounded by those eminators that increase mob accuracy than it would impact how PFF performs. If you've noticed this across a wide range of enemy types then maybe you're on to something. It's hard to know without knowing the test conditions used.

I have both Aid Self and Tough I picked up Stimulant instead of Aid Other though - I figured that helping to keep defenders/controllers/blappers unmezzed would be more useful than throwing out the odd unslotted heal.

Here's some testing I did on Aid Self back in the day (time values are approximate but reasonably accurate):

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I've now had a chance to do a little testing with Aid Self on the test server. I used a lvl 33 and a lvl 50 version of myself to do the testing. Here are the test conditions and results for people to have a look at:

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Aid Self testing -


Lvl 33 inv/mace tank with 1420 health. No accolades, therefore no need to adjust my base health figure. Hasten remained turned off. Aid Self was slotted with lvl 35 SO's (i.e. green +2's)


slotted 2 heal/2 recharge/2 decrease interupt - heals for 482 points and recharges in about 16 seconds
(heals 33.94% of hp every 16 seconds)


slotted 2 heal/1 recharge/3 decrease interupt - heals for 482 points and recharges in about 19 seconds
(heals 33.94% of hp every 19 seconds)


slotted 1 heal/2 recharge/3 decrease interupt - heals for 380 points and recharges in about 16 seconds
(heals 26.76% of hp every 16 seconds)


slotted 3 heal/3 decrease interupt - heals for 584 points and recharges in about 25 seconds
(heals 41.13% of hp every 25 seconds)


slotted 3 recharge/3 decrease interupt - heals for 278 points and recharges in about 14 seconds
(heals 19.58% of hp every 14 seconds)



lvl 50 inv/mace tank with 2155.2 health. I have Freedom Phalanx Reserve and Portal Jockey Accolades at lvl 50 which bumps my health up 15%. I've adjusted my health accordingly to get an actual base health figure of 1874. Hasten remained turned off. Aid Self was slotted with lvl 50 SO's (i.e. white even levels).


slotted 2 heal/2 recharge/2 decrease interupt - heals for 612 points and recharges in about 16 seconds
(heals 32.66% of hp every 16 seconds)


slotted 2 heal/1 recharge/3 decrease interupt - heals for 612 points and recharges in about 19 seconds
(heals 32.66% of hp every 19 seconds)


slotted 1 heal/2 recharge/3 decrease interupt - heals for 490 points and recharges in about 16 seconds
(heals 26.14% of hp every 16 seconds)


slotted 3 heal/3 decrease interupt - heals for 734 points and recharges in about 25 seconds
(heals 39.18% of hp every 25 seconds)


slotted 3 recharge/3 decrease interupt - heals for 367 points and recharges in about 14 seconds
(heals 19.58% of hp every 14 seconds)

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I went with 2 interupt reduction, 2 heal, 2 recharge with my Inv tanker. As a defense based tanker you could probably decrease the number of interupt reductions and go for more heal or more recharge if you liked.

1 decrease interupt, 3 heal and 2 recharge would get you about 40% of your hit points back every 16 seconds or so (add another 3 or 4 seconds for power activation). To me that looks like a much better return on power picks than the ~ 25% resistance you get to just smashing/lethal damage from 3-slotted Tough. Aid Self needs a couple more slots to shine than Tough but I think they're worth it.

Congrats

Howdy Gen. Pan.

/macro T "trade $target" speeds things up a little I find

I beat a lvl 33 Gravity/Energy Dominator in BB yesterday with my lvl 19 ill/ff controller Some days fights just don't go the way you'd expect...

Naw, don't worry about it. I'm not a badge collector so I wasn't doing the TF for the badge - I was just looking for some fun teaming and some high level tanking as my mace has gotten rusty lately I can bring Gen 2 out of semi-retirement another time

Looks like Window Licker's need is greater so if you like you can put him in front of me for consideration for the #8 team slot

I wouldn't mind doing it if you have room for a second tank Generalissimo 2, lvl 50 Inv/Mace tanker. I have well slotted TP and also recall friend, for optimum Shadow Shard travelling.