Grey Pilgrim

I'm a little confused by the Fire Control power, Smoke. It takes accuracy enhancements (but not accurate to hit debuff IO sets), but I've never seen it miss when I've used it so far. Do I even have to worry about slotting this power for accuracy? I'm assuming not, but I want to be sure before I ditch putting accuracy in there (at least before he gets IO sets).

Hami has attacked my Stalker that was dragging Rikti into the goo, and he was not even getting that close to Hami. I have no idea why he was aggroed on him at all, but he kept doing it in the whole LGTF run I was on recently with him. He aggroed on him more than he ever has for my Tank that was actually doing a lot more to get his attention.

Pylons and when they are defeated make no difference. Desmodos or someone else on my server wanted to test it once, and it made no change at all to how the encounter went. The tests were made specifically to try out theories tossed about like these in this thread, and they were all shot down.

Whenever people say they can't find teams, I ask them if they're using the search function, making friends, and more importantly, if they're using their server's chat channels. 9 times out of 10, that fixes the problem.

I know, because I heard people saying it about Victory off and on, and I knew they were not doing what I did, as there were people on there at all hours of the day before Going Rogue, and it's even more busy with GR and I19. I also love it when people say somewhere is totally empty. If you go by the trainer in most zones, you see people hopping around (not necessarily in the less frequented areas by Galaxy, but you do). Heck I was wondering if Praetoria was going to be more empty after I19, but nope, I see people all over in those common areas. Not so much if I'm swimming in the river hoping for a Hamidon siting, but that's to be expected in a far off area. People forget to take that into account.

Huntsman build is... kind of fun, but an AR blaster is going to blow it out of the water. I was liking my Huntsman character for a long while, but his anemic ST output was really a downer with all the EBs (AVs on teams) he was fighting in the 40s. On the other hand, the Blaster isn't going to have all the team buffs and defense from your primary powers, either. You can build for defense with a Blaster, of course, but SoAs have all those built in powers that give them a lot of it before IOs or pool powers.

I would think you could make a Blaster or Corruptor similar to a SoA by digging in to the Leadership pool a lot, but of course the numbers from those (for end use, etc.) would not be as good. The Corruptor would get better buff numbers from Leadership, though. Traps has a lot of Huntsman-ish powers, too, so AR/Traps might be a good way to go. Of course, the Blaster is going to do more damage out of the box, and the Munitions Mastery has Surveillance, which is also an SoA power.

Kind of go with what you want to be able to do with the character, and/or concept: whatever keeps you happy for the character and playing the game.

I'll run the Incarnate arc with you when we hit 50, MG. I'd like to do it as a group too, but that might be harder with some people hitting it slower than others. Guess it's another reason not to "cheat."

Still, I wouldn't mind playing at 50 for a week to catch some people up, then do a night where we run the arc and then a quick Khan or ITF or something.

And George will not care one whit about that. He'll make sure the version he's sending out is great for visuals and sound, but with all the tweaks he needed to keep making to the originals.

I quit for over a year not too long after CoV came out as well, but I've obviously been back for awhile. I was quite impressed with all the improvements made in that time period, so I hope you will be even more impressed than I was.

Might seem crazy, but I don't think it would be a bad idea to put in travel power customization (maybe this is in the works if they ever do the pool powers)... could get a lot more mileage out of them if they did do this (though they work pretty well on their own). Heh, maybe that's why they weren't able to do pool powers before...

If Ghost Widow were real... she might have a word with the devs on that one. Although maybe that is why all the Widows that use claw powers sound like men?

Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of Maneuvers, but it let's me fit in 3% defense to all without dropping a power I'd like more (as well as getting to the global defense I need). Not thrilled about the end cost, but I slid an extra slot in there to help with it some.

I play with a lot of varied groups that don't really care what we bring, so having more group buffs will help there, as well as solo. Oy, this is going to be an expensive build... Purple prices sure have gone up, even for stuns and immobilizes.

I think I'd take Blazing Aura over Combustion, though slotting it with Obliteration will make it even more of an end hog. Helps with aggro control and you don't have to take time to activate it.

But still... your post kind of shows why I don't recommend capping for S/L... you're really doing some wonky build things to make that cap work, and I don't particularly find it worth it. I'd rather get more out of Consume than slot it for taunt, for instance.

Might be other ways to get to the cap, but you are giving up a fair amount to make it work for yourself.

Check out Player Questions... poster had atrocious spelling in a post, people pointed it out (along with his bad logic), and he complained about all the "gramer nazis." Too funny.

Hmmm, weird way of phrasing it. Seems like they usually would call that the first mission. I guess I'll be curious to see how the ambush triggers after this.

Yo.

Imperious Task Force 1? Is there another in the works we don't know about yet? And which is the Minotaur fight? The one at the end of the first level where you free the sybils?

There really isn't much KB in Energy Melee... I think you are thinking of Energy Blast. You have one ST Melee KB attack from Melee, and that's pretty helpful if someone gets in your face.

Basically, /Fire is mostly more damage, AOE, etc. Energy Melee has a lot of good ST attacks at melee range, but also good mitigation. Fire Blast has pretty good aoe, so /Fire could seem like overkill... or Energy Melee's mitigation can look pretty good. Having build up from level 6 is pretty nice, too... I recall burning through mobs in the Hollows at level 6 because of it.

Still, both have their pros and cons. Go with what sounds good to you.

I may end up dumping Fighting/Tough and picking up Maneuvers so I can fit in another LOTG +recharge. That'll get me to 72.5% global recharge. I may have to move another slot around so I can keep Maneuvers running and not get to low on endurance, but we'll see how things go as I level this guy up. He's only level 7 at this point, after all!

*sighs*

This is bad news. I got a kick out of your antics, Ocho, and loved that you interacted with us on Victory. You were also quite professional in all your dealings. You will be missed.

I think accuracy does help, but I don't worry about the accuracy on it much, especially since I usually use it along with Build Up. Still, I use IO sets, so you're bound to slot some in the power, which doesn't hurt. I tried to cram in a lot of damage and recharge for its enhancements, though, and I am slotting one proc in it.

I'm not really a master on how procs work, especially with DoT powers, but I think you would just get one chance to fire on each target when it rolls the initial to-hit (but again, don't quote me on that). That's why I'm going to slot a purple damage proc in there for extra damage goodness.

The damage is a bit random in the power, but for the most part, Hail of Bullets does better than the other non-crash nukes: it usually kills minions for me when paired with Build Up. Sometimes even lieutenants if I'm using Fire ammo (or they're almost dropped). There will be the occasional target that is not damaged at all, or a minion partially damaged, but I keep Bullet Rain ready to go after HoB, and that drops whatever is left standing... if anything is... which isn't too often. I like Rain of Arrows and Full Auto on my other Blasters, but I expect to have to fire another attack to drop minions with them as well... don't really have to worry about that with HoB.