Halo_Bender

I sent a request to join, waiting to be added

noticed that too, the forums are taking a reallllly long time whenever I get the mapserve error. Like, it took it a couple of minutes to refresh this page just now. All of the other tabs in my browser were working fine...

Chalk up another one here. Exalted and Triumph server, been pretty much unplayable since the Winter Event patch. Every third mission or so i freeze up on the "Statesman vs Robot" screen and I have to use Task Manger to quit the game. As long as the mission/zone loads fine I have no problems though.

Makes me pretty mad since playing time is limited and I planned on getting some trials/TFs done this weekend while the girlfriend is working...

EDIT: tried logging in just now after freezing up 12 hours ago and it said my account was still logged in.

My Fire/Fire Build:

1 - Fire Blast - Good single target blast, didn't get it 6 slotted til 39 or 40 though.
1 - Ring of Fire - No choice here, never used it after like lvl 6
2 - Fire Ball - One of your bread and butter attacks, 6 slotted ASAP
4 - Flares - it's a question of another ranged attack or a big honkin sword. Currently no additional slots.
6 - Hasten - your next 5 slots should go into this
8 - Fire Breath - another bread n butter attack, 6 slot ASAP
10 - Hurdle - first step on the way to Stamina
12 - Aim - I went ahead and took it here, slight boost to damage also
14 - Superspeed
16 - Health
18 - Blaze - Great single target attack, get this one 6 slotted
20 - Stamina - Your next slots shouold go into Stamina to get it 6 slotted
22 - Build Up - great for increasing damage and a slight boost to aim
24 - Stealth - you wanna be a tricksy little blaster don't we?
26 - Blazing Bolt - powerful sniper blast, can take out orange minions with Aim and Build Up.
28 - Consume - Awesome power for post-Inferno endurance, provided there is something still standing, I use this a lot.
30 - Grant Invis - Just a bump on the road to Phase Shift
32 - Inferno - One of the most awesome powers in the game. 3 recharge and 3 damage plus Aim and Build Up hits the damage cap I believe. You wont need any Acc. in it with Aim and it recharges in a couple minutes with 3 recharge. I can take out +3 minions and leave the LTs with a sliver. Pop Consume and mop up.
35 - Hover - Burn sucks since it no longer provides status protection. Hover helps you get out of melee
38 - Fly - you will want Fly if you ever plan on going to the Shadow Shard
41 - Char - You can finally get your APPs. I chose Char over Bonfire. It can be used to stop that nasty LT breathing down your neck.
44 - Fire Shield - I plan on taking this at 44, provides good Smashing/Lethal protection.
47 - Phase Shift - an "Oh $h17!" button
49 - Rise of the Phoenix - just because.

There it is. Quick and dirty since I'm at work. I might come back and add slotting later if I have time.

Last time I did the trial we had 4 controllers and 1 spine/invul scrapper. We had 1 death the whole time and that was from me drawing too much agro with hurricane and had about 5 grenades lobbed at me at once. We were all around 39-40 if I remember correctly, and 1 of the controllers lost connection before we got to the reactor so it was just 4 of us and we OWNED. We never even had to heal the reactor and we were even waiting around by the doors for the Freaks to spawn.