Hart

Got my fingers crossed for a way to transfer items between factions.

It's not available red-side? Buy it blueside, transfer it over, make millions!

Actually, pretty much any scheme here would revolve around 'transfer it from blue to red, make millions'.

That should say something to the devs about the inadequate market interface and concentration of the embedded base. Then again, I'm just a customer. What do I know, right? :P

Er.. your Numina's is in Frostwork.

That's wierd enough that I'm wondering if I'm missing some canned awesome somewhere, or if you should've just put it in Health instead. Something to do with DR in PVP?

Heh, made 200m in 3 days grinding these things out in the AE and selling em for a mill instantly.

They always sold for slightly over a million, and I figured the guy who's flipping em would run out of seed money eventually. I was trying to knock the price back down by flushing the market with supply. I failed, but got wealthy enough doing it that I no longer care how much they cost.

I'm still stumped as to why someone would be willing to pay 2M for something it'd take all of 5 minutes to go get with tix.

IMHO focus on Recharge, try and get Heat Loss back as soon as possible.

Start a fight with Snow Storm, smack the target with Infrig + Benumb + Heat Loss, and run like hell so your teammates can finish them off before their teammates shred you. /cold's survivability is terrible, but the debuffs hit just about every debuff category and stack crazy amounts of -recharge and -speed.

I'd drop Leadership for Concealment to get Phase Shift. Hibernate's all well and good but it doesn't actually get you out of a bad situation - it locks you into a bad situation. Fine for dueling, but if it's 2v1 you want Phase Shift + Invis to get away, or you'll just get ganked when you come out of the ice block.

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~Hart

P.S. - Heheheh.

Join 'Virtue LFG Alpha'.

If you're redside, you'll need it.

Actually, searching 'Stories and Lore' for problems people are having gave me a few ideas.

First, it looks like there's an issue with MA spawning stuff from low level groups when there's supposed to be stuff from higher level versions of the same group. Soooo.. I'm going to try adding something that caps out at around the lower limit of the Fir Bolg group and see if I can get the Lts to spawn at level 20 so I can just one shot them with Foot Stomp and be on my way without them cludging up my agro cap.

I could combine this with hand-placing them in that cave map that makes everything spawn in one little tight-packed room, and basically spam Burn and Foot Stomp until the room was clear.

Then, there's the option of just making them custom and manually removing everything except a single melee power. They'll be worth next to no xp, but they'll still allow me to get 100% xp for the minions, who seem perfectly willing to charge to their death in my burn patch. The single melee power is to force them to charge me.

For that matter, I could give them all but one power from their secondary and potentially get some xp for them, since they're SR and double-stacked Rage pretty much negates their secondary regardless.

Which leads to a wierd question - if I create customs with no attack powers, but everything other than the T9 from a set like EA or SR, do they still reward any exp? If so, that's something that needs to be fixed - any xp for a target that can't fight back is a problem.

So this weekend I put together a stretch of 5 missions using the same map and the same enemy group, mainly for the increasing ticket multiplier on completion. It's not much, but if I farm up 500 tickets normally I get 600 tickets for completion of the 5th mission. If I'm running solo and smashing through the mission ASAP, it seems to be worth the time.

The problem I'm having lately is figuring out a way to force things into melee with me. I was using Fir Bolg for a while, because the Scorch/Slash ones don't have ranged attacks so they group up and I can Burn + Foot Stomp them. The agro cap kept getting in the way as I moved from pack to pack though, because the lieuts and bosses refuse to close to melee.

I tried making some imitation pumpkin Lts in the critter creator, but even with 'Standard' levels of attack they'll stand around the outside and throw flares at me for a few before they get bored and charge me. They swing once or twice, Burn makes them run, and they stand outside throwing Flares at me for a bit before coming in again.

Is there some way around this? I don't even care if I get xp for the lts, I just want them to count for the 'has a Lt in it' part of the xp nerf. Ideally i'd just ignore them and take out whole packs of minions in 2 attacks 22 times per mission without having to run around chasing stuff.

I know I'm supposed to be able to fix this with the Mu immob once I hit 41, but I'm stuck at 39 with my wife's alt pacted as baggage so any tweak I can make to force melee would be nice.

Coming from a main corrupter, so YMMV.

I can't imagine skipping either of Neutron Bomb or Irradiate, because slotting the Achilles' Heel proc and throwing them one after another results in a 36% chance of debuffing resist by 20% on everything in the pack.

That's particularly true on a Blaster, because you've probably got additional PBAOE powers in your secondary. I think of NB as a PBAOE that I can throw if it's too dangerous to stand in melee. The travel time for the bomb much less noticeable if you're throwing it at something that's point blank from you.

With my Rad/Kin Corr, I use FS > Irr > NB > Siphon Speed > Transfusion > Irr > NB > repeat as my main attack chain. The occasional boss that's left living gets Cosmic Burst. I expect Blasters can just sub their main PBAOE in for Siphon/Transfusion and spam 3 PBAOEs in a row for constant damage.

It's most likely DX10 vs DX9.

If you find a way to install DX10 on XP, I'd love to hear about it. That would probably save me buying an operating system for another few years.

Just guessing?

I'd say it's giving double the influence that you'd make at the level you're exemplared to instead of double the influence you'd make at your proper level.

You're going to have a lot of redraw with that combination of powers.

Basically, every time you use a power that requires a weapon, if you don't already have that weapon in your characters hands, the character has to go through an additional animation to draw the weapon from it's holster/sheath/quiver. The additional animation takes time, which means that it takes longer to activate your powers.

I have a 50 AR/Cold, and if I have to cast Sleet or Heat Loss in the middle of a fight, I have to redraw my rifle before I can use my attacks. It's not too bad for /cold because the powers consist of bubbles and long-recharge debuffs. /TA is a more active set, so I'd expect you'll end up with a lot more time wasted waiting for your character to draw his gun or bow.

Long story short, don't let your experience with this character convince you that villains aren't fun. Villains are fun; but I'm gonna bet that AR/TA is a real pain to play until 26, when you can immobilize guys in ignite patches with the entangling arrow.