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I've got one of these as well, with totally different results.

I started this char at release, as a solo alt - all the rest of my characters are completely team-oriented and I wanted a way to play by myself. /Energy is a good single-target set, and knockback offers mitigation for bosses which is important when you can't rely on domination being up all the time.

The problem is that both Carrion Creepers and the Fly Trap spam immobilizes with -kb on them. The first 28 levels you rely on knockback as mitigation against bosses; after 32 you can't reliably knock anything back anymore because the pets tie them down.

I'm also a little underwhelmed with Bone Crusher and Total Focus. TF should be a mag 4 disorient under domination, but for some reason doesn't stun bosses in one shot regardless. Same story with Bone Crusher and lts. The damage is OK, but the recharge is pretty long and the stun is unreliable - I ended up grabbing Air Superiority to fill out a melee chain and add mitigation through knockdown, which is often ruined by the pets.

Wow, that's good to know. Customs tend to be MUCH harder than slammers though, so I guess this is going to take some work and testing to refine.

Any reason to go Granite over SR? Seems like a Defense set would be much easier to work over, since defense debuffs are plentiful and tohit buffs don't hit the damage cap.

I'm also curious about WM vs Battle Axe - I'd think that anyone can get a -kb IO and neutralize BA's knockback, but the WM stuns could be more dangerous in large numbers. It's lethal rather than smashing, but don't all sets get the same resistance/defense to both?

Good luck with that. I have as much luck hitting more than 3 people with Fulcrum Shift as I do herding cats.

Heheh, I know, just being comical :P

It's a reasonable argument that anything that can be bought or sold - and indeed, the entire auctionhouse system itself - is a reward for hardcore marketeers. It creates and rewards an entirely new type of play within the game that some people find, if not fun, at least worth the time investment.

Ultimately the creator's goal is to get people to invest time and money in their game. Therefore, PVP IOs are for marketeers as well as PVPers.

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*hisses, backs away, and makes the sign of the cross with two fingers*

Yes, there're RPers; they're more the majority on the forums than they are in the game, and if you're actually in a team with 'em they tend not to RP, which is both very bad and very good *hiss* at the same time. Sometimes you can get 'em started, but it's my experience that most folks can't type eloquent descriptions and dialog sequences while running in panic from an AV.

As far as elitist cliques - sure, there are people who like to play together because they find that the people they play with frequently are better (by whatever criteria) than random PUGgers. I haven't noticed a lot of animosity or contempt among them - they're seclusive rather than offensive. That's even true of the *hiss* ERP/MRP folks, who tend to form up into cliques for more obvious reasons, like.. paternity. Oh NO my man is NOT yo' baby daddy!

Bear in mind that there's no reliable way to verify someone's age in-game before you get involved in *hiss* ERP with em. Wouldn't want a visit from a federal agent to ruin your game/life/pliability.

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That's actually counterproductive for my SS. I've got FF+Recharge slotted in it, so I try to wait 10s after activation before I stomp again. Keeps me from overlapping the buff and loosing out on part of it, and means that with 40%ish recharge I'm still pretty close to perma hasten if I'm careful about it and constantly fighting.


I always leave it on auto - one less thing to babysit. I've actually got a macro on Brawl that toggles autohasten, toggles autorage, and brawls.