HeroJunkie

Thank you developers for the great costume change emotes! I have five completely different costumes with a specific emote for changing into each one (using macros). I change costumes constantly

If you do not have the Magic and Super Science Booster Pack I recommend them for the costume parts and emotes. I also recommend spending 100 Vanguard Merits on the Vanguard Sigil costume change emote. It's awesome!

Now if only I could get more costume slots....

Has anyone ever run two /traps corruptors together?

I'm talking about two friends each using a different account. How good are two force field generators together? Two acid mortars? What sort of defense can me and my friend get if we run two force field generators and take Weave, Combat Jumping and maybe Maneuvers?

Would anyone recommend this and would you recommend any particular primary?

Thanks for any help!

I don't post in this section much so forgive me if this is a known bug. I have macros for changing my costume and doing a costume change emote along with it. The macros work, but it seems that almost half the time they somehow activate a /Shield power animation, such as Grant Cover or Active Defense instead of playing the correct costume change emote. The costume change does occur about 15 seconds later but the correct emote never plays.

This is happening on my /Shield scrapper. It happens even when Grant Cover is toggled off and when Active Defense is in the middle of its recharging. There is nothing in the macro about activating Grant Cover or other powers. This has to be a bug.

I think this happens even when I don't use the macros to change costumes, but I'm not sure.

It would be great if you would fix this. Thank you.

What is the name of the place in the Shadow Shard where I can hunt Fake Nemesis? Where is it in realation to Firebase Zulu?

Thanks for any help!

I'm getting Grant Cover at level 49, which is only five bars away. I had Grant Cover, but dropped it for this new build. I'm getting it back though, very soon. Recall Friend is very important. I'll have them both.

Last night I soloed two radio misisons in PI at +2 level/8 players. It takes a lot of inspirations to get through a mission on that difficulty, but my character did it! I fought off five purple death mages at one point. So yeah, I'm pleased. My character is awesome. He does have a slight endurance problem. I'll be looking into fixing that if I can.

Whiskey Jack I owe you another thanks for advising me to try for the Steadfast Protection 3% Defense Unique recipe using AE tickets. I got it after spending only a few hundred tickets! You saved me like 35 million influence!

Actually I couldn't afford even the cheap build you suggested, so I contented myself with 33.49% positional defense to all, which softcaps using a single Luck inspiration or is melee and lethal softcapped with Parry. Also I often run with another /Shield scrapper, so that helps. I also took One With The Shield, Parry and Recall Friend instead of Conserve Energy, Physical Perfection and Maneuvers. OWTS boosts Endurance Recovery while it's active. I need Recall Friend because my friend always gets lost.

I haven't finished buying new level 50 IOs, but I will do that tonight probably. IO sets seem really, really expensive. I may just use regular IOs and a few accuracy/damage ones. I think I may be permenantly priced out of the market for IO sets as I avoid farming, grinding or buying influence. I also have some alts so my time is divided between characters. I softcapped a claws/SR a while back, my first level 50. But I don't think IO set prices were as high back then and he only needed a few sets.

Thanks again for all your help! I'm really pleased with my character and the respec I just did.

Thanks again, Jack and others!

Whiskey Jack, no One with the Shield?

Will I need Conserve Power and Physical Perfection to cover End costs?

BTW thanks a bunch for providing that build!

I have a level 48 BS/Shield scrapper. I'm about to do a respec to add in Tough and Weave and fix a couple other things. I would like to improve my defense. I have heard people talk about softcapping defense on /Shield, but I can't find a thread detailing the process. I have only 35 million influence and I'm guessing that's not nearly enough to softcap with IO bonuses? How about getting to 33% defense so that I can softcap with a single Luck inspiration? I do have Parry.

I have lots of respecs available on this character. Can someone help me plan my build so that I can get higher defense now and plan ahead for when I hit 50 and have more influence to spend?

Thanks for any help!

I think a couple of these moves could be alternate animations for Martial Arts powerset.

I like the original suggestion.

Also, a free server transfer, or access to a special trial mission to earn a free server transfer, would be a great reward for a level 50 character. Then you can move your retired characters off your active server if you wish.

Well, my blasters don't use their secondaries as much anymore, since the increase to blaster ranged damage. I actually gave up on blasters there for awhile, except for my ice/elec blapper, which I still play sometimes and enjoy. But now, with good ranged damage, I find myself enjoying blasters again, but also taking few powers from the blaster secondaries.

I think some protection, possibly in the form of one or more aggro drawing pets would be a great help to my blasters. In addition, this would save the developers the trouble of making the Leader or Commander AT, which has been suggested as a mastermind-like AT with more personal attacks.

There might be some balance issues to address, but I bet plenty of people would like this.

Teaming is usually more fun but for those who like to solo or can't find a team or just don't want to buff, heal or blap, how about a secondary that soaks damage for you. A bruiser, like the thug MM pet. This brute or tank would have some sort of minor taunt (affects 5 targets max), be tough, have super strength powers. I would be neat if you could choose a samurai instead of a bruiser, too.

This suggestion is probably not in keeping with tradition, but the game is evolving and I thnk it would be fun to try.

Yay! Thanks folks!

I'm planning a respec. Thinking about taking the teleport pool to help my pets when they get lost. Also thinking about getting Teleport Foe to go with my Trip Mines. Does anyone have experience with the teleport pool and masterminds?

Thanks for any help!

Okay thanks folks. I'm actually a /traps mastermind, so I can't get smoke grenade, but I'll go for Stealth and a Stealth IO I guess. Thanks a lot for the info!

Can you use invisability to lay a Trip Mine at an enemy's feet while Invisible? Or will I need Stealth + a Stealth IO/Superspeed?

Thanks for any help!

I don't know if anyone else feels this way, but playing a stalker is like watching a movie where the main character is invisible half the time. I don't like not being able to see my character.

Can we get optional FX for Hide that just fades the character a little, like Stealth, but does not make the character invisible? I want to see my character crouching for assassin strikes and such.

Okay, then. Ninja/Storm it is! Thanks all!

Thanks for the responses, guys. So you guys are implying that ninja/storm is a workable combination then?

I was thinking of making a Tsoo sorcerer themed mastermind with ninjas and storm powers. Is /storm a bad idea since ninjas are better in melee? /Storm and /Dark and maybe /Poison are the only secondaries that are interesting to me, and I have a /Dark corruptor going already.

By the way, how do you herd thngs with /storm and generally make it effective against multiple foes? It sounds challenging.

Thanks for any advice!

It works perfectly! Thanks folks!

Can someone help me out with a macro for changing costume slots AND using certain costume change emotes at the same time?

Any help greatly appreciated!

I think a better idea would be for them to just give us more space. I don't know exactly how servers work, but a know that you can buy a 500 GB external hard drive for $100. The current space they give us is 100k, meaning that you could fit what, like 50,000 or 500,000 stories on it?

It would be nice to have enough space so that you can make all custom enemies, plus custome allies, plus several missions plus text.

Also, developers, please fix the custom powers critter XP issue. No one will use AE if leveling is slower than the regular game.