Humility

I've poked around a bit on the wiki pages and such for binds, but didn't see any info on button down/up functions.

Basically what I'm looking to do is bind sprint and ninja run to a key so that when I depress the key it toggles one on/off, and when I release the key it toggles the other on/off. I'm not sure of the syntax needed within the bind to do so however... anyone willing to help me out or point out a page that has those functions listed?

I am looking into rolling up a melee character. The idea being to level up for the fun, and have something that can farm well at 50. I was thinking that a softcapped defense character would probably be most promising for something like that.

I already have a 50 SS/WP brute, and he isn't bad at all, just not tickling my fancy at the moment. I've heard all the hoopla about fire/kin and have one in the 20s, but it's just not as fun as getting in there and bringing some SMASH into the fight.

I'm very open to suggestions of AT and power combo. Also open to suggestions of resist based builds if it turns out that's a better option for what I'm looking for. The guidelines being that it is something solo capable, that won't be a complete nightmare to level up and can reach the softcap or close to it without blowing a ridiculous amount of inf to get there. Tanker would be an obvious choice since it has the best base defense numbers I think, but that leaves me with concerns about killing power. Open to Brute/Scrapper/Tanker/SomethingIOverlooked suggestions since I can just switch faction as needed of course.

I had started up a DB/SR scrapper, but it felt a little lackluster in the damage to be honest. Maybe I just didn't give it long enough to really bloom, I mean it's still very low level. It just kinda felt like it had weak output right out of the gates. DB is very nice looking though, and rocks an AOE, 2 cones and the finishing moves. Not sure how it comes out looking in the end for damage output though, anyone have any thoughts for how it compares to others as a farming capable set?

EDIT: Had also considered a **/Nin stalker, but by nature stalkers tend to be very single target based so probably not a good match for what I'm looking for here. Nin just looks like a cool set though. Defense, self heal and utility stuff to boot.

Thanks to everyone for popping into the thread, and thanks to those of you who have played the combo for chiming in. I think this will probably be my next character to work on. I also want to work on a def capped melee character, but I'm not 100% sure what I want to use yet.

Thanks for the response. I'm very comfortable with Sandolphins numpad binds for pet control, so that isn't a huge issue. Ranged pets do seem to love to run into melee, just wanted to get a feel up front for what I was looking at.

Not sure I want to do dark. It has some nice control for sure, great debuffs and such but it's just not good synergy with demons I think. Demons are slightly resist focused with the T2 getting a resist buff it will toss around, while dark debuffs tend to generate -tohit which would synergize well with a +defense set like bots or maybe even thugs with stacked maneuvers or something.

Also trying to find something fun to run as a primary with a /storm MM. The -speed and -hit debuffs could just be a lot of fun I think. I just really like the /storm set thematically. I have a stormy in the teens on hero side that I play every now and again with my kiddo but we both started on red side and prefer to play on that side... so we don't end up on blue very much.

So I'm coming back to the game after a break and probably going to check out demon summoning.

I have a number of other masterminds (42 bots/traps 37 thugs/FF 32 Merc/Dark 22 Necro/Poison 20 Thugs/TA).

First off, a secondary. I was thinking thermal would be a solid choice here with both an aoe and single heal, nasty debuffs at higher levels and synergy with pet resist shield stacking with castable resist shield. My only qualm there is the tedium of constantly refreshing shields on pets. Been there done that on my thugs/FF and it gets old. If its a good solid choice though I may do it anyways, thermal looks very solid and has a nice toolbox.

Secondly, how squishy are these things? My bots have always been fairly durable but thugs and necro especially seem squishy as hell. If I don't babysit them pretty much constantly they die exceedingly fast.

Tying into that, are they ranged or melee preferred? I've looked over their list of powers and it seems that they have a basic melee and ranged attack, but upgrade powers give them a number of ranged options. Ranged seems to be much better over all for MM than the melee sets. They are just too squishy and have trouble chasing and such sometimes.

Thanks all for any answers!

Thanks! Just got back from a bit of a break, so little details have slipped my mind.

So I have the 12 month badge listed in my characters, and the site says I get access to my choice of one of these powers. I'm just tinkering around with starting up a VEAT, but I don't see these powers listed anywhere and the vet program page doesn't offer any info on how I actually get the power.

Anyone have any thoughts?

Cleared up through the base and got to the Doppleganger.

When I cleared the longbow around it, it says:

[NPC] Doppleganger: Now you die Zen White Lotus, and I shall assume your role in Lord Nemesis' name. *tink*

[NPC] Doppleganger: Now you die Zen White Lotus, and I shall assume your role in Lord Nemesis' name. *tink*

Yes it says it twice, and all manner of clicking does absolutely nothing. Time to drop this sucker I guess.

I just came back from a long break to check out going rogue and I just cannot set my mouselook as high as I would like it. I seem to remember there being a /command to set your mouselook higher but I can't seem to track it down. Would love to be able to set that around 250 to 275 or something.

I've just started working on taking a hero vigilante and I got a mission that asks me to go into a longbow base and destroy the doppleganger of me that is ruining my rep. I've cleared out the base found the doppleganger, but it is "friendly" and I can't attack it and it won't attack me. It just gives an "invalid target" message. I've reset the mission and gotten the same thing twice. Seems you can't abandon Tip missions either, so that kinda presents a problem. Anyone have any thoughts?

Yeah, slip of the fingers. It was a scrapper, not a stalker.

The point being, it was impromptu. I'm not going to bother crafting a bunch of 20ish recipes for a character I'm not enjoying. If I need to plan weeks+ in advance to buy a couple of bonesnap sets, I probably won't bother.

Calling me lazy and impatient because of an example of doing something fun is a fine way to show you don't know what you're talking about. Crushing impacts, doctored wounds, etc... I place bids, I wait, I got my sets. I have more bids in just to get some more sets into my base storage for the next character I want to get functioning at a higher level.

After playing blue for something around 3 weeks, with zero marketeering (no flipping, buying recipes and reselling IOs etc), and just selling unwanted drops and ticket rolls... I am sitting on something around 220 mil cash. On top of that in my main blue toon I've got some respectable stuff with 3 crushing impact 5 piece sets, 2 doc wounds, lotg 7.5%, steadfast res/def global along with like 10 KB protection IOs on the market or in base storage and a handful of res/def globals sitting there. Pieces of other good sets tossed into base storage in case I want them for other toons.

Stating or implying that I am lazy or incompetent because I enjoy a little impulse buy for a lowbie I am having fun with is just a straw man argument which completely ignores the point being made.

A great thread with some very good responses, very much appreciated. I did post just after I woke up and was not really clear in that I was primarily looking at scrapperish AT's I guess. As for the other AT's, most of them are just a nightmare until you can get stam anyways, regardless of which side they're on, heh.

At any rate, thanks for the responses, good to see peoples thoughts on the matter... though it didn't every answer the question of dev statements on the matter (mostly stalker specific I guess, or brute lack of regen set!).

Great responses nonetheless

Not a flame war, not a statement of either side being better...

I am really curious if the devs have ever stated why blue has more end recovery tools than red does? Specifically, I was thinking about tinkering with a stalker. Yay, regeneration, double yay, quick recovery! Nope, shot down. Yay willpower, double yay, quick recovery! Shot down again. Body mastery? Nope, shot down even late in the build. Willpower on brutes not getting quick recovery until 20(I know every WP build gets it at 20, except stalkers, who don't get it at all). No regen set for brutes (I know the higher HP could be problematic, but easily possible to just tweak the numbers in the brute regen set to compensate).

Now, I'm just wondering if the devs have ever told us why this disparity? I'll freely admit I do not like the end management hassle (especially the 10 to 20) and this makes scrapper regen a HUGE draw for me. Knowing I have quick recover there whenever I feel like taking it is a very very big incentive for me to choose that set. Heck, even with quick recovery I'll probably end up taking Stamina down the road, it's just how I enjoy playing.

Not interested in rehashing anything red v blue, or the pros and cons of stamina and end management. I'm just curious if the devs have made any kind of statement why the different approach and lack of proliferation of this specific ability?

So I'm working on a mission for my kids and tossed in a /kin to help them along. The ally works properly, uses the appropriate powers etc.

However, after each fight he pretty much just stands there. They have to come back and run around him a time or to then move forward again or he doesn't follow... just stands there staring into the distance.

Currently he is set to Follow and Fight Defensively. He has debuff main set and /kin secondary and is set to ranged preference. Would setting him to melee preference help? (I logged out before I thought about that possibly so didn't test it yet).

Is this common? I've seen a few other missions with allies and while they sometimes "drop off" and stop following, it doesn't seem to happen almost every fight like it does with this one. Any thoughts or suggestions are much appreciated.

In the spirit of the fine argumentation and logic in this thread, I put forth the following argument.

And for any recent comers to the thread (gods have mercy on your souls) I present the following summary