Hyperstrike

Okay, blue-side I've solo'ed EB's with Tanks, Scrappers, Blasters, Warshades, Peacebringers, Defenders and Controllers.

Now, did I solo them without inspies on some of those? HELL NO!

Pretty much any AT can. It simply takes halfway decent power selection, slotting and enhancement choice, as well as appropriate inspie use.

If something is pounding through you with 70% resists, bumping it to 90% isn't going to rectify the situation. If you're lucky, it'll just delay it another minute or so.

About all I use Handclap for in my prime build is a Taunt Psi Proc mule. My defenses are already low enough. Knocking away my my aggro helps not at all.

Try being the last man standing after a Romulus Ambush (or all the nictus spawns) and tell me that.

What makes a man turn Neutral...
-- Zapp Branigan

Stupid question. You say you updated your video card. Are you using the Microsoft-supplied drivers? Or the drivers from the video card manufacturer (AMD/nVidia) site? Or the drivers from the video card vendor's site?

As someone who's played Invuln extensively in the last 16-ish months, I feel free to disagree with this.

Unstoppable is an "Oh *BLEEP!* button". It's NOT meant to be regularly used.

If it were, it wouldn't impose BOTH an End AND an HP crash the way it does. Indeed, in the last 10-12 months, on my primary build, I've used Unstoppable exactly TWICE. Once successfully, once not (as the opponent was doing enough damage to render my resists trivial). My secondary build doesn't even have it. It's defense capped and has resists about as high as they can go (plus the various accolades to fall back on).

Thus far, I haven't missed it in the least.

Pre-IO'ing out, it still has a SMALL amount of utility. But again, only in highly emergent situations where you, hopefully, have a chance of either beating the opponent inside the 3 minute death sentence or being able to back out safely and have someone off-tank you during the crash phase.

If they choose to play gimped, they get gimped performance. It really is that simple.

To take it to absurd levels, you should start arguing that all content in the game should be "doable" with TO's or better yet, completely unslotted.

Removing the benefits of careful IO/set/build selection because someone with a 1 million inf SO build doesn't feel as tough as someone with a half-billion inf IO set build is NOT the way to do it.

Would I be HAPPIER if I could def cap with common IOs or SO? SURE!
But it'd be hideously unbalanced in comparison to other defensive power sets then.

I call Bovine Feces. If they can't cope with an AV, they can't cope with an AV. If they can't cope against Psi, they can't cope against Psi. That is WAI. It simply means that if they want to build for tougher opponents, they have to work against opponents they CAN handle and build up the wealth.

Today, I started a new blaster. At level 4, it was ALREADY sitting on over 100K inf. Simply from SALVAGE DROPS. I have toons in their mid-20's that are sitting on over 25 MILLION inf.

At that rate of earnings, IO'ing up is NOT cost prohibitive. Nor particularly mentally taxing. There are builds all over this board for just about any particular AT/Power set combo you could ask for.

Also, the weaknesses of the power set aren't "unfair". They're WAD (working as designed). Every set out there has weaknesses. Trying to mitigate them by having the devs eliminate them smacks of entitlement issues.

Okay, also, your current system is dangerously low on free disk space.

As noted, some of the people have suggested installing system cleaners.

This may or may not work with how little space you have.

One thing you can do to free up some disk space, though it's not recommended, is to go into the Windows Folder and delete all the uninstall files for the Windows System Patches.

1. Go into C:\Windows
2. Click on Tools
3. Click on Folder Options
4. Click on the View Tab
5. Check "Show hidden files and folders"
6. UNcheck Hide Protected Operating System Files
7. Click OK.

You'll now see a bunch of folders that look like $NtUninstallKB974571$.

You can delete pretty much ALL of them. Make sure to clear the Recycle Bin afterwards.

The reason it's "not recommended" is that the time may come that you have to uninstall one of them to make something else work. If you do this, you're boned.

HOWEVER, realistically when was the last time you actually uninstalled a Windows Update?

Anyhow, you can free up at least a couple hundred megabytes (if this machine has been running a long time, you could conceivably free up over a gig.

Then, once you're done, you want to go back to the list of steps above and reverse them (to hide the protected system files again).

Correct. Building your own isn't about saving money (or not directly). It's about knowing what's in the system, planning the system out, and having complete control over the system and what goes into it.

This allows people to better tailor their systems to the tasks at hand, and make tradeoffs to maximize performance.

This is why, if you're tanking something stronger than bosses or EB's, you can use inspies.

This is why, if you're tanking something stronger than bosses or EB's, you start looking to set bonuses to improve your numbers.

With base enhancements, Inv is "okay". For high-threat content, you need to put some thought (and inf) into your build.

You fail so much you almost come back around the far side of correctness!

Kidding! Kidding!

Actually, it's not binary. You can play the markets AND farm as well.

This game has turned me into the MMO equivalent of a Pokemon player.

*Sobs uncontrollably*

KILL ME NAO!

Good. Was about to reply to your original post for clarification as well.

I normally list difficulties as +LEVELxPLAYERS.

So a mission set for +1 level and 4 players is +1x4.

Glad your drops finally started to come through. I have a scrapper already nearing 30 and am sitting on positively STUPID amounts of inf (spent 5 million tonight and had it made up off SALVAGE DROPS in three missions).

Okay. This may make me an insensitive clod and an utter pig, but when I read this all I was thinking was "Ooh! Bad pun!"

How did you know?

*Notices that his cheek has burst from the pressure....*

WHOOPS! Never mind! Phone book! Plastic surgeon...plastic surgeon...

Aye. BattleTech used to have this problem. At cons, they'd put out elaborate timelines (most of which were never even CLOSE to being met). Now, stuff may be talked about as "coming" but never "when" until shortly before it ships.

Thing is, if some of the stuff turns out to be Base Editor 2.0 (the one they dropped because it was so bad), having him list all the stuff NOW would get a really nasty reaction from some people.

So, instead of investing in a wheel of cheese the diameter of Jupiter to go with all the potential whine, he's simply sticking to a nice, safe "no comment" right now.

I'd rather be told about the stuff when it was closer to completion (meaning it'd been vetted in-house to be working-ish), rather than having it promised and then pulled if it was sucktastically problematic.

But that's just me.

Again, this would be a more telling point if it weren't in a farmer's best interest to hide from former fills now that they can create +4x8 mobs all on their own with no assistance.

pure win!

Not a fact. An observation. Possibly an erroneous one. The only people who can tell you, factually, that the population in-game is down are the people who work at/for Paragon.

Your observation as a single data point in a vacuum isn't very relevant because there are numerous ways to skew your perception on the matter.

Not a fact. A pointless query and answer.

Not a fact. An opinion.

Not a fact. A misspelling and a mistaken assumption that what you're typing are "facts".

You would do well to apply this in context to yourself as well.


Seriously. Just let it go and get back to playing the game. Or, if that's impossible, move on. I don't understand people who get their jollies by trying to discourage others who merely want to play the damn game.

Okay, time to be blatantly obvious here.

You are not the arbiter of levelling speed. If someone wants to take days to level, that's their business.

Sorry, but the Cartoon Network captured the absolute pinnacle of the Rick Roll at the 2008 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Rick Rolling millions of viewers simultaneously?

No. Actually you won't. Run cap is 92.5 mph (IIRC).

Even with Sprint, Swift, and Quickness 3-slotted, that only gets you to about 48.5 mph (with Swift and Quickness providing approximately 70% (10 mph) each). NR provides +140% run speed (or about the same as Swift and Quickness together. That'll get you to 68.5 mph

Still, that's faster than flight. It's also faster than single-slotted SJ.

Now Kins with Siphon Speed OTOH...


EDIT: Never mind. Completely forgot about Elude.