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Like people have said, good AoE, slow DoT. I like it for soloing against big spawn sizes and for dropping on slower-moving teams. On steamroll teams, it may not be as useful.

Turns out it's actually just Old Man Jenkins in a mask, trying to scare all you kids out of Twitter so he can buy it for cheap and use it to smuggle gold.

As people have said, self-publishing has its problems... which can be more or less so depending on the medium. Music and games seem to be the easiest places to make it happen these days, with the ease of distribution on the internet. There are respected webcomic artists out there... just not many, because frankly, most webcomics are garbage, and even the good ones likely don't have a number of readers that really compares to larger print works. Really, if you name any form of art that can be digitized without losing most of its value, you can probably find somebody who's making a living doing it on the internet. The corporations currently do serve a purpose, though--like others have said, they offer quality control, access to much larger distribution channels, advertising, and peripheral needs like box art.

And, as you hinted at in your first post, the definition of self-published is getting a little hazy these days--if I make my own game with no corporate input and then distribute it on Steam, does it count? Conversely, under what circumstances would it be worth my time to distribute the game myself instead of using Steam?

I can name three missions she's in just in the category of level 50 villainous tip missions.

In my experience, against most enemy groups, just Snow Storm and Freezing Rain will keep you alive versus x2 or x3, and higher in certain environments. Corner enemies with Hurricane whenever possible, and if you're in an enclosed area where you can keep them in one room, drop Tornado to keep them on their toes. Or rather, on their butts. Solo storm benefits a lot from controlled chaos: An enemy that's on the ground or flying through the air isn't shooting at you.

I find that Storm's weakness, when soloing, is open spaces--if you're on an office map, you can ram everybody into a small room with Hurricane and keep them bouncing and flopping around on their butts until they die, but that's much harder to pull off in an outdoor map.

Anything above 5 million-ish I'll at least consider. If there's a steady niche worth 5 million in profit per IO that doesn't seem to have any competition, I'll ride it until something better comes along. Usually, if I'm marketeering, it means I'm both low on money and have some end goal in mind, so I prefer items that aren't very volatile. When I'm just out for cash and can afford to eat some losses if the prices tank, I'll try for at least 20 million per item, preferably 50+.

I'm spending most of my time on a Corruptor in the teens. Trials are so two weeks ago.