Korith

Unless it's a lot slower at giving the iXP.

The real question is: Can they now be used on the caster as well?

Enough prestige to build lots more SG storage bases?

I dunno, Scrapyard went down pretty easy for me tonight, although I took a pretty cheap shot.

-Shivan Shard
-Backup Radio
-Seers Partial Core Improved Ally
-Biological Mutagens
-Chemical Burn
-Grav/Storm smackdown

It took about 3 minutes to drop him that way.

My level 50 Grav/Storm/Mu Incarnate controller has tried to solo him 3 times thusfar and failed

(That said, I haven't hit "all out" - Last time, my failure was largely on account of a horrific lagfest, wherein I could only attack about once every 10 seconds. The first time, without even dropping a temp power, I was about 20% shy of the damage required to overcome his regen)

The good news is that Giant Monsters are relative to your level - they hit you as though they were exactly your level, so you take less damage from a GM as a level 29 than you would as a level 30, 40 or 50. The bad news is that scrapyard has a lot of "normal" followers with him, and if they show up as anything other than grey in your targetting window, the sheer number of them can really help to ruin your day. The even worse news is that if they're a little bit of trouble for you, they can be even more trouble for your henchmen, who are lower level than you are.

In the 40-50 level range, an MM could quite conceivably solo a Giant Monster. /Dark is in a good position to do so with its combination of self-healing, regeneration debuffs and a -resistance debuff. Gathering temporary powers (such as the Biological Mutagen and Chemical Warhead nukes from Warburg) and using them in the fight can also help you a great deal. The highest tier of bot you can obtain also has a chance to cause a regen debuff that can put a serious dent in Scrapyard.

Sweet!

Captain Squirrel (one of mine) doesn't bite, but he has been known to throw nuts from high places to get attention.

As will I.....














...In 2013

While the two are essentially the same rate of regeneration, the distinction is that if you can finish off the last of an AV's HP after a regen "pulse" within 30 seconds, the AV won't get an extra "pulse" of HP.

EG - suppose a level 54 AV has 2000 hp immediately following a regeneration pulse, and you're damaging said AV at a rate of about 70 HP/second. If the AV regenerated 2.5% after 15 seconds, it would look like this:

0s - 2000hp
15s - inflict 1050hp damage
15s - AV regenerates 766.9hp
15s - AV hp at 1716.9hp
30s - inflict another 1050hp damage
30s - AV regenerates 766.9hp
30s - AV hp at 1433.8hp
45s - inflict another 1050hp damage
45s - AV regenerates 766.9hp
45s - AV hp at 1150.7hp
60s - inflict another 1050hp damage
60s - AV regenerates 766.9hp
60s - AV hp at 867.6hp
73s - inflict 910 damage
73s - AV defeated

Whereas, with the regenerate every 30s, the way the game works:
0s - 2000hp
29s - inflict 2030 damage
29s - AV defeated

That's a 44 second difference in the time required to defeat the AV, from one method to another. Granted, the more damage you're already inflicting, the less significant the difference between the two would be. The main distinction is that it's easier to solo an AV (or defeat it with a small team) by delaying the regeneration cycles than it is by reducing the amount regenerated.


EDIT: Redundant now, oh well.

And there's (well, essentially) no limit on the number of reward merits you can earn in a day, so the option still exists in the realm of possibility.

Correct - Shard recipes require shard components. Thread recipes require thread components.

Also, nice name.

Temporary powers on the scale of Warburg Nukes...that can be used in Incarnate Trials?

I would bet that, back when the inspirations appeared in the market before they were available, someone decided to place a bid of 2 billion on one to "hold" their inf.

That someone subsequently probably didn't think to remove their bid; or due to the pre-I20 icon looking like the never-released Wentworth's teleporter inspiration, they may have simply stuck their bid on the wrong item.

Personally, I find that level 1 Titan-O's make pretty good placeholders, but I will be weeping bitterly if someone ever finds a way to make one and sells it to me.... (then again, it would be absolutely awesome to have one of those slotted on a level 1 character for arena pvp). The safest item at present is probably the Wentworth's or Black Market teleporter inspirations.

A few lucky purple drops, though, and that all changes.

In I19 I went from never having seen over 400 million to having 2 billion stashed on a single character, thanks to cashing in Villain Merits and a handful of lucky drops.

Nah, I just read the post and largely disregarded the title as I often do.

Funny, I didn't see a question mark...just a comment/request.

That said, this would be a nice feature - maybe a "skip" button that, if everyone viewing the cutscene presses it, bypasses the rest.