Laevateinn

Saved by market lag!

Speaking from personal experience, drop the tank; 8 Corruptors are more powerful.

This has been happening to me on Guardian (but not on Virtue), too.

Personally, on a budget BS/SD I'd rely on Parry to softcap melee defense. This saves some money and means you can slot something other than Multistrike in shield charge; you really want ED-capped recharge to abuse this attack as much as possible.

If you're looking for cheap melee defense, you can 6-slot Titanium Coatings in Tough for 2.5 melee def. Get rid of the Reactive armor, the defense bonuses are small enough that they only really benefit typed defense characters.

Try to 6-slot Gaussian's synchronized fire control in Build Up for the 2.5 to all 3 positions. The Rech/End will be somewhat expensive, around 10m, as will the proc and the rare salvage you need, but it's well worth the slots elsewhere it will save you.

To softcap your AoE defense you can 6-slot Performance Shifters in stamina (as a bonus, the proc helps your endurance a little), or 3-slot Aegis if you are willing to get another resistance power to use as a set mule (One with the shield?).

Finally, your AD is not permanent and you need 1 more slot of recharge in it.

I only get day jobs that match my characters' concepts, but the one I get on all of them is the fairly concept-neutral Base TP power. This way I can reach any zone in the game by zoning twice (either Ouro > destination or Base TP > destination).

Yeowch!

I can see why some non-marketeers can get the impression that influence is hard to come by. For one thing, influence created from enemy defeats is basically insignificant, especially at low levels. Most influence gained is through vendoring common IO recipes, and these only start getting really valuable at the 40-50 range.

Levelling up, most of the recipes a player will get are at odd levels - and these don't sell well, if they do at all. Even if you are rolling tickets or merits, there are precious few reasons not to roll at maximum level. So someone who plays a lot of non-50 alts will feel poor vs who spends most of their time playing at level 50. The income from levelling from 1-50 will be dwarfed into insignificance by anything a level 50 can earn.

It used to be that you could still learn a lot through sales of rare salvage. Pre-i13, a platinum was about 5m apiece, which was a lot in an era where purples were 50m each. But AE has forced down the price of rare salvage as well.

A lot of rewards a player earns aren't in the form of influence. It's easy for a player to do a Posi, get 50 or so merits, and see that an Obliteration quad is 200 merits - not that much. Then see that she has 1m influence, and the same Obliteration quad is 40m on the market. It will never strike this hypothetical player that for 200 merits she could get an LotG +7.5 instead, which sells for 110m. So viewed this way, influence can seem deceptively hard to earn, and merit/ticket prices deceptively cheap.

In this game influence rains from the sky and merits grow on trees. But I think this is like the "servers feel dead" thing: the game can sometimes give a very convincing impression that it's not the case.

It doesn't take Universal Travel sets.

I must be the only person on the forums completely nonchalant about GR. None of the features announced so far have impressed me.

Don't intepret this as a whine regarding the state of the expansion. The devs can't make an expansion to please everyone, I'm still enjoying the game as it is now, and if some recent changes are indicative of future development direction (PvP IOs, the AE nerfs, etc.), I remain generally optimistic. I just find it odd how everyone has now tied their enjoyment of the game to the release of GR-related information.

The main benefit of shields is making other grown adults feel insecure about the performance of their character in a videogame. It's doubly funny when these people claim not to care for performance either, only concept or fun. It's great entertainment in addition to being a fun and concept-friendly set.

The event has some effect, but I think the new Samurai farm is a more important influence. A shift towards farming of anything (AE tickets, merits, PvPIOs) except classic dev content is always associated with a rise in prices.

What really disturbs me about this entire business is the claim (on his Youtube profile) that he's twenty-one and plans to get a masters in criminal justice.

I use my head.

I have a general idea of a character's level, accolades, IO build status, and what market niches are assigned to her. I don't really bother with anything beyond those.

Re: the thread title - yes, I would.

Note that my definition of PvP that "works well" is PvP where I win 100% of the time.

Without insps/temps, most quality scrapper builds can solo AVs that don't resist their damage type; squishies with debuffs ought to do better than that, even more if using inspirations. The real problem is soloing them on a low-level TF where you lose access to key powers and set bonuses.

I went into the game to see what lower torso wear my characters had on.

Miniskirts: 2
Bodysuits: 1
Leotards: 2
Booty shorts: 2
Bikini bottoms: 1
Pants: 0

Every day is no-pants day!

The direction you face when zoning into a base is random, and has nothing to do with the orientation of the base portal or entrance.

You can take fly on a fire/fire blaster and be wildly effective; I certainly am. Since you're playing two powersets with no mitigation, Hover will add a lot to your survivability, and hovering into melee (vs. running or jumping in) has the advantage that you are more likely to hit the entire spawn with small-radius attacks like Fire Sword Circle, since you don't get bumped around or crowded out by melee characters, and you are guaranteed not to overshoot.

Whoever said that Hot Feet can't be used while flying is wrong. You can't activate it while flying, but you can activate it on the ground, fly, and it will work as normal. Since burn is useless, you lose very little by going with fly.

Fire/ is also one of the primaries strong enough that it needs very little support from the secondary beyond Build Up, so you are not forced to play in melee, either.

It's not hard to make high-performance builds for most concepts, except for some extreme cases that involve skipping multiple key powers.