Lucian Revalde
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Quote:Thank you, I appreciate your taking the time to say that.Originally Posted by BashfulBanshee
I see that all the advice I was going to give is already there so I won't repeat it.
Just so you know that is in no way a wall of text. It is nicely phrased with appropriate breaks that make reading it easy. -
Quote:Guardian. The server I started making new chars on is actually Virtue.Originally Posted by Alexandria2000
What server are you on? I know on Virtue I'm practically tripping over TFs (did about four this weekend alone) and got from 22 to near 32 in the process. Thank you, Virtue LFG Alpha channel.
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Quote:Please don't make assumptions about me based on a single sentence. I don't just sit in a single area and spam broadcast, I've spent days doing team searches, PMing every person listed, asking politely if they'd like to join a Task Force team with no luck on making a full one. I don't join SGs at random just to make money, either.Originally Posted by Decorum
What Panzer said. Standing in a zone saying "lft" in Broadcast is probably the least efficient way to team in this game. Join a good SG or use the server's global channel. It's the more efficient way.
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Quote:That's a good point, but the main problem there for me is that the declining server population makes it hard for me to find a team to do anything, really. Much less find TF teams to farm merits.Originally Posted by SerialBeggar
If you have the time to do some TFs, you can get those expensive IO pieces with Reward Merits.
Thank you, I appreciate your taking the time to post about that. I just figured I'd start off with that because I tend to ramble.Quote:Originally Posted by Talen Lee
Don't. Seriously. It may seem a lot of text to you, but it's really not. You're just expressin' yourself, man, so you don't need to stress out so much about how much - or how little - information you're giving us. This is a nice, meaningful manner in which to convey yourself, and nobody is going to be intimidated by this much text who's worth listening to.
As for the rest, I'm pretty sure the thread's covered it, but I just wanted to offer that.
Thank you as well. Another reason I started off with that comment was because the entire post was originally for the support center. But yeah, it was mainly about the rambling and not so much the grammar. If I were to consider typing something without punctuation or capitalization, I'd probably be blind at the time. I can't stand those type of posts, it's just repulsive to read.Quote:Originally Posted by Father Xmas
It's hardly a wall of text. You used white space, paragraphs, capitalization and punctuation.
Yes, that should go without saying but true wall of text posts rarely use any.
None of those were really a problem for me. If I'm chasing down a single target that isn't close enough to the mob for the AoE to have effect, I wait for my single-target skills to cooldown.Quote:Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
OP, some things that helped me save some endurance while fighting:
Don't use AoEs on single targets.
Turn Sprint off while fighting. For that matter, turn travel powers off while fighting.
If you have any DoT powers, learn to gauge if the DoT will kill your target before firing another attack.
My blaster uses fly as his main travel power so I keep hover on during battles for the defense bonus and usually to convert my knockback into knockdown. (Plus, it's just freakin' awesome to be raining down death on your enemies from above)
I'm an Energy/Energy Blaster so I have no DoTs. (None that I know of, anyway)
I'm fairly positive my entire problem is the lack of endurance reduction on individual powers. I must have been so concerned with maximizing my damage potential when I first played that I figured I could keep my endurance high with full recovery bonuses from sets. (Which is also because I had misunderstood the formula for the recovery in the first place, I know better now)
I haven't actually changed my build yet because the (seemingly) dead population on my main server makes playing the character extremely boring, so I started another character on a different server. I will definitely be going over this thread again and attempting to fix my build the second I get on my Blaster, though. Thank you all for your help and I appreciate the fast responses. -
Thank you all. I'll look into those guides and give it a shot.
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Do you have a link for it? I could only find the wiki page on it.
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Quote:Well the main topic was originally about the way the recovery bonuses actually work, which I was indeed wrong about.Originally Posted by Tyrrano
And as was intimated earlier, if you're slotting 5 damage IOs in one power, you're wasting two slots. Those extra two IOs will only give you another 2-3% increase, if that, thanks to ED
Who is it that has that guide to Frankenslotting? I think the OP would probably love that strategy.
Frankenslotting, wouldn't you be missing out on overall bonuses if you didn't use mostly set bonuses? I mean, the cheaper sets don't get the good bonuses until (3)~(5). I'm currently at a 13% bonus to damage and 22.50% to recharge from set bonuses. -
Quote:The plan was originally for full Efficacy Adaptor for the bonus damage and recharge.Originally Posted by Frost
If I might ask, what are you slotting in stamina other than endurance modification enhancements?
I can't think of a reason for putting more than 4 slots in there, and that 4th is stretching it. Even with IOs.
@PuceNonagon: The problem with that is.. Those are freakin' expensive.
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My mistake, I wasn't saying that I had six-slotted Stamina with one set or multiples of one IO. By six-slotting I simply meant that the power itself has six enhancement slots. I've already read up on ED, but thank you all nonetheless.
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Hi. I'd like to apologize in advance for this upcoming wall of text.
My main character is a Blaster and I have huge problems with endurance conservation even with a 6-slotted Stamina. So, to counter this, I figured I'd invest in some sets that grant Recovery bonuses. (Performance Shifter, Efficacy Adaptor) I also chose two electricity powers as my epic pool powers. (Static Discharge, Shocking Bolt) as they can be used for Endurance Modification Enhancement Sets.
So, my plan is to fill up both of those powers as well as Stamina with full Performance Shifter/Efficacy Adaptor sets.. The problem is, even with a few Recovery Bonuses already active, my recovery doesn't seem to actually change. I should currently have a 3.5% bonus from sets alone. (2% from Thunderstrike, it's in my Power Burst power. And 1.5% from Efficacy Adaptor, it's in my Static Discharge power.) But when I check my Combat Attributes I only have 2.62% total Recovery. My sets supposedly are only giving me 0.03% and 0.02% each?
Maybe I'm just misunderstanding the effect of the enhancements. I was originally thinking that the recovery bonus was a percentage of your maximum Endurance- Meaning the 1.5% from a set would be 1.5% of 105. Now I'm taking it that the bonus is actually just a percentage of your current recovery? If so, 2.62% + 1.5% = 0.0393.. Seems like I really just misunderstood the formula.
But if that's the case, I'm still clueless as to how some Blasters seem to keep their endurance near-full during massive battles without even having to use Conserve Power.