Madadh

Does this mean that if you are a hero (or villain) and have never done a tip mission at all, you can't claim the alignment merits as a reward?

Or just get 7-23 other people to jump in the queue...

I think this is very true. And while it's especially true for the really unloved support sets (FF, Sonic, TA) it's also true of most every support set that doesn't offer SB or a selection of heals. The only set that I think doesn't suffer from this problem as much is Cold, as I think the combo of the very obvious buff graphic, and the word of mouth about it's capabilities, means most people just assume that a Cold that knows how to play the set is worth their team slot...

Otherwise, often buffs (other than HP buffs, er, healing and of course, SB and FS) and especially debuffs, just go unnoticed and unappreciated.

I don't know if there is anything that can be done, or even should be, about this. It's just the nature of the support role.

Very true. It's near impossible unless you are of a few very specific ATs and powersets to build good quantities of resistance. Especially to anything other that smashing/lethal.

That said, I have to add that my sonic puts everyone WELL beyond 1/2 way to the cap (obviously except for Psi) and even then a lot of folks aren't capped.. I'd bet every resistance based melee set is capped to all but Psi with me around, tho, even in the lvl 20 range before they have many slots to spend refining their powers.

Haven't tried this particular combo, but have done TA combined with AR. Redraw for me was a non issue and I'd expect the same from Beam. Glue and Oil will be nice for keeping groups together to let Disintegration effects spread, I would think. All of the Beam attacks should be able to ignite the Oil Slick, too. Not a lot of mitigation, though. I'd wager it'll be a late bloomer.

That's funny.

KM works better with more recharge. SR provides that. And SRs weakness is lack of damage reduction. It avoids very well, but what it fails to avoid, it doesn't reduce much at all. KM provides -damage, which helps plug this hole in SR.

Don't most of the PVP IO sets only offer the slow resistance in a PVP environment? If so, 3 of the sets are fairly worthless in Tin Mage I think. Or in a KoA instance.

Edit: Well, I guess I should have looked at the build 1st. 4 Sets of PVP IOs, true, but all 4 sets are the quite cheap Javelin's Volley. This will work, and by PVP IO build standards, is going to be quite inexpensive. Not sure I'd want to take 3 powers from Leviathan Mastery just to achieve this, but it is impressive. Makes me wonder if any other epic has 3 powes (or even 2) that could slot Jav Volley

Everyone in Atlas on Exalted seems to be having the exact same issue. I checked an alt that isn't in Atlas, and things seemed fine.

So, maybe if you want in on the fun,and it is sorta fun and interesting, try logging into Exalted and going to Atlas. Me, I'm off for some food and I'll see what's what a little later.

Cheers.

First thing I checked. It's sprint. And the graphics are totally jacked. Blackwand is a Bow. Ninja Run produces an Ouro Portal. Hellions shoot with a broadsword. The list goes on and on.

OK, sorry for the WAY OT comment, but I have to ask.

Brillig, is your name a Jabberwocky reference?

OK, now please return to the ever popular, downtime debate.

I followed you just fine. And didn't find anything wrong with what you said. As I attempted to clarify above, I just found your turn of phase ironic. It seemed to me that you expected many of your readers to suspect that you may have taken Aid Self. If you didn't expect that, one wonders why you would address Aid Self and not Provoke or any other pool power that you didn't take for that matter.
And that's what I found ironic. Almost everyone's first comment to new players of this game is, "It isn't about the heals. Healzors aren't needed here." or some other variant on that theme, yet a huge percentage of the player bases seems to think that a self heal is almost a necessity, even with green inspirations so plentiful.


Obviously you don't subscribe to this thinking, and I didn't mean to imply you did. I apologize I wasn't very clear initially.

I made no comment anywhere that said, or even was intended to hint, at what powers were available to an En/En blaster. But, if I were to comment on En/En blasters, es, the have self buffs available to them. Build Up, Boost Range, Conserve Power, and Power Boost are all self buffs, and all are available to them. You, and others may skip them in your builds, but I can only comment on En/En blasters in general based on what they have available.

No, I intended, and made, no comment directly about En/En blasters' play strategy. But if I were to do so, I'd hazard a guess at 1) Blast stuff and knock it around so it can't act. 2) Kill it so it can't ever act again. 3) Build for defense.




So, in short, no, in none of the above cases were your guesses on the mark. I do apologize for being unclear.

For defense based types, this the critical point. Picking up Res in any meaningful amount is very tough. So that means chasing HP and regen. For that, tanks will always be top dog.

Ah. Thanks for the clarification. I"m really sorta behind on the Free accounts and what they have and don't have. I just don't see it being relevant to me, so I've not kep up on the details. I know. I should. It hasn't happened yet, however.

I admit to being a Beam novice, so I can't for sure comment on Charged Shot's utility.. I think I'd decide based on which offered me the better set bonuses.




Easy enough. I'd skip powersink. This isn't a sapper build, so I'd just discard that power.. But, if you truly want it, and feel ya have to have it, as I sad before, the side swap isn't a deal breaker.


That said, I can't seem to look at the details of your latest build. The link seems to be broken, and you didn't post a chunk.

I've seen that message myself. And usually shortly after I enter the trial. Not sure what it is trying to say, but it surely doesn't mean, "forget about this trial."