Madadh

I'd agree with the above if you ever plan to solo.

But, even if not, I'd probably avoid the Leadership pool. In my experience with this combo (granted she's only 45 at present) just locking stuff down, staying on top of all the buffing, healing, and staying on top of the debuffing still puts a mighty strain on the blue bar. Also, at level 50 99% of your teammates won't need that much +tohit. If you *have* to have tactics, slot for end reduction a lot harder.

But, I'd really just lose Leadership, pick up Combat Jumping for some Immobile protection, and Acrobatics for some minor hold protection. And you can use CJ to mule a LotG if nothing else, since +recharge is always nice.

Dang. Been using Mid's for a long time, and never realized this. I've been hand counting that out on every build since I found out about the Rule o 5.

Thanks a lot for the tip!

Wow, you're right. I can't believe I failed to recall that and reference it myself.

made me laugh so hard, I had to submit this as an all time great line. I almost hope we *do* end up with them.




That having been said, I think I can see the reason for all the new salvage, currencies, etc.. Since each one has a limited use, and can be gained only in certain ways, if you tire of content 'X' and try something else, you'll earn the 'wrong' type of reward, and thus will need to convert it, for a price (in Inf).

I think this is a way to control Inf inflation, as it seems intended to bleed a lot of Inf off from the lvl 50s, without affecting the lvl1-49s, thus acting as a money sink, without having that sink hurt lowbies, chronic alters, or the RP focused.

I'm not saying if I think it'll be effective or not, or if it'll be appreciated, just that I think this may be the motivation behind the appearance of all of the limited-use new 'salvage/cash' types, and the each having a conversion option, most of which require INF in addition.

Don't see the problem. Odds are slim a banner or zombie attack are happening just when you need your Crey, but, if it is, they don't last that long, and you're on a ready made team to take advantage of some zombie killing or banner smashing. Then when it's over, carry on with the crey hunting.

I'd probably not slot beyond 2 SOs of ACC in anything even for the end game stuff. If you're still missing at that point too much (and I'd check your 'last to hit numbers, as sometimes it feels like I'm missing a lot but the thing stays at 95% consistently) I'd consider the +ACC global IO someone else mentioned, even if you stay with a completely SO build otherwise and/or use the Alpha slot to boost your accuracy.

And for the record, if I tell you you have enough acc, you probably do, as most folks tell me I lean toward the too much accuracy end of the pool.


Edit: And yes, if you really want more Acc, you can also easily just go from SOs to generic lvl 50 IOs. Not sure of that's what you were asking, but a lvl 50 generic IO is about 130% of an SO if I recall, more or less, depending on the SOs lvl compared to you.

May be time to talk to the Doc and have them adjust your mood meds..

OK. True. Not what I expected. But, if it wasn't what anyone expected, in a decent way, then, not so good. But, if it's just me, well, mia culpa. I'll get used to it. Or not.

For my comic book games I do generally like to stick to the heroic, or vaguely heroic... Perhaps I do want the same old choices. Perhaps I don't want to choose be-twist horrifying evil, and mortifying evil. Phrased less biased toward my point of view, yes, perhaps a purely morally ambiguous choice is great. But I don't feel that one has been given. And most others don't think so either. Most think the choice is betwixt horribly bad, and irredeemably bad. Or at least that seems to be what I gather from my very unscientific poll.






No, that part I actually like. I just wish it wasn't as restrictive.. You seem to be saying that you support the 'freedom' aspect of it. I can get behind that. But where is there the freedom to say, "Nope, don't feel like blowing up a bunch of children. Don't feel like doing any of that crap. I'll stick with attacks against adaults, thanks.." Bugger off to both the psychos in charge and the psychos that wish the were in charge... That's how I wish I could play it..



Nope, sorry. At least in this case, I believe, based on what little I've heard, that you're pretty wrong. Some of the people that may have some affinity for the resistance are people that just want heroes regardless, but, from what I've seen, most people seem to just want to be able to choose for themselves. So, at least as far as I've heard, the complaint isn't about not being able to be a 'hero', but rather about not having any choice at all. Your choices are villain, villain, villain, or somewhat naive villain.. From what I've heard, that's the complaint.



Ah geez. Sorry, it may be a week before I get the whole html action of the post all sorted out... Do your best in the meanstwhile

I'd quote this whole long thing, but, sadly, I suffer from 'run on' syndrome, and if I added a long post on top of mine, it'd be crazy..

1st) I agree. It's a game. I give it it huge pass, even larger based on the MMO factor. It can't possibly tailor to everyone.. If it was a novel trying to evoke a specific reply, yes, it most likely failed..

2nd) I play Praetoria to a certain point, then my heroic types must go their own way. I just leave when certain storylines start. I can't picture picture a hero acting in some ways. But that's just me..

3rd) Yes, I love the Praetoria world. I do appreciate all the effort the devs put into it. It's beautiful, and has a lot of story behind it, which is a nice change of pace.

4th) It's still sadly shallow. I have tried to pretend it wasn't based on my appreciation as stated above. But, it really is. I've tried every storyline as a hero, and every hero I tried to play as one had to walk away from the whole thing...

5th) I feel I have to weigh in on the issue of morality of Cole vs Scott. Both bankrupt, in my opinion. Argue for losing your money in oil investments or losing it in land speculation, you end up broke either way if you bank on a loser...

I like my own wordplay, but I'll try to make my case better than through analogy..

One of the most used standards of morality if the 'Golden Rule'. Many belief systems acknowledge it, and use it...

Well, if I were being dominated by a tyrant psychologically, I would want someone to do something...
But, if their idea was to wake me up by killing my neighbor, I'd be less thrilled with their idea.
If it was to wake me by killing a family member, I'd be even less sympathetic.
If it was to wake me by killing me, well, I'd consider their robbery of my choice in my life to be a far grander theft than the hypothetical tyrants..

We all, I think, hate a hypothetical tyrant. But, if such a tyrant is so powerful as to be unassailable, then killing the people that work for him that you hope to free isn't the most moral action. If your motive is power, then killing his powerbase is wise, but if your motive if right action, then killing his innocent pawns isn't a justifiable position..

Any tyrant or regime can only hold power while the people will it so. If all the people decide not to follow, then the regime is over... And, regimes only last so long.. If you really want to see people gain freedom, perhaps patience might be the best strategy.

Ghandi or Jesus or the Stoics are good examples of winning without even fighting. OF course, they make pretty crappy video games.. Which is why I'm ok, but not all that thrilled, with the games current direction..

Nope. I'm right there with ya.

I agree with this opinion, but some people might think a sets of twins could be unique enough that the concept uniqueness outweighs the want for some individual uniqueness.

That aside, tho, even if you had 2 Emp/Sons, their builds could end up fairly different.

As a thought, how about a Emp/Son Def and a Sonic/Pain Cor?

As a die hard Stormie, thank you...



(And, as one of my many alts is a Plant/Storm, all I can say is, "You really should. You'll love it!")

If only it was like that, my very strong WPs (all of them) would instantly enter godhood.. And that is probably why (in general, not me specifically) it is that way, and won't ever change..

Oi now!

I play a lot of Stormies, but most as Defs and Trollers, so, this may not be 100% applicable, but...

I slot for
1a) Defense
1b) Recharge

Shock there...

2) Damage


Feedback....

Love the idea of stacking stuns. I have stacked 2 AOE stuns and loved it, 3 may be overkill, but I honestly think it'll be awesome.. With all that stun, and all the other stuff the sets have, and a 1/2way decent def, I wouldn't worry overmuch about aggro, unless you wanna run x8 and crank the lvl dif up.

Totally agree with a previous poster. Squeeze hurricane in, eve if you have to slot it with only 1 end reduction.. It's that good it's even worth it out of the box once you get used to it.

Disagree with a previous poster about O2 and it's disposability. Unless you plan to never team, I'd want this power. Heal and Mez breaker and mez resist in one power. Granted, not the most damage, or not good vs every mez type, but always well worth it in my opinion. I've respecced many times on my stormies, and never dropped the power, only on occasion dropped the number of slots I dedicated to it.

Otherwise, totally agree with Obscure Blade, especially on the slotting for Freezing Rain. You want it up as often as possible. By all means put the -res proc in there, too tho. Maybe add a damage proc.