Malakim

I say just keep getting purple IOs and LoTGs until you get it. My WS with perma-hasten is usually running around with 146% recharge or so - 196% with SB. Nothing like it!

And I havn't IOed out my WS to its maximum yet.

Thanks Ex, I appreciate it! I'll be booking my spot there shortly!

Mal

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what if we attent 3 days? do we get 3?

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Now Robo lets not get greedy!

I actually will be in Seattle on the last day of the event.

I'm wondering about the likelyhood of getting a costume card if I came in on that last day. It would certainly be worth the price of admission.

I'd also be paying a social cost as I'd have to ditch my wife on our vacation for a bit - but I can work that part out.

Any way of getting the card held for me if there's a limited number of them? Or is there a limited number held for each day so if I got in early enough I can score one?

The PDD costumes are just too good looking for me to pass this chance up!

Thanks!

Malakim

I guess I'll start planning my vacation around double xp weekend.

Pity that I13 isn't on the schedule yet. I'm always curious as to where they want this game to go.

Personally, with all the developments involving the Rikti, I'm hoping to see a 'City of Aliens' expansion someday.

I'll throw in my kudoes as well. I really like the character slot idea and pretty much every way it was implemented (by both vet rewards and one-time purchases).

Damn I love this guide. I keep comming back to it again and again. Quite possibly my favorite guide in all of the COX forums!

I'm just loving my relatively new Dark/Elec defender now in her early teens.

I can now envision later in her career putting up DN, then short circuit + powersink (epic powerset) to have a large team nicely debuffed. With ball lightning and tar patch, I figure that I can then clear out a large group without too much trouble.

So with this in mind, could one farm a mission (albeit not as fast as a fire/kin) as a Dark/Elec/Elec defender? Only problem I see is that there will be an alpha strike that could hurt a little.

Perhaps Dark/Elec/Psychic to control a bit more?

I have to say: I played a dark/dark brute to 38 mostly for thematic reasons.

However, it was VERY frustrating to play. As a (now 42+ month) vet I had several respecs, so I used 3 on this caracter in a pointless attempt to make her more playable. Nothing I did or maxed out was enough.

A little more S/L protection and a bit of easing on the toggles would go a long way.

I've only discoverd this guide recently and wish I had found it sooner.

It certainly is one of the best guide I've seen in a long time. Such a simple thesis that you kept throughout and presented really well.

Pity that I can only rank the post out of 5 stars as I would certainly have given it a 6th.

Great job!

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The grant and the debt wipe are nice, but how is the new company going to impact the game?

What direction will the new owners want to take?

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Oops! My bad. I understood that the game was bought by a third party. After reading the notice again I've noticed that NCSoft just bought out their partner.

I'd still like to know what's in store for the future of the game, but at least I'm sure now that it'll progress similarly as it has been.

The grant and the debt wipe are nice, but how is the new company going to impact the game?

What direction will the new owners want to take?

Damn that artist is REALLY good. I'm considering having my character done as well!

Also, just my 2 inf: I think I'd rather get a rercipe to make the costume temp power. This way it would be easier to collect them all and to sell off the duplicate costumes one might get.

Hmm, I don't suppose we'll get the Hamidon-costume temp power? I'd love to see dozens of hami's around.

One more thing: This is the funniest thread ever!

Damn! This guide has made hunting Skuls too easy! I sense a global nerf coming! Gee, thanks a lot!

I'm very excited about I10. I think the global event and the high level content is just what we're hungry for.

Now if only I can play a Rikti in a 3rd game expansion called something like "Planet of Aliens".

There could be good (hero) and evil (villain) aliens, or they could be a third party altogether. The latter seems what I10 is about.

Great guide! That list and basic explanation really helped me get a better grip on invention salvage. Simple yet to the point and useful.

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Good post. All is going to be worthless, no doubt, once I9 goes live though.

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I like the post. I don't think it'll me worthless, but it'll certainly need updating.

Amazing job on the guide. One of the best written guides I've seen on the forums. Koodoos!

-Malakim

I've now seen this guide through several iterations. I keep comming back to it time and time agan - and get something out of it everytime.

I'm really impressed as to how many ways controllers can be played.

Now if only there were similar guides out there for other ATs. If there's this many ways to play a controller, I wonder how many ways there are to play other ATs.

Malakim

I'm guessing that your playstyle changed as you levelled up your I/D.

I'm trying to work out some future builds for my I/D corruptor and find that around each of the respec points I'd have to rework my character's focus. (There just simply isn't enough room for everything that an I/D can do).

Around level 32, I'm still having trouble to fit in all the great powers of the sets (along with a travel power and stamina). I can't seem to really fit everything in well until the late 30s.

I suppose though that it's better to have too many good powers than too few.

PS - Great guide! I really like how you presented your ideas and how you organized the powers into functional groups.

Thanks for the guide. I was looking for some pointers about placate, and how best to use it.

Malakim

Well done! I gotta look into thrwing out my dominator and rolling up some corruptors!