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In which case, per castle, you won't have the inherent stamina. You'll still have the "pool" stamina. Functionally the same, just that you'll have one more pool taken up by Fitness.

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... which I missed Jophiel posting, as well .>.>

(I have to end up referring to it. Between those, vet pieces, other pack pieces, etc. I end up mixing what's in what.)

/this. The tuxes and such are nice, admittedly, but the female options are quite flexible and nicely detailed.

... plus tossing rose petals on someone with hover makes a very colorful tornado. Dresses up Singularity pretty well, too.

is a huge assumption, though, as far as the number of people who want multiple respecs. I'd be more willing to wager that most of the people who have played the game have no idea what a "respec" is, and don't particularly care. The other end - the ones who love to min/max, tweak builds to a razor's edge, worry about every single hundredth-point of DPS, END use, softcapping, etc. and spend a ton of time on IOs, are burning through those respecs.

(Me, I'm in the middle. Some things will make me respec, yes, but most of my characters still have all their vetspecs, a good portion still have their freespecs - even without the one we got this issue - and very few have run the trial in the last year. Actually, I don't think I've run the respec trials in the last year at all.)

Respecs are desirable? Yes, to some. To a majority? Ehhhh...

In any case, a nitpick:
This isn't exactly true. Run a VEAT to (say) 26, post forced-24-respec (something I find irritating on them, but I won't get into it.) If it wiped out everything from creation forward, like you were leveling from level 1, you'd be redoing it again, hitting 24 and starting from level 1. You don't. (You DO do that if you open up your second build, however. But only the first time you take it to 24.)

/this.

The few times I haven't seen text, I've pretty much assumed I missed it.

... off topic, but I keep turning that into "Ice/mastermind blaster." I've even got an Arch/MM blaster, so I KNOW what it means. Doesn't make the visual of smacking people around by swinging a mastermind pet at them any less amusing.

And personally, even though it's not "thematic," my Mind/Fire Dom was an absolute treat to play from 1-50.

Ahh. OK, that makes more sense.

Oy.

Interesting. Dug out my Fire/DB scrapper (who was going to get a respec for next issue anyway, and didn't have burn yet (28) because of fitness - yeah, the burn patch, on my system, doesn't even show up without it having an enemy to hit.

I'm going to charitably call that "interesting." >.< As well as check a few things brute-side.

Heh. The joy of altitis. (217 here.) I'm only planning on respeccing 2-3 high levels because of Fitness. Lower levels, I'm either on hold with playing (lowbies) or they're not far enough in that a respec would be all that onerous - second build or a fast /respec with the inevitable freespec would only take a few minutes when I first log on to them after the issue release.

Don't look at it as something you "have to do all at once" (or even "have to do.")

Yep. Actually running with an (occasional) group of four Electric/Electric blasters. They're in Lightning Field and Ball Lightning, at the very least, and getting fit in to other attacks (AOEs first) as well.

Team-TP in, fire everything off, and everything's either dead, drained of end, and/or staggering around.

That I know isn't the case. Take a fire tank with Burn, pop up combat attributes, stand inside city hall or someplace there are no mobs and fire off Burn. You'll see your Immob protection kick in immediately, even if there's nothing around to hit.

have to agree we're missing some information, however, let's ask some counter-questions...

Namely, why do you want to be a controller? Just because you haven't, as you put it, successfully played a controller? Specific supergroup/team setting? Character concept?

Personally, I'd say roll a bunch of them and see what clicks with you. Roll a few dominators, as well. To just throw a random suggestion out? Plant/Rad. Plant's just a lot of fun. Radiation has a lot of utility both solo and teamed. But of course, it may not "click" with you. That's why we have 12 slots per server

Not all. Yeah, the ones that do, you may have to tell Steam to launch in "offline mode" for them to work (looking at things like HL2,) but others you can launch directly from a shortcut. The Steam overlay won't do anything and your friends list won't indicate you're in game.

Just check steam/steamapps/common and check out the install directory. (Mine's nearly 200 gb... >.< ) Go into the directory for the individual game. Most will have some launcher or executable - you can go directly from there without Steam being involved for many of them.

(Which you have to go to the PVP tab to see, PVE it's blank.)

Wiki hasn't been updated either it looks like. Will make the adjustment. Thanks.

:P

I was counting before the comma. Those were the three important words. (ok, the "baby" was a recent addition. Felt better with it. And forgot to update the count. Picky, picky.)

Thanks. I'm holding off 'til the I19 stamina change. It'll make fitting things in a lot easier. Don't want to drop taunt or an attack on my tank (or anything I have in pools) for burn just yet. My Fire/EM already has it, though.... just no fighting pool. >.<

Nice thing is that all those are perfectly fine with a single slot..

Yep. This issue. And yes, it's true for Brutes (and Scrappers) as well - I believe the Blaster version still has it though (seem to recall them running from the patch on my fire/fire.)

Friend of mine was giggling maniacally with her /FA brute when she found out. I was going to do a respec it in to my namesake (and old) Fire/SS, but I'm waiting for I19 to do so.

Market size is generally the reason given. However, the Mac OSX (and Linux, generally) are laid out differently as well. It's not impossible to write a virus for them, you just have to find a way to get it in and have it assign itself the proper permissions without letting the user know.

(Of course, "social engineering" attacks don't care - "click this link, or let me scare you into sending me your credit card information" are playing more on the user than the OS.)

He'd have to be, I'd think. If he hasn't gotten tips, then the Brute is a Praetorian, and you don't see the "Pick which side we're sending you to" until you train to 20. (At least I didn't on mine, as I recall.) I can't see him staying 20 (without turning off XP) starting as a villain and doing two full sets of alignment missions (villain - rogue - hero) without hitting 21 there.

Seems like a long stretch not to have gotten tips, though.