Mischief_Manager

one of the things i was hoping for was a build i can use at any lvl range so i can do any of the TFs or trials and just generally help out at any lvl and still keep as much of the set bonuses as possible. while the stats look good some things stick out which i dont think ill be happy with, regardless of the set/stat bonuses.

the other goal it to have a build i think is fun to play regardless of what lvl i am.



1. combustion: ive had it before and its just too much animation for too little payoff, and unless they buff/nerf/fixed it recently there is still a little hang time at the end of it(could be lag for all i know but it still blows.

2.blazing bolt: ive had this too but i used it so rarely i decided its not worth having, unless your adding it for a set bonus mule. even then i dont really like it because when i choose a power i tend to think ahead of time when and how ill use it before picking it, so ill use it more often.

3. leadership: where to begin....well theres the fact the stats blow for a blaster, im pretty sure that will never change. theres the fact that it costs too much for so little benefit, and that it takes too many slots to make useful. and then theres not one but 2 of that pool in the build. making a total of 4 powers that kill my fun factor up to this point. its true that half of those are toggles and not really useable per se but still, thats end i can use to deal damage or generally cause mayhem with to critters.

4. fighting: as before they cost too much for too little effect, not mention the fact you have to take a crappy single target power before you can pick the toggles, which ill never use. so that just a throw away power, and i dont care for throw-away powers.


now before you say anything, im aware that the toggles dont cost near as much end with all the set bonuses, and the stat bonuses are nice. but again thats with all the stat bonuses added in, and those wont be there till i turn it all on. so if i drop and get rezzed it will be that much longer before i have all those stats.

one other thing, according what i read from the previous poster the build you suggest would have nothing in the way of set bonuses if 1 were to do a posi run or CoT trial.
so that kinda defeats the purpose of having set IOs, however i would still have the regular non-set related stat bonuses up to a certain point.

other than those 4 things it seems like a perfectly reasonable build i might go with but they have to change or be replaced with something else for me to have fun with it.


as always opinions/suggestions are welcome
feel free to tinker with it and as i said before im not aiming for worlds cheapest build here, i have what i think is a modest budget of 300ish million so go nuts with that

thanks in advance

-MM



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Remember the victims, but fight for the clueless!

this is my first serious attempt at using IO sets for one of my toons, in this case a fire/fire blaster.

i've used standard IOs up till now and looked around here and there and i think i understand half of what i read due to the numbers flying around.

my goal isn't to cap anything at this point, its just to have somewhat reasonable defense and damage buffs so i can safely say i have a low-mid level IO build.

i recall reading somewhere that set IOs don't work below their level unless they are purple sets and as you can see i don't have any of those slotted, hopefully I'm not miss-understanding how the system works.

i have the lowest level of each slotted in case i have my facts straight about how they work.

as for the build I would prefer opinions and suggestions along with why they could be or are better than others so i can make better informed decisions with the build.


thanks in advance

-MM



PS: altogether since i started playing i have probably gathered around 1bil inf, but due to wasting some of it on various little projects (read altitis), i have a good bit less than that so my budget for this is under 300 million if possible (i can go go higher but would rather not) in case anyone wants to tinker around with it.









here's the data link:

http://www.cohplanner.com/mids/downl...D6FF01D18B005B





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Remember the victims, but fight for the clueless!

i knew about the previous builds thank you very much, but sense this is NEW, i thought ide ask.

and now i have my answer...

jeez, no need to get crabby about it.


-MM


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ok i'm not trying to bring back the dead. we all know its way back there on the very back burner if its on the stove at all, in the corner that nobody remembers...

but just out of curiousity, anyone know if the crab backpack disappears in the 3rd spec slot you get when you unlock incarnates?

i ask because its possible the code may be different sense incarnate code was way after VEATs(i think)...

anyway i havent seen it asked so here i am asking.



-MM


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I wont be able to decide what I'm getting till i find out if its one of those inherents with no slots (ie:ninja run) or what effects the fitness powers will have, such as will they be just as they are now with no enhancements or will they be adjusted up to max enhancement value before diminishing returns, or somewhere in between?

My guess is if they make them without slots they will adjust them upward in effect, and maybe have them pop up at a certain level....not sure if they will stagger it like I've heard some people suggest. Such as swift/hurdle at a certain level then health later then stamina later.

If they do stagger it i hope they combine swift and hurdle because both of them together seem just as useful as either health or stamina on its own.


just my 2inf

-MM

So far ive played up to lv22 and slotting it 2acc/3endmod works more often than not, but you would be surprised how often you get "lighty" stunned/slept/held enough to make it drop.

When that happens and things get enough end to start attacking en-mass, it goes bad for you more often than i like, so having some +rech doesn't hurt at all.

at this time hasten is enough for me but i most likely will put some frankensloted +rech in there at some point.

just my 2inf

-MM

Some of my toons mix cyborg pieces into the costume they wear, mainly due to being really buffed and shiny....Now i find that the new clockwork pieces are so shiny they reflect buildings and things going on around them perfectly, the bug i refer to is that the shiny parts of the cyborg pieces are dull and lifeless in comparison, is this WAI?

dont get me wrong i love the work you do on our options i just have to wonder if this was overlooked or not, cause if it is...well it kind sucks.

-MM

ps: sorry if this is in the wrong thread.

3 at the moment.


how long does it take to eat a baseball sized jawbreaker?

as far as ATs go, im willing to play any really so long as its fun and/or interesting at least

powers i most likely wont play though....hmm...

off hand ide say stone armor and empathy...(edit: ill never roll pain again either)
stone armor due to all the prices you pay for all that survival, and empathy for the typecast moniker...just cause i can heal doesnt mean i can or want to AT ANY AND ALL TIMES UNDER ANY AND EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE.

not big on buffbot toons but i have played them into the 40s before(FF and Kin) deleted
my FFer and still going with my Kin/Son, not sure if ill ever lvl up a SR defender again...
to avoid confusion i dont have any problems with the GFX or sounds i just think if your not hit you arent debuffed or KBed or stunned ect. ect....

not sure ill play /iceblast or iceblast/ anything again...does good damage and its fast activating but the long rech and lack of targeted aoe makes it kinda meh...dont get me wrong blizzard does good damage and...sleet?....is useful but when pugs dont care wether or not your aoes hit anything whats the point in having them...if you open with both or either you faceplant first cause your basically taking the alpha from the mobs that manage to get out of it first without being in range of tanks taunt or brutes agro aura

dont think ill ever lvl again as /devices....just not worth it anymore, wasnt all that worth it to begin with but back in the day it was a beast in its own way, might play it again if the devs get rid of all the interupt times(ill pay half the current damage they do for that)

most of the troller/dom primaries, i like mind and Illusion kinda, but the resistance some mobs have may put me off for good on those ATs...*shrug*

dark armor-.....too damn expencive endwise even if paired with DM for dark consumption...just isnt worth it to me

hmm, did i forget anything....umm...ahh thats right....rad blast..because i simply dont like the way Irradiate works...if i want a pbaoe ill add a secondary that has them...oh yea and its a dot.

i would say electric blast but ive seen it out damage a fire blaster before, cant really downplay that...might have been purpled out with all the tricks and dohickeies that can be shoved into it but still....

im stil on the fence on wether any MM primary is worth a damn(highest play was 30ish) ive tryed bots ninjas and thugs, pets are kinda over dumb imho and necro pets are just sooo ssllooowww.....though i hear they made them a little faster....meh

stalker /regen...nevah gonna happen...go ahead and kidnap my wife and kids...still wont play it.....blow up my home town...still wont play it.....threaten to shut down the game servers forever so noone else can play this ever again...still wont play it....i think my point is made


that about covers everything i think.

good luck and have fun your way

-MM

PS: i understand how Fire_ feels about mids, i personally use it for reference on powers between lvls when i cant see the extra powers and the details or when im not near a WW or BM for IO descriptions or set bonuses

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Next, Cloud Strife, Tifa Lockheart, Vincent Valentine and Yuffie Kisaragi took Aeris Gainsborough out cold.

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i sure hope the ebil marketeers arent screwed over by this, we wouldnt want them to have to start over price gouging us again so we have to wait 3 days for a "reasonable" bid to get a hit.(read as bid for one IO and wait 3 days to get it for a good price, makes respecing fast and easy....NOT!)

/endrant


edit: its entirely possible im just talking to see my count go up but i seriously think the prices for some of these commons are completely out of hand, yes i can wait for weeks to find all the ones i want at a decent price but why should i have to wait all that time not having fun with my toon. am i expected to just forget about using IOs till 50 so i can farm the commons i want for weeks sense i no longer have any reason to be in a rush?...IDK just my 2inf.

ps: i know they are "optional", but most of us want to do the best we can as fast as we can, while SOs work "just fine" why would anyone cut their own throat and gimp themselves unless the game wasnt hard enough for them anymore....

ok then, thanks for the info

-1/x3 up to around 25ish, 0/x3-4 till around 38, after that depending on mobs -1/x4 to +2/x4
once i hit 50 and dumped some more inf into it, its +1-2/x5-6 according to foes in mission and the tendency of the map scale(ramp up, staggered, flat, ect.)

thats with my namesake ar/dev

my fire blaster on the other hand sticks went with -1/x3 till about 30 then switched to
-1/x6 and stayed that way most of the time, he may stay that way or go up to +0 at 50 not sure yet.

hopefully this is the right place for this....

I was looking at Increase Density and saw in mids it takes a few...umm....not sure if proc is the right term but the semi unique IOs that give a bonus like +psi res or -kb and im not sure if they effect me or the person i cast it on....i think they only effect me sense its my power but im not sure sense i cant cast it on myself.

thanks for any info on how this power works with these

-MM

ps: i think mids tends to assume most if not all bonuses work for the player so basically i want confirmation on how that type of IO works in a power.

pss: sorry for being an IO newb but if i dont ask questions(sometimes repeated times) i wont learn anything

YAY! we can walk now!....wait(goes back and reads it again, nope not typo or glitch)...
cant use any powers at all, what?!....i take it back. BOO!

i can understand no travel powers, but i cant use anything else?

thats kinda lame...unless they plan on adding some useable powers later.

its a good start i suppose, and better than not having it at all. just wish it was a teensy bit better(read as "i want to shoot things too")

-MM

edit: yes i know this isn't quite the place for this comment but i felt it should be mentioned somewhere and this was the first place i saw it talked about

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On the evil plus side i now have a 50 on red side...hmmm....

This is a 2 part pet peeve that makes sense to me and maybe makes sense to someone else.

1) My personal pet peeve are the people that waste time sending Congratulations! or Gratz! or Grats! or some other form of the same thing during combat instead of waiting, like if they don't tell you as soon as you ding, something bad will happen or they will die.

2) Are the people that say it on either lowbie teams every 2 minutes and seeing it several times a ding or well rounded teams full of decent players(ymmv) just rolling through missions and seeing it still coming from everyone in team in some kind of sick race to tell me first.


While i'm aware that its "just done to be nice and happy for the other player" and has been so for the entire history of the game, you get to say...lv20 so fast its meaningless and a waste of time, particularly while in combat. At this point i simply tell the team when joining i'm happy that they ding if it happens, and wont be wasting anymore time on telling them.
however i'm not above putting a Grats out there for anyone 45-50 because im quite aware of how long that takes unless its someone on a farm, in which case most times they get nothing. If this is somehow rude or mean, well its not intended that way but thats the way i handle it.

-MM

i cant help but notice that nothing after the first couple of posts on this page have anything to do with the reformed badge...

is this a nemesis plot to distract us from the issue?

....quite possible i say....

ps: its also quite possible this is a completely shameless way to raise my post count, but thats just pure conjecture unless anybody can prove it

no other place i see for this so here gos.
im in the market for a good redside sg, im not looking for new i want established and active...big coalition prefered.

some structure ok but would like something a little less...militant...comes to mind(this is a game after and ide like to have fun).

anyone with what im looking for can post here(if appropriate)or send me a PM with the sg name and when your on to invite or an estimated time when someone with invite rights is normally online(central time)

thanks in advance 8)