Mr_Startle

Two peeps who have become stellar in-game friends: RoseRed and Voltage Storm.

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1) James -- Low Low Low
2) Garbage -- Milk
3) Concrete Blonde -- Joey
4) Jethro Tull -- Slipstream
5) Queen -- Fat Bottom Girls
6) Garbage -- Bad Boyfriend
7) Sublime -- Hong Kong Phooey
8) Belly -- Gepetto
9) Jethro Tull -- Locomotive Breath
10) Black Sabbath -- Sweet Leaf

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Castle, great list except number three. Don't get me wrong, I love Concrete Blonde and think that Joey is their best song, but it also happened to be the song that we were listening to when my wife flipped our car on the Pennsylvania Turnpike and I broke my neck.

Ahh, good memories.

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On vacation - first in Indianapolis with my in laws for Christmas, then off to the Fiesta Bowl with my wife to see the Buckeyes. I was back at work last Wednesday, but there was a lot to catch up on.

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Awwe, man, and here I thought you were a Philly guy....no Orange Bowl for you?

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Even though Snipe seems to have joined the unwashed masses of players turned off by ED, I'd just like to thank everyone on this thread who provided any kind of helpful post. Tonight I hit 50, and while I don't think I have a cookie-cutter build, I have to say that paying attention to this guide/thread really helped me along the way.

Thanks, everyone!

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Many thanks and grats to you.

I have joined the unwashed masses. I now play a hunter.

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Traitor!

Thanks for the grats.

Even though Snipe seems to have joined the unwashed masses of players turned off by ED, I'd just like to thank everyone on this thread who provided any kind of helpful post. Tonight I hit 50, and while I don't think I have a cookie-cutter build, I have to say that paying attention to this guide/thread really helped me along the way.

Thanks, everyone!

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Now is there any reason for both of those to be as high as they are? No. The only reason is to get people to play a few months longer to get 2 badges with no practical purpose.

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You know, I disagree with the idea that badges won't be datamined, but this post is ludicrous.

Take the following with a grain of salt, directed at a general manner of thinking, rather than a specific person.

If you're sticking around for another few months in order to obtain another two badges, then that's your fault. For pity's sake, people, take some personal friggin' responsibility. YOU are the ones that are hot for these badges that do nothing. They DO NOTHING. If obtaining them is the sole determinant of your continuing a subscription to a game, then you've got issues, man.

The badges do nothing. They're a diversion for when you don't feel like playing the game for XP or whatever else. If the diversion is the only thing keeping you in the game, and it's clearly no longer a fun diversion, then GO!

Leave! There's a whole world of things you can collect out there and you don't have to pay 15 bucks a month to do so!

It sucks that past badges won't be datamined. You won't get the souvenir for your trip to Disneyland, but the point of the trip to Disneyland is supposed to be the experience of going, not some *useless* tchotchke.

It's a crappy turn of events, yes, but let's keep some perspective here. Do the TFs for fun, not because your OCD compels you to.

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I always knew there was a reason why Foo was one of my favorite board posters. Five stars to you!

Has anyone PM'd States on the developers lack of response to this thread yet?

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I've taken CRM from level 11 to 24 in just three days.

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tpull, how many hours a day were you playing during this time to accomplish such a feat? How are you fitting real life in?

By the way, you keep mentioning late-night gaming. That's me on the weekends. The wife goes to bed, and I'm up until 3 or 4. One of these days, I will see the sun come up. For some reason, that's a stated mission of mine.

One other thing...best thread ever.

tpull for teh win!

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18 of 21....I actually surprised myself. lol

SnipeFu,

Congratulations! Just saw that you took home the Most Helpful award! Well deserved!

Much thanks to everyone who responded. Last night I only had time for one mission (thank God my grad school classes are finished until September now), so I undertook a Freakshow warehouse mish solo in order to practice on pulling. Wow, that line of sight thing really does make things a heck of a lot easier, doesn't it? I only aggro'd a second Freak once or twice, and I never got myself in a situation that needed for me to SS away.

The one thing I noticed that I didn't see on here: Even if you do successfully pull only one bad guy, if the rest are on alert and you hop in their line if sight after wacking the one you pulled, they'll see you even with invis. Just thought I'd point that out.

Thanks for all the help everyone. Much appreciated. Once I get pulling fine-tuned (now to try it outdoors with much bigger groups), it'll be time to start brushing up on jousting.

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Really good at pulls: if you think its impossible to pull two LTs apart, not good enough yet. If you think pulling = standing back here and shooting at something, not even close yet.

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Pulling I'm still trying to master. I recognize that you pick off the outside stragglers when they wander from the pack and don't immediately target the boss, but other than that, I'm open to advice. Once I'm out of stragglers to pull toward me, that's when I hit the pulling wall and end up aggroing everyone.

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Really good at jousting: you don't need extra range in burst or torrent, you don't run into things, and if you get low health, you escape more often than drop dead.

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Just starting to pick this one up, having just learned of it recently on the board. What I try to do is run up and then run back, but then I was doing that before invis. Now that I have invis, I'm going to start running through to come out on the other side. I can definitely tell that this takes practice.

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Really good at knockback control: you want them there, you put them there, chain knockback is second nature, and you will switch targets to knock one down and switch back without thinking.

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Nowhere near this kind of game command yet, but I'm trying to learn.

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You will aslo find that once you have hasten fully slotted which you should really getr working on things will move significantly faster.

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Snipe, what's your thought on future slotting? I've been trying to max out damage by going heavy on the attacks, but you seem to feel that I'd be better off loading up Hasten. Is that what you're thinking?

Also, again, thanks for confirming that my hit-and-run stategy is satisfactory. I tend to feel like a lil' punk going about my business this way, but a squishy blaster has to do what a squishy blaster has to do.

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For big groups (8 or more) you'll need to wait for Nova. Until then, just continue with the sneaky-stealthy blaster methods.

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Thanks a lot, Demon. That's kinda what I thought...especially since I dropped torrent because of the unwanted aggro that it constantly supplied.

Congrats!

I have to agree that this guide is one of the best available, and that the people who post here have combined to create one of the best topic discussions of any thread. I currently only have one toon, my eng/eng blaster, and I have to admit that I originally powered him up all kinds of wrong. I had energy punch, flurry instead of hasten, and I might have even two-slotted brawl. (Yeah, laugh about that one.)

Thankfully, I just completed the lvl 24 respec tf and took both hover and invis and then set out to solo a Freakshow hunting mish in Terra Volta. Where once I was earning debt like it was my job (I wasn't that bad, having only gotten to a third bubble once), I now found myself confident in wacking a few boss and maybe an LT or minion before turning off hover and scampering away with SS.

Which leads me to my question...as a eng/eng blaster, when does it become possible to blast away a +1 or +2 mob of 8 or 10 without having to run away after having only off'd one or two of the mob? Is it ever possible? (I hate asking a group to help me with these hunting mishs. Don't know why.)

I read this post quite often, and while I know my toon is significantly lower in lvl than some of the posters, it seems that I'm forced to hit and run more so than others. For instance, in order to kill the 20 Freakshow, I probably needed about 13 trips to different mobs. I never ate dirt, but then I'm wondering if I could be doing things better.

I don't have my build on me, but I can tell you that I have most of the basics (Power thrust [only because I'm forced to], Bolt, Blast, Burst, Snipe, [mostly five slotted right now with 1 acc and rest dam, except Snipe which has 1 acc, 1 interrupt red., and 3 dam] Aim, Build up, Hasten [two slotted, I believe), SS, Hover (3 slotted currently), and Stamina).

Any advice on playstyle from anyone who can handle +1 or +2 mobs would be greatly appreciated. (As would someone saying...yeah, you're pretty much on the money by quickly offing one or two and then beating feet.)