Obsidian_Force2

According to my hero-stats it's buffing the damage for 10 seconds at an improved damage modifier of 72%, either hero-stats is wrong or this is skewing your numbers.

The End Reductions will only lower the cost of the Dwarf toggle itself and my understanding of the End Mod was that it provided a very poor return ( I have forgotten the exact amount) for the slots invested.

#1 I rarely solo these days and have never really been into it.

#2 You would have a harder time avoiding getting sets than getting them by just *gasp* playing how you normaly do. I have Io'ed out at least 12 characters by just playing exactly how I did before IO's came out. I don't even use the market to make (most) of my money.

#3 "Most" people don't need sets to solo in this MMO even on a Kheldian.

#4 I'm happy your happy. Wait, no I actually don't think about you that much to care. But hey anything to drag the conversation away from that annoying stats talk and back onto feelings, you know like happy and fun?

The quote means anyone with a good finger and half a brain can come up with a build (and play it) for any AT, that can do normal lowest setting content. It simply requires no build advice at all.

I believe it's because they want to do content on a harder setting and progress faster.

They can do viable on their own if they spend any time at all thinking. Beyond viable is where they want advice.

Beyond viable comes the huge grey area of perception. I believe people seeking advice want the very best build and style advice they can get for their time and money spent.

Because I believe Tri-Form will always be better given equal time spent learning and money spent on building.



People who intentionaly pick ways of doing things that will be harder or less effective do not care about performance as much as they care about their "concept", it's an overstatement on my part obviously but their primary concern is NOT performance because they chose something over performance.





No, I do not know how effective they will be, I only know they would be more effective as Tri-Form. The mediocre and basic level content comment was speaking of the fact anyone can come up with a build to do that, nothing else.

Honestly i have seen some of the worst advice given on here and it's never supported with anything resembling facts (the bad advice). The sort of (bad) advice given here wouldn't show up on other AT forums, and if it did it would be corrected instantly and backed up with facts. Builds would be analyzed, bean counted, reverse engineered and corralated for it's effectiveness without reguard to hurting anyones scrapper/controller/defender pride.

Here we are ultra cautious to make sure nobody ever does anything "wrong", their just excercising their ability to make alternative (in alot of cases REALLY bad) play styles and builds. Here nothing is better than anything else, nothing is bad or wrong it's just choices without any relavance at all to success in the game. It's tolerated because we as a whole are content to never be as good as all the other AT's, as a nitch funzies concept toon AT.



Yes the more performance oriented the higher the level you can play at and do well.





Hopefully this clarifys my views a bit better.

This was for LX:

This is the only post "I" could find mentioning slaughter (which I already said was over stated) and it's referancing a human forms vulnerability to mezz and possible methods to counteract this. If your reading more into it than that, I don't know what to tell you.

If you can find another feel free to post it as I cannot seem to find anything beyond this first post other than repeated attempts to change what I actually said or give it a meaning of your choosing dispite what I most likely ment of it.

I do believe Tri out performs human based on the fact that we can both operate mired and perma eclipsed (capped ressists) but in squid form i'll lose 3 seconds shifting which gives you a couple extra opening attacks (3 at most due to animation times) but after that i'll be able to spam my 2 aoes without stopping with a higher damage ratio (1.0 to your .85) and an additional 45% damage boost from being in squid form while you rely on OD and Dark Detonation.

You can of course hit Unchain Essence and or Quasar but with only a 1 second drop to human I can also use mine (both 5 slotted 89% recharge 94% damage so at best you might have an extra slot in both of the nuke powers.)

I simply do not see where your making up the damage to make it so close as you believe.

I AM closed minded on ways to play, I have always believed the people who use the "why don't you just keep an open mind to the ways of others" to mean "why don't you think more like me?". Which is all it is, as nobody is open minded about anything they actually care about.

But that aside I should have cut you off when you first posted this as what you have quoted was part of the back and forth between LX and me and not you and me. I wasn't really interested in correcting you and I figured any attempt to would just illicite more problems than it was worth as you were being fairly civil.

But back on topic.

Your cobbling things together that I "almost" said in attempt to prove what i'm thinking.

It's not very effective.

LMAO...ahem I mean...awww ok.

Actually is it really so clear?

I know a guy who actually did the petless mastermind thing, he could complete missions set for +2 x2.

You say this is "teh Suck" (actually you didn't say that but i'm begining to see the virtues of missquoting what people say as a benifit to my cause.) but given the proof I have seen (the fact he could do this solo) can I call him gimped because he does poorer than a pet mastermind?

Depends on your perspective it seems.

You cannot have it both ways.

Either I am typing things I do not realize or your absolutely missquoting me and putting words into my mouth at every turn.

On the off chance I'm actually saying this i'm going back to reread what I actually posted, I suggest you do the same and compaire it to what you think I said.

No, It really isn't. The people who do not care about performance can build however they like and the people who want to maximize their performance have a readily handy roadmap to use.

The only thing that changes is it becomes common knowledge what the most effective way to play is to everyone.

I call this a Win/Win.

And maybe if were truely attempting insights into how another person thinks, perhaps people who are not interested in maximizing for maximum p0wnage simply deep down know they do not possess the mental or physical attributes to achieve it.

I don't believe this to be true but it's equally insulting, short sighted, and arrogant.

This is perhaps the most important reason why i continue to bring up points I believe must be brought to light. Every once in a while you bring something new a reader simply does not yet know and is interested in learning.

It allows them to make whatever choice THEY want without having to take my advice or anyone elses, and therefore make the best INFORMED choice THEY can.