Reptlbrain

With regards to the end problem and selecting a /Rad: Maybe selecting a Science origin and being able to access Mr. Yin's Recharge SOs (level 13 easily hits ED cap if three-slotted) gives AM more than half uptime. If Hasten can be worked in, AM would be up about 80% of the time.

You could also gradually search for SOs on the market (from Positron, etc) to fill out your slots which would be much more effective in the long run than lvl 10 IOs.

So that's why it seemed like Dark Regen. I could swear (but I don't put a lot of faith in my observation) that he was Life Draining Phantom Army, the cheater.

I've been able to beat him as an EB on two def-based scrappers soloing (one w/o a self-heal), and with an Ill/Rad with near-perma PA. In one of my proudest moments in-game, I duo'd him as an AV with the Ill/Rad and a Fire/Dev blaster. It was a long fight and I think he missed consecutively with two self-heals near the end.

I've also been on teams that haven't been able to finish the TF on heroic because he was unbeatable as an AV for the teams (or at least the players behind the toons). Once, in the ultimate mission of the TF a teamwipe didn't matter as Nosferatu-as-pet finished the other AVs for us...

Next thing you know we'll be hearing about mezzing entire spawns and burning them slowly to death with a Fire/ controller! The horror!

Racing between my four 50 scrappers my best times are 8, 9, 10, and 15 minutes for ticket cap. Any idea if ticket rewards are being reduced for "pure" (minion or LT or boss) maps as xp is in i16?

Sorry, was being dimwitted, and thought he was comparing the two different epics. Not sure why...

Tentacles does NOT provide -kb, so it won't hold them in place for (Dark) Torrent.

This is why i16 will be such a boon. Although it seems counter-intuitive, your survivability will go up with the ability to increase the number of mobs soloing. As a non-defensive blaster, you can go sub-heroic or heroic set for 4-6. Since you're firing your AoEs anyhow, more minions almost doesn't matter, except as a way of garnering more inspirations.

For emergencies have a column of BFs, two columns of purples, one column of greens, and a column that you just eat constantly as fast as they drop (f1 - f1 - f1). You won't always get what you need, but you usually will. (Using the Milady's Knight's suggestion about combining during long animations is a great one, if you run out of your needed kind.) Start the eating column with purples. Eat them at the first spawn. Then don't stop killing and eating. With minions being obliterated you'll be stacking 5 - 10 - 15, or maybe more insps, and that's not including the blues and greens.

I think you may be the first person in the history of the game to shoot for stacking confuse bonuses. I believe it's just regular additive; i.e., you've added a DO's-worth of bonus to 2.25 seconds of confuse.

This. I love Bonfire, too, for its looks and its utility (and its un-slot-hungriness, IO muling notwithstanding). 'tis also a beautiful power in tight spaces, like office buildings, or a way to (somewhat messily, usually) lump two close spawns together, though depending on the i16 settings, this might be less desirable.

This was why I turned to hunting in the Shard. Is the toon 50 already?


Not completely useful if you intend on exclusively soloing. Somewhat handy if you want to lock down a spawn of bosses like on the ITF, stacking it with Cinders then letting Choking Cloud do its thing. You already have a less powerful but perma-able -regen in LR. Having Cinders, EMP and Char are pretty useful for grabbing three sets of IOs that you need for recharge (4 Basilisks) or defense (6 Lockdowns) bonuses.

Does LI mean Lingering Radiation? Accelerate Metabolism is absolutely vital for the +recovery and +recharge. Throw in Fire Cages and Flashfire as your all-purpose crowd control/containment setter-uppers. Ring of Fire is likely skippable (you have Mental Blast?) unless you want an IO set mule or want to take on AVs. Smoke and Bonfire are not necessary, but can be useful for setting up/cutting aggro/adding a tiny -tohit debuff and positioning/damage (provided critters are constantly caged) respectively, or can be set mules (namely Dark Watcher in Smoke for +5% recharge in 4 slots and the slot-expensive Kinetic Crash in Bonfire--+7.5% recharge in 6 slots).

Do you have Hasten to stack with AM?

Usually Ranged defense and Recharge are mostly exclusive: both usually take 5 or 6 slots to grab, so you can best build for one or the other well. If you were building for defense, I would try to take Box/Tough/Weave, an almost impossible task if you want to grab Hasten and Flight and Fitness and the AoE in Psionic Mastery, which you absolutely want. (One other option for defense is to take either Ice or Earth epic and build exclusively for Smash/Lethal defense, rather than positional, which would be easier.) Your control, RI, and Indomitable Will (pre-empting mezzing) mostly work as a good substitute for personal defense.

I would build for +recharge and +max end bonuses since you don't have "innate" defense like an /FF. Enough recharge and one of the PBAoE holds could be skippable. End bonuses are probably more useful than recovery (picking up Portal Jockey and Atlas Medallion help immensely here). Entropic Chaos or Decimation (better stats) can be slotted in Mental Blast (or Ring of Fire) for both +end and +recharge. Impervium Armor in Mind Over Body for more +max end. 2 Eradications in Hot Feet for even more +end.

A Lockdown hold proc is not a bad idea in Choking Cloud, either.

Do you Hover while you fight? Then one -kb certainly. (Do you cast Hot Feet then take off?)

This certainly makes tactics helpful*--and being a /kinetic when tohit debuffs are flying, it's important too.

And how many teams have you been on with 8 people running Maneuvers? Ever? (And if you're on a static team, with this plan, then you don't need to IO +def all over the place) Sharing mezzed mobs (-bosses) thrown and packed into a corner for delicious Fulcrum + AoEs is nearly always a better thing to share with the team.



*Both my Ice/Kin and Grav/TA have Tactics, though it's somewhat redundant on the /TA.

**Scrap/Tank/Blaster Maneuvers is a little shabbier. Try 2.something%.

You get bored in less than half an hour?!

My experiences

Leveling without Stamina and with Aid Other. Not so much fun.

Respec'ing into Stamina, Fighting, and softcapped (range) def in the 30s: PEW PEW PEW!

Bad idea. Singy's repel will muck up this move.

I have an ice/kin whose build resembles MrSuzi's quite a bit in terms of IO slotting--with roughly the same amount of Ranged/AoE and a little more Melee defense. (My grav respec'd out of Propel, because of the animation time. I imagine it would seem even worse on a /kinetic.)

An argument for Wormhole, per MrSuzi's build. The +4 defense (all) from Maneuvers for the team really isn't that useful. Fully capped defense for a team is often better than mezzing a spawn (not dependent on reacting, targeting, spawn spread, or activation times), but +4 ain't gonna provide near as much protection as an almost constant Wormhole that a hastened, siphon-speeded grav/kin can put out.

Wormhole also will be of more use while leveling, because the character's main self-defense of +def (ranged) is something that won't be achieved until the 40s, since most of the defense bonuses require six slotting. The +def (ranged) is very nice for Wormholing* actually, since you don't have to hide behind something.

Skipping Wormhole also means missing out on the chance of combining two spawns into one for maximum Fulcrum Shifting/AoE carnage, for when you're not playing on full teams. It also means missing out on Wormholing critters into the ceiling and sky, a source of (in my case, nearly endless) chuckles. As said before, if you take immobx2 + holdsx2 + pet only from primary, you should select Fire as a primary. (Yeah, yeah, I know.)

Always standing at long range also minimizes some of the benefits of playing /kin; it means you can't take full advantage of Fulcrum Shift and Transfusion (if needed).

Using MrSuzi's build, I would sub out the Leadership powers for Hasten and Wormhole, slot Wormhole with Stupefy and put Blood Mandate into Singularity in place of Expedient Reinforcement.


*Ahem.

Again, the wrong advice: you can't roll level 33 enhancements at level 47 (and thus can't use them in the character's life (30-47+)). Rolling at 47 also won't get you the most valuable recipes (at least for the sets that extend to 50); you actually have to be 50 roll those.

No, the limit on set bonuses still working is still +3 levels.

Here's where you're missing the point. You convert your merits into influence (via rolls, especially, for normally the greatest return), then convert that influence into

Although market goods have tended to inflate, there are also downward trends (hero-side, anyway). As the predominance of MA teaming has driven up common and uncommon salvage prices in most cases, conversely it drove down the price of a whole slew of rares, stabilizing most of the second and third tiers at around a million apiece.

And I dig the use of "boughten."

Did not know it had -res as Mids' didn't list it in the window of effects. Looks like it's time to give up the Force Bolt proc experiment. To Mids'! Then Jack Wolfe!

You've already got nearly all the information you need. You're looking for salvage for a recipe, right? You have the recipe. It is level x. If level x is 25 or less, you roll on the 10-25 tier. If level x is 26-40, the 26-40 tier. Almost (but not all) recipes require one tech and one arcane common salvage. You can probably guess which is which.

And by vendoring the surplus, you cut supply, leading generally to a rise in prices. Your adherence to "ethical" behavior is selfish, benefiting only yourself (your conscience) and costing others thousands in influence. In addition, flipping an item takes influence out of the system overall, providing a damping effect on the inflation that seems to worry you.

How I want to be treated, or, the Golden Rule of buying low, selling high:
a) Someone buying cheap moves salvage out of my inventory. I'm happy and they're happy with the bargain.
b) Pay more than the going rate? I'm happy to get my crafting done fast, thankful that they've stored salvage for me, and they're happy getting the cash.