RevolverMike

Resistances being in the negatives seems to be from -res procs. I know glad fury was doing it, havent checked achilles since im on my mac right now.

Buy a $15 bundle followed immediately by two $5 bundles. Problem solved.

Very much fixed. Thanks Cobalt.

Are Trials still being run regularly? I take it everyones hanging out in DA now rather than RWZ? I dont really see too much (if anything) being said on Champ trials or broadcast. I've also been on my 2nd account a bit lately and dont have nexus on it. Was able to get on a couple BAFs (2 fails in a row) wednesday by being in the LFG and also the other night was in a league about to start before the servers died. Does Evis still run them daily at 4?

ok, so this problem is still around and it made running a trial today almost impossible. Shapes and colors filled pretty much my whole screen and left me blind every other second about.

Going to switch over to Windows bootcamp mode eventually and see if I have the problem there as well.

I'm not saying I agree with this either way but isnt it already pay to win? you can buy thunderstrikes or kinetics for the def of your choice and LotG for recharge.

Only people with purples "win" in this game?

My main has three sets of purples but not the full five, am I winning or losing?

How so Black_Assassin? My brute takes around 3 minutes to finish the mission I usually do and that arc has that mission 5 times. So after 15 minutes I have around 15 mil plus tickets. I than use tickets for rare salvage and sell that off gaining about 10 mil more. So 25 mil every 15 minutes and around 100 mil every hour. You talking about rolling recipes? Cause I would do that before but its a pain clearing out the junk and than having to spend inf getting the correct salvage and than craft and wait to sell where If I just go straight to rare salvage and sell that I get the inf instantly and can than go right back into AE if I choose. Tho I find it hard to sit there like a robot doing that over and over for very long.

Basically it was get one alignment merit, use that for the recipe, spend practically nothing making the enhancement as it required no rares, and than sell for onwards of 90 mil. Which was nice. It now goes regularly for 70 mil and the occasional 30 where it was holding before.

I see it this way, 2 A merits gets you a LoTG global which was worth about 150 mil. So 1 A merit should be worth no less than 75 mil. So even the 70 that its currently being sold for is unacceptable to me. And when It was selling for 90+ it was actually doing me better than a LoTG.

@Serial, the example I used is about an hour worth of play time. (Actually I'm incorrect, its an hour for the 1 A merit. Which was getting me 90 mil. An hour of AE will get me roughly the same.) In order to get the enhancement I need to sell I had to run tip missions. I figured instead of that maybe AE would be the better option. Than the money is up front and I dont have orders not being sold. Not really a case where I spend a couple minutes just placing things on the market and than make profit. I have to generate the product first. Dont tend to flip since I usually dont have very much inf on hand. Theres always at least one toon that could use something so I end up burning through what I have.

Cool, thanks for the advice so far. Hopefully those orders I have out will be filled with 2XP weekend. Looked around and found another set I think I want to play around with. Best part is I should be able to get a good supply without using A merits. So I wont be time gated and I can actually save A merits now.

Edit: I'm debating if maybe I'm better off using AE. It takes my brute 15 minutes to make about 15 mil plus salvage. So prolly about 25 mil after selling. I dont think I could match that speed with the new niche I wanted to try and I did the math and AE would take the same amount of time (inf/minute) as the old niche if the recipe sold for its best price.

Reclaim my niche in the market. I found an enhancement whose recipe isnt too much work to get ahold of and once crafted was selling for a a nice amount. After enjoying that for a couple weeks someone started selling it for a third of the price. Luckily they cant seem to keep up or they got greedy cause now while it occasionally sells for that 1/3 of what I have mine listed for, now it mostly sells for about 2/3rds. Which still undercuts my price. Supply has also increased to about twice what it used to be back when I first started playing with this particular enhancement.

How do I go about protecting my niche? I already had a couple bids set at 1/3 the price and ended up grabbing one and putting it back on the market for what I usually price it at. But I'm getting tired of seeing all my listings sitting there for weeks now not getting sold and supply doesn't seem to be dropping. So the whole being patient and waiting for whoever else is using this spot on the market to lose steam isnt working. Obviously I need more aggressive tactics. Advice from market masters would be greatly appreciated.

When I run through a section of LAM sector solo and total domination and mass confuse are both down from the last two containers/caches I put the mob to sleep and focus my single target attacks on the container/caches. Someone always shows up at this point and starts spamming AoE's.

Just part of the game I suppose.

Out of curiosity, would you be able to explain how TK would affect this scenario Dread? It would burn through a targets hold protection right?

Never been able to bring myself to take it off my Mind/Fire even tho it doesnt get much use since the days of leveling my main.

Thanks Badaxe, hopefully this is partly on paragons side than and can be fixed without me having to replace anything on my end.

Thanks WanderingAries, I am on an external display and I actually looked up some new drivers earlier but it would not let me install since I'm running leopard OS. I guess I'll have to upgrade when I find some extra cash up to snow leopard and than lion. With mountain lion coming in summer.

Appreciate all the feedback. Apparently the issue is on my end. Which is kinda frustrating cause as I said before I22 I never experienced this. Before I logged last night on the last character i was playing the anomaly's would even fill mostly the entire screen. Not sure how long I'll be able to deal with that if it keeps up.

If one thing this experience has taught me its I didnt realize my graphics cards were...so inefficient. I ordered this comp long before I ever thought about online gaming and this is the only game I play. Still expect to get another good year or two out of this machine before I think about getting a new one or upgrading all its parts.

Running on a mac so figure i wont be able to use hyperstrikes tools but heres some info. Let me know if theres anything else you'd need and I'll try my best to get it.

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro1,1
Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 3 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 4 GB

Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
Type: Display
Bus: PCIe
Slot: Slot-4
PCIe Lane Width: x8
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0393
Revision ID: 0x00a1
ROM Revision: 3008
Displays:
Display Connector:
Status: No Display Connected
DELL E173FP:
Resolution: 1280 x 960 @ 75 Hz
Depth: 32-Bit Color
Core Image: Hardware Accelerated
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported
Rotation: Supported

Since the update I keep getting random green or yellow/orange flashes on my screen in various shapes. It could be anything from a large box blocking out a corner to a oval-ish design dead center blocking my toon. For the most part they last a second or two but somethings longer.

Just curious if anyone else was having this problem that way I can know its on paragons side and wont have to worry about it as I'm sure it'll get fixed soon enough.

Some notes, I usually play on the "performance" setting since my old monitor got busted and have been using an old one that was laying around. Even put the settings down to minimum today to see if it got rid of the random flash shapes but it didnt. Thought maybe it was from lag when i first signed in earlier and was in DA but right now its 2:45 am here so guess that ideas out.

Edit: All these views and not a single person can say "not experiencing this at all". Ok so after playing a bit more I discovered the length the graphics anomaly stays has to do with my movement cause on one character when i was just standing around it stayed. Again, before I22 i never had this problem.

@Dread, I did consider ranged def to deal with mezzes but the Glad Fury proc dictates i be in melee. I'll have to see if there is a build that can hit S/L and Ranged without sacrificing too much recharge.

@Roderick, you make a very good point. I played around with a Crab on mids and it seemed very good.


As a side note I apparently missed that stalkers have spine burst, burst, and lightning rod. Tho not sure how the recharge on lightning rod is and cant check cause im on my mac. Also I know lightning rod is good for opening as it doesnt break hide but would debuffing the enemies res with Glad fury proc grab aggro?

I actually considered a fire/cold corr before I realized status effects would ruin my destroying enemies. I'll have to play around with that combo in mids next time i'm on a pc.

I'm all for making a corruptor or controller to make use of the debuffs but since I play solo much more than I team accomplishing the characters that can survive alone have a higher priority.

Been trying to think of builds that can achieve soft capped S/L and make use of both -Res procs. One for -Def power and another for a PbAoe. Bonus points for having status effect protection (without clarion) and additional bonus points for debuffs.

Best I can come up with is

Brute: Street Justice/ Fiery Aura/ Soul Mastery (Status Protection)
Achilles in shin breaker. Glad Fury in Blazing Aura. Combat readiness + Fiery embrace for extra damage. Damage procs all over the place.

Dominator: Mind/ Psi/ Mace (Status Protection. Massive Control. -Regen)
Achilles in posion ray. Glad Fury in Psy shockwave. Around -1000% Regen from Drain Psyche which is twice what a defender/controller/corruptor can do.

Have a couple other builds but Controller, Corruptor, and Blaster dont like mezzes. Stalkers lack point blank Aoe. Only plan on having my one defender and mastermind for now so havent looked into those builds. Arach Soldier looks promising but dont plan on making one for a very long time. Claws or Broadsword scrappers seem like a good choice as both can fit -Res procs without relying on secondary or APP/PPP. Also capable of doing it with a Tank but want to have the choice to play solo so the tank is next to the Arach Soldier in the "I'll get to it eventually" pile.

So for all you build experts what other combinations can make use of demolishing Resistance. The more "sturdy" the toon the better. Sturdy meaning soft capped defenses, Resistances, status protection, without end issues and any debuffs. Realize not going to be able to have all of those but the more the better.

Wow, multiple issues before we get any new slots. The DA revamp better be good for building an incarnate solo or I guess I'll be letting my sub lapse soon. My main has all tier 4 and as for my alts, well I can only do a trial or two in a night before i have to take a break. and than the next day i tend to not want anything to do with trials. So its a slow process.

I was actually thinking about this the other night, but didnt the devs want to give us a couple extra enhancement slots? If I remember correctly they wanted to give us 3 slots in place of a couple levels that normally only gives us 2 but it broke the game. Wouldn't adding a few levels allow them to give us those slots they wanted to give us?

I'm not saying increase us to 70 or 100. I'm talking about being at lvl 53 or 55.

I'm all for having at least 1 extra power on all my toons and an extra 6 slots. Doubt one more 5 or 6 slot bonus would overpower us. Than again I havent fully thought out every aspect.

I'm in favor of it. I have the superior version and I regularly have it stacked 3 times. Which comes out to around +60% damage. More damage is more damage. Than again I'm using fire assault.

I'm not really expecting to have a full team running every time i play. I actually spent about 2 years running solo and I was fairly happy with that. Wasnt really sure if I was any "good" at this game and didnt want to slow a team down.

Than came lvl 50 and I wanted incarnate powers so I was essentially forced to start being on teams. Which was fine cause there are so many people in a league I would just follow the herd and learn where to go and what to do in each trial. Now on my main, Fiery Phoenix, I have no problem running off on my own during a lam and taking out a weapons cache/container by myself since I'm fully capable. Figure if I can do it, why not. Speeds things up.

So now that my characters that were close to 50 are all at 50 I have a bunch that are anywhere between 1 and 35 that I want to level and doing so by myself has become dull. Doesnt matter whether its a team where there is no talk and all fight or one full of conversations. Just wanna level at a faster rate and have a little variety.

Tho I suppose if I have to I could always have future characters backstory who are "evil" believe in what they are doing is "good" and make them blue side if its really going to be a pain to team. Not into RP but concept is important to me. I tend to like playing characters more if I have an idea what they are about. But than I run into the problem of I dont think I can stand playing solo blue side. The different zones and contacts are incredibly dull to me. Red side just comes off as more interesting and lively. Granted less populated.

Btw I've soloed a hero to 50 and another to 42. So it's not like I havent given it a chance.

I also appreciate the responses. Lots of familiar names from trials and the various channels I'm part of. Champion really is the community server. Glad I ended up picking this one as my home when I joined.

I'm on my Mac so I dont have access to Mids at the moment but 2 recharge in hasten at +5 should put you around 99%. You won't have domination up consistently without the use of the red side alignment power. (fury?) Which case when it does drop, hopefully while not during a fight, you can throw it back up. Than again if you see it about to expire best bet is use that AOE hold and than pop it back on if you are in a fight.

My build is currently just shy of perma hasten and ends up being able to use domination a good couple of times in a row and than eventually drops. Granted if I was better at activating hasten instantly when it was ready it would prolly last longer. (Domination is on auto) I will say tho that my current build does not use Spiritual alpha either and with one more purple and if I 4 slot hasten with +5 recharges it will be up again in 117s, so it would be perma. So it is possible to have perma hasten without spiritual.

If you were able to post your build than myself and others could probably provide better help.

Are there any active Red side Supergroups recruiting on Champion? (I know, lolredside) Unlike the majority of the player base I Like red side more than blue and 90% of my characters are Villains.


@Maros, Thanks Cobalt.