Rikis

Thanks for the info everyone!

So I'm currently leveling a Sonic/Dual Pistol Defender, my very first defender and I can't wait to get her out of Praetoria and into the Rogue Isles but there are a few things I'm not sure about. The first is on procs, due to the way Swap Armor, it seems I can slot procs from the slow, knockback, and defense debuff sets. I'm assuming that the proc slotted in a power will only go off if the correct ammo is equipped, ie, Achilles' Heel -res will NOT go off if I have Chemical Rounds running (-dmg on a secondary paired with a resistance primary? yes please!).

Second question and running along with the idea of Chemical Rounds, what are the numbers on the -damage? No real numbers on any of the powers seems to reveal the strength of the debuff.

I've been playing MMOs since 1999 and the one I have played for the longest (5 years) had:

3. Experience loss and deleveling
4. Full-body looting
5. The corpse run (old-style)

On one particularly bad day I was having, I went from level 41 to level 39 due to lag. I logged off the game for a week, simply left my guild a message that I had to take a small break. I didn't give up on the character, he eventually reached level 52 (as he was no longer my main) and from what I've heard, they've drastically reduced all three penalties or even removed some. I don't know, I haven't gone back since 2004. Could our death system be a little bit more grievous? Sure, but it doesn't need to be. A solo player's debt doesn't automagically disappear (unless they log off and stay logged off for a while).

It's a fun list, in total I've been parts of games that had the first half of 2 in the late game and 4 or 9 if you chose to avoid number 4. One that had only the full extent of number 2. Another one that had a combination of 7 and 8. Although I would be interested in how any MMO could sell number 1. I mean, the MMO I spoke of in the first paragraph had a tournament in a server they made specifically with number 1 and entirely open PvP. No level restrictions, no race restrictions, all out war. The character I made died about 7 times, so he only ever got as high as level 14 or so out of like, I think, at the time 60 or 65 levels. It's a shame I forgot what the winner got.

Noob! 7 down, infinity left to go!

Just today after I attempted to solo Scrapyard (the scardy ghost ran away from all my AoE debuffs right into the Black Market ) I zoned into Cap au Diable and my pets become unresponsive, including my lore pets.

My MM main is a Necromancy/Trick Arrow/Soul Mastery.

Alpha: Musculature - I've got no benefit from Nerve as I already have Tactics on my build and absolutely no source of enhanceable defense. I've got some global recharge and Trick Arrow already recharges plenty fast enough with regular IOs and the heals from my henchman tend to be wasted as their first attack so Spiritual would be of minimal use. Trick Arrow has almost no endurance issues, my only source of Resistance is my Soul Mastery armor, and none of my pets ever run out of endurance, so Cardiac is again of limited use.

Judgement: Void Total Radial - I didn't go with the core because I already have Musculature and /TA's -res to increase my Judgement's damage. As a /TA, I really have no reason to be in melee, but Flash Arrow makes it easy to setup a Void opener and the -50% damage does wonders for the survivability of my henchmen. I then also stack up a Poison Gas Arrow for even more -damage and I breeze through the fight.

Lore: IDF Total Core - Purely for concept reasons and because I already had the Seers on another character. For five minutes, my damage types are varied: Lethal, Negative Energy, Fire, Smashing, and Energy. Sure, the Commander is no Vicky, but seeing him do 800-900 damage still brings a smile to my face.

Interface: Reactive Partial Radial - I tend to solo mostly and this improves my damage the most. Since the patch, my Oil Slick Arrow can pretty much clear an entire spawn. If I do more trials (I'm getting frustrated at my old computer's constant crashing) I'll probably with with Paralytic Partial Radial Interface to stack on even more -dmg.

Destiny: Barrier Partial Core - I don't have the reflexes to have the best AoE heal for my zombies so I went with the choice that allows them to wreak havoc recklessly without any ill effect to them.

I'd be pretty happy to have details on animal heads. What if I have an arcane wolfman caster who wants to wear a hood? Or a literal cat burglar who wants to wear one of those eye masks ala Robin? Perhaps my minotaur is a savvy gadgeteer and wants to wear goggles. It is very frustrating not having details on heads, pretty much all of my characters have some sort of detail on their head (which does mean I haven't played an animal/beast character).

I have to admit that going in (I didn't go to the open betas, bad bad me) I was a little apprehensive of the Mortimer Kal SF from what I had heard, but I was pleasantly surprised.

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You kidnap someone's daughter in order to force them to help you? Cool, but even better, you keep her at the end in order to make sure he stays loyal.

You free some Circle of Thorns from Numina's grasp and when they turn on you after beating Numina, you show them exactly why you're on top! And giving Infernal a beating is just icing.

You attempt to force a war between the Warriors and the Midnight Squad who are currently at peace, and though you fail, you kick both of their ***** in the same mission.

But best of all, you go to Positron's base, in his own home turf, defeat him leaving him with more than just a bruised ego, you take what he was tasked with guarding for yourself.

I still prefer the end of Vincent Ross' arc where you take down an entire army of the Legacy Chain with the coup de grace being taking down a task force of 8 heroes all at the same time.

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I haven't seen too many Dual Blades/Electric Armor. Have had mine, and loved mine, since the first day of i11.

I believe Cap Au Diable would be best for this! Start at the south ferry, walk to Aeon City then a half circle in the inner section of the raised platform get off on the northern ramp and ending at the northern ferry.

Psst, as awesome as Liora Kate is, she's not one of mine :P. That'd be Kelenar's character.

You go to your badges, then go to the Accomplishment badges, go all the way to the bottom where you'll find the "Promethean" badge, and then click on the button in the actual badge (claim I think) and voila, you lose the temp power and gain a notice!

Elite Dreadnaught
Villain - Brute (Dual Blades/Electric Armor)
Virtue Server
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Elite Dreadnaught is a demon from another dimension, a warrior priestess to her god. She uses chaos magic to protect herself and her skill with her magic blades is superb. She came to Earth through a portal that her kind did not know would become a one-way ticket. She has had no luck in finding the Blood Inquisitor (mostly cause I really can't get past level 10 blueside) but she has a new goal, to get back home and prepare an invasion of Earth. She agreed to her original mission in order to increase her rank within the army of her kind. She.... umm.. "enjoyed" battle before Silver Mantis was given her dialogue and to a much... fuller extent. All in the name of her god of course.

Although this was just with the Alpha only, I decided to check out the 49+ difference bug with my MM in Mercy Island. Found a few level 1 mobs, and my Lich (who was 50(+1)) did 60-80 damage on them. Then took it to fight level 2s and 3s and his damage spiked up to 200-300. Oh legacy code, I can only begin to imagine what the devs must go through when adding new or updating mechanics to the game.

My brute has been able to one shot the War Walkers in the trials and the weapon caches in Lambda with the t3 Ion Judgement. The one with extra damage to all ranks. One time, the only thing left from me alphaing a spawn with Ion was the original minion target.