Roderick

Theft of Essence: Chance for +End in Dark Regen. It will often repay the cost of Dark Regen, if you're hitting enough targets. It makes things a lot more tolerable.

There are two types of bonuses you need to look at: Set Bonuses and Procs.

Procs activate (or attempt to) whenever the power is used. In every case, the IO either says "X% chance to (do something)" or "(does something) for 120 seconds". These IOs will always function, regardless of the level of the IO, as long as you have the power it was placed in. However, their level may still be relevant for Set Bonuses.

Set Bonuses are granted for having a sufficient number of pieces of the set slotted into a single power. If you exemplar, any piece that is more than three levels above your combat level stop counting for the bonuses. Some IOs give a special benefit, like the Luck of the Gambler +recharge, or Steadfast Protection Knockback Protection. These act just like set bonuses, but check the level of the IO that grants the ability only, rather than the full set. Special IOs that count as set bonuses can be identified two ways: 1- They never have the proc terminology in their description. 2- They always show up on the Set Bonuses list of your powers tab, whereas procs do not. Both set bonuses, and special IOs that function like set bonuses continue to grant their bonuses, as long as you don't exemplar too low, even if you exemplar low enough to lose the power they are slotted in.

Purple and PVP Sets are an exception to the above - You never lose the bonus, no matter how low you exemplar, or the level of the IO (in the case of PVP IOs).

If they haven't already, someone will be along shortly to post a link to the wiki page that explains more than you could ever need to know about exemplaring and IOs.

It's been a long time since I've seen the list of the nine types of Market Forum posts. It obviously never got made into a sticky, so it likely fell to the bottom of the forum, about to be eaten by the forum monster, or, more likely, long since eaten.

Does anyone have a copy of it?

In the Q&A at the end of the keynotes, someone asked about supergroups and side switching. Posi's answer basically boiled down to "We haven't decided what we're doing yet, because we want a solution that everybody will be happy with."

As far as I know, there has been no official announcement of an event, or even an update to the affected mission.

I've also found that PBAoE attacks have difficulty deciding what's in range if you fire them while moving. If you haven't come to a complete stop before using it, there's a chance that it might be deciding that nothing's in range, even if you're bumping into them.

If you attack someone and miss, there will ALWAYS be a "MISS" over their head. If you're using the power and seeing NOTHING, no damage, no miss, nothing else over their heads, then they're "not in range", and you're suffering from the problem I mentioned.

The "Enhancements have no effect" setting does the following:

-Makes all powers act at their base level, as if unslotted.
-Disables all set bonuses, from regular, purple and PVP sets.
-Stops procs from firing.

In short, your enhancements will have no effect.

Any enemy that was on you still is; the caltrops effect has just added a "leave this area" effect that takes precedence.

Step off the caltrops, and the enemies will come back to you.

Tanking is far more effective when you're mobile anyways.

Of course, if you're herding, the trops are gonna screw things up. But I'm not gonna get into the "tanking vs herding" debate.

The -def part of the Rage crash can be negated by re-casting Rage. Three recharge SOs in Rage, and it will be back up in the middle of the crash. One or two small recharge set bonuses, like those in Crushing Impact, and you can recast it just before the crash, completely avoiding the -def part of the crash. Nothing you can do will negate the -Damage or -end part of the crash.

Even if you do let Rage crash, you have fairly good resists. When I decide to ride out the crash, I rarely lose any significant amount of Health.

Be careful against Psi foes. You get no Psi resist, and some Psi attacks have no positional component, meaning that they can hurt pretty bad. Judicious use of your Knockdown powers to stop them from attacking usuallywill render them useless though.