Roderick

Also, the new Incarnate story arc(s) in Issue 24 are supposed to remember what you did in Praetoria, and in some cases change based on that. Praetoria should only be added to Ouroboros if ALL the choices are available, particularly ones that alter the outcomes of the newer arcs.

I don't think there are any cylinders in the game any more, but there used to be.

Knives of Artemis caltrops patches (and probably most other patches at the time) used to be a short cylinder, so that those above them didn't get hit. At some point, the KoA caltrops bugged out, developing the "infinite Z-axis" Steele mentioned. I'm pretty sure this is when the devs switched damage patches to spheres, to make sure there was no chance of the same bug resurfacing.

This is most likely going to happen. They already removed the crashes from nukes. When that first was announced, people asked about removing crashes from Armor Sets' T9 powers and Synapse or Hawk said that they'd look into it. The click mez protect in the upcoming Sorcery Pool had a crash, but when people complained about it, Synapse said that he'd be removing it in a future build, as "crashes are something we're moving away from".

I suspect that T9 crashes will eventually be removed, and that will make Elude far more desirable for mitigating high To-Hit environments. Myself, I just use Demonic. 50% typed defense (I usually have a bit of typed defense by accident, so it ends up ahead of my positional values) and 50% resist to all but psi. And all of my SR characters have enough recharge to cut it down to 8-12 minute recharge - I rarely want it more often than that.

I'll be surprised if a Willpower character is having endurance issues, and with the built-in +To Hit from Rage, you shouldn't be having accuracy issues, so I'd either go Spiritual or Musculature, depending on if you want to Foot Stomp and KO Blow more often, or harder.

EDIT: If the tank is having End problems, go Musculature. If I recall correctly, one branch includes EndMod, which will boost Stamina and Quick Recovery (and Physical Perfection, if you have it).

While high level set bonuses aren't exemplar-friendly (including single IOs that function like set bonuses - Luck of the Gambler, Steadfast Protection, etc), procs and proc-like enhancements (Damage procs, Stealth procs, Numina and Miracle Uniques - basically anything that triggers or has a chance to trigger on power use) will function at any level, regardless of the level of the enhancement, as long as you retain use of the power it is slotted in.

That said, I'll still pick the lower-level enhancement every time, because if I decide to pop it out and pass it to a different character, lower level means it can be slotted sooner.

Trial accounts did NOT get their login info changed, just their global names. I have a few old trial accounts that I've used as Free accounts since the switch, and the login info has all been unchanged.

Well, if it were to say this, I'd imagine that it would be MORE confusing, because it's wrong, so people would be wondering why they weren't seeing those results.

Superior Conditioning increases your BASE endurance by 5%, as do all other bonuses. Technically, the bonuses are added together, then applied to the base. So if I've got more than 100 Endurance before taking Superior Conditioning, I'll still only get +5 End (before slotting).

The only way unslotted Superior Conditioning would give anything other than 5 points of End is if your base Endurance were other than 100. The only ATs with non-100 base End aRe Arachnos Soldiers* and they don't have access to Superior Conditioning.

*I haven't played an Arachnos Soldier in ages. It might be their Base Recovery that's higher, in which case, the above is moot.

Ignoring that, some people aren't intimately familiar with all the mechanics of the game. Some of them - to borrow from Sister Flame - just "push 1 2 3 4 until the bad guys fall over". Maybe the OP understood what the +5% meant, but had an incomplete understanding of the Endurance mechanics, so didn't know how it applied.
Whether you meant it or not, your first response sounded snarky and sarcastic, and did come off as condescending.

You've never bumped into GG in-game, have you? She can't move the chest slider any further to the right.

And phones. It's far from the only thing that does it, but his sig shoves his post so far over that I can only read the last word or two on each line of his posts unless I scroll WAY over, read his post, scroll BACK, and then keep going.

To the original question:

My first character, and my first to 50, was an Elec/Energy blasterthat I built with a "modern wizard" concept. He's been sitting unplayed for over a year as I've tried to rebuild him in a way that I'm happy with. There is so much in Issue 24 that is PERFECT for him that he'll probably be my first project as soon as the issue lands.

My main is a BS/Shield scrapper that has been a Paladin (or something similar) in numerous other video games and Pen and Paper games. Right now, I've got two builds for him - One has Blaze Mastery for Fire Ball (A "Holy Fire" or "Pillar of Flame" attack) but runs out of endurance quickly unless I'm eating inspirations by the handfull. The other has Body Mastery and has no Endurance issues, but lacks any kind of Fire attack (other than Pyronic Judgement, which has a far longer recharge). I'll be able to use Enflame to provide the fire attack while keeping Body Mastery for the endurance. As an added bonus, since I need prerequisites for Enflame, I can use the Absorb power as a "Healing Touch".

I don't have any other characters that will be dramatically affected by I24, but if the Tech origin pool is anything like what the leaked info claims, It will be perfect for a Cyborg character I'm currently working on.

Yes, that's what I said.

Just like Scrappers/Stalkers have Conserve Power/Superior Conditioning, so do Tanks/Brutes. Though I do see how you interpreted it that way.

The same is true for Tanks/Brutes, due to both Energy Aura and Electric Armor. Stalkers also got Superior Conditioning in Weapons Mastery to replace Caltrops.

It's also slottable for end mod, so it can give up to 9.86 End on 3x +3 EndMod SOs, or up to 13 End with 6x 50+5 EndMod IOs and Agility Core Paragon Alpha.

This. There are only two reasons to get that error: Either you're using a code from the wrong region, or you're using a code of a type that's already been used on your account (ie, you already have Dark Matter).

They did, but only in AE.

Ever heard of multi-quote, dude?

A tanker with sufficient recharge to double stack Rage, a full set of level 50 damage IOs (I tested with Crushing Impact, but other sets would work too), Musculature Core Paragon Alpha, and 7% damage buff from sets (2-4 set bonuses needed to achieve this) has perma capped damage.

It's all pocket change for someone who does use the market as a dumping ground for drops. That's all I do. I may polish things a bit (Convert 3 Large Blue insps to a Large Purple, craft my common salvage into common IOs, craft a LotG: Def/Rech and convert it), but the only reason that I'm not swimming in inf is that I spend it as fast as I make it.

I don't NEED Inf, I just want to get enough to work with, and I want it NOW. I don't care if I could get more if I were to wait for later, I have other things I do for that. I just want something in my piggy bank the instant I start a new character, and I'm too lazy to switch between characters a couple of times to do it.

Only in the sense that, if the target dies, you have nothing to punch with your MASSIVE DAMAGE BOOST. Except the other dude that didn't die.

A while ago, they fixed it so that enemy-targeted heals and buffs still heal and buff if the enemy dies before the power completes, as long as the power successfully targets them (ie, the enemy isn't dead before casting), and the to hit roll succeeds.

I'm one of the players that feeds you (and others) those inspirations.

I have the Inner Inspiration power. Every 30 minutes, I get three random medium or large inspirations.

Small inspirations, I eat like candy. I almost always have a few in effect on me. Medium inspirations, I save for tough spots, but still use frequently. Large inspirations tend to be Too Awesome To Use, even though I know I shouldn't look at them that way.

I happily throw Influence at the Market like it's going out of style, though, so I load all those inspirations I won't use on the Market for 1 Inf each, knowing that I'll get a fair bit more than that, and it'll be something that I actually use.

I agree that it may seem like a "paltry sum" to a 50, but to someone who rolls a LOT of new alts, the ability to have several million by level 20, just by clicking a power and putting inspirations on the Market is handy, and makes sure that I always have the Inf to buy TO/DO/SOs and/or craft common IOs out of the salvage that drops, without having to resort to marketeering or mailing Inf from alts.