Saccade

Orinn was probably referring to the cost of a power and control room, and the power and control items required to get a bare bones base working.

Suggestion:

Air Superiority

This power is essentially a faster-recharging Haymaker (and therefore less damaging) with a near 100% knockdown chance.

This power makes bosses, even elite bosses a cakewalk. Once you're able to slot SO's, one recharge reducer and you can pretty much guarantee a foe is on its back for the duration of a fight. Also, if you're fighting a pack of minions, you can AS several of the minions to keep from getting hit a lot (useful when you're low on health and high on rage).

My 15 SS/Fire Brute has Punch/Brawl/AS/Haymaker (after testing Jab/Brawl/AS/Haymaker/KO Blow up to 26 in beta) and seriously kicks buttocks. Personally, I found Jab to not work well for my play style.


Of course, do what's fun for you! AS may not make thematic sense for a Fire/Fire brute, for example. Happy brute-ing ... er, SMASH!!!-ing!


Edit: Oh and as has been mentioned before ... try using your first few attacks (the low-endurance ones) to build Fury ... even if it means not attacking for a second, try not to use KO Blow or Haymaker until your Fury meter is 40% or higher. You will find you run out of gas (endurance) MUCH less frequently this way as you're not burning too much to get your fury up, and then when it *is* up, you can pound your foes into the pavement with relatively less endurance use.

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-4.59 Force Bubble

I repeat, Holy bejebus!!


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Tell me about it! I swear, ZERO enhancements in Stamina or Force Bubble and 40 seconds to drain, with NO other toggles running.

With fully slotted +3 SO's in Stamina and 1 +3 SO endurance reduction in Force Bubble, it will STILL drain endurance faster than I can regen it.

The only way my FF bot can run toggles is 6-slotting FB with endurance reduction SO's. That lets him run: FB (6 EndRx), Dispersion Bubble (1 EndRx), Tactics (0 EndRx), Manuvers (1 EndRx). If I turn on Super Speed with 1 EndRx in it, I start to lose endurance.

Pretty scary, let me tell ya!

I PM'd this info to Venomm, but I figured I'd share it here as well:

I ran some tests on Force Bubble ... and let me tell you, this sucker makes Phase Shift look like Combat Jumping!

With no enhancements slotted, this bad boy sucked my FF Defender slave's endurance dry in 39 seconds in one test, 40 in another. This is WITH Stamina (enhancements removed), by the way.

I also did some testing with Stone Armour, but some silly person cast Speed Boost on me towards the end of a 10+ minute test. Since it was after 2 AM I figured I'd try it again later ... and then I realized we don't have confirmed costs on some other Stone Armor toggles. I will wait until he levels some more so I can use power pools to isolate individual Stone Armor toggle powers.

Wonderful, wonderful thread ... thanks for all the work, everyone!!