Sailboat

If he's killing everything before you can shoot, your difficulty is too low.

Raise the difficulty. This will both slow down his killing speed and tend to put more pressure on his defenses. Let him continue to jump in first and get aggro with that good Shield taunt aura. Then pick off the bad guys he's already wounded, rinse, and repeat.

Even if we do, some pinhead will use Rain of Fire and wake it back up.

It's knockdown, but it's also extremely deadly, so a lot of things will be dead and it won't matter where the bodies fall!

Eh, if the game were real life (big assumption, I know), no one would be thinking, "If I move around the building, maybe my enemy will get hooked on the geometry or step outside an active spawn zone and not realize his powers aren't working, and will let me beat him up." Unless maybe the enemy is a dog wearing an Invisible Fence collar.

And that's what the "outside the box" thinking is here -- typical MMO fiddling with map locations and aggro ranges to thwart a game mechanic in some way. To me, it feels more like taking advantage of the limits of computing than being a clever superhero.

Yeah, that.

Mind has a very nice single-target attack chain, which is a big boost to soloing.

Okay then, I take back my complaint about your complaint that you took back.

Hrm. I vaguely recall hearing something about having too many story arcs open preventing...uh...something from happening...maybe it was tips dropping. Do you have a lot of story arcs started? Check for the little page/book symbol in the contact list.

I would totally pay more in order to get to pick the level.

Well, Tankers do more damage than Defenders, some Controllers, and dead Blasters.

No, you will be able to add slots to them just like you can add slots to Brawl. Anything from the default slot to six slots. The OP is complaining about not getting EVEN MORE slots so he can slot Stamina they way he's used to and have new slots for the powers he wants to take in place of the Fitness pool. For some reason a lot of people have looked this particular gift horse in the mouth.


Yes, you can take new powers in place of the Fitness pool, but you'll have to find slots for any slotting you want to add to them beyond the default slot.

Your mention of PVP is speculation that it was changed because of PVP IO farming, not a statement that "I'm talking about targeting players in PVP." My telepathy was on the fritz at the time, so I went by what you wrote, not what you meant. Sorry!

Uh...this reasoning has constantly been posted in argument after argument on this topic for years. I have a hard time believing this is an issue you personally have revisited time and again and yet you've never seen that answer.

That's like mugging someone on payday.

What's a "buyout option?" Are you talking about paying extra to force the game to sell a recipe even if there are zero for sale? I think the point of having an auction house and items that drop by scarcity is that you can't really force something to be for sale; you are supposed to buy what other players put up for sale.

Note that you CAN use reward merits and alignment merits to force the game to give you a specific recipe at a specific level, they're just more scarce than cash.

I'm not sure if it's a tab at the top or by right-mousing, but every recipe will show you its ingredients, and every ingredient will show you what recipes it's used in, and unless you've turned off the option, every time you try to sell an item it will warn you if it's needed for a recipe you own. Also each set recipe in the auction house lists its ingredients, what it enhances, and its set bonuses. So there is some help in the game if you look around.

It's true that ingredients stored in the vault won't appear on the list of ingredients you already have in inventory, but my solution to that is to use the vault strictly for the rares (orange salvage). I buy, find, or spend/gamble AE tickets for the white and yellow stuff, then when I am down to just needing some orange salvage, I check the vault while I have the recipes on me, and I can eyeball each recipe and see what I need to yank out of my vault without needing to write anything down. Then it's back to the auction house or AE vendor to grab any orange salvage I didn't have in my vault.

No, definitely keep PB. It covers knockback but a bunch of other stuff too. It wouldn't hurt you to have the -knb IO from BOTZ if you do need the set bonus, but I'd ditch the other two.

Cobra Strike and Crane Kick (the one that does knockback) are identical in damage, animation time, and recharge now, so you can pretty much substitute one for the other. It should work fine for you to skip Crane and take the powers you have...depending on your recharge. I'm not an attack chain guru myself, and I'm currently struggling with which attacks to chain together for my own MA Scrapper, but aside from Thunder Kick they're all pretty good.

I noticed just now you don't have Dragon's Tail, your only AoE. Is that an oversight or intentional?