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Constipated -- You've sat through the longest task forces in the game!

Seriously, I'd like a badge for never having been defeated. It would go away upon any defeat for any reason. This would be useful for "hardcore" characters.

Are you sure about that? My Spines/Dark Scrapper seems able to ignore multiple Sappers...they do knock down his endurance, but not completely...and he has negligible defense (Steadfast 3% and Combat Jumping).

No kidding. I got a level 50 Posi proc the other night, and I remember being able to unload those for 5-7 million. Checked the market and there were 257 languishing in inventory and the last 5 had sold for 1,000 to 1,200.

Hey, I like that!

Yeah, but it'll be the best-selling paid expansion of all time!

The whole thing will probably be ruined by Chinese silicone farmers.

Wellllllll...I'm sure opinions vary, and I like my own Stone/Fire Tanker, but IMHO Stone is both so strong defensively and so limited in offense and mobility that I kind of feel like it's not as good a candidate for Incarnate bonuses. No matter what you do for offense, that same change would be MORE effective on a non-Granite, and it hardly needs any defensive buffing.

But my thoughts went to Tankers first myself, so I get that oart.

That's you? I see that character in WW on Guardian a lot.

I'm going to add "Cursing," which is a third technique in which the Tanker runs into a spawn, and while he waits a second for it to cluster around him more closely, a Peacebringer blows the spawn to the four winds, widely scattering them across the room.

Optionally, a Controller now immobilizes them in their new positions.

However, the Ghost Slaying Axe is really good for slaying ghosts, who tend to resist the negative damage from Sands of Mu. So if you already have a functioning attack chain, or are veteran enough to pick up both Sands AND the axe, it's very good for dealing with nasty COT ghosts.

Well, my teammates "work with [my] character's existing power sets."

Ah. Well, they've certainly muddied the waters terminologically. If they aren't global set bonuses but are bonuses to your entire character (and thus "global") they really ought to specifically up-front SAY "they aren't global set bonuses" in that announcement.

Just relying on the official word so far, if it wasn't for the clarifications you guys have made here (assuming, of course, those clarifications are correct), I wouldn't have the faintest idea how these things actually work.

But...global healing bonus doesn't affect Healing Flames because it gives resistance (in this case, to Toxic).

Apparently I completely misunderstood the math. I saw "+20% global resistance" and "x above the cap" and concluded, "Hell, the resistance cap is 90%. My Fire Tanker is already at 70.2% s/l resistance...this will take her to 90%!!!"

But that's wrong, I take it, from what I'm seeing here?

To clarify, AAO already taunts, even unslotted. A Taunt enhancement just extends the duration of the Taunt effect. And for one slot, I'd consider the (long) duration good enough and put end reduction into that slot instead.

I used to see a ton of Ice/Axe Viking-themed Tankers runnig around, but not so many these days.

If that's true, you were looking at the best possible items in the game. So your question isn't about casual players or even serious players, it's really "what is the extreme high end game supposed to be like? how hard should it be to get the hardest to get things? will this game be easily 'finished' or are there long-term things to work toward?"

I guess the answer to that depends on individual taste. But bear in mind that you're looking at the tip-top-extreme case...once someone has done that, they've really wrung a lot out of the game system.

Let's reverse your logic for a moment. Let's say I want the best house money can buy, and I make a post demanding that YOU (yes, you, Blue_Centurion) sell it to me for whatever I feel I can afford...or work as a laborer building it for me. How do you feel about that? Are you ready to let ME set the price for YOUR efforts?

Err... Just to the Tier 1 Tanker attack only, not "all" Tanker attacks.

Might also help to acquire this Day Job badge and charge it up before your prestige farming runs.

This part I don't get. What does "worked a bit like Heightened Senses from WP" mean? As far as I know, Heightened Senses provides some defense and +perception...but SR already has Focused Senses, which provides +perception and more defenses.

Between FS and Elude and the fact that the game gives you full defense even when attacked from behind, think you could simluate Spider Sense well enough.

And I agree with others that Super Jump is roughly analogous to web-swinging...except the parabola is upside-down, a frown instead of a smile, if you see what I mean. I'd also give him Jump Kick for flavor -- Spidey does a lot of crouching and hopping in battle.


I'd add the Scrapper Mastery set Darkness Mastery -- it has a hold and an immobilize that could help give the feel of webbing...the tentacles are even fibrous in a way. Just define it as little tech devices in your concept/origin story; you don't need to take Weapons Mastery.

MA (using some of the new animations)/SR/Jumping Pool/Dark Mastery Scrapper.