Sailboat

So the extra fire damage from Fiery Embrace is itself increased (multiplied) by your enhancements, build up, and inspirations?

That's wicked.

That's a great name.

It's worth noting that Spin, the PBAoE in the Claws set, is the best melee PBAoE by a wide margin. Fire Sword Circle does a little more damage but recharges more than twice as long -- you can do 2 Spins and have time left over. And Spin is end-efficient.

Scrappers don't get Combustion, Fiery Melee's only other PBAoE. So /Fire Scrappers are basically just spamming Fire Sword Circle for most of their AoE, and they're always cited as having "fantastic" AoE. Since Spin is better, faster, and cheaper by itself...AND the set has other area attacks...it follows that Claws must be a better than fantastic area attack set.

Well, what I was getting at is it's ironic and frustratingly stupid.

It's more than ironic. That's what people went to Freedom for -- the crowds. Please be happy about the queues or else relax with a tall, cold glass of Shut Up.

Wouldn't work anyway. The store is down, and with that all slots you've ever bought...and the Vet reward slots...I think every slot beyond the basic 12...is locked. Can't delete, create, or whatever. No access to those slots.

The forums are full of posts on variations of this problem. I'm not blaming you for not knowing, it's a bizarre restriction indeed, but it happens each and every time the in-game store is offline. I do wish they'd make an announcement, though, so everyone would have a chance at knowing this; it must be very annoying to not know.

All you can do is /bug it, and wait. And if you don't get the name back, I'd write to support and complain.

Play a Scrapper. Modern tanks are vulnerable to handheld missiles, helicopters, aircraft, mines, and a variety of specialized penetrators. They compensate for their lower durability by mobility, camouflage, and the use of sensors to hit first.

Scrappers are tough, like a modern battle tank, but not invincibly tough -- and neither is a modern battle tank. And Scappers pack a punch.

Modern battle tanks are not expected to repel all attacks with their armor and they are not used that way.

If you're solo (i.e., not powerleveling anyone) why is it important to rip through +2/+3 missions? Can't you set the difficulty down to +0 and rip through even faster?

You'll get to 50 on +0 missions pretty fast these days anyway.

The +level missions are an attempt by the Devs to provide a challenge for people who want some fights they don't sleep through. The urge to make builds that will trivialize +3 or more difficulty just leads to complaints that the game is too easy.

This was terrible, awful, embarrassing, and stupid game design. It meant that ONLY Tanks were superheroes. Everyone else cowered behind them, and even attempting to attack or use a power resulted in instant death for any non-Tanker AT unless the Tanker said it was okay.

Superheroes don't need permission from their "betters" to fight. The modern, current system seems to work just fine if you turn up the difficulty far enough.

Besides, this is chasing a standard that can never be met. Follow this thought experiment with an open mind:

If we increase the number of baddies and the threat but still do not defeat the Tanker, we're right where we are now -- the Tanker's durability isn't stressed to the breaking point.

If we increase it further and the Tanker now needs help (buffs) to survive, the other great perpetual Tanker forum complaint thread will spring to life: "Tankers shouldn't need any outside help to do their jobs!"

One state or the other will exist. Either your Tanker falls down or he doesn't. Tanker people will be unhappy either way. But in the current paradigm, other ATs get to play too and Tankers still get to show off how tough they are.

It's win-win.

I remain convinced, from the comments I heard in the old days and from every nostalgia thread, that the "herding the entire map while everyone else waits" thing is 100% an ego thing. It's cool -- if (and only if) you're the Tanker.

edit: Also, run some real (non-farm) AE content. There's some really hard-hitting custom stuff in there that will challenge Tankers with teams.

Yeah, just "turn into the skid" and hang on.

I've met someone who explained this choice by saying that Knockout Blow is nice, but it isn't available often enough to suit him, so he turned it into a set mule. "Yeah," I pointed out, "Now it's never available."

Although it's all-but-impossible to figure out from the format of RedTomax's Powerset Quantification (because Rain of Arrows summons a "pseudo-pet" to do its damage, I was under the impression that the "true nukes" do more damage in their burst (although not necessarily DPS). I'm sure ROA doesn't do 1000 damage, though.

I've never had a high-level Fire Blaster to compare, however.

Now, I could see an argument that ROA does enough damage to achieve the same effect, and Inferno is all overkill. And I'm not arguing the "true nukes" are as desirable...IMHO a power one can only use occasionally and that carries a big penalty seems like it's as likely to frustrate players as it is to make them happy.

Yeah, I've seen the office building maps, and they have nothing to do with any kind of plan.

Yes, keeping it synchronized with Build Up's recharge is important to me. Seriously, if they recharged at very different rates, I'd have a much harder time deciding when to use either one. Both together kind of makes up my mind for me.

To be honest, it IS a nice arrow.

Seriously though, if a 1.83-second activation meant the enemy was dead for 2 seconds before your arrow went off, adjusting the arrow speed to 1.0 seconds won't help, will it?

A Lamborghini Diablo starts at zero mph with the parking brake on. But it's still cool.