Sailboat

Yeah, the pre-crafted IOs are cheaper than the recipes juuuuust often enough that I usually bother to check both when buying anything significant.

Yeah, it's only the single "freespec" you can have at any one time that can be used by typing /respec into the chat window. The veteran respecs have to be used at the respec contacts (Lupin in Nerva or Jack Wolfe in Galaxy, depending on whether you're villainside of heroside, respectively.

Respectfully,

Sailboat

Boom-de-ah-da.

Only tangentially related, but not worth a new thread. I noticed this weekend that Psionic Threat Reports (heroside) were going for 100,000 even though they're white salvage -- and more to the point, there were only two of them for sale. I had 2 in my inventory, so I threw them up for 500,000, five times the going rate.

Returned in a few hours to find mine had sold for 500,000 each and now 87 were in the market going for 2,000-10,000.

I had also put two Titanium Shards (yellow salvage) on the market, just to push them out of my inventory. They were selling for 20,000 with one at 50,000; I put them up for 21,000 just to keep them above the hypothetical flipper's acquisition price and theoretically expose them to the bids of casual shoppers. I sold one of them for 150,000, and the other for 7.5 million (probably an entry error).

I really want to be able to turn off the faint glow and downdraft from Jump pool toggles. If I leave Combat Jumping active, I have some kind of animation flowing constantly from my fists (why the fists?) while standing there. It's irritating that I can remove the FX from many primary and secondary powers entirely, but the pools.

Fire can already fight and not die to some degree. If you throw in tough, weave, and combat jumping, and the 3% Steadfast global defense IO, you're partway there already. Maybe throw Smashing Haymakers into your ST melee attacks and Multistrikes into the PBAoEs until you can afford better, grab Hasten, and head out to earn cash?

The most recent patch improved Fiery Embrace in PVP, of all things:

• Fiery Aura Fiery Embrace will no longer cause Travel Suppression in PVP

Maybe that's nature's way of saying you should make a Fire Tanker for PVP? It's not defense-based, it doesn't rely on saturation by multiple surrounding foes, unlike Dark its heal works even if an enemy moves out of proximity (and it's a pretty good heal) and it will usually have two build-up-like powers for burst damage (Fiery Embrace and whatever the build-up equivalent is from your secondary).

What server? If it's on Guardian....

Whichever way you go, once you get medium levels of defense (and you'll have medium levels of resistance naturally since you're Dark Armor), you'll find that you now have time to use Dark Regen better. You can avoid breaking up combos, you have more leisure to wait instead of frantically stabbing it every time it's up, and you can dedicate more attention to your attacks and less to trying not to "fumble Dark Regen and die."

I find my approach thoroughly mixed on this issue. Since getting the City Traveler badge and Ninja Run, I have made some characters completely travel-power-less and others with no prerequisite and others with normal prerequisite and travel power and even some with the travel power from one pool and a prerequisite from another pool (like Flight and Combat Jumping, in one kind of weird case).

I like being able to ditch the travel power pick in theory, but I also like having a travel power, so I often take it anyway. Further complicating the mix is the odd fact that I also like each of the travel powers. I use Teleport, Flight, Super Jumping, Super Speed, or Ninja Run pretty much depending on concept.

So far I have not found that City Traveler caused me to abandon anything; it's more that it opened up flexibility to make my stable of characters even more diverse.

I feel like I always get good names. I recently wandered over to a more-populated server to join some friends, decided to make a Fire/Dark Tanker, wanted an exotic name that evoked smoke and flame, and tried a few variations before blundering into Djinni. That's right, not Flame Djinni or <Color> Djinni, but the root word itself, a single-word superhero name, spelled correctly. The whole episode took about three minutes of thinking and entering names.

edit: And the definition of Djinni is "a spirit of smoke and flame."

Another vote against Combat Jumping: Ninja Run gives a higher jump for clearing obstacles, so really all you'd be getting is the defense, which is mostly irrelevant, since you do have decent debuff resistance. Also, CJ and Ninja Run are mutually exclusive; toggling one on turns off the other, which is a mild annoyance.