Sailboat

Been adventuring again as an Iron Eagle. Zulu Time is now 30(!) and humming along. He ran with fellow Eagle Genkan (from the old SG) to get there.

A trio of us played later in the week, and I got Djinni back up to 8 or so. We finally ran the Frostfire that had been interrupted when Justice crashed, and threw in a few Hollows missions for good measure. I'm going a slightly different route with Dark Melee this time, skipping Smite for Consume. We'll see how it works.

Today I came to Justice after a Guardian crash and took Zulu Time out for another spin. While streeting, got invited to a big PUG run by a Fire/Kin with an unimaginative name, set at +2 difficulty.

Heh.

Sounds bad, right?

Sure enough, first mission is Lost, who are at +3 above me. Cave mission. In the first big room, the Inv Tanker aggros a ton of purple Lost bosses and...buys it. One by one, we go down...sometimes in pairs.

Zulu Time, however, was doing fine. When it was down to just three of eight of us, the bosses turned their full psionic fury on me...and I ate a large purple, and fell back up the tunnel, with my teammates screaming "RUN!!!!"

Got clear, teamported everyone to me, and we went in again.

Again, we're falling like bowling pins on League Night.

I had actually taken some damage, so I hit two inspirations this time, and we fell back with two survivors -- and I was one of them.

This was a team with several Blasters and a Trick Arrow Defender and it seemed to be weak on durability and team buffs. The team added a Bubbler (yay!) and then did a Safeguard and defeated Silver Mantis without too much danger, but while looking for the badge I saw a lot of names go red and white, and someone trained a bunch of big purple things toward me and said "I'm out!", and exited.

So I hit the exit button too.

After that, the team decided to got run a Freakshow arc set to +2. I, however, had had enough Deep Purple for the afternoon, especially if everyone was still able to die while bubbled, so I made my polite farewells and escaped with my life.

In fairness to the team, no one told me how to play or minded that I let the tank take point, and they seemed like fine, if occasionally dead, people.

More soon!

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Is this my own particular Hell, or are others having this issue as well?

There's also that infamous difference between theory and practice. While theory says that Scrappers can be tough enough to take on anything and some of them can even hold aggro, actual play heroside will, if one plays more difficult missions at higher difficulties, show many situations where even an "invincible" Scrapper gets defeated and the team crumbles. Tankers fall too, and of course can be played badly; but surprisingly often the addition of a solid Tanker will turn a frustrated struggling rabble into a smoothly-operating machine.

That can't be right.

Doesn't seem to appear in the description or when in inventory; just in the market window. Persists if I remove it from market and re-add it.

Can't find a decent online citation, but The Tick had a minor character called Hand Grenade Man, who, when asked what superpowers he had, said in a slightly crazy way, something to the effect of: "I have a hand grenade. It's surprising how differently people treat you when they know you have one."

Several of my characters have been keeping and crafting hand grenade recipes, and I keep wanting to say the line in chat.

How about a chest emblem slider? So we can make that lion or cross or moon different sizes. It wouldn't change the item, just scale it up or down within a range. We already get a miniature one on jackets.

I like mine a lot. The damage feels pretty good when you're supplementing it with AAO from Shields. I found that the knockdown from Axe took a lot of the pressure off to soft-cap the Shields defense totals; I was doing just fine at 32-35% defense, even on large teams, and only bothered to soft-cap out of a sense of completeness.

So I feel like there's pretty good synergy between the two sets.

What server? Justice and at least one other went down last night, and I read that Freedom is down now. Maybe your server crashed...?

Yeah. I am sporting 20% global recharge (that's not factored into the numbers above) and planning to up that to 30% if my bids come in. In my experience, global recharge tends to make small differences in recharge slotting even smaller...but that's not a lot of global recharge.

I guess one way of looking at it is, will I take 27 more damage in that extra 0.4 seconds waiting for the first option to recharge?

I realized I could slot different pieces of the Doctored Wounds set into my Fire/Fire Tanker's Healing Flames to get the following effects:

Yeah. My Shield Scrapper has 65% DDR, without stacking AD and without any HOs -- that's just baseline power picks and slotting (it does include Grant Cover).

To give a rough example of how effective that is, my Invulnerability Tanker has a flat 50% DDR and has stood alone on an 8-player ITF during the Dark Dwarf ambushes, getting hammered by defense-debuffing Cimerorans and attacked by negative energy (to which his resistance is questionable). With a little cushioning, 50% DDR works fine. And Shields is substantially better than that. With no effort. On Scrappers.

Edit: I must caveat that I checked, and the 65% DDR is on a Tanker, after all. I don't know if similarly-enhanced Scrapper numbers are lower. Apologies for the error.

Mace has better AoE -- (a wider cone and Crowd Control affects 10 enemies vs Axe's Pendulum affecting 5). That said, Axe does somewhat more damage with its heavy hitters, and the knockdown is consistent (not mixed with stuns). They are extremely close sets otherwise. In your case, one additional element to consider is that the consistent knockdown of Axe is pretty good mitigation which Inv may not really need.

I usually recommend that a player look at the custom weapon options and choose based on the pretty pictures. :P Perhaps you could rough out a concept for each combo you are considering -- Inv/Mace, Inv/Axe, Dark/Mace, Dark/Axe (or what have you) and see if any particular look/story/concept "hooks" you.

I have a 50 Shield/Axe Tanker and greatly enjoy him...except for the nagging feeling when Pendulum only knocks down 5 guys. I have a level 17-18 Shield/Mace who gets a little work every few days and will one day get to use his cones. :P

Edit: I also have an Invulnerability Tanker at 50, and I want to add that he's usually my go-to guy when facing the really nasty hard content. I enjoy Inv a lot more than I expected I would, coming from a Defender/Controller background.

I regularly support knockback-users in threads complaining about knockback, and make a deliberate effort to work with any combination of ATs and powers...but the few times even I get annoyed by someone repeatedly blowing the entire spawn away from my Tanker just before everyone wastes their AoEs, it's almost always a Peacebringer doing it.

A little unclear on what's being said here. Is it not recharging in actual game time at the rate it should with Quickness, or is the recharge listed in the power information just not showing the Quickness bonus? As far as I know, if I put 70% recharge into a power, the detailed power description will show a projected recharge time for that 70% but that display does not include outside buffs such as Hasten, Quickness, and global recharge bonuses. When such bonuses are present, the power recharges even faster than that display indicates (which is as it should be).


When you say something like "this is what I am seeing," it doesn't tell me whether you're seeing it on a stopwatch you're holding while in-game, or on the detailed power info tab, or in the Combat Monitor window, or in Mids, or what.