Santorican

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Oh yes you are

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

In all capacities.

Originally Posted by John_Printemps

This may be the epitome of my own emotion towards the level shift. Worked through a Statie TF last night, was chugging along smoothly and with minimal effort on my KM/SR. We started hopping Security Chiefs and I dove off separate from the team for a moment and caught a lag spike, when I caught up with the server again, I found myself flattened and the only thing I could think:

Is this really what it takes to kill me? Lag? Can the game provide no greater challenge?

And I haven't even slotted the rare yet, still sitting at UC level, as I've been debating the change. Ultimately I will probably make the shift, but I almost feel as if I'll regret it, if something else doesn't come along that says "you gotta have this."

Originally Posted by Ozmosis

Ummm, is that a wolf head on the costume creator screen? Where did that come from?

Originally Posted by _Elektro_

Your Alpha slotting. Did you go with Spiritual or Musculature?

I think if I can recall you were leaning towards Spiritual. My blaster is going Musculature, but so far I only have the common Spiritual in my DM/Shield.

Originally Posted by _Elektro_

Did you stick with recharge or go damage?

Originally Posted by Nihilii

I hope they don't introduce enemies over level 54. I much prefer creative difficulty like in AE (custom mobs designed to be hard) or Apex than plain number power increase bringing us back to square one.

Originally Posted by Mr_Grumpums

I use Concealment for my Archery/Kin Corrupter in order to allow him to zip through groups that he wouldn't be able to handle solo, and Phase Shift has saved his life several times over.

I'm surprised that people are bringing up Concealment before the Presence pool.

Originally Posted by SuperOz

And I really mean it this time. Cyclone Yasi is about to hit our coast...in about five hours, local time. And when I say it's a monster, it is genuinely no understatement. We are deeply fortnuate it's not hitting the southeast of the state in which I live, but I still have grave fears for a lot of people.

To give you a sense of the scale....

http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news...from=public_js

That's what Yasi would do to the US and other places. And we still have at least a month and three more probable cyclones to go....


S.

Originally Posted by Anti_Proton

I have been wondering about this since the whole "Well of.." thing started. We know that Statesman is the avatar of Zeus and Recluse of Tartarus and we know, from the comics at least, that these entities existed. My question is where do they fit in now? Are they simply past incarnates? Or are they something else completely?

Originally Posted by cursedsorcerer

Incarnate content could also be role-played as evolution.

Originally Posted by Eva Destruction

I have a full set of Obliteration in mine. Too many Chief Soldiers tend to, you know, kill me, especially if they're 54, I have to grab 52 and 53 Chief Soldiers and first I have to find them, kill the Mentalists and guardians and keep them from deaggroing and despawning. Gathering everything up takes longer than killing the pylon itself.

On a happier note, I too have the power. At least, assuming there isn't a rollback (which would make me ), we finished five minutes before the announcement popped up. Then I immediately changed my difficulty to +2. I hereby propose we start a "Turn Up Your Damn Difficulty" campaign. Even-cons are chumps. They were chumps even before we got to be +1, and bringing a full team to fight them is much like asking the Freedom Phalanx to help you beat up those Hellions over there.

Originally Posted by golden girl

if we didn't know better, it might almost seem like the devs knew what they were doing.

Originally Posted by _Elektro_

I guess I'm going back to my Dark Melee/Shield scrapper.

As I noted in my 'double XP weekend' thread, I looked, and looked. Dare I say it? Dare I say that DM/Shield is so far, IMHO, the most 'powerful' feeling scrapper?

I'm sure that will P.O. some folk who love their toons, and maybe rightfully so. I have played just above every combo I can think. Every primary -except- KM to at least 30, if not 40 or even 50. Some have different 'angles' or surivivability, or trickster type doofus stuff. But for RAW power, with a dose of survivability, I still can't beat my DM/Shield.

I did try a Shield tank and I don't like it nearly as much. To me it is a beautiful scrapper tool. But that being said I really, really did try to like something else. And after 2 days of grinding up toons that I hadn't tried, I really just confirmed the DM/Shield guy. I think you can even make a 'so-so' DM/Shield build and it's going to do very respectable.

I really haven't chased incarnate stuff with my scrapper. To be honest I have blown will into 2 billion hard earned influence on my Blaster, but not my scrapper. So now I'm looking at the best route to go (minus purples as usual, because I just get those, when... I get them.)

So I'm back to tweaking this guy, but I'm now somehow going to shoot for 50% and above defense on positional stuff.

Originally Posted by Sir_Lionheart

I think a good starter build if you're new to Scraps is Kat/WP.

Kat is not really heavy on PBAoE, but does have 1 PBAoE, 1 wide cone, and 1 small/medium cone, which isn't bad. Divine Avalanche is also a great bonus for early level survivability, which is good b/c you will undoubtedly jump into situations that will be more than can initially handle.

WP is a nice overall set that is good from start to finish, whereas a number of other secondaries are more late-blooming. It provides layered defenses which is always useful.