SerialBeggar

Hmmm. If Fusionette has been fighting Rikti exclusively for all this time, perhaps she's now overly specialized? Whereas Flambeaux has had to deal with a wide assortment of heroes. Given time, if she survives , she could conceivably develop to be a better fighter.

I'm drawing a blank. Who's that at the back, left corner of the casket, between Numina and Brawler?

On large teams, especially high level teams, most players tend to initiate their attacks with a massed AOE barrage. Usually after the Tank or whoever is "tanking" goes in or the Controller/Dominator contains the spawn group, but not necessarily. Anyway, the purpose of the massed AOEs it to immediately eliminate the minions in the group and maybe most of the lieutenants. Then they'd follow up with dealing with the boss and other leftovers with single target attacks. You will notice that the experienced players may seem particularly aggressive in rushing to the next spawn groups. That's because they want to be able to acquire a target in prep for the AOEing before "everything dies". So like Fulmens says, newer players who aren't of this speedy mindset may see themselves as not contributing as much because you're just slower to get react and to get into position. Don't worry about it. As long as you're seen as participating, most teams won't even notice.

In addition, you're playing a Traps secondary which involves setting up your stuff. Unfortunately, which you may not have time to do with everyone rushing around. I strongly suggest that you pick up Grant Invisibility and Stealth from the Concealment power pool. Stealth so you can sneak in close a few seconds ahead of the team so you can start laying down your stuff. Note: if you can, try to get a +stealth IO or Superspeed to double stack the stealth effect and thus become effectively invisible (Superspeed has a stealth component). Grant Invis so you can make your Force Field Generator invisible, otherwise all the enemies will notice it wandering up to them as it follows you in and start shooting at it and then, you. On fast teams, you may only be able to lay down one trap at a time. I usually alternate Acid Mortar and Poison Gas Trap between spawns. Note for each, just add in recharges before anything else so they're available quicker.

In terms of slotting priorities your powers, for anything that needs to hit (like attacks), I always start off with 2 Accuracy enhancements (of the best type you have access to). You'll just be wasting your endurance if you can't hit. If you're running out of endurance even after Stamina is slotted up, add a slot for 1 endurance reduction on your attacks. After that, then whatever enhancements for whatever that power is for, damage, holds, etc.

As for priorities in slot allocation (ie when you level up), I always put the first few into at the first 2 attacks so they're good enough for you to at least get through your missions solo. After that, slot up any powers that will aid your survivability (FFGen in your case), then any that will aid in your team mates' survivability if you're playing a heavy support powerset (like those that cast shields on allies or heals). Of course, somewhere in between, slot up Stamina (don't put it off too long). Then slot up whatever powers you get as you go. You may want to check some guides on your powersets to get an idea of what powers are of particular importance so you give them a little extra priority in getting slots.


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I just want to emphasize that as a Traps player, once you get higher level and have more of your bread and butter Traps available, if your play style is anything like mine, you will want to get to the next spawn way ahead of the Tank/Brute/Scrapper/Controller/Dominator. Acid Mortar can briefly "tank" for you and Poison Gas Trap can hold the entire group. Then you're free to unload your Dual Pistol AOEs with low risk and you can probably take out most of the spawn group by the time the rest of the team catches up.

Just a general reminder: email is not a safe place to store valuables for any length of time more than for a quick transfer. The email server has crashed a few times in the past and each time many people found that all their outstanding or saved emails were wiped out. While the GMs were able to restore their lost attachments, why bother with the hassle?

I have one of my infrequently played characters casually working the level 30 Razzle Dazzles. I only check in on the character once a week, so I can't really say how well the Razzle Dazzles moves, but I'm usually sold out. I only have a couple of each piece on sale at a time, though. Most of the pieces in the set are selling for about 10 million and the cost to craft is maybe 1.5 million because of the rare salvage needed. I price mine at a little over 8 million. The proc cost more because it needs 2 rare salvages, but is returning 25+ million at times. The only cheapo is the non-rare of the set, but it still brings in 2-4 million at times. The recipes are fairly cheap and easy to get, less than 100K, except for the proc because people have noticed its crafted sell price. As a cheapskate, I low ball the recipes though, so my inventory isn't being refresh by a lot.

Trials are the only time I don't even bother clearing out my inventory first, but you're saying you get a lot of drops from them? I always assumed my low drop rate was due to the larger distribution spread of the league.

Yeah, I always go to RedTomax's info if I want to quickly eyeball a powerset.

Well, he could have just done the /chatload right away or take the scenic route by going to:
Menu-->General tab-->(scroll to the bottom)-->Chat-->click the [load default file] button
(this assumes the default chat layout wasn't already screwed up)