SerialBeggar

I'll got the 3 day pass, so I'll be around.

I use Grant Invis on my FFGen. It is useful when I go in first to drop the Poison Gas Trap or Acid Mortar so the FFGen doesn't pre-aggro everybody.

In regards the Noble_Savage's thoughts on Hamidon (I didn't read everything between his post and here), the one thing that always bugged me is that Hami's interior jelly does not have different physics. Hami's jelly is a different medium, presumably more viscous. You shouldn't be able to just run/jump/fly into him and not be affected in some way.

For this hypothetical example, I propose that when you enter Hami, you will encounter either a -movement effect field or Hami's interior is considered water. I prefer the water treatment myself, especially it is the submersible and swimmable water like that in the Cimeroran mission cave chamber. This will have the side benefit to the non-flying meleers being able to swim up to a mito without having to do hop-attacks.

Drain Psyche is my suicide button.

Dual_Hammer sounds like he really hasn't spent much time playing with his characters to know how to respond to you.

If I know what I know now when I made my Emp Defender, who was my 2nd played character, I would choose to go with Ice blasts. This is due to Ice having 2 holds which means soloing bosses or any mezzing enemy would have been trivial.

Instead I had taken Energy blasts back then and that was due to me only having an Energy blaster as my first played character so I was somewhat familiar with the set. It was fine when I was teaming, but not so good for soloing. The epiphany that Energy blast just wasn't good enough came to me one day as I was staring at a trio of Rikti, one of which was a Mentalist or Mezmerist boss. They were the first spawn group in the mission. I stared at them for several minutes and I could not come up with an attack plan that wouldn't require me to use a lot of my inspirations. All that for just the first group, so what was I going to do for the rest of the mission? Exit to buy more after every couple of groups? It took a year and a half to learn new tactics along with 3 respecs (SO builds only back then) to get to a point where I was confident that I could solo almost any regular enemy type.

While I am a better player now because of all this, Ice's 2 holds would have made things so much easier!

Did you talk to Arbitor Rein(?) standing at the ramp leading to the doors to the Arachnos building?

Sonic Attack's sleep power Siren's Song does damage along with the sleep. It had gotten me killed the first time I tested it out (on a bunch of AVs ). I guess a +placate would go well here.

There is already a confirmation prompt for when you're placing an enhancement. If you're not seeing it, check your Options, you may have disabled it at some point. Note: I don't think it takes into consideration if you're placing your new enhancement over an existing slotted one. It just ask: are you sure you want to slot the enhancement now.

FYI: Double XP postponed to August 11-14

...yet.

What's the incubation period?

Does your global name have a space? I recall reading someone else having a problem and it was due to them assuming they had to use an underscore instead of a real space character for the space.

Three days of trying and I'm still getting this:

The Promotions page still doesn't work for me.

The Promotions page gives me this:

I see that you've already made your Ice blaster, so I'm a little late to the party. I was going to suggest making an Ice/Mental Manip. I've been playing a Fire/MM lately and after I'd gotten a good feel on the */MM powers, I immediately thought that */MM would pair well with Ice/*.

Ice's AOEs are lackluster (not counting Blizzard) and */MM offers 2 additional AOEs. One is a cone that will fit right in with Ice's cone for a quick double blast. The other is a fairly short radius PBAOE, but it's quick to recharge and nice to use if you get surrounded. I always found my Ice blast characters (blaster, corrupter, defender) were endurance hungry and */MM has a +regen/+recov power to help. And as a bonus, this power also does -regen on enemies which is nice if you wind up on team lacking in debuffs for an AV or GM.