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Meh. Any good server global channel is full already anyways, so you wont get in unless you are already a member.

They really gotta do something about the 2500 global limit for those channels- theres never more then 200 people on at once, yet the channel capacity is set to 2500 globals no matter how many are on at any time.

So people who havent played in years are probably taking up half the old global channels space, and newer players and those moving to new servers have no space to join.

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I guess by 41 they've lost the vision they started with and are more interested in power.

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UNLIMITED POWAAAAA!!1!

It happens to the best of them.

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So...who is the current voice actor?

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Fran Drescher

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If thier intent with IOs is allow people to reach softcap type numbers, they really need to throw alot more +res IOs out there. If not, then unfort. they need to take a look at taking out alot of the +def.

Just my observations...

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If you thought ED and GDN were bad, the amount of /RAGEQUIT people would unleash after a IO nerf like that would be equally catastrophic.

I'm sure they will add some sets in the future that address the need for more +res.

This is the only option really.

Between the choice of respeccing multiple toons 8 times each to remove all the +def IO sets or leaving the game due to the prospect of having to buy/do all those respecs, im sure many people would just take the latter option.

Wholesale nerfs like that just dont sit with most people who put that much work into their characters.

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Who else was expecting a follow up to LISAR's
"ME!" thread? Be honest.

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Expecting? no. Just hoping.

QR Another benefit of kick is slotting kinetic crash for the KB protection and 7.5% recharge - very useful on /fire armor brutes.

Boxing you can slot with the purple stun , or stupefy sets for some recharge as well, or proc it out for fury building fun.

Im a recharge junkie on my brutes, so whatever gives the most recharge is usually what I use for these "throwaway" type powers.

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Snag a shivan

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Until they put the ability to get a Shivan in a non-PvP zone, snagging one isn't an option.

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Bloody Bay is a PVP zone?

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Last time I went into it, having been cajoled into it by a team with the promise of PvE missions, I got snagged by TP Foe shortly after zoning in and nearly ganked by another player. So, yes, definitely a PvP zone. Though it may be practically deserted these days, I won't chance it.

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LOL.

Because getting your pixels killed by someone elses pixels is the end of the World?

Eff that. Go gets you your shivans. so what if you get ganked a few times.

Trust me the Sun shall still rise.

The only reason to take fallout is the self-destruct/veng/fallout combo.

Gimmicky, but damn its funny if you can pull it off.

Other then that, theres really no reason to take fallout. Ever.

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Plus it keeps them nice n tight for the fireball/breath/rain AoE massacre you are about to lay on them.

Im pretty sure Ive gotten a second wedding band after my first ran out on a 50 by running steph's arc again through Oro.

So i wouldnt get too worked up over it unless this issue is for both flashback and normal mission variants of Steph's arc. youi can always go back and get it again through Oro if it bugs out on you in your normal arc- sounds like her not giving it only happens "sometimes" by the known issues quote.

Fire/Ice. Ice patch, shiver, fireball, firebreath, rain of fire... I think youll be fine late game.

Honestly fire/Ice is one of the more powerful PVE blaster builds due to the mitigations of /Ice combined with the burny death of Fire/

Soloing is a snap with this build from 1-50.

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Mine would be as far away as possible from yours.


...and women would have nipples.

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sounds like utopia.

At least someone still gets to play EM and have fun- too bad its an NPC.

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so iv have a few brutes, i have a elec/fairy aura lvl 40 and a ss/sd thats 38 or 39 and i had a ss/ fairy aura at one point that was fun i was wondering if /stone would be fun but i don't know what my primary would be any ideas?


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WTF is /Fairy Aura?

Sounds like you're already stoned.

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How do you complement a well played Trick Arrow Defender? I don't want to hear "nice heals" anymore. What does one say?

Good arrows?

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Nice fills.

Because it doesnt matter what they do- just that they are there.

But that counts for a well played or not well played anything.

All I need is the bodies.

I love fireworks. Time to unleash swarms of drones in the AE and go to town! weeeeeeeeeeee!

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I just logged in. Freespecs were granted today. I guess we can consider the "7 days notice" theory dead at this point.

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Yeah a little more then 3 days notice would have been really nice- especially when a monday launch is expected- weekend plans completely overtook any chance I might have had to do any respeccing after reading the announcement Friday night.

Respecs generally take me about an hour per toon, and that is with Mids. With people having 2 builds per toon, and multiple 50s for most every account, it really makes a week notice about the minimum I think we need to make respeccing the characters who need it workable.

I appreciate the freespec - in fact I appreciate them ALOT, but without some more notice they unfortunately nearly always go to waste.

It makes me sad to waste a gift.

Please give us a few more days and reissue the freespecs.

I'm sorry I thought I heard someone say BUMP

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1)is it still a good set?

2)What are the must have and the skippable powers?

3)Any slotting recommendations?


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1) You can take whirling hands if you want a pretty weak AoE, and hurl if you want some range, but neither are really spectacular.

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Hurl?
I think you're confusing EM/ with SS/. Unless im missing something here.

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Haha I have been playing my SS/fire brute too much before posting... yeah no hurl.

Other then that i still stand by my statements that EM is pretty boring nowdays.

You are right, child abuse is no laughing matter. Good riddance.

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You need:

-A headstrong, fearless leader who makes mistakes but overcomes them with teamwork and heart
-A quiet, brooding foil who challenges the leader when he makes mistakes and is always right beside him in combat
-A gruff but helpful veteran player who has the others in awe
-A brainiac with an IO'd out build who's done this TF a dozen times and knows all the best tactics- or thinks he does
-A slightly unhinged, wisecracking comic relief who's the only one trying to pay attention to the story
-A newbie tagalong who's never done a Task Force before and is likely to be the first one to hit the ground

But in my case, generally when I'm putting together a Task Force I couldn't afford to discriminate by build if I wanted to, I'll take what I can get.

And you know what? Those ragtag teams always succeed in the end.

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If you have a problem, no one else can help, and you can find them, maybe you can hire...The A-Team

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And all the little boys of the World can breathe a sigh of relief.

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1)is it still a good set?

2)What are the must have and the skippable powers?

3)Any slotting recommendations?


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1) Personally I dont think so. Its very slow and very lackluster to play. You are spending 7 seconds animating your two hardest hitting attacks, which really make this set a turd to play.

2) Must haves now are: obviously barrage on tanks because you have to take it, bonesmasher, energy punch, and usually ONE of the two endless animation attacks TF/ET, taking both will just distrupt any flow of an attack chain. You can take whirling hands if you want a pretty weak AoE, and hurl if you want some range, but neither are really spectacular. Bonesmasher and energy punch will do most all your heavy lifting now because they are fast and can make attack chaining easier.

3) slotting you want to 6 slot all the single target attacks and use a set that benefits you with either recharge or defense usually.

I am still all butthurt over the EM changes, so i might not have the opinion you want to hear, but I just cant play this set anymore as it stands now. I wont delete 3 50s because things might change, but a boring and unfun set just cannot get playtime over sets that still have some fun attached to playing them. So my 3 EM characters just sit and clog up my server space until the set is actually FIXED, and not just NERFED.

So after playing 150 levels of EM, it is no longer a set I enjoy (or even recognise as the set I rolled).

It might be easier on you if you never really knew ET for what it was and should still be.

And patrons cause more redraw

Redraw sucks.

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Its not really IF you can solo a pylon on a softcap blaster...its HOW FAST?

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It's not about how fast it's about WHAT ATTACKS!

It's not about WHAT ATTACKS it's about NO TOGGLES!

It's not about no toggles it's about NOT USING SECONDARIES!

Etc. Etc. Etc.

Congratulations to OP for doing something that 99% of blasters cannot do.

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I know theres always a higher mark to reach, but this is not the accomplishment level of soloing TFs or somesuch that requires a serious investment in patience and time, plus having a near perfect build.

Soloing a pylon is indeed something that 99% of blaster CAN do if they choose to build some simple sets to get soft capped ranged, then come up with a 150+ DPS attack chain to overcome the pylons regen. Its not rocket science to achieve those two metrics, so with a small amount of patience and planning 99% of the blasters out there could indeed solo a pylon.

For that reason I have to push the bar a little higher to see how fast/no insp/no temps...etc can be added to make the accomplishment a bit more restrictive in who can actually accomplish it.

Heck doing it at all is an accomplishment, but for us been there, done that, got the T-shirt types the bar has to be raised a bit to see what the true ceiling is.

So no knock on soloing a pylon, but I still want to know how FAST can I solo a pylon?

The game within the game within the game.