Space_Goat

Awesome!

To be sure you never lose money when flipping set an offer price at least 1.12 times what you paid.

Here's my tortured algebra as proof.

You need to ensure:

proceeds >= investment

Investment is simply what you paid. Proceeds is equal to 90% of your sale price.

90%*price >= investment

So you need:

price >= investment/90%.

or

price >= 1.11(repeating) * investment.

So I round up to 1.12 for that wonderful extra .888888888888889005% profit.

I agree with you. If it's a choice between FSC and FB, FB all the way.

When it comes down to tass bracks, Fire Manipulation is unfortunately a sub-standard partner for Fire Blast. They both go best with other stuff.

But on the other hand it's not as bad as you think. Well... except for Consume, Combustion, and Burn. Those pretty much suck.

With Frankenslotting Short Circuit is great. You can get good acc, dam, endmod, and rech all at once.

This is what I came up with for mine, but perhaps someon^]cwFulmens has a better idea.

Damage
Damage
Performance Shifter EndMod
Performance Shifter EndMod/Accuracy/Recharge
Performance Shifter Accuracy/Recharge
Performance Shifter EndMod/Recharge

With level 40 enhancements, that's roughly +40% Acc, +75% Dam, +80% EndMod, and +65% Recharge, nearly 8-slots worth of enhancement value.

My experience with using Consume on a Fire Tanker made me feel really negative about the idea of Dark Consumption as a replacement for Stamina. But I admit my bad experience came between the application of ED and set bonuses.

Anybody tried it as a replacement for Stamina and found it works for them? Did you have a lot of toggles? How much +Recharge or other set bonuses did you have?

John Steakley's "Armor" is great! His follow-up, "Vampire$", features virtually all the same characters(?!?) but in a totally different setting. It's not nearly as great. However, some of it comes close.

Finally, except for brief happy periods right after a drop, shouldn't Felix be a War Mace tanker? heh, heh.

Up on roof-tops never shall I dare...
Just call me Fiddler-On-the-Chair!

Electric Company FTW!

Assault Rifle has more... fire power. AR is so filled with goodness, you should be selective with your secondary.

The cream of the crop are: Ring of Fire, Fire Sword Circle, Build Up, and Hot Feet. Anything other than those four will have to be taken as the opportunity arises due to your own personal preference. In my opinion every Assault Rifle power except Snipe is preferable to Combustion, Blazing Aura, Burn, or Fire Sword.

The worst AR powers, to me, are Snipe, Ignite, and M30 Grenade. So swap those in and out with your favorite fire powers just to mix and match.

You don't need Combustion. AR provides plenty of AoE, all of it superior to, and easier to use than, Combustion.

The difference between a solo and team build is minimal. For a solo build, take Beanbag; for a team build, don't bother with it. Get more damage instead.

Some people consider the single target damage of AR kind of weak, and would recommend supplementing it with Fire Sword, but to me Fire Sword winds up starved for slots, since everything else tends to have a higher priority. Burst, for example, might seem weak, but it can be used when mezzed and at range, both decisive advantages over Fire Sword, IMO.

Edit: I forgot to mention Consume. It's crap. It's not good enough to allow you to forgo Stamina, because its recharge time is penalized out of proportion with the minimal damage it does. It requires all six slots to even approach the efficacy of Stamina, and that's assuming you're provided with optimal situations for its use. With no endurance crashing nuke, you have virtually no reason to take Consume.

The proposed "PBAoE" combination takes too long. My Elec/Fire can indeed cause awesome AoE damage at every spawn, but I do it just fine without the horrible Combustion.

I advise Firing up Blazing Aura and Hot Feet before you run in, instead. You won't see many encounters where you need more than HF, BA, BU (and or Aim), Ball Lightning, Short Circuit, FSC. Way back when SC used to drain 100% of endurance when slotted properly I did finish off with Combustion, but now it just feels look too much rooting and too dangerous.

Single target damage feels weak, especially if you try to overkill with your AoE damage. You can save some slots by relying on Aim/BU for accuracy in those powers you don't intent to use much without the buffage.

Sellers already face steep monetary and opportunity costs for overpricing their wares. i don't think a proposed 60-day erasement penalty is needed.

I find 10,000,000 or so to be the point at which I feel well heeled. At that level, I'm happy. I won't be purpling my warshade, but really good builds can be attained with patience and I still maintain a decent net income by crafting my recipe drops.

Yes, it does stack, which makes it quite fun for Blasters and Corrupters with other powers that cause slows.

What I didn't know though is if the slow effect of Rain of Fire is buffable by powers like Power Boost. Checking out Red Tomax's Power Quantification project, I see the following under the Rain of Fire minion:

* RunSpeed -0.4 for 0.5s [Ignores Enhancements & Buffs]
Effect does not stack from same caster

* JumpHeight -40% for 0.5s [Ignores Enhancements & Buffs]
Effect does not stack from same caster

* SpeedJumping -0.4 for 0.5s
Effect does not stack from same caster

* Max RunSpeed -3.5 for 0.5s PvE only [Ignores Enhancements & Buffs]
Effect does not stack from same caster

So apparently the slow effect really is unbuffable.

Gratz! Gitch.

41 Electric/Fire. For a brief time was an awe inspiring sapper. Took a long break from this Blaster after issue 6. Voltaic Sentinel appears to be a good choice when I don't have it.
39 Ice/Electric. No complaints here. Ice Blast's AoE potential is generally underrated.
37 AR/Ice. Swapping M30 Grenade for Full Auto was like being reborn.

The difference between the Elec/Fire and latter two blasters is the number of excellent powers the latter two don't have room to take.

In my experience Lightning Field doesn't tick fast enough to be used for flooring enemy endurance. Every two seconds not 'nuff.

I think Fire/ and /Fire are optimal when combined with other sets, personally. Fire/Fire is overspecialized in dishing out damage, if that's possible to be. Your mileage may differ.

The Nethergoat kisses were the best part.

"If you give one more bite of my food to those Rikti, I'm gonna kick you til you're dead."

"The government of the United States of America wants to charge you with murder. And you want me to go there with "Unit, Corps, God, Rikti?"

"I bet that shocks you. Do you have any idea what it feels like to take a Rikti for 20 bucks?"

"A Rikti puts a gun in yer face, you got two choices- stand there 'n die or kill the mother-shipper."

"You ain't got a license to kill Rikti and today I ain't sellin'. Take your sidekick and dangle."

"The beast has many weapons. This was one of them: A Rikti Monkey."

"We don't have enough ammunition to shoot them all in the head. The time to have done that would have been in the beginning. No, we let them overrun us. We are in the minority now, something like 400,000 Rikti to one by my calculation."

"Send... more... Dominators."

"I knew this day would come. We both knew it from the day we found you."
"I talked to Ben Hubbard yesterday. He said that... he'd be happy to help out from now on. Mother..."
"I know, son. I know. Do you... know where you're headed?"
"Rikti War Zone."