Talen Lee

Cowaaaards! You gotta post or there won't BE a history. Take a hit to get the market moving, ya wussies.

It's part of the devs' new regime of targeted, personalised nerfs.

In beta, that was the big problem - you had to log the 20+ villain in, then log them out again before you could access. No need to actually level, mind you.

Mind/ is great, /fire is great, the two mesh quite well. The closest thing you can claim to non-synergy is that DoTs from your AoEs can make your sleep inappropriate to use.

I just started playing a new brute today. Those who think Praetoria is hard are smoking crack, or just never learned to actually play the low level characters they've supposedly had.

A better search engine would achieve what you've asked for, Lazarus, without necessarily requiring one-time events like purges.

I (have to) spam Rise of the Phoenix.

Anyone out there gotten a Leviathan Mastery blaster yet? I find myself intrigued by the possibility of say, a fire/fire/leviathan, using Blaze, Flares, and KOB as my single target, with AOE provided from /fire.

Way I figure, does it really need to do more? It's a small power investment and it ups the duration on your holds, or your AOE hold, the confuse, and the end drain... I dunno, I figure if it's doing all that, it's merely a shame it doesn't do more, not a reason to not do it.

But yeah. Anyone want to share builds, ideally in text, for the silly boy who can't access mids at the moment? I'm really thinking about this elec/ice/ice vs elec/fire/ice.

I have created a new arc, uploaded that arc, and am interested to hear feedback from people. Currently, it has three 5-star ratings from people I know -

Whoah, trippy! I picked Mercytown out of a hat to review - I didn't realise it was the last requested review in the thread when I did it.

Huh!

Arc 6017 - Mercytown
Level Range: 5-10

Low level arcs are a rough gig. The enemy groups can't be very tough, and custom factions don't have a lot of leeway to introduce interesting powers. Furthermore, everyone's kinda seen the stuff at that level range before, so it can make the task of making doing something in the level range where you lack powers and the 'deeper' enemy factions a challenge.

Mercytown is a 5-mission comic arc which revolves around a somewhat comic-heavy interpretation of an existant CoV contact, Dmitry Krylov. Without going into too much detail about the content of the plot, it's a fairly lighthearted exploration into light horror themes, and delves into the way 'normal' or 'low super' people might see and deal with the Coralax and Hellions, groups that really should be considered quite scary to 'normal' people. Normal people don't deal with Knives or Malta or even the high-level Arachnos - these street-level criminals are a much more tangible horror to them.

The arc uses a few narrative tools that I think are worth learning from, other arc writers; the contact is someone you communicate with about the plan, not someone you directly take individualised orders from. One of the missions is effectively autonomous - you chase up a clue from an earlier mission on your own, then bring your findings to the contact because of what he can tell you.

If you're a real stickler for a more serious take on the contacts, uh, let's just say you might find Dmitry's dialogue a biiiit too camp or comical. In a 'comedy horror' scenario, this arc falls to me very squarely on the 'comedy' half of things, but that's okay. It's not the ham-fisted, 'cake is a lie,' 'look, monkey cheese!' kinda comedy, and it's just exaggerating a trait of Krylov that's mostly there already.

I can't really comment about the difficulty; I was doing it on a freshly-minted scrapper, who started at level 5 and left at level 11. At the same time, I was running on 6*/-1.

Solid arc, and a good way to fill in that level range where you're not sure where to take your characters. A real die-hard linguist and typographical wonk might find just enough errors to bug you, but really, it's the kind of thing that will almost certainly be refined out in time, so just point out the text errors and move on.

Rating: ****
Tags: Solo Friendly, Comedy, Magic

Yeah, it's the combo in the epic that has me all weak-kneed. Sleet is one of my favourite powers in the game, and coupling it with Ice Sword Circle and other reasons to be standing in melee makes me very excited.

Bonus, gremlins as the minions of a storm god... the only lure of the elec/fire is the whole 'raining fire and brimstone.'

This thread needs more waaaah. Where am I gunna score free drinks from, if not here?

I'm tossing up Elec/Ice/Ice, or Elec/Fire/Ice. Trying to thematic a kinda devastating norse-deity-type character.

Conserve Power, like Hasten, is a power that you want a lot of but can't (usually) get all the time. Putting it on auto is a bit of a waste, since you'll sometimes fire it off at the 'wrong' time.

Basically, treat it like a pre-combat buff. If it's up, before you start on a big spawn, jam on it and that'll make the spawn easier. Getting such a huge end management tool so late feels a bit rude, doesn't it?

If you play KM, all the DPS on your other characters will drop. True story.