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This seems to work rather well, my friend plays one.

BS/SR might be worth a shot if you can do without Nin's toys.


I have this problem too. I'm doing OK on my Elec/Nin right now, but even in the 20's I started half-wishing I was SR. The extra toys in Nin are nice, but Slow resistance and Knockback protection are huge holes (even with IO's), and SR covers them. The recharge bonus from Quickness wouldn't hurt either, though it's a minor effect when you consider the set mule value of Blinding Powder.

I find that the effort of sorting through IO's in the NPC stores every five levels takes forever in the long run (always has, really). I'm in the habit of taking an hour or two to craft once a character hits about 22; I find that it saves me enough time later to be worth it and mitigates the classical frustration of getting weaker every level except 27/32/37/42/47.

If you're just worried about enhancement bonuses, it's not fantastically difficult to frankenslot your powers well (unless they're Targetted AoE--"dur dur dur, let's make the 4th-most-needed recipe the rarest drop type!" ).

Really? MA probably doesn't need the +Rech as much as some Stalkers, but I wouldn't want to miss Slow protection Redside. >_<

That's a good tip. I do that with my non-Stalkers, but it seems to annoy people worst with my Stalker (I'm new at Stalking too). This explains a lot.

Choosing Defender Elec for comparison seems unfair to me because (in my opinion) it is their weakest APP.

Defender dark gets 25% better results from Soul Drain and has double the up time on it, 25% better results from its armor (at the cost of 3 levels, which means you still get it for Numina, Eden, and Sewers), an excellent control if they already have a stun (which many do), and an endurance boost (which some builds can make good use out of). Corruptors can use their hold for stacking if they already have one (a less common situation), they get kicked in the teeth on Soul Drain (though the early spot is nice), and I find Power Boost to be limited in use at best.

There is a lot of hate for both PPP pets and Soul Transfer; personally, while I do find the pets useful, I also find Soul Transfer to be extremely powerful. I think it's a deserving Tier 9 power in its home set, so getting it at full strength in an APP is very impressive. (While I don't advance it as an argument because I know there are few who agree with me, I tend to regard Soul Transfer by itself as far stronger than any PPP.)

I agree that calling anything in this game "a doctor" or "+HEALTH" is "just plain ******* STUPID."

On the other hand, if you meant that calling a Blaster DPS is stupid: No, that's 1) metonymy and 2) true.

I find those teams fun on certain builds. They're a challenge.

I do refuse to invite people who self-identify as "healer" when I'm team leader, though. I used to view it as another wacky challenge, but then I ran a Dr. Quarterfield with a level 50 Empath who did literally nothing other than spam her first three Emp powers... to the point where I needed to use Awakens when I died. X-D

Ooh, forgot that part.

This definitely happens on Infinity, too. You'll spend several minutes on the CoH or CoV loading screen--literally, I timed it--while hearing things going on around the outside door, like people landing to use it or enemies fighting nearby. Eventually, the map picture + hint will flash briefly as the loading bar fills in a couple of seconds, then the entire team will burst through the inside door like the raiders at the end of a Rikti Ship Raid. Then one person says "sorry, long load times today" and four others immediately respond "like that for a while now."

I had a Posi TF last week where two people used Ctrl-Alt-Del to exit the game after a minute of loading. They were able to reload the game, log in, and zone into the mission a full minute or two before the other six people popped out of the door.

You don't see this redside? I see this redside, and I find it even more annoying there. I've never invited a "pure healer" Corr or "pure tank" Brute, but I've been on teams with a few, and I've had team leaders demanding one or the other.

Technically it doesn't blend with the skin at all. It only ever goes over the top of leather/hide/scales.

Also: What is up with the raging lust for Broadsword? Valkyrie I can understand (as opposed to a Valkyrie axe or Valkyrie shields), but I would have expected things like ninjas with bows (we have a special power set for that!) or mutants with claws, and instead we get ninja broadswords and mutant broadswords. Even katanas got very little (1/2 of the ninja choices), despite there being appropriate models for them (mutant).

A straight answer! Thank you!

Does caging a tower make it harder for Recluse to munch up the party Tank, or was that just an incidental comment?