The Grim Heaper

... "shard mishs"?

• Shards can be dropped from any enemy that is equal to your combat level (before shifts)... so you can run a synapse and still get shards...
• Then there's the lvl 50 TFs that award a common component choice upon completion.
• Also exchanging V-merits for gr'ai matter (and breaking it down if need be)
• Or you can exchange Astrals for Shard vouchers in ouro (bonus; you can buy vouchers on characters with excess, and then claim shards on a character that needs)
• And then there's the WST for notices... (ITF this week, I think).
• Finally- all alpha abilities can be crafted with threads.

And, as has been the case for a few years, best place to seek out teams for any of that stuff? Whatever global channels your server uses.

You've got a point - I think I've been concentrating on my 50s for so long that the early game (dealing with TOs and DOs) is starting to feel alien to me. :P

I'm kinda at odds with this part - It really depends on the sets and archtypes in question. A scrapper or stalker may have a tougher time reaching caps (soft or otherwise) than a tank, and might benefit from additional protection in the areas they have naturally... but not always - Super Reflexes can get damn near the softcap on all three positions on it's own without elude - in this case much of the buffs will go well over the softcap and not be useful for most content (Granted that for defense, that last 5% effectivly doubles his survival, so...)

Defense - Positional (melee/range/aoe) - Do not pair with a buff set that that is typed defence, as only the highest number will count. Either his abilities will take a sideline to your buffs, or your buffs will be entirely ignored as his superior number take the entire hit. Might be better paired with a buff set that offers regeneration or resistance to soak up what damage he doesn't outright avoid. More positional defense might help if the numbers his set provides aren't that high in the first place.

Defense - Typed (Smashing/lethal, energy, dark, cold, fire, etc) - Same argument here for not going with positional defense buffs. Same argument in favor of resistance/regen buffs. Typed defense, however, tends to mesh better with more typed defence from buffs; but don't go for the same coverage! Generally, typed will excel at avoiding damage from one type (easily reaching the softcap), have poor numbers against another type, and the rest get average numbers. Try to go for the type he does poorly against.

Resistance - Much like typed defence, if you're going to stack more resistance buffs on top of what he gets from his own sets, try going for the area where he's lacking... Fire Armour, for example, can easily max out resistance against fire - buffing him with Thermal radiation means both your set and his are weak against ice. Adding any defense to his resists is good, as is regen.

Regeneration - I don't think you can go wrong with any protective buffs, here (hard to max out regeneration), although I'd go with defence or resist. Regeneration's problem has always been with surviving big spikes of damage, like jumping in and taking an alpha. If you can help him do that, his regen will take care or the rest.

That said, there are three of you, and most melee types can take care of themselves fairly well as-is, so go with whatever interests you. If the third player is a squishy type, he'll be thankful for whatever he gets (or go with a debuff centric set).

Sadly. This tool had so much potential. I hope someday it reaches that.

Eh, you can kinda piece it together from other posts (I had one still in my cache; upon hearing they were taken down I quickly saved it somewhere more permanent ).

A Merc/Pain build with all of the personal attacks 6 slotted and two of the pets 5 slotted. And by the looks of it most, if not all, powers were slotted with 1 of everything they can take (ex; [Commando] 1x{lvl 50 Damage IO} 1x{lvl 50 KB IO} 1x{lvl 50 EndRdx IO} 1x{lvl 50 Undermined Defences set IO} 1x{lvl 50 Acc IO})... Also, I'm no expert on either mercs or pain dom, but the ommision of some powers puzzled me (Serum and Painbringer).

RX10:
Don't get me wrong, I'm all in favor of building in whatever way you want, even petless MMs to an extent (I can understand it more for Robots and Demon sumoning, as those sets have attacks (the pulse rifle and fire whip) that dont exist on any other AT. In the past this would also apply to thugs for dual pistols). The game is quite flexible and can allow you to build in different ways and still succeed.

But if you are going to lament your controller's end game performance and then show us that build... PLEASE seek build advise in the appropriate AT sub-forum. If funds and getting things from the market are an issue, specifically request builds meant for SO or generic IOs...

Good news! If those screenshots were any indication (and if we ignore the double negative here), I think we might have a guess as to why your controller is not able to "pull her weight in the incarnate game"!

While I rather like the mechanic, if for no other reason than it adds something different from the usual "big bag of HP", "defeat satelite [enemies] to be able to effectively hit the BBoHP", "ambush!" or "stand here and you die"... I cannot disagree with what you're saying in regards to the upcoming change that hopes to attract new players.


In general I enjoy the new trial, and don't find it to be excessively longer than the first two, but I do have a couple gripes;
-Keyes getting stuck in map geometry. I'm not sure if this has been fixed yet, but it happened to leagues I was on twice - both times the GM only responded after the timer ran out.
-Disintegration + Freeze Time. On their own they are fine, when used in concert, annoying as heck.

I don't have any pics handy, but for the second part, that glowing design is an aura from the steampunk pack. Goes quite well with radiance costume pieces (and if you have a weapon set that has vanguard blades, even better!).

It's graystar, he posts one of these doom posts in player questions about once a month (sometimes more), what do you think?

Oh god, tell me about it... I swear we were sent what would be a year's supply of store-brand chips (y'know - if the blasted things didn't have an expiry date on them), but only a two-meter wide section of shelf to put them on... a month later I was chewed out for placing product too close to the expiry date on the shelf, after I pointed out the fact that I can only fit about one box/flavour every two days and had been getting about two such boxes every day for the past month (and instructed to put a priority of placing the older boxes first)... My job for the day was to cart a towering pallet of chips over to claims

sorry to continue the tangent, but there's some kind of disconnect between the warehouse and the stores they supply... two weeks without sugar in stock...

indeed, as long as you're upfront about it with the team/leader, it usually isn't a problem (Just a simple "I might need extended afk breaks due to spouse/kid/pet aggro, sorry in advance, feel free to go on without me." should suffice). Worst case scenario is they kick you or you miss out on the xp from a mish or two.

I've been on a few teams where someone had to go afk to take the dog for a walk, and no one complained.

Heck, we could probably find you something to run the game at max ultra setting, if you really wanted us to. But there are two things the people that live and breathe hardware will need to know;

1: Are you comfortable assembling a new computer from the ground up from the base parts?
2: What is your budget?

... To find out it's rather false depending on the type of fly in question?
also; XKCD

Probably is - it seems accurate to the post counts of those in this thread, anyway.

As of posting this, you need 31 more posts to graduate from rookie and become a cohort, Bill_of_Rights. Forum Games is probably a good place to bolster your post count in a hurry.