Tonality

Couple of things:

- Electric Armor is set to get a buff in issue 16, which should help you deal with the alpha.
- All resistances cap at 90%. You have 90% resistance to energy.
- Dark Obliteration is a nice attack. You'll usually rely on darkest night on hard attacks, but if you're not planning on regularly going toe to toe with AV's, I wouldn't recommend it over Dark Obliteration, but I like having a good kill speed.
- If you are building for defense, I would either focus on Smashing/Lethal or Melee. You can get one of these in the 30s without gimping yourself.
- Siphon life has a base heal of 10%. If you slotted it for healing, you're missing out on some damage potential. If you're looking at a recharge build, 5 crushings paired with a hami heal/end work nicely.

Custom Critters generally are a higher threat level than most enemies you encounter in normal content. Now you can intentionally pick attacks that you know you will be able to perform well against, but that's the problem with allowing us to create content.

In general, custom critters, even on the easy setting have a good arsenal of attacks. They also get progressively more difficult the higher you level as more attacks become available.

Here are five ideas. Not all are practical, nor do I necessarily support. However, they are offered as a point of discussion.

1) It's been suggested, but raising the 'tax' on items in the markets would reduce inflation. I don't like the idea for personal reasons (I like making inf), but it would help.

2) The issue 16 difficulty slider will help a little bit as people begin tweaking it and changing difficulty. You will spend a small bit tweaking this at level 50 to your individual tastes.

3) If purchasing prestige was more appealing I'd be more inclined to do so. Right now the exchange rate is rather horrid, and I have no desire to really add any more prestige to my personal base. Lowering the cost of purchasing prestige would be nice.

4) Allowing invention enhancements to be reslottable would help increase supply by those that decide they don't like a particular build.

5) Reducing the influence earnings per kill would help quell influence creation. As we get drops and whatnot, we can sell those to make the majority of our income. Many players already do this, but it is still very easy to earn 5-10 million inf from kills alone in the course of normal gameplay.

Welcome, Red Skeleton!

edit: My first post after the first post after a redname

edit 2:

Here was my old post I made for the forums. It doesn't work anymore, but here it is:

Would you post your arc id please? I'm sure someone here can have a look at it.

There are several reasons why your team may have not gotten XP:

1) The enemies you fought do not go up to the level range you were in. I suspect you would notice this, as they would die rather quickly and they would be gray in appearance, rather than a myriad of possible other colors.

2) Your team composition was not all within a 5 level range. Anyone more than 5 levels below the highest character would not get experience.

3) You clicked 'test' rather than 'play' when you started the mission. If it happens again, click the Mission Architect button in your nav bar and see if you have additional options like turning on invincibility and whatnot.

4) You've discovered a weird bug nobody else has encountered yet. This will only be confirmed if others can test your arc.

Sticky this topic please. We need more STICKIES.
Oh wait, I was confused. I meant more cowbell.

Less stickies. More cowbell.

I want to contrast generic rules of thumb with college and reality.

1) Multiply your credit hours by three to calculate the time you need for classwork.
--You will be surprised how quickly you can get things done when you're against a hard deadline. If you are efficient, you can get your time to a 1:1 ratio.

2) Achieving degrees is the end-all for guaranteed employment
--Attitude is one of the biggest characteristics employers seek. They can train a poodle to do your job if they wanted to. Most companies will spend the effort to train you in any skill if they believe you are worth the effort. Degrees wind up being a foundation for your future.

3) Each subsequent degree is harder.
--Each subsequent degree is easier as it is more specialized, and focuses on the field you enjoy. If you choose to further your education after undergrad, it becomes more enjoyable.

One last piece of advice:
Stay in tune with your passions. I was in the first year of my doctorate when I realized I was getting a degree for a career I had no interest in pursuing. I was burned out and frustrated. There is nothing wrong with leaving a field because something else interests you. I certainly was talented in this field, but hating your job is a very poor way to live your life. It has been said that there are those that get a job to pay to do the things they love and that there are those that the job is the thing they love. I believe the latter will always be more rewarding.

I did not see the remote control before.

I feel bad for the remote.

The animation time is only slightly slower than Havoc Punch. It's not a bad attack, especially if you're looking for AoE set bonuses. On an invuln, I bet eradication would be pretty tasty. Otherwise, there's always obliteration.

Overall, if you have a good attack chain without it, it isn't needed. But, it has its uses.

Positron's Blast works alright in AoE immobs. If you need more rech, use the 6th slot for a recharge IO. My guess is by the time you finish with your set IOs, you won't need it, hence 5 slotting with posi (everything but dmg/range) is a good option.

30 minutes later:

Come on, GMs. I want to play the game instead of waiting. ARRGH.

My theory is that there was a duplication glitch at one point with the markets. I believe the rapid removal of two slots of the same item caused the second slot to be lost. In any case:



edit: that's 30 minutes after filing the petition, not 30 minutes after whining on the forums. I had to whine in broadcast first, and then realize I just blew my niche to anyone in Cap on Infinity at 10:24 EST. At least I'm not blowing my niche on the forums.