Tormentoso

There's two things you can pay attention to. The Assassin Focus icon on your buffs section. You can have zero, one, two and three. It's only when you have three that there's a 100% chance to crit and the orange rings appear.

Each stack lasts 5 seconds (I think) so if the orange ring disspears before you use A.S. it most likely means one focus faded, so there's still a good crit chance. If you have two you have a 66.66% crit chance which is still mighty good.

I'd be happier if instead we got a bar like brutes get. The orange rings confuse me with Street Justice, Staff, and Dual Blades till I get the hand of how they work. Then it is all fine and dandy.

But that's more of a nitpick than anything.

EDIT:
And there's no need to go back to hide, you can get 100% crit form un hidden A.S. plenty of time before going back into Hidden state.

Also, each attach only has a chance to give focus. Iirc, longer recharge powers have a higher chance. So slash slash slash A.S. doesn't always work.

In practice I try to aim for 3 focus, but don't really stress over it. I my other attacks are recharging and/or I have 2 focus, I click it.

I found both the low level new arcs really good. Try the Brother Hammond arc. Probably on whoever alt you have that just enjoys kicking puppies.

In my attempt to make Redside more lively, I've been rolling alt capable of leading teams.

So far my main ones are a WP/Axe and a Force Field/Fire. My stalker is starting to mature enough to be able to lead and take alphas, but I'm looking for more ideas.

What I'm looking for is combinations and concepts that can serve as good team centers. Ideally should mature early.

Yes, I know in this game any team makeup can work. But what I'm aiming at is combinations and playstyles that can remove the nervousness and initial doubt most teams have and encourage them to jump in and hurt stuff. Specially in the lower levels.

Interestingly enough, the LFG queue can be seen as an attempt to make forming teams and leading them easier. Specially the trials.

And yet, people still opt to form teams and/or wait till someone does instead of just clicking on the Queue button.

Not sure if its me, but since today's patch the hidden A.S. from dual blades has a tick of delay between stab and death.

Unhidden A.S. works fine. I checked with my Kin Melee and Ninja Blade and they feel the same.

Can anyone corroborate or tell me I'm crazy?

I was moderately excited for a second. I thought the inspirations on sale were the team inspirations. As much as it pains to admit it, those dual team inspirations are good stuff. Specially on lowbie PUG teams. At that price I would have gotten a bunch to keep just in case.

EDIT:
Very tempted by char slots.
And maybe getting the War Wolf Whistle for my circus animal trainer Beast MMs for fun.

Although I enjoy iContent and iPowers, the way I see it is that IOs and the Market do so much more to make my characters powerful than the incarnate powers and have a much wider range of usability.

Given this, I would not charge more than the total costs of the Invention License + Market License. Most likely I'll do a iPowers license and a separate iContent license. However I would not make them tier unlockable, so premiums will always have to pay for the system.

Everything I've read about them, from how they are bred to their medical problems, makes me hate people more than I already do.

Given that I find ligers and tigons pretty sad animals that shouldn't be promoted or encouraged, I'm happier with it being the magical Dynamite version than the real thing.

Although the SSAs are new content, my biggest issue with them is that they are TF structured that need ViPs or people who have bought them.

Personally, I'd rather they be more like regular repeatable arcs where I can invite whoever I want whenever I want. Give the rewards to mission holders only, that way whoever wants the reward has to go to contact and auto complete as we go.

Storm gives you 2 tornadoes.

Aye, iTrials hit bubblers a lot harder than they hit empaths. And some pure debuff sets were also hit nasty with +4 resistance to debuff levels.

They 'feel' slow, yes. But from real numbers they seem to be the same as most high damage attacks.

Compared to Katana:
Standing still waving your hands: Slow jazz hands.
Jumping in the air and dropping with a down slash: Takes its time, but looks badasrsh as he does it. So it feels right.

My Axe tank used the hell out of the AoE attacks and stun. Waiting till 28 for an AoE was painful.

And it was fun, so I'll likely craft more.

God, please don't let this suck

First, I suck at giving advice about end management, so can't say anything about this. But you're energy aura, end should not be a problem.

My biggest question would be why the 2 Mako sets? If its for the Eng/Neg def you're way overboard on Energy. Negative is in the 39 range, but don't think it should be a problem. But this is a minor concern. Also, irrc Mako's are expensive (been a while since I invested in them). So Crushing Impact might give you a bigger bang per buck. You can always slot 5 of those and keep the proc.

And if you're going for proc, move it to quick strike, since that's your fast recharging using between gaps attack. (unless we're talking about store bought IOs, which use PPM).

Concern #2 would be AoE. I like Energy Torrent, its Knock down, so it doesn't make a mess and another AoE is nice.

But as it stands there's nothing horrible or bad about what you have, just preference differences.

At point I had extra slots, so Energy drain is slotted aiming for recharge and the LoTG bonuses (health, acc) and end mods. I could probably just move the LOTG: rech into Combat Jumping and slot it differently for no big loss. The defense is minimal, but when you're at 40%, you don't need much.

I played with Disrupt and I like it. But the animation drives me mad. It if was less silly looking I'd take it.

Overload is mostly a +Rech mule posing as an occasional oh sh*t power. Weave would be just as good +rech wise.

My original build had tough/weave, but then they buffed Energy Aura Energize and Drain became a lot more alluring so I phased those out. Endurance might be trickier to handle with those, of course, but if I don't need my end management powers as is, I'm sure you can get by with two toggles with some usage of Energize and Drain.

Not a polished build (just got to 50 yesterday) but here's what I have:





Still need to get something into Health and focused burst, but you get the idea.

There are 5 LoTG in there.
Global recharge: 97.5% (+6.25^when I get the last piece of Positron).
Defense (unsupressed):
S/L: 41.37%
Eng: 40.68%

Recharge on most attack powers is in the 60% range, 95% in A.S. (I like to be EX-friendly, so outside of boosting the enhancers, I won't be upgrading to level 50 enhs)

Endurance is not a problem, and if its is, I have Energize and Energy Drain.

So yes, still needs some optimization, but I'm very happy with his survivability and damage capacities.