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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Hopeling View Post
    Incandescence Destiny is an interesting power that I've not yet seen anyone find a really good use for in most situations, sadly.

    I think this Destiny power is an incarnate power meant for Incarnate trials. Avoids the Green Stuff? Heck yeah. Floating circles of death assaulting your scrapperhappy leaguemates? Problem solved. League not moving to the right door fast enough in TPN? Situation handled! One crate left on lambda and team spread all over the place? No worries, Incandescence time!

    It could also be useful during Apex.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Smiling_Joe View Post
    Don't kid about that. It's mean.

    You know I'm serious right? Yeah. That's the Kheldian buff this issue.

    http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Issue_22

    Bottom of the list.
  3. TwoHeadedBoy

    Kheldian Fashion

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    Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison View Post
    Thanks. I don't know what it is about the arm bands that I like so much. Purple and black are the main themes, but its the bit of blue that makes it all pop. No costume should be just two colors, in my opinion.

    I'm glad he comes across as intimidating. He should, being the first MFing Warshade and all that.

    I find your lack of macro trays clustering up your UI disturbing.
  4. I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't take it.

    The devs answer to our requests for further Kheld buffs in issue 22: Don't worry you guys. We're giving you the old "blob of goo" Light Form animation back!
  5. TwoHeadedBoy

    Kheldian Fashion

    Your Warshade has very narrow shoulders and very wide hips.

    I guess I can't really say anything though, since my Warshade is about 5 feet tall, so yours could probably still stare at him very intimidatingly.
  6. For help with making IO builds, seeing what can go where, etc. it's always nice to have Mids Hero Planner.

    Once you get used to the program, this Make Your Own Build guide can be very helpful for slotting choices and build goals.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dark Energon View Post
    Why so defensive?

    NOTHING in his comment suggests he even thinks that.
    So, why make this comment?..

    unless..........

    Not sure what you're implying, I was just making a clarification based on his wording as Mousedroid suggested.
  8. TwoHeadedBoy

    Kheldian Fashion

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    Originally Posted by Death_Adder View Post
    The Tendrils aura set to eyes only works well.

    Yep I use this on both of my Kheldians, it's very close to the Kheldian NPC's eye aura. You can also never go wrong with a good Void Hunter costume, or some cool purple and black Cimeroran armor.

    Feel free to draw inspiration from these pictures.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by I Burnt The Toast View Post
    This thread is hilarious!

    If people are so sensitive as to their names and fall for this scheme... so be it.

    Personally I think it says a lot about both the seller and the buyer.

    Are you thinking the OP took anyone's names? If so, that wasn't the case.
  10. TwoHeadedBoy

    Level Pacted!

    When he proposed, did he find out that level pacts were currently disabled, but that they'd be returning in the future?

    Haha, just kidding. Congratulations Kyo.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Microcosm View Post

    For a challenging group, might I recommend Vanguard?
    I actually read that Vanguard are supposed to be pretty rough a couple of months ago so I did a mission full of them at maxed settings.. They didn't seem to pose a very great threat to me, I was able to kill them very quickly without much hassle. This was on my s/l softcapped build. I find that enemies with lots of -end are the only things that I have trouble handling.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Hopeling View Post
    It caps at -150 hp, so it's far weaker than Reactive against high-hp targets like GMs.

    Ah ok, the only one of the new Incarnate branches I've had a chance to check out was the Agility alpha power. I'm totally blind to the rest, I did see potential in that one but apparently that faith was misplaced. Thanks for the info.

    Microcosm, how do Photon Seekers fit in to the ST chain? I think that they could be cast whenever they're up in place of Bolt during the attack chain... I'm too lazy to math it all out right now but I'm wondering if you've considered it already.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Major_T View Post
    I generally don't care what people think about me. I just care that they have their facts straight.

    Let's see if you do...



    Explain.

    I would prefer to have this conversation privately, it's already getting out of hand and doesn't belong in this thread. I'll take responsibility for that, I should have just said something to you one-on-one instead of posting about it here, but I felt I owed an explanation to the people who usually join me for this. I'll send you a PM.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Microcosm View Post
    Pb without lore pets? No. The highest dps build I've seen for a pb was about 220 dps, and while I don't remember how much is necessary, i can tell you that is not enough.

    I was thinking of playing around with the new Interface powers on my PB, has anyone run the numbers on the -max hp one yet?
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Riverdancer View Post
    Yet New Years was ok? Huh.
    I got asked about it, so I took that as a sign that people were around and interested. I also had family stuff going on for Christmas and didn't have anything going on last night.
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    T doesn't need anyone to stick up for him, he's quite eloquent and can certainly put you in your place without any help. But you are coming off as a giant jerk... again, so don't expect people not to call you on it.
    Ask me how much I care what you think of me. I started doing this to help everyone get the trial badges. It was meant to be an event open to the whole server that anyone could join, no level shift restrictions, no being told what to play, etc. I started doing this to be nice.

    If you disagree with anything I said in my last posts, that's totally fine, but I really don't remember asking for your opinion. I also don't remember talking to or about you at any point.

    I know that I'm being pretty harsh right now, I have no problems with you because I don't even know you, but I can tell you that if you intend to criticize me or whatever, do it with your pals on Skype, because I couldn't care less and I don't want to hear it.
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Iron_General View Post
    LOL! You're going to pick a fight on New Year's Eve? That class... Taking shots at T because he started a UG and people chose his trial over your event? Wow. I can't wait to see the sparks fly.

    On such a small server, you're not going to have many options when you suddenly find our runs closed to you. But perhaps the party you're attacking can make that decision for himself.

    *makes popcorn, gets comfortable, waits for fireworks*

    Oh no, don't close your runs to me. :| I don't even know who you are.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Major_T View Post
    Let's see...

    First, your last post was on this subject was December 20th... more than a week ago.
    We didn't do it on Christmas.
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    Second, on more than one occassion you've either chose or were unable to run your event.
    Generally speaking it's happened regularly.
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    Third, there have been iTrials going on nightly for months in RWZ led by me and a handful of other people.
    That's totally fine. I have no problem with that at all, it just seemed sort of coincidental and spiteful to me, since as you very well know I do not like you one bit. That being said, if you did something like this on a regular basis I would definitely try to be more conscientious of that and not do anything that could be interpreted as combative, even if it wasn't meant to be.
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    Fourth, I didn't see you say anything in Protector Vigilance and I advertised in more than one global channel.
    If that's true then I believe you and I apologize, but you posted it literally about three minutes after I did.

    And there's no need to get your posse to jump in this thread, I know the OG Protector cliques is OG and everything, but I'm pretty sure that you are able to stick up for yourself in a very competent way without help.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mortimer_NA View Post
    See man? I knew you were a decent guy, no matter what anyone else says about you. The reason I didnt go the celerity stealth was I was told by several people that it would not work with Shadow Cloak. I personally hate Superspeed. If its true the +Stealth proc works with SC then I am happy as can be.

    With those power changes how do I get the defense you were talking about?

    People lied to you. I run Shadow Cloak with a Celerity IO in Sprint and it works totally fine.

    You can see examples of how to build defense up on a Human Form Warshade in AlienOne's guide, he has a section dedicated to it.


    And what do people say about me?!
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mortimer_NA View Post
    OK, how do I say this without sounding like a hurt animal backed into a corner? lol

    Sept, do I offend you in some way? Has my build personally hurt your feelings?
    No I just didn't like it.
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    Is there some reason you react so strongly to my power/slotting choices?
    I thought they were silly.
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    I ask because I honestly do respect your opinion and value your input. Your help has been instrumental in my love of the Warshade AT. That being said, calm down. heh
    I was calm. You can tell I'm upset or annoyed if I start typing in capital letters or waving my hands a lot.

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    As far as the build goes. I was not set muling Teleport. At least not consciously. I really have come to like TPing around so I was going for range and endurance redux. The set was a side point to accomplish that.(I am not a fan of set muling)
    I one slot mine with a BOTz KB IO, it's my travel power and I get by fine with it like that.
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    I can concede the Medicine pool. It was a last minute pick up as I tend to primarily duo with a RL friend and being able to heal him and whatnot was appealing. However, as his toons mature those powers will become obsolete as he tends to favor more durable ATs anyways.
    If you swapped it for Provoke and Inky Aspect, you could play a support role by stunning most things and taunting the rest to you.
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    Superspeed is for stealthing purposes. I tried to run without it for about 7 levels and I kept getting mezzed or attacked in other ways. SS+Stealth is just something I desire for speedy mishes.
    Use Shadow Cloak and a Celerity +Stealth IO in Sprint.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by AlienOne View Post
    You seem to imply that not having defense prevents you from "upping the challenge." That is not the case at all in my experience. You've mentioned before that even with building for defense, you still had to use inspirations, because "your defense was debuffed." Well, if that's the case, why not just build for pure damage (both ST and AoE) and just use inspirations/insp drops for defense?
    Because in order for defense to cascade, you first need to be hit with an attack that has -def in it. It's not something that happens all the time or even often, but when it does it sucks. Most of the time I'm still able to kill the enemies before they can do any harm and my defense levels are restored. What do you mean by "pure damage?" All my attacks are past ED capped and procced out in the best way possible and my Sunless Mire is perma, providing a massive damage buff.
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    I just did an AE mission day before yesterday on my Chaos™ build (which has no defenses to speak of) against a lvl 53 AV... I survived, but it was (as you described for yours) a stalemate. I spent as much time looking for mobs as I did trying to do constant damage to the AV, which didn't allow me to do enough to combat their regen. Of course, I wasn't using any Incarnate powers (like pets or novas) to help either.
    Hm, you should try the Warshadenfest mission, I saw you try it in an old video and Bobcat jacked you up but I think you could take her down at least at level 53 if you have an attack chain, that's the mission I used when i soloed her at that level. I brought Barrier to counteract the defense debuffs since they have no mezzes and so I could keep constant damage on the AV and not have to worry about killing adds for stygian circle very often. But one AV at level 53 at a time shouldn't be difficult for you if you have t4 reactive.
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    Also, doesn't Longbow do debuffs of both defense and resistance? Or is it just resistance? Longbow are definitely a challenge, but not one I haven't tried and survived through without defense.
    -Resistance I've never seen, I always thought that resistance itself couldn't be debuffed since your resistance makes you resistant to resistance debuffs (I'm dizzy) but I could be wrong. But yeah, they're evil. Probably one of the hardest enemy groups in the game. It takes lots of craftiness to use huge mobs of them as food since they themselves pose a threat.
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    My biggest challenges back in the day (before Incarnates) were Malta and Arachnos, but now that we can have perma mez protection, I need to go back and re-figure out where the "true" challenges lie for a human-former...

    "Alien"
    Yeah Arachnos are still nasty to deal with if you can't control/kill the Mu's fast enough. If you get an unlucky spawn with a couple of Mu bosses together and a few of the lesser ones you'll be in for a treat.. That's on top the the Tarantula Mistresses jacking you up... *shudder.* I've taken out spawns at 54x8 many times, but some group arrangements do me in. Malta... Aren't usually too bad as long as you have a targeting macro for the sappers. The worst of them all is Carnies. I have nightmares about Carnies.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by AlienOne View Post
    Trust me... It's not the fastest in any cave, office, or CoT map I've ever seen.
    Meh, I just use Ninja Run on closed mission maps, if anything.
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    Same goes for playstyles. I personally prefer NOT to build for defense on my primary build for my human only BECAUSE it requires me to be "more dexterous" and think on my feet, so to speak. It's much more exciting for my brain to think on the spot "how will I survive that critical hit I just got dealt while still dealing with this other mob that a teammate just aggro'd and brought over here?" than to just sit there and hit the same 3 powers over and over and over and over and over because it has "the highest DPS" against the same enemy that has a buttload of HP. To me, that's just mind-numbing.
    The fun thing about having lots of defense is that you can "up the challenge." Personally, I've been casually working on an AE arc for my Warshade where he would be soloing 2 level 54 AV's at the same time, while surrounded by (an x8 spawn of) level 54 Longbow. I suck at using the AE, but I can tell you that it is certainly a challenge I wouldn't want to undertake without any defenses to speak of. I'm not going into specifics about this project, obviously, cause I want to present it as a "finished product."

    Editing to say that there has been a bit of a "mad dash" going on, which involves killing lots of the Longbow for Stygian Circle, stunning them proactively, finding more Longbow, all while trying to keep DPS on the AV's. I've just been having issues trying to get enough stuff to spawn in a consolidated area, because every time I have to run off for more food I'm spending time away from the AV's which makes it pretty difficult.
  20. I have managed to put a good dent into Scrappy on my Warshade but the level 20 Miners weren't spawning fast enough or lasting long enough for me to have the food to take him down. As for a Peacebringer, it'd be really tough but I think it could be possible with t4 reactive. I don't have Incarnate stuff on my PB yet but once I do I planned to try it out. Granted it's already been done with Lore pets, but that hardly counts as soloing.
  21. As for the OP's build, it is definitely not one I would ever run. What are you trying to build for? It seems like you just want an obscene amount of recharge, but to what end? Are you trying to just use Shadow Slip and go "wee" between zones as fast as you can? Sounds like a waste of purples to me.

    You could aim for 160% or even 170% recharge and still pick up significantly more defense than you have. As it is now, this build has such little defense that it needs Inky Aspect to god mode big spawns, and even if you had it you'd be cutting it close without some extreme amounts of dexterity. (Extreme dexterity: See: AlienOne. We're not all him, though.)

    Your hasten is perma with 2 slots if you grab Agility as your alpha ability. It'll remain that way if you knock off some of this recharge and it'll also let you rededicate some of your recovery slotting (overslotted Stamina, Impervium Armors in G shield... what, why?)

    That's a really silly way to mule your Shadow Step. You're wasting three precious slots for a less than 1% hp bonus.

    The medicine pool... AIB is an exception to the rule, but WHY do you have that? You have Stygian Circle to heal yourself against big mobs. You can respec into the Well>Blast>Drain>Blast attack chain to heal yourself against single targets with one of those wasted power choices.

    You shouldn't need to heal your team mates if you're perma-stunning the crap out of everything, but I still like to have provoke because it serves the multi-purpose of tanking for squishies, pulling enemies in for buffs, and holding AV aggro.

    I'll never understand the Super Speed thing. Teleport is the fastest travel power in the game. I don't get why anyone would waste a power choice to move slower than they would if they used an inherent power that does not waste a power choice.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by EarthWyrm View Post
    You're assuming he sells level 53 Hami's. What's the phrase there? "Facts not in evidence"?
    I never said he sold them, I was just stating that based on the logic he applied to name selling, it stands to reason that he would be opposed to the selling of high level Hami's also.
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    But even if he did, if he were to sell a level 53 Hami that he bought on the market, anyone else could acquire it the same way he did. The cheaper method obviously doesn't apply, but it doesn't matter because the cheaper method specifically applies to something that is currently available in-game, and you moved the goalposts to something that can no longer be obtained through gameplay means.
    Items like this (sought after items) are sold on this board very typically. I have seen people selling high level Hami's on the board which cannot be acquired through gameplay, just like names- In fact, it stands to reason that names can be acquired through gameplay, by making a point to get the ones you want before others get them.

    I'm just wondering what the difference is. I initially pointed out that selling names for inf was just like selling any other in game item. People argued that because names are limited in quantity, ie: each name once per server, that it was not the same thing as selling other items for inf. I retorted by pointing out that there are items (high level HamiO's) which are no longer obtainable in game, thereby making them more scarce and nonrenewable than names, that are sold for inf and no one seems to have a problem with that.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aneko View Post
    Except that even the most rare items are still in technically unlimited supply. Names are unique (or at least finite).

    Nope. There is no way to generate more high level HamiO's than are presently available, much like specific names.
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Captain_Karate View Post
    I'm not sure why you quoted Fulmens post, as your reply to it seems to have nothing to do with what he was talking about.

    ???

    Seemed like he was talking about the 'sanctity' of names, in that you can only have each name once on each server, which means that there are only 16 (?) servers, so a given name is only available a total of 16 times. I thought the implication he was making was that it was "wrong" to sell names because each one can only be had so many different times, and they were not something that "more" could be produced of, which lead to my point that many rare high level HamiO's were in the same boat, if not even harder to obtain, and if that meant that he found it disagreeable to sell those also.
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by AlienOne View Post
    Since you like using Gravitic Emination, I would mention to you that if you've used that power on a group as an opening move, running in with Inky Aspect will stack the stun for a higher total stun mag, which *may* also stun more enemies for longer. Also, if you're making use of Unchain Essence, you have the ability to provide mass stun for an entire mob--bosses included--and that can prove to be quite useful, surviveability-wise.

    "Alien"

    You can actually stun entire groups of enemies, bosses included, with just Inky and Emanation, provided that they are even level.
  25. And for this one I totally apologize. I was online, but thought I scheduled this event for next weekend. I brought my main (rogue) full hero for this event to pick up alignment merits and help a friend with prestige- I was planning on making him a Vigilante this week, and I have no other Villains on Protector.

    I guess I need to learn to read a calendar. I'll use my get out of jail free card (I still have one of those, right?) and try this next weekend as I thought I was all along.