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It doesn't? Arcanaville stated a number of concerns it would address in the part of her post that you quoted. I would like a solo path, yet there may be other approaches that would at least work for me personally - I hate joining teams, but have no problem punching the same target other people are punching as long as it isn't kill stealing. And while it's hardly my favorite thing, I often join short duration teams that I can drop on a moment's notice if desired like a Rikti invasion team. What I don't like is joining teams to do missions, and what almost makes me physically ill is the idea of joining a pick up group to do a full task force. I have only done three task forces in my career across all characters, and none of them were with pick up groups. Two of them, an ITF and STF played with some of the Scrapper forum regulars on the test server, were great fun. So perhaps all I personally need to do is get on the RIGHT team for my teperament. But that's never been a pick up group.

Interestingly, I was an avid participant in the old school Hami raids. Not sure why I hate most teams, but had no problem joining a hundred and fifty people doing raid content. Perhaps it was the anonymity of being in such a large crowd, of being only a tiny, unnecessary cog in a huge machine.

Anyway, internal contradictions aside (people are complicated), if I'm making any point here, it's... well, that people are complicated. Not everyone likes the same things even in the same game.

But I'm happy enough to take a wait and see attitude with the incarnate stuff. It's great that the devs got out at least ONE way to get to the very rare before I20 was even released. It's not a way I like, but it's a way a whole lot of people will like, so good. And since the devs say they're looking into giving us more options (good), I'll wait and see what we get. I've been happy with much to most of what they've delivered in the past few years. I'll be surprised if, when all is said and done, I'm unhappy with what they do with the incarnate levels and content.

So far as I know, working as designed. As best I understand it, if the drop rate were such that "casual" level 50 soloers could "level up" in any reasonable time frame, the speed task force people would find "leveling up" to be completely trivial.

As a soloer it doesn't make me particularly happy, but on the other hand, I've always liked grinding out my rewards over a long time frame, and it doesn't bother me (much) if someone else goes 1-50 in a day. I'm enjoying playing. And I've spent more time playing my 50s over the years than leveling anything, much of that time with no reward other than the play itself.

Hopefully they'll add a solo option for the notice of the incarnate, and it'll just take me a while. I can live with that. I'm a grinder.

Not necessarily. My expensive build and Ramia Angriffe's cheap build both soft cap without Mako's Bite in Divine Avalanche. Both of us have only a single Makos' Bite set, both in Soaring Dragon. I'm getting 23% defense from Divine Avalanche, and Ramia's build gets 21%, allowing us to soft cap with a single hit.

With Arcanatime, Smite is 1.188, Siphon is 2.112, so 3.3 total. You don't get to add Midnight Grasp's time to that for the reason you cite - a power isn't recharging during its own animation. So Midnight Grasp must recharge in 3.3 seconds for Smite -> Siphon Life -> Midnight Grasp. 15/recharge = 3.3, so recharge = 455% total, or +355% enhancement.

Oh, I'm sure it can be done. It won't be easy, but it sounds like you're up for a challenge.

The usual - 2 billion on the market if you're lucky enough to get one of the few that are posted. Not sure what they're going for off market these days.

Yeah, I think it was fairly recently, like maybe a few months or half a year. I remember put-put-putting around on one of my characters. I took flight for concept, and three slotted both Swiftness and Hover for speed. Put-put-put slow. I recently returned to him, and Hover with the slots felt almost as fast as flying. It was fast enough that I took the slots back out, and now go with the default slot. What does that give... 26.7 mph at 50 according to Mids. Certainly less at lower levels, but workable. I tend to swap back and forth between Hover and Fly in missions, which I've bound to the E key. But Hover stays on in combat. 20+ mph is fast enough to get from bad guy to bad buy. My IO'd toons are Hovering over 30 mph without any specific attention paid to flight speed. It took me a little time to get used to (I'm a long time bunny hopper), but it works just fine.

Hover is a lot faster than it used to be, plus we now get Swiftness for free. It's perfectly practical to Hover in combat these days.

Battle Maiden has 64% to hit (as do tip mission Devouring Earth). So you'd need 59% defense to floor her to hit, meaning that 59% is the soft cap for her. I called it the Apex soft cap as a sort of shorthand, I guess.

There's also the pet soft cap at 70%. I assume that's not relevant here, but I've not run Apex.

I'm going to guess "yes", since it interrupts things, but don't know for certain. I've never taken Stealth.

Oh, and I think only half the defense from Stealth suppresses, but that still leaves you with the same problem of being a few percentage points under the Apex soft cap.

The proc is better in Physical Perfection, and at least arguably better in Stamina. Assuming both accolades but no set bonuses, 0.2 endurance per second vs. 0.09 EPS in Physical Perfection, 0.2 EPS vs. 0.19 EPS in Stamina. Also, the recovery from the proc cannot be debuffed. I DO prefer reliable recovery to random recovery, so I might not proc first in Stamina, though. Arguable either way, I'd say.