brophog02

If most players had their way, they'd log in to the character creator and have the 50 already waiting for them.

That's because, due to over-commercialization, Christmas now starts sometime in July.

You forgot the part about it being totally and completely useless to the purpose of this thread. Ironically, the commentary on fun is threadjacking this thread, thereby causing a decrease in someone's fun.

I'm all for fun and challenge, too, but this is a thread on purples, and folks that admit to not caring about 50s probably are not good sources of advice for folks asking about an enhancement that can only work once you get to 50.

That's a pretty pessimistic post, and like posts of its kind it is rather ignorant as well.

Purples have a few big advantages:

1) The set bonuses they improve on are the largest of their kind.
2) They don't expire while exemplaring.

While everything is doable with just SOs, IOs can completely change the balance equation in this game. Endurance and Recharge, for instance, are two primary balance mechanics and set IOs can make those into a complete joke. A lot of powers in this game are balanced around rather lengthy recharge timers that global recharge through sets can drastically alter. Set IOs can make endurance a complete non-factor for most builds.

Is it required? Certainly not, but it does change the game in a very definite way beyond just vanity.

But, by the same token, have they denied it was for RP? Anyone that assumes that it isn't about RP, without such a statement, is thereby equally wrong.

Its popularity could be cut in half, and you wouldn't even notice.........it's that lodged in people's heads.

At least you discovered the real issue.

I'm so cheap that I'll sit with a toon with billions of inf and I won't budge higher than 250 for common salvage..........

Put the top down and enjoy the ride!

I really like my Ninja/Storm to go against smaller, tougher groups because that's really what they're better at, but for big groups the more effective way was to not use Hurricane, but instead to use Oppressive Gloom + Thunderclap and Teleport Team into the mob.

Storm gives you that kind of flexibility, but whichever route you choose to use, you really need to make sure to keep spawns as tightly packed as possible to help with the Ninjas limited AOE, and you need to either have the mobs heavily debuffed or controlled to keep those spastic slashers alive. The def/res IOs do help Ninjas a lot, but be very mindful that the range is rather small on those and that the Ninjas heavily prefer to be in melee.

The other recommendation is to put a goto command on an extra mouse button. It makes it very easy to point and click, and you'll be using the goto command literally all of the time with the Ninjas. Doing this, I find the Ninjas one of the easiest sets to control.

Ignoring for a second those that think that if it ain't first, it ain't worth playing........this list can be very flexible depending on how aggressive you are willing to be with inspirations.

Inspirations can compensate for damage, healing, or endurance depending on what you need for your powersets. Inspirations drop almost a half rack on average if you're soloing a map set for 8 man spawns. You can keep a steady +200% damage bonus due to inspirations with just a few simple macros to convert everything to damage, provided you're moving at a decent enough pace to keep the inspirations rolling. The same can obviously be done with healing/endurance if those are what you need. The only time that idea gets short changed is when you have to start filling many gaps that way, but for troller combinations that is rarely the case.

I may be misinterpreting this, so pardon me if so. Energy as a primary is strictly middle of the road, damage wise, both in AOE and ST damage potential. The combination of Energy/Energy improves ST through the use of the melee attacks, but there are obviously many combinations out there, and therefore many that still exceed this combination.

They are not quite as good as you make them sound. Personal Force Field will max out your defense, and provides good resistance, but at the cost of only being able to use powers on self while it is up.

Temp Invulnerability provides 33% (slotted) resistance to smashing/lethal and is a toggle. Force of Nature, when combined with Temp Invuln, provides capped resistance (75%) to Smashing and Lethal, and about 55% to everything else, save for 0% for psionic.

I still prefer Elec Mastery, instead. Static Discharge provides more AOE damage. Charged Armor is very similiar to Temp Invulnerability, but with a little less S/L reistance (2% less) but with the added Energy resistance. Surge of Power is similar to Force of Nature, and when combined with Charged Armor caps S/L/E, provides 55% to everything but psionic, but only 45% to negative (as opposed to 55% for the Force pool combo). Surge of Power also comes 3 levels before Force of Nature.

Static Discharge does standard blaster damage for a cone. There are a few blaster powers (very few) that are extreme outliers, and people ignorantly think that those that are not the outliers on the high end are therefore weak.

Static Discharge does the base 56.9 damage as a Blaster primary cone attack.

I said nothing about the majority. I'm disputing this exact statement:

Choose your words more carefully. In your definition, a PUG has to be inexperienced? That's how you read. I don't know of anyone that would agree with this definition.

All while transferring it into the gibberish language.

Reading this thread is kinda like going to your boss with a proposal written on napkins with crayon.......

You better bet they do. Random PUGs speed all of the TFs, and do quite well at it.

(Which is a big reason I run fewer TFs now. I hate speed TFs)

Play a Stormie during the Zombie Invasion..........you're a GOD. I'm not lying one bit. An overpowered, always on, costs very little endurance giant -tohit patch...........where do I sign up?

This goes in the suggestions forum, where it will satisfy this month's quota for said idea.

((Yes, it literally comes up every month))

You can still do all kinds of different things in AE......

The same thing happens with Explosive Blast, only in reverse. Despite the fact it is a clone of several other blaster powers, and has the same damage as even more blaster powers, the fact is it is a tier 8 power......and therefore it "sucks" because it doesn't do more damage than it does.

It is just one of those things everyone has to learn is that tier isn't always relevant. Lots of similar powers have vastly different tiers assigned to them.

I have a few consistent salvage niches that I've used for several years now to fund lowbies, and this happens constantly on those. As you say, we're talking a difference of ten fold or more, and on a weekend day you can watch them buy and sell despite the discrepancy.

Yes, and the difference is this:

Energy doesn't have Shocking Grasp and Total Focus in more damaging than Thunder Strike. Charged Brawl/Havoc Punch/Shocking Grasp does more damage in less time than Thunder Strike does. You'll find that advice to skip Thunder Strike to be rather common, for that reason. With the damage and low activation of the other 3 attacks, Thunder Strike simply isn't needed for damage purposes.

I'm not suggesting necessarily to take Lightning Clap (I personally don't) but if it is mitigation you want, Lightning Clap does that job far better than Thunder Strike does because of the long animation.