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One of my favourite things to do is take my shield/ss to the storm palace. Now I dont know why (but im sure there is a good reason?) but shield charge does not work on the "circuit" which slows me down a bit. But I can still wipe out the mobs pretty quick with fireball+footstomp.

I also sometimes summon a Vanguard HVAS to follow me round (Although Im not sure if these now spawn as level 50s instead of 54s in a recent patch which I doubt would last as long). Except it sometimes falls off - it doesnt die as you can still see it in your pet display but never comes back.....

Have done a tonne of "playing the game" but nothing particularly scientific. So this is just my personal opinions based on how I perceive the problem

1) Drop rates seem to change based on type of enemy. The more exotic types of enemy seem to drop recipies more often. Freaks and Preatorians seems to drop less frequently. I personally think this may have been adjusted due to quantity of bm and freak farms. Clockwork, Hyrda and Council in particular seem to drop more often.

2) I also think there is a bug in the recipe drop logic which is also related to the "random" rare recipe rolls from merit/ticker vendors. It has happened to me too many times where I roll and get two or three of the same recipe in a row for me to think its just "random" - something is wrong here.

I know purples are not the easiest to come by - but I recently slotted footstomp with armageddon*5 (inc proc) and the force feedback chance for recharge on my shield/ss/pyre.

Not only only do I get the yummy set bonuses of the purple set but with the armageddon 33% chance of fire dmg footstomp often does significant damage during rage crash as the procs aren't affected.

I got lucky though and had some drop - so it didnt cost me as much as it would paying full price.

So I consider myself a pretty casual player maybe 5-10 hours a week. But I have about 10 level 50s and have been around since launch. I have been loving i16 and this weekend ran through both unai keman and maria jenkins arcs on my IO'd shield/ss tank on Freedom reaping a tonne of rare recipes and merits. So I thought I would end my weekend with a MoITF. I have done tonnes of ITFs before.

Headed to cimerora, was not long before I was starting on a MoITF attempt on -1 difficulty. Had some controllers and a stone brute on team plus a scrapper or two and a peacebringer. So we have a quick conversation about how to proceed, and then head into the first mish and start to basically clear all the mobs in turn and squishies stay back while we maintained the aggro and cleared the large groups.

I dived into the room at the start of the first mish on the left which ive probably done a hundred times before, aggro'd myself up to the cap and waited till they bunched up on me before firing off shield charge and footstomp.

Blinked.

Faceplanted.

MoITF Failed.

I had been running -1 arcs all day long with my toggles off to save endurance, no tough/weave or anything running. Followed by all sorts of lectures by the team about waiting for the stone brute to get aggro and furious apologising by me. DOH!

Perfect. Tyvm.

Hello

Im sure i read somewhere that the story arc merit rewards were increasing for i16. Would someone kindly point me in the direction of the thread or post a list ?

I found the wiki page but cant see if this is updated for i16 or not

http://cityofheroes.wikia.com/wiki/Hero_Merit_Rewards

Many Thanks

Hmm thanks I did wonder if tentacles would stop torrent doing knockback. Im still quite tempted by torrent though. Not great on teams but then plenty of other aoe goodness in the set and still viable I guess for solo mishes in buildings and stuff and AVs. Petrifying gaze w/basilisk set 4 slotted might be better as a pre.req for tentacles maybe? Narrow cone kinda sucks though. My usual game time is spent fighting bosses in AE, running oro arcs, the shorter TFs etc but not worried about PVP.

So is anyone really making good use of burn+tentacles then? or will i respec into it just to respec out again after i16 lands.

Looking for anyones experiences with Darkness epic on a Spines/Fire. Especially torrent and tentacles coupled with Burn. Pros? Cons?

+ Enfeebled set in tentacles for 4% ish extra melee
+ -tohit of dark powers sounds good on top of ~33% melee def
+ Burn with tentacles - yummy.
+ Force feedback proc in torrent
- torrent does knockback? hows this work on bosses.

So whats the catch in the real world. Never taken burn yet on a fire melee toon but im toying with the idea.

With i16 just around the corner what are your thoughts on blaze mastery with Spines/Fire? Will burn be as effective without tentacles ? Is burn even neccessary with the addition of fireball ?

Thanks...

I have got mids but I cant easily tell in the real world what is better for my survivability. More regen pre second or more health.

Hello

Simple one hopefully, my shield/ss tank currently has health 5 slotted as follows

numinas heal (50)
numinas +regen/recov
heal (50)
miracle +recovery
regenerative tissue +regen

I cant work out if it will it be better for me to leave the 50 heal IO or switch to a 50 end/heal numinas to get the 1.88% health bonus ?

Same question really for in True grit (currently 3 heal IOs) swapping to 3 numinas (heal,heal/end,heal/rech) for the 12% regen and 1.88% health ?

I have some other +max health bonuses and all the accolades

many thanks

I have experienced the "clicking for reward rolls" crash fairly often aswell. This happens on both the merit and ticker sellers and seems to occur just when i click on the menu to click into reward rolls.