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I saw the ad as well, but I reserve my mayhems for my villain group members as a free perk. To date, I have helped over 50 toons get their invader accolade.

It was late, around 1 AM, when I hopped into Pkt D for a BAF. I got invited to one and was surprised to find 1 team full of scrappers and another full of tanks/brutes. My toon ended up in the squishy team of corrs, defs, doms and trollers. When it was full, the organizer gave some vague tasks for the teams and said, 'I'm out!'. He left the league. Folks decided to drop and the new leader tried to salvage the situation. While the new leader recruited, the original organizer starts forming another BAF.
It takes time to form BAF and people were very irate for waiting around for a poorly formed league.
Thankfully, the new leader reorganized and invited more support to replace the ones that left, so we were able to run successfully.
This happened on Freedom, btw, so if any of you notice a wacky league setup like the one described above, beware and make a note about the organizer in your notes.

So I led a speed ITF last night with 3 squishies, including me. I specifically announced that the ITF was speed and there was a shard ITF also forming at the same time. Before I started, I mentioned that the ITF will be speed because I have other 50s that I need my notice on. Folks seemed ok with that so I started it.
After freeing 3 sibyls, I noticed that the other 2 squishies, both kins, weren't with us. So I TPd one over, hoping for some delicious fulcrum shift. We finished the sibyls and ran to the altar. Once again, the kins weren't there and one was dead. So I TPd them to the altar and rezed.
For the cysts, I asked the kins to at least keep the melee boosted, and they don't have to participate in attacking since the cysts explode and if they attack they will grab agro. As for me, my general strategy to stay alive was to eat lucks and debuff the cysts to make it easier to kill for melee. While doing the cysts, one of the kins said something like, 'if you don't clear the mobs, the squishies will die.' I wasn't sure how to reply to that, since it's a speed ITF. The team won't stop and kill mobs. So I eventually said, 'I have 20% def, so I just eat lucks and keep up.' I didn't die once during the cyst run while the kins died and lay there. The kin said other things, but I didn't want to argue, so I said nothing.
For the last mission, one of the kins kept dying a lot, so I rezed him whenever my rez was ready and tried to pass some of my lucks, sturdys and heals to him. His inventory was full.
WTH? It boggled my mind... why was he not converting all those insps to luck to boost his defense? Why did he have to wait for me to rez when he could have converted them to a wakie?
I prolly got a bad rep from the kins. It's a speed ITF, so I'm guessing they didn't know what that means. I suppose I could've slowed it down for them, but I only have a couple of hours in the evenings.

As long as you can get Prae missions, your teammates don't have to be Praetorians. My villain went to Pkt D, teamed up with friends who are mission holders and we leveled together. My vill was allowed to be trained in the Imperial city as well.

I hear some swear by bronze rolls and others stick to silver. So I'm thinking of doing an experiment. I'll cap 2 toons to 9999 tickets and roll 1 toon with bronze and the other with silver. Then I'll craft the useful recipes and sell them.
So I'd like to post a question to everyone. Which level range should I roll in? By default, I'm thinking of rolling lvl 30 bronze and lvl 30 silver.
Thoughts, comments, suggestions, flames? (well, maybe not flames...)

Thanks!

Hi All,

I tested my stoner against Romans and he gets debuffed to bits, then faceplants. He does ok against nemesis and AE.
I'm using the build below, and it is about 80% slotted on my stoner. Am I missing something?

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Bumi2: Level 50 Technology Brute
Primary Power Set: Super Strength
Secondary Power Set: Stone Armor
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Teleportation
Power Pool: Leadership
Ancillary Pool: Energy Mastery

Villain Profile:
Level 1: Punch

• (A) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage
• (3) Crushing Impact - Damage/Endurance
• (5) Crushing Impact - Damage/Recharge
• (5) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
• (7) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance

Level 1: Rock Armor

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
• (29) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
• (31) Gift of the Ancients - Run Speed +7.5%

Level 2: Stone Skin

• (A) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3%
• (27) Aegis - Resistance/Endurance
• (29) Aegis - Resistance

Level 4: Earth's Embrace

• (A) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance
• (7) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Recharge
• (13) Doctored Wounds - Endurance/Recharge
• (13) Doctored Wounds - Recharge
• (15) Doctored Wounds - Heal

Level 6: Boxing

• (A) Crushing Impact - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
• (15) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
• (21) Crushing Impact - Damage/Recharge
• (21) Crushing Impact - Damage/Endurance
• (23) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage

Level 8: Knockout Blow

• (A) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage
• (9) Crushing Impact - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
• (9) Crushing Impact - Damage/Recharge
• (11) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
• (11) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
• (23) Force Feedback - Chance for +Recharge

Level 10: Mud Pots

• (A) Tempered Readiness - Accuracy/Damage/Slow
• (19) Tempered Readiness - Accuracy/Endurance

Level 12: Taunt

• (A) Mocking Beratement - Taunt/Recharge

Level 14: Tough

• (A) Aegis - Resistance
• (31) Aegis - Resistance/Endurance
• (31) Impervium Armor - Psionic Resistance

Level 16: Rooted

• (A) Miracle - Heal
• (43) Miracle - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
• (43) Miracle - Heal/Endurance

Level 18: Rage

• (A) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff
• (34) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge
• (36) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge/Endurance
• (36) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Recharge/Endurance
• (40) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Chance for Build Up
• (42) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Endurance

Level 20: Weave

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
• (36) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
• (37) Kismet - Accuracy +6%

Level 22: Hasten

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO
• (37) Recharge Reduction IO

Level 24: Recall Friend

• (A) Interrupt Reduction IO

Level 26: Teleport

• (A) Time & Space Manipulation - +Stealth

Level 28: Haymaker

• (A) Kinetic Crash - Damage/Knockback
• (37) Kinetic Crash - Accuracy/Knockback
• (40) Kinetic Crash - Recharge/Knockback
• (43) Kinetic Crash - Recharge/Endurance
• (45) Kinetic Crash - Damage/Endurance/Knockback
• (46) Kinetic Crash - Accuracy/Damage/Knockback

Level 30: Maneuvers

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed

Level 32: Foot Stomp

• (A) Obliteration - Damage
• (33) Obliteration - Accuracy/Recharge
• (33) Obliteration - Damage/Recharge
• (33) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
• (34) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
• (34) Force Feedback - Chance for +Recharge

Level 35: Minerals

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
• (50) Gift of the Ancients - Run Speed +7.5%

Level 38: Granite Armor

• (A) Aegis - Resistance/Endurance
• (39) Aegis - Psionic/Status Resistance
• (39) Aegis - Resistance
• (39) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
• (40) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
• (50) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed

Level 41: Superior Conditioning

• (A) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End

Level 44: Laser Beam Eyes

• (A) Decimation - Chance of Build Up
• (45) Decimation - Damage/Recharge
• (45) Decimation - Accuracy/Damage
• (46) Decimation - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge
• (46) Decimation - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge

Level 47: Energy Torrent

• (A) Positron's Blast - Chance of Damage(Energy)
• (48) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
• (48) Positron's Blast - Damage/Recharge
• (48) Positron's Blast - Damage/Endurance
• (50) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage

Level 49: Physical Perfection

• (A) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End

Level 0: Born In Battle
Level 0: High Pain Threshold
Level 0: Invader
Level 0: Marshal
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Level 1: Brawl

• (A) Empty

Level 1: Sprint

• (A) Empty

Level 2: Rest

• (A) Empty

Level 1: Fury
Level 4: Ninja Run
Level 2: Swift

• (A) Run Speed IO
• (3) Run Speed IO

Level 2: Hurdle

• (A) Jumping IO

Level 2: Health

• (A) Numina's Convalescence - +Regeneration/+Recovery
• (17) Numina's Convalescence - Heal
• (17) Miracle - +Recovery
• (25) Miracle - Heal
• (25) Regenerative Tissue - +Regeneration
• (27) Regenerative Tissue - Heal/Recharge

Level 2: Stamina

• (A) Performance Shifter - EndMod
• (19) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Recharge
• (42) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Accuracy
• (42) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End

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Set Bonus Totals:

• 5.5% DamageBuff(Smashing)
• 5.5% DamageBuff(Lethal)
• 5.5% DamageBuff(Fire)
• 5.5% DamageBuff(Cold)
• 5.5% DamageBuff(Energy)
• 5.5% DamageBuff(Negative)
• 5.5% DamageBuff(Toxic)
• 5.5% DamageBuff(Psionic)
• 5.5% Defense(Melee)
• 4.25% Defense(Smashing)
• 4.25% Defense(Lethal)
• 7.375% Defense(Fire)
• 7.375% Defense(Cold)
• 4.25% Defense(Energy)
• 4.25% Defense(Negative)
• 3% Defense(Psionic)
• 5.5% Defense(Ranged)
• 7.063% Defense(AoE)
• 2.25% Max End
• 4% Enhancement(Heal)
• 39% Enhancement(Accuracy)
• 82.5% Enhancement(RechargeTime)
• 10% FlySpeed
• 168.67 HP (11.25%) HitPoints
• 10% JumpHeight
• 10% JumpSpeed
• Knockback (Mag -3)
• Knockup (Mag -3)
• MezResist(Immobilize) 9.35%
• MezResist(Stun) 2.2%
• MezResist(Terrorized) 2.2%
• 14% (0.234 End/sec) Recovery
• 48% (3.004 HP/sec) Regeneration
• 2.5% Resistance(Smashing)
• 2.835% Resistance(Fire)
• 2.835% Resistance(Cold)
• 6% Resistance(Psionic)
• 47% RunSpeed

Hi All,

I subbed after the introduction of the set IOs, so I have no idea what it was like with just SOs. In the forums, I see posts recommending certain sets to be more survivable and then someone points out that players used to do such and such SF with just SOs.
If the game is playable with just SOs, how come people are spending billions on a build, and complaining about the price of purples and pvp IOs? I also see some elitism for certain TFs, such as only inviting IOd toons for a speed run. In one specific ITF, the team only needed 1 more to make 8, but the leader passed on several toons that broadcasted because they didn't have sets. He checks the sets before inviting the last one.
What happened? Were the powersets nerfed? Are the SF/TFs more difficult?
I love the crafting system and all, and I think it's great, but I'm just curious...

Thanks for the clarification! I usually do respecs at lvl 50, so being able to do all the respecs at Lv 44+ makes it easier since the toon has more defensive powers at lv 50. Mwahaha! No more malfactor! Respec #2 and 3 here I come!
My corr had not done any respecs, so after doing the lvl 44+ respec, he got the Thorn Robber badge which I thought was 'only' awarded for a lvl 24+ respec. That prompted me to ask this question.

I'm under the impression that in order to get all respecs and badges, one must complete the trial from each of these contacts:
- Sparcetriel
- Trepsarciel
- Ractespriel

However, I heard that you can accomplish the same thing by using just one contact. For example, doing the trial 3x by starting it thru Ractespriel. Is this possible?

Thanks!

Everything will be restored by 4/1, 12 AM.

... wait a minute...

Uh-oh...

During my trial run, I created all sorts of MMs and doms and played them to 14. What I found was that I tend to like certain powersets better, so I pulled off all the loot on the 'doomed' toons and never looked back.
I leveled a stone/stone brute to 50 that didn't pass my longbow test. Instead of deleting, I shipped it off to Triumph during free transfer week to serve as a market mule. It is used to bid for recipes that I'll need for the active toons.
For me, it's more of an issue whether the toon's powerset meshes well with my playstyle and whether it meets my expectations for lvl 50 content.

I agree about frankenslotting. My first 50 was a dom, and frankenslotting helped keep down the costs. However, a speed ITF was really brutal to do with the dom, so I had to save enough to build up more defense.

An alternative to sets is common IOs. In some cases, it's actually cheaper to buy them from the market than to make it yourself. I think the commons are listed under Crafted->Other. Slot lvl 25 or 30 ones and you should be good to go!

Warning: Enhancement Diversification can cap for common IOs over lvl 30. For example, 3-slot Unstoppable with common recharge IOs.

Common
IO level | recharge time | time diff | % of base change | % diff
none___| 1,000.0 _____| 0.0 ____| 100.0% ________ | 0.0%
____10 | 740.2 _______| -259.8 _| 74.0% __________|-26.0%
____15 | 634.5 _______| -105.7 _| 63.5% __________|-10.6%
____20 | 567.8 _______| -66.7 __| 56.8%___________|-6.7%
____25 | 520.3 _______| -47.5 __| 52.0% __________|-4.8%
____30 | 511.1 _______| -9.2 ___| 51.1% __________|-0.9%
____35 | 508.9 _______| -2.2 ___| 50.9% __________|-0.2%
____40 | 506.7 _______| -2.2 ___| 50.7% __________|-0.2%
____45 | 504.5 _______| -2.2 ___| 50.5% __________|-0.2%
____50 | 502.3 _______| -2.2 ___| 50.2% __________|-0.2%

When 3-slotting with the same sort of enhancement, level 25-30 IOs give practically the same improvement as higher level ones, ie, (3) lvl 25s give a 48% improvement while (3) lvl 50s give a 50% improvement; a difference of a mere 2%.

For example, if you upgrade from (3) lvl 25 common IOs to (3) lvl 45 IOs, expect an improvement of 520.3 - 504.5 = 15.8 secs for a power that has a 1000 sec recharge.

What if the power had a 10 sec recharge time? If you upgrade to (3) lvl 45 IOs, you improve by 5.2 - 5.04 = 0.15 secs. A whoppingly large number!
Anyway, lvl 45 IOs cost more, so if you're on a budget, you may need to rethink whether you want to pay a lot for such a small improvement.

Some sets I use:

Decimation recipes - prolly 200k-500k each if you don't get lvl 40 ones.
Crushing Impact/Thunderstrike - 2-5 mil per crafted IO. Recipes around 50-500k.
Sandman - cheap
Stupefy recipes - prolly 200k-500k each if you don't get lvl 50 ones.
Dark Watcher/Call to Arms/Expedient R - check the IOs. Prolly can get 2-3 mill crafted if you don't get lvl 50 ones. Recipes are cheap.
Positron - prolly 200k-500k each if you don't get lvl 50 ones.
Red fortune - prolly 200k-500k each if you don't get lvl 50 ones.
Adjusted Targeting - prolly 200k-500k each if you don't get lvl 50 ones.
Defense: Red fortune, serendipity
Resist Damage: Titanium coating
End Mod: Efficiency Adap
Melee: Smashing haymaker, crushing impact, bruising blow
??? AOE: Multistrike, Sciroco's dervish (lvls 20-25 ONLY!)
Health/Heal: Harmonized healing, Triage, Doctored Wounds
To slot on the cheap side, I picked uncommon (yellow color) recipes. Most of my IOs are lvl 20-30. I only pick higher level IOs if I got the power above lvl 30. Note that the higher the level, the more the IO will cost to buy or craft.

Also look in Crafted Enhancements->Other for possible cheap common IOs.

How much can you spend per recipe? Let's look at the cost:
Recipe_______55000___100000____200000
Salv__________3000_____3000______3000
Craft@lvl30___40000____40000_____40000
1_slot_______98000___143000_____243000
88_slots__8,624,000__12,584,000__21,384,000

From the above table, if you spend 55000 per recipe, your cost for 88 slots is 8.6 million. If you spend 200k per recipe, 88 slots will cost 21 million. The above numbers assume lvl 30 recipes for crafting cost. Note that lvl 50 recipes cost 500k to craft. So with 20 mil, you can only craft (40) lvl 50 recipes which is just half your total slots.

Since you're a dominator, you want some recharge bonus to get as close to perma-dom as possible. There's quite a few uncommon sets out there that give 5% recharge bonus.

I also suggest investing 20-30 million for marketeering. Hop by the market forums and look at Organica's journal to get an idea of how it's done.

See ya in game!

I started playing villains about 1 yr ago and was lucky to have gotten an invitation to a very active VG. For the first 3 months of so, when I lead teams, I get half of the team mates from the coalition and half from broadcasts/search.
Over time, I built up a list of global friends and also got invited to private channels for speed SFs and Incarnate SFs.
When I build a team for a SF, I ask my global friends first because I know they are reliable, and then the private channels. After that, I ask in the VG coalition. Any remaining spots are filled with responses from broadcast or from global channels. Since a lot of Freedom players are on the east coast, I can usually build a team in a few minutes until about 1 AM Eastern time. After that, it takes longer to build a team. Freedom becomes very quiet when the Pacific coasters log off, which is around 1 AM pacific time.
Several folks have made good suggestions and as a 12 month vet, I can say that all those suggestions have worked for me.