gameboy1234

Yes, well, grab some SOs, you'll need them for Mender Ramiel's arc. Get some advice on IOs (500 million Inf is indeed plenty for a first pass. I've done permanent IO builds for far less too.)

Then get to Dark Astoria and hop on some iTrials. Pretty basic plan, all in all.

It may be best to go to the "real world" (primal earth) anyway. There's more to do, and you can easily access First Ward from Talos or Cap, since portals are set up in both places. Good new arcs in Primal for villains and heroes both, and as mentioned the new Praetorian content won't take you all the way to 29.

I'd say the same thing about an Invulnerability/Super Strength tanker.

1. In Invulnerability, slot everything with 2 Resists that will take it. Slot one Endurance Reduction in any power that will take it.

2. Slot 3 Heal and 3 Recharge into Dull Pain.

3. Slot your attacks with 2 Accuracy, 1 Damage and 1 Endurance Reduction. Add more Damage when you have extra slots.

4. Any level you have an extra slot, add it to Stamina, until you have 3 slots total. Put 3 Endurance Modification in them.


#4 Applies to any and all builds, so it's not really harder than SR/Staff.

Also, Air Superiority is nice with Super Strength (no weapon redraw), and Fly is probably the easiest travel power imo.

When picking any powers in this game, you usually want to take from both your primary and secondary evenly, or keep your primary one or two powers ahead of your secondary. Skipping powers is kind of advanced. It can be done effectively, but you need to know what you are doing. Not being experienced here leads to things like noobs skipping powers they don't "like," Darkest Night for example, and then I have to log out of Atlas Park to avoid going crazy or saying something really rude.

There's no one "right" way to play the game, but taking some advice can make your experience a lot more fun. It doesn't hurt to plan out a build, even just on a piece of paper, then execute it. Takes out some guesswork, and the resulting increase in fun is usually worth it.

For early levels though, take the attacks, at least two, or three for beasts and maybe demons. Before you have all your pets, those attacks do a significant percent of your damage, and should not be avoided. Also, with only a few pets to command, you might be pretty bored unless you have a few attacks to play with.

Note that /Time is a little busy, but not too bad. I'd take the first two attacks and see if you'd like to add more to your attack chain.

Personal opinion: Repair is crappy, and /Time has a much better heal. Skip Repair, use the one in /Time.

This is actually a neat idea. There's a couple of generic statues behind City Hall in Atlas Park. Perhaps those statues could be replaced with States and S. Psyc.

Mmm, fresh baked code. I love the smell of failing integration tests in the morning.

Yeah this is important. I assumed that going VIP and then back to Prem would allow you to re-choose all of your server unlocks. Not so. Once you unlock a slot as Prem, I believe that's it. That slot is set, and short of a character transfer you can't alter it.

You've basically got two sets of unlocks, one for VIP and one for Prem, and once you pick 'em they stay like that, no matter how much you switch.

Which should multiply your subsequent damage by 30,000. Yeah I can see that overcoming all damage done to something like an AV.

Thing is, with duration in there too, it seems to me that a Tanker, Brute, etc. without Taunt would never be able to steal aggro from someone who has Taunt. An aura usually only has a few seconds duration, so anyone with Taunt should be able to stay 4x to 10x ahead of anyone else. Assuming they're both playing normally, doing damage, etc.


Thanks for pointing out my lack of reading comprehension.

ED counts against IO Sets. However, not all individual IOs provide the same bonus. So that Set, Perfect Zinger, provides Range, Taunt Duration, and Recharge. So he's probably not going over the rule because his "rule of 3" is distributed over several IOs. In fact, you can see in the screenshot that he has 93.6% Taunt Duration, 23.5% Range, 39.2% Recharge, none of which are over the ED caps.)

BTW, the rule of three is not really a rule of 3, that's just an easy mnemonic. The real rule is a rule of "look up and understand the formula." This works out to a rule of 3 for SOs, but nothing else. Not TOs, not DOs, and not IOs. (Dunno about Hamios.) So you have to be careful how you interpret it.


EDIT: fixed Perfect Zinger because the answers were right in front of me.