joebartender

Minor Nitpick but GM's do indeed work in Paragon Studios. They have made a couple cameo appearances on Zwill's coffee talks. One stopping to make a joke about GM's not hating players.

Bill's guide is good and a great resource. Some of the info is going to become dated when i21 hits but I am sure he will have an update out fairly quickly once everything from the VIP beta is final

I didn't know my keys either. I believe in those fields I entered that I did not have the information and was able to get an unlock with just my master account name, password and my date of birth.

Really hope it gets sorted out for you.

Are you saying that you have been gone for sometime and just coming back this weekend and that you were not an active user when NcSoft had us all reverify our account info and security questions a few months back?

I was locked out of my master account when they made this change. Took maybe 30min to get my account questions reset using the links in the NcSoft support knowledge base.

The link to the forms is here https://help.ncsoft.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/7960

I didn't have any of the id numbers they asked for or box serial codes. I was able to get my account unlocked with my Date of Birth and my master account name. Hope the fix is that easy for you.

I will have to respectfully apologize as my memory seems to have failed me on this one.

I have a very vivid memory of this power being able to miss and deleting the character that I had leveled to 28 just to have that power after seeing Energy Drain miss repeatedly unless I had hit build up before it's use.

This would have been pre i13 revamp and I am unable to find that data on either Redtomax or Paragon wiki.

I concede that I must have an incorrect recollection on this matter.

Whoops need to proof my posts before I send them. Thanks for clearing up my error

This is false. Powersink in /ELA is auto hit. Energy Drain can and will miss. I would think that with Energy Drain being changed into a clone of Energy Absorbtion from Ice/ that it will keep the tohit check in the revamp.

The new tier 5 for the leaping pool. It's very similar to Shield Charge in use and function.

I am not sure what your trying to say here. Mind/ is already a dom primary. It is hard to get more dominator esq than that. The set is exactly the same for doms as it is for trollers.

As for /TM if that was what you had meant instead of mind. One of the cornerstone abilities of the set is a pbaoe toggle debuff that pretty much means your going to be in melee most of the time to get the most out of your powers.

I am assuming your taking WoC for concept reasons?

I really think the best answer is to not ever take WoC and slot the Contagious Confusion proc into confuse to turn it into a mini mass confuse.

If you are deadset on having WoC then I would most likley slot it with the proc. The reason being that the proc by itself is more effective than the whole power, when you combine the two you get an almost useful confuse aura.

Black Scorpion tends to take the least amount of time from my personal experience.

You understand beta testing is to find and fix bugs right? How else do you get enough players poking and prodding a system to find the problems and weak points that need fixed?

I went over to Freedom to see how the pay per run farms were. Mostly just curious since I farm more than my fair share on my home server.

I was rather let down by the experience.

It took over 10 minutes to get a slot on a farm each of the 5 times I went on runs.

Each farmer was intent on running Creys for their farm. All took over 10minutes to complete and all limited themselves to only 3 people being pl'ed with one being venge bait to start the farm. Everyone ran +3x8 with bosses.

So long waits, substandard farm ( no one that knows what they are doing are running that dog) substandard run times and not a one of them smart enough to use a good set of keybinds to increase their damage/lower their times.

I can blow through that map in 4:07 on my TF built SS/FA for crying out loud.

Limiting Insp to 4 or 5 at a time just makes the start up costs a bit higher. Tier 4's will still get the job done and as you have pointed out, you are able to get out in 90 seconds now. A team of 2 would be able to do this in 60 seconds even with a limit on Insp stacking. Sure it costs a bit more but the returns are still stellar.

The Brute damage cap is most likely meant to scale with level. I really don't see why they would be the only exception.

The idea of scaling Fury with level I find distasteful. No other AT has it's inherent treated in this manner. Yes defenders have their self buff from Vigilance scale but team buff portion is constant from level 1. As much as the game has moved forward in making it faster to get out of the low level ghetto I would hate to see it take a step back with a move like this.

As for making inspirations drop on zoning. I think that would most likely stop this form of farming but I doubt the devs can find a way to code it. For how many years have we been double stacking shields and buffs due to the game not being able to tell we are already buffed upon zoning? Even the Health and End procs have this issue.

I can't say I like the idea of limiting ambushes. Mass carnage is part of what makes being a superhero fun. If anything removing the Agro cap from ambush spawns so that your under fire from all the enemies would be a balance. As fast as the spawns drop in these missions there are still quite a few times when your over the agro cap and the mobs are awaiting their turn to get in on the fight.

512178 by Neogumbercules. At that low level you don't gain anything by running a map tailored to your secondary as your resists are to low to make that a leverage point. It is much more beneficial to find a low damage throughput combination like what Neogumbercules did here.

I don't know who originated the idea. I have been doing this for over 2 years now but I was inspired to try this from a post in an old Arcanaville thread titled I believe "The solo leveling conjecture". Someone in that thread blew away the leveling curve at the time by using a claws/wp brute on an all boss 32 spawn point map to go 1-22 in 90 minutes.

I took that concept of level locking to maximize % of enemy health taken per attack and married it to the popular concept of ambush farming but I highly doubt I was the 1st person to do this.

Shark is the easiest/shortest trip from the BM to the AE.

Straight line less than 500 yards. Easy to avoid the mobs.

You can take the Black Helicopter from Mercy North right behind Kalinda to Shark and it is less than 700 yards to the BM. Shorter run than dragging butt cross Mercy I think.

It is not possible to build a SoA to do no damage and leech a team. Thank God for small favors

It is perfectly possible to build an SoA that buffs the heck out of team while also debuffing and controlling hordes of enemies as others have already stated.

If you really wanted to do the least amount of damge possible, buff your teamates and still be filling your overall role on a team then playing some form of controller that slotted every power for max hold/imob/sleep/whatever isn't damge but still hampers the foe effect's and recharge would serve much better than trying to gimp down a damage class like SoA to fit your needs.