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Having a resist shield is nice but PFF isn't always reliable so you'll want to grab Phase as well, which means you won't be able to fit Leadership unless you drop another power pool.

Wrong. It does affect player targets but it seems only some self-rezzes are affected.

Soul for PvE, Leviathan for PvP.

No. Meleeing on a Blaster is a bad idea.

Using TF is like sticking a giant neon "Free AS" sign above your head.

We'll be on in a while, I guess, but the character copy tool not working has us pretty messed up at the moment.

This is somewhat amusing, to me at least, because I said this was going to happen as soon as the first test run of the event finished up. Any recurring zone event that requires large numbers of coordinated people in a game that 1) is heavily instance-based, and 2) has a relatively small and spread-out population is only going to be popular for a short while before people forget about it - for example, I did a few during the Halloween event just to get the badges on my mains, and then spent the rest of the event ToT'ing. At least zombie and Rikti invasions don't require large amounts of people to work.

Y'know, I figured by staying clear of the Tanker forums I'd be able to avoid a dose of JB but here he is going into other sections and posting the same stupid stuff and then calling himself a martyr.

Also, lol @ Ultimo claiming the Defender inherent buff happened because Defenders were underpowered. It's kind of like claiming pre-buff Stalkers, Khelds, or Dominators were underpowered, or old Defiance was underpowered (hint: none of those were). Look at the Stalker, Kheld, Dom, Defiance, and now Vigilance changes and there is one thing in common: damage increase. Apparently, the key to making things appealing lately is MOAR DAMAGE - so I guess, in a sad sort of way, that any eventual solution to "fixing" Tankers (which don't need looking at as a whole, by the way), will be a damage buff of some sort, because apparently being unable to die in 99% of situations in this game isn't enough.

This game is srs bsns.

I've done it on several Masterminds, it's as simple as keeping a leash on your pets and picking where you fight instead of wading in blindly.

Could just bring along a bunch of oranges or team with a Kin and solve the TP problem right away.

Base rent is miniscule, but that's actually a problem in a weird kind of way:

Previously, you might have a rather large amount of rent to pay, which made it worthwhile to actually run to the registrar to pay it. Now the most you'll ever pay for rent is 1800 prestige, which many smaller bases won't even come close to. For example, I've got a few bases with the smallest possible plot size which simply have one enhancement bin for storing IOs which I want to email to myself on a different server. Previously I wouldn't have to pay rent on that so I could access the base at any time, but now I've got to pay 100 prestige every month or I lose access until I pay (there's no power or control so I don't have to worry about that, at least). Having to zone multiple times to get to the registrar to pay such a piddly amount of prestige is simply annoying, especially when it takes me longer to get to the registrar and pay the rent than the time I'd've spent working in my base. It's got to the point where I've just created a few lowbies and parked them by the registrars in AP and PO so I don't have to zone-hop to pay rent.

To reiterate: I don't mind having to pay rent, I just wish there was a simpler and more efficient way to do it, especially when the rent amount is so small. It's kind of like receiving a fifty-cent bill for something in the mail but you have to write out a check and mail it back because the agency doesn't have any local offices.

The new MW2 maps are pretty bad, not gonna lie.

I'd rather they put the time and effort into making the mechanics not suck before they started to add shinies (more people PvPd when there were no rewards and the mechanics were actually good than PvP now that there are rewards). However, that won't happen, so I've given up much hope of PvP having any worthwhile changes made.

I don't slot anything until 22 (as I tend to skip those levels entirely), when I kit out with level 25 IOs (since they offer roughly comparable performance to even-level SOs). I'll stick with those until 50, when I start working on my set IO build.

Holy **** soul touch is banned (again) already?

I don't think any of them are close enough where it would be a problem.

A while back someone posted a WS build that had perma-Eclipse and softcapped ranged defense, but it seems to have been eaten by the forum monster.

I could potentially meet tonight.

There's this one guy whose name starts with "c" and ends with "on."

EDIT: Oh right, obligatory anti-modsmack emoticon:

I'd PM Castle with this information to see what sort of response you can get.

You're looking for Impale, not Lunge.