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Originally Posted by Fulmens

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To continue, I think of there being about three levels of IO'ing out:
1) Generics to replace SO's. Slightly to greatly more expensive, depending on how you plan ahead on your shopping; very similar results, only you'll never see a slot "go red" or lose efficiency with IO's.
2) Frankenslotting: grabbing a lot of cheap sets and using them like "mini-hami-os". Two set IOs can give you the rough equivalent of three SO's; I have a mini-guide in my sig if you want details.
3) "Real" set IO's- that is, IO's where you're slotting several of the same set in a given power, such that you get lots of set bonuses and [in some cases] dramatically improved performance. This can be expensive to unbelievably expensive [some builds cost literal billions] and there are potential traps, but you can get a LOT better performance if you do it right.
Feel free to ask questions, I love to see my own name up on the screen.
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Originally Posted by FourSpeed

I'm probably gonna hate myself for saying this, but:

If the devs really want to "cap" the market, it's extremely simple.

Put the edge case items In A Store. That's right, I said it.

The obvious thing it fixes is exorbitant price. Common IO's have a de-facto
price cap because, if the market gets out-of-line, you buy from a table.

Thus, the price typically won't get (much) higher than that.

The other benefit, to Fulmen's point, is that ALL store transactions destroy
ALL of that influence, not just a paltry 10%.

I'm not sure how I would feel about them actually doing that, but I'm 100%
certain it would set a real price cap, prevent off-market (player 2 player) transactions,
and very probably destroy more inf over time.


Regards,
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Originally Posted by TommyBoyTrD

Let me rephrase then....

Do Ele Melee Scraps do better ST damage than Ele Melee brutes, even lacking gloom? If so, why? And what, if any, patron do they take? Rotation?

Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze

1. Scrappers
2. Brutes
3. Tanks

Everything else can eat pancake and choke on it

Originally Posted by FallenValkyrja

Last night on my human form only PB I had the same problem with Nightstar repeatedly. As soon as I even started walking towards her I started getting warnings and had to spend the BAF using my ranged attacks. That was with a tank on our team (we were doing the gotta keep em separated badge). First time that has ever happened again and again and again. Very frustrating and yes, a good ole common at the end.

Originally Posted by Kractis_Sky

Staff Fighting is actually the new MM set miexd with sonic:

1. yell at employees: foe -rez all
2. intern: basic pet, needs a lot of texting time
3. screem: pbaoe sonic
4. train lackey: pet upgrade
5. repremand: high damage sonic
6. secrataries: 3-5 pets
7. staff meeting: leadership-like uprade for entire staff +acc +def
8. manager high grade pet
9. Restructure: after long years of devoted service, "restucturing" causes general enragement +dam and randomly targetting an employee to be fired, sending your manager in a blind *RAGE* ending with self destruct

Originally Posted by Ultra

I've got a level 50 tank that I'm having trouble getting his damge resistance and Defenses right. He does a good deal amount of damage but can't take as much as i'd like him to. all of his damage resist powers have 5 enhancements slots with Aegis with a couple with titantium coating. all level 50 and i i have a ll of th defense sets with luck of the gambler. Are these the best slots enhancements i can get or is there something that could help my defense and damage resistance out?

Originally Posted by TheBruteSquad

As an update, I pulled this off on my sm/elec brute.

So much for 'unlimited endurance'. Even she probably needs Ageless. Fairly often I'm spending the 'gap' I closed in the chain desperately using power sink every time it's up.

Originally Posted by Katie V

It meant I had to make sure I defeated it the second time before the rez recharged. Other than that, no.

Originally Posted by LSK

I have 2 standard IO recharge, and 2 RR in my rage and without spiritual i still have perma rage. YOU DO NOT i repeat DO NOT need spiritual just to get perma rage.

Originally Posted by StrykerX

A Fire/Fire Blaster that can stay alive doesn't really need any +damage to absolutely melt spawns...

Originally Posted by Kor_El

Alright, but what I'm asking is - will 3 standard recharge IOs be enough or is there something else that I need to make the stack happen?

Originally Posted by Katie V

Into the Darkness at +4/x2 on my stone/fire/earth tank. I found it fairly boring: nothing was doing worthwhile amounts of damage to me, so it was simply a matter of hammering buttons for several minutes to take down each objective. It took about 50 minutes to complete the objectives.

I also started it at +4/x8 and completed the first two objectives (a boss and an altar). Bit more of a challenge: I had to hit my self-heal once during the boss fight, and I pulled out a Shivan at the 15-minute mark to speed things up. I estimate I could complete it in about two and a half hours, including breaks to craft additional Recovery Serums and grab blue inspirations.

Originally Posted by Combat

I think I have the fastest time so far: 29 minutes, +4/x8, on my DM/SD scrapper. Of course, that's using inspirations, and I had 5 deaths (mostly do to not paying attention).

My strategy was to go for Blazes of any variety, then Ragers, then Sparklings. I tried the map twice before without finishing just to get an idea of where all the spawn points were, and started off by zerging for altars. Once they were dead, I went for the speaking bosses, then mystery. I used aggro as my stealth (when you are at aggro cap, new enemies won't immediately attack you, allowing a fast player to escape combat by going towards other mobs). In order to survive, I used one sturdy, one luck, OwtS, and the t4 regen destiny. That put me at 75% smashing/lethal res, enough defense for Ragers, and about 110 hps if I use Siphon Life whenever its up. With double stacked and HOed out AD, I shrugged off defense debuffs and mezs (I have close to 40 mag of protection with double stacked AD and OwtS running).

Unlike normal groups, I used a lot of movement in combat, trying to stay at the ideal range, which is just outside of melee, making them want to engage in melee but being unable to. I abused my burst AoE abilities by attacking the target boss groups with a rush of Fireball, Shield Charge, Ion Judgement, DC, Fireball. This left most of the minions and lts dead or at least very injured, and then I cleaned up with dark maul and fireball, siphon lifing as needed.

Overall, I'd say it was challenging from a survivable standpoint, but not necessarily from a DPS standpoint. I was much focused more on staying on my feet than I was on actually dealing damage, and mostly used damage as a way of reducing threats quickly. Without insps, I would have to be much more cautious, and would take about 45 mins to an hour. I wouldn't mind throwing in an EB or AV to test DPS, though I understand keeping it a survival challenge. I probably can cut a minute or two out by not dying, but I'd say it won't go down much further for me on this character, until I get Demonic Aura anyway. Maybe on a more survivable character with more focus on AoE it could be done more quickly. I'm guessing a SS/Fire Brute could do fairly well at it, though my personal bet for the best would be something like a soft-capped Willpower/Fire tanker.

Originally Posted by StrykerX

Attacks definitely don't just hit anything they barely touch... you'll notice that with some large enemies you can't catch two at once with Shadow Maul or similar melee cone attacks because their center points are too far apart... the cone area definitely overlaps part of the second enemy's body but not their center. My guess is that the actual point used for targeting purposes is three feet off the ground (or above the feet, if flying) in the center of the character's collision radius... basically the center of mass on a standard 6-foot character.

One way to test it would be to set up an arena match... take a character with a PBAoE damage aura and Hover and have them fight a team of three characters: one default sized, one as small as you can make them, and one as large as you can make them. Then have the character with the damage aura hover above the tallest opponent just low enough to barely hit them with the aura, and then have the small and medium characters each swap places with the tall one while the flier holds still. If all of them get hit, and all of them don't get hit if the flier rises up slightly and they repeat the test, then it will prove the target point is fixed regardless of size. If they do get hit at different points then it is probably using the true center point of the character, but I'm about 90% sure it doesn't do that.

Originally Posted by Jibikao

hahahaha..yup. If we keep talking about how godly Clobber is (at level 8!!), then it may get nerfed. :P

Originally Posted by NeoGenesis

I played around a bit with WM in beta the other day and I will concur that it is going to be a force to recon with as a scrapper set. When the attacks crits it is just plan nasty (I'm looking at you clobber). The set will require tons of recharge so I am torn as to what secondary to take with it once it goes live. I have plenty of SR toons as well as SD. I too was looking at EA with the changes, however for some reason I want to roll an invulnerable scrapper. Anyone have any advice on invul on scrappers I have heard it is garbage, but I like to prove the masses wrong.

Originally Posted by Hyperstrike

Considering that he can cap S/L/E/N without it or the PVP IO? I don't think the advice is quite THAT bad. Then again, I'm notoriously stingy on Endurance expenditure on most of my builds. For some people they'd classify the builds as "underperforming", but I look at them as "self sufficient".