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Originally Posted by New Dawn

A force multiplication, this is where team members can be encouraged to let go and unleash more no? If so I think scrappers can provide force multiplication just not to the extent of other ATs because they are already a force unto themselves.

Originally Posted by McCharraigin

AAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry to burst into this conversation, but reading what I quoted made something inside of me snap like a twig. Please, please help me understand something.
..and I am in a rage, so, if my writing is not understandable, I apologize in advance.


If IOs, and IO sets, are not needed....then please, please, please explain why when you go to the different AT forums, the builds there REQUIRE LOTG recharge IOs, plural, more than one, they REQUIRE Numinas, they REQUIRE every single IO set out there that is so expensive you are required to have billions and zillions of influence points, and I know I am being dramatic, but I feel dramatic about this...not about the cost...sellers sell at the amount buyers buy, but about the necessity of the sets

Case in point....real life example here, I would love to make a Shield scrapper...I happily went to the scrapper boards to do some homework on the subject, and found out Shields demands IOs...it will not perform well without them

Explain to me, how, in one post these IOs are REQUIRED, or your build will not work, and in other posts your builds will work WITHOUT IOS!!!!!!!!!

Which is it?????

If I go build a Dark/Shield, and solo her with a build filled with Crushing Impacts and Common IOs ....will I die in every fight because I don't have Numinas, and LOTG recharges, four of them, and, and, fight with no accuracy because I had to six slot a set of expensive IOs to get a tiny defensive bonus which I can't see, even being as rotten in math as I am, being large enough to make a difference and, and, oh Fudgesticks....my confusion over this has been building and building and I, I, did a Nova.

If someone can explain this whole mess to me, send me a PM because I am sure I am the only player here who is bitterly confused by this "You NEED IOs, You DON'T need IOs thing...

I played this game before there was a Wentworths. The builds people played were SO, DO, and TO, builds, and they worked. Now, these same builds REQUIRE a bloody fortume in IOs or they will not perform.

...Oh cornflakes, I am going to go into the game, and punch some Hellions in the nose with one of my new toons...but....oh noes my new toons just have TOs in their build, the Hellions will hit them in the nose instead.

Lisa-Leaves thread muttering something about bandaids and LOTG..four of them..yes,that made an impression on me.

...and...thanks for letting me rage. I truly needed to express myself on this matter.

I return this thread back to you all.

Originally Posted by Windenergy21

heck no, grant cover is the FIRST thing to go. The only thing it adds to you is slow resistance, which when you're not getting hit by attacks means SOO little. OWTS is SO much more useful than grant cover. Even at the cap, there are always things that can get to you. But grant cover in large, does nothing for you either way. If nothing else, OWTS is a "conserve power" type power if you don't need it for the survivability.

Originally Posted by Fury Flechette

I think based on what you have, I'd recommend going tanker. Trying to optimize a shield scrapper (soft capped defenses, good dps, good innate regen) will burn through 100M very quickly. You might spend all that in getting just 1 set.

This is not me trying to put you down. However, generating vast amounts of influence requires either a lot of time or some market savvy. I have 1 billion saved up to upgrade my current fire/shield into the sets I want (she's currently soft capped and has a Miracle proc, 4 LoTG Recharges, 2 full sets of Obliterations, 2 full sets of BoTZ) and I may have barely enough to cover what I'm trying to buy.

Originally Posted by Machine_Man_X

Yeah, I'm thinking this would be a nice boost on my Fire/Shield. Figuring out what to drop though ... Its coming down to taking 2 out of Grant Cover, Tactics and Physical Perfection.

Originally Posted by Master-Blade

I like this. As I have always said, people can farm or do whatever they want to do, and it doesn't affect my game. I'm not against farming, I just don't personally do it.

But this post is suggesting something I haven't really thought about before. The farmers can get more drops and feed the items into the market to help us non-farmers get what we need as well. Otherwise, we'd be looking at certain items being rarer and possibly having to pay a slightly higher price for them, or not be able to get them at all.

It seems to me it's a WIN for everybody.