5 min Inspirations now from Paragon Market? I may be able to solo Hamidon...

As it was, it was still bad enough with the multi-dom people complaining their characters no longer had the damage buff and that having it moved to the base damage didn't compensate.

These are in the market now?

I'll buy them. Inspirations used wisely have bridged the gap between failure and success for me on many occasions. I don't know if I can call myself a casual player (oh goodness I get really into this game sometimes), but only two of my twenty-five characters have had really OCD-levels of care put into their enhancement slotting. I like the invention system a whole lot, but in moderation. Hence, the usefulness of inspirations in my case.

I bought several inspiration packs when they first came out, and they turned out to be a real letdown. Especially the team inspirations. Their short duration inclined me to employ them at the most critical moments--wasted money, it usually felt like, after the team wiped anyway. I never bought any again.

Longer duration inspirations seem like they could be valuable components of actual strategies, insofar as the game requires strategies.

I've never really seen the main usefulness of team insps to be teams themselves, but for masterminds and their pets. At 15PP each and a 5 minute duration. My MMs will be lapping these up.

I think this change is great. No, it won't make me actually buy them, but I might be tempted to during some TF for instance where the team just can't seem to take down the AV and I got some from those super card packs.

And I just did a solo MOLRSF on my SS/Fire/Soul Brute. Was pretty intense

With this change, they are quite a lot more useful now.

But I don't really see the appeal for paying money to put the game in easy mode. Maybe it will bring in more $$$ from other people though.

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Originally Posted by Zombie Man And you drown in them if you buy the Super Pack 'mystery cards.'

Haha! Pretty much. I'm sure lots of other players will be swimming in these amongst self-rezzes and 'experienced' boosters after the super packs release. Just feels like a bunch of clutter to me though.

In regards to the OP, no, I don't think you'll be soloing Hamidon. I don't seem to have good data on the AT modifiers for Hami and his mitos, but you're going to be looking at around 750 automatic damage every 6 seconds from Hami, and around 450 damage every four seconds from every yellow Mito. In addition, Hami hits you with 10% heal resist and -50% regen that lasts 70 seconds every time he damages you. The greens are even worst on the heal resist front, with each one applying 75% heal resist every six seconds. You're also going to be end sapped by six blues each applying -20% endurance, -20% recovery and -50% to all movement every six seconds. Blues and Greens do damage, too, although only the blues do special damage. (Greens deal Toxic damage.)

Even assuming an infinite supply of EoEs to keep you at the resist cap, and assuming that the big Break Frees will keep you unmezzed (it looks like they would), I just don't think you'd be able to survive that kind of firepower. For someone with a 75% resist cap, you would still take around 369 points of damage a second, while being progressively unable to use greens.

A WP or Regen Brute might do better, what with their 90% resist cap. That's down to suffering 147.5 HP/sec, and a Regen's self-heals bypass the -heal. But I'm pretty sure a Brute isn't going to be mezzing the greens.