Adeon Hawkwood

Thanks, that is better.

Watchman. Also the Portable Crafting Table is neutral.

Actually the Villain side equivalent of Vanguard Medallion is Megalomaniac. I know when I side switched my Heroes they did receive (and were able to use) the Megalomaniac accolade power.

Clearly you need Heward's Handy Haversack to keep your temporary powers in.

But then I wouldn't have them, would I?

So really this is a 100 point discount for the inspiration & revival power combination (i.e. the parts that are actually useful and unique to the market) with the other things being a free bonus. Honestly if I were you for future bundles I'd definitely try to phrase it that way, I think you'll get less forum backlash. Personally I wouldn't buy it anyway, I think all of the consumables are horribly overpriced, but I guess you have a lot more info on how popular they actually are.

All three powers fall into the "nice to have' category. The advantage of all three is that they don't really need slotting so if you're short on slots they make decent choices.


You can't cap all of your defenses but you could potentially cap Smashing and Lethal if you desire. You already expressed a desire to take Frozen Armor so that's a nice chunk of it. After that you'll want to take Combat Jumping, Maneuvers, and Weave as well as sticking a Steadfast Protection IO in somewhere. Unfortunately Paragon Wiki is down or I'd offer some hard numbers. I've worked out S/L Softcapped builds for Blasters so it should be feasible on a Demons/Thermal.

EDIT: I will note that personally my play style on Demons/Thermal was based around using the Demon Prince as a tank rather than buffing my own defenses and using bodyguard mode. The latter style is more useful if you want to do speed runs but for general play the DP tank works pretty well.

Leveling up my Demons/Thermal I found that slotting the pet defense/resistance auras makes a HUGE difference in their survivability.

In terms of tactics my normal fight strategy was as follows:
1. Order the DP to move into the middle of the group and then order him to attack the boss or a particularly troublesome minion/Lt (ordering him to move first stops them from scattering and the attack order controls who he holds).
2. Order the Ember Demon and Hellfire Gargoyle to attack a Lt near the group center
3. Order the Demonlings to attack a minion (preferably one relatively central to maximize their cones)
4. Use Char either on the boss (to stack with the DP's hold) or on a second Lt/Minion
5. Start lobbing Fireballs.
6. ???
7. Profit.

It is almost certainly the Cardiac. The enhancement bonus from your Alpha Boost does get applied to your pets' powers (if applicable) so you effectively have a 33% or 45% endurance reduction enhancement slotted in each of your pets. In my experience this should be more than sufficient to keep their blue bars reasonably full.

I notice in your referenced post that you mention the Demon Prince hovering around 10%. I suspect (based on my experience) that if you monitored his powers carefully you'll notice that he doesn't use certain powers (primarily his AoE sleep). Based on my somewhat unscientific testing if the DP has a single endurance reduction slotted (which is what a Cardiac is roughly equivalent to) then he has enough endurance to run his basic attack chain (including his hold) but will still run low on prolonged fights and have to stop using his AoE sleep. Adding a second endurance reduction enhancement (or adding 1 if you are relying on Cardiac) will enable him to use his sleep power more often in long fights. On a team this doesn't make much difference but solo it's actually a pretty useful power to take some enemies out of the fight while your demons wait for their AoEs to recharge.

While I can appreciate the sentiment I've not a big fan of the argument that something shouldn't be changed just because is used to be even worse. Yes, the current system is a huge improvement over the original but I don't really see that as a reason not to change it further. Having the PPPs locked behind an arc doesn't really add anything to the player experience (except inconvenience) which to me is a good reason to remove the requirement.

That isn't really true. Yes, the pet powers are probably the most noticeable difference but depending on the AT the Patron Pools often have power types that the Hero pools lack or offer subtly different power combinations. a couple of examples off the top of my head. An example of the former is that for Blasters several of the PPPs offer an AoE immobilize power which none of the Hero pools do. For Defenders comparing Electrical Mastery with Mu Mastery, Mu has two of the more useful powers in the pool (Charged Armor and Power Sink) up front eliminating the need to spend a power slot on Electrical Fence or Thunderstrike (which not all Defenders would want). There are a lot of other cases where the PPPs offer power combos that aren't available to APPs.

For what it's worth, I think the devs should just eliminate the need to unlock PPPs entirely. Leave the arcs in but give all characters free access to PPPs without needing to do the arc.

If I ever Incarnate my Time Defender he is definitely taking Clarion Destiny .

The path I'm taking with most of my incarnates is that yes the Well is empowering them and allowing them to push beyond their old boundaries (in some cases without them realizing it) but the way in which it is doing so is, generally, related to some portion of their existing powers. I actually don't really mind the idea that getting above level 50 means you're drawing on the Well, it's not as generic as I'd like but I can work with it.

I do however dislike the idea that the Well's power manifests in the same way for everyone (as implied by the powers) since it means that everyone's powers are identical. The Lore slot is a good example, the idea of creating essences from the well is ok for some characters but for others the ability to summon actual physical helpers makes more sense (even if the Well is the reason those helpers are available). To that end I do a bit of hand waving with my characters, the basic rule I use is some of the Incarnate powers do indeed come from a connection with the Well but it doesn't necessarily manifest directly, in many cases the Well is simply upgrading their existing powers.

I've also, in most cases, mentally re-written Mender Ramiel's arc to better fit with the personality of the character in question. In some cases the arc is completely non-canon and the character discovered the knowledge themselves. In other cases the basic story of the arc is the same but the person guiding them is different (for example my tanker Lyonette was guided by a vision from the spirits of her ancestors)


I just like the idea of riding the motorbike through the gravity geyser.

i wouldn't bother slotting for Recovery but slotting the HoT up a bit could be worth it if you can spare a slot or two.

No

I don't believe they've said anything either way. Personally I hope they do rotate back but we don't know. For what it's worth I'm in a similar situation. I'd buy a 1 year sub to get the paragon rewards now but I'm not willing to buy more paragon points to do so.

That is correct, if you do the Sf ad side-siwtch you keep the temp power and get the free notice (although Positron glares at you whenever you pass him in Steel Canyon).