Atomic_Woman

Start Praetorian character, load up tutorial. Log out, start second character. Choose Hero/Paragon City.

I totally do the same thing with my Fire/Fire Brute.

Even my WP tank has Resurgence. Although that one doesn't get the damage+knockback+stun combo.

My buds think it's weird that I always take self-rezes. But then again I'm not the one always running back from the hospital, so....

It is when it's the only healing you need during those couple minutes.

Outside of DE (quartz emanators) and Carnies (end drain when killed) I have basically no problems soloing stuff at +0x8. It's all about the layered defenses. And I do it relatively slowly, since I'm a single-target build. It'd be even easier for a heavily-AOE primary I suspect.

Kind of going on a tangent here, but DP works just fine as a self-heal. My MA/Inv has roughly 1820hp and DP heals for something like 1011hp, which is somewhere in the area of a 55-60% heal every couple minutes.

It's no Healing Flames, but then again I have soft-capped defenses and resistances to back them up.

I've read that the mobs in the new Incarnate Trials also have higher base tohit than 50% (that's second-hand information though, I can't vouch for it), and if so one may wonder if it's a move toward balancing with IO sets in mind...

Anything for badges!

I also used a LOT of inspirations.

Now I'm curious. I should try to track down these challenges and see how well my scrapper does.

Kind of a tangent, but did they remove the ability to change your screen name? I was going to change mine to my global handle when I resubbed but I can't find an option for it anywhere in my profile - but I KNOW it was there before ('before' being 2+ years ago, though...)

The need for new art assets, I would assume? I agree though, Crey is boring to fight at high levels, variety would be nice.

Although I'm glad that Circle ghosts stop showing up after a while. Hate them.

Ah, see, my 'main' is MA/Inv, so I basically have no choice but to kick their butts one at a time. I can see how if you're just leaping in and AOEing (which is awesome for 95% of stuff) then catching multiple Vengeances stacking would be an issue.

I tend to find Nemesis easier to deal with simply because their Vengeance isn't a real 'screw you' until it's stacked 3 or 4 times, at least. One single quartz emanator will totally negate any defense you have. But yeah, I guess it does come down to preference.

Seems to me that Praetorian ambushes may be broken. I haven't seen that behavior myself, but judging by other replies here they don't work like 'normal' ambushes. So yes, in that context I would say you shouldn't be dying that much, but not because the difficulty is too high - because the ambushes aren't 'working' correctly.

I remember the day Liquid and I found out that Invuln/ could have 100% S/L resist at level 26 (or maybe it was 23, something ridiculously low like that) without having it ever mentioned anywhere during the beta or to that point in release (this was pre-I1). I think my jaw was literally hanging open at the realization that nobody had thought some sort of cap on damage resistance would be a good thing, or that nobody had tested for it during the beta (and/or hadn't reported it if they had).

Agreed. The entire point of higher difficulty setting is that some characters find the normal difficulty 'too easy'. If you can roll on a higher setting then good for you, but if you can't it doesn't suddenly become some sort of penalty.

Funnily enough, I soloed a DE tip the other day (the one about defusing bombs) at lvl 50, +0x8. My MA/Inv has pretty good defense (roughly 31% S/L and 35% E/N/F/C before factoring in Invincibility) but at that setting I was seeing up to 3 Guardians per spawn. I did get beaten down once (mostly because I was getting cocky) but I finished the mission, because as annoying as the emanators are there are ways to negate them (kill them first, drag mobs away from them, etc). But then again that specific character is extremely tweaked for performance, and not many characters that haven't had 1.5 billion Inf* pumped into them could have done the same. Being able to do that is the 'reward' for spending so much time/Inf* kitting out one character, as I see it.

No, this is what you said:

This post makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Are you actually arguing that the devs should remove the difficulty slider that it took so long to get them to implement?

e: No, you're suggesting they should remove IOs (or at least sets) and presumably the Incarnate boosts so that everyone is 'forced' to be at the same effective power level? Even ignoring the fact that different set combinations perform wildly differently even before you factor in enhancements, that's never going to happen. It would be a step back and invalidate who knows how many thousands of man-hours of development.

There's a very big divide between "strong against your character" and "totally negates all of your defenses" (re: DE quartz emanators) however.

He'll change his tune in 6 or 7 weeks. Once the playerbase has gotten used to a rotating WTF, and the devs drop Doc Quaterly on us for a week.

WTF indeed.

Also because it's a Task Force. That's Weekly.

Weekly Task Force.

WTF.

(plus it's funny )

I've been arguing against the idea of the conversion recipe not being significantly slower than getting Notices via the WTF. Taking twice as long is about as fast as I'd be comfortable with it being, which I've stated a couple times in this thread.

It's not really about how fast anyone else can get the reward. It's about the devs wanting us to get it via teaming up and doing the WTF and Incarnate Trials. I'm all for a 'secondary' way of getting Notices, but beign able to get them just as fast undercuts the point of the Incarnate content that the devs want us doing, which is teaming up for TFs and trials. I don't mind the idea of being able to get them purely solo, but in that case it should take longer simply because you are not participating in the TFs/Trials that the devs 'want' us to do to get them.

Unfortunately the devs do have to care about both of those things.

But if it's possible to get 40 shards in a week (and it is) then the person who doesn't want to/can't run the WTF can get their Notice just as fast as the people who do do the WTF, and that kind of runs counter to the whole 'we want to encourage players to team for this stuff' stance they seem to be taking.

That's why I said a 2 week cooldown; even if you can get the shards for a Notice in 3 or 4 days, you're gated by the cooldown (same as players who run TFs), but since you're taking the alternative route instead of the 'preferred' one then the cooldown should be longer.

I suppose 'mythical' was the wrong word to use. It's the go-to joke among my friends whenever the topic of horrible builds comes up.

"Oh man, I should make an Empathy/Storm Defender and take all 4 travel powers. Whirlwind too!"

This is a good point, and I'm actually not averse the the shard cost getting adjusted down. But at the end of the day, no matter what the total comes out to be, crafting a Notice via shards needs to be noticably slower than gaining them from the WTF if only because the WTF is how we 'should' be getting them and the devs are trying to incentivize it. I'm all for a conversion recipe but if it takes a week to get a Notice via the WTF 9because of the cooldown) then I think the absolute ceiling on the ability to craft one should be 2 weeks (whether via a cooldown or just being balanced around the median of how many shards characters earn in 2 weeks).

Seconding this. The difference between a generic SO/IO build and a set IO build are noticable, but for 99% of the game's content it's not needed. I only have 1 character that actually has sets slotted, in fact, and all her IOs are lvl 50 - I'm not worried about losing set bonuses when exemplaring because they're not needed for that content. I know this because I DID that content without set bonuses. The only place I need to worry about the is high-end level 50 TFs and (assumedly) the new Incarnate TFs and content.

BUT. My level 48/50/etc characters with generic IOs do just as well in that content, they just can't ignore 20 Romans spamming defense debuffs like my kitted out character can. The sets make things easier, and if you were interesting in pushing for things like soloing AVs (I'm not) I suppose they might be necessary, but for the vast majority of content they're just nice to have, but not at all necessary.