Bionic_Flea

For a high damage, low maintenance corrupter, I suggest fire or sonic primary and dark, rad, time, or traps secondary.

As most know, Fire has more damage as a secondary effect so it usually wins the damage wars. Sonic's secondary effect is -damage resistance and that translates into more follow up damage for you and any pets you might have (including teammates ).

Rad, Dark, Traps, and Time (with one exception) are all about buffing yourself and debuffing your enemies with the side benefit that all your nearby allies also benefit.

I think you would like any combination of those sets.

The point is that if you sell it on the market you aren't creating influence. You are getting that influence from someone else.

P.S. I assume that "flogging the resulting swag" means selling to another player.

DON'T BE AFRAID OF YOUR FLEADOM!

'Cause I'm Flea, I do what I want, any old time.

I'm gonna roll a new character, activate whatever XP boost temp powers I have and get to the Weekly Strike Force for mega-boosted Quadruple XP!

One of the most fun PvP that I ever had was beta testing for Issue 7's introduction of Recluse's Victory. They wiped the server of all existing characters so you had to create a new one but you started off with enough XP to level to 40 and enough inf to deck yourself out in SOs.

People came out and created all sorts of odd builds just to try stuff out just because they could. It didn't require a huge investment of time, just a few minutes of clicking at a contact to pick your powers, slots, and enhancements. If you didn't like how your character performed you could make a brand new one and be back in the fight in no time. The zone was also swarming with lots of people. A target rich environment is always more fun than an empty one.

That was before IOs and before all the PvP changes that came with I13, but I think if you could have a zone or arena mode that only allowed newly created characters it would still be wildly popular, even with the I13 paradigm.

Personally, I think it's about time we have more fleas in leading roles.

My personal rules:

I play the game solo until I feel I know how to play well enough to play with others.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you . . . until they really piss me off.

Everything else I make up as I go along.

I'd take the defense generic IO out of Invincibility. It only adds about .5 defense when surrounded by 10 enemies.

Hello and welcome to the mad house!

Thanks for the work and the update.

Sam: You will find in your in game e-mail a set of 4 level 50 Mako's and 3 level 40 Touch of Deaths. I had spares laying around in storage. While they will slot just as well in a super-strength brute as a street justice and you can still use them in either character, I would advise against it.

For invulnerable, I would shoot to soft-cap smash/lethal defense to augment what you already get from invincibility and tough hide, which should give you about 13% defense to smash/lethal with one enemy in range assuming you slotted 3 defense in each.

The best way to get smash/lethal is through Kinetic Combat in attacks and Reactive Armor in resistance powers. Four Kinetic Combats give 3.75 defense to s/l, so 5 sets will get you an extra 18.75. Fill the fifth slot with another set piece or an IO. A lot of folks opt for an acc/dam or acc/dam/xx from Crushing Impact as they are relatively cheap. Kinetic Combats are not cheap.

Four slotting Reactive Armor grants an additional 1.25 s/l defense, so 5 of those nets an additional 6.25. Most people skip the endurance and endurance/recharge IOs.

With those ten sets and two powers you should have about 38 defense to smash/lethal. Add combat jumping and you are at 40%. Add the Steadfast Protection 3% defense to all in your first resistance power pick and you are at 43% defense to smash/lethal on top of your other resistances and big heal in dull pain. And you also picked up a bonus 112 hit points! While not as expensive as Kinetic Combats, Reactive Armors aren't cheap either.

As an aside, let me tell you how I worked my way up from having SO and HO builds to having spare sets lying around. When IOs first came out, I, like you, was overwhelmed by the volume of choices. I just started replacing SOs with the generic IOs, which you have already done for some of your characters.

Just by playing normally I was getting all sorts of drops so I started crafting and storing in my base whatever recipes I had the salvage for, figuring that I may have a friend or another character that might use them later. I then realized that slows, sleeps, fears, and certain other IOs were junk. No one ever used them. So I vendored those and just crafted the 'good' stuff.

Then I started using Mids, looking at other peoples builds, and started to plan builds in advance. I noticed that a lot of builds had similar needs either for defense or recharge so I made a point of crafting and saving those things. Then, if I needed say a set of Touch of Death, I would transfer funds to a character that was off active rotation, put in a bid for 10 recipes of each and all the salvage and let it sit for a week or two. If the item was too expensive to bid for ten, I would bid for 5, or as many as I could afford. When I came back, I would be able to craft several IOs. I would craft what I could, store a couple for a future project and sell the rest. If I wasn't getting at least a few recipes in those two weeks, I would cancel the existing bid and increase it by a little.

Before long, I had at least 100 million on all my alts. I consolidated most of the currency into one character again. Once you have that much spare cash, you can bid in lots of 10 for the really good stuff -- uniques, procs, Obliteration quads -- stuff that you can buy for a few million each in recipe form and then resell for tens of millions, even a hundred million in crafted form.

The other thing I did is I did random rolls with my merits. While I don't always get lucky, I do enough story arcs and TFs that I have gotten dozens of Luck of the Gambler, Numina, Miracle, and other global uniques over the years. I use or save what I want and craft and sell the rest.

I don't consider myself a slave to the market. I like punching and blasting much more than pretending to be Sam Walton. But it only takes a few minutes per character every few weeks to be a multi-billionaire in this game.

That's how I went from SOs to having billions in the bank and an SG full of good IOs in storage.

I started playing with Mids and came up with a build very similar to Unicycle Peon, but I think his is slightly better. And his explanations were all spot on. So other than to endorse his posts, I have nothing to add, except this: I am also willing to contribute IOs/Recipes/Cash to the project.

I'll need Sam's global name to mail them.

I really want elements from all 3. I want the chest piece from A, the overall look and gloves from B, with the rubberized joint pleats from C.

This is what I think of when thinking retro sci-fi:

Put me in the C category for my main account and D for my premium second account.

What is Rangle's ultimate goal with all these plots?

Yay for Alpha Wolf and the St. Martial Pai Gow! My team won!

Voodoo, sorry to hear of your computer troubles, especially on a holiday.

Coincidentally, I had the same problem a few days ago on my computer. It refused to do anything when I pressed the startup button -- no lights, no sound, nothing. I did the usual things: pressed it again, checked the cable connection, checked the power supply switch on the back of the computer, and then disconnected everything and opened the case to see if I could see something disconnected or smoldering. Nothing seemed out of place. I went ahead and dusted while I had it opened and tried it again. Lo and behold, it started!

I have no idea what I did to make it work again. It seems unlikely that merely dusting inside fixed it. Maybe it was disconnecting and reconnecting everything that did it. Anyway, give it try and maybe you can have a back-up computer.

Good luck and enjoy the new system!

Thank you very much to all the folks at the Titan Network. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Joyous Kwanza, Festive Festivus, and Soulful Solstice to everyone!

Go, Alpha Wolf, go!

/jranger

I don't think that players should be made into congressmen. I have enough trouble with my existing elected officials. I don't need anyone to intercede to the devs on my behalf. I have the forums. I have private messages. And if I felt it necessary, I could call, write, or go pound on their office door until someone answered.

While I haven't always agreed with decisions they have made, I have always felt that my voice was heard and my position considered, even if eventually disregarded. If we had elected players I don't think I would have those feelings.

If you make the citizens level 1 or even con grey, they will be that much easier to accidentally kill and therefore fail the trial. I would not like that.

Bye Avatea!

It was a pleasure meeting you on the forums, in the game, and in person at the San Diego Comic-Con. I wish you and your husband all the best in your travels.