Carnifax_NA

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It's been my global name since day 1, both sides of the pond, so it'd be nice to get the character name on Ex

Spent the subscription points I had on the Barbarian set, beam weapons and the Tux cossie part.


I actively dislike the rocket board so I won't be getting that. Not planning to spend money on points really,there's nothing much else I want.

The market interface is more or less what I expected from our UI designers. That's not a compliment. Churning through the jacket pieces for sale was a trial, and the whole thing feels clunky, slow and user unfriendly.


The Sewers Trial was fun though. Loved having a trainer on every level. Didn't get to try the rest of the lowbie content since I'm level 11 now.


Time is a very fun set. Love the PBAOE toggle, it meant my Ice/Time Corruptor found herself in melee range far more often than I normally would. Time seems nicely paced as well with goodies all the way to 38.


My level 36 Earth/Fire Domi was delighted to be able to respec Snipe out in order to get Rain of Fire, and the fact I could take a Travel power at 6 without needing a precursor power meant I could give him Hasten and TP which suits him much better.

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Because it was so late going live last night I couldn't log in, had to go to bed. Tried just now when I got home from work and someone has already taken Carnifax

I just changed my password to what it was anyway. That seemed to do enough to kick the password back to the forum software.


Account Management was as slow as molasses though.

Is it too much to have dual slows? No, not really. You want to ensure that entire bunch of +4s cannot leave the Ice Storm / Blizzard you've just set up and that they are at the -recharge cap.


Ice/Time/Power is what I'm looking at too. Dunno if I'll do it straight away or when the next bunch of Premium Sets come out, when everyone will be making Street Justice and Titan Weapons meleers instead of Time support characters.

Normally when something like this happens I try and create a new character who will compliment the huge numbers of New Set that'll be running around. When Dual Pistols was released I played a Plant/Emp controller who was immensely popular. When Demons and SoA at 20 happened I played a ranged Fort.


So since there's going to be a ton of Time and Beam characters running around I reckon some sort of meleer is called for. I might reroll my BS/Fire scrapper as a Brute or try some other Brute combo.

Another fun combo is Ice/Thorns. Ice likes being in close for Arctic Air and it goes pretty well with Thorns.


Thorns does have some slow animations but the Cone attack is the most melee friendly thanks to it's wide angle and quick animation and Skewer is quick animating too. Plus you get Aim, which is nice for a bit of Spike Damage. All of your attacks can slot the Achilles Heel Proc as well.


The downsides are that the PBAOE takes an age to animate (hits hard though), your Tier 2 Blast uses that "pitching a baseball" animation and you have to wait til 35 and 38 to get your last two attacks and it's mostly Lethal with a side order of Toxic DoT.

Got my Earth/fire domi from 31 to 36 on Virtue Friday. Didn't play again until Sunday morning/afternoon Bst and Union was pretty dead so ended up spending an hour and a half soloing my Db/Elec Brute from 21 to 25 in an AE Elec Ambush farm

Hang on, you skipped Heat Exhaustion? Is that intentional?

Drop Spirit Tree, move Assault back there, take Heat Exhaustion at 35, it's your boss / AV crippler.

Take Seeds way, way earlier and make sure it's 5-6 slotted, it's the cornerstone of a Plant Domi. Seeds turns a large amount of the imcoming damage you're struggling to heal against the mob itself, meaning you spend far less time healing and more time stacking Roots and firing off your AOE.

Roots doesn't need 6 slots really, unless you're planning to proc it out a bit. Even then there's no way Roots should have more slots than Seeds.

Water Spout doesn't really need -Def IOs, keep one in there as a placeholder for the Achilles Heel proc (personally I think Fly Trap is a far better place for one though, 3 of his 4 attacks have a chance of triggering it).

You don't really need +ToHit IOs in Forge or Vengie. Take both slots out of Vengie and place them elsewhere, replace the one in Forge with more recharge.

Frankenslotting rather than Common IOing can be your friend. For example I have my APP AOE Blast slotted with 2 Air Burst and 2 Detonation giving 50% Acc, 95% Dam and 50% Recharge with 4 slots.

Vines and Seeds also benefit strongly with this, a lot of the Acc/Hold/Recharge and Acc/Confuse/Recharge IOs are cheap and plentiful and better than SOs or Common IOs from level 25ish onwards.

Try and get the Slow PROC and/or the Posi's Blast PROC for Creepers asap, it does wonderful things, especially on large teams