ClawsandEffect

Odd how that works.

The people who wanted a real end game had been dealing with exactly that for over 6 years.

It sucks to be told what you want doesn't matter, doesn't it?

Well, I guess now you know how the people who wanted an end game felt for all that time.

I like 3 Thunderstrike and 3 Devastation on typed defense builds. Especially on an Invuln or Willpower tank, since the extra regen and HP from Devastation will come in handy.

I'm not sure, but I don't think Dull Pain by itself will HP cap a tank any more after they raised the HP cap.

By definition, an alien is a being that does not originate here.

In regards to where they are from, Praetorians ARE aliens. SO, a Praetorian invasion is exactly an alien invasion, they just happen to look just like us. Who says all aliens have to be weird looking?

Yep, that would be the well in question.

Were I writing it, it would go something along the lines of the well is tempting us with this power, hoping enough of us will succumb to getting ultimate power right now, leaving the Well with an army of superpowered mindless slaves at it's command.

Except sometimes a bad comes along that IS so big you have to fight it right now. If the bad is big enough that finishing what you were involved in first would lead to the destruction or subjugation of multiple realities, it's probably a good idea to do something about it now, while you still can. If a snowball gets big enough you aren't going to do anything but give it a speed bump to roll over.

Accuracy.

Kinetic Combat only has one piece that offers accuracy enhancement. I usually go with the Acc/Dam/Rech pieces from two different sets, unless there is another IO that would work in it (like the Achille's Heel proc for example).

Or possibly our enemy is actually the Well itself, and it has completely taken control of Cole.

Bolded the key words in that sentence.

You're excluding YOURSELF. You even said it yourself. That means if you are unhappy about that exclusion, you have no one to blame for it but yourself.

So, you're just paying for the end game and getting all the stuff that existed before it for free now?

You're paying for access to the game. That's all. You're not paying for end game content. You're not paying for badges. You're not paying for PvP, Task Forces, IOs or any other one thing the game has to offer. You're paying for the whole package. Even the parts you are not interested in.

You're not suddenly losing something because the end game exists, everything you spent your time doing before is still exactly where it's always been.

At any given point in the game's history, the devs spent time and energy on something a subset of the playerbase was not interested in. When they were working on PvP, a large percentage of the population didn't like it because they didn't PvP. When they spent time developing VEATs, there were people that didn't like it because they had no intention of playing them. Any number of things the devs spent their time on pissed someone off because it was something they weren't interested in.

It has been happening over and over again, and people constantly forget that when the devs spent time on something they liked, it was time spent on something someone else didn't like. When they please you, they piss someone else off. When they piss you off, they please someone else. Pleasing everyone at once is flat out impossible.

The truth of the matter is: People are selfish. If time is spent on something they don't like or aren't interested in, they consider that to be time that was wasted. Even though the time spent pleased someone else, they don't care, because it wasn't for THEM.

I'm no exception to that. The difference between me and a lot of the people complaining is that I realize the devs will get to what I want eventually, and that I'm not the only person they have to try and please.

So, if something introduced 7 years into the game's life is the point of getting to 50, what was the point before?

It's not compulsory, it is just as optional as everything else. The only thing that makes it required is your feeling that you HAVE to do it. You can keep doing whatever you were doing before this and the game will just have to deal with it, because it can't force you to do anything. YOU are the one sitting behind the keyboard deciding what you're doing, not the devs.

You want your end-game to culminate with never being able to play your favorite character ever again?

Okay, if that's what you want. Personally, I'd be pissed if I went through all that only to find out I can never play my character again. That kind of end game works for single player games, not so much for an MMO.

So far, I'm fairly happy with what we're being given. I honestly hadn't put any serious thought into it.

So, I guess my answer is: I'd like my end game to exist.

This.

In the entire time I had that proc slotted in a toggle I can count on one hand the number of times it went off when I was actually using one of my heavy hitters.

Every other time it went off I was either moving between spawns, standing around, going to a mission, or right as I was killing the last mob in a spawn with something like Swipe.

In Build Up, I know that when it fires, it will be right before the attack I WANT double build up on. I'd much rather get double build up on Whirling Sword or Head Splitter than Parry.

I bounce back and forth between my BS/DA and my Claws/Regen being my main. The Claws/Regen is my namesake, but the BS/DA is the more powerful character.

I've chosen the BS/DA to be the character I run through all the Incarnate stuff first though, and it's currently the only one that has a level shift.

No, you don't want Red Fortune in Divine Avalanche. Red Fortune boosts the defense of the power, that is true. But....Divine Avalanche needs to hit in order to give you that defense, and Red Fortune provides exactly 0% accuracy enhancement.

Depending on your build goals you can go with: 4 Kinetic Combat, a random Acc/Dam/Rech enhancement and a LotG +Recharge, or 5 Crushing Impact and a LotG +Recharge, or 6 Mako's Bite.

There are other ways you can slot it, but those 3 seem to be the most popular.

Yes, it can.

There is a Chance for stun proc in an End Mod set, which all versions of Lightning Field will accept.

You can find the details of the set here: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Energy_Manipulator

Also, in an armor set that includes an end discount power AND Power Sink, you could slot no end reduction at all and still be just fine.

This.

If you hadn't put the proc in the power, they wouldn't agro on you.

More to the point: WHY would you put that proc in Smoke?!

What good does a Chance for -Recharge proc do when you apply it to a mob that wouldn't be attacking you at all if the proc weren't there? By putting that proc in that power, all you have done is remove the best feature of the power in return for a useless proc.

Once you hit 50, if you have the cash, swap out the Eradication proc for the Armageddon proc. A 33% chance to deal an extra 107 points of Fire damage is better than a 20% chance to deal an extra 72 Energy damage by just about any criteria you care to measure it by.

I avoid teams on which xp and rewards are the only reason for doing anything. I would much rather have fun and get nothing than get oodles of rewards and hate every second of it.

Fortunately, most of the game is set up so I can have fun and still get something for my time, so I don't have to make that choice very often.

I still consider it to be about the journey and having fun while I'm playing. I don't care how lucrative the reward for something is, I play the game to have FUN. If I'm not having fun I see no point in continuing to do it.

The problem is, the people who find PvP fun in this game number at significantly less than 5% of the population. I heard a guess that it was around 2%, which I'm inclined to believe.

When 98% of your playerbase doesn't do an activity, and actviely dislikes that activity, there is nothing you are going to do to change their minds. At this point PvP in this game isn't really worth the resources they'd have to spend on it, because no matter how much time you spend improving something, the people who don't like it are going to continue not liking it.

A lot of the hardcore PvPers left in i13 when tey drastically changed PvP. ALL of them predicted that the game was going to die because PvP was dead. They were all wrong, which indicates that the existence of PvP is irrelevant to the success of this particular game.

The devs saw that they lost very little when they altered PvP, and stand to gain just as little by fixing it, so it is WAY down on their list of projects to work on.

Unless you have a character that can slot it NOW, I'd sell it and use the funds for some of the IOs your tank will be wanting. Such as Kinetic Combat.

A large number of players pay their subscriptions 6 month or a year at a time. Those dollar figures would have been on the books 6 months to a year ago.

Just because it says they have 125k subscriptions doesn't mean they are getting exactly that amount of money every month.

No, you need 80% global PLUS 3 slotted Hasten to achieve perma-Domination.

Thanks for the number, Lucky666. I knew what I was talking about, I just didn't have any of the numbers handy.

The way it works is like this:

80% global recharge is self explanatory. Now, you need 125% recharge to have permadom. 80% + 70% (from Hasten) = 150%. Now, that isn't enough to make Hasten perma, but it makes Hasten recharge fast enough that you still end up over the 125% threshold you need to have perma Domination.

Basically, since Hasten isn't perma, you lose some of the recharge when it's down, which in this case will put you at around 125% total.