Crim_the_Cold

The decoy is immobile and acts as a taunt bot. I guess moving the Adrenalin shot to 9, surveillance to 6, and trip mine to 7 might work.

No changes to the AT are needed really. Some playstyle advice is really all thats needed.

Shameless plug for a mini guide I wrote a year or two ago. Things I learned as a stalker.

Changes made. Looked at the recharge times for the stalker melee attacks and ya 300% was way too much.

1. Cloaking Device - standard stalker hide toggle

2. Body Armor - passive 7.5% smashing and lethal resistance 20% hp buff

3. Personal Shield Generator - toggle 10% defense to all but psionic, 5% resistance to all but psionic

4. Stimulant Patch - click power Mez Protection except knockback, 15% recharge

5. Smoke Grenade - Exact copy of blaster power.

6. Surveillance - Similar to blaster and soldier versions 10% defense and resistance debuff

7. Trip Mine - increase recharge to 30 seconds, special addition for stalkers the proximity trigger on the trip mine only works when the stalker is out of hide

8. Holographic Decoy - 120 second recharge, 20 second duration, creates invulnerable, immobile decoy that has a strong pbaoe taunt effect, does not break hide

9. Adrenalin shot - 240sec recharge, 20 second duration, 500% regen, 500% recovery, 30% recharge

Let me know what yall think.

There are two teams I've always wanted to be on. An all Kinetics defender/corruptor team mostly because I think permanent capped damage, 7 speed boosts, and 8 manuevers would be crazy fun overkill and an all Arachnos Soldier team with everyone running maneuvers, double assault, and venom grenades. I've done an all plant dominator team and 8xCreepers + 8xSeeds is broken(can also break low end comps).

I tend to use fortitude differently depending on the team and the situtation. Here's how I prioritize it.

Melee characters with defense sets
New players or players I notice are having trouble staying alive
Other defenders
Blasters
Controllers

Cool moment and I've only been in this situtation once. I was on a team with a fire/kin troller, a cold/ice defender, and one of my emp/sonics. We turned the fire/kin into an I Win button. Ice shield, glacial shield, frostwork, clear mind, fortitude, and adrenalin boost.

Fortunatas make an excellent combo of melee and ranged powers. You will have claw attack powers from your original widow powerset and psychic blast from the fortunata powerset in addition to defensive powers in the secondaries. Its a villain epic but you only have to get to level 20.

I dont know if I count as even 0.1% but I don't want time bomb changed. I used to but then I found a way to use it that I hadn't thought of and it became a lot more fun for me. I go into a spawn and set a time bomb, count to 3 hit Aim then Inferno, pop a blue and pff (or phase or hibernate), wait for the boom as the survivors fail to hit me. I do use it on teams but when I do use it it is for soloing a spawn ahead of the group (never do this on master runs). Also if you have a lot of set-up time such as waiting on an AFKer and are on an ice/dev find a decent sized spawn, ring it with trip mines and then drop ice storm or blizzard or trip mine right in the middle. The first two will send em running into your trap. The third will send them flying.

Bring a poison MM or two. One of their debuffs smacks the target with heal resistance making them get less hp back from being healed.

You know some banks let you opt out on overdrafting. I'd rather be publicly humiliated than be charged $25-$50 for not having enough money.

Finally found that cereal mix. My family calls it Trash. You will need:

1 turkey roasting pan
1 box Cheezits
1/2 box Crispex
1 bag pretzels
1 cup mixed nuts (<-- I don't add this to mine, I'm alergic to nuts I add cherios instead)

Preheat the Oven to 200 degrees Fahrenheit.
Mix the following ingredients into a saucepan and bring to a boil slowly stirring constantly.
2 sticks butter
1/2 cup fresh bacon grease (may be able to use Crisco or EV Olive Oil it will taste slightly different)
1 teaspoon garlic salt
1 tablespoon McCormick season all seasoned salt
2 tablespoons worchestershire Sauce
2 tablespoons tobasco sauce

Stir the above mixture into the snack mix in the roasting pan and place into oven. Stir the mixture every 20 minutes for 2 hours.

Enjoy.

Also I hope the plaync store is done with maintenance. I'm ready to try the Mutant Pack.

Its weird but even when I was taking those 5 hour energy things coffee would still wake me up better. Not really sure why. Same thing with sunkist sodas.

On to another recipe. This one is much less refined but given its name its kind of appropriate.

Bachelor Chow
1 12oz can Wolf Brand chili (turkey meat Wolf Brand can be found for kosher bachelors)
2/3 cup uncooked instant rice
1/2 cup grated cheese (I like colby jack but pick your favorite)

Directions are simple:
1. Cook the rice according to the directions on the box.
2. Mix the chili and cooked rice.
3. Heat the mixture a bit more in the microwave.
4. Add cheese.
5. Eat.

I didn't know where else to put this but I thought I'd share a drink recipe that I've been using to keep awake for work and gaming. That and I have not seen a recipe sharing thread.

Spiced Mocha Mix
1 cup sugar
1 cup nonfat dry milk powder
1/2 cup powdered non-dairy creamer
1/2 cup cocoa
3 tablespoons powdered instant coffee
1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
dash of salt

Mix it all together and then store in an airtight container.

For a single drink use 3 tablespoons of the mix and 3/4 cup hot water.
If you need a huge pick me up put 3 tablespoons in with your cup of coffee. <-- What I do.

If you have one of your own to share, please do.

If you account for all situations such as AVs and purple patch does Flash Arrow have the highest reliable To-Hit debuff in the game? I was looking at it and it is marked as unresistable. On defenders, when it is fully enhanced, it has a 9.9% to-hit debuff. If you add power build up it has a 16.1% to-hit debuff. I wonder if any of the other large to-hit debuffs after AV resistances and/or purple patch is applied is still that good.

I'm trying to figure out what to pair Ice with and can't decide between Cold, Dark, Rad. and Trick Arrow. Does anyone have any suggestions or personal experience?

I just got back from a short break from the game (not from the forums) and decided to make a demon/poison MM and noticed something. The power description of Envenom says that it debuffs the amount of healing that a target receives but the show details tab now shows it doing a regen debuff. It used to show a heal resistance buff of around 15%. Is this a bug or is it working as intended? It'd be a shame if the one unique ability of that power set was taken away.

You know I had this wonderful idea about adding an identifier to speed boost that the ID power could recognize and then prompt the player being buffed for a larger slow effect to conteract speed boost's +speed effect, but then I read a recent post castle made and realized the main problems with the idea. Several people would post claiming I have no idea how hard that would be to program, then even more people would jump in and say that they hate prompts and will leave if another prompt is added, and then finally the mods would lock the thread because they are tired of speed boost arguements. So I guess I won't suggest that.

I haven't had a powerset killed by having a power but I have had a powerset killed by a lack of a power. Regen on stalkers not having quick recovery killed it for me.

This topic is still alive?



Makes me wish Create Epic Undead was a spell that could be used in forum. I'd raise this poor dead horse and tell him to eat all your post counts.

Op I'm gonna give you a serious answer and a much less serious answer. It's up to you to decide which is which.
I have an AR/Kin corruptor. I do have SB on him but I tend to buff reactively rather than proactively unless someone has a lot of long cooldown powers. The way I do this is I don't announce whether I have SB or not. Instead when we get into the mission I'll buff those who ask for it and try to keep track of those who dont. Once the initial buff is gone I wont buff again unless we're taking a break in the middle of the mission because of snacks/drinks/bio/whatever or if I notice your end bar getting low. Since I'm also using my other kin powers that doesnt happen too often. Also I've noticed that after the initial buff most people won't remember to ask again. As far as attacking goes I tend to wait till the spawn is close to half health before doing any attacking for two reasons. 1. By that time aggro is firmly established and I am unlikely to become an attack target. 2. I'm a corruptor and scourge is awesome so why waste endurance on attacks on minion/lieutenants before I have a chance of scourge kicking in, my endurance is better used buffing the team and debuffing enemies.

Oh also and this is to this entire topic.



Though to be fair the OP asked an honest question.

In before GG starts argueing with the guy about CO.

You are a noob Sam. You forgot to say giggity after 69. Giggity

Edit: I am ashamed I forgot as well.

How is this thread still alive?

Actually I'm playing two Emp/Sonics. The combo is insanely powerful. I easily outdamage any scrapper pair. Its the first time I've experienced scrapperlock outside of a melee toon. Siren's song to sleep all non-bosses. Focus fire on any boss standing. They usually last about 1-2 whole ST attack chains. Then take out the remaining enemies. I can only imagine how BS the combo is gonna be once I reach AB, Screech, and Dreadful Wail.

It'd be kind of fun to see what a lvl 50 elec/shield scrapper could do with 2xAB, 2xfort, 2xassault. I know I started laughing like an evil maniac when I got just AB and RA on a blaster once and realized that nothing I could do would ever make me run out of endurance. Of course that was back near when I first started playing the game and I got invited to join a Praetorian AV run.