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From SS I'd probably take:
1) Jab, no choice here, but after GR it's a free 20% -Res so it's actually quite nice.
2) Haymaker, it's a very solid ST attack.
3) Knockout Blow, your best ST attack. Also has a hold in it. Use Jab first (for extra 20% damage) and then this.
4) Rage, this baby gives you +80% Dmg and +20% ToHit with just three slots (3x Rech) and it's perma that way, too. This is probably one of the most awesome powers ever created, if only for the constant +ToHit which allows you to reliably hit higher level enemies.
5) Foot Stomp, it's an awesome AoE damage power with mitigation to boot. Skipping this would be, IMO, quite stupid because I find this the set defining power.
6) Taunt, no need to pick it up very early on an Invuln tanker, you have a strong taunt aura, but I'd still recommend getting this at some point.
7) Punch, maybe. You could easily replace this with an APP attack (Fire Blast, Ice Blast) or even go redside for a bit to get PPPs and get Gloom, which is close to being the best ST attack available to you.
For attacks, go for at least (assuming frankenslotting or IO sets):
40% Accuracy (Rage takes care of the rest in most cases)
50% EndRed
50% Rech
95% Damage
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Heh, my SD/DM tank is very happy with Gloom and Dark Obliteration instead of his Fire Blast and Fire Ball. And he's also saving a power pick!
To be honest, I find the Stalker PPPs close to perfect for Scrappers. Now you can build for soft cap and grab hibernate for damage recovery. Should be silly for AV soloing, especially because you get Water Spout as a prereq. Then there's Shadow Meld for those of us who don't have soft cap and want MoG. Great, I say! -
I'm probably changing my Cold/Sonic's epic pool to Mace for two reasons:
1) AoE immob > AoE sleep. Both take cheap purple sets, but the AoE immob is actually useful.
2) Scorpion Shield is also purple (yay), and prettier than Mind Over Body. -
Quote:Oh, but painting everyone with the same brush and colour is much easier than painting a few people black and the others red. You don't even need to change your brush that way!Originally Posted by Santorican
maybe you should think before you type.
As someone who plays two SD characters (SD/DM tank and Elec/SD scrapper) I do think SD is somewhat too powerful. SC nerf is well deserved, when I first used it on my Elec/SD I lolwatbbq'd when I realized it was more powerful than Lightning Rod. I'm not yet sure what I think of AAO, but having constant BU levels of +dmg for next to no cost (0.21/sec) seems fairly overpowered to me.
Sure, it would annoy me some to see it nerfed, but at least I won't have to rework my build like I had to with the BotZ rebalance. SD would still be very powerful, even with the "nerfs". -
Quote:Shush, don't reveal our mass brainwash conspiracy to anyone!Originally Posted by Ironblade
Okay, if that's what you want to believe.
On to more related news: today I posted a Grav Anchor: Immob/Rech (constructed) on the market for 19.1mil influence (last 5 ranging from 17.5mil to 35mil, quite random) and 15 minutes later someone bought it for 40mil. They didn't even try!
Brainwash working as intended... Mwahahaha! -
Quote:I don't know about that really. You'd expect it to be doable at any level within the intended level range of the TF. Hell, I've done the TF many times and I didn't even know that would be possible, I can only think of how much that would frustrate a newer player.Originally Posted by EmperorSteele
it's always stupid to run things at minimum level (except maybe Posi and Synapse), there should be something done about these late-level missions to warn or prevent lower level players from wasting their time.
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I have to agree with Silverado here.
Unless you can prove that a disproportionally large number of players are actually playing soft capped builds (resistance based) I wouldn't call this problem. If you ask me, I'd say only a few percent of the players actually have that kind of builds outside Mid's and test server. -
To get back on topic, does anyone know if eryq has made any progress? I'm getting the feeling that his experiment is discontinued, and if it isn't I wonder what's going on. After all, he has claimed that he farms quite a bit, so a reported two hours within a week (?) is a bit strange.
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For a Stone tank I think the general advice is:
1) +Runspeed set bonuses and Teleport for moving around while in Granite
2) +Recharge bonuses and Hasten to counter the -Rech in Granite
3) Rock Armour and Minerals to use against enemies with heavier Psi damage
4) Possibly some Defense bonuses
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Quote:How did I not even think of that? Guess I'm too used to Ice Storm / Blizzarding them and seeing most of them die anyways.Originally Posted by StrykerX
Not to mention the fun of Web Envelope + Blizzard...
It also makes Rain of Fire a bit more useful.
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Quote:Can't have it all on one character then, it seems.Originally Posted by Terror1
only the dom/troller mu has a heal afaik.
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I've never had problems tanking AVs with my Ice/SS/Pyre, and I'm running without Fighting pool. Hibernate, Hoarfrost and +regen set bonuses supply me with enough damage recovery to get through anything that doesn't have a lot of +ToHit. -Def isn't a problem because in bigger spawns I usually have around 55% Defense thanks to Energy Absorption.
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My advice for the build:
1) Pick the attacks BillZ tells you to pick.
2) Get S/L or Melee defense to the lower 30s (S/L preferably).
3) Get as much Recharge as you can.
4) Pick Shadow Meld from PPPs.
5) Slice n' dice everything that moves, and eat insps like candy. -
I'm going to change Fireball for Ball Lightning on my Elec/Shield. If not only for the better conceptual fit (goodbye Fire Blast and Ball, welcome Elec Blast and Ball Lightning!), but also to save a power pick. I'm not yet sure what I'll do with it, but being able to summon a Mu could be useful. They do have a heal, right?
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Quote:^This.Originally Posted by Warkupo
Consider that you've gone 41 levels without an epic power. That should give you an idea of how "necessary" they are. They can help to improve your build, but none of them are by any means required.
I mostly use two of the Scrapper ancillaries. Blaze Mastery for characters that want more AoE and wouldn't suffer from redraw, and Body Mastery for those who are endurance heavy. -
Time for some storytelling...
A few months back I decided I wanted the Power Seller badge (sell 7000 items) on my main. The easiest way to do this I came up with was to put bids on ~200 common salvage in the morning and put them for sale in the evening. Some days I did this process twice if I had time, and altogether it took me about two weeks to get it. Now for the relevant part...
I used Demonic Threat Reports as the high-volume item to get my sales, and I bid every time 111 on each of them. That's 1110 influence for a stack of 10, and I always got my stacks in a few hours at most. To ensure I'd get my sales fast, I always listed them back at 1 influence. The amount of influence I could possibly lose in this badging process was so little I didn't care if I made a loss of 110 influence per item, when we're talking about a loss of ~700k influence at worst. The funny thing about this was that I actually ended up making about two million profit off of it. Even though I listed everything at the lowest possible rate.
Guess it's not us marketeers making people pay more than they have to, but the people themselves who WANT. STUF. NAO!
eryq, before you rush in and say the price range is so little this is in no way relevant, I'd encourage you to ask other marketeers whether this happens with higher price items as well. Just saying this because it VERY often happens to me, for example, if I list my stock up for ~15mil most of the time every single piece sells for 20mil or more. -
Quote:I've done LGTF a fair few times and I don't consider myself casual, but this was a first for me.Originally Posted by Silverado
On the contrary, I think they should all have the warning, it's only fair for casual players.
Either way, I think it either needs a warning or the whole TF has to spawn at 50. It's a mood killer to hit a roadblock like that when you're so close to the final mission. -
My Ice/MM/Cold is definitely changing to Mace. Good-bye chunky Ice Armour, welcome stylish Scorpion Shield! All this while freeing one or two powers and not causing major build changes. I like.
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Quote:I'm aware it is a lvl 50 encounter outside the TF, but as you said...Originally Posted by EmperorSteele
Hamidon is a level 50 encounter. In fact, they raised the level cap for the TF from 35 to 45 simply because of this.
If the TF had started with level 50s in the first mish, we would've been totally alright. Just reassemble the team and restart with a level 50 leader. I just find it frustrating that if this is actually WAI, you get no warnings at all and BAM! you have a TF that's impossible for most teams to complete if you happened to pick a sub-50 leader.Quote:You'd think that since the rest of the content levels down for you, that Hami would, too. -
I'm wondering what the fuss about Shadow Meld is when we get Water Spout, too. Stalker numbers currently are 1.17 seconds cast (didn't include Arcanatime) for 271.1 base damage. Slotted up we're getting 500 damage against AVs for a 1 second cast power.
Sure, the endurance drain is horrible, but we get Hibernate in the same pool to help in emergencies. -
I attempted an LGTF today after dinging 46 on my Scrapper. Because I wanted to do it, I recruited the people and was the team leader. Now, I didn't think we'd have problems because of exemping people down to 46. Up until the Hamidon mish we were doing great (only a few deaths) even though we played quite recklessly. The surprise at Hamidon was that every single Mito and Hamidon itself spawned at level 50, +4 compared to the team. I doubt it's hard to imagine we weren't able to take Hamidon down, not even the Mitos.
My question related to this is: are they supposed to spawn at 50? If they aren't I'll just be frustrated because our TF failed because of a bug, and if they are I'm going to be somewhat more frustrated because you don't get warned about that when starting the TF. -
Quote:I'd think an all dom team with fire APP would be more game breaking.Originally Posted by Nny_the_mad
an all dom team all with link mind could be game breaking no?
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Quote:Snark-o-meter nearing nine thousand...Originally Posted by eryq2
Plus 1 to post count.
Good job.
Oh, was it you who wanted to keep it civilized this time around? -
Quote:"What do buffalo have to do with CoX???"Originally Posted by seebs
Actually, I think you're missing a key point.
I vendor and delete recipes if there's no bids on offer. If marketeers were bidding on those items, I'd sell them, listing them at 1 inf because it's less work than trying to guess at a reasonable price. Then someone would craft the items.
So while they may not GENERATE items, they cause items to go into the economy rather than getting vendored out. And that, furthermore, means more items being sold and exchanged (taking inf out of the game, and reducing prices) rather than more items being vendored (adding info to the game, and increasing prices).
Furthermore, many of the marketeers also play the game regularly -- in fact, all the ones I've talked to. If you look at Fury's zero to a billion thread, you know what she did first? Farm a bunch of stuff up to sell. You know what I do every day? I log in to a bunch of people, check my WW/BM, then I go run missions until my recipes and salvage are full, sell a bunch of stuff, and repeat that another two or three times... then go do all my crafting as the last thing of the night.
Flippers do indeed cause more things to go on the marketplace. As people pointed out, when you gave the example of Siphon Insight: It's not usually worth it to put something up on WW if there are zero bidders. It's only when there are bidders that people bother. So if we had more people scanning WW, leaving bids up on a bunch of recipes just because no one else was bidding and they hoped to get lucky, that'd be hundreds or thousands of recipes being put up and bought. And then, crafted, and turned into enhancements, increasing the supply of enhancements.
I think the general pattern I'm seeing is that you're disregarding indirect effects. Buffalo were endangered for a long time. Finally, some crazy guy came up with the idea of allowing marketeers to get involved -- people who would do nothing but buy buffalo, cut it into delicious steaks, and sell it to people. Marketeers announced intent to do this. BAM. Supply appeared. No one was going to raise buffalo just because they were cool looking, but as soon as you say "we have a restaurant who will buy all the buffalo you can raise", people said "I'm going to raise buffalo". There are now a ton of them, and more all the time, because the marketeers, while they didn't create buffalo, created a way for someone who can raise buffalo to get hooked up with people who want to eat burgers which are both flavorful and lean.
Marketeers who focus on crafting are creating a way for people who have recipes left over from farming, but don't want to deal with finding salvage, to get hooked up with people who want enhancements, but don't want to go worrying about salvage and recipes. Everyone wins. -
Quote:Well, you know the internet thing "pics or it didn't happen". That's what this is all about, I mean, we'd question the credibility of a pure marketeering diary, too, if it didn't have any pictures in it. It's the same for any other kind of experiment, the credibility it holds is exactly or very close to zero (depending on the author mostly) if the documentation is lacking or doesn't exist.Originally Posted by eryq2
I see what you guys are saying.
I can but wont start over. I emptied everything before i did the first time. Even listed how many of each drops i got and what they were of. It dont matter how many pics i provide, people can still fudge stuff. I could simply transfer purples from another toon to mine then take a pic of it. I have enough in a bin to do that for a week or better. Some things are just gonna come from trust and if my pics havent proved im not a liar to you, then dont look or reply any more. Easy.
This I could agree with, and I'm expecting rare prices to drop with GR and A-merits.Quote:Bottom line, we need more stuff on the market, imo.
What does credibility have to do with listing ways to play with the market?Quote:You speak of credibility, but when people come in here listing ways to inflate rates or play with the market its all good. And if someone disagrees or has a different opinion, 'uh oh, circle the wagons, their trying to stop our income'.
Altogether I think Silas summed up what I was going to say, but repetition is the mother of learning. And I still need to up my post count somehow...