Deacon_NA

I said this in my prior post and I'll say it again:

Bots/Traps is absolutely doable without Fitness. However if the OP is new to the game, then Stamina would be helpful. It's my opinion Staminaless play requires a bit more advanced tactics.

If you get to 49 w/o Super Speed, you probably can do without it period. Also 4 slotting SS is something you won't want to do, unless you have a reason so do so (PVP, for example). I'd try to take it (and Hasten) before level 40 because Grandville is not a friendly place for a first-time level 40. SS at least will give some stealth. Otherwise, you'll see a lot of this - Webnate > Placate > Assassination > hosp.

Triage Beacon would be more effective with more slots, at least 5, to ED cap Heal and Recharge.

Force Field Generator only NEEDS 3 slots (all for Defense), however it is a good place to add in some of the nicer IOs, such as a Karma -kb.

Hasten also should have no more than 3 slots (for Recharge).

You also might want to throw in a couple more slots into Tactics for To-Hit enhancers. Not a big deal.

Bots/Traps is, in my experience, a very potent combo. As far as I'm concerned, once you take the 3 sets of bots, the 2 upgrades, Poison Trap, Acid, FFG, Triage, and Seekers, you've got a heckuva toon and anything else is "season to taste".

My response to "should I skip Triage?" is "what are you taking that you think is better?"

I personally think of Traps as the big game hunter in this game (not looking for a debate on "who's the best debuffer"). Triage fits very well into that, especially when a build with decent recharge can have 2 out for a bit. I'd never skip it.

I couldn't agree more. I was about to suggest Bots/TA for the thread about "highest damage" MM, but then I noticed the "/most survivable" part, which /TA probably is not.

However, it IS outstanding damage, especially when it's OSA lighting over Disruption and Acid. It's just a hoot and a holler.

I also agree about Storm. You can cut loose and use your powers however the heck you want with a MM. Never once has a minion said "stop ur kb plz"

This happens to be a current leveling character for me. I dig the combo. Now at 38, with EMP Arrow, there's every spawn lockdown ability, along with Cinders and Flashfire.

I think Dual Pistols would be interesting. You could either

a) Combine -DMG with +RES to further decrease the damage your team takes
b) Stack -Res with -Res to increase your team's damage

You could choose, on demand, whether your team needs more protection (a) or just wants to go faster (b).

If I ever joined a team where a Kinetic said "Ask for SB and then thank me for it" then I could not hit the "quit team" button fast enough.

On the flip side, I have no tolerance, when playing a kin, for the "sb plz" crowd either.

The exception to my "don't thank buffers" rule is Emps with AB. I'm a downright butt-kisser to them, sending tells expressing my appreciation.

I did the first mission of the Midnighter access arc yesterday with a MM. Set for bosses, every spawn has one. Not that it particularly matters, but this was a Thugs/Poison MM at +2/1. Against Agony and Ruin mages, or whatever other mages they have, no big deal. The Succubus though, usually was a real fight. They have some nasty AOE that can devastate the Punks/Arsonist and the Placate/Confuse is a nightmare. I do have Assault and Tactics which at least offer resists to that Placate/Confuse. That only helps if I live long enough to survive my Bruiser’s KO Blow.

When I think about all my MMs (and I have all primaries and secondaries to 50 [working on DS at the moment]), it seems like Storm and perhaps FF are best equipped to deal with them. Both because I can just keep flopping her around with Gale/Hurricane or Force Bolt. The rest of my MMs seem to rely on getting lucky or having to chew Break Frees.

So, I’m looking for tactics people have to minimize the threat Succubi present to MMs. I can’t think of any enemy that is as problematic to an AT as these… ladies… are to MMs.

Just throwing in my 2 inf that it's Traps, then a sizable gap to Rad and Cold, which are pretty close together with Dark just a smidge behind those two (maybe).

I never thought about it before, but yeah, I'm a temp junkie. When presented a choice of contacts from a broker/detective, I check Red Tomax to see if

a) Contact has an accolade badge
b) has a very useful temp power
c) has any kind of temp power

before making a decision.

I hate to engage in "piling it on" but the thought process is perplexing to me.

With dozens of bugs introduced with the i17 launch, while working on one particular issue, the developer noticed an attribute that had been live for what, 3 years now, didn't match the design spec. At this point, 2 options seem to be

1) Make a note of this as something to be examined later, once the game is stabilized a bit more
2) Ram it in there with (seemingly) no regard to actual gameplay

And they went with 2)???

Now we hear "If needed (and judging by reactions, it probably is) I'll drop the protection some in a future update" so we're actually getting some weird hybrid of 1) and 2) above, the worst of both worlds.

Well, if anyone on Infinity or Virtue wants to run LGTF, I have a perma-dom on both servers that should be able to hold a green by themselves. I'll join for say, 10M per run, subject to change due to market conditions.

My /FF troller is Gravity. Mostly because I'm now at the point in my CoX career that I ask "what would happen if I loaded up on cage and intangibility powers?" and make such a char to find out.

The combo gives a lot of tools to knock things down and around. I dunno, I'm by no means saying it's my answer for "Best Primary for FF" but it fits thematically and can work.

This is #1 on my proliferation "wish list" too.

I just have to ditto the suggestion for Storm. Out of my controller collection, my Earth/Storm is the best I have at pure control. I can see why Earth/TA would be comparable, but I don't have one of those.

Actually I still give the edge to Storm over TA just for the Stalagmites + Thunderclap combo gives you a quick 1-2 combo to shut down everybody.

Hot diggity! Thanks Gob. The item was indeed in the in-box of the original sender.

Suggestion withdrawn!

Let me get this part over with - yes, I had an "oopsie" with a high value item. Call me noob, whatever. Moving on...

My suggestion is, when someone deletes an e-mail with an attachment, they see a "are you sure you want to delete?" pop-up box that requires them to select yes or no. This type of box pops up in many other cases in the game. Please do so for deleting e-mails with attachments too.