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I'm still not sure what issues people are having with Trapdoor. If you just kill his clones (which is easy enough to do considering they're minions) he regens like a normal EB. I've soloed him with everything as far down as Corruptor damage. The only things lower than that in damage are Controller, Defender, and petless MM. And I'm pretty sure those have the tools to handle him as well.

Kill his clones and use inspirations. If you still can't handle it, take a friend.

I did a master of Tin Mage which we completed in a pretty short amount of time, and had 3 total deaths.

Of course, I was playing with some pretty skilled people, and they did some prep with pets and nukes for the Director 11 battle. Then again, being my badge character and the only one interested in doing things like master runs, I already had those sorts of things laying around. I'm used to pulling out a Shivan if my team can't handle something hard, so being told "This next part is hard so use pets and nukes," I say "Okay."

I had fun wading through level 54 enemies and seeing how well I do against things that are 50 feet tall. I enjoyed the AV fights and cutting down the war walkers. It's a very short TF, and nobody's making you run it if it's not your cup of tea. It does take some skill and coordination, but at the same time I wonder what sorts of people just throw together a PUG to run it and expect to win. There has to be SOMETHING in this game you can't just faceroll at.

I'll do schedule A if you want.

Common: Ignores 1/6
33 / 6 = 5.5%
27.5 * 0.15 = 4.125%
Total bonus even at ED: 9.625%

Uncommon: Ignores 1/3
33 / 3 = 11%
22 * 0.15 = 3.3%
Total bonus even at ED: 14.3%

Rare (33%): Ignores 1/2
33 / 2 = 16.5%
16.5 * 0.15 = 2.475%
Total bonus even at ED: 18.975%

Rare (45%): Ignores 1/2
45 / 2 = 22.5%
22.5 * 0.15 = 3.375%
Total bonus even at ED: 25.875%

Very Rare (33%): Ignores 2/3
33 / 1.5 = 22%
11 * 0.15 = 1.65%
Total bonus even at ED: 23.65%

Very Rare (45%): Ignores 2/3
45 / 1.5 = 30%
15 * 0.15 = 2.25%
Total bonus even at ED: 32.25%

These are absolute minimum returns, even if you're already at ED. But since you're talking about recharge, remember that the more you have the less it does. The recharge formula is:

1 / (1 + (recharge bonus / 100))

So if your recharge bonus is 100, that's 1/2. If it's 200, that's 1/3. If you have high recharge numbers, it's not likely you'll notice a bonus of 9%.

You guys are dead-set on making the Direct 11 badge completely impossible huh?

Either that or you guys will change how the badge or encounter works in a couple months so it's actually doable again.

Is this AI bug what keeps making my Backup Radio guy run off and get killed? I thought he was just a bad investment.

So I keep having this debate with people. Assuming you aren't taking the incarnate to fill in a hole in your build, what's better for a Blaster in your opinion: damage or recharge?

Recharge means your AoEs are up faster, and so are BU and Aim. But damage means you just plain do more damage. Which do you think would be better in the long run?

No wrong answers.

My /Invuln Brute now has 2958 HP and regens 32.65 HP/sec.

Health and Physical Perfection report an increase in regen rate with my Spiritual Radial. DP's heal and health boost have both gone up as well.

Scrapper Burn still does damage to self. Just saying.

So... this was about an IO at one point, right?

In response to your comment about speeding through to get merits and then sell the stuff, and the state of the market, I think the market should be stabalizing and fixing itself soon. People are now adopting a "kill through" attitude for TFs so they can get shards. With a huge number of players killing instead of speeding, we'll get a lot more items on the market.

The human brain is really bad at reading and predicting odds (it's why we play the lottery). In fact the better your accuracy the more often you'd notice and get annoyed by misses. The brain has a way of exaggerating odds to make them better or worse. If your hit rate is 50% you expect to miss a lot so it doesn't annoy you if you miss three times in a row. If your accuracy is 95% that means you should miss one in 20 attacks, but your brain thinks "I should never miss EVER!" and every miss annoys you. If your odds were 99% you'd get so used to hitting that every miss would be the most annoying thing ever.

A combination I end up making a lot in my arcs is range/defense. Works especially well for tech and gadget themed critters. AR/Invuln, DP/WP, Archery/Ninjitsu, stuff like that.