EarthWyrm

It's not, though. There is no powerset other than /EA with a tier 9 that can cap their HP, adds +45% def to everything but psi, adds 35% DDR, and has a crash that can be immediately overcome with one of the powers already available in the set (and, with practice and good timing, turned into a non-crash).

Lots of defensive sets have impressive tier 9 clicks, but particularly in the context of /EA, Overload is better than any of them in my book.

That being said, I almost never use it on my soft-capped /EA.

In terms of proliferation, it'll probably happen eventually. There are still enough complaints about /EA that it's probably not real high on their list, though.

My pleasure. There are a lot of different ways to play the game and make inf; farming is one, marketeering is another, alignment merits are another - the key is just finding what's fun for you. I find that a little of everything keeps me happy.

Thanks for this thread, btw. It's got me ready to dust off my claws/sr to make her an incarnate.

I continue to think Spin will be more of a help with survivability than Aid Self, since dead mobs do no damage, but that's just me. Ultimately, you'll benefit from both.

I also agree with the advice about Elude. I have it, but only use it to hold a LotG 7.5, since there's no point slotting it for anything else if I never click it.

I don't think presence will be helpful since you've already decided you don't want taunt. Leadership - it depends. There are some good powers there, but the question of how much you need them given all the utility /SR provides is worth asking. I don't know that there are actively "bad" choices, since you have 3 more powers to play with (due to inherent fitness) than you would have had a month ago, and there are a lot of filler-type powers available to help provide a little more uniqueness to your build decisions.

Popular melee farming characters are SS/Fire brutes (often with Mu patron) and some electric melee/?? combinations. I also adore my fire/fire tanker. Spines/Fire, once it's fully IO'd, would also be solid as a scrapper farmer. Anything/WP would be survivable, but for farming you're better off if both your primary and your secondary contribute AoE damage. That's where /WP falls short.

Not really. Head over to the Market forums and read some of the guides there. Lots of ways to make inf on the market while you're off playing the game normally. Or sleeping.

How you can possibly blame the development team for players whose behavior makes them hindquarter-headgear is quite beyond me.

Where do these idiots hang out that you are describing, that I may avoid them? Because I've been on Virchoo for over 5 years, and never seen that kind of doltishness. And if I did?

I wouldn't blame the devs.

Sure they can. My claws/SR took an AV solo (Radio, not one of the burliest, but still...). I ate a lot of inspirations (because I'm lame and didn't take the Medicine pool), but no temps were used. It just took a while to whittle him down, because the -resist from the Achilles Heel proc isn't that much of a debuff, and the rest was dps.

You don't need the Stealth pool. Super Speed already gives you some stealth, and you can dump a Celerity +stealth into it later on to have functional invisibility. You've also got more than enough +def powers to carry 5 LotG 7.5% recharge IOs, if that was your concern.

I gave a more detailed response in the duplicate thread, so I won't go into much here other than to discourage you from 6-slotting Gaussian's Synchronized Fire Control in Follow Up. It doesn't give enough recharge to have Follow Up available as often as you'd like, and it gives no accuracy at all. If you feel strongly about getting a Gaussian's set into your build, pick a Patron or an epic that gives you Focused Accuracy and slot it there.

This actually contains the core of the reason why the toggle dropping happens: Time.

What's happened in the past (and is probably happening here) is that as you move from zone to mission, you're moving to a new server. And the server clocks are set differently. If you go into a mission and the server clock says that it's 7 pm in the zone, but inside the mission the server clock says that it's 9 pm, the game decides that you must have been logged off for two hours and resets your powers. (Note that this means that your long-recharge clicks are probably all recharged as well, when you find the toggles dropped.)

You can check this by typing /servertime before and after zoning. That will help support isolate what server(s) need to have their clocks reset to fix the problem.

I feel like I'm playing on a different market than some of you. I'd been flipping crafted Numi procs buying around 40 and selling around 60 for a while, prior to the new issue dropping. I haven't seen the level 50s over 100m since before we got AMerits. Haven't looked at them in the last 24 hours, though.

I posted this and then logged in.

2 Council Empire maps: Nothing.
Wandered around Portal Corp parking lot, street-beat a Death Mage: Armageddon rech/acc
Went back into Council Empire map: Armageddon rech/acc
Finished, ran it again: Soulbound Allegiance Triple
Alted to a different character, ran 5 tips and a morality: Hecatomb rech/acc

Random continues to be random. I like this flavor of random more than the prior week's, though.

Cold also has -special, which can be very useful when AVs have silly tricks up their sleeves like Dull Pain or some massive +resist godmode (or Battle Maiden's self-rez/godmode in the various redside arcs; neutering that godmode with benumb after she stands up and before she activates it is hilarious). Does anyone other than Cold and Poison have -special? I'm amazed those sets aren't more popular for that reason alone.

I love my kin/sonic for TFing.

I haven't gotten a purple since I19 dropped, despite running enough TFs to have alpha slotted 3 different characters and running the Council Empire farm map 10-15 times.

Random is random.

I don't think so. Apocalypse Triples were still selling for 800m crafted yesterday (up 100m from last weekend). The proc is also above a half-billion. Haven't looked at Armageddon yet, but the damage sets seem to be stable, riding the wave of "enhance my 50s!" that has things like the Numina ++ up about 33% from last weekend.

Soulbound Allegiance did take a hit, but that's a set that has historically showed wild fluctuations. I've got more than one character that bought a set for under 50m, never got around to slotting it, and sold it for over 300m because the market swung so high.

Don't skip Spin. It's an amazing attack to have at such a low level. I only have two of the first three single-target attacks (skipping Swipe, never missed it). Spin gives so much "oomph" throughout your playing career that you'll love it.

It remains a great boost to defense for the cost. It's not, however, really worth slotting for jumping (which you mention later on). As a defense set it can take a lot of other very worthwhile IOs, though, like a LotG 7.5% recharge global and a Kismet +6% to-hit. The mobility it provides you is also great for setting up your cones.

All defense sets are, prior to getting fully slotted. That's why Spin is such a godsend; dead enemies don't do much damage.

I ended up skipping Swipe (as noted above) and Taunt (may pick it up when I respec to take advantage of inherent fitness, or may not - I haven't decided). I have everything from /SR, but almost never use Elude because I'm soft-capped to all positions without it. With /SR, that's not terribly hard to do, and you've got a lot of the pieces already in your plan (Tough for a Steadfast Protection 3% defense unique, Weave for more defense to all, and Combat Jumping for more defense to all). From there it just becomes a matter of leveraging IO set bonuses.

The only issue with Air Superiority is redraw. That, and you'll have enough other attacks that you really won't need it - and Focus (level 18) has amazing knockdown already. It's one of my single favorite attacks in the game. Aid Self... I leveled without it, but will pick it up when I respec for inherent fitness. Folks who solo AVs and Pylons with this combo seem to swear by it. The thing with Aid Self is that it's actually better at later levels, when your defenses are fully slotted. The reason is that it's interruptible, so counting on it when you're at your early squishiest is when you're most likely to try firing it off and get it interrupted by an incoming attack. Just something to think about. I'll let someone who actually took it while leveling comment on the optimal time to pick it up.

You can almost have 2 separate attack chains with this combo - one single-target, and another pbaoe/cone. It's crazy-flexible.
Claws is one of the most end-friendly primaries I can think of.
2 recharge reducers (level 30 or above IOs) and set it to auto-fire. Excellent mez protection.
A reasonable priority list all the way around. I never took a real travel power, myself. I use Combat Jumping + Hurdle, and bought the pack with Ninja Run in it, so swap to Ninja Run when actually running around zones.

Your attack chain ideas also look good. You'd be fine with a melee damage set like Crushing Impact in Follow Up, though. With 5 pieces you've got 2 SO's worth of accuracy, 3 of damage, and one each of recharge and end reduction. You can then use the 6th slot for more recharge and/or accuracy, using some acc/rech/x piece from another set. Put differently, you don't have to skimp on damage to make Follow Up work really well for you.

Everything else looks like you've got a good grasp of the mechanics, so a lot of it from there will be "build to taste". Have fun with it - I know I did!

I'm guessing you'd prefer they not offer the 12+2 to anyone, if they can't offer it to everyone? I suspect that saying so directly would be viewed as more constructive feedback than a sarcastic "Nice job".

Otherwise, blaming the company for something you admit is outside of its control makes relatively little sense.

The only Apoc I pay attention to (the crafted triple) had the same range of prices last night that it did last weekend. I missed any of the pieces hitting the billion mark. Just as well - that's plain silly...

This thread is truly a gift that keeps on giving.

In before forum armageddon...

I hear it consistently loses arena matches to a petless MM. With whirlwind and flurry.

Troo storie.

NAtional NOvel WRIting MOnth. I keep wanting to participate, but my idea schedule doesn't always mesh well with "write a 50k word novel in November," so I write at a more leisurely pace.

That's the main reason I'm following this thread, tbh. I know lots of ways to get billions of inf in this game, and lots of people who've used them. I know far fewer people who can crank out 50k words in 30 days. =)

I believe that's the flaming halo, which is purchaseable with candy canes during the winter event.

Bosses have a higher probability to drop Pool A recipes than minions or lieutenants. Per ParagonWiki, minions have a 2.667% chance to drop a Pool A recipe. Lieutenants have a 5.333% chance to drop one. Bosses and Elite Bosses have a 7.999% chance to drop one. Given that purples are a subset of Pool A drops, bosses do have a slightly higher chance to drop one than other mobs. However, if you take substantially more time to defeat a boss than a minion and a lieutenant combined, you're better off turning off Bosses when you solo.

The lieutenants they downgrade to fall so much faster than an actual boss on most of my builds that I turn off Bosses and farm 0/+8 when I'm solo.

Getting purples is a mathematical exercise; you want to get the most defeats you can in the time you have available.

Calm down, and stop moving your goalposts. You said that you need to use the market LIKE A STORE (do the caps help you remember what scrolling back up doesn't seem to enable?). You don't. It's not.

It's a trivial point. Clearly, it's true. You're not using the market like a store to accomplish any of that, though. Or at least, that's horribly inefficient. There are a lot of strategies to using the market, and pretending it's a store is about the worst of them.

And yet someone with zero resources and minimal knowledge can go from nothing to billions in a matter of weeks.

I reject your premise that anyone can't get rich on this market, barring the lazy, the stupid, and the stubbornly argumentative.

Really? I've never once walked into a store, tacked up a note about how much I was willing to pay for bread, then gone to sleep and had someone else who had bread they didn't need sell me the bread while I slept and leave it where I'd put my note.

But I've bought a ton of stuff on the market and made very thorough use of the I-O system. Curious, that.

"Recovering" would imply something about the situation that is not entirely the case.

Clearly. However, this:

Is completely inaccurate and is, I suspect, specifically what was being responded to. Even if there were another hero-genre MMO, I probably would stay here. I like the community, I like the mechanics, and I know the system. So you're welcome to whatever opinions you want, just don't start thinking you can speak for everybody else when you present them.

Back atcha.

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