FlamingIntern

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  1. Been out of the game for awhile with school and all, but just started a semi-regular playtime again today. Cannot wait for this!
  2. Here-ish. College has started back up again so thats taking up the majority of my time.
  3. FlamingIntern

    i16 - Open Beta

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    Originally Posted by ELF_STALKER View Post
    i16 sucks in my opinions... nothing really new other then seeing other colors. Broadsword stalker going be lame since scrapper and tanker have uber lethal and smasher def and resist. Wont be making one EM is still better. I though you knew its nerf central in COX and for the AE.... lame! I got all my 50's out of it. So i16 or Rogue don't really care for.

    Powersets aren't proliferated for PvP. They're proliferated first if they balance right and make sense for the AT.
  4. FlamingIntern

    i16 - Open Beta

    Finally, a new tank. Hmmm, now just to decide between an ELA/DB or ELA/ELM
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba View Post
    This thread keeps getting stupider every time I read it.

    Don't like the change? Avoid freakshow. I'm still gonna be plowing through them and getting X amount of XP while I do so.

    This change is FAR TOO FARKING SMALL for it to be raising this kind of a stink.

    Want to talk about REAL risk/time vs reward problems in the game? Go run a Hamidon raid and get back to me.

    Can not believe people are bent out of shape about this. Farking pathetic.
    Qft
  6. FlamingIntern

    Old School?

    It's probably because I love Will Ferrel comedies. Or college comedies. Combinations of the two make me blackout with laughter.
  7. FlamingIntern

    Old School?

    Old School is one of the best comedies ever made.
  8. I've got a Dark/Elec Defender that I haven't played in awhile but plan to get back into at some point. Would love to see what tips you have for Dark Miasma.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Desitre View Post

    If someone knows a way were I can improve my defense I would really like to know. Right now my build is; All possible shields and resistances with burn, build up, greater fire sword, fire sword circle, combustion, fitness, Acrobatics, firey embrace. I have some set bonuses but I think they actually made me weaker!!!
    1. You don't really need Burn. Some people like it, others don't. I prefer combat jumping for the immob protection.

    2. Hasten is really what makes this set shine. It helps you get Healing Flames, which you definately should have pre-14, back up faster. It also adds a bit of Toxic resistance for kicks.

    3. Make sure when you're soloing, to hit BU and FE for your alpha strikes and makes sure you hit the highest conned mob when you do. Make sure Blazing Aura has 2 Accs, 2 Dmg, and 2 End Reducers. Unless you're fighting +4's consistently, most mobs will be dead by the second time through your attack chain.

    4. No, IO's are not needed, but they obviously help. But you should be able to survive just fine with just SO's.

    5. If you're still having problems with all this, try respeccing Tough and Weave into the build. This should improve your survivability considerably. Once you get used to it, find out if you still want to keep them on your build or respec out of them to save 2 power slots for other useful powers, such as Conserve Power and Focused Accuracy. Some players need Tough and Weave to tank on Fire Armor, some players don't. It's all about personal preference.

    6. Accolades help ALOT. The extra health and end are a great boon, and the two res powers, especially the psi res one, have become a main part of me tanking AV's. Are they needed? Of course not, but they do help. Check badge-hunters.com for more info.

    7. If all of this has failed, maybe Fire Armor isn't for you. It doesn't mean the whole set is gimped just because your playstyle doesn't mesh well with it. Go Try Ice or WP. Their powers are much more straightforward in the surivability they give you, and you may like those better.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Gashes View Post
    Then you had one hell of a team supporting you.

    The point isnt if YOU have any problems, and I wonder what 'a few IO's' mean.

    Fire isnt gimp, but its definitely at the bottom of survivability. It isnt the offensive set anymore, with other sets better on damage (unless your fire/fire, FE is lame, 2x recharge of BU, no to hit, 10 second boost).

    Fire could use some tweaks and help, but nothing major (I voted for consume to have its recharge reduced and FE affect all damage types for 30 seconds, not just fire) <== cant remember if fire tanks are 20 seconds or 30 (brutes have the other one).

    But the advantage of fire (elec/, dark/) is, their conventional surivability is from resistance, and little/no defense. Not to use IO's for balancing (you should never do that), but IO sets are very generous on defense, and extremely poor on resistance.

    This makes fire/ the weakest set (imho) using SO's, but VERY strong with IO's. You get far more benefit from IO's than an ice/ tank would.

    EDIT: You shouldnt balance with pool powers either (like tough), but I would never take a fire tank without tough. Its night/day in tanking ability. I would say, a fire tank without tough isnt much of a tank (unless you team with bubblers).

    Perhaps the original poster would like to share a build for any obvious discrepancies?
    What I mean by a few IO's, is that I have a few uncomplete sets spread throughout my powers. I had even less than that, maybe even 6 total, when I tanked on the STF. As for my team, there was just one /kin troller on it, the rest were damage AT's. I also don't have Tough or Weave on my tank, don't really believe in having to go outside the set for res/def toggles. Honestly, yes you're going to get alot more damage done to you then most tankers. But that doesn't matter if you just use strategy and make sure you survive to keep the aggro. This is why RoTP is an amazing power as is, because even if you do die you have a self rez so a support character doesn't have to waste theirs. It also adds to damage mitigation with the chance of stunning a few mobs. And as for making FE work with other damage types...how would that even make sense conceptually? Yes, it really only works well with the Fire primary, but no ones forcing you to take it. If anything it opens up a power slot if you don't want to take it, so if you find you're having survival problems you can take a power better suited for immediate help. Fire tanking isn't tanking on easy mode like it used to be, and to be honest it's ALOT more fun to tank with my Fire/Fire now then the pre-ED and Burn nerfs.

    So in a nutshell, other than maybe a few MINOR number tweaks, Fire Armor is working just fine.
  11. Also, Rise of the Phoenix is a very useful power. If worst comes to worst and you find yourself faceplanted with your teammates unprotected, you can just pop it and stun a few of the mobs in the process, giving you time to get shields back up. It also protects against debt so there's no reason not to use it whenever you die. Think of it as having a second health bar, another useful tool in the tanking toolbox if you will.
  12. I've tanked the STF on Invince without problems. I have a few IO's but not much, not a full purpled out build or anything. Really it just takes experience with the set to make it work. Just try different strategies. Fire Armor is one of the more complicated sets of Tanker primaries, and I like that.
  13. Haven't really had a problem on my Fire Tanker in a while. And no thanks on changing it's Tier 9, I like my Rise of the Phoenix just fine.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by PhiloticKnight View Post
    Well, what is farming and what is "normal" play?

    If you boil it all down, ALL MMOs, including this one, are doing the same thing, pressing the same buttons over and over again. All MMOs are essentially grinding.

    The only difference is in the DEGREE of variety in CONTENT that you run. That's it.

    Fundamentally, farming and playing are identical. The only difference is the window dressing.

    Now that the new issue will come with a team slider, I will be able to let go of the last of my irrational hate of farmers... because they'll no longer have any more reason to bug me anymore.

    They can farm their same mission over and over again, and I can go around doing my variety of missions, pushing the same buttons over and over again.
    In this game, farming is considered doing the same content over and over again, one immediately after the other. This doesn't mean alting and it certainly doesn't mean pushing the same buttons over and over again...
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by EvaDestruction View Post
    I guess people missed the point....

    My "optimized team" consisted of me. Solo. Since people who have gotten good at optimizing rewards all have their favorite team configuration for doing it, I figured I would use the team configuration that routinely nets me the highest rewards: solo. The people I tend to team with aren't all about optimizing rewards. Furthermore, I don't consider myself to have uber 1337 skillz, or an optimum build, or bazillions of inf to burn. I'm not going to be soloing 8-man spawns anytime soon.

    You keep saying "most" farming teams. As if the people who discover the best "rewards/risk and time spent" ratios belong to the masses that make up "most" farming teams. As if the people who regularly successfully complete these missions belong to "most."

    "Most" farming teams (the kind who stand around yelling for a healer, have a bunch of useless lowbies and doorsitters, and people who don't know what half their powers do) would get slaughtered doing regular content on Invincible too. People who drag these n00bs (yes I said it. N00bs. Defined as people who don't know how to play at a level of reasonable competence and have no intention of trying to learn.) on their "challenge" missions are contributing to the problem.
    This. I also fail to see how farming anything could be considered "fun".
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by GreenFIame View Post
    New Day Jobs Idea's


    Artist-You spend time Painting in you loft area.

    Computer Programer-You design many good Software while undercover as an hero.

    Teacher-You are Teacher,teaching the young Knowledge.

    Model-you so off you good looks everyday

    Movie Star-you are famous actor.

    Rockstar-you play alot of good music

    DJ-you been hang out with Dj Zero so much you now have you career as one.

    Fire Fighter-you put out way to many fire,keeping the town form burning down.

    Assissin-you took out to many people as an contact Killier.

    Fbi Agent- can't think of anything

    Play boy-you have so much money and spend you time clubbing with the ladies you became a play buy

    Am I the only one that found this post hilarious?
  17. FlamingIntern

    Fun Tanks?

    I've got a Dark/Ice as well, sitting at 29 right now. Pound for Pound, this is a great "tank" tank, and can help with damage. Also, surprised you're having fun with Fire Armor? We're still getting flak after all these years...
  18. FlamingIntern

    Fun Tanks?

    Just rolled up a Shield/Stone tank this morning. Pretty fun so far.
  19. FlamingIntern

    Fun Tanks?

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    Originally Posted by Mondavi View Post
    Hey Shay, i would try a dm/sd scrapper and give those tanks something to work towards. I you can just roll and sd/dm tank and have just as much fun.
    First part= Blasphemy!
  20. How many minutes does that give us left with that 2 hour window?
  21. So will we try and get this going once servers are up? I'll be playing a tank regardless so if any other tanks want to team, assuming the event is cancelled, just send me a tell
  22. FlamingIntern

    Fun Tanks?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Myrmydon View Post
    Normally, with today neing Tanker Tuesday, we would alll be getting ready for in instead of being in here. Since the QC team seems to be made up of the kind of retards that can't determine if a patch is ready to go live, we're all in here waiting for the game to come back up and try to salvage our event that they seem hell bent on hindering...



    Try Shield Defense and see if you like its damage potential.
    Shield is the one unknown to me as far as Tanks go. I have a Shield/SS at 18 and its still touch and go right now, but that could just be because of my inexperience.
  23. FlamingIntern

    Fun Tanks?

    WP/EM or Invul/EM meet all of your specifications pretty well. If you're going for pure tankage, an Ice/Fire or Stone/Stone is the way to go. But really most combos on tankers work well.
  24. Since I got my second tank (Invul/War Mace) to 50 last night, I'll be bringing a lowbie tank, so the highest level I could be will be 30. Hmmm now who to choose, the Ice/Axe, Dark/Ice, WP/SS, Shield/SS, or Stone/EM? Decisions, decisions...
  25. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ultimus View Post
    A bit off topic, my Veteran rewards were bugged and they had to award my 60 month badge via a petition... what worries me is that the 63 month badge is not showing up on my account information for the day I will receive it. Any idea if yours showed up?
    Yup, mine showed up like the rest on my account. Im pretty sure I've just gotten REALLY lucky with my vet rewards coming on time.