Fulmens

I'm still getting over this line:

Two points:
1. I recommend getting Build Up ahead of Hasten, and Concentration the second it becomes available. Details in my Blaster mini-guide [see sig] but the basic idea is that Blasters need to do their damage IMMEDIATELY. They're the only glass character in the game, so they need all the cannon. Because if they live long enough to shoot back, that's a problem.

2. You've explained your no-melee reasoning. I respectfully suggest trying at least one melee attack. Some people WILL get in your face and an extremely fast-activating extremely hard-hitting attack, or better yet two, will discourage them with a quickness. [Bonesmasher and Energy Punch, first and second, are my recommendations.] Now, disclaimer time, I love the 1-2 combo of those two and I use it VERY frequently. [Or the Electric secondary powers which have different names, different FX, and almost exactly the same stats. Note that Tanks and Brutes have powers with the SAME name but DIFFERENT stats. There's a lot of nonintuitive stuff when you look under the hood in this game. ]

"healer" works pretty well, in the first 10 levels of the game. It is desired for considerably longer than that, by people who learned to like it in the first 10 levels...

What's that? Experienced players get past the first 10 levels of the game in an hour and a half?

Well... I didn't start out experienced, did you?

One specific crazy uncle, actually.

You guys are amazing.

... and I sign everything with xxx,908 and I explain things in public and I _still_ make money off the same stuff I've always made money off. Including examples mentioned here.

Not that it matters. The real PVP these days is on the SG Top 100 lists.

/em eyestalk

I can't tell the noise from the signal on purples. There's always been a lot more variability in purple prices on weekends, but this weekend has been extra-crazy. There are literally last 5's where four of them are 500-800 million and one of them is 327 million.

I'm starting to wonder if someone found a secret fountain of inf, like when the AE Mastermind bug was going on and people could farm up 2 billion inf in a matter of hours.

"Stalker" was my first thought, as well.

... 6... thousand?

So where's the hexfecta picture? Someone must have gotten it! I require pictures.

Bad empath, stupid team. It's great!

The multi-slots (Kin Crash for instance) are only mag 3 instead of mag 4. I remember slotting that once and getting somewhat more KB'd than with the 4 (which stops an estimated 90% of KB. You can still get hit by synchonized grenades or individual nemstaff shots or whatever, but MOST kb just goes away.)

There's also, in the short term, this, but it only lasts an hour before refresh. It'll get you through a couple missions before you have to run back to the SG base, though.

People're grabby! This is an excellent time to convert tickets. Unfortunately I think I burnt all my tickets last time it was an excellent time to convert tickets...

I haven't had a lot of spare time lately. I shoulda made a lowbie emp and played incompetently a lot...

EDIT: 23X , you're welcome to join. You don't have to donate a thing!

As far as purples: Less people playing is both less people wanting purps and less people providing them. I don't know the distribution of "less people playing" so I can't tell you which is more prevalent.

I do think you get more dramatic price swings on the weekend, both ways. More Buy It Nao, more "I'll sell this for whatever, I just need to get back to beating people up." Makes it nice standing in the middle profiting.

A few years ago when I did a survey I got about an even distribution of the 8 primaries [at the time] and about 20% "healers." My favorite of those was "Dr. Empath" with the search field that said "Healer". I didn't check, they coulda been a Storm/Archer or something.