Fury Flechette

This won't work.

If you simply removed level 53 bids and removed all recipes/IOs over level 50 (51-53), then players would come up with other ways of storing the access influence.

The simplest way would be to create bank characters and store an excess 2B that way. However, I'm sure you'll point out that there would be limits to how much such a thing can be done.

However, you can also store access influence not just through bids but also sales. Consider you had two accounts. Account #1 buys up all the level 12 confuse trainings on the market and lists one for 1 inf. Account #1 buys it for 2B. Account #1 just sold his 1 inf for 2B and never cashes it in. Account #1 has just stored 2B without having to resort to a bid. This method doesn't require any level 53 recipes, and is just a variation of the influence transfer method a lot of players use. If you don't have two accounts, a trusted friend or SG mate could be used as well.

Finally, as other posters have pointed out, simply reducing the amount of influence that can be stored won't do a thing to reduce price inflation. That's flawed logic. The issue isn't just storage but also how quickly a player can accumulate influence. I can get from 0 to the influence cap in 6 days. I've done it 9 times. There are other players that can gain influence just as fast (if not faster). The restriction you'd put on how much influence we can carry wouldn't affect us much at all. Further, I have multiple characters I can farm with, so I could even rotate them as I needed.

I understand that you're making a suggestion to perhaps help those who are less capable of making influence. However, the problem you are trying to tackle is much more complicated than can be solved with a simple (and somewhat misguided) solution.

I just love how you stereotype without considering the intent and motivations of why veteran posters will correct misinformation.

The OP gave good power set suggestions with bad information. No one is disputing that sword/wp and sword/regen aren't good (though not the "BEST"). They are disputing the "facts" that come along with it, which are WRONG.

This forum, like any online subcommunity, has a tenor and tone. It's helpful but most of the prominent posters are min-maxers. The good thing about min-maxers are that they're blunt and will try to be as correct and as truthful as possible. The bad thing about min-maxers are that they're blunt...feelings can sometimes get hurt, especially if a poster is confronted with truthful information, even if it's presented in a non-confrontational way.

I personally think it is for the very reason that this forum is populated by numbers-oriented forum personalities that new and veteran players seek it out. They know they'll get the truth. It may not be candy coated but correct information is always more valuable than exaggerations or outright falsehoods.

Very simple. Physical Perfection boosts both regen and recovery whereas the other places you can put the health procs (health, true grit, etc.) only boost regen. The procs stack with Physical Perfection's recovery whereas in health there's no base recovery to work with.

Also, I wouldn't worry about exemping down that much. I think it's silly. You still have more inspiration slots, more slots in powers than characters at the native level. Set bonuses are pure gravy. How much do you have to stack the deck anyhow? I find it funny when I see a level 50 character who claim they can't function if they exempt down to say level 23 because loss of precious set bonuses. A level 23 hero only has 10 inspiration slots and probably doesn't even have most of their powers with more than 4 slots. This game isn't that hard.

Empaths is also a set you can skip fitness. Recovery aura and the fact that you can proactively buff means that you don't have to waste endurance on powers on every group to help the team.

I can imagine TA and Traps also being endurance friendly enough to play without fitness.

I've played a sonic/dark corruptor without fitness and I found it was playable, so a dark/sonic defender probably is doable as well.

Hate to break it to you, but the cynical old crowd vastly outnumbers the relatively new in this forum. This is a five year old game. And while Going Rogue may bring in some new players, the people who are generally reading these forums are not.

Also, as you can tell from the responses here, your stuff better be both earth shattering and correct. We'll be quick to correct you, and may even be harsh with you if you state misinformation.

Traps (acid mortar) or TA (acid arrow) would both work.

Bomb conjures up a number of tech sounding secondaries: sonic blast, electric blast, dual pistols (when available), archery, rad blast.

Acid Bomb IMO would be a name better suited for a villain.

I think the criticisms are mostly as follows. I'm taking a guess, because these are my opinions, which may differ from those of Enots and Umbral:

1. Use of Kinetic Combats in all of your primary attacks. 22% accuracy and 85% damage isn't impressive. I realize you have global bonuses, but so would other builds which would stack those on top of 60%+ accuracy and 95%+ damage. Over time, that makes a difference. Further, the endurance and recharge stats of your attacks are mediocre at 41%.

Also from a set bonus standpoint, Kinetic Combats only offer 1.88% melee and a modest hitpoint boost. They pale compared to other choices you can make in those slots and are far more expensive to boot. Consider it takes 2 sets (8 slots) of Kinetic Combat to make up the 3.75% melee defense granted by 6 slotting Touch of Death or Obliteration. The fact that you have 4 sets of 4 Kinetic Combat points to slotting inefficiency.

Another consideration is that if you ever exempt down, you'd only have 22% accuracy in many of your key attacks, even if you managed to keep some of your other set bonuses.

2. Use of mules / poor slotting. You have health, touch of fear and manuevers all 6 slotted.

*If you are 6 slotting Numina for the ranged +def then it's much better used in true grit, where you'd get hipoints, all the set bonuses and better innate regen.

* While sipon insight does give melee and AoE bonuses, there are other ways to get those that are much more efficient. Grabbing dark consumption and slotting it with Obliterations for example would yield you melee +def and the AoE defense could be grabbed by just slotting super jump with 1 more slot of Blessing of the Zephyr.

* Manuevers at 6 slots is wasteful because there are many better ways to get the 5% recharge bonus and the ranged defense. From an enhancement (not set bonus standpoint), the last two sets do almost nothing for your build. You could've gotten an equivalent amount of ranged defense by 6 slotting one of your attacks with Mako's Bite for example. Another attack could also take Crushing Impact. Makos and Crushing Impact add hitpoints, accuracy and minor damage buffs and do more for your build than Red Fortune would.

3. Dark Consumption is better IMO for a number of reasons. One it's an AoE in a set that is AoE light. Two, it replenishes endurance is a power set that can be very endurance hungry. Three, since you're soft capped, the tohit buffs from Touch of Fear lose alot of their potency. It probably doesn't contribute much to your survival. Four, from a set standpoint, it takes the Obliteration set which adds melee +def and recharge.

4. For as much as you spent, you only managed +47.5% global recharge. That isn't a stat that most of us would consider "beastly". It's merely average, maybe even below average. If you're shields, you want a high global recharge so you can abuse shield charge as much as possible 60%+ would be pretty good, but some builds have much, much higher.

Anyway, hopefully this is helpful. At the end of the day, none of our opinions really matter and if you're happy with your character as-is then that's all that counts.

Pretty much agree with this, and this is coming from a veteran player who unlocked Kheldians when they were first available with a level 50 hero and unlocked VEATs long ago as well.

I see no harm to have them accessible to a larger number of players. My e-peen will survive the fact that it's easier for newer players to unlock them.

Aye, Willpower. Strong with just SOs. Shield defense requires some modest investment to get the same level of power, though with heavy investment shields becomes arguably the strongest scrapper secondary.

The good thing on large teams is that brutes can often get buffs that push their defenses / resistances to tanker levels. What rarely gets said however is that on those very same teams, fury becomes a very unreliable mechanic. With 7 corruptors + 1 brute or similar ratios, a brute can have a hard time building fury because stuff just dies via corruptor debuffs and AoEs.

On mixed teams it can be worse. I've seen a brute gnash their teeth in frustration after my fire/shield scrapper shield charged or FSC + fireball every mob. Worst yet, any mobs I missed, the fire blaster got. So I guess I sort of disagree that brutes do better...they can on some teams, but on high powered teams they can actually do quite a bit worse.

Back to the question posed by the OP: as Umbral suggested, Kat/WP or BS/WP are both very solid choices and are strong right out of the box.

I have a kat/sr at 50. I've respec'ed out of aid self because if you aren't soloing AVs, it's not needed. I have had aid self and on high defense characters (including on the kat/sr at one point); I don't find the interrupt necessary.

I'm of the belief that better innate regen + recovery is just better in most cases than aid self. If you need to solo an AV, bring along 3 small greens. When you're below the soft cap, aid self is useful, but when you're approaching the soft cap, it becomes relegated to a situational power, and one that can be replaced with inspirations that are commonly available. I would never have it on a soft cap build unless I'm building narrowly to beat AVs without inspiration use.

BTW, I made my first soft capped kat/sr when BoTZ IOs weren't available. So, I know how to build them without using expensive IOs as well. However, there's no arguing that BoTZ make it easier.

I gave you my opinion in good faith. I didn't know that you were set in your ways and wasn't really looking for feedback. I guess I know better now. Good luck with your toon.

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Fire/Kin is actually one of the worst, if not the worst, combinations in playability from level 1 to about 35. It's probably one of the most endurance intensive toons I've ever had (and I've played stone melee and dark armor characters). All the AoE controls suck up a lot of end, and while you do decent damage for a controller, you have to spam a lot of attacks to defeat stuff.

At the lower levels, you're pretty much team dependent. It's a horrible toon solo.

With that said, once you get to level 32 things get a lot better. Level 35 brings a final end to your endurance issue with transference. Level 38 brings a lot more damage with fulcrum shift - which helps out teammates more than you for the time being. Level 41 is where the tire meets the road. Once you see what a fulcrum shifted fire ball could do, it will all seem worth it.

This is why many of the fire/kins who you see running around have been PL'ed. Many of them will tell you that fire/kins are wonderful to play because they've never actually *played* the character from level 1 to 50.

Hopefully, he grabbed his tier 2 minion by now.

Any idea what level Castle is?

The reason you get Blaze mastery is for Fire Ball, Fire Blast and maybe Char. Ring of Fire is okay too. Melt armor is the skippable choice in that group.

Mid's shows it as a 7% -defense and a 9.75% -res. The -res isn't enhanceable, and for for high damage scrappers, 9.75% -res is almost background noise. Oh and it eats up almost 23 pts of endurance too.

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Apparently, it's a rather common fashion combination. No horns of course.